Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

This video ended up winning the best in show award at the ‘Anime USA’ convention that I attended last weekend. This is the “I Love the Whole World” song used in the Discovery Channel commercials, mashed together with various shows. I think many of the shows fit the lines pretty well




Anime USA, Best in Show Anime Music Video

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

I Love the Anime World AMV

This video ended up winning the best in show award at the ‘Anime USA’ convention that I attended last weekend. This is the “I Love the Whole World” song used in the Discovery Channel commercials, mashed together with various shows. I think many of the shows fit the lines pretty well




Cameron commits to Avatar Sequels over Battle Angel

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

This was reported in Variety but I located this on Anime News Network. Director James Cameron has officially said that his next films are going to be sequels to the Oscar-nominated ‘Avatar’. This is a pretty disappointing announcement to anime fans, because it had been thought that Cameron would be doing a live-action version of the early 1990’s manga and OVA series ‘Battle Angel Alita’ which he has been working on since about 2003. This is very disappointing, chiefly because the number of live-action anime adaptations in theaters have been both critical and financial flops including ‘Speed Racer’ which was done by the Wachowski’s of ‘The Matrix’ fame. A film like ‘Battle Angel’ with a director like Cameron who is well known for making successful films could have helped increase the credibility of live-action adaptations of anime. But with this news, we’re left waiting to see if the film will EVER get made.




Anime Meets Movie Trailers

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

One of the more popular forms of the fan culture of anime in the United States is making their own Music Videos/Trailers. They all fall under the initials AMVs, short for Anime Music Videos. Setting footage of popular anime shows to Hollywood movie trailers is another popular part of the hobby.

What I’m gonna show you is one I particularly like that was made a year ago, using footage of ‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ the popular Adult Swim show, mashed with the audio of the trailer of ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.’




Anime News Network

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Anime News Network is an online web service which aggregates all of the anime news that breaks in the world. Whether the news be made in Japan via announcing of new shows or continuations of said shows. Or in America, via the licensing of potentially popular material in the United States.

The site has many different facets of the anime fandom represented in the site. Reviews of DVD series, reports from various anime conventions, a weekly webcomic series, streaming video, polls and a very active fan forum site helps keep the community alive and active on a daily basis.

The one problem that I have with the site is that there seems to be few editorial or opinion people on the site, while there is their weekly podcast the “ANNCast” there is not much aside from a weekly piece called “Hey, Answerman!” in the way of opinions and other things on the site. Other than that, I enjoy the site quite a bit and hope that it continues to live on day after day.




Comic Books and Anime Beat Report Websites

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Anime:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/

http://www.otakuusamagazine.com/Main/Home.aspx

Comics:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/

http://jinxworld.com/

And:

https://twitter.com/




America’s Greatest Otaku?

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

AGOTokyopop is busy trying to find a junior film editor in order to edit their net-based reality show “America’s Greatest Otaku.” This show according to Tokyopop is “to find America’s Greatest Otaku, the person who best exemplifies a truly unique fervor and passion for all things influenced by Japanese pop culture.”

I personally believe that if this thing isn’t going to be on the air on television, I don’t know why Tokyopop is even bothering with a show like this. They were at one time the biggest manga publisher in North America and now that they have been shut out of the big titles from Japanese publishers, they are trying desperately to find ways to make them more money and they continuously fail to do that. Its not going to be too long where they are going to have to accept where they are in the market now or just continue to fail over and over again and maybe go under.