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More Blu-ray From FUNi

24. August 2008

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 [...]

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Jumpland

18. August 2008

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 [...]

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Ultimo Becomes an Anime

12. August 2008

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 [...]

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Bakuman Begins! Thoughts?

8. August 2008

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 [...]

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Bakuman Starts Next Week

4. August 2008

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 [...]

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Yen Plus, an In-Depth Look

4. August 2008

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.

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Quick Reminder: Gurren Lagann Airs Tonight!

28. July 2008

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.

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Cowboy Bebops to Live-Action

22. July 2008

Cowboy Bebops to Live-Action

Cowboy Bebop is now going to be the next anime to become live-action.  This was reported over at iFMagazine.com. This at least makes a little more sense than a live-action Dragon Ball movie.  I see it possible.  I am a little optimistic.  Definitely more optimistic than the Dragon Ball movie.  Though I must ask what is [...]

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Baccano Announced!

21. July 2008

Today on FUNimation’s Quickie update, Baccano! has been announced. Even better is the fact that they were nice enough to upload the first episode with English subtitles for everyone to stream. You can watch episode 1 at: http://funimation.com/baccano/. So hop aboard the Flying Pussyfoot and get ready for some fun!

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