Month: November 2006

Question: Which overlooked hentai anime does John want to be (re-)licensed?

Anime News Service now hosts an exclusive English subtitled trailer for the upcoming full CG anime drama Be Rockin’.

The official Japanese homepage for the eighth One Piece motion picture, One Piece: Episode of Alabaster – Sabaku no Ojou to Kaizoku Tachi (“Episode of Alabaster – Desert

The official Japanese homepage for Studio 4°C’s original animated music video anthology Amazing Nuts now hosts a streaming Windows Media trailer. The Amazing Nuts DVD, scheduled for Japanese

FUNimation has announced plans to release the entire 291 episode Dragonball Z television series on remastered “season” DVD boxed sets beginning next February. The season sets will feature

Question: Why has Neon Genesis Evangelion been as recognized as it is? Although it is over 10 years old, it still has a rather vast holding of fans

Web Anime Style has announced that Tetsujin 28 gou: Hakuchuu no Zangetsu, the first feature length Tetsujin 28 anime movie, will premier in Japan next March. Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s

The New York Comic Con has announced its plans to organize and host the first annual American Anime Awards, in association with ICv2. Nominations in 12 categories will

Publisher’s Weekly now hosts an interview with Fruits Basket manga adaptor Kelly Sue DeConnick. An “adaptor” re-writes a literal Japanese to English dialogue translation into coloquial English. Source:

Geneon now hosts a brief look behind the scenes at the English dubbing of the Paradise Kiss anime television series. Source: Anime News Network

The official Japanese homepage for Nippon Animation’s anime TV series adaptation of the “Penelope” French children’s book series is now open. Source: Anime News Service

The official Japanese homepage for the Getsumen Usagi Heiki Mina television series has re-opened with a new design. The series, spun-off from the live action Densha Otoko television

ALC Publishing’s yuri manga anthology Yuri Monogatari 4 is now available for purchase from the Yuricon shop. Yuri Monogatari 4 features stories by artists including Akiko Morishima, Althea

The Phoenix Anime Fest has announced that Mr. Kosuke Okazaki, an editor for Japan’s Ultra Jump Magazine, will attend this year’s convention, scheduled for December 1-3.

Question: To date, I am still a bit fascinated or mystified over how many episodes of CARDCAPTOR SAKURA were completely omitted from the English version, presumably for being