Kodansha licenses Battle Angel Alita

Following some difficulties involving Yukito Kishiro and Shueisha's Ultra Jump, Kishiro moved Battle Angel Alita: final purchase to Kodansha's Evening magazine. That designed that Kodansha now owns the publishing rights for new chapters belonging to the manga. Because there may be now a brand name new publishing arrangement, Viz can no lengthier publish even more volumes. Kodansha's US branch has stepped as much as declare the license, announcing it could publish the sixteenth amount of final purchase in December.

Kodansha also announced two other licenses: Natsume Ono's Danza, a selection of few reports that "chronicle interpersonal relationships," and Ema Toyama's Missions of Love, an account about a withdrawn mobile phone novelist. Danza secretes in December, even though Missions of really enjoy occurs out in November.

Has everybody been holding out for significantly more Battle Angel Alita? I am a tiny intrigued by Danza's fine art style, which appears like a thing which could have inspired Scott Pilgrim.

The feedback of "Anime Fans Give Back to Japan" around the world

We are happy to announce that Maile Flanagan will be joining us on this year's "Anime Fans Give Back to Japan" marathon. Maile is best known for her role as Naruto Uzumaki on Naruto and Naruto: Shippuden. She has a prolific career both in and out of anime and has had roles in The Office, Grey's Anatomy, and Reno 911. She's also a star in the children's series "Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks." Maile was nice enough to fill in for some open spots we had on last year's show, and was a huge help in making it the success it was. We're thrilled to have her on again this year.

We are happy to announce that Mike McFarland will be joining us on this year's "Anime Fans Give Back to Japan" marathon. Mike is an ADR Director and Voice Actor at FUNimation Entertainment. He has directed shows like One Piece, all of Fullmetal Alchemist in its many incarnations, the recent Evangelion movies, Yuyu Hakusho, and Summer Wars. He's lent his voice to Dragonball Z, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, and almost every other FUNimation show under the sun. We want to thank him for coming on last year (and on The One Piece Podcast just weeks ago) and can't wait to talk to him again next month!

We are happy to announce that Patrick Seitz will be joining us on this year's "Anime Fans Give Back to Japan" marathon. Patrick is an avid video game voice actor (and enthusiast) as well as a prolific anime voice actor. You may have heard him in Durarara!!, Monster, Fairy Tail, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Kekkaishi, and One Piece. We want to thank him again for coming on last year, and we can't wait to speak to him this year!