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Heroman Trailer Offers American-style Robot Action

Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 8, 2010

The 2010 spring anime season is approaching quickly, and the news sites are scrambling to keep up with all of the announcements, trailers, and previews that have been flying out as the winter season winds down. The latest trailer over the weekend is Heroman, the exciting collaboration between three industry greats: comic book legend Stan [...]

Super Robot Wars Then and Now – Tuesday Tunes

Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 2, 2010

What happens when you take JAM Project and their old-school anime sensibilities away from the vaunted Super Robot Wars series? A whole lot of fan service rushes in to fill the vacuum. You get Mizuki Nana playing a busty fairy princess, and watch an opening sequence that’s so shamelessly fan service-oriented [...]

Evangelion 1.11 Trailers Try To Sell You Eva All Over Again

Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 26, 2010

FUNimation is doing everything it can to get you excited about a release that’s not only a remake of a 15-year-old anime, but a cleaned-up release of a DVD they released just last year.
If you’re still interested in Evangelion 1.11 in spite of the fact that there are only 3 minutes [...]

SD Gundam Sangokuden Anime = Three Kingdoms + Gundam + Stupidity

Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 23, 2010

Sunrise knows where their bread is buttered – follow the trends and appeal to the right audience, and you’ve guaranteed yourself another 5 years of profits from good ol’ Gundam. For the past couple years or so, Sunrise has been taking advantage of the wave of oh-so-loose adaptations of the Chinese classic Romance of the [...]

Time of Eve Movie Trailer Sadly Lacking New Footage

Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 11, 2010

Hidden in all the news about the upcoming anime season is the Time of Eve movie trailer, which is now being streamed from Yahoo’s GyaO service. The trailer unfortunately shows nothing we haven’t seen before – the movie collects all six episodes of the science fiction shorts and adds in a small amount of new [...]

Stan Lee’s Heroman Anime Set for April

Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 3, 2010

Square Enix’s anime page announced today that Heroman, the collaboration between Stan Lee (X-Men, Spider-Man) and Studio BONES (Eureka Seven, Darker than Black), is set to air in April. The legendary comic book creator’s story, which follows a boy named Joey Jones after he finds the controller to a super robot he dubs Heroman, is [...]

What to Watch Tonight – February 1st

Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 1, 2010

The weekend is over, and that means that the usual suspects are up on the official streaming sites – the new One Piece is up on FUNimation’s side, Fairy Tail and Sora no Woto on Crunchyroll, and InuYasha: The Final Act on Viz. The new One Piece is interesting, since it’s one of the few [...]

The Beginner’s Guide to Anime on SideReel – Science Fiction

Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 18, 2010

Over on SideReel, I’ve posted the first part of a Beginner’s Guide to Anime series, designed to point people at anime that are good entry points to Japanese animation. Part one lists some science fiction shows that are easy to watch, easy to enjoy, and don’t require much knowledge of Japanese culture or other anime [...]

Soukyuu no Fafner: Heaven and Earth Anime Brings Back Original Staff

Posted by: sidereeldom on: January 11, 2010

Over the weekend, Xebec and the Fafner Project released the first promotional image for the upcoming sequel to Soukyuu no Fafner, along with a few staff announcements. Character designer Hirai Hisashi (Gundam SEED, Fafner) is set to return, as well as script writer Ubukata Tow, with animation from XEBEC and musical accompaniment by angela.
This announcement [...]

If you’re wondering why I’m not posting as often right now, it’s because I’m technically on vacation – but that’s okay, since the anime news is a bit light right now anyway. Just look at FUNimation, which spent some time hyping up its “2010 Roll-Out Riot.” While many were expecting some anime announcements right off [...]