Just in case you didn’t already have 8 reasons for why you think the Dragonball live action movie is going to suck, Topless Robot gives you a nice long article on why you should hate the Dragonball Movie.

Some reasons are good such as “Goku looks more like Gohan”, “Creating New Characters. Some reasons are negligible such as “Americanized Music vs. Japanese Music” and some are stupid like “No Gratuitous Bulma Flashing” and “Making Yamcha and Yajorobie Cool”. It makes me think the original writers of the article have only watched Dragonball on Cartoon Network… with the Ocean Group dub.

(Article Link)

It has come to my attention that our fine podcast, blog and clown activity has been nominated in the Bloggers Choice Awards. We are nominated for Best Podcast and lets SHAFT the vote!

People who enjoy the show should go ahead and vote for us. Sadly, it requires a sign up with a valid email address but we hope that won’t keep you from voting and putting us on the top of the heap!

Hope you already picked up the following, because if you haven’t, ADV has discontinued their release:

* Best Student Council
* 5 Centimeters Per Second
* Innocent Venus
* Robotech

Its sad since things seem to be going from bad to worse for ADV.

We thought this time around we’d take a personal joke and throw it into AMV Alert!… lets see what happens.

Anime: Love Hina
Song: That’s Your Horoscope for Today - Weird Al Yankovic

Sorry for the delay in this episode and our next Full Series Review episode. We had some unforeseen technical difficulties and the FSR episode will be coming shortly.

This super sized episode saw us discussing all things Anime Expo 2008. From ADV’s lack of sneak preview, dub casts for Gurren Laggen and Ouran High School Host Club, Fansub roundtable, SPJA Awards… as one sided as they were, a new Eva manga here in the states from a different publisher then Viz, Big Bandai announcements that didn’t include Haruhi including Blu-Ray, Gundam and a certain anime license you might enjoy and wrapping it up with some Ghost in the Shell 2.0 and Clone Wars news.

After that we invited Walt in to talk about the big Funimation winner take all acquisitions. How it ends up being one of the most fan friendly business decisions in anime history. What we expected would happen to the titles and how ADV can stay afloat to rebuild thanks to this what we consider ‘bail out’.

All that plus as many lame jokes as you can stand.

Big thanks to Clint and other fine contributers who make this show better in their own unique and awesome ways!!

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Between catching up on 10 different anime series, producing audio content, pwning noobs in the World of Warcraft and having a fun regular ol’ life… Gene Marques, host and producer of Super Happy Anime Fun Time, brings you his unique slant on anime, manga, pop culture(Japanese and America), gaming and other assorted things on the mind of the young mind behind anime’s podcast sensation.

This week Gene’s talking about the lack of a good dub for fantasy anime, geeky related deaths, and Chrono Trigger to the DS.

Go Behind the Curtain

This weeks episode is going to be rather straight forward and news filled. I know how much people hate when we do an all news show filled with talk of revenue streams and the like but I expect it to be rather insightful and fun at the same time. However, we’d love your input!

If you have any thing to say or a take on anything that happened at Anime Expo, have a con report from Anime Expo or have something to say on the whole Funimation situation send a voice mail or an email in and we’d be happy to bring it up on the show. Sadly, any other voicemail or email is going to be brushed to next weeks episode.

Also, anyone looking for a review this week will be sad to know that we won’t be doing a review in this weeks episode. However, in the feed this week will be a Full Series Review SHAFT for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Next weeks episode will feature a double review of Batman: Gotham Knight and Gurren Laggen.

As always, if you want to catch the action LIVE check this blog at around 7pm Eastern(or earlier) and we will have our UStream feed ready to go.

Remember when I said I’d post more of the winners from the Anime Boston 2008 AMV contest once I found non handycam versions… found one! AMV Comedy winner: The Anime Network! And there is no Evangelion here… I promise.

Anime: Various
Music: Various

It seems the rumors have now become FACT! Established Geneon titles are now going to officially be handled by Funimation as of today. This is also going to include titles which were actively produced but not released on DVD including, Black Lagoon Second Barrage, Karin, Kyo kara Maoh! Season 2, and Lyrical Nanoha.

This is huge news as a large amount of anime will soon come back to the North American market once again. Did series you were collecting get cut off by the downfall of Geneon? Are you excited for the prospect of collecting series that were no longer available to you? Let us know! Contact us and let us know what you think!

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UPDATE(July 4):

Coming one day later after gaining a serious back log from Geneon, Funimation has acquired 30 titles previously licensed by ADV. These titles are from ARM Corporation in Japan and hold the original licenses. The majority of the titles are ones that were removed from ADV’s website back in January, and were later restored… only to be moved off again. The only title conspicuously absent from the list is 5cm per Second.

This is huge news for Funimation who has almost doubled their catalog of titles and bad news for ADV who has had nothing but set backs since the ADV/Geneon merger went sour. ADV is reporting out of AX they are in negotiations for a large amount of new titles however with news like this acquiring new titles may be easier said then done.

(Press Release)

Ever wonder how Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie sound dubbed in Japanese?

Well check out this video of The Simpson Movie trailer and find out: