I arrived safely at datacat's place around 5:00 p.m. last night with minimal traffic problems, just a very agitated spine.  The first thing I did after giving her a hug was to lay on the couch and settle for a while before cooking myself a small dinner.  It wasn't quite enough this time, and neither of us could resist the temptation of sushi delivery, so ( Read more... )

There is nothing in this announcement on io9 which makes me happy:Variety reports that Reeves will take the role of Spike Spiegel, one of the two leads in the series that followed the bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop through space in the year 2071. The movie adaptation will be written by Peter Craig, and produced by Reeves' Day The Earth ( Read more... )

sixteenbynine and I are discussing the possibilities of starting a podcast for AMN Anime (soon to be Eastern Images). We have a few contacts we can make to try and get some guests onto the cast, but I thought I'd post a note here in case anyone might have additional contacts that may be helpful. A lot of you get to go places and meet people I don't, so if you ( Read more... )

Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles:  It's nothing fantastic, but it's Robotech; the pace seems a little rushed, but it's a fun space-opera romp that seeks continuation.  (8.0/10)

Origin ~Spirits of the Past~:  A beautifully rendered philosophical piece that loses its way toward the end, trading the meaningful approach in favor of senseless over-the- ( Read more... )

Sunday quickly became another late start that was delayed even further by datacat and I both forgetting our badges. I sent a text to sixteenbynine so he knew I'd be late, and waited for datacat to make a mad dash to the apartment and back to the train station, since my Metro card didn't have enough trips for me to leave and come back. We arrived at the convention around 1:00 ( Read more... )

Got back to NJ from NYC today after a fun weekend with datacat, sixteenbynine, and a few hundred people at the New York Anime Festival. The trip began with me heading to NJ to spend a couple days with the family before heading to NY, and I ran out of gas on the way there. The gas gauge on my car is broken and more expensive than worthwhile to fix, but my car ran out ( Read more... )

Thursday was a day of preparation, running through the schedules and packing to leave.  The local Metro station has free parking, so I took the train from one end of the line almost to the other and spent some time with rejoicingapathy and tomashko while I waited for some friends to arrive a couple hours later.  Much as we had the previous year, we went for some sushi ( Read more... )

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Last year, Hideaki Anno - creator of Shinseiki Evangelion - officially announced a project known as Rebuild of Evangelion, a coproduction of Gainax and Anno's own Studio Khara.  The project is a retelling of the original story with all new animation, new characters, and an entirely new ending, to be released as four, feature-length films.  The goal ( Read more... )