It’s episode 17, and the Choir and Theater clubs come to a compromise on an advisor, but it’s shot down by the Student Council. Meanwhile, Sakagami decides to start a daily service for Okazaki and Sunohara. However, Sakagami ends up having a run in with some old acquaintances.
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It’s episode 17, and the information that Wilhelmina receives from Outlaw keeps getting messier and messier, but why? And speaking of Outlaw, Satou decides that it sounds like the perfect place for him to help the Flame Hazes out, but will Tanaka go with him?
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It’s episode 5, and Marco’s old flame Patricia gets caught up with an old acquaintance of her’s, Leo, who is investigating the truth behind the Social Welfare Agency. Will Marco be able to keep his secret from Patricia, while Leo has his own motivation for finding out about the Agency.
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We finally have some new information coming out about this whole ADV Films mess with their licensing partner Sojitz.
ADV Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing Mike Bailiff has made comments about the situation, including explaining the lack of comments from ADV about the situation:
There are a lot of parties involved in any anime production, and that can complicate even the best of negotiations. Frankly we had to keep quiet in the interest of resolving this situation as quickly as possible.
Which is basically what I suspected the situation was, even if it was frustrating. While Bailiff didn’t really say what the ultimate problem was which caused ADV to pull it’s products, the fact that all of ADV’s products have gotten new release dates suggests that the situation is either resolved, or resolved enough that titles can continue their releases.
Up until now, 9 ADV Films titles have passed their original release dates: Gurren-Lagann Volume 1, Kanon Volume 2, Kurau: Phantom Memory Volume 6, Moonlight Mile Volume 1, Project Blue Earth SOS Volume 1, Pumpkin Scissors Volume 3, The Wallflower Volume 2, Tokyo Majin Volume 2, and Welcome to the NHK Volume 3.
All of those except Gurren-Lagann Volume 1, will be released February 26th (but, as Robert’s Anime Store Blog notes, due to shipping time from ADV to online retailers, the shipping date in reality will more likely be around March 4th). No release dates for Gurren-Lagann or Devil May Cry have been made, but it was made known that further announcements about those titles would be made later.
All other release dates appear to be the same as they were before (if not pushed up a little) and all titles that had been released previously and had stopped shipping will ship once again.
To see all of my posts on this situation, see posts with the tag ADV Films.
That’s right, on February 28, 2006, I made the first post at Josh’s Anime Blog (though it wasn’t at this address, but at http://anime.calculusman.com, and I was using the Simple PHP blogging software at the time, which just got to be too unwieldy for my liking).
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In that time I’ve added a podcast and added the episode reviews. I’ve made a total of 643 posts (including this one) and, if my 1 year post is correct, 483 of those have been in the past year (so I’m averaging over 1 a day over that time).
Time seems to fly by (especially when you’re busy!) so now it’s onto Year 3 of the blog. Hopefully the growth from Year 1 to Year 2 continues on and that the blog will be better for it. It’s pretty bad that I’ve been running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off so much recently that I nearly forgot about the blog’s birthday.
All I can say right now is that I’m glad next week is spring break for my class. This past weekend I ended up having the double-whammy of both needing to take the 3-hour trip to go to my class (part of the arrangement, since I work away from where I’m getting my masters, is attending 5 classes a semester) as well as deciding to get a cold over the same weekend.
The first thing that did was make me unable to record my podcast on Friday like I was planning to (unless I wanted to sound like Darth Vader or something), and since I was gone the rest of the weekend, I didn’t get the chance to record it afterwards. Since I was pretty much down-and-out over the weekend as well, I didn’t exactly feel like working on stuff like trying to catch up on watching or writing reviews.
When I finally got back Tuesday, I needed to finish some homework, so I wasn’t able to record my podcast then either, and last night I finally was well enough to actually be able to get a full nights sleep. Finally, tonight I have the last of my homework before spring break to do, so I probably won’t get much done tonight, either.
So, Spring Break will end up being an even bigger make-up week than it was looking like even before, and here is what I would like to get done next week. Shows with an asterisk are episodes that have aired (or will air by the time they’re listed) but don’t have a sub out yet:
Friday (tomorrow): Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino 5, Shana II 17, CLANNAD 17. I already have screenshots for these finished (actually they’re already uploaded) so all I need to do is actually write the reviews.
Saturday: Podcast, Shion 16, Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino 6*
Sunday: Shana II 18, Clannad 18. More if I’m up for it, but we’ll see.
Monday: Shion 17, GSG 7*
Tuesday: Shana II 19, Clannad 19*
Wednesday: Shion 18*, GSG 8*
Thursday: Shana II 20*, Shion 19*
Friday: GSG 9*
Saturday: Podcast, Shana II 21*, CLANNAD 20*
From what I can tell, CLANNAD didn’t air this past Tuesday (lucky!) , so that’s one less episode to catch up on. Also, Triad is slow putting out subs for Gunslinger Girl, so even though I have episodes 8 and 9 listed, I doubt I’ll actually post them (and maybe even episode 7) due to lack of a sub. That gives me at least a little breathing room if I need it, as well as the fact that I’ll probably be able to post more on Sunday than I’m listing, though I may use the rest of Sunday to catch up watching other shows.
And I don’t think I’ve seen any of these episodes, past what I have listed for Friday. In fact, I don’t think I’ve even downloaded most of these (to say nothing about the series I’m watching but not blogging). My ISP is gonna come kill me after I grab all of these lol.
It’s episode 15 of Shion no Ō. It’s time for Shion and Shinji’s match, so who is going to win this father-daughter matchup. Also, Satoru continues his general creepiness, but also shows how he’s been able to win in the tournament so far.
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OK, so it’s been something like 3 weeks since I’ve done this. Thought it was about time I caught up.
February 5, 2008
Clockwork Fighters Hiwou’s War - Volume 3
Cowboy Bebop: Remix - Box Set
Devil May Cry - Volume 1
Fullmetal Alchemist - Box Set 3
.hack//Roots - Volume 6
Magikano - Volume 2
Negima! - Box Set
Phoenix - Volume 3
School Rumble - Volume 5
February 12, 2008
Dragon Ball Movies 2 - 4 - Box Set
Glass Fleet - Volume 4
Naruto - Box Set 6 Uncut
Pokémon - Season 1 Box Set 3
Samurai Deeper Kyo - Box Set w/GBA game
Super Robot Wars OG Divine Wars - Volume 3 (sub)
Tactics - Volume 5
Tactics - Box Set
February 19, 2008
Dragon Ball Z - Season 4 Box Set
Dragon Ball Z Bardok/Trunks Double Feature - Single
Girl’s High - Box Set (sub)
Kirby: Right Back At Ya! - Kirby’s Adventures in Cappytown (dub)
One Piece: Episode of Alabasta - Movie
Tsubasa Chronicles/xxxHOLic - Movies
Zegapain - Volume 3
February 5, 2008
Absolute Boyfriend - Volume 5
Aqua - Volume 2
Baby & Me - Volume 6
Bleach - Volume 22
Blood Sucker: Legend of Zipangu - Volume 6
Boys Be - Volume 16
Brave Story - Volume 3
Buso Renkin - Volume 10
D.Gray-man - Volume 8
Dragon Drive - Volume 6
Dragon Voice - Volume 10
Eyeshield 21 - Volume 18
Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden - Volume 6
Godchild - Volume 8
GTO: The Early Years - Volume 6
Houshin Engi - Volume 5
Initial D - Volume 29
Kare Kano - Omnibus Volume 1 (1-3)
Kaze Hikaru - Volume 8
King of Thorn - Volume 3
MegaMan NT Warrior - Volume 13
Missile Happy! - Volume 2
Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation - Volume 3
Ouran High School Host Club - Volume 10
Platinum Garden - Volume 6
Pretty Face - Volume 4
Ral Omega Grad - Volume 1
Saint Seiya - Volume 22
Satisfaction Guaranteed - Volume 6
Tail of the Moon - Volume 9
Tramps Like Us - Volume 14
Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World - Volume 7
Yu Yu Hakusho - Volume 14
February 6, 2008
Blade of the Immortal - Volume 18
Blood+ - Volume 1
February 12, 2008
Air Gear - Volume 7
Basara - Volume 26
Battle Royale - Ultimate Edition Volume 2 (4 - 6)
Boys Over Flowers - Volume 28
Camera, Camera, Camera - Volume 2
Chibi Vampire - Volume 7
Doors of Chaos - Volume 1
Enchanter - Volume 7
Flame of Recca - Volume 26
Fruits Basket - Ultimate Edition Volume 2 (3-4)
.hack//G.U.+ - Volume 1
Hayate the Combat Butler - Volume 6
Kami-Kaze - Volume 7
Law of Ueki, The - Volume 10
No Need for Tenchi! - Volume 12
O-Parts Hunter - Volume 8
Pet Shop of Horrors - Volume 1
Rose Hip Zero - Volume 5
Shin Megami Tensei: Kahn - Volume 1
Shinshoku Kiss - Volume 2
Shugo Chara! - Volume 3
Trinity Blood - Volume 5
Uzumaki - Volume 3
Wild Adapter - Volume 4
Zatch Bell - Volume 17
February 13, 2008
Path of the Assassin - Volume 9
February 19, 2008
Alive - Volume 3
Be With You
Death Note - Volume 13
Drifting Classroom - Volume 10
Golgo 13 - Volume 13
Hana-Kimi - Volume 22
Inubaka - Volume 7
Kekkaishi - Volume 12
Kitchen Princess - Volume 5
Monster - Volume 13
Mushishi - Volume 3
February 20, 2008
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service - Volume 6
Josh’s Anime Blog Podcast Episode #61 is now online! In this podcast, I review the the movie Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
This week’s Podcast Stats:
Time: 22:55
Download Size: 15.7 MB
Opening theme:
“Towa no Hana” by The Indigo
Opening theme to Ai Yori Aoshi
Ending theme:
“Tori no Hito” by Joe Hisaishi
Ending theme to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
You can listen to my podcasts in the following ways:
Flash Player:
Directly: http://www.joshsanimeblog.com/podcast/JABPEpisode61.mp3
You can also download or add my podcast-only RSS feed to your favorite reader or add my podcast using iTunes.
Enjoy!
