| 7:21am | Anime Diet Radio Episode “24″ - One Con Deserves Another |  | | | NOTE: It appears podPress, the podcasting plugin, is broken for Wordpress 2.6. Downgrading does NOT work. The author is working on a fix, which is not expected until the end of the week at the earliest. So–unfortunately for all of you iTunes subscribers–you won’t get the podcast in... | | |
| 5:26pm | First Date: Bounen no Xamdou | | | | Title: Bounen no Xamdou (Xam’d: Lost Memories)Studio: BONESGenre: Sci-Fi Ratings (out of 5):Story: ♥♥♥Animat ion: ♥♥♥♥ Characters: ♥♥♥OP/ED Themes:♥♥♥♥ Overall: ♥♥♥½ Thoughts:... | | |
| 11:39pm | AX 2008 ~ Anime Expo Expo Expo Expo | | | | Alright, the title doesn’t make much sense unless you’ve heard that m-flo song, but that’s alright. This years Anime Expo is finally over. I will assume you know some about it if your reading this. Basics: 4 day con, held at Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown LA. I was extremely... | | |
| 1:09pm | Fullmetal Alchemist, Darker Than Black Sequels Allegedly Planned [UPDATED] |  | | | via A Geek By Any Other Name: Studio Bones has allegedly let slip that they are planning a second season of Fullmetal Alchemist. According to Canned Dogs, a list of animators that was let loose over the internet (multiple people claimed to have seen it) revealed the existence of a Fullmetal Alchemist... | | |
| 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... | | |
| 5:23am | Fullmetal Alchemist & DtB Sequel in the Works? *UPDATE | | | | Consider all this to be ‘rumor’ for the time being, but apparently a list of animators from Bones was leaked on the net. Inside it revealed two possible sequels in the works; Fullmetal Alchemist and Darker than Black. A cache of the original .xls document can be located here. It also has... | | |
| 4:57am | [Ascaloth] Singapore Toy and Comics Convention, Day 2 | | | | Sunday was the second day of the Singapore Toy and Comics Convention, and more importantly, it was the day when the Coscon is based on the Anime theme. Naturally, this means it would be one of the biggest draws for otaku, and hence somebody from RIUVA was going to have to cover it. Unfortunately, since... | | |
| 5:02pm | On the context of dropping anime | | | | One of the most difficult decisions an anime fan has to make is whether or not to ‘drop’ a series. For me, it’s often a snap decision; not really based on any objective criteria, rather, it depends on how I’m feeling at that specific moment. As a result, I’ll often make... | | |
| 10:03am | Kara no Kyoukai - The Garden of Sinners - 01 Review - 82/100 | | | | Ah, I finally got the chance to watch this one. If I recall correctly, The Garden of Sinners 01 is the first part of a series of seven movies, based on short stories by the creators of Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime, produced by the Ufotable that did Manabi Straight and Tales of Symphonia. After watching... | | |
| 12:49am | Koudelka vols 1-3 - Thoughts & Impressions | | | | About the Mangaka Iwahara Yūji is better known for the manga King of Thorns, and also for Chikyu Misaki. He also helped with character designs in the Darker than Black anime. About the MangaThis three volume series is loosely based on a series of games, the first of which was called Koudelka, and the... | | |
| 5:00am | Funimation ~ Grabbing up the Goodies | | | | In light of some new licensing announcements I thought I’d take a moment to spread a little bit of some new news and some not so new news. Funimation has been on the ball it seems the last 6 months or so, grabbing up some of the really good shows that have been around. I’m not going to mention... | | |
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