Plus Surprising Price Point Trends
March 17, 2002
Two #1 products repeated in February, a testament to the strength of some recent releases and the weaker competition scheduled for this normally weak month.
Another Recent Anime Series Heads Stateside
March 15, 2002
Pioneer Animation announced the August 13 release of the first DVD volume of the anime comedy-drama series Strawberry Eggs .
His & Her Circumstances
March 13, 2002
...one of the most interesting and innovative anime series of the past decade.
Tokyopop's Multi-Platform Launch
March 12, 2002
Tokyopop plans to launch one of its hottest new properties, Real Bout High School, in a number of formats this spring.
Anime Classic Goes Live Action
March 12, 2002
Threshold Entertainment, the company responsible for making the video game Mortal Kombat the fifth largest entertainment property in the world, has obtained all remake rights to the anime classic Ninja Scroll .
First for US Studio
March 11, 2002
According to the Hollywood Reporter , Twentieth Century Fox has acquired the live action feature film rights to Akira Toriyama's supremely successful Dragon Ball Z .
And Then Two More
March 10, 2002
Pioneer has announced that it will release Bandai's Betterman on DVD beginning in June. Betterman is a 14-episode anime series...
Beginning Late May
March 10, 2002
Manga Entertainment has set release dates for its Astro Boy VHS series, which is being re-solicited due to a change in distributor to WEA.
Mall Kids Driving Book Numbers Up
March 9, 2002
All three of the largest US manga publishers told ICv2 that sales are booming for manga trade paperbacks.
March 1992 in the Pop Culture Products Industry
March 6, 2002
We took a look at the archives of Internal Correspondence , the print predecessor of ICv2...
