Archive for 'Anime'

FUNimation adding some more Fullmetal Alchemist anime?

January 27th, 2009 – 12:15 pm
Tagged as: Anime, Industry News

D.F. Smith over at IGN reported this interesting tidbit about FUNimation, Fullmetal Alchemist, and the upcoming convention season

Funimation, word has it, will be announcing something Fullmetal Alchemist-related when the convention season kicks off next month. They might have picked up the FMA “Premium Collection” OVAs – an array of cute action and super-deformed comedy shorts [...]

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Imagi Studios is out of cash, Astro Boy and Gatchaman films in jeopardy

January 26th, 2009 – 4:05 pm
Tagged as: Anime, Industry News

UPDATE: Anime News Network confirmed the story with Imagi, but President Erin Corbett of IMAGI Studios U.S. told ANN that her company plans to resume production next week with new funding.
The sad news on the internet today is that Imagi Studios is out of cash, and shutting down temporarily. What this means for the [...]

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Afro Samurai: Resurrection advance review

January 13th, 2009 – 9:12 pm
Tagged as: Anime

Thanks to IGN, I had the pleasure of reviewing Afro Samurai: Resurrection before its January 25th premiere on SpikeTV. If you liked the first series, you’re going to love this sequel. I don’t know if the broadcast version will quite capture the beauty of the animation, and there’s some gratuitous profanity, and some naked [...]

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New Astro Boy Movie: Japanese franchise owners think Astro’s butt is too small

January 7th, 2009 – 10:56 pm
Tagged as: Anime

There’s a funny article in the Malaysia Star Online about the upcoming new CG Astro Boy flick. The new design for Astro is “Americanized” in ways you wouldn’t expect, and the estate of Tezuka Osamu weren’t happy:
WHEN they saw the initial designs for Astro Boy in the upcoming computer animated flick, the one [...]

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Mania.com: Top 5 things Anime Companies did Right in 2008

December 29th, 2008 – 3:49 pm
Tagged as: Anime, Industry News

It’s the end of the year, which means anime bloggers everywhere will be posting their “year in review” articles. While trolling the interwebs, I found an article that’s different than the usual “Best Of” fare. Chris Beveridge over at Mania.com wrote a few points on what the industry actually got right in 2k8
From the [...]

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English trailer for Dragonball Evolution

December 10th, 2008 – 11:22 am
Tagged as: Anime, Industry News

Yes, it’s here folks. The official trailer for this god-awful, disgrace to all anime fans. The movie never looked good in the previous sample vids or still shots. Nothing’s changed. But hey, if you’re still curious, or just want a laugh, here’s the new trailer, hot off the presses.

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Here’s your mission this holiday season: Buy manga and anime!

December 10th, 2008 – 11:08 am

Times are tough, folks. With this economic slowdown, many industries are hurting bad. Anime/manga sales have already been declining both here and abroad. If our favorite entertainment segment is going to survive these tough times, we need to do one thing…
Buy stuff.
Don’t buy just for yourself, because ’tis the season for giving. [...]

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The American Akira spoof

December 3rd, 2008 – 12:17 pm
Tagged as: Anime, Fandom

Surely most of you have heard the news that there’s a Live action Akira movie coming out of Hollywood. Here’s one fan’s fears on how it could turn out:

Of course, the initial script review shows a film that should be very faithful to the original movie, and Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator of both the [...]

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IGN TV: Gundam 00 Review

November 25th, 2008 – 8:41 pm
Tagged as: Anime

Now that Sci Fi is done airing Gurren Lagann, they’ve moved on to Gundam 00. I’m reviewing the show for IGN, and I’m not really digging it…yet. There’s promise, definitely promise, but the first two episodes didn’t overwhelm me. The dub didn’t do the show any favors, either. But hey, that’s my [...]

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My IGN review of the Gurren Lagann series

November 20th, 2008 – 3:39 pm
Tagged as: Anime

So I’ve been reviewing anime at IGN.com for a while, and one of the shows I’d been assigned was Gurren Lagann as it aired on Sci-Fi. Honestly, I wasn’t thrilled about it at first, but by the end of the show I had enjoyed myself. IGN does a season review for all the [...]

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