At the New York Anime Festival FUNimation Industry Panel, FUNimation announced that they have licensed X and X OVA. This is another Geneon license rescue and will use the original dub. Thanks to Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-, I do have some mild interest in seeing the anime adaptation of CLAMP’s X, but I don’t think I
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FUNimation Asks, "Would you like ‘Sailor Moon’ redubbed?" (Oh, and some other titles too.)
May 20th, 2009 
AstroNerdBoy On FUNimation’s blog, they are doing a survey to see which anime titles you’d be interested in seeing them license. Among the choices are redub of Sailor Moon. ^_^ I know there has been keen interest in bringing Sailor Moon back to the U.S. since all the rights were pulled from ADV. Now, this doesn’t
FUNimation Gets Some Old School Anime! (oh, and some not so old school stuff too)
April 3rd, 2009 AstroNerdBoy FUNimation Gets Some Old School Anime! (oh, and some not so old school stuff too) As reported on ANN, FUNimation is going to start a “digital distribution” of several titles including Air Master, Pretty Cure, Galaxy Express 999, Captain Harlock, Digimon Adventure 02, Slam Dunk, and Fist of the North Star. These will all be
FUNimation Hiring New Staff!
March 20th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy FUNimation Hiring New Staff! After the cuts in staff at the beginning of the year, FUNimation is now hiring again. Here are some openings for those interested. Systems Admin/SQL Development Accountant Marketing Brand Manager I asked about the jobs and FUNimation told me that, “…things are still rolling pretty good here. Anime is still selling
Save Me! Lollipop (FUNimation DVD Review)
February 24th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Mamotte! Lollipop (FUNimation DVD Review) まもって！ロリポップ Save Me! Lollipop ***SPOILERS*** Save Me! Lollipop is an anime based on the manga Mamotte! Lollipop (the original Japanese name) by KIKUTA Michiyo-sensei. The story centers around a young junior high school girl named Nina, who accidentally swallows what she thinks is a piece of hard candy that came
FUNimation Forums Down
February 3rd, 2009 AstroNerdBoy NOTE: This was from February 3, 2009, when I was the admin of FUNimation’s forums. Ah, those were the days. FUNimation forums are down. FUNimation is looking into the issue even as I write. I’ll make updates as I hear them. Update 1 (6pm MT): A technician has been dispatched to work the issue. Site
FUNimation Breaks Out the EVA Units by Licensing "Evangeion 1.0"
January 1st, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Well, as expected, FUNimation has now licensed the movie Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone. I’m most certainly looking forward to getting to watch this movie, having enjoyed the original TV series as a whole. This is a title that I could see FUNimation actually trying to get into theaters, at least for a short
Ha!Ha!Ha! FUNimation Has Fun With Wailing Fans and Licenses Soul Eater Anyway
December 31st, 2008 AstroNerdBoy FUNimation clearly had the clue laid out which indicated that they had Soul Eater. However, they threw everyone a curve with two distro-licenses for Geneon rather than announce Soul Eater as EVERYONE with an opinion figured. Oh the weeping and wailing and nashing of teeth that happened when Soul Eater didn’t appear with the previous
