| 10:29pm | REPOST: What’s Happening to the Anime News Network? |  | | | Even before I became an anti-piracy advocate, I had a bone to pick when “professional” anime news site Anime News Network began reviewing TV shows that were not legally available in America and could only be obtained through online piracy. The website began doing this to drive up web traffic... |
| 2:11am | NYAF 2009 - Day 3 in Tweets | | | | Don’t you mean Webster Hall New York City? On Site: Deb Aoki from About.com: Manga Erica Friedman from Okazu Scott from The Anime Almanac Jon I. from JANAiBlog Edward Sizemore from Comics Worth Reading OutOfTimeProd from Out Of Time Productions DJ Ranma S from Anime Jam Session Brigid from MangaBlog... |
| 1:31pm | NYAF 2009 - Day 2 in Tweets | | | | FACT: Scott likes cute girls in short skirts On Site: Scott from The Anime Almanac Deb Aoki from About.com: Manga Jon I. from JANAiBlog DJ Ranma S from Anime Jam Session Edward Sizemore from Comics Worth Reading Michael Pinto from Anime.com NYAF from New York Anime Festival OutOfTimeProd from Out Of... |
| 2:54am | NYAF 2009 - Day 1 in Tweets | | | | So what’s the protocol for taking a photo inside of the bathroom? On Site: Scott from The Anime Almanac OutOfTimeProd from Out Of Time Productions Erica Friedman from Okazu Brigid from MangaBlog Jon I. from JANAiBlog Deb Aoki from About.com: Manga NYAF from New York Anime Festival Vince A Edward... |
| 3:43am | NYAF 2009 - Day 0 in Tweets | | | | and on the eighth day, God created Manga Cake! On Site Today: Deb Aoki from About.com: Manga Scott from The Anime Almanac Michael Pinto from Anime.com NYAF from New York Anime Festival Patz from The Gaming Dungeon Reni Mimura from ReniReni.com Peter Tatara from New York Anime Fest bandaient ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~... |
| 5:36pm | Does Disney Hold the Key to Anime’s Future? | | | | Hey otaku, did you hear that Disney bought Marvel? It’s an acquisition that has been the subject of many jokes and ridicule from the snarky community of the online peanut gallery. Disney has been known for generations as the people behind the world’s most popular cartoon characters and family... | | |
| 4:55pm | Anime Review: Sgt. Frog (Season 1 Part 1) | | | | Sgt. Keroro is a frog from outer space on a mission to invade Earth and enslave the human race. There’s a small problem - he’s a complete idiot. His plan for world domination is cut short when he is accidentally discovered by the Hinata family after hiding out in their household. The humans... | | |
| 4:29pm | Thoughts on the Merging of the New York Conventions | | | | Yesterday, Reed Exhibitions announced that for 2010, both the New York Anime Festival and the New York Comic Con will combine for one massive convention. While some people seemed to be aware of this news for some time, it was the first I ever heard of it. And I must say, I had some very mixed feelings... | | |
| 6:17pm | Anime Review - Dragon Ball (Season One) | | | | Ladies and Gentlemen, please forgive me as I’m about to lose a shed of my “professional journalist” facade in order to go totally fanboy over my review today. Like any geeky adolescent in the late 90’s, I was a fan of the Dragon Ball Z series being aired on the Cartoon Network.... | | |
| 6:10pm | Piracy - Anime’s New Warning Label | | | | When Crunchyroll began streaming this season’s Charger Girl Ju-den Chan, it created quite a stir. The original show pushed the boundaries of all decency and featured nudity, violence against women, massive crotch shots, and probably the worst taboo of them all… urination! But on top of that,... | | |
| 5:36pm | Anime Review: Higurashi - When They Cry | | | | In June of 1983, transfer student Keiichi and his new friends, a colorful group of female classmates, hang out together and explore around their tiny village of Hinamizawa. It is time for the town’s annual cotton drifting festival, where the townsfolk pay tribute to their guardian spirit, Oyashiro.... | | |
| 5:20pm | Anime Review: Gunslinger Girl - Il Teatrino | | | | Gunslinger Girl - Il Teatrino is the recently released 13-episode sequel to the 2003 anime series. In Rome, Italy, a covert government operation takes in orphan girls on the verge of death, implants them with cybernetic technologies, and trains them to become the ultimate killing machine to take out... | | |
| 5:59pm | Manga Review: A Tale of an Unknown Country | | | | A Tale of an Unknown Country is the story of Rosemarie, the young princess of a poor but stable kingdom. Her older brother, Mache, believes their land can improve by aligning with the wealthier kingdom next door, so he betroths his little sister to that nation’s prince Reynol. But Rosemarie is... |
| 3:52pm | Anime Review: Big Windup! | | | | Big Windup! is the story of Mihashi, a spineless wimp of a high school baseball pitcher who nervously joins his new school’s hardball team. Back when he was in middle school, Mihashi was his team’s starting pitcher and lead his team to loss after loss. In fact, he has never won a game at... | | |
| 4:23pm | Becca - An American Rock Girl in Japan | | | | When Otakon announced that one of their Sunday performers would be Portland-born rock singer Becca, pretty much everybody I knew had the same reaction: Who is this American girl and why is she performing at Otakon? What we didn’t know was the unique story of an American rock singer who had already... | | |
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