Anime Review Heavens Lost Property Season One

All Tomoki wanted was a little peace and quiet ... and the occasional glimpse down the necklines of his female classmates (or a peek up their skirts). Then one day, the "Angeloid" named Ikaros quiet literally drops into his life. She can grant any wish, and it isn't long before Tomoki's using her to do everything from sneak into the girl's locker room to you-name-it -- but who is this mysterious creature from the sky, really?

Most Anticipated Anime Releases of Spring 2012

With "White Day" (Japan's companion holiday to Valentine's Day, where women give tokens of appreciation to men) just behind us and spring coming fast around the corner, it's time to take a look at some of the most anticipated anime releases for the season.

Anime Review Legend of the Legendary Heroes

Fantasy adventures take many forms, but they usually have a few dependable elements to make them, well, fantasy. Among them are The Hero and The Magical Artifact(s), two things -- among others -- that The Legend of the Legendary Heroes stands on their heads.

Cyborg 009 LiveAction Film Gears Up

Prepare for yet another possible anime-to-live-action adaptation! Shotaro Ishinomori's Cyborg 009 (compare prices), originally a classic 1970s manga which later found its way to TV, has been picked up for a live-action production on this side of the Pacific.

According to the Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog, Ishinomori Productions is looking to work with producer F.J. DeSanto (who previously gave us the live-action version of Will Eisner's The Spirit) to bring Cyborg 009 to the big screen as a live-action feature.

New Feature Best Sword Sorcery Fantasy Anime

You know the tropes. Big swords, daring heroes, dangerous villains, unpredictable magic, giant dragons. Turns out the whole subgenre of swords-and-sorcery fantasy that we all know, courtesy of everything from Lord of the Rings to The Wheel of Time, is its own subgenre of anime as well.

Toonami Programming Block Returns To Adult Swim

"Attention Toonami Faithful - We heard you," went out the broadcast on multiple social networks, along with a URL: http://www.adultswim.com/shows/toonami/

That's right -- the long-missed Toonami programming block, part of the Adult Swim block on Cartoon Network that broadcast action-oriented anime from 1997 through 2008 and helped allow anime to reach a wide segment of the U.S. viewing audience, is being reinstated as of May 26.

Animation Director Noboru Ishiguro Passes Away

Longtime anime director and industry veteran Noboru Ishiguro has died at the age of 73.

A full list of Ishiguro's achievements and contributions reads like a rundown of almost every major seminal anime franchise of years past: the 1980s incarnation of Astro Boy, Space Battleship Yamato, Super Dimension Fortress Macross (the series that served as the basis for the English-language Robotech), and Legend of the Galactic Heroes.