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This week we took a look at anime games. Their effect on the various series they represent and if they’re any good. We also chimed in on how games become anime and anime become games. It was a good gamer fest all around.News:

A live action Lupin the Third series is in production in the Philippines. (Link) The results of the 6th Annual Tokyo Anime Awards have been announced. (Link) Bandai finally plans on releasing anime on HD-DVD and BluRay formats in the form of Freedom. (Link) Production I.G plans its 20th anniversary project, Ghost Hound. (Link) Speed is cast for the live action Speed Racer movie. (Link) Bandai Visual announces a Dragonball MMO for release in Japan in 2008. (Link)

Releases:

Anime

Basilisk (Vol. 6)
Bleach (Vol. 3)
Coyote Ragtime Show(Vol. 2)
Ergo Proxy (Vol. 3)
GaoGaiGar(Vol. 4)
Hikaru no Go (Vol. 7)
Kidou Shinsengumi Moeyo Ken(Vol. 2)
Naruto (Vol. 10/ Dub Only)
Rumbling Hearts (Vol. 3)
Zipang - Attack on G Island (Vol. 4)
Anime Box

Burst Angel
Samurai 7

Manga

Kurogane (Vol. 4)
Parasyte (Vol. 1)
School Rumble (Vol. 5)
The Wallflower (Vol. 11)
Review:

Gene finished off Gundam month with Gundam 0080. While the UC Gundam universe holds a special place here in the podcast. While 0080 lacks in full artistic talent, the short 6 episode series is great to put a nice light on the Zeon and civilians who are in the One Year War. While you don’t get to know the characters as much as you like to you, you know enough to feel their pain. Big faults lie in its lack of length of a series and sometimes dry character development. 7 out of 10 was our score.
Extra Drop:

While we didn’t get a tangable sort of Youtube or digg story type of extra drop this week. We were extended an invitation to the Anime Cons Mailing List which is a mailing list which talks about anime conventions across the country and other various aspects of anime promotion in the country. We are honored to be on this list.

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We sat around and talked about where we find our anime and anime accessories. We covered the stores, the websites, the cons, the guys on the street. We also go on about what kinda anime we’ve got on our shelves and the kind of anime stuff we got hanging around.

News:

Funimation expands their iTunes store with Gunslinger Girl and Basilisk. (Link) Cartoon Network continues to air MAR and The Prince of Tennis. 4Kids annoucess their fourth quarter earnings. (Link) Anime Channel picks up 5 cities in Texas. (Link) Bandai picks up Galaxy Angel AA. (Link) And a new Bokusatsu Tenshi is scheduled for release in Japan. (Link)

Releases:

Anime

.hack//Roots (Vol. 1)
AM Driver (Vol. 2)
Black Cat (Vol. 3)
Clockwork Fighters Hiwou’s War (Vol. 2)
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (Vol. 7)
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny + Artbox (Vol. 7)
Tactics (Vol. 4)
The Law of Ueki - Ultimate Sacrifices (Vol. 6)
Utawarerumono - In the Face of Evil (Vol. 2)

Anime Box

Immortal Grand Prix - Season 2 Box Set (Toonami Version) (Box)
Scrapped Princess - Complete Collection (Anime Legends) (Box)

Manga

Buddha - Ananda(Vol. 6)
Case Closed (Vol. 16)
Fullmetal Alchemist (Vol. 12)
MÄR (Vol. 12)
Phoenix (Vol. 10)

Review:

Gene sat down and talked about SD Gundam, as part of Gundam month. This fun quirky anime doesn’t use the same serious war time story line that all the other Gundam series use, nor does it use its similar animation styles. With various cameo mobile suits, funny dialogue and entertaining story, this series walks away with a 7 out of 10.

Extra Drop:

We got a few more YouTube submissions for the Extra Drop. First we have the translation of South Park’s ninja episode song(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1s5VhOWH4A)
And back in November Saturday Night Live, TV Funhouse parodied DBZ by having Kobayashi, the winner of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest, as a Goku-esque figure. It’s just as ridiculous as the original DBZ. http://www.japanator.com/kobayashi-ball-z

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We went on to cover what we’re currently following, re-watching and otherwise checking out. Which led to interesting comparisons and otherwise good suggestions to what you might want to check out. Our suggestions were a tad all around so otherwise good.

News:

This week we took a look at Bandai Visual USA’s deal with Geneon. (Link), an all new Prince of Tennis OVA coming out in June. (Link), Hellsing OVA 3 finally has a release date, again. (Link) Funimation’s high market share and where everyone else fits in. (Link) A new Evangelion game out in Japan in June. Death Note(book) PC’s (Link) and a Live Action Speed Racer release date.
Releases:

Anime:

Best Student Council (Vol. 2)
Full Moon (Vol. 4)
Kyo Kara Maoh! (Vol. 2)
Makai Senki Disgaea (Vol. 2)
Michel (Vol. 6)
Trinity Blood (Vol. 5)

Anime Box:

Human Crossing - Brick Set
Stellvia - Complete Tin Set

Manga:

Arm of Kannon (Vol. 9)
Beck (Vol. 7)
Black Cat (Vol. 7)
Blazin’ Barrels (Vol. 8 )
Elemental Gelade (Vol. 3)
Firefighter!: Daigo of Fire Company M (Vol. 18 )
Gatcha Gacha (Vol. 4)
Girls Bravo (Vol. 7)
Ichigo Mashimaro (Vol. 3)
Kedamono Damono (Vol. 1)
Last Fantasy (Vol. 4)
Life (Vol. 4)
Metamo Kiss (Vol. 1)
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed X Astray (Vol. 2)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Ecole du Ciel (Vol. 5)
My-Hime (Vol. 2)
Never Give Up (Vol. 4)
Peppermint (Vol. 3)
Please Save My Earth (Vol. 21)
Rave Master (Vol. 23)
Read or Dream (Vol. 3)
Recast (Vol. 2)
Rose Hip Zero (Vol. 2)
Satisfaction Guaranteed (Vol. 3)
Soul to Seoul (Vol. 5)
Threads of Time (Vol. 9)
Trinity Blood (Vol. 2)
Tsukuyomi - Moon Phase (Vol. 6)
Warcraft (Vol. 3)
Yakitate!! Japan (Vol. 4)

Review:
We continue our month long look through Gundam. This week Gene brought in G Gundam for a look over. This alternate reality Gundam series which gives us a different perspective of competitive warfare. Despite its aged art style, its spectacular story kept me in to enjoying this series as much as its counterparts. We gave it the ol’ 8 out of 10.

Extra Drop:

Jason emails in with the extra drop. Some live action fun with two VA’s from Fullmetal Alchemist. First, Travis Willingham(Roy Mustang) chills out in The Anarchist Cookbook and Vic Mignogna apologizes for missing Metrocon last year, no worries hes supposed to be there this year.
Travis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhJGOtJmHy0
Vic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzMa29HaZAU

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Slight delay on Episode 10. We will be posting it up on Monday due to some studio changes.

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We covered our own personal passion for anime. Why we enjoy it, why we’re anime fans in the first place and what we look for on the horizon. Chris also jumps into a side rant regarding a certain 2 episode a month podcast and Gene answers an email on why we’re not covering The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya hardly at all.

News:

Sovereign Media, the company behind SciFi Magazine(official magazine of SciFi Network), is releasing a new anime based magazine called OtakuUSA. (Link), Four anime titles hit the Japanese top ten grossing films of 2006. (Link), Appleseed 2 Trailer released to the Appleseed PS2 game (Link, YouTube), Howl’s Moving Castle up against big names for a Nebula award (Link), Geneon delays Hellsing Ultimate until June and cancels a special edition for Paradise Kiss volume 3
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Review:

March starts a new niche review month for us… this month will be all Gundam reviews. Each week in March we will review a different Gundam series. This week Gene took a look at Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory. For its spectacular artwork, gripping story and fairly tolerable characters we gave it a 7 out of 10.

Please don’t send email regarding the ‘Zeon guy’ Gene forgot to name on the show. Its Anavil Gato… he remembered about 5 hours later. ^.^;

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We apologize for the delay in the release of this episode. It took a great deal of time and effort to restore this episode of SHAFT. Thank you for your patience. We also don’t thank Comcast for interrupting our podcast several times.
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New York Comic Con was this past weekend and we covered the various anime companies and their announcements. A.D Vision talked about their new system for releasing collectors edition sets, SGT. Frog, Fist of the North Star, Saint Seiya, funding anime in Japan and ADVUniverse.com. Bandai’s licensing of Flag, the anime about a flag. Funimation’s announcement of the Tsubasa cast. Viz Media’s release of the Naruto Movie and OVA, MAR’s move to full time Toonami and fall DVD release, Zatch Bell’s move to Toonami Jetstream, and a lack of details about Death Note. We also covered the winners of the American Anime Awards. How right were we:

Gene won out with 6 out of 12 correct, Chris with 5 out of 11 and poor Matt got one.

Most of our news was movie related. First off, Blood+ comes to Adult Swim on March 10th at 12:30AM. (Link) Evangelion movie teaser trailer released. (Link) Galaxy Railways movie coming out in Japan on March 24th. (Link) New Appleseed movie is set for release in Fall 2007. Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles set for a sequel according to director, Tommy Yune. (Link)

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Anime:

Anime Box:

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Extra Drop:

We love to browse around the internet and find the coolness of the internet. This week we ended up with some other manga artists renditions of Akira Toriyama’s Dragonball. Check it out here, it is totally cool and a peak on how the Dragonball universe could be.

Review:

Chris took a look at UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie this week. He was unimpressed with this space fantasy pointing out various things we’ve seen done better elsewhere. Still something to enjoy on the rental pile. We gave it a 4.5 out of 10.

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