| 8:16pm | Speed Grapher Trailer | | | | Speed Grapher has been a bit of a cult favorite amongst anime fans for a while. Last week the DVD box set was released in the states, but with not a lot of fanfare. IGN recently posted a nice trailer for the series. |
| 8:03pm | Aquarion Clip: Vector Fighters Merging | | | | Aquarion Part One will be available in stores on March 11th. It's directed by Shoji Kawamori from Macross Plus. With music anime soundtrack legend Yoko Kanno, this is one of the big anticipated US anime DVD releases of the year. |
| 5:39pm | New Spam filter | | | | Okay, so I'll admit that I've been lax on cleaning up the comment spam. Hopefully that's all better now, and Protaku will be relatively spam free. |
| 2:34pm | Batman goes anime! | | | | Anime is still enjoying increasing popularity in America, and nothing proves that more than the upcoming anime adaptation of one of America's favorite heroes: Batman! |
| 3:25pm | The Fansubbing Dilemma | | | | As many of you know, the impact of fansubbing and scanlating on the anime and manga industries is one of my favorite topics to write about. Recently IGN gave me the chance to rant about it to their audience. |
| 3:44pm | Executive producer of Pokemon wants to work with fansubbers | | | | Anime News Network has very good coverage of a recent proposal to work with fansubbers made by Pokemon Executive Producer Masakazu Kubo. It's an interesting idea, but is it enough to solve the rampant piracy issues that the anime industry is facing? |
| 2:50pm | On Super Bowl Sunday watch Eyeshield 21! | | | | It's Super Bowl Sunday again! That usually doesn't mean much in terms of anime, but Toonami Jetstream is streaming the first five episodes of football anime Eyeshield 21 until Feb. 4th. | | |
| 1:59pm | Real, a manga about wheelchair basketball and more | | | | The Daily Yomiuri is one of my favorite newspapers to read online since they discuss manga and anime intelligently. They recently had a review of a new basketball manga called Real, but it's much more than just another sports story. |
| 7:10pm | Anime file-sharers busted in Singapore | | | | Odex Pt. Ltd has successfully convinced the High Court in Singapore to order an ISP turn over the identities of users that used BitTorrent to download anime. This could be a big precedent in the growing battle against anime piracy. |
| 3:27pm | FUNimation's new site offers streaming anime! | | | | FUNimation has been doing a lot of work on their site recently. There are a ton of new features, as well as a good number of anime that can be watched for free or purchased. |
| 8:33pm | Site of the Day: Dannychoo.com | | | | I figure since I do so much trolling about on the internets, I might as well create a Site of the Day column to feature some of the wacky, informative, and just plain awesometastic sites I find. Today's gem is Dannychoo.com. |
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