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

We interviewed Lee Hester of Lee's Comics, who has two retail locations in the San Francisco Bay area, on how he sells a wide variety of comics and maintains good relations with the community.

It's a good thing that manga artist Monkey Punch (Kazuhiko Kato) doesn't work for the New York Times, and that the Japanese are not as litigious and quick to protect the names and attributes of their creations as are Americans.

Viz will release the first DVD volume of the Corrector Yui anime series on July 1 with a retail price of $24.98.

The Cartoon Network has announced the June schedule for its Toonami block and it includes several changes. Dragon Ball Z replaces G Gundam in the 5pm (ET, PT) timeslot...

French company TF1 Intl. has announced an August start date for a new, live action version of Maurice LeBlanc's Arsene Lupin .

TNN is in the process of remaking itself into Spike TV and one of the new skein's first moves will be to create an adult animation block.

AEG has released more details about its new Initial D collectible card game.

A nationwide survey by BP Consulting Inc. has determined that Studio Ghibli ranked as the fourth most highly rated brand by Japanese consumers,

Plex International Design, the Japanese company that designed the Power Rangers toys has announced plans to publish at least two manga series here in the U.S.