| 5:46pm | Yuri Network News - September 5, 2009 | | | | So much great Yuri news this week!Yuri AnimeNovember is going to be a bang-up month for Yuri fans, with Sasamekikoto in Japan and El Cazador here, and now we have yet another thing to look forward to: Arca Jeth (and many other people!) want you to know that Sentai Filmworks announces that they'll be... | | |
| 10:43pm | [PR] SECTION23 FILMS ANNOUNCES NOVEMBER SLATE | | | | SECTION23 FILMS ANNOUNCES NOVEMBER SLATE Includes Five New Anime from Sentai Filmworks HOUSTON, September 2, 2009 – Home video distributor Section23 Films today announced its November 2009 slate of new DVD releases. Section23 client Sentai Filmworks is coming out with six new... | | |
| 7:44pm | ADV Films Announces Shutdown; Assets Transferred to Other Companies |  | | | A.D. Vision, parent company of former anime industry leader ADV Films, announced its closure today, according to ANN and Anime Vice. The press release indicated that Seraphim Studios, Valkyrie Media Partners, Section 23 Films and AEsir Holdings, are receiving pieces of ADV Films’ company, including... | | |
| 7:26pm | Summer Season Favorites -- Blue Flowers in an Earthquake | | | | Three episodes in, now it can be said: Aoi Hana ("Sweet Blue Flowers") and Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 are my top shows of the summer season. And both are so good that, if they fulfill their promise, they could become anime masterpieces.Close behind comes Bakemonogatari, and I'm enjoying a number of other shows,... | | |
| 11:18pm | Summer '09 Previews | | | | With several shows that I enjoy carrying on from spring; add 14 new ones, plus Haruhi new episodes, Zetsubou Sensei 3rd and Ookami 2nd season; this summer looks very promising! The highlights are of course Canaan from the Type-Moon team, Umineko from Higurashi creators and SHAFT's second TV show this... | | |
| 11:06pm | Anime Summer 2009 -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 9:32pm | Summer 2009 Anime -- full previews w/staff, cast, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 8:03pm | Summer 2009 Anime Previews -- full previews w/cast, staff, story, trailer, pic | | | | Last summer, I could find only 30 shows to preview. This summer, there are 36, without even counting movies.And that doesn't include strong continuing shows, such as Requiem for the Phantom, Pandora Hearts, Cross Game, Before Green Gables, Mazinger Z, Guin Saga, Hanasakeru Shounen, Saki -- and new episodes... | | |
| 2:30pm | Blue Drop ~Tenshi-tachi no Gikyoku~ | | | | I’m not a fan of mecha or series where characters control big robots, spaceships or anything that encapsulate characters and can be piloted. Aliens leave a very bad impression on me as inter-galactic space battles and time travel were ridiculously portrayed in series that I have caught. Look at... | | |
| 5:02am | K-On -- Who Are Those Great Voices? | | | | I thought the first episode of K-On was brilliantly funny. And, of course, deeply moe. And the voices were wonderful. They were hilarious, with some great timing and expressiveness.Kyoto Animation seems to have the knack of picking out lesser-known voice actresses who can really do the job for them:... | | |
| 9:54pm | 48 Spring Anime -- full previews: story, trailer, cast, staff, pic | | | | These may be difficult times in the anime industry, but you couldn't tell it from the number of anime being produced. Forty-eight titles come out this spring -- series and OVAs -- about the same number as last spring.But quantity doesn't necessarily imply quality. Nothing here seems like an instant classic.... | | |
| 8:21pm | News Brief: Funimaton licenses Mnemosyne | | | | Oh, Funi is getting all my Yuri love this week. I bet they were just jealous of Right Stuf and Media Blasters. lolThey have just announced the licensing of RIN: Daughters of Mnemoysne.License Blue Drop and you get a perfect trifecta and maybe a shipment of chocolate, Funi. :-)Personally, I strongly encourage... | | |
| 4:52pm | News Brief: Funimation licenses El Cazador | | | | I'm absolutely beside myself with joy. There's only three anime I want to see licensed right now and this was number one on the list. (Blue Drop and Mnemosyne are two and three. I know you're gonna ask.)Fans of Bee Train's girls-with-guns-on-the-run trilogy, completion is around the corner at last, with... | | |
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