- Find your local library on the social networks [link]
- A Jirô Taniguchi's one shot published in issue #8 & #9 of Big Comic (april 2016). Titled Izuko ni ka, it is set in Tokyo during the Meiji era [Animeland, in french]
- Viz announced that it will released Tomie, horror master Junjo Ito’s first manga series, into a single omnibus hardcover [ICv2]
- Kadokawa announced in april that it has Purchased 51% Stake in Yen Press, therefore entering into a joint venture with New York-based publishing company Hachette Book Group to publish manga and light novels in English. [ANN]
- More than half of N.L. libraries closing in wake of budget cuts. Therefore, Let's not take Montreal's public libraries for granted [CBC, The Gazette]
- Crackle has announced that it has acquired streaming rights to Harmony Gold's Robotech 85-episode television series and the Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles feature film. It will be available from May 15. Crackle has launched an anime channel that play like linear television, but content is also available on demand. Sony, Crackle parent company, also announced last year that it was planning a live-action Robotech film. [ANN]
- FUNimation announced in May that it has licensed the restored edition of the 1944 anime film Momotaro, Sacred Sailors (Momotaro: Umi no Shinpei)— probably one of the earliest animation produced in Japan — for home video distribution in the United States and Canada. [ANN]
- Director Luc Besson has been steadily sharing new images from his new stylish sci-fi epic movie, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, on his Facebook and Instagram accounts [ICv2]
- TMS announced a new television anime production titled Trickster: Edogawa Rampo 'Shōnen Tantei-dan' Yori (Trickster: From Rampo Edogawa's "The Boy Detectives Club"). It will air in October on Tokyo MX and Yomiuri TV. It is based on Shōnen Tantei-dan (The Boy Detectives Club), a 1937 series of novels by renowned Japanese mystery novelist Edogawa Rampo. A manga adaptation will also begin in the July issue of Kodansha's Magazine Special [ANN]
- No job is safe from the robots: Robo librarian tracks down misplaced books ! [Popular Science]
- A Battlestar Galactica reboot? According to Deadline, a Battlestar Galactica feature, based on the 1978 Glen Larson TV series, is in the works at Universal. Lisa Joy (Westworld) would write the script and Francis Lawrence (Hunger Games) could direct [ICv2]
- Titan Comics has announced the acquisition of the right to create a new Robotech comic book series. Several comic adaptations have already been published: it started in 1984 with DC’s Robotech Defenders, followed by stories from Comico, Eternity, Wildstorm, and Dynamite, which published a Robotech/Voltron crossover graphic novel in 2015 [ICv2]
- Aardvark-Vanaheim has announced that it will release a new five-part Cerebus miniseries, Cerebus in Hell, beginning in October, and continuing in January through April of 2017 [ICv2]
- Pokemon TV app is now also available on Apple TV. The app, which offers every episodes of the anime series, was first available since 2013 for iOS and Android devices [IGN]
- The trend continues: after the announcement of live-action adaptation from anime like Ghost in the Shell, Battle Angel Alita, Yowamushi Pedal and Fullmetal Alchemist, now they are talking about adaptations for Gintama, Peach Girl, and even an americanized version of Death Note ! [Animeland, ICv2]
- Vertical announced that it has licensed NisiOisin and VOFAN's Nisemonogatari light novel series. The first of two novels is slated for April 2017 [ANN]
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