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Holiday Funk – sorry

Josh — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:23:18 +0000

sorry for the lack of entries over the holidays. I’ll have a two week anime dvd and manga releases next week. Sorry.

Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #5

Josh — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:13:18 +0000

Episode 5 of the podcast is up.

You can download it directly from the following address (12.7 MB):
Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #5

You can download the rss file for the podcast here:
http://www.joshsanimeblog.com/podcast/podcast.rss

Also, I have re-reviewed the anime DNA², actually bumping down it’s overall score from a 91% to 89%

Also, my podcast is up on itunes. If you search for anime under podcasts, you should find it as Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast.

Enjoy!

Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #4

Josh — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:25:08 +0000

Episode 4 of the podcast is up.

You can download it directly from the following address (13.7 MB):
Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #4

You can download the rss file for the podcast here:
http://www.joshsanimeblog.com/podcast/podcast.rss

Also, I have re-reviewed the anime Fruits Basket, changing it’s overall score from a 81.5% to 91%

Also, my podcast is up on itunes. If you search for anime under podcasts, you should find it as Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast.

Enjoy!

Official Haruhi Suzumiya Announcement

Josh — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:15:36 +0000

Watch a video to see the announcement:

http://asosbrigade.com/

As expected, it was licensed by Kadokawa Pictures USA
It will be distributed by Bandai entertainment

It’s confirmed: Kadokawa USA is the licensor of Haruhi Suzumiya

Josh — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:56:23 +0000

From the Anime News Network Forum Topic about the release, someone posted that by adding an extra slash to the end of the address (http://asosbrigade.com//), one can trigger an error in the counter which gives the server directory path.

In that path, one can see that the account that the webpage is being stored under is named “kadousa.” This should confirm beyond any reasonable doubt that it is Kadokawa USA which has licensed The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

UPDATE: Short Circuited is the genius blogger who discovered this. Congratulations!

UPDATE 2: As the official announcement approaches on Friday, there are 2 and possibly 3 answers that will be officially answersed: What, Who, and How. Two of those we already know, and know we’re going to get: The “what” is the fact that the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has been licensed. The “who” we have now learned is Kadokawa Pictures USA.

The question we don’t know the answer to yet is “how,” as in who is going to produce the series and who is going to distribute it. The more we learn about this announcement, the more it sounds like Kadokawa USA’s licensing of Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid. I have now begun to think that The Second Raid project was essentially meant to be a test run before their big project: Haruhi Suzumiya. If that’s the case, it is probably likely that Melancholy will get the same arrangement as The Second Raid did, and that is that ADV will produce the series and Funimation will Distribute it.

We may or may not find this out on Friday, though the non-answer I just got from a Funimation representative in the anime news network forum suggests that they know more about whats going on than they’re letting on.

UPDATE 3: The website has now fixed their database error and now works correctly even when extra slashes are added.

UPDATE 4: Here is a screenshot of the error before they fixed it: