Panel: Gene, Matt, Chris

News:

Grave of the Fireflies to be Made as Live-Action Film (Link)
Gunslinger Girl’s Second Season Officially Announced (Link)
Sony Brings Anime Channel to Africa (Link)
ADV Takes Over Geneon’s Sales, Marketing, Distribution (Link, Press Release)

Main Topic:

We talked about the implications and advantages of the ADV and Geneon partnership. We enjoyed the announcement and talked about what we thought may happen, hope will happen and what may go wrong.

Releases:

Anime:

The Story of Saiunkoku (Vol. 1)
Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (Vol. 3)

Manga:

ES (Vol. 6)
Gacha Gacha: The Next Revolution (Vol. 4)

Review:

Chris and Gene reviewed Love Hina. For a change, its a series we could argue about. Gene enjoyed this fine series and found it entertaining and Chris thought he was at the dentist while watching this harem series. While Gene enjoyed the nice visuals and witty gags(at least the first couple of times), Chris couldn’t stand the lack of deep plot and horrible dub and english translation(actually Gene hates the dub too). While looking pretty, it ends up in the cliche catagory pretty fast. If you don’t mind harem humor drilled into your head enjoy this series… with the subtitles on. We gave it a 7……………………………… out of 10.

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We talked about Genshiken last show, but we can’t seem to stay off the topic.

Ramen Tenshi Pretty Menma (Ramen Angel Pretty Menma), the fictional game played by the otaku characters within the Genshiken manga world, will itself be adapted as manga. Media Factory’s Monthly Comic Alive magazine will start serializing Norio Shiroi’s manga adaption of Shimoku Kio’s fiction-within-fiction creation in its November issue (on sale September 27). The official website for Pretty Menma made the announcement on August 27, two weeks after the website opened. The second series of the Genshiken anime will premiere on October 12 in Japan.

Seems pretty cool to me, it would be nice to hopefully see it here too. Now if only they can do the same for that anime series from within Genshiken….

Panel: Gene, Chris, Matt

News:

Viz Media to distribute Bleach Digitally (Link)
Man Fined for Importing Hentai… In Australia (Link)
MapleStory to receive Anime Treatment (Link)
Mattel Recalls One Piece Figures (Link)

Main Topic:

We sat down and talked about anime clubs and how they are viewed by everyone. We talked about how anime clubs are more seriously taken and abundant in Japan compared to the US. As brief as it was, we took a jump into what we thought an anime club could be for a potential club member or organizer.

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Releases:

Anime:

Fate/Stay Night (Vol. 5)
School Rumble (Vol. 1)
Big O II (Box)

Manga:

Fullmetal Alchemist (Vol. 14)

Review:

Gene and Chris took a look at Genshiken. This wonderful out of the box, anime about otaku and the clubs that they have really took us by storm. The art style was quite unique and impressive voice acting really was enjoyable. The story was fairly nice and somewhat original, while there could have been more we found points we really could be bored with. As for music, not really existent. We gave this a nice 9/10.

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Panel: Gene, Matt, Chris, Angelo

News:

Japanese Anime Market Grew to 242 Billion Yen in 2006(Link)
Videos for Gonzo, Earthsea, Appleseed Sequel Posted(Link)
Death Note Spinoff Movie, Febuary 9 2008 (Link)
Ex Machina Showings to Add Devil May Cry, Tokyo Majin (Link)

Main Topic:

With the annoucement of ADV picking up Devil May Cry and Xenosaga in anime form, we got to thinking about some anime that we’d like to see made from video games. We have a pretty nice list and we’d like to share it with you and why video games to anime might be a lot better then video games to feature films.

Releases:

Anime:

Rumbling Hearts(Box)
.hack//ROOTS(Vol. 3)

Manga:

Fruits Basket(Vol. 17/Final)
Bleach(Vol. 20)

Review:

Gene took a look at Grenider. This kind of ‘Trigun with boobs’, has a little more then meets the eye… little more. While this series has stunning visuals and awesome fights, there was a mostly transparent plot with nothing that stands out from characters or the message. Enjoy this fun little series if you’re short on the green or need a good rental.

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We reported that Funimation has gone Blu-Ray, its first release… Brolly: The Legendary Super Saiyan and Brolly: Second Coming(as a double feature release). This was announced at Comic Con International this past weekend.

At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International, FUNimation Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Navarre Corporation, is announcing that it is bringing the next generation entertainment to anime fans and will release its first high-definition home entertainment product on Blu-ray disc. Dragonball Z blasts onto Blu-ray with two Broly movies: Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan and Broly: Second Coming, two of the largest selling DBZ movies of all time.

Personally why Funimation didn’t pick Origin or another stand alone movie to start with Blu-Ray is beyond me.