| 7:22pm | Exclusive ‘9′ Photo: ‘2′ | | | | We’ve have another great exclusive image from 9 – the upcoming (9/9/09) animated film produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov and directed by Shane Acker. Here’s the exclusive image: About 2 Voiced by Academy Award Winner Martin Landau, 2 is a kind but now frail inventor and explorer who... | | |
| 7:22pm | Exclusive ‘9′ Photo: ‘2′ | | | | We’ve have another great exclusive image from 9 – the upcoming (9/9/09) animated film produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov and directed by Shane Acker. Here’s the exclusive image: About 2 Voiced by Academy Award Winner Martin Landau, 2 is a kind but now frail inventor and explorer who... | | |
| 4:17am | Cel vs digital: does animation style affect overall quality? |  | | | (Left) Lina from Slayers Next, 1995; (Right) Lina from Slayers Revolution, 2008 Ever since all anime switched from cel animation to digital animation back in the early 2000s, there has been some debate among fans about whether story/character quality has decreased even though animation techniques have... | | |
| 8:34pm | Letter D | | | | Finally! Another installment of the “I love anime” section. All I do is blurb about anime within the specific letter of the alphabet. Today it’s Letter D. So get ready for some Digimon, Devil May Cry and what’s first? D.N.Angel :O D.N. Angel On Daisuke’s 14th birthday,... | | |
| 11:08am | Bakuman is a metamanga you MUST Read. | | | | People constantly and right talk about the likes of Genshiken as an otaku bible, but the relatively new (started in 2008) manga Bakuman offers an even better perspective. See, Genshiken is from the viewpoint of the consumers, that is, otaku. Bakuman stars two wannabe-mangaka who single-mindedly want... | | |
| 10:17pm | [PR] VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES NEW DVD RELEASES FOR AUGUST 2009 | | | | VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES NEW DVD RELEASES FOR AUGUST 2009 San Francisco, CA, June 18, 2009 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced their list of DVD titles scheduled for release... | | |
| 5:04pm | Akira Saved From Hollywood’s Clutches |  | | | Anime fans dreading the rapacious assault of Hollywood upon the classic anime now in their crosshairs can breathe a sigh of relief with the news that the live action adaptation of classic science fiction tentacle anime Akira is “dead as a doornail.” The new movie, to have been produced by some... | | |
| 7:49pm | Buy Tickets for Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo at Los Angeles Film Festival | | | | Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo will be screening at The Los Angeles Film Festival on Sunday, June 28th, 2009 at 6:30pm at Mann Village Theatre. Tickets are $25.00 each. Buy Ponyo Tickets! From Academy Award-winning director and world-renowned Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki comes Ponyo, a... | | |
| 8:35am | [PR] VIZ MEDIA CHANNEL LAUNCHES ON SONY PLAYSTATION NETWORK | | | | Three Of North America’s Most Popular Anime Series Come To The PlayStation® Network’s Video Delivery Service San Francisco, CA, June 9, 2009 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies,... | | |
| 7:42am | Summer 2009 Anime Preview and Watchlist | | | | This seems to happen every time, just when I’m finally feel like I’ve got used to the season’s mix of shows, a new season comes along and offers a completely different set of shows to watch.At the start of the spring season, I was unsure if there’d be as many quality titles as the past several... | | |
| 3:53am | Don’t Say Lazy Daler Mehndi Remix |  | | | K-On’s infectious ending theme “Don’t Say Lazy” has been remixed and combined with one of the more popular internet memes of late, Bollywood star Daler Mehndi’s famous Punjabi song “Tunak Tunak Tun” in this entertaining MAD: The resulting song is being well... | | |
| 5:12pm | How Much Time Do You Spend On A Single Page Of Manga? | | | | Initially, I wanted to ask about the time spent on a single chapter, but considering how different chapters have different lengths, I decided against it and shall settle for a single page instead. When I read manga in English, which is online since I only buy Japanese manga, I find myself clicking through... | | |
| 5:38pm | Exclusive Photo: The Watchtower from ‘9′ | | | | We’ve have an exclusive image from ‘9‘ – the upcoming (9/9/09) animated film produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov and directed by Shane Acker. It has a very ‘anime-style’ aesthetic that I think you’ll like. Here’s the exclusive image: The Watchtower,... | | |
| 8:30pm | The Good, The Bad, and the Moe: Spring 2009 Anime Rankings - Part 1 | | | | How many references can you identify? Incoming Dekkai Huge Post of Long. Yes, that’s right, I’ve decided to satisfy my penchant for attaching meaningless numbers to things by putting together yet another Anime Season Ranking Post. Haven’t done this for a couple years now, come to... | | |
| 7:39pm | Usamin, Usamin, Usamin! | | | | Have you ever wished for Death note in visual novel form? With a kickass female lead who’s smarter than Kira and the main antagonist (also kickass and willing to do anything to get to his goal) voiced by Jun Fukuyama? Of course you did. That’s what G-senjou no maou is. A roller coaster... | | |
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