Archive for March, 2008

Fan film girl-fight mashup, Final Fantasy vs. DOA

March 30th, 2008 – 1:29 pm
Tagged as: Anime, Fandom, General

I stumbled upon a CGI fan film developed by Monty Oum featuring an epic battle between female characters from Final Fantasy and the Dead or Alive video game series. Worth watching!

Popularity: 6% [?]

Speed Grapher Trailer

March 19th, 2008 – 6:16 pm
Tagged as: Anime

Speed Grapher has been a bit of a cult favorite amongst anime fans for a while. Last week the DVD box set was released in the states, but with not a lot of fanfare. IGN recently posted a nice trailer for the series.

A brief synopsis o…

Popularity: 6% [?]

Death Note movie at the S.F. Asian-American Film Fest

March 11th, 2008 – 2:09 pm
Tagged as: Anime, Fandom

The folks hosting the San Francisco Asian American Film festival will be sho…

Popularity: 8% [?]

AnimeNetwork Online: Good idea, bad execution

March 6th, 2008 – 10:39 am
Tagged as: Anime, General

Anime Network has a great idea: full episodes of dubbed anime online for free, with commercials. The problem is their site sucks ass.

When I first got to the site, their location script incorrectly informed me that I’m not in the Unite…

Popularity: 9% [?]

Aquarion Clip: Vector Fighters Merging

March 4th, 2008 – 5:03 pm
Tagged as: Anime

Aquarion Part One will be available in stores on March 11th. It’s directed by Shoji Kawamori from Macross Plus. With music anime soundtrack legend Yoko Kanno, this is one of the big anticipated US anime DVD releases of the year.

In th…

Popularity: 5% [?]

Star Wars Manga done better than original comics

March 4th, 2008 – 12:43 pm
Tagged as: Manga

The official Star Wars site has a comparison of the Japanese Manga and Marvel adaptations of the original Star Wars stories. Their verdict? The manga version wins.

The piece in question uses panels from both comics to contrast the styl…

Popularity: 8% [?]

The Best of Hayao Miyazaki

March 1st, 2008 – 12:58 pm
Tagged as: Anime

My latest article over at IGN Anime ranks Miyazaki’s masterpieces.

Ranking Hayao Miyazaki’s films is a fairly difficult task since he’s been incredibly consistent at producing high-quality movies over his 24-year feature film career. …

Popularity: 4% [?]