CraveOnline.com, a leading lifestyle destination for men featuring video, movies, TV, music, sports, games, cars, humor and more, announced today that it has acquired MyAnimeList.com, the world’s largest anime & manga social networking site with over 10,000 members signing in daily.

This is interesting news in that an anime and manga social networking site caught the attention of a company really geared towards more traditional “manly” things. I don’t know what Crave is planning, but I do wonder how much they paid for the site and what will become of it now.

Read more on the MyAnimeList purchase here

In other news, CrunchGear reports that Bandai Visual has announced a new Blu-Ray boxed-set release of Ghost in the Shell. The box will contain a new enhanced version of the film with updated CG and stereo sound, the original anime (both in 1080p and 16:9 MPEG-4 AVC), a disc with extras, a new music CD and a special booklet. It sounds like a cool update to the now 13 year old film, but I do wonder if we need yet another “enhanced” anime video. This sounds an awful lot like the fan milking that George Lucas did with seemingly endless re-releases of the original Star Wars trilogy.

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