With the recent changes that have come about, it's gotten me wondering about the future of the US anime / manga industry. No more releases will be coming from Bandai - some of their anime series may be available through other carrier or directly on the Japanese BDs with English subtitles, but it's going to be very hit-or-miss. Their manga is ( Read more... )

More than 30 years after its initial release in Japan and 12 years after my initial exposure to the original Kidou Senshi Gundam, the United States finally got a release of the original TV series in uncut Japanese with English subtitles. Bandai released it as "Mobile Suit Gundam Complete Collection" (parts 1 & 2), but the "complete" should ( Read more... )

I've said for years that the internet enables people who have no business making public statements (or, in some cases, even interacting with human beings - and note that I didn't say "other" human beings). With the Sony PSN fiasco, this is becoming more apparent yet again. Let's take a short look at this from a rational standpoint, shall we ( Read more... )

I'm not even sure where to begin right now, given how many stray thoughts keep wandering in and out of the dining carriage of my train of thought (dining area because I'm hungry, even though there's pizza taunting me in the other room, but bad acid reflux keeping me in this one). And before anyone complains, that was NOT a run-on sentence; it had ( Read more... )

After waiting for two years, the new season of Doctor Who is finally airing, and it's turned out to be extremely good, much better than I honestly expected. I mean, after last year's specials, the show lost its head writer who revived it after a long hiatus, its Doctor (who is the first since 1980 who beat out Tom Baker in fan popularity!), its ( Read more... )

Very seldom do I see a movie which compels me so to write about it. In this case, I refer to the screen adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, the book of which was written in 1977. Honestly, I probably would have written this after finishing the book, had I not been so tired at that point in time that I wasn't capable of forming coherent ( Read more... )

A while back, I complained about the lack of full-length OP & ED songs on OSTs, and songs which sounded like they were written for a TV edit and then had another verse tacked on (sometimes done better than others ( Read more... )

In a surprising and unprecedented move, the Japanese government has named the long-time famous character Doraemon as the "anime ambassador" for the country! During the ceremony when they announced it, a person wearing a human-sized Doreamon costume was given a large, heaping plate of Doraemon's favorite food ( Read more... )

First off, what kind of phrase is that, anyway? Is the license drowning or in a burning building or something? Please. There's been a lot of talk about FUNimation's possibly licensing titles which were being released by Geneon. Here's what I think about it ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who thinks it's totally wrong to have payday fall on the 15th, when your significant other is going to be expecting something nice on the 14th? I have a feeling that credit card companies are going to make a killing on that day this year for that very reason.

Any, putting that idea
aside …. For another completely random topic, I ( Read more... )