| 1:34pm | Bandai and the Marketing Blitz of Kannagi |  | | | When the Japanese company Aniplex held an industry panel at Anime Boston last May, their emphasis on the unlicensed series Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens baffled the audience and bloggers. “Why are they spending so much time talking about Kannagi?” “The show’s still unlicensed,... | | |
| 4:31pm | Anime Mini-Review: Fullmetal Alchemist Premium OVA Collection | | | | One of the reasons why FUNimation rose to power to become over a third of the entire American anime market is because they releases a number of the most popular anime titles in America. Dragonball Z, Afro Samurai, and of course, Fullmetal Alchemist. The company has already released the first Fullmetal... |
| 4:32pm | Manga Review: The Battle of Genryu: Origin | | | | I’ve been pretty hit-or-miss when it comes to releases from CMX Manga. In general, I’ve found their shojo releases to be very enjoyable and quite entertaining. Their Densha Otoko release was the best manga adaptation I read of that series, and their Emma series is one of the best manga releases... | | |
| 5:48pm | Highlights and Stories from Otakon 2009 | | | | Ah, Otakon. That time every year when all the otaku living on the east coast make that pilgrimage to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor for three days of anime craziness. For a more in depth report of my time down in Baltimore, you can read my complete coverage of the event through my “In Tweets”... | | |
| 12:59pm | Anime Review: Rozen Maiden Traumend | | | | When I looked at the back of the box for FUNimation’s rerelease of Rozen Maiden Traumend, I literally laughed out loud. Of all the good things that review sites have said about the series, they selected one quote in particular to write on the box: “Very Enjoyable” - AnimeOnDVD.com... | | |
| 4:35am | Otakon 2009 - Day 2 in Tweets | | | | Reni Makes Her Big Con Debut On Site: Jon I. from JANAiBlog Scott from The Anime Almanac Edward Sizemore from Comics Worth Reading animevice from Anime Vice OutOfTimeProd from Out Of Time Productions Greg Kim Alex from alexleavitt.com Peter Tatara from New York Anime Fest VIZ from VIZ Media Narutaki... | | |
| 4:10am | Otakon 2009 - Day 1 in Tweets | | | | “Well, Mell was swell as hell.” On Site: Scott from The Anime Almanac Jon I. from JANAiBlog Kim Edward Sizemore from Comics Worth Reading animevice from Anime Vice Greg Peter Tatara from New York Anime Fest OutOfTimeProd from Out Of Time Productions Alex from alexleavitt.com Carl from Ogiue... | | |
| 3:27am | Otakon 2009 - Day 0 in Tweets | | | | The Gang’s All Here! (^_^) On Site: Scott from The Anime Almanac Edward Sizemore from Comics Worth Reading Jon I. from JANAiBlog Kim DJ Ranma S from Anime Jam Session Vampt Vo from Ani-Gamers Peter Tatara from New York Anime Fest Patz from The Gaming Dungeon Greg Narutaki from Reverse Thieves Hisui... | | |
| 4:26pm | Butt Biting Bugs and the Wacky World of UrumaDelvi | | | | I first heard about Oshiri Kajiri Mushi, or “The Butt Biting Bug”, from the popular blog Boing Boing in August 2007. According to the blog, this children’s cartoon was the biggest craze in Japan at the time: The repeating monotonic line “Oshiri kajiri mushi” ingrained the... |
| 5:02pm | NYAFF Double Feature - I’m Your Toy, Your 20th Century Boy | | | | Why do we care so much whenever our favorite novel, comic, or cartoon is adapted into a live-action movie? After all, we already have the original version right there in front of us, and we know that something in the story is going to be lost when squeezed into a 2-hour-long flick. So why do we care... | | |
| 4:17pm | Anime Review : Kaze no Stigma | | | | So as I looked at the stack of new releases from FUNimation for this week, I reached a dilemma. I only have time to watch one series, and neither one of these selections particularly caught my interests. So I posed the question to my Tweet Peeps, the people who follow me on Twitter, “What should... | | |
| 1:36pm | Manga Review: Swallowing the Earth | | | | When I read the fifth volume of Black Jack a few weeks ago, I decided to give in to the peer pressure of my fellow manga enthusiasts and open myself up to the grandfather of manga, Osamu Tezuka. I wanted to dive deep into this man’s massive catalog of decades old works. So when I found out that... |
| 2:26pm | NYAFF Double Feature - Being a Man and Loving ‘em Too! | | | | The New York Asian Film Festival is in town this month, and for the first time ever, this blogger is taking the train into the city and catching some of the action for himself. For the next few weeks, I’ll be posting up some reviews and features from the events taking place at the IFC Center and... | | |
| 12:54pm | Anime Review: Romeo x Juliet | | | | When FUNimation ran their “Sneak Preview” panel at AnimeNEXT weeks ago, their centerpiece was a new title from studio Gonzo called Romeo x Juliet (pronounced “Romeo and Juliet”). In this Youtube clip, FUNi rep Adam Sheehan describes the unique dub that they did for this series:... | | |
| 1:41pm | Manga Review: Ballad of a Shinigami | | | | CMX’s newest release, Ballad of a Shinigami by Asuka Izumi, is the manga adaptation of the light novel by K-Ske Hasegawa. It follows Momo, the cutest little shinigami (a “God of Death” or grim reaper) that you’ve ever seen. Along with her animal familiar Daniel, Momo watches... |
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