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Japanese Comics And Cartoons Aren’t Just For The Nerds, Part 2

Sorry, I’ve been recently waylaid by other projects, but I’m finally back again with a few more esoteric recommendations this time. I’ve been trying to find mostly completed projects as having to wait for the story to finish is never fun. Though honestly, if you haven’t at least looked into everything I mentioned last time, [...]

Japanese comics and cartoons aren’t just for the nerds, Part 1

There’s a lot of public opinion that most of the shows and comics coming out of Japan, or even just Asia, are rather badly scripted and for little kids. Much of this opinion seems to be based on whatever was aired on Adult Swim or even Toonami, which really isn’t a good sample of what [...]

Sword of the Stranger Review

Kotaro is a young boy being chased by the Mings. With him is his dog, Tobimaru. Through their running and hiding they come across a nameless swordsman. Hired as a bodyguard, the nameless swordsman joins them. Meanwhile the Chinese army joins Japan’s forces to hunt the child whose blood is an ingredient to create eternal life (hey, it’s anime, so why not). Will Kotaro escape the Mings? Who exactly is this nameless swordsman? Should you watch this movie?

FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Subbed by FUNi

The second anime series for FullMetal Alchemist airs soon. It has been recently announced by FUNimation that they have acquired the rights to it. They will also stream the episodes with Japanese dialogue and English subtitles via funimation.com and other sites. So when will this take place? Well, the first episode [...]

New York Anime Festival Report

This weekend I went to NYAF, the New York Anime Festival, at the Javits Center in New York City. Here is a recap of what went on. There were some license announcements, industry panels, and merchandise to drain the wallet. It didn’t seem as big as last year, but with Geneon gone [...]

FullMetal Alchemist movie goes Blu

With an upcoming release from FUNimation, the disc contains a trailer for the FMA movie on Blu-ray. This was previously rumored, but is now confirmed. This title was previously announced for a release in Japan, but one would need to order a ridiculous box set to get it. I say ridiculous because [...]

More Blu-ray From FUNi

It seems that FUNimation has listed a few new titles for a planned Blu-ray release. In an upcoming Blu-ray release from FUNimation, the pamphlet inside has ads for some upcoming Blu-ray releases. One is Afro Samurai which is coming out next week. Of course you have more DBZ on the horizon, as [...]

Jumpland

For some time now Jumpland has been up and available in multiple languages.  One of which is English.  This is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Weekly Shonen Jump.  Here you can learn about the magazine itself as well as read manga online.  So if you are a fan of shonen manga, this is a [...]

Ultimo Becomes an Anime

Back in April, Shueisha’s magazine “Jump Square” had a chapter by Stan Lee and Hirokyuki Takei (Shaman King) called Ultimo.  You can actually find it translated in the September 2008 issue of Viz’s magazine, “Shonen Jump“.  The anime will be developed by Dream Ranch Japan.

Two other projects Stan Lee is involved with is Hero Man [...]

Bakuman Begins! Thoughts?

Well “Bakuman” chapter 1 is out.
To me, it doesn’t seem like it will amount to anything special. I am interested though because it is a different idea. I haven’t read a manga before on someone becoming a mangaka. I hope it lasts because I am for original ideas. It also looks [...]

Bakuman Starts Next Week

The latest issue of Japan’s Weekly Shonen Jump had a preview for a new series called Bakuman. What is Bakuman? It is a new manga from the team that created Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba (writer) and Takeshi Obata (artist). It will start in issue 37-38 of this year’s run of the Weekly [...]

Yen Plus, an In-Depth Look

A new monthly Japanese manga magazine has hit the shelves. Well, not fully Japanese manga, it also has Korean manhwa and original English manga.

Quick Reminder: Gurren Lagann Airs Tonight!

If you haven’t seen this show, I recommend that you check it out. It pierces the heavens with pure awesomeness.