| 12:07am | xxxHolic Shunmuki | | | | BIG NEWS! The official website for the upcoming Tsubasa and xxxHolic OAVs has been updated with a new layout featuring character designs from the episodes, preview links for upcoming sections and if you read the fine print the name for the xxxHolic OAV!!!Readers of my Tsubasa site will know that the... | | |
| 11:32pm | Tsubasa Shunraiki | | | | Special thanks to CLAMP NOW for the heads up: Yui Makino (Japanese voice actress of Sakura) has let slip in her blog that the title of the upcoming Tsubasa OAV / Original Animation Video (or OAD / Original Animation DVD) will be called "Tsubasa Shunraiki" which translates roughly as "Tsubasa Spring... | | |
| 12:58am | 2008 Anime DVD Sales Ranking |  | | | Here we have the rather interesting DVD sales ranking for 2008 anime, in this case focused on the first volume as a proxy for total popularity. There are a number of interesting results within the list, but the top and bottom are likely not surprising. These numbers are the number of DVDs sold over... | | |
| 4:50am | A Quick Conglomerate Update | | | | Since I haven’t had a chance to do so all week due to either being horribly busy or horribly sick*. Or, on Friday, both. So here’s a (highly hasty) rundown of what I might have said, if I had had the energy or time to do so. Which I didn’t. Toradora! Despite any naysaying, I maintain... | | |
| 12:01pm | Megami Magazine Memorial Book (2006-8) | | | | 2006 (glaring typo!) would be the Year of the Tanuki with the airing of AIR TV and movie (pun unintended, it’s the Kabitzin Geass, I swear!), Nanoha A’s, Zero no Tsukaima, Canvas2 and SHUFFLE! Though ToHeart2 and D.C.S.S. were, particularly the latter, sources of disappointment and unsatisfaction... | | |
| 5:31am | Natsume Yuujinchou | | | | Title: Natsume Yuujinchou (夏目友人帳) Scrumptious Meter: 4.5 (next best thing to slice bread~with a little extra sugar and spice on top) Length: 13 episodes Since xxxHOLiC and Mononoke, I have developed an interest towards anime that deals with traditional Japanese folklore, particularly those... | | |
| 3:48pm | THAT Fall Impressions: One outs and Mouryou no Hako |  | | | I must say that anime often springs a surprise when you least expected it. I was implored by my girlfriend to watch Mouryou no Hako, despite my superficial reluctance to watch it. So that all of you know how ridiculous I can be at times, I disliked it because the cover art looks yaoi and there is no... | | |
| 3:09pm | Red Garden - Dead Girls | | | | Short Synopsis: About 200 years after Red Garden, we return to the girls of Red Garden, who still turn out to be alive. Highlights: It’s about bloody time! Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 So, finally the final OVA has gotten subbed, more than a year after the original airdate. Indeed, it’s... | | |
| 8:25am | The Fall Call: Fall 2008 Anime Preview | | | | I know, I know, I’m late– things have gotten very busy with my project. But here it is: your Fall 2008 anime preview! A couple of interesting trends this season. First off, I was struck by how many shows this season are the directorial debuts for the people helming them. Hyakko (Michio Fukuda),... | | |
| 7:34pm | Del Rey and Cartoon Network make manga | | | | Del Rey, one of the big players in the OEL manga market, has agreed to make manga titles based on a couple of Cartoon Network properties Del Rey Manga, in collaboration with Cartoon Network Enterprises, announced a new manga publishing partnership that will launch with original manga based on two of... | | |
| 10:39pm | [PR] DEL REY MANGA ANNOUNCES NEW MANGA SERIES, GUIDE FOR 2009 | | | | NEW YORK, NY – September 27, 2008 – Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, today announced an eclectic range of new manga titles to be published in Summer and Fall of 2009. The new series acquisitions feature some of the best characters that the manga... | | |
| 7:05pm | NYAF08: FUNimation | | | | Okay, I’m now sitting in on the FUNimation panel, hosted by Adam Sheehan. So far it’s pretty much the same stuff we’ve heard at the last few panels, but we’re not yet through the panel! Apparently they’ll be putting some show that we’ll “probably be really happy... | | |
| 5:45pm | FUNimation’s got the Darker than Black Cast | | | | So the panel hasn’t started just yet so I think I have time just to just copy and paste the press release FUNi sent out with the Darker than Black cast. List is above the jump, full press release is after. Hei: Jason Liebrecht Yin: Brina Palencia Misaki: Kate Oxley Mao: Kent Williams John Swasey:... | | |
| 7:06pm | awa08: Dark Horse | | | | Oooookay! We’re starting with the Dark Horse panel, and they’ve announced that they will announce stuff at NYAF– whee! But I guess nothing new here probably. Nonetheless, I blog on! We’re looking at samples of various upcoming relelases, including Hellsing 9 (!), the new Ah My... | | |
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