Posted by: sidereeldom on: September 29, 2010
With the Fall season only days away, we have a couple of new trailers to build anticipation. First, the Arakawa Under the Bridge 2 trailer offers another look at the crazy lives of the outcasts who live under the bridge, while actually showing animated footage unlike the other freaky-ass trailers. Meanwhile, the semi-autobiographical and industry-savvy [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: September 24, 2010
Those of you who watched Lucky Star may remember Anime Tenchou, a suspiciously hot-blooded presence in an otherwise sprouting series. Well, it’s his tenth anniversary of being the mascot for the Animate store chain, and for some reason, UFOtable has been enlisted to animate a crossover anime between Anime Tenchou and the uber-popular Touhou shooting [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: September 15, 2010
WARNING: The audio on this video is only mildly safe for work! Alchemist, which is mostly an 18+ port and license company (they released the console version of Koihime Musou, for example), announced one of the weirdest titles in years yesterday: Gal Gun. Based on a pun between Gan (gun) and Gan (eyeball), it’s the [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: September 9, 2010
You have to be in a certain state of mind to enjoy Arakawa Under the Bridge, and watching a man in a star mask playing the guitar certainly sets the mood well. The official site has posted a brief trailer for the upcoming second season, which as usual tells you nothing about what will actually [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 11, 2010
I’ve been reading the To Aru Majutsu no Index novels recently, and while it’s a rough grind for someone who’s not quite fluent – I now know how to talk about muscular dystrophy, medieval gnosticism, quantum uncertainty, and vector mathematics in Japanese thanks to volume 3 – I’m enjoying the hell out of it. In [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 5, 2010
You read that right – Nyarlathotep is getting her(?!) very own TV anime series. The Lovecraftian comedy Haiyore! Nyaruko-san has graduated from light novels to Flash anime, and now is on the fast track to broadcast. The series is a strange little comedy about an Elder God who takes on human form as a cute [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: August 4, 2010
Pixel Mari-tan started as a Moetan-style joke book about teaching Japanese students the kind of English you learn in boot camp. Most of its English lessons came straight from R. Lee Ermey’s mouth, for crying out loud. But the military-obsessed comedy kept growing in popularity, and now they have released a manga with the blessing [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: July 28, 2010
By now, most of you should be familiar with the Japanese practice of gijinka, where various objects and programs are turned into cute girls or prettyboys. It’s pretty standard now, but Choujigen Game Neptune (Superdimensional Game Neptune) has taken this to an all-new high – or low, depending on your perspective on the trend. Choujigen Game [...]
Posted by: sidereeldom on: June 28, 2010
In news that surprises no one in particular, Shaft’s screwball comedy Arakawa Under the Bridge is heading for another 13-episode run in the near future. There are two reasons that this isn’t much of a surprise: one, Arakawa was one of the few truly watchable shows of this forgettable anime season. Two, the current 13 episodes [...]
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