| 8:00pm | A Gundam series that’ll drag on for almost 2 years? Geez… |  | | | From Anime News Service - At the big Gundam 00 preview event held at Nakano Sun Plaza this past weekend, show staff mentioned that although the 1st TV season of Gundam 00 will only run 25 episodes (6 months) followed by an undetermined “break period” and then a second season, the effort... |
| 7:00pm | Can’t get enough of the Naked Mermaid of Umisho? | | | | From Anime News Service - Degeki Online is now hosting some images from the forthcoming Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho PS2 game. Release is planned for October 25 for 7,140 Yen. A special limited edition will be sold for 9,870 Yen with a special Drama CD and OST disc. Ray’s Take: Ray’s been... | | |
| 6:00pm | Nothing new, but rejoice Naruto fans… | | | | From Anime Corporation News - Naruto volume 6 has climbed to #102 (from 131), Volume 17 up to #93 (from 123), and Volume 18 has jumped all the way up to #62 (from 116). Ray’s Take: Well, I guess it’s a proud moment in the history of Naruto fansheh heh heh I just don’t know why but... | | |
| 5:44pm | Want easy access to Shakespeare’s work? Try the manga version! | | | | Wow, we’re having British Day?! From BBC News - One new UK publishing house, Self Made Hero, is offering “Manga Shakespeare” - cut-down versions of some of the plays, in a Japanese cartoon style. They are drawn by established manga artists, the characters acquiring the typical big... |
| 5:37pm | Move over, Shakespeare! Here comes Barefoot Gen! | | | | From Anime Corporation - You want art films? Forget King Lear! The British Museum will be launching a film series on September 7, entitled “Late Night Manga to Anime”, which will feature such anime as Akira, Barefoot Gen, Phoenix 2772 and They Were Eleven. More information can be found here. The... |
| 5:37pm | Pizza Hut: First We Take Code Geass. Then We Take Evangeliiiiionnnn | | | | (Sorry for the Leonard Cohen reference.) Anime News Network reports: Pizza Hut has launched a campaign tied to the Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone movie remake in Japan on Thursday. Each customer who orders a medium-sized pizza will get an Evangelion: 1.0 pizza box while supplies last. Pizza Hut... | | |
| 5:43am | School Days 10: A Return to Form? | | | | Well, not exactly. There was more seriousness and slightly better emotional development in this episode, but it all rests on the ridiculous turns that the show has taken lately, so it doesn’t ultimately redeem it for me. But I think I figured it out. The writers have two goals they want to accomplish... | | |
| 6:30pm | Claymore 23 review pt. 1- the Shonen Thesis | | | | Where is hope? Where’s the miracle? Why are they even here? “I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. Sometimes you just have... | | |
| 8:44am | School Days 7-9 Jumps the Shark | | | | Sigh. I’d hoped too much, I guess. I can’t take this show seriously anymore. For me, it’s taken several wrong turns as a story, and here’s why. | | |
| 6:37am | Difficulties with copyrights. | | | | When I was posting news I didn’t know that I shouldn’t have copied the whole thing. Yes, I did post a link to the reference every time, but Mike told me that wasn’t enough - I needed to quote parts of the news and not copying the whole news. Now I did add my own commentaries to the... |
| 5:42am | Makoto Shinkai Makes a Commercial | | | | No, it’s not the ef–a tale of memories OP. It’s an actual commercial, for the Shinano Mainichi Shimbun newspaper. It’s only 15 seconds, it’s got everything you expect from Shinkai–dappled light, terrifically fluid animation, soppy piano music. You can watch it here,... |
| 6:10pm | Hey, Anno-san: the Country of Children Made You #1. | | | | From Anime News Network: The first of four Evangelion science fiction movie remakes, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone, opened to packed houses to take #1 on the top ten chart for this past weekend’s box office in Japan. The distributor Nikkatsu announced that 236,158 people spent 280 million... |
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