Anime Diet

From ANN – Navarre: Funimation Exceeds Q1 Expectations in Sales (Updated) …corporate parent of the anime licensing and distribution company…Chief Executive Officer…credited the results to Funimation’s… Ray’s Take: hey you know, someone’s doing well. Quit moaning and see if lessons can be learned from their model. Krauser III’s Take: It was I orchestrating things behind [...]

Did I see the eye of death? Well, not quite. I did see the eye of omni-tracking.

Part 1 is here. Kikuko Inoue is a famous seiyuu associated with many popular anime. Her past performances include Belldandy of Aa Megami-Sama, Kasume Tendou in Ranma 1/2, Rune Venus in El-Hazard, Kazami Mizuho in Onegai Teacher, Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist, Miria in Claymore, Grace O’Connor in Macross Frontier, Akane in Higurashi, and Cecile in [...]

I wrote this on the train home from San Diego, at the conclusion of Comic-Con 2009. For me, this is the end of the con season; I don’t anticipate going to New York Anime Festival this year and it’s up in the air if I will return to Pacific Media Expo. Before I flood y’all [...]

In case you guys haven’t seen or heard of this one yet, see below. Don’t see the point? Play it over and over and over and over again. Get it on your players/phones/whatever and let everyone around you hear!  You should play it really loud in the rush hour and share the joy with everyone [...]

This is it folks–the official recording of our panel with Anime Genesis and How a Girl Figures at Anime Expo 2009, the Indecent Otaku Comedy Hour! If you missed it, this is what happened. Enjoy!

Scores Animation: 90% Music: 95% Voice Acting (dub): 85% Story: 89% Overall: 88% See explanation of scores below. Ponyo is Hayao Miyazaki’s most joyous film since Porco Rosso, and the purest evocation of childhood he’s done since My Neighbor Totoro. After flirting with darker and more surreal themes in the past several films since Princess [...]

6:34 PM – people are still filing in. Looks like this will be a popular panel. 6:39 PM – Lantis is putting anime music on iTunes US. Haruhi OST, Shuffle, Oneigai Teacher, Hirano Aya, JAM Project, etc. 6:40 PM – why is it that Powerpoint presentations rarely come off smoothly? Kannagi, of course, was revealed [...]

Mike is currently at San Diego Comic Con! Follow @gendomike for live minute-by-minute updates. We got free wifi here too, courtesy of Google–so expect some occasional liveblogging too. Thanks for saving me about $50, Google! Getting my press badge was surprisingly fast–I waited barely 5 minutes in line. I don’t think I’ll be going to [...]

From ANN – Osaka Abandons Totoro Lawn Art Due to Copyright Issues (Updated) …city of Osaka has decided…authorized by the copyright holders. The lawn art is located…A man erected… Ray’s Take: well, it seems like Ghibli really doesn’t give a fuck about people erecting them. I wonder what that old tree-hugging hippie thinks about that?

For those of us real men that crave some real feminine action (if you didn’t know this already) – Queen’s Blade Second Season Due Soon Krauser III’s Take: The demon king has arisen and so has his schlong! The King Kong of schlongs aches and waits impatiently for those bitches to deliver their flesh to [...]

Kikuko Inoue is a famous seiyuu associated with many popular anime. Her past performances include Belldandy of Aa Megami-Sama, Kasume Tendou in Ranma 1/2, Rune Venus in El-Hazard, Kazami Mizuho in Onegai Teacher, Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist, Miria in Claymore, Grace O’Connor in Macross Frontier, Akane in Higurashi, and Cecile in Code Geass: Lelouch of [...]