| 3:34pm | OH GOD REVY IS HOT: ‘Black Lagoon’ 3! | | | | It’s the announcement that fans of Rei Hiroe’s action/drama/comedy/fanservice /crime/kitchen sink manga series Black Lagoon has waited for since Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage’s last episode aired: a third season based on the ongoing manga has beenrumored! Hey, it’s a start.... | | |
| 4:35pm | Funimation’s First Geneon Releases Scheduled. | | | | As previously mentioned, Funimation made a deal to release “Select” Geneon titles. The first titles for release have been scheduled. Black Lagoon The Second Raid is the one I have been waiting for since Geneon went under. Luckily it’s one of the first to be released so not much more... | | |
| 10:34pm | New Geneon Releases Get Dated | | | | Let the rejoicing begin: the first new Geneon release (via FUNimation) will be on August 19th, and it’s Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage volume 1 (regular and limited edition). Then come Karin 4 (September 2nd), Shakugan no Shana’s box set (September 9th), and a bunch of stuff on the 16th,... | | |
| 2:37pm | Viz at AX08 | | | | Nothing earth shattering from Viz, and I was not alone wondering why they didn’t have a booth at AX. Here’s the run-down of the titles they are plugging for the rest of the year: Anime- Blue Dragon Vol 1 - 9/16 Naruto Movie 2 - 7/29 Naruto Movie 3 - 11/11 Bleach Movie 1 - 10/14 Buso... | | |
| 7:08am | July 4th Weekend News and Notes |  | | | Finally, Hayate without that annoying censor character! It’s rare that we do any real news posts on THAT, but seeing as how there was a huge pile of crap that occurred in the R1 DVD market as well as some scattered news on the other side of the Pacific I figured I’d post something. Plus... | | |
| 7:16pm | Day 2: Viz Panel Liveblog |  | | | 12:12 PM (Mike): Announce “Bleach Day,” at Comic-Con. We actually have press passes to Comic-Con too, and we are going to go try to interview Tite Kubo! 12:15 PM (Mike): They’re talking about manga now. One Pound Gospel, Real, Slam Dunk 12:20 PM (Mike): solanin, which sounds kinda... | | |
| 5:31pm | FUNimation and Geneon Make Sweet Anime Love | | | | Looking through my FUNimation flash drive (which contains their press releases for the con), I spot a title: “Geneon and FUNimation Sign Exclusive Distribution Agreement.” Under the terms of the agreement, FUNimation Entertainment obtains the exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing,... | | |
| 5:00pm | Funimation acquires some Geneon Titles |  | | | Funimation Entertainment has announced that it plans to “manufacture, sell and distribute” 20 live-action and anime series previously owned by Geneon, according to Anime News Network. Titles include Higurashi (When They Cry,) Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (apparently retitled ‘Lyrical... | | |
| 4:51pm | Funimation To Distribute Select Geneon Titles! | | | | FUNimation have announced that they have signed a deal with Geneon, to begin releasing select Geneon titles. Among the first to be released will be Hellsing Ultimate, followed by Black Lagoon Second Barrage, Karin, Kyo kara Maoh! Season 2, and Lyrical Nanoha. It was bound to happen at some point. I... | | |
| 7:02am | No updates for a week (damn you Windows) - 2008.06.22 |  | | | I don’t know what it is right now, but my Windows install is corrupt. The registry seems to be missing or corrupted, but this is it. I’m switching back to Ubuntu (for the what, fifth, sixth time?) because I’m just done with this crap. Give me some time as I transition from XP to Ubuntu... | | |
| 5:06pm | Anime Over Manga for Black Lagoon | | | | I dropped Black Lagoon (manga) some time back but I finished the anime in a day. I almost end up dropping the anime too but fortunately I didn’t. The world of Black Lagoon is a rotten one; where crooks run rampant, gunfights are common, and where money makes the world go round. Frankly, I was ... | | |
| 4:53pm | Mind Blowing Music from Black Lagoon | | | | Recently, I’ve been playing the OP and EDs of Black Lagoon repeatedly, I just can’t get the music out of my head! I actually find the start of Red Fraction by Mell rather noisy and didn’t like the drum cum electric guitar background music, it’s too techno! However, after watching... | | |
| 4:35pm | Praiseworthy anime sequels - The tanuki’s choice | | | | Sequels are tough deals. While burdened with the hopes of the original’s fans, they also need to avoid being merely ‘more of the same’ for keeping the franchise refreshing yet accessible to new viewers. Those are probably some reasons why most sequels fail under the crushing weight... | | |
| 7:30am | Tama Pro | | | | An omnibus called Visions of Frank was released last year. It consists of nine animated shorts by nine different Japanese artists inspired by the work of Jim Woodring's comic Frank. Each of the films in the set has a very different style, and I hadn't heard of many of the artists, so it was interesting... | | |
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