by Marc on May 5th, 2010 at 1:18am in Feature
After doing the review of Dragon Ball Z Kai on Blu-ray I decided to check the DVD. Very quickly I noticed a difference in colors in the remastered Z footage. When I showed some screen shots to a friend to find out about the Japanese Kai Blu-ray, he actually ran it over right then so [...]
by Marc on May 4th, 2010 at 8:50pm in Anime Review, Early Looks, Feature, Reviews
The franchise that will never die returns, but on Blu-ray in a new ‘refreshed’ version.
Yes, Dragon Ball Z returns as Dragon Ball Z Kai. After stacks of releases in the USA, including the Dragon Boxes, is the modern refresh of Z on Blu-ray the new high bar for the series in the USA?
by Marc on Sep 8th, 2009 at 7:56pm in News
It appears Seifer misread. Thanks to A PR rep from Funimation who checked the trailer frame by frame Digimon Frontier definately does not appear in it. Fanboy Review regrets the error, and Seifer is currently getting his 12 lashings.
It appears when ShoDojo launches it will launch with a few new shows (or it’s possible they [...]
by Marc on May 14th, 2009 at 2:16am in Anime Review, Early Looks, Reviews, Site Business, w/ Anime Episode
Digimon in the USA has always had an odd history. Never quite getting a real release for any of it’s seasons on DVD (minus a single DVD for the first season released nearly a decade ago that had over 10 episodes stuffed onto it and the first three films in their ‘edited into one film [...]
by Marc on Aug 14th, 2008 at 11:42pm in Editorial, Feature
As everyone knows Toei started doing stuff OnDemand via Direct2Drive.
After getting a few of these, and being underwhelmed by the horrid video quality, I now need to ask this very serious question.
Is Toei USA committing fraud?
I show you this screenshot that is on the Pretty Cure sales page. This is supposed to be a screenshot [...]
by Marc on Aug 9th, 2008 at 3:10pm in News
A few shows have been updated in the last few days on Toei OnDemand on Direct2Drive.
by Marc on Aug 7th, 2008 at 1:04pm in News
In February Toon Disney will be rebranded as Disney XD (which is the same name as Disney’s online video viewer service). The new channel will have a general focus on the 6-14 year old boy market.
It will continue to have a good majority of the current shows it has now, like Batman the Animated Series [...]