ActiveAnime has an interview with Jan Scott-Frazier with more details and background on the Voices for Peace project.

Manga Entertainment has added a trailer for their newest license, Karas, to its official site, revealing that the dub cast will include movie actors Matthew Lillard, Jay Hernandez and Piper Perabo.

Voice actors Greg Ayres, Christopher Ayres, Chris Patton, Tiffany Grant, Brittney Karbowski, Kira Vincent-Davis, Jamie McGonnigal, Mike Sinterniklaas and Amanda Winn Lee have banded together with other US anime personalities to produce Voices For Peace, a musical album containing 11 war protest songs performed by them and others. To be released on May 1st, the proceeds will be donated to charities CARE, Doctors Without Borders and the Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust.

More information can be found on the project’s website VoicesFor.org.

ActiveAnime has put up an audio interview with ADV voice actress Brittney Karbowski.

We’ve added the cast for Bang Zoom’s dub of Kannazuki No Miko, due out in April from Geneon Entertainment.

ADV has announced the English cast of their release of the Korean animation Michel. You can find it in our entry for the series.

CrystalAcids has learnt that the fighting show parody Law of Ueki is being dubbed by The Ocean Group / Blue Water Studios. To be released by Geneon Entertainment, the first volume is due out on May 17th, featuring 4 episodes and retailing at $19.98.

Regular database contributor thedigitalsin has re-launched his website detailing the heavy editing provided by CMX Manga (DC Comics’ manga publishing division) to the Tenjho Tenge manga series. If you have not already seen and written CMX, we invite you to contribute your voice to the goal of restoring the manga volumes to their original intent by the Japanese authors.

It is no secret that Manga UK has done what fans thought they would never hear, the second Ghost in the Shell film dubbed into English. Well, the official UK site has now posted long video clips featuring the dub using the Stand Alone Complex TV cast. Enjoy!

1Up.com has obtained the English cast list and release date for FFVII: Advent Children from Sony. The two disc DVD set releasing 4/25/06 will already contained the following features:

• Story Digest
• Deleted Scenes
• Making Of Featurette
• FINAL FANTASY VII: Advent Children Venice Film Festival Footage
• Sneak Peek of the Upcoming FINAL FANTASY VII Games

FFVII Cast
Cloud Strife: Steve Burton
Tifa Lockhart: Rachael Leigh Cook
Kadaj: Steve Staley
Rufus Shinra: Wally Wingert
Reno: Quinton Flynn
Rude: Crispin Freeman
Yazoo: Dave Wittenberg
Loz: Fred Tatasciore
Vincent Valentine: Steve Blum
Barett Wallace: Beau Billingslea
Cid Highwind: Chris Edgerly
Yuffie Kisaragi: Christy Romano
Cait Sith: Gregg Ellis
Red XIII: Liam O’Brien
Reeve: Jamieson Price
Tseng: Ryun Yu
Elena: Bettina Bush
Marlene: Wallace Grace Rolek
Denzel: Benjamin Bryan
Girl: Andrea Bowen
Zack: Rick Gomez
Aerith Gainsborough: Mena Suvari
Sephiroth: George Newbern

AMORZ Entertainment is proud to give you a brand new Cock-Busting Hentai Anime Movie, DISCIPLINE The Hentai Academy. DISCIPLINE, from the makers of the best selling S&M hentai anime BIBLE BLACK, contains a sex-filled dreamy story of campus life where the girls are so slutty that can harden the limpest dick! Watch out and get ready for a variety of super graphic sex scenes from raunchy, passionate, humorous to romantic that DISCIPLINE brings!!

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NEW YORK, NY (February 7, 2006) – Central Park Media announced that The Black Rose Saga – the second story arc in the popular Revolutionary Girl Utena television series – will be re-released on April 18, 2006. Based on the original manga by Chiho Saito and directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara (Sailor Moon), this complete 4-disc series, which will only be available in box sets, will be priced at just $39.95 SRP. The first story arc, The Rose Collection will be re-released later this month while the last story arc will be re-released in late spring.

For all those fans who wish to collect the entire Utena series (all three box sets) at one time, Central Park Media has created a special limited time offer. All three of the box sets can now be purchased for the low price of only $99.95 (which includes shipping) and each order will include an Utena t-shirt as a bonus. In order to qualify for this offer, orders must be placed on CPM’s site at www.centralparkmedia.com/utena by no later than February 28, 2006.

The Black Rose Saga DVD Collection will have an order date of March 21, 2006 and a street date of April 18, 2006. In addition, all program discs will include audio tracks in English and Japanese with English subtitles.

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Black Rose Saga DVD Collection

Utena is about to enter a life beyond her wildest dreams – a world of danger and mystery where her best friend is a trophy bride to any swordfighter who can win her. Armed with a magical sword and ring, Utena undertakes a mission to save her friend. But in this world, treachery is never far behind, and nothing is ever what it seems! Contains episodes 14-26 on 4 DVDs.

DVD Features: Interview with the Director Kunihiko Ikuhara, Interview with U.S. Voice Actors, Opening Theme Song with Romaji Lyrics, Episodes 1-13 Storyline, DVD Previews, Extensive DVD-ROM Features

About Central Park Media
Central Park Media is a 15-year-old Manhattan-based independent video and book publisher focused on Japanese and Korean animation and graphic novels. Central Park Media has been a leading supplier of anime in the United States since 1990, and a major publisher of manga since 1994. The company currently manufactures and distributes animated video programming under several label names, including U.S. Manga Corps, Be Beautiful, Software Sculptors and Central Park Media, as well as live-action Asian feature films under its Asia Pulp Cinema label.

With exclusive rights to hundreds of graphic novels, the company has become a leading North American publisher of Japanese manga and Korean manhwa. Among CPM’s fan-favorite graphic novel titles are Lee Hyun Se’s Nambul (the best-selling manhwa in Korean publishing history), and Kia Asamiya’s Dark Angel. Under its Be Beautiful imprint, the company also publishes popular yaoi manga such as the best-selling Kizuna: Bonds of Love (the best-selling yaoi title in Japanese publishing history). Visit www.centralparkmedia.com, www.cpmpress.com and www.bebeautifulmanga.com for more information.

For high resolution, downloadable artwork and information, please visit CPM’s electronic press kit at www.centralparkmedia.com./cpmdb/presskit.cfm .