Right Stuf Assimilated By Crunchyroll (Sony) Welp, Sony continues its march to corner the anime market in the U.S. by having Crunchyroll buy Right Stuf (and subsequently Nozomi Entertainment). As announced on Right Stuf’s website on August 4, all of Right Stuf is owned by Crunchyroll, except one thing — hentai and any H-related materials.
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There Is No FUNimation, Only Crunchyroll
March 3rd, 2022 
AstroNerdBoy There Is No FUNimation, Only Crunchyroll Hey gang! Man, how the mighty have fallen. The news that Sony is getting rid of the FUNimation brand and lumping everything under the Crunchyroll name is stunning to say the least. Who would have thunk that a legitimate video production company, founded in 1994, would be “eaten” by
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Tags: Crunchyroll, FUNimation, news 
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“UQ Holder” Creator AKAMATSU Ken Going Into Politics
December 17th, 2021 AstroNerdBoy UQ Holder Creator AKAMATSU Ken Going Into Politics If I had to guess, I’m known in the anime and manga fandom for two things. One being the canon Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki series. The other would be for AKAMATSU Ken-sensei’s work, mainly Negima! and UQ Holder. I used to get spoilers for both those series, though
Site Slowness Status Post (17-Nov-2021)
November 17th, 2021 AstroNerdBoy Site Slowness Status Post Hey gang! I wanted to do a quick post on the status of the entire astronerdboy.com domain (though the anime sub-domain is hit the hardest, of course) since there’s been some site slowness and such of late. On the evening of 15-Nov-2021, I was working on a blog post and noticed
Amazon Canceling More Manga and Light Novels
March 8th, 2021 AstroNerdBoy Amazon Canceling More Manga and Light Novels Last summer, Amazon decided to cancel a number of light novels and manga titles from their store, both physical copies and digital copies. Some of the titles were ecchi in nature, to varying degrees. On a personal level, I was never going to read Oreimo or Eromanga Sensei,
How the Pandemic Changed Manga Creation
September 5th, 2020 AstroNerdBoy How the Pandemic Changed Manga Creation Hey gang! I was recently notified by @htSELFIE on Twitter that NHK World did a piece on how COVID-19 has impacted the manga industry. They interview Golgo 13 creator SAITO Takao-sensei, who still creates his manga with ink and paper. As such, Saito-sensei had to shut down production for
Posted in AstroNerdBoy, Contributing Writers, Manga Tags: AKAMATSU Ken, news, SAITO Takao 2 Comments »
Akamatsu-sensei Worried About Foreign Regulation
August 16th, 2020 AstroNerdBoy Akamatsu-sensei Worried About Foreign Regulation A lot of stuff happened while I was on my road trip. I did notice that Amazon had started banning some manga and light novel titles because they no longer met Amazon’s unclear standards. And in this vein, I more recently became aware of Steam banning a PG English port
Posted in AstroNerdBoy, Contributing Writers, Other Tags: AKAMATSU Ken, news, Random Thoughts 10 Comments »
Amazon Banning Some Manga & Light Novels
July 16th, 2020 AstroNerdBoy Amazon Banning Some Manga & Light Novels Hey gang. My Internet access is pretty poor at the moment, but I saw something disturbing and I thought I’d share it. It seems that Amazon is banning some light novels and manga titles, not only from Kindle, which is Amazon’s digital platform, but also physical copies as
Posted in AstroNerdBoy, Contributing Writers, Manga Tags: Amazon, J-Novel Club, news, Seven Seas 8 Comments »