Eva:1.0 DVD Sells 219,000 Copies Within First Week

The past few days have been insane in Akihabara whereby all the limited edition Evangelion 1.0 DVD set have bee swept up by the hungry otaku.

In fact, business has been so good that 219,000 DVDs have been sold in less than one week of sales, making this the best selling DVD for 2008.

Megumi Hayashibara Singing Slayers Revolution OP & ED

It has been confirmed on the Starchild official website that Megumi Hayashibara will be singing both the opening and ending theme for the anime series Slayers Revolution.

Its nice to see her taking on Lina Inverse again and singing the theme songs. Hayashibara had also sung the theme songs for all the previous Slayers series and [...]

To Heart 2 Itasha Model Car

Following the Haruhi Itasha Model Car, Aoishima Bunka has released another Itasha model car, and this time its based on To Heart 2.

The car would be the Toyata AE86 that you have seen in Initial D.

The model car has already been released on April 25th and retails for 3,570 yen.

Pizzahut Promo With Macross Frontier

PizzaHut Japan is having another tie-in promotional campaign with anime - This time they are collaborating with Macross Frontier.

Just like the previous Code Geass pizza promo, with effect from 12th May, people who order a medium-sized pizza will get a Macross Frontier design pizza box.
25 lucky customers will also get to win signed recording scripts, [...]

Oricon: Most Touching Manga

Oricon surveyed 900 men and women between the ages of 10 and 40 and asked them which was the most emotionally touching manga that they have read before.

One Piece came in tops in the combined polls. Amongst men, Slam Dunk was considered the most touching while One Piece was ranked second. But amongst women, One [...]