I'm afraid I've fallen behind on announcing Ono Natsume stuff in recent months due to, well, real life (and all that other thrilling jazz). For the first time in a while, however, there's actual Rispara news to announce so I weaseled myself some free time.

Movic announced earlier this month that it will be releasing a set of six Ristorante ( Read more... )

Siren Visual have finally announced a street date for the R4 DVD release of House of Five Leaves. The complete series will be made available as a subtitle-only two-disc set on April 15th 2011. Its RRP will be $49.95AU. You can preorder the release or simply read up about it on Siren's homepage.

Certainly a bare-bones release compared to the R2 LE ( Read more... )

The first volume of Gente: The People of Ristorante Paradiso went on sale this week - August 17th, to be precise. My copy arrived today, has anyone else purchased theirs? The book is in keeping with Viz's release of Ristorante Paradiso - larger format, cover flaps, the same dialogue text font. As with Viz's Rispara the colour insert pages from the ( Read more... )

If you hadn't already noticed, Viz has been regularly putting back release dates for various "Viz Signature" manga titles (including SigIkki series). So, for those anticipating some Ono Natsume goodies, here are the latest release dates (and prices) available through the Viz website and Amazon:

House of Five Leaves #1 - September 21st 2010 ($12. ( Read more... )