Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 31, 2010
Over in Japan, it’s April 1st right now, and all kinds of pranks and jokes are flooding the Internet. Like most cynics, this time of year just makes me want to hole up for a day and wait for the Internet to stop being stupid, but there are a few noteworthy gags out there right [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 31, 2010
With the recent rush to get the newest and shiniest new shows, it’s nice to see today’s press release from VIZ, which is about a relatively old show (which, these days, means “more than 2 months old”), Kekkaishi. The 52-episode action series, which originally aired between 2006 and 2008, will start airing on Adult Swim [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 31, 2010
Crunchyroll has added in the latest announcement in the race to for online streaming rights, and it’s a pretty interesting one – the East-meets-West Heroman. The simulcast will be available every Thursday at 3 AM Pacific time, and while I’m not going to stay up for it, I’m definitely going to add it to my [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 31, 2010
Thanks to Kadokawa’s YouTube channel, you can now see a sneak preview of the zombie series Highschool of the Dead, due to come out later this year. Based on the survival action manga by Satou Daisuke and Satou Shouji, the anime has a pretty solid staff already, with director Araki Tetsuo (Death Note) and screenwriter [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 30, 2010
In a surprise first strike in the spring anime sweepstakes, the Anime Network just announced that it will be streaming the April fantasy/comedy anime Ichiban Ushiro no Daimao from its Anime Network Online site. The former division of ADV Films will start streaming the show on Friday, April 2. Hit the jump for the text of [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 30, 2010
While there are more than a handful of shakycam videos of TAF trailers out there, I feel like it’s not worth pointing to them unless you can actually hear what’s going on without hundreds of Japanese convention-goers jabbering over the blurry video. The Sarai-ya Goyou trailer comes as a breath of fresh air, late as [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 29, 2010
That’s right, ladies, two, two, TWO Black Butler news pieces in one day! FUNimation’s latest FUNicon just ended with a trailer for the first Kuroshitsuji, meaning that FUNimation has acquired the rights to the fangirltastic butler series, which starred Sakamoto Maaya and Ono Daisuke as a young boy and his demonic butler. More info to come [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 29, 2010
The TAF trailer for Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls is now live on the official anime site, and it looks exactly like you’d expect it to look. The site is made with Flash, so I can’t link it directly – to see the borderline unsafe for work trailer, click on the 動画 link on the right [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 29, 2010
For those of you who are veritably squealing in anticipation of more boy-butler action this summer, Kuroshitsuji II now has a streaming trailer that reintroduces you to the world of Black Butler. The trailer runs 3:37 and shows off a whole lot of the two main characters: young nobleman Alois Trancy and his (presumably demonic) [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 25, 2010
It’s been a while since we had a proper comedy-fantasy, with the Slayers series and its many imitators going into general dormancy after the ’90s. That’s why I’m mildly hopeful for the redundantly-named The Legend of the Legendary Heroes, which follows the good ol’ fantasy formula of a lazy, dumb guy and a hyper-violent girl [...]
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