Anime:
- VIZ has announced the Canadian theatrical premiere of the first live-action Death Note film: Monday, September 15th, at 9pm at a variety of locations throughout Canada (see here to find out where). A bundle including both the DVD and an advance ticket is going on sale August 29th as well, for $29.99 CAD (not bad for a theater ticket AND the film).

- SaiAni reports that Tetsuwan Birdy DECODE will see a second season– not bad for a show based on a manga from ‘85, eh?

- A couple of items from ANN: hints about a new Production I.G project that may be a 3D movie, and seiyuu Tomoko Kawakami– best known for her role as the titular Utena, or maybe as Athena in Air, or Soi Fong in Bleach, or Sayuri in Kanon…you get the idea –has been hospitalized for undisclosed reasons. Let’s wish her a speedy recovery!

Manga:
- Okay, it’s NSFW and a couple of days old, but Sankaku Complex has a great article on how poorly To-LOVEru is censored these days.

- Oh, and Broccoli has a twenty-page preview of Nui! up.

- Keizo Tsukamoto has earned the Guiness record for “having the world’s longest continuous career illustrating one magazine”, drawing the cover of the Weekly Manga Times every week for 38 years– his next goal is to hit the big 5-0. Yipe.

- The Hugo Awards for sci-fi and fantasy fiction are going to add a graphic novel category, as a temporary category in 2009 and (presumably) as a permanent one in 2010 after the decision is ratified at next year’s WorldCon.

Only one real new announcement from Broccoli (see liveblog thread) this time around: Nui!, whose author was not mentioned and which I can’t seem to find online (I’m guessing it has a different title in Japanese, grr). But the series is about a girl who likes plushies more than boys. And she likes them so much that some of her stuffed animals start turning INTO boys. And so suddenly she’s living with three bishounen. Oookay.

Other than that it was mostly a sum-up of everything else we’d already heard: Cosmode, Disgaea, etc.