From nebs66 For further proof that Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's is now dead in America in favor of the original series, we take a look at the sad state of its toy front. Although more American toys for the spin-off series were previously announced, such as Yusei's Duel Disk & a Jack Atlas action figure, there are now no plans to bring any of them to the US. Yusei's Duel Disk in particular was a much ...
At the Anime USA convention this weekend, FUNimation announced two new anime licenses as well as two "license rescue" titles. In terms of the new titles, they are Sekirei & Tetsuwan Birdy Decode . Sekirei is a harem/fighting/fan-service series about girls with gigantic boobs constantly getting their clothes ripped off during battle. Birdy Decode, which still shows off its own fair share of ...
Bang Zoom Entertainment's online anime review webcast series "AnimeTV" announced a few months back that they would be starting work on a second season after all this time of no new episodes. Well now we have even more solid proof of a return. AnimeTV announced on Twitter yesterday that they had just finished filming the first episode of the new season. Looks like ATV's making a comeback ...
LittleKuriboh has been quite busy since debuting his double episodes at Youmacon earlier this month. Not with making new Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged episodes, but by doing a bunch of other small fun projects & pieces. Not the least of which is the third episode of his hilarious Naruto Abridged Parody series - now with David Bowie! The humor in this series is quite different from Yu-Gi-...
With 2009 almost over, it's time to start taking a look back at the past year. One annual survey conducted in Japan asks light novel readers who their favorite character was for the year, & the results for 2009 characters are quite surprising. That is to say, the top 5 characters are all male. In fact, males dominate most of the top 10, which is quite different results from what you'd see in ...
J-List has come out with an awesome new t-shirt for tsundere lovers in the US. The shirt was designed by a man named Rios, who you might remember from making those amazing looking Kinetic Typography videos of two tsundere anime series (Haruhi Suzumiya & ToraDora). Well he's taken the design used in those shirts & applied it to this new shirt. While technically paying tribute to tsunderes as...
I'm a little late to remind you that the 12th Pokemon movie (which debuted only this year in Japan) made its American debut on Cartoon Network earlier this evening. So, sorry if you missed that. But I definitely wanted to point out that American dub of the Beyblade Movie will be making its US television debut tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 (Eastern/Pacific)! This movie was actually released in ...
The second season of "Hayate the Combat Butler" may be over, but two brand new dakimakura (body pillowcases) have just been announced for the series. They feature two of the main girls from the series, & sorry, but Hinagiku isn't one of them this time around. No, they are of the lead female Nagi (who's both a tsundere & a loli), & her loyal maid & friend Maria. These two cases are pretty ...
Keanu Reeves just can't seem to get enough of Japanese culture, so it would appear. First he wanted the part of Spike in the upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop film , & now it's been announced that he'll be starring in a Hollywood adaptation of the legendary Japanese tale, "47 Ronin." Chris Morgan (Fast & Furious, Wanted) will write the samurai script, & Carl Rinsch (who's amazing work ...
One Japanese otaku has fallen so hopelessly in love with his virtual girlfriend in the hit DS game Love Plus that he's decided to literally marry her. He flew all the way to Guam, took his DS with him, & found a church on the island willing to wed him & the character Nene. He plans to hold a wedding reception back in Japan & has invited the media to attend & document the event. The reception...