On October 14, Home Media Magazine, DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, and the Entertainment Merchants Association presents the TV DVD Award event. In this prestigious event, the three companies will present awards in various categories. Consumers determine the winner in each category by voting on at HomeMediaMagazine.com and TVShowsonDVD.com.

For anime fans, FUNimation has some of their products nominated for the Best TV International DVD:

• Dragon Ball Z: Season 5, FUNimation
• Hell Girl Vol. 5, FUNimation
• One Piece: Season 1 First Voyage, FUNimation
• Torchwood: Season 1, BBC Video

Visit FUNimation if you would like to attend or learn more about the event.

That’s right, Viz is offering free Bleach (series 1) and Naruto (series 3) mystery trading figuers, also known as gashapon in Japan. As long as you’re willing to pay for shipping, Viz will be more than happy to send you the figures free.

Check it out yourself. Visit Viz and take advantage of this great deal before the supplies are gone!! These figures usually go for $2.00 to $5.00 depending on locations, but you can get 25 of these figures for the shipping price – $15.99 instead of $50 to $125. If you plan on throwing an anime party, these are great party favors. Running a Bleach or Naruto club, I bet some members would appreciate these.

Note: Shipping prices reflected for U.S. residents using default ground shipping option, it may be higher if you live outside of the U.S. Also, you’re not guaranteed to get the exact figures you want since they’re packaged randomly. The possibility of getting doubles is likely.

What are you waiting for, go to Viz now!

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Bandai Entertainment has announced that it has acquired rights to the Gurren Lagann manga, and will release it in the U.S. in 2009.

Bandai has released the Gurren Lagann anime on DVD, and it is currently airing on Sci Fi Channel, both of which should make for a receptive environment for the manga.

Source: ICv2.com

Bandai Entertainment has announced that it will release the Sola and True Tears anime under its Anime Legend imprint. The Bandai Entertainment Anime Legend releases will be subtitled only, with a single, comprehensive product for each title. Thirteen episodes of Sola, along with two OVAs, will be released at a $44.98 MSRP. The entire series collection of True Tears will be released at $39.98 MSRP.

The titles were originally licensed to Bandai Visual, and had most recently been planned as subbed and dubbed Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise releases

Hokuto no Ken Raoh Gaiden: Ten no Haoh, based on the manga and an upcoming anime series of the same name, was announced in the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu and here are the first few screens. The game will come out this winter in Japan.

Fist of the Northstar

Follows the story of a younger Raoh!

Fist of the Northstar

The game will features Story Mode, VS CPU, Training Mode and Multi-player Versus.

Fist of the Northstar

Activated once the bar at the bottom is full, Kyukyoku Ogi is the killer move that will result in KO most of the time.