| 2:22am | Links: Trailer for the Aria DVDs, interviews with Pokemon director | | | | Fans of the Aria manga have probably been waiting for the anime to reach U.S. shores officially. The DVD release is still set for September 30th, but today Rightstuf released an official trailer on their revamped Aria site at http://aria.rightstuf.com/. It’s pretty. While I was on the Rightstuf... | | |
| 8:30am | More on Xam’d anime on PSN: mixed feelings | | | | My last post talked about the exciting news of the release of the Xam’d anime on the PlayStation Network. Great stuff for PS3 and PSP users, right? Well, it turns out the execution is not so great. First off, you can buy Xam’d episode 1 on the PlayStation Network right now. It’s... |
| 12:56am | PlayStation network gets Xam’d anime | | | | Sony talked A LOT about their new plans to offer a crapload of shows on the PlayStation network today in their E3 media conference. One of the big pieces of news for us anime fans was the official announcement that Sony has partnered with Bones Studio to release an anime called Xam’d: Lost Memories... | | |
| 6:33pm | News: Anime Expo up 5%, Tokyopop cancels stuff, ADV corrects | | | | I’ve been kind of busy with various tasks, so here’s some random linkage to keep y’all occupied. ICV2 reports official numbers for Anime Expo 2008 attendance: “An attendance of 43,000 attendees was announced, up from 41,000 last year. We had last year at 44,000 (see “Anime... |
| 2:04am | Viz Media and NBA star promoting manga and literacy | | | | From the NBA cares department, Viz Media has teamed up with Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden to promote literacy. Oden will be featured in a reading campaign along with Slam Dunk, the basketball-themed manga This is feel good news for a couple reasons. For one, it’s good to see an NBA... |
| 6:35pm | The Truth About Publishing, Selling and Buying Manga | | | | Interesting post today from Erica Friedman, President of ALC Publishing (which just happens to be the only all-yuri manga publisher in the universe). She talks about the flaming hoops that small manga publishers have to jump through in order to get the books in the hands of rabid fans. It’s a... |
| 6:09pm | Sunday Links: Yen Plus and a manga-anime-video game museum? | | | | It’s a slow Sunday, lazy Sunday so I’ve decided to catch up on a few items in the anime/manga world. Deb Aoki at about.com write a piece on the upcoming first issue of the Yen Plus manga anthology This Anthology will include a number of Japanese and Original English manga (apparently they’re... | | |
| 8:14pm | 7 of the oddest anime ever made | | | | When you’ve spent years watching anime, you can become desensitized to the strangeness of it. Recently I sat down and objectively viewed a few titles in my collection and realized just how freakishly bizarre some of this stuff is. For this post, I want to take a moment to recognize a few of the... |
| 6:39pm | Watch the 2004 Astro Boy anime series for free on Hulu! | | | | I’m a big fan of Hulu.com, and I wish we had some version of it for anime series. Imagine watching the latest series in Japan online, a week after they air in Japan, and all you have to do is watch some ads. It would be great. I still say anime licensors need to get serious about online distribution.... |
| 6:07pm | Inuyasha news: New short anime coming | | | | A new 30-minute Inuyasha anime short called “Black Tessaiga” will premiere during the upcoming “It’s a Rumic World” exhibit of original work from famed manga creator Rumiko Takahashi. Inuyasha has been all but done since the last movie, and the long running epic manga just... |
| 6:26pm | Video: Slam Dunk, episode 1 | | | | I felt in the mood for a random video today, and I was rewatching the NBA finals, so I present to you an anime classic: Slam Dunk. There’s an anime or manga about pretty much every sport that ever existed (including curling, as I discovered), but Slam Dunk is one of the quintessential sports... |
| 11:57am | Batman: Gotham Knight Anime Clip | | | | The release of the Batman: Gotham Knight DVD is approaching. This exclusive clip from IGN shows some amazing textured backgrounds, and the return of Kevin Conroy as the voice of Batman. |
| 7:04pm | New Star Wars: Clone Wars trailer | | | | This new movie is the first installment of the return of the animated Clone Wars series to Cartoon Network and TNT. The film is set to see a theatrical release on August 18. |
| 10:21pm | Simpsons meets Dragonball Z | | | | This is a few days old now, but I gotta put it up here. The image: DragonBall Z, if Matt Groening drew it. |
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