The official English website for Naruto has begun streaming a dubbed trailer for Naruto Shippuden.  The one minute trailer advertises the online launch of the series in Jaunary, although Viz has only confirmed English subtitles for the episodes.

Canadian premium network Super Channel 2 has announced that it will be showing Gurren Lagann on December 8th at 9 PM ET.  It will show every Monday thereafter with Now and Teh, Here and There at 10 PM and Descendants of Darkness at 10:30 PM.

Funimation has issued cease and desist letters to stop funsubbed distribution of Evangelion: 1.0 You (Are) Not Alone, Soul Eater, Spice + Wolf, Mushi-Uta, and My Bride is a Mermaid!.  They were authorized to send letters on behalf of Kadokawa, NTV, Media Factory, and TV Tokyo Medianet.  Funimation has noted that, as has also been the case in the past, "We want to stress that though these series are not yet licensed to a distribution company in the U.S., the rights owned by Japanese producers are still applicable, and enforceable, worldwide."

Sci Fi in the United States will premiere Bandai Entertainment's dub of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 tonight at 11:00 PM ET/PT.  They will be showing 2 episodes.  Bandai Entertainment will be releasing the first 25 episode season on DVD in North America next year.

Right Stuf has started a new sale and released a list of brand new deals.  You can see their new Weekly Specials Here.  This week some of the highlights include the AD Police Files DVD (Hyb) for $8.99 (regularly $24.98) and Adventures of the Mini Goddesses DVD Box Special for $34.99 (regularly $79.98).

Right Stuf's sale this week is the Charming Deals sale, offering at least 33% off all Manga and Books from Del-Rey. The coupon code is "charming" and the sale runs from now until Nov. 25th.

JapanFiles.com has announced two concert dates for the JRock band MUCC.  They are:

12/7 (Sun) Irving Plaza/ NY
12/10 (Wed) House of Blues/ LA

MUCC will also be releasing their latest album, SHION, in stores and on iTunes on November 25th.

Shizuki Yamashita, the Director of Operations at Broccoli International USA, has posted an update on the status of Broccoli Books' releases.  It reports that "All of the book licenses revert back to the Japanese publishers at the end of the year."  The staffers are working to ensure that other American publishers can rescue the titles by supplying them with the production materials.  Yamashita hopes to have more updates by December 31st about rescued titles.

Broccoli has announced that it will dissolve its Broccoli International USA subsidiary. The four-person subsidiary will cease operations by December 31st and liquidation will be complete by February.  The subsidiary was established to manage Broccoli's copyrights in North America, produce and distribute character goods, oversee a retail store, and handle electronic commerce.  Broccoli cites competition in the susdiary's fields increasing sharply and a drop in revenue and profits for it's decision.

OverDrive, a distributor of digital library materials, has announced that it will be offering Manga Entertainment titles for free borrowing.  They wil lbe using a time-limited digital download and will be offering it via participating library websites.  Patrons of Brooklyn Public Library can already download Kai Doh Maru, Macross II, Macross Plus, Ninja Scroll and Read or Die.  All that is required is a copy of OverDrive Media Console to run the WMV files.  These files can be downloaded to some portable devices, although Apple iPods are among devices that can't run the files due to being unable to play WMV files.

5 Japanese anime studios are suing four unauthorized "heavy downloaders" of their content in Singapore.  The studios involved are Showgate, Geneon Entertainment, TV Tokyo, GDH, and Sunrise.  According to local media sources, the four individuals rejected an offer to settle out of court.  They were sent letters earlier this year from Showgate accusing them of using BitTorrent to download copyrighted content.

TV Tokyo has announced that it will begin to stream subbed episodes of Naruto, Gintama, and 3 other series within 1 hour of their Japanese broadcast on January 8th.  These episodes will be made available to monthly subscribers to Crunchyroll until 7 days after the original broadcast when they will become available to everyone.

Also as of January 8th, Crunchyroll will stop accepting user-submitted videos and other content and will only host videos from copyright holders.

Viz Media has announced that it will being streaming the latest episodes of Naruto Shippuden within a week of broadcast in Japan for free beginning January 15th.  The episodes will go up every Thursday and will be English subbed.  Naruto.com will also begin streaming eight episodes of Naruto every Friday beginning January 2nd until all of the earlier episodes are online.  Naruto.com already streams the entire original series.

Right Stuf has started a new sale and released a list of brand new deals.  You can see their new Weekly Specials Here.  This week some of the highlights include the Speed Grapher DVD Box Set (Hyb) Complete Series for $39.99 (regularly $69.98) and Vandread DVD Box Set (Hyb) (Stages 1-2) (8 DVD Set) for $48.99 (regularly $174.98).

Right Stuf's sale this week is the Aim For The Top sale, offering at least 35% off all DVD's and Blu-Ray from Honneamise/Bandai Visual. The coupon code is "aim" and the sale runs from now until Nov. 16th.

Cartoon Network's Toonami Jetstream has begun streaming the third Naruto movie, Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom.  It will be available on the service until December 15th.  The movie was released on DVD this past Tuesday.

Dentsu has announced that it will be transferring majority ownership in Geneon Entertainment to Universal Pictures International Entertainment.  UPIE has agreed to merge Geneon with Universal Pictures Japan in February.  Dentsu will retain 19.9% of the new company and UPIE will own the remaining 80.1%.

IGN entertainment has reported that 20th Century Fox has pushed up the American release of James Wong's live action adaptation of Dragonball.  They have pushed it up to April 8th, two days earlier than originally.  This means it will be released the Wednesday before Easter instead of the Friday.

4Kids Entertainment announced on Monday that it will be ending it's programming on Fox at the end of this year.  Currently they are in their seventh season of 4Kids TV which shows on Saturday mornings on Fox.  The block includes Kirby: Right Back At Ya! and Sonic X.  The original contract had the block running through September of next year and 4Kids had to settle with Fox for an undisclosed amount to get out of it.

Leonardo DiCaprio told MTV that his production company is currently waiting for the final script for the live action version of Akira.  He made sure to emphasize that he is producing both Akira and Ninja Scroll, but does not have any interest in acting in them.  He said, "I'm a big fan of Japanese anime — that and another project called Ninja Scroll we're trying to get developed and made into a movie, and I know there a lot of loyal fans out there of the project and die-hard fans, so we're going to try to do the best job we possibly can and we're not going to make the movie until the script is in the right shape."

X Japan announced on Saturday, via their website, that they will be delaying its Paris concert and its Christmas concert in Saitama, Japan until next year.  The decision was made by the concert's management team.  The team has determined that a newer long-term strategy will have more success and allow X Japan to visit more cities around the world.  The band's New Year's Eve countdown concert in Tokyo's Akasaka Blitz will still occur as scheduled.

Paris is still set to launch the world tour, but the concert will now take place in 2009.  The Saitama concert will be replaced with a larger concert tour across all of Japan in the spring of 2009.  After Paris the band will still stop in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Taiwan, and Korea in addition to adding more Northern European stops in Sweden and other locations.  No mention has been made of a US stop since they cancelled the planned New York City concert earlier this year.

GDH, the parent company to Gonzo, has announced that it is restructuring and will be cutting their annual anime output from 8 projects to 4 for the next year.  The restructuring include combining their 4 internal animation studios into one division.  While no announcement has been made as to which series will still continue, Gonzo has announced previously that it will be working on The Tower of DRUAGA - the Sword of URUK-, Slap Up Party -Arad Senki-, Shangri-La, and Alice - Saishu Shinka teki Shonen in 2009.  They are also scheduled to be producing the Afro Samurai: Ressurection television movie.

Funimation has announced that it has added Shuffle!, Peach Girl, and Slayers to Hulu.com.  They have also added new episodes of Black Blood Brothers, Blue Gender, MoonPhase and Mushi-Shi.

JapanFiles.com has announced that it has teamed up with Up-Front Works to offer a same-day USA release of the new cd from Hangry & Angry. 

"Hangry & Angry's new 5-song mini-album "Kill Me Kiss Me" will be available
on JapanFiles.com as an official USA CD release and as digital downloads.
The CD will contain the same artwork and booklet as the standard Japanese
release.

Hangry and Angry CDs and MP3s will go on sale on November 19, 2008 -- the
same day as Japan!"

Canada's YTV will be showing the first Bleach movie, Bleach: Memories of Nobody, this Saturday at 9:00 PM ET/PT.  Viz Media released the movie on DVD on October 14th.

Adult Swim has confirmed a new weekend schedule with two hours of new anime and three hours of classic anime.  This will begin this coming Saturday evening/Sunday morning.

11:00    Robot Chicken (two episodes)
11:30    Aqua Teen Hunger Force (two episodes)
12:00    Boondocks
12:30    Boondocks
01:00    Bleach
01:30    Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit
02:00    Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
02:30    Shin-chan
03:00    FLCL
03:30    Death Note
04:00    Ghost in the Shell
04:30    Cowboy Bebop
05:00    The Big O
05:30    Inuyasha

Tsubasacon has announced the datas for their 2009 convention.  It's 6th annual convention will take place at the Huntington
Riverfront Ballroom and Conference Center on October 9–11, 2009.

ICv2 has reported that Barnes & Noble and Borders have cut their graphic novel orders for November and December.  They have cut their orders by 30% to 60%.  The Wall Street Journal has also posted an internal memo from Barnes & Noble Chairman Leonard Riggio about "bracing for a terrible holiday season".

AD Vision has announced that it will be localizing and distributing Princess Resurrection for Sentai Filmworks.  ADV's Amusement Park Media will handle the localization while ADV Films will handle distribution.  The first of six volumes is set to ship on March 17th, 2009.  ADV's Anime Network will run episodes on it's on-demand service and stream a few subbed episodes online prior to this release. 

Bandai Entertainment has confirmed that Adult Swim will move Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 to 2 AM ET/PT on November 8th.  The first episode of the series ran last Saturday at 5 AM, but will be rerun this Saturday at the new 2 AM slot.  New episodes will begin November 15th at 2 AM and continue at that time thereafter.

Funimation has posted an English dubbed "test episode" of Sgt. Frog on YouTube.  According to the notes, Funimation is "beginning work on Sgt. Frog, and we need your input."

JapanFiles.com has announced it's third USA compilation album, "Fresh Cuts from Japan - Hardcore." 

"The latest installment in the "Fresh Cuts" series focuses on the harder-edged artists on the JapanFiles.com catalog, including fan favorites girugamesh, Dazzle Vision, and UNSLOW, plus newcomers like ZODIAQUE and NAMAZ.

Track list:
girugamesh - smash!!
Dazzle Vision - Kuhaku
GAMY - Mosh! Mosh!! Mosh!!!
UNSLOW - Melt Down (alc25)
ensavagement - Deadeyes Open
ANTI ELEMENT - MY WAY
ZODIAQUE - PRIVATE HELL
FURACHI - FRONT
ampcharwar - C4
NAMAZ - Venomous Ensemble
MAD COW - BASTARD
MYPROOF - Your Pain… Is My Pain"

Funimation is offering the first episodes fo Afro Samurai, Burst Angel, Basilisk and MoonPhase for free on iTunes.  They are called the Funimation 4 Episode Sampler and requires a US account on the iTunes Store.