| 10:27pm | Kekkaishi Vol 18 by Yellow Tanabe Manga Review | | | | Title: Kekkaishi Vol 18 Author: Yellow Tanabe Publisher: Viz ISBN: 9781421524573 May Contain Spoilers It must be nice being as oblivious as Yoshimori. He is someone who accepts everyone at face value, and he rarely stops to ponder that they might have ulterior motives. When Masamori... | | |
| 1:07pm | [PR] VIZ MEDIA PREVIEWS THREE EXCITING MANGA SERIES! | | | | VIZ MEDIA PREVIEWS THREE EXCITING MANGA SERIES TO BE PUBLISHED UNDER THE NEW SHONEN SUNDAY IMPRINT AT THE 2009 COMIC-CON SHOW New Manga Chapters From Each Series Will Be Previewed For Free On The Official SHONEN SUNDAY Website With Print Versions Scheduled To Be Published In 2010 San Francisco,... | | |
| 11:04pm | Viz licenses Kekkaishi, Vampire Knight, final InuYasha anime series | | | | Viz announced at their San Diego Comic Con panel that they have licensed the anime series Kekkaishi, Vampire Knight, and InuYasha: The Final Act Kekkaishi is a 52 episode series that aired from October 2006 through February 2008. Vampire Knight originally ran as a 13 episode series between April and... | | |
| 3:44pm | Manga in Japan = One Piece |  | | | Manga in Japan appears synonymous with One Piece in much the same way that manga overseas is a shorthand for saying “Naruto“, if the latest manga sales figures are anything to go by. The collected Oricon Top 50 figures for manga sales through the first half of 2009 (shown below) give a... | | |
| 10:28pm | Somerset Somersault: AnimeNEXT 2009 | | | | This past weekend I attended AnimeNEXT in New Jersey. While held this year in Somerset at the Garden State Exhibit Center and conjoined Somerset Doubletree Hotel, in years prior the convention was held at the Meadowlands Arena in Secaucus. However, seeing as this was my first ever AnimeNEXT this did... | | |
| 12:54am | Kekkaishi Vol 17 by Yellow Tanabe Manga Review | | | | Title: Kekkaishi Vol 17 Author: Yellow Tanabe Publisher: Viz ISBN: 9781421522234 May Contain Spoilers Brotherly love can be so hard to understand. Masamori and Yoshimori have certainly had their disagreements, but when they are trapped together in a guardian site, their family ties... | | |
| 6:50pm | Spring '09 Previews | | | | There are several interesting facts about this spring season. First with the exception of FMA, Hayate and Polyphonica, all other series are new. Another noteworthy fact is that all series are adaptions from manga, novels or games with Eden and Basquash as the only exceptions! As for my expectations ... | | |
| 8:48pm | Shikabane Hime - 23 | | | | Short Synopsis: Hokuto, Akasha and whatshisname (the bug guy) carry out their plan to destroy the Kougonshuu (that’s what it was called, right?) Episode Rating: 8,5/10 (Awesome) Great to see that even though the finale is near, this series has yet to show any signs of weakness. That’s... | | |
| 11:54pm | Kekkaishi Vol 16 by Yellow Tanabe Manga Review | | | | Title: Kekkaishi Vol 16 Author: Yellow Tanabe Publisher: Viz ISBN: 9781421522227 May Contain Spoilers In this volume of Kekkaishi, Yoshimori gains a stalker, the Shadow Organization criticizes the current state of the Karasumori site, and a dragon drops in for a visit. Things... | | |
| 7:35am | Staff for new Fullmetal Alchemist Series Announced |  | | | From the Anime News Network: The new television adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa’s “dark fantasy” manga will premiere in Japan in April. Aniplex producer Ryo Oyama said that the production began on the series around last spring, and Irie added that the script for the 18th episode had... | | |
| 3:36pm | EOY’08: 57 Cosplayer Pictures Here and Filtered for Your Eyes. | | | | The traditional local end of year cosplay event was hugely overshadowed by AFA this year, to the extent that we weren’t even aware it was taking place today if not for a timely email from the organisers. They sent out an invite to all bloggers to go cover the event, and despite it being a huge... | | |
| 12:28am | Kekkaishi Vol 15 by Yellow Tanabe Manga Review | | | | Title: Kekkaishi Vol 15 Author: Yellow Tanabe Publisher: Viz ISBN: 9781421519517 May Contain Spoilers Wow! This was an exciting volume that took off running and never stopped. We were given a closer look at some of the Night Troops, and Misao turned out to be a wonderful, resourceful... | | |
| 5:59am | VIZ at 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair | | | | VIZ MEDIA BRINGS POPULAR MANGA PROPERTIES TO 2008 FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR Unique Titles To Be Highlighted In Hall 3.0 Booth H801 Including- DEATH NOTE, NARUTO, MÄR, KEKKAISHI, KILARI And BLEACH San Francisco, CA, October 15, 2008– VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most... | | |
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