Netflix, the world leader in streaming video, has announced a groundbreaking agreement with Japanese anime studio Production I.G. that will see the new 12-episode anime series Perfect Bones premiere exclusively on Netflix’s streaming service.

ICv2 has announced the release of ICv2's Internal Correspondence #89.

ICv2 has kicked off its annual Manga Week celebration, sponsored this year by VIZ Media and Dark Horse Comics.

In Part 1 of this two-part interview, we drill down into manga sales trends across channels, talk about VIZ’s new hit, and talk about what’s going on in the streaming scene, and the scale of its impact on manga sales.

In Part 2 of this two part interview, we discuss piracy, the pipeline of Hollywood productions featuring Japanese properties, the top prospects in VIZ’s 2016 line, and the reasons for the global growth in manga sales.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include one of the best boxing movies in years, Oscar contenders, The Danish Girl and Room , plus the excellent Cold War drama The Americans , the underrated crime drama Legend , as well as the long-awaited Blu-ray debut of the Death Note anime and the return of the long out-of-print Zeta Gundam series.

Japanese law enforcement is cracking down hard on digital pirates in the New Year.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include a top Oscar contender, a visually-stunning Pixar film that actually lost money, the latest Doctor Who Xmas Special , the second season of Fargo and Shaun the Sheep , plus a Blu-ray edition of Warehouse 13.

A third generation of Beyblade, Beyblade Burst, is upon us, with a new toy range currently available in Japan and a new anime launching there in April.

New Line is negotiating to acquire the film rights to the Osamu Tezuka manga and anime property Astro Boy.