Darin Erickson runs Amazing Comics & Cards, a 4000-square foot pop culture store in a Target-anchored shopping center in Long Beach, California.

Bandai Entertainment has announced that it is discontinuing all of its VHS catalog except for titles from its popular Gundam series.

The Cartoon Network has announced that Transformers: Armada and The Big O 2 will be part of an expanded Toonami block in the fall of 2002.

Viz Communications announced an ambitious program for releasing both manga and anime based on the Zoids toyline, originally created by Tomy.

ADV Films has set a release date of June 25 for Secret Service , the first DVD release of the anime action series City Hunter .

Bandai has set a July release for DVD editions of its Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaia movie (2000) and the Escaflowne TV Series (1996). Bandai recently released the Escaflowne (pronounced 'Es-ca-flow-NEIGH') movie to theaters in the U.S. The Escaflowne movie is a total remake of the original TV series. However the movie version is no travesty -- it was made by virtually the same crew that created the TV series...

R. Talsorian has acquired the rights to publish a U.S. edition of the Gundam role-playing game. The RPG is based on the earlier Mobile Suit Gundam series (pre- SD Gundam ). The Japanese company Mekton published the Gundam RPG in 1986, making it the first anime-based role-playing game ever created.

The latest edition of the Lycos 50 Daily Report discusses the growing number of Lycos searches for Japanese toy and anime property Zoids .

The Kids WB Network has announced that the Yu-Gi-Oh series, which has been a part of the Kids WB Saturday morning lineup, will be broadcast six days a week starting on April 1.

Here's a look at the deluxe metal case that ADV Films will be making available to hold all eight of the company's Neon Genesis Evangelion DVDs .