Here’s a complete random video for you today:

We seem to be on a Weird Al streak thus far, this time.. FLCL.

Anime: FLCL
Song: Alternative Polka- Weird Al Yankovic

Breaking on the wire is the announcement of a new Black Lagoon series. This was confirmed by a wrap around ad in Japan around the first novel based on the anime series. This series will most likely take off from the events seen in Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage.

Funimation recently picked up Black Lagoon and Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage from Geneon USA and will be releasing it on August 19th of this year(Don’t sent emails because I said “first week of September” on the podcast this week).

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Earlier in the year, Animeondvd.com was bought up by Mania Entertainment. When the announcement broke, it was determined that the site would retain its staff and design. This was changed earlier in the week.

AoD is now linking directly to mania.com/anime with a whole new, and rather clunky looking interface.

One can only hope that the original vision and enjoyment of the site holds through the change in interface.

Since we think Digital Distribution is the wave of the future, we thought we’d point out some of the latest anime offerings on the internet.

Viz-

Joining Funimation and Manga Entertainment, Viz has put up some of their series for download on iTunes. Bleach, Death Note and Naruto are the first of the Viz series to show up.

I think it’d be fun if we could see other Viz series that are classics(such as Ranma 1/2 or Inuyasha) or something cutting edge(such as Eyeshield 21 or Hikaru no Go). Hopefully there will be expansion on this.

Funimation-

The big Funimation announcement actually comes from Sony out of E3. Sony announced the opening of their Sony Entertainment Playstation Store. The store allows you to download videos for their Playstation 3(PS3) and Playstation Portable(PSP) platforms.

No specific titles were mentioned however, we’ll be updating this post with them once one of our PS3 enabled contributors is available.

Overseas, BONES studio will also be releasing exclusive content specifically for the Playstation Store.

Sorry to do this to all of you yet again but there is going to be a delay for show #74…

I hope to get it up later this night but if not it will be here tomorrow.