| 8:41pm | Manifest X - Day 1 |  | | | The first official day of Manifest was a stereotypical winter day in Melbourne, Australia, as it was raining during a period in the day, and the next the sun was out. Despite this year Manifest X holding a pre-breakfast event in the city of Melbourne that day, the lines to collect one’s event passes... | | |
| 1:11am | Anime Releases for September 2009 | | | | Hopefully you’ve all survived the Summer Anime Con Season! Now that everyone is back to work/school, it’s time for some Fall Anime Releases! Here are a few noteworthy titles for September – Ghost Slayers Ayashi Part 3; School Rumble Season 1/OVA Set; Red Garden Complete Collection;... | | |
| 4:30pm | T.H.A.T. Fall 2009 Anime Preview |  | | | Deadpan lolis, my favorite Welcome to another edition of the T.H.A.T. anime preview! Out of a total of 26 series covered in this preview (I excluded the kiddie shows/educational stuff as usual), the statistical breakdown goes like this (some categories overlap): Sequels: 8 Spin-offs: 3 New Shows: 15... | | |
| 4:30pm | T.H.A.T. Fall 2009 Anime Preview |  | | | Deadpan lolis, my favorite Welcome to another edition of the T.H.A.T. anime preview! Out of a total of 26 series covered in this preview (I excluded the kiddie shows/educational stuff as usual), the statistical breakdown goes like this (some categories overlap): Sequels: 8 Spin-offs: 3 New Shows: 15... | | |
| 8:15pm | Bee Train’s bullet ballet Phantom is really good | | | | Bee Train doesn’t exactly have the best of reputations, be it their bias for girls with guns or their notoriously poor production values, fact is their work polarises opinion and attracts its fair share of detractors. I’ve seen neither Noir nor Madlax, was horrified by the low budget vibe... | | |
| 6:44pm | Manga Releases for August 2009 | | | | Do you have anything left to read before summer ends? If not, there’s a bunch of new manga releases this month. There are several Ponyo books; Black Lagoon, Volume Seven; Inuyasha, Volume 39; Gantz Volume 6 TPB; Trinity Blood, Volume 11 and a lot more! The full list can be seen below: August... | | |
| 7:26pm | Summer Season Favorites -- Blue Flowers in an Earthquake | | | | Three episodes in, now it can be said: Aoi Hana ("Sweet Blue Flowers") and Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 are my top shows of the summer season. And both are so good that, if they fulfill their promise, they could become anime masterpieces.Close behind comes Bakemonogatari, and I'm enjoying a number of other shows,... | | |
| 1:57am | Anime News Roundup – 26 Jul 09 |  | | | Black Lagoon 3rd Season OVA Site Unveiled – http://www.blacklagoon.jp/ , tentative release date is somewhere in 2010.Eden of The East Movie Will be in 2 Parts. The King Eden which is set for 28 Nov 2009 and Paradise Lost, set for 9 Jan 2010新作アニメ映画『 イマイ新子と千年の... | | |
| 12:03am | Otakon 2009: When Guests Are the Real Deal | | | | Otakon 2009 was punctuated by a number of personal differences and changes in my life, not least of which were a new method of travel, as well as a variety of new travel buddies. It was also my first year at Otakon as a member of the Press (thanks to the existence of this blog), and while I can’t... | | |
| 12:45am | Otakon 2009 – Day 1 – MELL A Forever17 Dancing Meme Director | | | | I think when you get unfortunately woken up at 6AM after way too little sleep, you just know it’s going to be one of those days. If it was any other day, I probably would have just tried to crash and put off as much of whatever I have to do as I could, but this being Otakon meant the complete... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 2:26am | Black Lagoon OVA Confirmed For 2010 | | | | Great news for Black Lagoon fans, there is news confirmation that a new Black Lagoon anime project is in the works and will be released as an OVA in 2010. This piece of news was announced on Shogakukan’s GX news website: アニメ最新作である第 3期はOVAとして2010年発 予定になることが決... | | |
| 12:53pm | Black Lagoon Season 3 Details Unveiled |  | | | Details of the long awaited continuation of pirate oppai anime Black Lagoon have been revealed. Rather than being another 13 episode TV anime, it appears the season will take the form of an OVA, for release in 2010. The choice of an OVA is slightly unexpected, but seems to be increasingly common,... | | |
| 5:39am | Jul. 16/2009 Anime News: Inu Yasha Season 2 confirmed! | | | | - Black Lagoon 3rd season will be OVA - Kannagi licensed by Bandai. Also, first two episodes are streamed by ANN and official website: HERE ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -----------------------.. | | |
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