Kodansha Comics — What’s Going On With You? When Kodansha USA basically booted Del Rey out of the manga publishing world to take over, I decided to be mostly positive in how I took this. I ignored a lot of the concerns I had read then. However, as Kodansha Comics lollygagged around, I became concerned
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Bandai Entertainment’s Departure – This Is What Happens When You Don’t Give Customers What They Want!
January 4th, 2012 
AstroNerdBoy Bandai Entertainment’s Departure – This Is What Happens When You Don’t Give Customers What They Want! And so, another American anime and manga licensing company bites the dust as Bandai Entertainment announced on Tuesday (January 3, 2012) that they are shutting down as a licensor. I for one am not surprised because it was clear
Happy New Year 2012! (Year of the Skyrim Dragon!)
January 1st, 2012 AstroNerdBoy Happy New Year 2012! (Year of the Skyrim Dragon!) Happy new year, everyone! I hope everyone had a decent 2011 (though I know it wasn’t a great year on many fronts) and hopefully, 2012 brings better things. ^_^ As I am wont to do at this time of year, I thought I’d take a look-see
So, I Took a Skyrim Break
November 23rd, 2011 AstroNerdBoy So, I Took a Skyrim Break Hey folks. I skipped out on normally scheduled blog publishing today. Well, actually I didn’t. You see, I had blog posts scheduled for Sunday through Tuesday, but for some reason, Blogger published two of my posts early. I think the only reason the third didn’t get published was that
Want to See Famous Historical Males as Anime (Game) Babes? (Eiyuu Senki)
November 4th, 2011 AstroNerdBoy The other day, it came to my attention that there’s this new (at least, I think it is new) game coming to Japan called The World Conquest (Eiyuu Senki). UPDATE: The website wasn’t fully online when I linked to it, but this is not only whatever kind of game it is, but it is also
Kore wa TokyoPop-Zombie Desu ka?
October 15th, 2011 AstroNerdBoy Kore wa TokyoPop-Zombie Desu ka? On Wednesday, October 12th, the manga Twitter world began to buzz as nineteen days before Halloween, what appears to be the corpse of the once giant manga publishing company, TokyoPop, burst through the ground and started shuffling around. Naturally, this might be some sort of zombie-troll and so a challenge
“Don’t let your child watch any ‘Japanimation’.” (‘Cause Pokemon is bad for your health!)
August 9th, 2011 AstroNerdBoy “Don’t let your child watch any ‘Japanimation’.” (‘Cause Pokemon is bad for your health!) Sometimes, I see things that prompt me to put fingers to keyboard and spew. This time, Deb Aoki retweeted something on Twitter that made me sit up and go, “What?!” Well, you can see why I would sit up and take
Of Usagi Drop (and other things)
July 24th, 2011 AstroNerdBoy Of Usagi Drop (and other things) One of the ways I am introduced to interesting new anime or manga is through those of you who take the time to drop me recommendations. My one regret is that I just don’t have the time to watch or read everything that gets suggested to me, especially when
