As a new reviewer for the site, I just wanted to quickly introduce myself to readers. My name is Jonathan R. Lack, and I’ve been writing film and TV reviews for eight years now, much of that time spent at Denver Post subsidiary YourHub.com where I publish most of my work. Anime isn’t an interest [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A few shows have been updated in the last few days on Toei OnDemand on Direct2Drive.

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 [...]