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NEWS: Funi Adds Seikishi, Yamato: R, One Piece: Strong World, Fairy Tail Film, Akira

More One Piece AND Strong World?

Shut up and take my money!!!!!!!

I advise against dismissing Lupin III ~The Woman Called Fujiko Mine~ as a fanservice anime like that. I have little love for fanservice. Just ask around; my bona fides as a stick-in-the-mud are pretty solid, but even so, I liked the show a lot. There is abundant nudity and there's little arguing that it's not in some sense exploitative, but it lacks the puerility and humiliation characteristic of fanservice anime. What's more, Sayo Yamamoto and Mari Okada had thematic ambitions considerably greater than a typical fanservice show could accommodate. To this end, I'll commend to you, as I have whenever the series comes up, parts one, two and three of Violence Jill's analysis of the series, the third part of which includes some links to other opinions of it.

As a couple of years passed on I was beginning to worry that Iseika would not be licensed, but now it is huzzah.

I will say they should have gone with the real title, Saint Knights Tale, the War on Geminar title is kinda of lame but then again Funi is bad with titles.

And for the guy who asks, the connection with with Tenchi is this: it takes place in the OVA contium, Rhea who Tenchi's dad marries in OVA 3, and is shown to be pregnant in GXP, is Kenshi's mother. Kenshi shares the same dad with Tenchi, hence half brothers. The other connection is that Washu is sort of shown in the beginning, and its hinted that her and/or the other Chousin sent Kenshi to this new world. Kenshi occasionally references his "sisters" aka Tenchi's "wives" throughout the series as well, and clearly they refer to Ryoko, Aeka, Sasami, etc.

@American14 Someone has penguindrum according to NISA but since funi didn't announce it here i doubt its them. Sentai seems more likely.

I think the Tenchi Muyo is valid, because generally speaking Tenchi Muyo! refers to the ova continuum, distinguishing it from the universe and tokyo continuums.

I haven't gotten around to learning Japanese yet, so maybe I was hasty in saying real title, but at least its what the show has been known by in the English speaking community since it came out.

^if you are a fan of the original you will catch refs here and there, and Kenshi may or may not be able to use a certain technique that Tenchi and Yosho can ; I will say its more fantasy then gxp or the main ova series, but I think it does at least as well as gxp in keeping the charm of the main series even without Tenchi; besides this series doing well may eventually lead to the legendary 4th ova series down the road.

By the time Impel Down & Paramount War arc are secured for a US release, it'll probably be around 2016 before we can see it.

I didn't even know Akira was homeless. Didn't Sony have it before this?

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Actually this just occurred to me, has the releases of One Piece hit Franky yet? Or has he not yet been cast? The movie has both Franky and Brook so will the people who voice them in the movie be the same people they are going to use if they reach that point in the T.V. series? I mean they could have different people voice them I guess, but it might be weird. Just a thought.

Patrick Seitz is already confirmed to be Franky. Brook will have to be cast though, hopefully it'll be someone like Chris Ayres or J. Michael Tatum.