Taiyo Matsumoto's Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White , has been stuck in my head since it first made its way over here in the pages of PULP sans the pre-colon moniker. Black & White is as memorable for its story of the titular outcasts as it …Read more »
Typically when I go to San Diego Comic-Con, and this year was theoretically no exception, I expect to buy a lot of useless junk and see some early clips from next year's big genre flicks (aside: Watchmen is going to be incredible). What I didn't …Read more »
Anyone who knows me well enough will tell you I'm a sucker for anything tokusatsu related. Certainly not to the lengths of our own Mighty Mike Dent, but I'm a fan nonetheless. With that in mind, it's no wonder my interest is piqued over the …Read more »
After what seems like an appropriate eternity, I finally find myself returning to the life-siphoning halls of Black Blood Brothers , the first two volumes of which were covered here and here . One of the most prominent points of the second volume was the …Read more »
Try as our secretive EIC (AKA TV's Patrick Macias) might, the cat has been let roaring out of its bag in regards to his company jaPRESS's latest project. The production of Last Gasp 's recent acquisition, Junko Mizuno's ( Pure Trance , Cinderalla ) Fancy …Read more »
A unique new SRPG from Atlus was just released yesterday; Spectral Force 3 . Having slipped under a lot of gamers' radars, this is the first game in the series to be released in the US, it's for Xbox 360, a system that doesn't get …Read more »
Even if you missed Anime Expo this year, you can still see highlights from Otaku USA 's panel on Youtube, thanks to the efforts of one avid otaku with a camcorder. While the Otaku USA coverage does not start till almost 5 minutes into the video, you …Read more »
Koge-Donbo's ( Di Gi Charat , Pita-Ten ) Kamichama Karin Chu might be one of the most ADD shojo titles I've ever read. As a sequel to Kamichama Karin (published by Kodansha in 2003), the story is pretty straightforward. Karin Hanazono is a young goddess, …Read more »
Gurren Laagan premiered last night on the Sci-Fi Channel's Ani-Monday block, as well as the series Now and Then, Here and There . As of yesterday, you can now catch these two shows every monday night at 11pm EST! If you missed last night's episode of Gurren …Read more »
Regrettably, I wasn't able to stop by Imagi's booth, in which they exercised some clever methods of promotion for the upcoming CG feature Astro Boy film. The movie itself features the voice acting of Nicholas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, and …Read more »
Koji Matsumoto's (Saori) supernatural series, having enjoyed a long run in Kodansha's Young Magazine , will be realized in the land of flesh and blood next year. The setup is definitely promising; it involves the search for a young man's brother on a strange island …Read more »
Specifically, VIZ Pictures —the new VIZ affiliate created solely for the release and production of live-action projects—will be releasing the sequel to the 2005 film near the end of this month. This time, Yui Ichikawa ( Ju-on , Zebraman ) plays the role of Nana …Read more »
Added to a growing roster of download-to-own episodes, Jyu-Oh-Sei can now be purchased in either single episode format or as an 11-episode bundle on FUNimation's website , subtitled and ready to watch for users with Windows Media Player installed and either Windows XP or beyond. …Read more »
Okay, time to do what we Pro Internetters do best: get excited over very little! That's right, I'm talkin' Teaser Time, in which we endure the promise of something to come with little in the way of actual footage. Still, it's tough not to be …Read more »
I know what you're thinking: this guy's freaking insane. Everybody in American anime fandom knows M.D. Geist sucked. In fact, my fellow writers Daryl Surat and Clarissa Graffeo have a saying they repeat occasionally on Anime World Order: people have various thoughts on what the …Read more »
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