Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 28, 2010
By now, most of you should be familiar with the Japanese practice of gijinka, where various objects and programs are turned into cute girls or prettyboys. It’s pretty standard now, but Choujigen Game Neptune (Superdimensional Game Neptune) has taken this to an all-new high – or low, depending on your perspective on the trend. Choujigen Game [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 28, 2010
If the second season of the criminally undersold Arakawa Under the Bridge didn’t wow you, don’t worry – the prequel to Nisio Isin’s famed ghost story series Bakemonogatari is going to be animated by Shaft soon. With Kizumonogatari in the pipes, fans can now rest assured that the hit 2009 anime is going to get [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 6, 2010
It’s been five years after the first iDOLM@STER game took over arcades, which led to two highly successful Xbox 360 games, 4 portable versions, and a whole ton of concerts and CD releases. Last weekend, Namco Bandai announced the newest installment of the famous music-producing simulation: The iDOLM@STER 2. Interestingly, the sequel is going straight [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 6, 2010
Sweet mercy, I go and take a break to staff AX and the anime companies unleash half of their big announcements! I’m glad I’ll actually have time during Otakon to post the news as it happens, because falling behind on AX feels like a mountain already. So, here we go with the alphabetical company-by-company roundup: [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: June 16, 2010
The World Cup is a fascinating time to study Japan, because they approach the event with all the tentative enthusiasm of a lifelong Cubs fan. The Samurai Blue aren’t bad at all – though the two own goals during the World Cup friendlies made me doubt that for a while – but going toe to [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: May 17, 2010
The anime industry may be jumping on the zombie bandwagon a bit late, but when they hop on a bandwagon, they do it with both feet. On the heels of the upcoming Highschool of the Dead anime comes the announcement that the action-fantasy light novel series Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? (“Is this a zombie?”) has [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: May 7, 2010
No one was surprised when Enterbrain announced that their popular PS2 romance game Amagami was getting an anime this summer. It was more of an inevitability than a dark horse, based on an age-old formula for creating harmless and profitable anime. Take a popular game full of cute girls, turn it into a harmlessly cute [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 5, 2010
Chinka continues to surprise, as the small-studio anime’s first cast announcement consisted of one name repeated four times. Yes, that’s right: up-and-coming voice actress Satou Satomi (you may remember her as the drummer in K-On!) is set to play three lead characters in Danny Choo’s anime: Chinka, Shoka, and Megumi. She’ll also be doing the [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 5, 2010
Over the weekend, FUNimation’s panels at Anime Boston and SakuraCon announced three titles to add to their ever-growing library: – Chobits, CLAMP’s tale about the complex relationship between a young man and his cutely anthropomorphic computer, has been rescued from its limbo state. It was previously licensed by the now-defunct Geneon Entertainment, and last saw [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 1, 2010
Chinka, the anime created by famed Tokyo blogger Danny Choo, now has a trailer! It doesn’t have production values that’ll shake the world, but it looks good for a new studio. I’m not really into the whole “cute girls doing cute things and not much else” genre of anime, but I’m excited to see a [...]
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