Anime Credits - Baccano & Shigofumi EDs

Friday, May 9, 2008 – 9:52 am

I really like this one (sorry about the subs):

Speaking of Baccano, I still haven’t finished watching it.  Not sure why. I think it’s because I got behind, and I was waiting for it to finish, but no one seems to be in a hurry to sub the OVAs.

And I tried to think of one to complement it, and this is the best I could think of (that I haven’t already posted):

And don’t forget to check out past ones too.  A lot of times I’m like “I’ll post that!” before realizing that…I’ve already posted it.  I occasionally go through and make sure they reference valid files in case they’re deleted.

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Getting ready to get back on track

Friday, May 9, 2008 – 9:31 am

I apologize for being slow on the episode reviews, but a combination of cable modem/router issues + taking a little break from episode reviewing + cable going out last night thanks to storms = not having posted episode reviews in…quite a while.  Unfortunately I probably won’t get to it today due to my going to watch the live-action Speed Racer, and doing it tomorrow is unlikely as I’ll be recording my podcast.

That means I’ll try to really try to roll episode reviews out Sunday.  I should be able to get 3 out in a decent amount of time, and I’ll see if I want to do more than that Sunday.  At least I’ll catch up one week if I do that.

I had been trying to pump them out about once a day (unless I just didn’t have any to post), but obviously I haven’t been doing that for a while.

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Anime DVD and Manga Releases for May 6 - 12

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 – 9:35 am

Anime DVDs

Black Blood Brothers DVD Volume 3May 6, 2008
Black Blood Brothers - Volume 3
Devil May Cry - Volume 2
Galaxy Angel S: Shigehito Takayanagi - Single
Glass Fleet - Volume 6
Kirameki Project - Box Set (sub)
Lucky Star - Volume 1
Magikano - Volume 3
Naruto - Box Set 7 (Uncut)
Naruto - Volume 23 (dub)
Shuffle! - Volume 3
Tokyo Majin - Volume 3
Tweeny Witches - Volume 2
xxxHolic - Volume 2

Manga

Kannazuki no Miko manga Volume 1May 6, 2008
Absolute Boyfriend - Volume 6
Black Cat - Volume 14
B.O.D.Y - Volume 1
Brave Story - Volume 4
Cherry Juice - Volume 3
Crimson Hero - Volume 8
D.Gray-man - Volume 9
Dragon Ball - BIG Edition Volume 1 (1-3)
Dragon Ball Z - BIG Edition Volume 1 (1-3)
Dr. Slump - Volume 15
Fairy Cube - Volume 1
Gatcha Gacha - Volume 7
Gintama - Volume 6
Good Witch of the West - Volume 6
High School Debut - Volume 3
Hikaru no Go - Volume 12
Hunter X Hunter - Volume 20
Initial D - Volume 30
Kannazuki no Miko - Volume 1
Kaze Hikaru - Volume 9
Kindaichi Case Files - Volume 17
King of Thorn - Volume 4
Knockout Makers - Volume 2
Lovely Complex - Volume 6
Mahou Tsukai Kurohime - Volume 5
NANA - Volume 10
Naruto - Volume 29
Prince of Tennis - Volume 25
S.A - Volume 4
Sakura Taisen - Volume 7
Sand Chronicles - Volume 2
Satisfaction Guaranteed - Volume 7
Shaman King - Volume 16
Short Sunzen! - Volume 2
Skip Beat! - Volume 12
Whistle! - Volume 19

May 7, 2008
Eden: It’s an Endless World - Volume 10

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Screw my cable internet/modem and/or my wireless router too…

Monday, May 5, 2008 – 10:00 am

Here I am, enjoying a nice streak of posting 66 days in a row (last day off? February 27th), and then my cable internet and/or my cable modem and/or my wireless router decides to go kablooey last night and I can’t connect to the internet, blowing my streak.

My thinking is that it’s the router, since it’s been giving me problems recently, and I couldn’t even get an IP when I plugged directly up to it, but I’ll see if it works. But then again, my cable modem was sitting there blinking like it couldn’t connect either for much of the night (I did have cable. I did at least check that much). It would be my luck that both would go out at the same time or something.

At least if my cable modem still works I can still connect ONE computer to the internet.

And I have two episode reviews in the queue as well (and I’m sure that’ll increase soon) which I’ll post….sometime I guess.

Update:

Well, it must be the wireless router as I can connect by plugging directly into the cable modem and a) I can’t get an IP from the router via a direct connection and b) the router isn’t broadcasting.  I’ll try some troubleshooting stuff, but my bet is that it’s gone.

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Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode 71

Saturday, May 3, 2008 – 11:54 pm

Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #71 is now online! In this podcast, I review the anime series Seto no Hanayome.

This week’s Podcast Stats:
Time: 18:15
Download Size: 12.5 MB

Opening theme:
“Sekai de Ichiban Boku ga Suki!” by Ryoko Shintani
Opening theme to Damekko Dōbutsu

Ending theme:
“Dan Dan Dan” by Halko Momoi and Sakura Nogawa
Second ending theme to Seto no Hanayome

You can listen to my podcasts in the following ways:

Flash Player:

Directly: http://www.joshsanimeblog.com/podcast/JABPEpisode71.mp3

You can also download or add my podcast-only RSS feed to your favorite reader or add my podcast using iTunes.

Enjoy!

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Nijuu Mensou no Musume - Episode 03

Friday, May 2, 2008 – 7:55 pm

It’s Episode 3 of Nijuu Mensou no Musume, and Chiko, Twenty Faces, and the gang are going on a little ride on a submarine this episode. However, the sub crew turns on Twenty Faces after he finds some treasure, but he has his own trump card: Chiko.

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Anime Credits - Maid Guy & Soul Eater EDs

Friday, May 2, 2008 – 8:34 am

Enjoy!

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Remember the OTHER Geneon?

Thursday, May 1, 2008 – 9:55 pm

I’m not talking about the one in Japan. What I mean is the other major anime/manga company to go kablooey in recent times, and that’s Central Park Media.

OK, they haven’t gone away completely yet (though, technically, neither has Geneon I don’t think), but it’s about as close to a dead company as one can get without being dead (ANN lists all of their “upcoming” manga releases with a date of 12/31/2012 - i.e. there is no release date).

They HAVE a catalog (an 08 one even!), but they haven’t released anything since July ‘07 and haven’t licensed anything in who knows when, and most of their titles seem like Geneon’s: many are still available, but it appears once they’re gone, they’re gone. It looks like they may keep stock up at Right Stuf, but looking around other places saw a lot of “discontinued” and “out of stock” titles.

I thought about this because 2 of my first 8 or so DVD purchases were CPM titles (DNA2 and World of Narue) and the fact that I really wanted to read the Narue manga (and I decided to re-watch the Narue anime tonight). However, CPM only released through 4 volumes - and obviously in the state the company is in, no further volumes look to be forthcoming anytime soon (they’re on Volume 10 in Japan), plus the fact that I generally shy away from buying something unless I know it’s going to finish - which makes me leery of buying what they have released, if I can even find it anymore.

Of course, I guess I could actually take time to learn Japanese and buy the Japanese versions, though if I haven’t picked up enough Japanese after watching anime for 2 1/2 years to understand a conversation yet, I’m not sure how promising that prospect is either, and my impression that learning how to read and write Japanese is even harder than learning enough to understand what people are saying in conversation.

It’d be nice if CPM could somehow revive themselves, but I’m not exactly sure how they will, especially with the anime DVD market in the shape that it is. I guess one can eternally hope, though.

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Right Stuf/Nozomi licences Aria [Updated]

Thursday, May 1, 2008 – 3:16 pm

AriaRight Stuf International and Nozomi has announced that they have licensed the anime series Aria the Animation, and plan to have more Aria announcements in the future (so I guess we can assume that they’ve picked up Aria the Natural as well probably)

Aria the Animation was released in 2005 and is 13 episodes long.

Right Stuf will be releasing Aria the Animation in a single subtitle-only box set on September 30th.  And as I just said, they said to expect further announcements in the future about Aria.

Of course, apparently Right Stuf’s web admin did a boo-boo in the wee hours of the night and accidentially revealed the license.  Oops!

(And apparently they had a few more oops moments trying to get the announcement page to load, as when the time came, both the webpage they forwarded to and the main Right Stuf website went down.  Oops!)

Update:

ANN says that Right Stuf has the entire franchise: the 2nd TV season Aria the Natural, the OVA Aria the OVA ~Arietta~, and the just completed Aria the Origination.

Update 2:

You can pre-order the series now.  It’s $49.99 retail, but is currently at $37.49 on Right Stuf’s website.

Update 3:

gia sayz that Right Stuf isn’t willing to announce anything past Season 1 (Aria the Animation) but does confirm that there will be more.

I read the actual press release, and it definitely reads as if there is more, but doesn’t specifically state if they licensed the entire series, though ANN obviously seems to interpret it that way.

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Web Stats for April 2008

Thursday, May 1, 2008 – 12:14 pm

Yes, it is here again…the post no one but I and a few other people in the known universe care about…the web stats post! Get all the numeric goodness below the fold!

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