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
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FUNimation Gets Some Old School Anime! (oh, and some not so old school stuff too)
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Japanese Astronaut Tests Stink-free Underwear
March 25th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Japanese Astronaut Tests Stink-free Underwear Japanese astronaut WAKATA Koichi (θ₯η° ε δΈ) is testing odor-free clothing on the International Space Station. The thought of wearing underwear for more than a day makes me go “Ugh!” but for the International Space Station where there are no laundry facilities, it makes sense. We were talking about it at
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
First "Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari" Trailer Up
November 20th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy For those interested, the first preview trailer of Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari is up on the official site. Just some of Kajishima-sensei’s concept art and what appears to be background images. http://www.seikishi.com/special/trailer1/index.html The character pages are also up on the site. I may have a ton of free time starting next week, but even if
Baka-Updates Forum HACKED!
November 17th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy Because there are losers in this world with nothing else better to do than to jack with what isn’t theirs, some idiot kid has hacked and trashed the Baka-Updates forum. The site has not been touched, which is the good news. Below are captures of the hacked forum and the message nitwit sent out to
Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari Website Up!
November 7th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy The AIC teaser site has been up for a while, but the domain site (http://seikishi.com/) has not worked for me. It works now and shows an official image for the anime. Looking good, y’all. ^_^ MASAKI Kenji Kenshi is the boy. Originally posted at astronerdboy.blogspot.com . If you are now reading this on another blog,
More Confirmation of Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari
November 6th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy ANN has a piece citing Moonphase which states that the December issue of Newtype has confirmed that the Tenchi spinoff Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari is in fact in production. I kinda thought we had that confirmation back in October, but likely this announcement is to get Newtype some extra sales from the Japanese Tenchi otaku.
Another Record Month (with a Record Day Too)
November 1st, 2008 AstroNerdBoy October’s stats show the continued rise of the old blog here to record heights, and this despite the fact that I’m reviewing two old school anime titles (Yamato 2 and Urusei Yatsura) which are not exactly big drawers (though they do get a few hits). Traffic is up over 7% from last month and a
