Microsoft is teaming up with Japanese Studios to produce an anime series of the game “Halo”. The 7 episode series titled “Halo Legends” will be produced by 5 production houses: Production I.G, Toei Animation, BONES, Studio 4℃, Casio Entertainment.

Microsoft is in charge of the story and the visuals. A trailer will be shown at Comic-Con on July 23rd.
The DVD, Downloads and Blu-ray will be available early next year(no idea who will be distributing the Blu-ray as Microsoft has also roped in Warner Bros. to distribute Halo Legends on DVD and …

As of yesterday, over 1 million CDs related to Haruhi have been sold!
Remember back in 2006, Aya Hirano’s CD single “Bouken de-show de-show”? Here’s the cover scan XD.

Yesterday was also the release of Aya Hirano’s newest single titled “Super Driver“. With that, more than 1 million CDs related to the franchise have been sold! ^_^; There are a total of 25 different CD releases to date.

Even character song CDs have sold 100,00 copies.
Wow ._. The power of Haruhi fans are scary. I can’t imagine whether they bought extra copies of …

An extra episode of the popular anime series, K-ON! has been green-lit. Announced on the official website of K-ON, the extra episode will be included in the 7th volume of the Blu-ray and DVD releases.

According to CDJapan, the 7th volume will ship on 20th January 2010. That’s still a longgggggggggg wait. >_>
Retail price of the Blu-ray is at 7,980 yen and the DVD at 5,460 yen.
Oh the K-ON! madness just never stop do they? ^_^; Stop poisoning fans!! LOL. Meanwhile if you still feeling in the mood for some K-ON! …

At Otakon 2009 session on July 19th, anime director Yamamoto Yutaka(famous for being the series organizer of the original Haruhi series and currently with Kyoto Animation) answered questions regarding “Endless Eight” arc of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 2.

Watch the Youtube video below for his comment.

If you watched the youtube video, he wasn’t apologizing on behalf of the SOS-dan production committee.
Yamamoto apologized in his blog that his remark at Otakon “on behalf of SOS-dan production committee” was misleading and corrected the expression into “as a former member of SOS-dan”. [Yamamoto’s …

News about a third season of Black Lagoon has been floating around for quite some time, but finally we’ve been supplied with two major updates; Its not coming till 2010 and its will be an OVA series instead of  TV like its two season predecessors.
For those of you who have not seen Black Lagoon; Its starts with a civil boring Japanese Salary man who is kidnapped by modern day pirates. After his rescue he decides to leave his safe life and live amongst the mercenaries and crazies of the underworld. …

Apparently the series Inuyasha is immortal. After airing 167 episodes and getting no where it had finally ended back in 2004… I don’t know what kind of conclusion it was since I only had the patience to watch the first two seasons.  Well apparently its conclusion wasn’t good enough, because another FINAL season of Inuyasha has been announced.
According to Weekly Shounen Sunday vol.34, a new season of Inu Yasha was announced to be aired from this autumn. It’s the final chapter of the series titled “Inu Yasha Kanketsu-hen” and the …

Previously bluesnow posted about the premiere date of Blood: The Last Vampire Live Action in Japan. Well I remember Singapore’s date to be June 4th 2009, but no I didn’t catch it since, I was too lazy XD. Fans in the US do not have to wait for a DVD/Blu-ray release for the movie because they are able to catch it in theaters this friday!
The movie opens in 20 theaters in 8 states on friday in the US! (Bluesnow go catch it XD)

Those 20 theaters are located in Berkeley, Irvine, …

Tamagotchi Anime will premiere this coming October.

The timeslot has not been determined yet, but it will definitely start showing early October.
Each episode will have two 15-minute, self-contained stories. The stories will follow the daily lives of the Tamagotchi and feature new characters and settings.
Don’t know whether anyone will bother to catch this since this is most likely targeted at kids and girls(I’m a girl but I don’t fancy a tamagotchi anime XD). I have a feeling it will be as horrible as the anime series Maplestory. I remember lots of …

ZETSUBOU SHITA! The third season of Nodame being pushed back to winter 2010 has left me in despair!!!
Last winter it was announced that season three of Nodame would be aired this fall.  But the most recent announcement has it airing in January of 2010. I’m not too surprised actually, but Zen told me to write a post about my despair xD
With this newest announcement though there is also news that this third season will be the finale, which is unfortunate since I’m under the impression the manga is still ongoing. …