News - May 2008
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- Japanese Studios Sell, Exhibit Anime/Manga-Based Films (04:43)
- Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, May 7–13 (23:57)
- Philippines' Animax Award Finalist LaMB Gets Animated (16:32)
- Funimation Confirms Shigurui: Death Frenzy License (14:54)
- English-Subbed Maria Watches Over Us Trailer Streamed (13:55)
- Taniguchi's Harukana Machi e Gets European Film (13:16)
- English Death Note, Bleach Movie Trailers Posted (Updated) (12:49)
- Clannad Malware Creator Gets Two Years in Prison (05:44)
- Daily Briefs (05:19)
- Spider-Man's Stan Lee Interviewed about Ultimo Manga (23:57)
- Here is Greenwood Manga to be Adapted into TV Drama (23:30)
- Funimation Teases with Shigurui Image (16:14)
- Oshii Oversees Opening, Ending for NHK Documentaries (13:49)
- Yamato, Macross Director Noboru Ishiguro Interviewed (13:09)
- Funimations Adds Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry (11:21)
- USA Today Booklist, May 5–11 (11:06)
- First Color Image of Live-Action Dragonball's Goku (10:07)
- Daily Briefs (09:50)
- Funimation Hints at Soukou no Strain Anime (23:37)
- Gantz's Oku Also Designs Soul Calibur IV Character (16:35)
- UK Fans Give Eagle Award to Death Note Manga (14:58)
- Super Techno Arts No Longer Offering Jojo Anime in USA (14:13)
- Manga, Anime, Cards Announced for Inazuma 11 Videogame (13:37)
- Funimation Licenses Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- (12:40)
- Protoculture Addicts #95 Survey (12:27)
- Crimson Hero, Chocolate Underground Manga Ending (07:22)
- Japanese Comic Ranking, May 6–12 (06:59)
- Daily Briefs (05:28)
- TitleMatch Halts Production of ImaginAsian DVDs (18:00)
- Suzuka's Seo, Samurai Deeper Kyo's Kamijyō to Launch Manga (16:01)
- Funimation Hints at Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino- Anime (14:17)
- Funimation Gets Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple Anime (14:04)
- Shibatora Police Manga Adapted into TV Drama (13:21)
- Ashita no Joe's Chiba Draws Akai Mushi One-Shot Manga (06:42)
- 32nd Annual Kodansha Manga Awards Announced (06:02)
- Tokyo's Popopure Maid Café Lets Customers Dub Anime (18:17)
- Gegege no Kitarō Anime Film's Site Opens with Teaser (15:40)
- 1st Super Robot Wars OG Divine Wars Episode Streamed (14:06)
- First Image of Live-Action Dragonball's Goku Published (13:11)
- Funimation Adds Save Me! Lollipop Romantic Comedy Anime (12:36)
- Speed Racer Ends U.S. Opening Weekend with US$18.6M (Updated) (12:18)
- 2008 Gegege Anime Film to Have 6 Versions Screened (05:57)
- Daily Briefs (04:28)
- Japanese Box Office: May 3–4 (22:24)
- 12th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Winners Announced (21:04)
- Daily Briefs (17:20)
- Vexille Wins Animation Award at Philadelphia Film Fest (15:20)
- 37th Japan Cartoonist Awards Announced (07:33)
- Nodame Cantabile: Paris Chapter Anime Sequel Announced (05:37)
- Daily Briefs (05:15)
- Anime Planned for Amano's Mateki: The Magic Flute (20:13)
- Anime Expo to Host Stranger - Mukoh Hadan Director Ando (Updated) (16:40)
- Vampire Hunter D, Final Fantasy's Amano at San Diego (15:47)
- Sonishi's Inu-Gaisha Manga Adapted into Flash Anime (15:06)
- Full Shin Chan Episode Posted Online (12:56)
- Gurren Lagann Music Clip Project's Trailer Streamed (12:02)
- 1st 8 Minutes of Live-Action Speed Racer Film Streamed (05:30)
- 3 Arrested in Japan for Spreading Anime via Share Program (05:18)
- Daily Briefs (04:51)
- Japanese Anime TV Ranking, April 28–May 4 (23:28)
- Lucky Star Cast Cosplays as Haruhi Dancers on Bonus Card (18:25)
- Hokkaido Graduate Students Launch Free Manga Paper (17:33)
- Comic Dragon Age Mag to Run Luminous Arc 2 Will Manga (14:11)
- Japanese Comic Ranking, April 29–May 5 (Updated) (13:37)
- Eva's Sadamoto to Draw Archaic Smile Short Story (12:36)
- U.S. Navy Completes Promotional Manga for Distribution (07:12)
- Daily Briefs (06:25)
- USA Today Booklist, April 28–May 4 (23:57)
- BV USA to Stream Super Robot Wars TV, Galaxy Angel Rune (14:39)
- Macross Frontier's Opening Single Stays in Top 10 (14:03)
- Mushrambo Film Remakes' First Teaser Trailer Streamed (12:39)
- Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, April 30–May 6 (11:45)
- Singer/Actor Gackt Lends Voice for Next Virtual Singer (10:39)
- Daily Briefs (10:12)
- Tokyo Restaurants Offer Limited Evangelion Menu Items (17:04)
- Bandai Reissues of Macross Valkyries to be Imported to USA (15:38)
- Newsweek Japan Lists Kon's Paprika Among 100 Best Films (13:50)
- Zune Store Adds Funimation, Manga Entertainment Titles (12:52)
- June's Licensing Int'l Expo to Feature Anime Franchises (11:57)
- Ribon Magazine to Start Hello Kitty Peace!! Manga (11:12)
- Detective Conan Solves His First Case in Korea (22:33)
- Japanese Box Office: April 26–27 (18:28)
- Mixed Vegetables' Komura Launches Joō-sama no Tamago (Update) (16:29)
- Japanese Anime TV Ranking, April 21–27 (15:33)
- Tanemura to End Gentlemen's Alliance, Launch Fortune (14:48)
- Reunited X Japan Band to Perform in Taiwan on August 2 (12:56)
- Shimizu, Madhouse to Adapt Siberian Express into Anime (11:58)
- OVA for Yoshimizu's Lucky Star Greenlit in Japan (10:41)
- Go! Comi Licenses 07-Ghost Fantasy Manga (10:17)
- Broccoli Books Posts Nui! Fantasy Comedy Manga Preview (04:57)
- 3 Minutes of Live-Action Speed Racer Film Streamed (04:42)
- Deux Press to Publish Oh, My God, Lovers & Souls (13:41)
- Daily Briefs (04:49)
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in LA, NYC, Seattle (18:53)
- New Candy Boy Net Anime Series Launched Online (16:24)
- Crunchyroll to Host Anime Innovation Tokyo Works Online (13:51)
- Takashi Murakami Named Among Time's 100 Influential (13:26)
- Japan's Gurren Lagann Movie Site Launches with Video (Updated) (11:29)
- Japan's NHK to Air Kids' Special with Ghibli Music (06:21)
- Viz, Drawn and Quarterly Manga at Free Comic Book Day (05:57)
- Japan's Jump Anime Tour to Show Letter Bee Anime (03:34)
- Daily Briefs (03:14)
- CoLours TV No Longer Runs FUNimation Channel Programs (23:57)
- Japanese Animation DVD Ranking, April 23–29 (19:07)
- Right Stuf Licenses Aria TV Anime (15:00)
- Death Note Artist Obata to Attend Japan Expo in Paris (13:51)
- Viz Dominates American Graphic Novel Sales in April (12:28)
- Sony's Animax to Produce, Run Anime of Kurozuka Manga (11:24)
- Daily Briefs (10:43)
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Brian sees distant visions of death and despair, our milk and honeyed land crushed to dust under the heels of the forces of evil. He also sees whats on TV for the week, for you!
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Click - May 17th - 23rdBrian sees distant visions of death and despair, our milk and honeyed land crushed to dust under the heels of the forces of evil. He also sees whats on TV for the week, for you!
2008-05-17
Kashimashi
~Girl Meets Girl~ GN 4 and 5
Despite dragging things out in the wake of a major previous plot revelation, these two volumes ultimately deliver a strongly dramatic and emotional resolution to the central love triangle. A solid ending for a lovely little yuri series.
2008-05-16
~Girl Meets Girl~ GN 4 and 5Despite dragging things out in the wake of a major previous plot revelation, these two volumes ultimately deliver a strongly dramatic and emotional resolution to the central love triangle. A solid ending for a lovely little yuri series.
2008-05-16
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, Answerfans!
Answerman is out this week, so he found someone to fill in for him - you!
2008-05-16
, Answerfans!Answerman is out this week, so he found someone to fill in for him - you!
2008-05-16
Buried
Treasure - Shingu
Teenagers saving the Earth from alien invasion are an anime cliché, but they're made fun and interesting by adding something completely foreign: joy and emotional stability.
2008-05-15
Treasure - ShinguTeenagers saving the Earth from alien invasion are an anime cliché, but they're made fun and interesting by adding something completely foreign: joy and emotional stability.
2008-05-15
Short
Sunzen! GN 1
There are many ways to make a school romance work. This is not one of them.
2008-05-15
Sunzen! GN 1There are many ways to make a school romance work. This is not one of them.
2008-05-15
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Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~ GN 4 and 5Despite dragging things out in the wake of a major previous plot revelation, these two volumes ultimately deliver a strongly dramatic and emotional resolution to the central love triangle. A solid ending for a lovely little yuri series.
Short Sunzen! GN 1There are many ways to make a school romance work. This is not one of them.
Fruits Basket GN 19For those who found the lengthy explorations of secondary characters and tantalizing glimpses of Kyo and Tohru's slowly evolving relationship in the last few volumes to be exquisite torture, this volume will be giddy, triple-
Lucky Star DVD 1Cute high school girls have stream-
Kujibiki Unbalance DVD 1Colorful, hyperactive and intentionally crammed with abrasive clichés; more a comprehensive crash-
Simoun Sub.DVD 3
Despite only two episodes with true action, so much goes on that the content never gets dull. The romantic twists and turns, character development, and intriguing revelations all assure that viewers will want to keep coming back.
Despite only two episodes with true action, so much goes on that the content never gets dull. The romantic twists and turns, character development, and intriguing revelations all assure that viewers will want to keep coming back.
Speed Racer
Punishingly self-obsessed pop art at 200 miles per hour.
Punishingly self-
Flag DVD 3
This isn't the climax, but as Flag draws its two story-lines ever closer together and sets into motion the machinations of the series' truly frightening cult, it's here that anticipation for that climax reaches its giddy peak.
This isn't the climax, but as Flag draws its two story-
Mushi-Shi DVD 6
Four final stand-alone tales of Ginko's encounters with mushi unfold as the series comes to an end. Overall, these episodes are just more of the same, and in the case of this series that is a Good Thing.
Psycho Busters GN 2
Psycho Busters is never going to be considered a masterpiece ... But it's still kind of fun watching these kids blast their powers at each other until someone wins.
Psycho Busters is never going to be considered a masterpiece ... But it's still kind of fun watching these kids blast their powers at each other until someone wins.
Resident Evil 4Regardless of age, Resident Evil 4 remains one of the finest action games ever created, and this latest port reminds us that this game is a modern classic.