| 7:15pm | FUNimation adding some more Fullmetal Alchemist anime? | | | | D.F. Smith over at IGN reported this interesting tidbit about FUNimation, Fullmetal Alchemist, and the upcoming convention season Funimation, word has it, will be announcing something Fullmetal Alchemist-related when the convention season kicks off next month. They might have picked up the FMA “Premium... | | |
| 11:18pm | Top Graphic Novels-Manga of 2008? BookScan says Naruto, ftw. | | | | Anyone who needed confirmation that Naruto is still selling as strong as ever need look no further than the latest data for 2008. ICv2 reports that the Nielsen BookScan data for 2008 shows Naruto clearly dominated the manga sales last year. ICv2 says: Naruto was the top manga, with nine volumes... | | |
| 11:05pm | Imagi Studios is out of cash, Astro Boy and Gatchaman films in jeopardy | | | | UPDATE: Anime News Network confirmed the story with Imagi, but President Erin Corbett of IMAGI Studios U.S. told ANN that her company plans to resume production next week with new funding. The sad news on the internet today is that Imagi Studios is out of cash, and shutting down temporarily. What this... |
| 7:37pm | Remember when Barack Obama was in the Air Gear manga? | | | | As we approach Barack Obama’s historic inauguration, I felt it would be a good time to dig up a gem from last year. Many of you may recall that Barack made a cameo appearance in Chapter 206 of the Air Gear manga as “John Omaha”: My Japanese is rather bad these days, but here’s... | | |
| 8:07pm | New Naruto Shippuden game coming to North America | | | | NAMCO Bandai announced that Ultimate Ninja 4: NARUTO Shippuden, is finally coming to the U.S., making it the first video game in North America based on the Naruto Shippuden animated series. It’s coming out in March for the old-but-still-kicking PS2 platform. Ultimate Ninja 4: NARUTO Shippuden... | | |
| 4:12am | Afro Samurai: Resurrection advance review | | | | Thanks to IGN, I had the pleasure of reviewing Afro Samurai: Resurrection before its January 25th premiere on SpikeTV. If you liked the first series, you’re going to love this sequel. I don’t know if the broadcast version will quite capture the beauty of the animation, and there’s... |
| 10:49pm | Mania.com: Top 5 things Anime Companies did Right in 2008 | | | | It’s the end of the year, which means anime bloggers everywhere will be posting their “year in review” articles. While trolling the interwebs, I found an article that’s different than the usual “Best Of” fare. Chris Beveridge over at Mania.com wrote a few points... |
| 6:22pm | English trailer for Dragonball Evolution | | | | Yes, it’s here folks. The official trailer for this god-awful, disgrace to all anime fans. The movie never looked good in the previous sample vids or still shots. Nothing’s changed. But hey, if you’re still curious, or just want a laugh, here’s the new trailer, hot off the... |
| 6:08pm | Here’s your mission this holiday season: Buy manga and anime! | | | | Times are tough, folks. With this economic slowdown, many industries are hurting bad. Anime/manga sales have already been declining both here and abroad. If our favorite entertainment segment is going to survive these tough times, we need to do one thing Buy stuff. Don’t buy just for yourself,... |
| 7:17pm | The American Akira spoof | | | | Surely most of you have heard the news that there’s a Live action Akira movie coming out of Hollywood. Here’s one fan’s fears on how it could turn out: Of course, the initial script review shows a film that should be very faithful to the original movie, and Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator... |
| 3:41am | IGN TV: Gundam 00 Review | | | | Now that Sci Fi is done airing Gurren Lagann, they’ve moved on to Gundam 00. I’m reviewing the show for IGN, and I’m not really digging ityet. There’s promise, definitely promise, but the first two episodes didn’t overwhelm me. The dub didn’t do the show any favors,... | | |
| 10:39pm | My IGN review of the Gurren Lagann series | | | | So I’ve been reviewing anime at IGN.com for a while, and one of the shows I’d been assigned was Gurren Lagann as it aired on Sci-Fi. Honestly, I wasn’t thrilled about it at first, but by the end of the show I had enjoyed myself. IGN does a season review for all the shows it reviews,... | | |
| 5:08pm | Russian and Japanese world leaders work on…anime?!? | | | | Anime News Network reports a particularly odd piece of news today The Jiji Press news source reports that Japanese Prime Minister Tarō Asō and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will discuss a joint anime production starring the Japanese manga character Doraemon and the Russian folklore creature “Dorafei”... |
|
![[Valid RSS]](/images/valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")
![[Valid Atom 1.0]](/images/valid-atom.png "Validate my Atom 1.0 feed")
