The working committee for National Comprehensive Animation Cultural Knowledge Certificate Examination (so called Anime Kentei) announced the program planed on March 22nd at Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007. “Anime Kentei” aims to develop animation industry and culture as the certificate examination. The examination includes animation culture/industry knowledge of domestic and overseas. It is expected that […]

Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007 finished its business days and made a new record 24,354 visitors in these two days. This result impresses the expansion in both size and visibility of the fair.
On the second day, it had 12,831 guests, more than the first day and exceeds last year record by 10%. The number of […]

An anime version of “Ookiku Furikabutte”, a popular manga running on monthly “Afternoon” (Kondansha), is scheduled. The rollout of this anime was held at Tokyo International Anime Fair 2007 at Tokyo BigSight on March 23. Representatives of TBS, Kodansha, Aniplex, A-1 pictures and special voice actors joined to the rollout.
The original story received 10th Osamu […]

The number of visitors to movie theaters and the box office decreased 6.7% and 6.0% to 160 million and \19.816 billion, respectively, according to the statistics on the Japanese movie industry compiled by the Motion Pictures Producers Association.
These decreases were attributable to the decline of the number of hit movies. Nevertheless, the box office […]

Interview with Mr. Dousai, Chief Editor of COSMODE.NET
A: How many cosplay geeks are there in Japan?
Dousai: There might be 70,000 to 90,000 judging from my experience. The number contains those experienced the participation in a cosplay event and have favorable position toward the subculture named a cosplay, including potential maniacs. In addition this includes the […]