Fantasy Genre, Hero Engine
March 23, 2003
Hero Games plans to release Fantasy Hero , an exploration of the fantasy genre using the Hero System, this July.
First Volume Debuts In Aug.
February 26, 2003
Tokyopop has acquired the rights to the two-volume Brigadoon manga series by Nozomi Watase and plans to release the first volume this August.
Intergalactic Ninja Back in April
January 26, 2003
The comic book that was originally launched in the 1980s as Zen Intergalactic Ninja , and is now known simply as Zen , returns to the world of comics as a monthly color book debuting with issue #0 in April.
Collector's Box Available
January 8, 2003
ADV Films has announced that the highly awaited 'mecha' series RahXephon will debut on DVD in the U.S. on March 25.
Filling the Floor
January 5, 2003
Exhibitors have bought up all available space and will be showing their wares and talking to retailers in the totally full exhibit hall.
Cutting Edge Computer Animated Series
January 1, 2003
Bandai Entertainment has created a website for its Meltylancers anime series. The first DVD in the series, Meltylancer -- Alpha is due out next week.
Sets Sci-Fi Channel Records
December 4, 2002
The first two episodes of Steven Spielberg Presents Taken have garnered the highest ratings in the history of the Sci-Fi Channel.
Five Properties--One to Three Books Each
November 30, 2002
Tokyopop has announced that it has acquired the rights to five manga properties created by the all-female artist collective CLAMP, and that they will begin releasing the nine volumes involved in April 2003.
Checker, Moonstone, Metaphrog, and More
November 2, 2002
Diamond's new bookstore division has been busy adding all sorts of smaller and medium-sized publishers to its roster. Prominent among the new additions is the Checker Book Publishing Group of Dayton, Ohio.
From ComicsOne and Bandai
October 28, 2002
Bandai Entertainment and ComicsOne announced that they will be bringing anime and manga property Onegai Teacher to the States in 2003.
