J-Rock group An Cafe has announced that they have added several North American cities to their upcoming tour. After their concert in Sao Paulo, they will have a concert in Mexico City before going up the the West Coast here in the US.
Here are the dates and places:

April 8 - Circo Volador (Mexico City)
April [...]

Crunchyroll announced today that it will be premiering The Tower of Druaga - The Sword of Uruk on January 8th.  This is the sequel to the Gonzo’s hit series The Tower of Duraga - The Aegis of Uruk, which aired earlier this year.
This is inconjunction with Crunchyroll’s new Anime Membership that they plan to begin [...]

JapanFiles.com announced yesterday that Budo Grape’s newest album this Wednesday, December 17.  The name of the album is called “Five Hits and Dust”, which consist of five new tracks.
The music was written by band leader and guitarist Nagai, who tried to capture the energy of their live sound.  His decision came after seeing the response [...]

JapanFiles.com announced recently that “MUSIC”, a new albuim from the band girugamesh will be available to download on November 5th.  This will be on the same day that their CD will be released in Japan.  They also announced that they will be working with Hot Topic to release the CD Nationwide in their store November [...]

It has been two weeks since the release of Aria the Animation, and Nozomi Entertainment has announced that they will be release the first half of Aria the Natural on DVD. As the second season of the Aria TV series, this appears to take place in the same winter that the first season left [...]

Pacific Media Expo announced earlier this week that they have started registration for their convention later this November.  For the time being the Membership pass will be at $30. The first price increase will take place on September 20th where it will cost $35. The second price increase will be on October 20th [...]

Viz Pictures and NCM FATHOM are teaming up once again to bring you full length Japanese movies onto the silver screen before they hit the store shelves. This time it is the popular sequel to the first DEATH NOTE movie, it’s “DEATH NOTE II: The Last Name” that will appear in almost 400 theaters [...]

A press release arrived last week from Viz Media that featured several new titles and artbooks set to hit our shores within the next thirty days from famed manga artist Takehiko Inoue.  Here’s a quick bio of him via the press release:
Takehiko Inoue is a skilled artist whose intricately detailed and lifelike visual style has [...]

Nozomi Entertainment sent out a press release announcing their new T-Shirt & Hoodie Sweatshirt featuring the Gravitation stars Shuichi and Ryuichi.  While both items are in the color blue, the Hoodie is a cotton/poly (80/20) blend available from small to extra-large while the pre-shrunk cotton T-shirt will be also include XXL.  All sizes for the [...]

This was actually announced back in June, but hopefully I will be forgiven… I stopped by the PMX website a couple of days ago and discovered that the convention will be returning to the LAX Hilton on Veterans Day weekend. This will be the second time that the convention will be held during [...]