Hey everyone! As many of you may have discovered today, my blogs were MIA. They’d been removed for apparent TOS violations but a deeper investigation showed that Blogger detected suspicious activities with the blogs and thus removed them. No further details were given as actually communicating with someone at Google about these things is almost
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FUNimation has License Rescued “Excel Saga!”


FUNimation has License Rescued “Excel Saga!” NJ_ on the FUNimation forums noticed that Amazon.com had posted a new page for Excel Saga: Complete Series and listed FUNimation has the studio. I’m VERY suspicious of entries like this since Amazon has been known to allow fake and bootleg pages to be posted. So, I pinged Adam

The Shock! Dirty Pair (TV) Got Licensed!


The Shock! Dirty Pair (TV) Got Licensed! So, I’m just getting myself together and planning to watch a few Dirty Pair TV episodes for blogging purposes when I notice that O-chan has dropped a comment telling me that Dirty Pair has been licensed. Since O-chan is a classic anime fan like myself, I knew the

"Negima!" Manga For Sale Again at Sasuga Bookstore!


Hey everyone. As you guys know, I’m a big fan of Akamatsu-sensei’s shounen manga Negima! Not only do I purchase the official English adaptations from Del Rey, but I also pick up the original Japanese tankoubons when I have a bit of extra money. To date, I’ve always purchased these from Sasuga Japanese Bookstore (I

FUNimation’s 2010 Roll-out Riot: Day 5 — Two More New Anime Titles


FUNimation’s 2010 Roll-out Riot: Day 5 — Two More New Anime Titles FUNimation ends its Roll-out Riot week by licensing two titles I’d actually heard of — Axis Powers Hetalia and The Sacred Blacksmith (aka: Seiken no Blacksmith). For Sacred Blacksmith, I came to know the series because of this humorous image. I love Chiaki

FUNimation’s 2010 Roll-out Riot: Day 4 — Two New Anime Titles


FUNimation’s 2010 Roll-out Riot: Day 4 — Two New Anime Titles FUNimation scores two anime titles I’d never heard of — the TV series Jyushin Enbu Hero Tales and Master of Martial Hearts (aka: Zettai Shougeki ~Platonic Heart~), a five-episode ecchi OVA series. Jyushin Enbu looks like a typical shounen action series and since the

FUNimation’s 2010 Roll-out Riot: Day 3 — A License Rescue


FUNimation’s 2010 Roll-out Riot: Day 3 — A License Rescue With day three, FUNimation returns to anime and a license rescue, this time of the six-episode wacky OVA series FLCL, aka: Fooly Cooly. I remember watching this back when it appeared on Cartoon Network (one of the last dubs I’d watch). This was one insane

FUNimation’s 2010 Roll-out Riot: Day 2 — Still No Anime


In their second day of the 2010 Roll-out Riot, FUNimation announced two more live-action movies, bringing a total of seventeen new licenses to FUNimation’s library and neither of them anime. The first is Kamui (aka: Kamui Gaiden) and the second is RoboGeisha. Kamui Gaiden looks kind of interesting to me, so I might check that