Posted by: sidereeldom on: October 1, 2010
Fresh off of the success of boobs ‘n’ brawls ‘n’ brains anime High School of the Dead, The Anime Network has acquired the streaming rights to boobs ‘n’ brawls ‘n’ bushido series Samurai Girls. Based on a popular figure series and subsequent multimedia blitz, the series promises pretty much the exact same things that High [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 30, 2010
Well, we have our first look at the new Super Robot Wars OG series ready, and I’m cautiously optimistic. While it’s pretty awesome seeing the Alt Eisen and the Weissritter in action again, the character designs are pretty lackluster. I have low expectations Super Robot Wars anime based on how badly Divine Wars went, so [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 9, 2010
Aaand, just when you thought that a new wave of mecha anime was going to sweep away all the ills of the anime world, we also got news over the weekend that the plotless blob of lesbians known as Kämpfer is going to have a new show. In case you forgot, last year’s Kämpfer was [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 30, 2010
FUNimation is always good for a truckload of announcements at an anime convention, and they didn’t disappoint at this year’s Otakon. At its panel in Baltimore, they announced a handful of series that should please all segments of the fan population. For the ladies, they have Hetalia World Series, the third season of the uber-popular [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 22, 2010
Update: The Super Robot Wars official anime page is up, and gives the new anime a fall season start date! What’s this I see on the Internet? A new Super Robot Wars OG series that takes place after the overly-political Divine Wars series? And it’s subtitled The Inspector, just like the first villains of OG2? And [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 21, 2010
Presented for your consideration: Hirano Kohta from High School of the Dead: He’s a fat, sharpshooting otaku with a glasses fetish and a yen for military hardware. Also presented for your consideration: Hirano Kouta, the author of Hellsing, as of his appearance at Anime Expo in 2005: Back then, when they announced the Hellsing Ultimate [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: May 17, 2010
Well, they can’t all be hits. FUNimation’s weekend announcements at Anime Central only really generated excitement if you like boobs. If you do, hot dog - Sora no Otoshimono and both Rosario x Vampire seasons are coming your way in English next year, courtesy of FUNimation. The two fan service-crazy shows highlighted a relatively weak crop of [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 31, 2010
Thanks to Kadokawa’s YouTube channel, you can now see a sneak preview of the zombie series Highschool of the Dead, due to come out later this year. Based on the survival action manga by Satou Daisuke and Satou Shouji, the anime has a pretty solid staff already, with director Araki Tetsuo (Death Note) and screenwriter [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 29, 2010
The TAF trailer for Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls is now live on the official anime site, and it looks exactly like you’d expect it to look. The site is made with Flash, so I can’t link it directly – to see the borderline unsafe for work trailer, click on the 動画 link on the right [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: March 18, 2010
The freakish tableau you see above is a diorama created by store employees at Gamers in Akihabara. I’ve always loved the crazy little displays they put up to advertise upcoming products or just mess with people (one of my all-time favorites is repurposing School Days‘ infamous “There’s no one inside” for a reminder about bathroom [...]
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