Month: August 2010

Kakurenbo Staff to Reunite

The Sunrise anime production studio and the primary staff behind the 2004 Kakurenbo OVA will reunite to produce a “super science-fiction romantic comedy” OVA titled Koisento. In brief,
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FLÜGEL IS BACK 2011

Reportedly the highly anticipated second season of Disney & Toei Animation’s cult hit anime television series Fireball will premiere next year. The first series of 13 two-minute long
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Do the Otaku Have it Backwards?

While countless English speaking anime & manga otaku are struggling to learn Japanese, the Wall Street Journal reports that Japan’s largest online retailer, Rakuten, considers English the necessity
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Opening A Day

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the exceptional opening of the Freedom OVA series. The theme song is Hikaru
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X Japan at Lollapalooza

Our own Phil N. was at yesterday’s first American concert performance by X Japan held at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago. He sent us back some pics.
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Pokemon BW Teaser Online

The homepage for this fall’s new Pocket Monster: Best Wishes television series has added a 30 second streaming teaser that reveals the show’s new human characters. Source: Moon
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