Posted by: sidereeldom on: June 8, 2010
Shonen Sunday’s website has been updated with some preliminary news about the Kaminomi anime, which is coming later this year. Of note, it reveals the names of the animation studio, director, character designer, and head writer for the anime based on Wakaki Tamiki’s popular manga. The animation will be handled by Manglobe, whose credits include the [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: May 24, 2010
Because if you haven’t, you really should. There are currently six episodes of the hit baseball anime streaming over at Hulu and VizAnime.com, and I highly recommend all of them. Cross Game was one of the best anime of 2009, and it’s a damn shame that more people haven’t watched it. Heck, I think more [...]
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 21, 2010
FUNimation starts airing the second half of the noitaminA block tomorrow, and as you can see from the subtitled trailer above, Tatami Galaxy is a huge departure from your average kids’ action fantasy or cute-girl-moe anime. The visuals are freakish and fascinating, the story looks deliciously twisted, and all in all, it looks like it’ll be [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 22, 2010
If you’ve read any of my writings for an extended period of time, you know that I’m a huge fan of baseball. So it should be no surprise that Viz’s weekend announcement of its upcoming release of Adachi Mitsuru’s Cross Game manga caused me to leap in the air and hoot in joy. I cut [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 10, 2010
Nakamura Hikaru got a fairly unique opportunity to announce the cast of the upcoming Arakawa Under the Bridge anime, sneaking the cast announcements into the panels of her manga. Up above you can see that the eccentric lead Nino will be played by Sakamoto Maaya (five bucks says she sings the opening song), while the [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: February 9, 2010
We all knew it was coming with the climactic pre-Koushien game headed to its conclusion, but the Japanese Shonen Sunday site now confirms that next week’s Cross Game will be the last chapter in the manga, which has run in the pages of the magazine since 2005. The popular baseball story from legendary author/artist Adachi [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: December 21, 2009
I’ll be honest here: I haven’t picked up any Love Attack! (AKA Jun’ai Tokkou Taichou!) in a while, so my opinion on the manga may be outdated by now. But I’m picking up the volumes I’m missing as a self-Christmas present, and with any luck it’ll be just as fun as it was when my [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 10, 2009
This video has already made its way around the ‘net, but it’s worth adding to the chorus because it’s just so good. Ishida Hiroyasu (AKA Tete), a student at Kyoto Seika University’s animation department, made waves last weekend by posting an independently made anime short called Fumiko no Kokuhaku (“Fumiko’s Confession”) on various video sites. [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 9, 2009
This week marks the start of some new weekly features here on AnimeReel, and to kick things off we have Manga Mondays, where I dip into my overly large manga collection – or those of a friend, sharing is caring – and review a random manga, new or old. This week’s manga is a recent [...]
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