Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 23, 2010
This July, Japanese TV is resurrecting the Digimon franchise, a long-running kid’s show that features young children who can summon ever-evolving monsters to fight evil in the Digital World. Digimon Xros Wars is the first Digimon series since 2007, and in spite of myself, I really want to see every minute of this once it’s [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 1, 2010
With Trigun experiencing a revival with the upcoming movie, I was originally going to talk about Trigun Maximum in this space. Then, I realized that Trigun is over a decade old and many of you have already read it. On top of that, my copy of Yasuhiro Nightow’s latest manga, Kekkai Sensen (roughly, “Blood World [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 12, 2010
In a surprise move, NIS America, the American branch of Nippon Ichi Software, announced that it has moved into the American anime industry. The press release listed four anime titles that are set to be translated and released on DVD (and who knows, maybe via streaming or download): Toradora!, the 2008 vehicle for tsundere queen [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 12, 2010
I’ve been reading Moriyama Daisuke’s World Embryo for years, and I was excited back in 2008 when Dark Horse announced its release plans for the Chrono Crusade creator’s current work. Sadly, the book has yet to materialize in America – current listings have it pegged for an August 2010 release, which is a very long [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 14, 2009
Rosario + Vampire is a strange beast – it’s a manga I got into because the anime was so dumb, I had to see what redeeming qualities the manga had. Because, let’s be frank about this, the anime has pretty much nothing going for it, except the opening and ending themes are sung by Mizuki [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 9, 2009
Sometimes, I wish that variety shows were still viable on American TV, because Japanese variety shows sometimes pull out the craziest and best skits ever. To promote the upcoming Ultraman movie, a recent variety show brought in a host of Ultramen and held an audition for monster parts in the movie. But not just any [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 7, 2009
On a recent trip down to the Japanese used book store Book Off, I managed to snag a near-full set of the light horror manga Kaibutsu Oujo (AKA Princess Resurrection). I’ve had a mild interest in the series since 2007, when I heard about the anime, but didn’t watch it because I’ve never been a [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 20, 2009
The gap between Japanese release and English release continues to shrink, and industry site ICv2 reports that tonight, Cartoon Network is airing the Pokemon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life movie, a mere four months after its Japanese theatrical release. The movie, which is the twelfth in the long-running Pokemon series and the last of [...]
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