AnimeNext returns to the Jersey Shore this weekend. Here’s the panel schedule for 2018!

Independent anime, manga and Japanese pop culture convention AnimeNext is making its way back to the Atlantic City Convention Center in “The World’s Famous Playground,” bringing with it a litany of anime, manga, music and voice talents, along with enough cosplayers to fill the city’s 4 mile boardwalk. Inaugurated in 2002, AnimeNext has been in ….

Japanese anime company making live-action Bubblegum Crisis movie

Tokyo-based animation outfit Anime International Company (AIC) has contracted with Singapore-based Cubix, a visual software production company, to make a live-action version of the sci-fi anime series Bubblegum Crisis, according to Variety. The companies plan a large budget for the feature, directed towards a U.S. theatrical release sometime in 2011. Bubblegum Crisis creators Shinji Aramaki ….