The official Gyakuten Kenji site has been updated! There's now two promo videos up. OMG, finally.

Also, for those interested in such things Canned Dogs has a post up about some readership data on a few Ichijensha magazines like Comic Zero-Sum (Saiyuki RELOAD, Loveless) and Yuri Hime.

Finally, also via Canned Dogs, looks like there'll be a Lucky ( Read more... )

GoLion is finally up for pre-order! Go, oh you lovers of robots, and do it! If you're in the first 60 to pre-order (I think I managed it) you get a free mousepad with the villains! Mmm, angry Prince Sincline on my mousepad.

Also, the new gigantic Mandarake tower opens tomorrow! Or maybe today, I forget with the whole international dateline ( Read more... )

Apparently Microsoft/Xbox 360 fail and fail again. Gee, what a surprise, Microsoft's decision to sell an HDD-less console is coming back to bite them in the ass. The issue of royalties for XBLA hasn't been finalized yet, but I won't be all that surprised if it's true. If it is, we may see a fairly large exodus of developers over to PSN network, ( Read more... )

Many of you may have seen already, but Himeya has recently worked with AkibaBlog to deliver AkibaBlog English version! The original is one of the best sources for news about otaku interests and culture in Akihabara, so having it available to people with no or limited (like me) Japanese skill is great news. It looks like all posts will be translated ( Read more... )

Apparently Viz is pitching some interesting things to TV executives.

This doesn't mean any of these will get picked up, but I'm hopeful. I think that if Americans outside the anime market are willing to watch an animated program, Monster could do very well. It's extremely well done and that sort of serial killer thriller narrative is pretty ( Read more... )

Back from AWA, I'm still pretty exhausted. The con was tiring, since there's always a ton of things to do at AWA, but it's also worth it for the great people you get to meet and all the panels and other events they have going on. We got to hang out with a ton of other awesome fans, like ninjaconsultant's Erin and Noah, as well as ali_wildgoose, all the Dessloktoberfest gang, ( Read more... )

Looks like iTunes is offering classic Tezuka anime! They've got the recent Phoenix series, the Black Jack OAVs (which I recapped most of a while ago), the 80s Astro Boy series, and I hear they also have some experimental Tezuka short pieces like Tales of a Street Corner ( Read more... )

So, bosses for MGS4 announced. Looks like these could be some pretty sweet fights in order, and I rather like the designs so far. Crying Wolf sort of gives me Silent Hill flashbacks though, just minus looking like you'd need a tetanus shot after getting within 5 feet ( Read more... )

Geneon's announced two box set collections for Hajime no Ippo aka Fighting Spirit. The first box will have episodes 1-40, while the second will contain episodes 41-75 plus the Champion Road special. Sadly, still no Kimura v. Mashiba special.

The sets retail for about $80, but right now Right Stuf has them available for pre-order at $60 each. They ( Read more... )

So I didn't really post about the whole Strikethrough dust-up because, well, this sort of thing happens periodically in fandom, and it seemed to get resolved fairly quickly after the fandom masses started complaining. But for the record: suspending a ton of journals for being pedophiles when they're completely not, without a thorough check (whether ( Read more... )