Animanga in the News: 4/20/11

Here you will find a run down of today's anime and manga news! If anything major happened the anime and manga world today, you'll find it in this post! By the way, I'm saladesu, one of the translators and global moderators of MH, and I'll be posting a post like this every day (as much as possible, anyway). Look forward to them ;)




A jobless 25-year-old man in Ashiya City, Hyogo prefecture, was arrested for uploading anime via file-sharing software "Share" without authorization from the license holders of the anime.

The man had uploaded the 50th episode of Sunrise-produced anime movie "∀Gundam" onto file-sharing software "Share" on the 24th of February, and used the software to distribute it to an undisclosed number of internet users, thus violating copyright laws. He was arrested on the 4th of April after uploading more anime onto Share illegally. In total, he had uploaded around 28,000 files of around 300 titles of anime and manga.

He stated his reasons for uploading the anime as, "to maintain the download speed" and "to become famous".

original source



Please note that there may be delays in the broadcasts or releases of certain anime and manga following the quake. You may see a list of affected publications here, here, here and here.



If you would like to help in finding and translating news of this nature, please contact saladesu via PM ^^ Feel free to PM me any interesting bits of anime or manga news you find floating around the internet, too.