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News from my Hiatus

By | March 22, 2010 at 9:55 am | No Comments

As you may have seen, I have a new “News” link in my navigation now, which I hope to fill up with, well, articles about anime news.  However, seeing that there isn’t actually anything in that category yet, I thought I’d start things off by creating a post going over some of the news from the start of the year:

New License Announcements

  • Funimation licenses Hero Tales, Master of Martial Hearts anime series (Jan. 7, 2010)
  • Funimation licenses Hetalia – Axis Powers, The Sacred Blacksmith (Jan 8, 2010)
  • Media Blasters licenses – and I have no idea why – Kanokon (Jan. 15, 2010)
  • Sentai licenses Gintana (and the masses rejoice), Hidimark Sketch x 365, The Living for the Day After Tomorrow (not about blizzards), and Petite Cossette anime (Jan. 21, 2010)
  • It’s nice to see anime licesnors start up rather than shut down. A new one is NIS America, and their first licenses are Toradora, Pandora Hearts, Persona -trinity soul-, and Our Home’s Fox Deity (from KadoUSA). (Feb. 11, 2010)
  • Media Blasters licenses Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (and the masses rejoice again) (Feb. 18, 2010)
  • Media Blasters grabs Record of Lodoss War from bankrupted CPM (Feb. 19, 2010)
  • Sentai keeps going wild by grabbing Asu no Yoichi, Eyeshield 21, and Hell Girl 2 (Feb. 26, 2010)
  • Funimation licenses Baka & Test and Dance in the Vampire Bund (March 4, 2010)
  • Sentai/Section 23 licenses Papillon Rose, La Corda D’Oro, and Brighter than the Dawning Blue (March 19, 2010)

Other Generally Cool and/or Disturbing News

  • 450,000 people visited the shrine that appears in the Lucky Star anime/manga.  I’m not sure that it’s cool that there are that many dedicated anime fans in Japan, or disturbing that they’re actually bothering to visit a shrine from an anime during New Years.
  • Shockingly, I have not watched the entirety of FLCL. I think I watched one episode, maybe two, on Cartoon Network at some point, and then quit.  However, the fact that it is getting the HD treatment (now that I actually have a Blu-Ray player) may finally convince me to give it another shot.
  • The fact that 80% of an Anime Con’s workers threaten to resign, and management don’t seem to think of it as a problem, would seem to show that the problem is with management, and not the workers.
  • I thought my hiatus was long
  • Finally, the news I’m most stoked about recently – several series, including CLANNAD and – unbelievably – Blue Drop are getting dubbed by Sentai.  It also suggests that Sentai/Section 23 has gotten back on it’s feet enough to actually spend the money on dubbing again.

Added US Release Information to reviews + some general news

By | April 2, 2006 at 8:10 pm | No Comments

I added the US release information to the review links on the left (but not to the scrolling blog entries below). This includes who released the DVDs in the US for anime, and who published manga.

Just a small update, but I thought I might as well throw on who released them in the US too.

Some general news which has probably already been out there for a while, but I thought I would post here.

First, it appears that AnimEigo is going to re-release the Oh! My Goddess OVAs sometime in 2006.

Second, Kimi ga Nozomu Eien a.k.a. KimiNozo a.k.a. Rumbling Hearts is apparently going to be a 3-DVD monthly release by FUNimation starting in October, meaning that, if FUNimation remains on schedule, the series will be completed in it’s release in December.

Also, while the official title is “Rumbling Hearts” because thats how Media Factory (the Japanese distributor of it) wishes it to be referred to in the US, apparently FUNimation will be adding the full Japanese name as a subtitle to make people aware of what it is.

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