Thursday, March 6, 2008 – 3:06 pm
And Right Stuf’s and Nozomi’s announcement was for Maria-sama ga Miteru, which is being released under the name “Maria Watches Over Us.”
According to the announcement, the series will be released in three season-long box sets, with Season 1 being released July 29th. The first two seasons were 13 episodes long. The 3rd season was a 5 episode OVA.
Update:
Looks like the two TV seasons will sell for $49.99 each while the 5 OVAs (which are 50 minutes each, by the way) are going for $39.99. This also appears to be a sub-only release.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 – 5:33 pm
Today I was surprised when I was doing my anime and manga releases to see that Koi Kaze was coming out in a box set. Not too long ago I had looked around to see if one existed or if one was coming and I didn’t see anything, so this kind of came as a surprise.
This was probably a middle of the pack series, but I believe it was the third one that I rented from blockbuster when I started watching anime. However, I only watched the Japanese version, and I had wanted to wait until I watched the English version to write a review. That time appears to be soon now that a box set is out and at a non-outrageous price (with tax and shipping I got it for about $50 on circuit city).
Of course this reminds me of all the series I have yet to write reviews on, including Ai Yori Aoshi, The World of Narue, and Please Twins - which I have no excuse over since I own them all. I’ve also received Porco Rosso and Akira from blockbuster (cause they refuse to send me any of the top 6 discs in my queue, even though 4 are listed as available now) so those should be coming in not too long (assuming I don’t get majorly busy).
As for series I’m currently watching, I have 3 discs (and the second movie) left in Cardcaptor Sakura. I also have two discs left in Ah! My Goddess (though blockbuster lists volume 5 as “coming soon” even though the sixth disc has already been released).
Monday, March 6, 2006 – 12:54 am
While I haven’t had the chance to see it yet, I was kind of hoping Howl’s Moving Castle would win best animated picture because, I think, anime, whether in movie or series form, needs all the good publicity that it can get. It’s good that it was nominated, but it’d been better had it won.
Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit won the Best Animated Feature award. Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride was the only other film nominated for the category.
