After getting both Air and Kanon and being rather proud of the work put into them, and Sojitz screwing up all their stuff for nearly a year now, ADV has finally popped back with a real swinger after announcing some junky live action movies and an OVA no one cared about.

ADV had Clannad.
Due to the [...]

Lots of good stuff from Funimation in November. I needs more monies…
Singles
Darker Than Black vol. 1- 11/25/08 – $29.98
Darker Than Black vol. 1 (LE w/ Box)- 11/25/08 – $39.98
Tsubasa vol. 9- 11/11/08 – $29.98
My Santa (recalled last year due to a rating labeling error)- 11/18/08 – $14.98
Movies
Dragon Ball Z Movies 5 and 6- 11/11/08 [...]

Am I the only person curious how Funimation will do Nerima Daikon Brothers?
ADV’s three volume release had quite a few really good extras (I don’t think anything would beat the live action NDB).
ADV’s 3 disk thinpak had none.
What will Funimation’s version have?  I hope they keep all the extras in what will no doubt be [...]

I’ve gotten a few questions from friends about this, saw Nebs wonder about it, and seen at least two people claim they had to for ‘legal reasons’, so I felt it was about time I explain what is up with ADV re-releasing all kinds of old thinpak boxes they’ve done with new covers, and why [...]

The big news from Day 3 of Otakon is ADV finally has new stuff to announce.
First up, for anime, they have the 3 episode Indian Summer (Koharu Biyori) OVA.
Then under a new subbrand called Switchblade Films they have a few live action films.  A new series of Kunoichi movies, Female Prisoner Epsilon, Attack Girl Swim [...]

Not much news for today either.
Bandai (unsurprisingly) has the .hack//G.U. Trilogy CGI movie.
Crunchyroll will be adding a number of series from ADV, Media Blasters, and Gonzo up in the following weeks and months.
Kadokawa has Garei Zero, based on the Garei manga.
and JAM Project showed up at the Bandai panel and gave out Lucky Star T-Shirts.
Tomorrow [...]