Motaku 2012 has come and gone, and I have to say it was a lot more fun this year than last. Granted, last year I only went on Saturday and stuck to mostly fan panels, but I did see improvement in a lot of the programming. While I did go to more panels featuring the guests this year, over three days I probably still went to just as many fan-run ( Read more... )

At the library I work at, I've been working on starting the first anime club in our system. After about four months of preperation, tonight was the first meeting! We had a small crowd (but actually good for our usual program attendance), but I'm hoping next week will be better when the other libraries post our flyers (I stupidly forgot about that ( Read more... )

I was watching ABC News when they aired a report on people's perception of what type of being they believe God is. According to a study by researchers at Baylor, it breaks down into four categories: benevolent, authoritive, distant, and... well, I don't remember the last one because, frankly, I wasn't all that interested.

What I DID find ( Read more... )

I'm sure everyone knows by now, what with the ads and occasional pimping on the blog, that I sell anime stuff on eBay (not so much anymore) and Bonanzle (my go to place right now). Usually I buy large lots of stuff from Japan to save on shipping, then sell them individually. This helps make things affordable, but the problem I run into is that I ( Read more... )

Out of all the anime out there, there are two I have a deep obsession with: Battle Athletes and Urusei Yatsura. While my collection on the latter is severely lacking, my hoard on the former is pretty impressive.

One of the things I've been struggling to find are the remaining cards in the trading card set. There were two sets of cards released: ( Read more... )

Apparently they feel they aren't prepared to meet FUnimation's needs. This is interesting and I have no idea what the potential outcome would be. Could Crunchyroll buy it, as someone in the comments suggested? If so, does that mean downloads only, virtually eliminating a huge chunk of the anime DVD market and possibly killing that portion of the ( Read more... )

Interesting stuff happening in the world of anime this past week.

On a recent episode of the ANNCast, the CEO of Bang Zoom! Entertainment (a company that handles dubbing for games, anime, and more) essentially said that Bandai was one failed release away from stopping dubs altogether. This is after, of course, the same CEO said the anime industry ( Read more... )

Anime on DVD has a short but interesting article regarding the changes the industry is going through, wrapping up with a plea from the president of Bang Zoom! Entertainment (they make English language versions for folks).

I've been out of the loop for a while now, but have watched as the industry seems to crumble around itself. I've been saddened ( Read more... )

Watch this...

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...then watch this:

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I apologize.

You may not recognize the name, but you're likely familiar with his work, especially among anime circles.

Carl Macek has passed away due to a heart attack. Macek is responsible for Robotech, the Americanized re-dubbing and edited version of three different Macross series. It was viewed as almost a show of it's own rather than a dubbed version, ( Read more... )