Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 19, 2010
Sad news hit the anime community last night. Streamline Pictures co-founder Carl Macek passed away on Saturday following a heart attack. He was best known as the producer of Robotech, and was also a script writer for the English adaptations of such anime as My Neighbor Totoro, The Castle of Cagliostro, Naruto, and Bleach. He [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 16, 2010
I’ve spent a lot of today trying to figure out the right angle to Aniplex of America’s decision to take the wonderfully over-the-top Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann movies to market themselves. On one hand, it’s good that fans will be able to get their hands on the movie after a whole lot of silence on [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: April 8, 2010
You know, as much as I enjoyed the movies, I can’t get excited about this trailer for the latest Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann music video collection. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Parallel Works was nifty and all, but at this point, I want someone to wake me up when Gainax decides to make something new. 5250 [...]
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 [...]
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 that one of the [...]
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 of truly new [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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