Due to a technical error, the comments script for the giveaway was busted. It’s fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience. I’ll be extending the contest until Wednesday to make up for it.
The Naruto Shippuden Giveaway post is still up!

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As promised in my first post about the contest here, here’s the latest episode of Naruto Shippuden from VIZ, directly from Hulu.com. If you can’t see the video below, you’re probably in a country that Viz doesn’t license to, and are unfortunately ineligible. For everyone else, leave your reviews in the comments section, [...]

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Update: The contest has started! Click here for the official contest page
Listen up, all you Naruto fans. Want some free Naruto swag? Over the next few days I’ll be holding a contest to promote Viz’s efforts to bring you free streaming episodes of Naruto Shippuden on Naruto.com. For the first time ever for [...]

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IGN games did a video review for the new PS3 Afro Samurai game. Their review isn’t that favorable, but looking at some of the gameplay, and the clips of Ninja Ninja’s hilarious dialogue, I think it might be worth a play through.

Here’s a great sample of Samuel L. Jackson as Ninja Ninja in the [...]

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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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Anyone who needed confirmation that Naruto is still selling as strong as ever need look no further than the latest data for 2008. ICv2 reports that the Nielsen BookScan data for 2008 shows Naruto clearly dominated the manga sales last year.

ICv2 says:

Naruto was the top manga, with nine volumes in the top [...]

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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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As we approach Barack Obama’s historic inauguration, I felt it would be a good time to dig up a gem from last year. Many of you may recall that Barack made a cameo appearance in Chapter 206 of the Air Gear manga as “John Omaha”:

My Japanese is rather bad these days, but here’s what [...]

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NAMCO Bandai announced that Ultimate Ninja 4: NARUTO Shippuden, is finally coming to the U.S., making it the first video game in North America based on the Naruto Shippuden animated series. It’s coming out in March for the old-but-still-kicking PS2 platform.
Ultimate Ninja 4: NARUTO Shippuden features several unique game modes that offer different experiences [...]

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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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