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New Mexico's Albuquerque Public Schools held a Thursday hearing over a parent's concerns on the Death Note manga series, but a committee voted unanimously against a proposed district-wide ban on the manga. Peggy Salazar, a mother of a student at Albuquerque's Volcano Vista High School, advocated for the ban and added, "Killing is just not something we should put out there for our kids to read in this way." At least two of the district's 13 other high schools — Valley High School and Atrisco Heritage Academy — also carry the manga in their libraries.

Voice actor Daisuke Gouri, real name Yoshio Nagahori passed away on Sunday, 17 Jan, aged 57. Gouri known as the voice of Robin Mask in the "Kinnikuman" anime series, Mister Satan in "Dragon Ball" and Heihachi Mishima in "Tekken", was discovered by a passer-by on a street in Tokyo's Nagano ward around 3pm on January 17.

Police are investigating the death as a suicide after his body was reportedly found lying face down between two buildings, blood flowing from his left wrist. A knife and a note addressed to his family were found near the body.

Source: Tokyograph

Kazuhiko Katoh, the co-founder of two musical bands and the composer of the main theme songs for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? and Windaria, was found hanged in his hotel room in Nagano Prefecture on Saturday. He was 62. The local authorities believe he had committed suicide, due to two copies of a last will that he reportedly had left in his room. The NHK public broadcaster broke the news of Katoh's passing on Saturday afternoon, just hours before the first of two Macross Crossover Live concerts with Iijima and four other Macross singers.

Katoh made his musical debut with his college band The Folk Crusaders, which performed the hit songs "Kaette Kita Yopparai" and "Imujingawa." After The Folk Crusaders disbanded, he co-established The Sadistic Mika Band, a group that would break up and reunite several times over the years. The band became the first Japanese group to tour Great Britain when it opened for Roxy Music in 1975.

On his own, he composed music for several projects, including Mari Iijima's "Do You Remember Love?" ("Ai , Oboeteimasu ka?") theme song for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? and Akino Arai's "Yakusoku" for Windaria. "Do

FUNimation Entertainment announced that Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone film will be screened for free at the University of North Texas this evening. The screening is hosted by Mu Epsilon Kappa--UNT Anime Club. The screening will take place at ESSC Bld room 255 on the Denton campus at 6:00 p.m.

The film will also be screened for free at the Japan Information and Culture Center in the Embassy of Japan at Washington, D.C. on September 9, 2009 at 6:30pm. the center will also host a free screening of Death Note: The Last Name this Friday at 6:30pm. This film concludes the two-part live-action adaptation of Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba's Death Note manga.

Source: Anime News Network

The award-winning actor Kenichi Matsuyama will reunite with Tatsuya Fujiwara onscreen for the first time since the Death Note films. Toya Sato is directing the live action film adaptation of Nobuyuki Fukumoto's Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji manga.

Fujiwara will be playing the star rolefo Kaiji, a gambler who is 3.49 million yen in debt. (That's about 36, 000 USD) Yuki Amami plays Rinko Endo a loan shark, a character that is originally a male in the manga. The character convinces Kaiji to board a gambling ship to clear his debt. Matsuyama will be playing the supporting role of Makoto Sahara, Kaiji's acquaintance who is in a similiar life or death situation.

Kaiji will be opening on October 10th in Japan.

Source: Anime News Network

VIZ Media announced that it will publish volumes 24 through 53 of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga series between January and June of 2010. (Or five per month). Volume 53 was just shipped in Japan (march) and VIZ's own Shonen Jump magazine will publish the latest chapters from Japan starting this fall.

Along with the announcement of One Piece, VIZ is also releasing;

Akihisa Ikeda's Rosario + Vampire season II manga starting April 6, 2010.
Crown of Love by Yun Kouga -- Feb 2, 2010,
The Cactus Secret -- Mar 2, 2010
Stepping on Roses from Tail of the Moon's Rinko Ueda -- Apr 6, 2010
Flower in a Storm -- May 4, 2010
Biomega, from Blame! author Tsutomo Nihei - Feb 9, 2010

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