Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 22, 2010
Update: The Super Robot Wars official anime page is up, and gives the new anime a fall season start date! What’s this I see on the Internet? A new Super Robot Wars OG series that takes place after the overly-political Divine Wars series? And it’s subtitled The Inspector, just like the first villains of OG2? And [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 7, 2009
Now that I have your attention, let’s talk about robots. Gundam Unicorn is a series of novels that follows the original Mobile Suit Gundam story, and it’s being released as a series of streaming videos starting in February of next year. I’m hugely excited about it, because it’s been a decade since Gundam returned to [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 7, 2009
This weekend, I spent my time testing out new combos in Baldr Sky Dive2 and watching football. The anime world, however, was busy trying to make up for a relatively light anime slate in this winter season by announcing 2010 anime in bunches. This weekend brought us a bunch of announcements: – A new Code [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 3, 2009
David asks: Would anime produced by an American company be considered anime (in our sense of the word)?
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 25, 2009
Ono Natsume, the author of Ristorante Paradiso, now has two manga that have anime adaptations on his resume. The latest is House of Five Leaves (Saraiya Goyou), a period piece about a gang of kidnappers, headed by the silver-tongued and inscrutable Yaichi, who hire a timid ronin named Akitsu Masanosuke as their bodyguard. According to [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 24, 2009
Yesterday, anime mega-company FUNimation announced the hiring of Chris Moujaes as their Director of Original Entertainment, an announcement which could have long-reaching effects in the anime industry. Moujaes, a veteran of international production teams and management, will be in charge of acquiring licenses and developing new anime. FUNimation isn’t the first American anime company to [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 12, 2009
Don’t try to look for today’s Naruto Shippuden episode – the show has taken a week off of its broadcast schedule so that the animators can spend more time on next week’s special episode. Next week’s special is titled Ruten no Hate: Kyoudai no Saikai (roughly, “On the shores of flux: the brothers’ reunion”) and [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 10, 2009
There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle on the Internet today after Bandai’s announcement of the Kurokami Blu-ray discs, which will have an English dub track and no Japanese language track. I figure it’s a good time to educate you folks on how good American releases are compared to the Japanese market, and why this [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 10, 2009
FUNimation just can’t stop previewing Soul Eater, and their latest dub clip comes from the third episode of the horror-action series. The DVDs come out next year, but if you just can’t wait until the 2010 DVD release, FUNimation is promising yet another trailer tomorrow!
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 10, 2009
Thanks to VIZ Cinema’s continued efforts to bring more anime to the big screen, we San Francisco Bay Area anime fans have the chance to watch a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann double feature next week. On November 17 and 18, the New People Theater will show both Gurren Lagann movies back-to-back, starting with Childhood’s End [...]
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