FUNimation’s 2010 Roll-out Riot: Day 1 FUNimation starts the new year by announcing they have “acquired 15 films from the Kung Fu Masters the Shaw Brothers.” Not really my thing since I’m not into kung fu stuff nor Chinese stuff (just a matter of personal tastes is all). However, I did notice the reaction of
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FUNimation Announcements at New York Anime Festival
September 25th, 2009 
AstroNerdBoy 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
Time for men-only train cars in Japan?
June 19th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Time for men-only train cars in Japan? I got a chuckle out of this Reuters article about how the fear of being accused as a groper/molester on trains in Japan is supposedly starting to bring about a call for male-only train cars. Thanks to legitimate groping/molesting incidents on trains, rush hour in Japan already sees
“Ah! My Goddess” Manga Wins Award
May 25th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy “Ah! My Goddess” Manga Wins Award CuSO4 informs us that “AMS [sic] was selected as the winner in the General Department of the 33rd Annual Kodansha Manga Award. A bronze trophy plus one million yen will be presented to Fujishima-sensei on 6/22 at Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, Tokyo.” Other winners include Meitantei Yumemizu Kiyoshirou Jiken
“Yakuza hard hit by economic downturn”
May 22nd, 2009 AstroNerdBoy “Yakuza hard hit by economic downturn” Yes friends, even the yakuza are having a tough time during this current recession (which reminds me, whatever happened to the talk of us going into a depression?). Why these guys are forced to resort to petty crimes and to give up the expensive lifestyle because things are tough
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
Another Live-Action Anime Title — Bubblegum Crisis
May 14th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Another Live-Action Anime Title — Bubblegum Crisis The stream of live-action adaptations of anime titles continues, this time the old-school Bubblegum Crisis is on the table (Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 being the reboot, but I don’t think it is being considered). I knew of Bubblegum Crisis when I was in Japan and I’m sure saw
Better Archive Those Old GeoCities Anime Sites
April 26th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Better Archive Those Old GeoCities Anime Sites It has been reported in many places that Yahoo is going to close down GeoCities, that now ancient-of-days free homepage hosting site that so many people used back in the 90’s when the Internet was new, fresh, and exciting. In recent years, I’m not sure how many people
