Panel: Gene, Chris, Mattieu

News:

• Bandai Visual Japan confirms a release schedule for HD-DVD and BluRay releases of their major properties. (Link)
• ADV aquires licence to The Wallflower, annouced by "NabeShin" himself. (Link)
• Miyazaki wins himself a Nebula script award for Howl’s Moving Castle (Link)
• Anime Network starts a British Revolution with a two hour programing block (Link)
• Otaku USA hits magazine shelves on June 5th
• DBZ Season 1 the best seller in anime this year so far

Main Topic:

In our wonderful inbox we got a nice article about how not to bust the bank when going to an anime convention. It has some nice points we can pick in and out. We just had our anime convention fun but there are a lot who still haven’t. So we used our wealth of experience to put this article to the test and try and save you some cash when heading out to the convention of your choice. (Link)

Releases:

Anime:

Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (Vol. 1)
Dragon Ball Z - Season 2 Uncut(Box)
Afro Samurai - Uncut (Vol. 1/Dub Only)
Doki Doki School Hours(Box)

Review:

Gene took a suggestion and reviewed one of his personal favorites, Outlaw Star. This brilliant series follows an space outlaw and his adventures with his new found space ship, the Outlaw Star. This 26 episode series looks beautiful and gives you a nice here and now story with sadly little backstory into the interesting universe that is Outlaw Star. Many other wonderful series follow suit with little back story and they do fine, this one does to. We also mentioned that there were quite a lot of writers and still turned out wonderful. We couldn’t help give this series 9/10.

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