| 4:34pm | Hollywood & Anime | | | | Seems like Hollywood has been on a remake-old-stuff state for quite some time.Horror movies, specially the really old ones and the Japanese, were one of the most remade category a few years back. In the meantime, some sci-fi have also been done. Most of this movies have been crap and more oriented into... | | |
| 7:48am | All About The Japanese Word "Desu" | | | | If you've listened to spoken Japanese at all you've probably heard the word desu, often pronounced with the last syllable reduced so that it sounds like "dess." Linguistically speaking, this word is known as the copula, because it makes the noun and the verb in a sentence, er, want to have a romantic... | | |
| 5:50am | Damn, Bones knows how to do action. | | | | Sword of the Stranger: http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=zG6Fh7qlqt YIn other news, I'm evidently on an anime rediscovery weekend. My friend gave me a Death Note notebook, which prompted me to watch the Near arc of Death Note (which I haven't read in manga form). ... | | |
| 7:04am | Lost+Brain : A Death Note Copycat | | | | I really wished that Lost+Brain sprung up earlier on the time line before Death Note. Who can deny that hypnosis is definitely a more stylish way to take over the world, one person at a time, as compared to some lame notebook which falls from the sky?The main character of Lost+Brain begins as a carbon... | | |
| 5:48pm | Viz Goes Hollywood. What Do You Think? | | | | VIZ Media is stepping up their presence in Hollywood: Based in Hollywood, VIZ Prods. will be run by Jason Hoffs, a former production exec at Amblin and DreamWorks, who most recently had his own producing deal at Sony. VIZ effort is another recent example of publishers, from the New York Times to vidgame... | | |
| 1:20pm | VIZ Media now in the movie business | | | | With the success Viz Media has had with the Death Note, and Bleach movies this year in the states, they have taken the next step and formed a movie production company called Viz Prods. What this means is that we will no doubt start to see a lot of the anime and Japanese titles their parent companies,... | | |
| 2:33pm | 人外萌え[jingai-moe] | | | | This is too broad. I don’t know how I should explain this genrewell, literally 人外[jingai] means non-human being, that is, anything which is not a human being. If such a creature turns you on, you would have 人外萌え[jingai-moe]. So ケモショタ[kemoshota], 猫耳[nekomimi], 獣人[jyujin],... | | |
| 10:35pm | The FUNizoid - The Industry’s Last Hope |  | | | Darkness falls over the poor lands of the American anime market. What was once a prosperous and thriving area was now facing mass famine due to the abandonment and neglect of its people. Now the land’s most terrible foe, the evil giant Fansub monster, has grown so big that even the mighty warriors... | | |
| 8:05pm | VIZ Takes On The iTunes Crowd | | | | Art used with apologies to J.J. VIZ is really shipping out the PR this week– the latest announces that VIZ Media anime titles are now available on iTunes. And they’re not starting with any second-tier titles: Death Note is online its entirety, along with the first season of uncut Naruto... | | |
| 6:44pm | Featured Anime Voice Actor (Seiyu): Mamoru Miyano | | | | Welcome to another weekly post about famous Seiyus , anime voice actors. This is just a fun little post that will hopefully surprise you to see who does the voices of your favorite characters and you might find out it's the same person for a bunch of them. This week's Seiyu is Mamoru Miyano. ... | | |
| 4:07pm | How Did I Not Know About This? | | | | I was looking around for info on the Haruhi novels for a friend who was too lazy to do it himsefl, and I came upon this: a book from a company called Cocoro Media titled Haruhi Suzumiya Yearbook: A Guide to the Many Moods of Haruhi Suzumiya. Here’s the blurb on the book and author: Product Description... | | |
| 3:57pm | Japan Expo: an otaku’s paradise, just across the channel. | | | | Last weekend I was invited to attend the ninth Japan Expo at the Parc d’Expositions de Paris-Nord Villepinte. When I first read the names of the mangaka and anime artists who were appearing at Japan Expo this year, I had to pinch myself. Because the team who organize Japan Expo had accumulated a... | | |
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