Live-action “Full Metal Panic?” Say It Ain’t So! I see on Sci-Fi Wire that Mandalay Pictures now has the rights to create a Full Metal Panic motion picture. Hmmmm. Zac Efron is rumored to be attached to the project. Hmmmm. I’m all down for live-action adaptations but frankly, I don’t trust Hollywood to produce any
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Live-action “Full Metal Panic?” Say It Ain’t So!
April 7th, 2009 
AstroNerdBoy 
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Tags: Full Metal Panic, live-action, news 
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Japanese Child-robot with Biomimetic Body (CB2) — Come on, Chachamaru!
April 6th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Japanese Child-robot with Biomimetic Body (CB2) — Come on, Chachamaru! It is being reported in various places about the latest Japanese robotics project — Child-robot with Biomimetic Body, otherwise known as CB2. I’m always amazed at the staggering array of robotic projects coming out of Japan. While it does bring me to think of anime
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
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
FUNimation Breaks Out the EVA Units by Licensing "Evangeion 1.0"
January 1st, 2009 AstroNerdBoy FUNimation Breaks Out the EVA Units by Licensing Evangeion 1.0 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
Posted in Anime, AstroNerdBoy, Contributing Writers Tags: Evangelion, Evangelion 1.0, FUNimation, news 4 Comments »
Ha!Ha!Ha! FUNimation Has Fun With Wailing Fans and Licenses Soul Eater Anyway
December 31st, 2008 AstroNerdBoy Ha!Ha!Ha! FUNimation Has Fun With Wailing Fans and Licenses Soul Eater Anyway 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
FUNimation to Distribute Gungrave and Explains Why So Many License Rescues.
December 30th, 2008 AstroNerdBoy FUNimation to Distribute Gungrave and Explains Why So Many License Rescues. With FUNimation haven taken several titles completely away from Geneon, Geneon proves they are not totally out of the game as FUNimation only has a distribution license for Geneon’s Gungrave title. From a personal perspective, it is a little disappointing that FUNimation didn’t get
Posted in Anime, AstroNerdBoy, Contributing Writers Tags: FUNimation, Geneon, Gungrave, news No Comments »