Viz has announced five potent additions to its lineup of manga releases, including Shonen Jump graphic novel editions of Rurouni Kenshin and Hikaru No Go.

Random House has announced that its Del Rey imprint will launch a manga line in Spring 2004, sourcing material from Japanese manga powerhouse Kodansha.

Publishers Weekly is reporting that Random House is preparing a lineup of manga titles that it will release in the spring of 2004, so we contacted Tokyopop for a response.

A new manga series based on the Evangelion computer game, Koutetsu Girlfriend 2 , will start appearing in August in Kodakawa Shoten's shoujo manga magazine Asuka Monthly .

The Big O anime series returns to the Cartoon Network this August as part of the Adult Swim block. Television Week reports that thirteen new episodes of the...

BookExpoAmerica, held in Los Angeles last weekend, had a larger graphic novel presence than ever, with manga publishers the belles of the ball.

While the post-Oscar theatrical release of Spirited Away has run out of steam at around $10 million, the Miyazaki Oscar-winner continues to generate sales through DVD and PPV, keeping the property in the public eye.

As ICv2 predicted, the Rurouni Kenshin manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki will appear in the American edition of Shonen Jump .

ADV Films CEO John Ledford announced in Cannes this week that ADV has acquired the rights to produce a live action version of Gainax animated series Neon Genesis Evangelion .

4Kids Entertainment has announced that it will make the Shaman King anime series part of its Fox Block of Saturday morning kids' programming in the fall of 2003. 4Kids plans to produce 26 episodes of the series, which has reached 64 episodes in Japan. If Shaman King's first season on the Fox Box is a success, then it is highly likely that 4Kids will adapt more episodes of the anime series