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!

(Press Release)

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:

In a bold move, Funimation has gone the route of heading to YouTube to place trailers, promo material and eventually full episodes. Of the titles Funi is planning on putting up we have… Blue Gender, Slayers, Peach Girl, Mushi-Shi, and Kiddy Grade announced thus far.

While Funimation is citing they’re the first company attemping the YouTube waters… I believe ADV has been at this for a while.

I look forward as to how this will work for Funimation but it seems they learned something from their Japanese counterparts… after complaining about video streaming sites.

However, it looks nice thus far. I’ve never been a fan of Funimation’s trailers but this seems like a nice way to get out their other media.

If you’re interested, check it out.