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December 2007: Week 3

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Blood+, currently on air in the USA on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

Read our exclusive interview with character designer and animation director Akiharu Ishii in the Blood+ Production Report (5) here.
Kenji Kamiyama's Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society has been selected for the international competition of Brussels animation festival Anima 2008. Read the details here.
Read our interview with Guardian of the Sacred Spirit author, Nahoko Uehashi here.
Read about The Sky Crawlers, the new animation film by Mamoru Oshii here.

July 2007: Week 4

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Blood+, currently on air in the USA on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

Read our exclusive interview with character designer and animation director Akiharu Ishii in the Blood+ Production Report (4) here.
Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters is going to have its Australian premiere at the forthcoming 16th Brisbane International Film Festival. Read the details here.
Read about The Sky Crawlers, the new animation film by Mamoru Oshii here.
Check our newly added page about Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations OAD here.
We added the synopsis of the TV series Blood+ episode 8 here.
We added character file 4 to our Sisters of Wellber page here.

May 2007: Week 3

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Blood+, currently aired in the USA on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

Read our exclusive interview with character designer and animation director Akiharu Ishii in the Blood+ Production Report (3) here.
Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters will screen on June 1st at the prestigious Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon. Read the details here.
We added the synopsis of TV series Sisters of Wellber episode 1 here.
We added the synopsis of TV series Guardian of the Sacred Spirit episode 1 here.
We added the synopsis of TV series Reideen episode 3 here.
We added the synopsis of TV series IGPX episode 20 here.

March 2007: Week 5

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Blood+, currently being aired in the USA on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

Mamoru Oshii's Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters will screen at the Cherry Blossom Anime Marathon in Washington DC. Read more about it here.
Read about Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters screening at the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival here.
Tachigui is also having its German premiere at the 6th CineAsia Film Festival, read more about it here.
Read our exclusive interview with character designer and animation director Akiharu Ishii in the Blood+ Production Report (2) here.
We added synopsis of TV series xxxHOLiC episode 24 here.
We added the synopsis of TV series IGPX episode 14 here.

March 2007: Week 2

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Junichi Fujisaku's Blood+, premiering in the USA on March 10 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

Read about Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters screening at the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival here.
Read the first part of our exclusive production report on Junichi Fujisaku's Blood+ here.
Read about Maaya Sakamoto's new music clip Universe here.
We added synopsis of TV series xxxHOLiC episode 21 here.
We added the synopsis of TV series IGPX episode 11 here.

February 2007: Week 1

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Saya, as seen in Blood+ opening film version 3, directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani.

Read about Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters USA Premiere at Film Select Presents 2007 here.

Read the fourth and last part of our exclusive interview with the staff of Blood+ OP 3 here.
We added synopsis of TV series xxxHOLiC episode 16 here.
And we also added synopsis of IGPX episode 6 here.

January 2007: Week 2

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Saya, as seen in Blood+ opening film version 3, directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani.

Read the third part of our exclusive interview with the staff of Blood+ OP 3 here.
We added synopsis of TV series xxxHOLiC episode 13 here.
And we also added synopsis of IGPX episode 3 here.

December 2006: Week 4

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Saya and Diva, as seen in Blood+ opening film version 3, directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani.

Read the second part of our exclusive interview with the staff of Blood+ OP 3 here.
We added synopsis of TV series xxxHOLiC episode 11 here.
And we also added synopsis of IGPX episode 1 here.

December 2006: Week 1

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Saya, as seen in Blood+ opening film version 3, directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani.

Read the first part of our exclusive interview with the staff of Blood+ OP 3 here.
Russian singer Linda's music clip Chains & Rings / Tsepi i kol'tsa is finally available on DVD, and we added a new info page here.

April 2006: Week 3

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Blood+.

Go to the updated Blood+ page here.
Go to the newly added The King of Fighters: Another Day page here.

March 2006: Week 5

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Saya and Hagi from the TV series Blood+

Go to the newly added Blood+ Episode 6 Synopsis here.
Go to the newly added Le Chevalier D'Eon page here.

March 2006: Week 1

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Saya Otonashi from Blood+.

Go to the newly added Blood+ Episode 5 Synopsis here.

February 2006: Week 2

This Week's Top Page is dedicated to Saya and Hagi from Blood+.

Go to the newly added Blood+ Episode 4 Synopsis here.
Go to Part 04 (and last) of our special feature about Otogi Zoshi here.

January 2006: Week 3

This Week's Top Page illustration, depicting Blood+ heroin Saya Otonashi, appeared for the first time in June 2005 on the MBS Anime Festival '05 official brochure cover.

Go to the updated Blood+ page here.
Go to Part 04 of our exclusive interview with IGPX 3D team here.

December 2005: Week 3

This Week's Top Page double illustration is dedicated to the main characters of IGPX and Blood+.
From left: Kai, Saya and Riku (Blood+); Amy, Takeshi and Liz (IGPX)

Go to Part 01 of our exclusive interview with IGPX 3D team here.
Visit our updated Blood+ section here.

IGPX TV AIR INFO

ON AIR IN USA: Saturdays at 10:30pm (ET, PT) on Cartoon Network
ON AIR IN JAPAN: Wednesdays at 26:40am on TV Asahi

October 2005: Week 3

This week's Top Page illustration is dedicated to Blood+, and depicts the main character, Saya Otonashi.

Yutaka Omatsu Interview Part 06
Start reading this interview from Part 01

October 2005: Week 2

This week's illustration is dedicated to Blood+ young protagonist, Saya Otonashi. Why is her sword's shape so unusual?

Yutaka Omatsu Interview Part 05
Start reading this interview from Part 01

October 2005: Week 1

This week's Top Page illustration is dedicated to Blood+, and depicts mysterious Hagi playing his cello.
What is the secret of Blood+ music? Find all about it in Part 04 of our exclusive interview with Yutaka Omatsu.

Yutaka Omatsu Interview Part 04
Start reading this interview from Part 01

September 2005: Week 4

This week Top Page illustration is a unique composition featuring mechs, high-school girls and creatures from the most awaited Production I.G Autumn TV line-up: the forward IG machine used by Takeshi Jinno in IGPX (left), and the young protagonist of Blood+, Saya Otonashi, with a ferocious chiropteran lurking behind her (right).
Blood+ illustrations appeared for the first time in the June 2005 issue of Animedia.

Please enjoy our double special feature:

IGPX Double Interview: Mitsuru Hongo & Toshihisa Kaiya
BLOOD+ Yutaka Omatsu Interview Part 03

IGPX Starting Air Date: October 5, 2005 at 26:40 on TV Asahi
Blood+ Starting Air Date: October 8, 2005 at 18:00 on TBS/MBS