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 27, 2010
Remember when G4 used to show anime? Yeah, neither do I. But, in a move designed to grab the same crossover audience that both Marvel and Madhouse are going for with their Marvel Anime collaboration, G4 is reviving its “anime” block in 2011 with all four Madhouse anime based on Marvel properties: Iron Man, The X-Men, [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 21, 2010
Presented for your consideration: Hirano Kohta from High School of the Dead: He’s a fat, sharpshooting otaku with a glasses fetish and a yen for military hardware. Also presented for your consideration: Hirano Kouta, the author of Hellsing, as of his appearance at Anime Expo in 2005: Back then, when they announced the Hellsing Ultimate [...]
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 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 23, 2009
It was a busy weekend in anime news, with the new year looming and the winter anime season on the horizon, as well as the New Moon release bringing the New York Times’ attention to the Vampire Knight manga. But the big news for me was Kouhaku Uta Gassen, which finally put out its list [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: November 5, 2009
Japan has not been immune to the vampire boom of the past few years, and the latest vampire-based property that will be getting an anime is Dance in the Vampire Bund, which combines many of the traditional romance/horror elements that draw so many to the genre. Dance in the Vampire Bund stars petite vampire Mina [...]
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