| 10:08am | Gatchaman film! | | | | There's another full-featured anime film coming out, but this time it isn't live action. Imagi animation studios will be cranking out an all CG version of Gatchaman. This old-school anime was due for a revival. |
| 6:18am | Blood:The Last Vampire Live action? | | | | Variety reports that Bill Kong (producer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero), has signed on to shoot a Live-action english language version of Blood: The Last Vampire. The trend of Live Action Anime continues. | | |
| 1:43am | A great review on a different type of Manga | | | | The Daily Yomiuri has an excellent review of The Push Man, a vintage collection of manga that visits the daily lives of various Japanese men in the 1960's. It's a great review about a very different kind of manga. |
| 6:07am | Nobel Prize for...Anime!?! | | | | In one of the weirdest Anime-related statements to ever come out of Japan, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso called for creation of a manga Nobel Prize for up-and-coming non-Japanese comic-strip artists as a way to boost the country's diplomacy. |
| 7:21pm | More Mobile Manga | | | | Tokyopop and Uclick are making downloadable manga available for mobile phones. Mobile comics are getting more popular, but I wonder about Tokypop's choice of titles for this move. |
| 12:37pm | Death Note Movie Teaser | | | | There's a new teaser for the live-action Death Note movies out. It's nice to see it, but I'll admit I was a little disappointed. |
| 5:45pm | Tokyo governor disses Mickey Mouse | | | | Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara gave Mickey Mouse a verbal beatdown at Tokyo International Anime Fair on Saturday. Is it strange that Japanese politicians are so into Anime? |
| 7:12am | Moving | | | | Sorry for the lack of posting recently, I'm moving far far away for a new job. Once I'm settled i've got plenty of stuff to blog about. |
| 6:08am | Anime with a Feminist message | | | | Eastern Michigan's Echo Online publication has an article about a Women's Studies scholar that's using Anime as a medium for the message of the role of the woman in Japanese culture. It's an interesting read, and a great example of the wide range of topics that Anime covers. |
| 1:14am | IGN's Anime Babes | | | | IGN has added an interesting new spin to their "Babe of the Day" feature. Now they've moved on to Anime Babes. MMmmmm, ecchi-licious. |
| 9:04am | Death Note Movie site updated again! | | | | The Excitement around the death note movies is building as we get closer to the release date of the first Live action film. The official site has been updated once again, and it's full of goodies. |
| 4:50am | Death Note Movie site updated | | | | The official site for the Death Note Live action movies has been updated. There's a simple Flash animation on there now with some entries in the Death Note. My Kanji reading is admittedlybad, so I won't offer any attempts at translation here. Production of the films seems to be on |
| 3:03am | Older Anime You May Have Missed - X: the Series | | | | I think X: The TV Series is yet another little-known Anime gem. It's chock full of great stuff: tragic heroes, deeply developed characters, and totally kick-ass fight scenes. What more could you ask for? |
| 1:15am | Sherlock Holmes, doujinshi, and...yaoi?! | | | | Calendarlive.com, a division of the LA Times, recently had an article about fanfiction or "non-canonical" stories that expand the Sherlock Holmes stories. In this article, the author references similarities with doujinshi and Yaoi. I never really thought that Sherlock Holmes and yaoi would be |
| 5:31am | Another take on Kappa Mikey | | | | My little post about Kappa Mikey stirred up quite a bit of controversygood! The NY times has an article that provides a more favorable review of the show, but it brings up the same points I mentioned. The burning question remains: is this really Anime? |
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