Welcome to the first “The Professionals Am Being Greetest!?”

In this recurring feature/column, we will point out any ludicrously stupid mistakes/things that companies/professionals do in regards to all the fun stuff we enjoy watching and reading and so forth.

For the first one, we will show something regarding the American release of the anime Shuffle. Continue reading →

Some people might be wondering where the reviews are, since the site has it in the title.

The answer is quite simple.

Some of our staff is gone away at cons for the weekend, the rest are just really…really….really….. ‘thinks’ really lazy.

Hope to have some reviews soon ‘goes to start poking staff with sticks’

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

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Aya Hirano (Haruhi in Haruhi, Konata in Lucky Star, Lumiere in Kiddy Grade, among a ton of other roles) has declared herself obese, and has decided to go on a rather strict diet in an attempt to…not be obese…

Picture after the break… Continue reading →

The comments system has apparently been borked since the site launched, despite it working in the testing phase.

We are working on fixing this ASAP.

edit- Comments have been fixed and should be working, so comment away!

The website for the new Casshern series, Casshern Sins, has updated with cast info and a tiny little trailer (the trailer can be seen at the official site).

Casshern himself will be played by Tohru Furuya.  Furuya has played alot of hero type characters that people might remember.  Yamcha from Dragonball/Z/GT, Amuro Ray in Gundam, Tuxedo Mask/Kamen in Sailor Moon, Pegasus Seiya in Saint Seiya among god knows how many other roles in other shows.

I consider that to be great casting, but a bit of a suprise, Daisuke Ono was announced as the voice of Casshern for the upcoming Tatsunoko vs. Capcom game.  Ono had never played Casshen before, but is an anime VA who has been getting bigger and better roles over the past few years.  The assumption me, and quite a few others made, was he was cast in the game because he would be Casshern in the new series.

Cho will be Ohji, Akiko Yajima will be Luna, Nami Miyahara will be Lyuze, Yuko Minaguchi will be Ringo…

and the big villian?

Kenji Utsumi will be playing the Braiking Boss.  Lots of past good roles for him (including playing the Braiking Boss in the mid 90′s Casshern OVA).  Shenlong in Dragonall/Z/GT, Alex Louis Armstrong in Full Metal Alchemist, and alot more.

Casshern Sins Official Site

With Saber Rider getting a full DVD release soon I felt we had to celebrate in some way. What better way than having a parody of it’s sister series Voltron from fan favorite show Robot Chicken.

Voltron got TOTALLY served! (Personally I prefer the original song that they had to remove for legal reasons, but oh well)

The one thing that was mentioned at the Funimation panel of interest is the Dragonball GT Season 1 set will be 5 disks.  Since the set is 32 episodes and the solicitation info at quite a few stores said 3 disks people started to get a bit worried about video compression.  5 disks should be fine for 32 episodes though, let’s just hope that like the trailer shows, lets hope these episodes aren’t cropped like DBZ was.

The first day of Otakon’s panels is beginning to come to a close and as for announcements….

Nadda.

Nothing was really announced, I guess you could count Saber Rider (although no one I know was at the Voltron/Saber Rider panel, so I have no idea if anything was actually announced there), but that was announced yesterday.

At the Media Blasters panel some people brought up Gaogaigar Final and nothing concrete was said one way or the other.  Funimation’s panel was largely just going over stuff we already knew.  I guess whatever ‘thing’ Gen had mentioned in quite a few recent interviews isn’t ready to be announced yet, hopefully soon.

Let’s hope we get some interesting news in the next couple of days.