Happy New Year, everyone!
This will probably be the last time I do one of these check-ins, although I’m looking into having a plug-in that’ll round up the Anime Vice twitter daily. We’ll see if I can find something.
In the mean time…
Tuesday 12/23
- Haruhi-chan Beats Haruhi by a Mile
- Oh God Do Want: Live-Action City Hunter
- FUNimation Grabs Gad Guard
- Boys Love Library Loans to Kids
- Gia Gets Crunchyroll’d!
- Crunchyroll Adds JP Drama Detective Office 5
- Tuesday is Toyday! 12/23/08
Wednesday 12/24
- FUNimation Gets Vandread…And Evangelion?
Thursday 12/25
- Xmas Check-In: FUNi’s Nabari no Ou; 2 New Anime; More Geass
Friday 12/26
- FUNimation’s #6: Last Exile
- WTF Wednesday on Friday 12/26/08
- 4 Minutes of Animated Street Fighter DVD
- I Spy With My Little Eye…Something Skimpy
- Naughty Class President To Seduce Class VP On TV
- Protip: Breakfast Prevents Teenage Sex…?
- Gokujou Mecha Mote Iinchou Not a Mech Series; Still Gets Anime’d< ?a>
- Delicious Decor: Cup Udon Tissue Holder
- Thursday is Userday, Friday is Not 12/26/08
- Family Friday! 12/26/08
Saturday 12/27
- FUNimation’s #5: Oh! Edo Rocket
Sunday 12/28
- Stan Lee, Hiroyuki Takei’s Karakuridouji Ultimo Coming
- The Top-Buzzed Anime of Fall ‘08
- Marrying an Anime Character Step 1: Engagement Rings
- And You Thought American Politcs Were Weird
- What Would You Do For A Comiket Trip?
Monday 12/29
- FUNi’s #4 and #3: Gankutsuou and Slayers Revolution
- BL Novels Ai no Kusabi get OVA’d…Again
- Anime and Manga Sales, Releases Down
- Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li Trailer
- Manga for Comics Readers (And Vice Versa)
- Monday is Listurday! 12/29/08
Tuesday 12/30
- Almost There! FUNimation’s #2: Gungrave
- Didn’t Make It To Listurday: Top US Anime, Manga PropertiesTuesday is Toyday! 12/30/08
- Want Hentai Soda? Try Tentacle Grape
- True Tears Inspires True Tourism
- Crunchyroll Surfs Waves, Scores Touchdowns
- More from Comiket: Coolest Train Station Ever
Wednesday 12/31
- Warning for Traveling Otaku in Canada: Beware Customs
- FUNi’s #1 is Samurai Champloo; More Up Their Sleeves?
- WTF Wednesday: Make Your Own Pocky
- Japan’s #1 Cosplay for 2008: Lucky Star Uniform
- It’s Hard Out There for a Seiyuu
- Surprise!(?) FUNimation Eats Up Soul Eater
- More Fist For Your North Star
- Crunchyroll Moves Into The Abyss
- Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online in Open Beta
- Quickie: Check Me Out On Anime Today!
- Evangelion 1.0 Is On The List
Thursday 1/01 (so far)
- Crunchyroll Starts the New Year with Natsume Yuujinchou
…Well, folks, thanks for sticking with me in 2008, and I hope you’ll move over to Anime Vice with me for 2009!
Yes indeed, folks, the first-ever anime season preview for Anime Vice is up, and it’s a doozy with 23 new series. Check it out! (And hey, if you want to digg it, or even just friend me on digg for upcoming bigger news/features, by all means, do so!)
Monday 12/15 (the rest)
- Anime Vice Storms Japantown
- Japanese Imperial Politics Reduced to a Disney Cartoon
- Monday is Listurday! 12/15/08
- The Daily Shin Buun 12/15/08
Tuesday 12/16
- VIZ Rocks Out With KISS Look-Alikes, Harem Boys
- Bakugan Brawls On the Big Screen
- Tuesday is Toyday! 12/16/08
- Bootypad!
- Gaia Online Joins the Layoff Club
- The Daily Shin Buun 12/16/08
Wednesday 12/17/08
- VIZ Spends April Fools with Warner Home Video
- FUNimation’s 10 Days Of Christmas…Ish
- Sword of the Stranger Slashes into Theaters
- Keanu Reeves = Spike Spiegel? (*shudders*)
- More Spike Talk: #2 Space Cowboy of All Time
- Final Fantasy XIII: 10,000 BC With More Airships?
- WTF Wednesday 12/17/08
- Protip: Fansubbing is Illegal in Japan, Too
- Coolest Figure Ever to Feature a Key-Tar
- Haruhi-chan Talks Upcoming Web Shorts, Still No Second Season Info
- A New One For the Vocab List: Bushou Moe
- The Daily Shin Buun 12/17/08
Thursday 12/18
- Merry Christmas Tokyopop: Live-Action Deal for Priest
- Eroge Tayutama goes TV Anime
- Thursday is Userday! 12/18/08
Friday 12/19 (so far)
- FUNimation Hints A-Go-Go
- Some Kurokami Dub Tidbits
- Friday is Family Day! 12/19/08
- Akira coming to Blu-Ray
- Del Rey Acquires Horned Hero, Female Ninja
- Newsflash: Terra Wears White Panties
Wow, I kinda figured I’d do this every weekday for a week, and I’m already behind! Here’s what’s goin’ on on the new site:
Friday 12/05
- Shin-chan to Dance Naked in Theaters in April
- Friday is Listurday 12/05/08 (a new weekly feature!)
- Delicious Shugo Chara-chan, Must Eat…Err, Read (new spinoff manga)
- Nodame Cantabile Parihen ep9 Breaks Viewing Record
- The Daily Shin Buun12/05/08 (this is my daily news round-up, btw)
Saturday 12/06
- New Anime Trifecta: Kobato, K-On, and Phantom
- Required Reading 12/06/08 (this is now also a weekly feature)
- The Daily Shin Buun 12/06/08
Sunday 12/07 (so far)
- Rumor Squad: Gonzo goes Ero? (It’s a rumor, but yes, it claims that Gonzo is going to make an 18+ anime.)
Yes, my friends, my project, my vice– my Anime Vice –has finally gone live. You can make your accounts and start editing the encyclopedia– there’s a LOT of work there to be done!
What does that mean for giapet? For the time being, it’ll remain mostly quiet. For about a week or so I’ll post once a day and link to all the news I’ve posted on Anime Vice that day, as a little nagging reminder to y’all to go to the new site. After that, I’m not sure if giapet.net will have a role or not. My content will pretty much always go to Anime Vice (including season previews).
So to those of you who’ve been readers and commenters here, thanks so much. It’s been such a boost to me throughout this lengthy year in which we were developing the new site! I hope you’ll continue to follow my stuff at Anime Vice. Editorially it’ll be pretty similar to the way this blog has been, but with a few additional contributors, and probably considerably more volume of content (certainly more than the last couple of months!).
And yes, there are still bugs to be worked out on the Vice, as is always going to be the case with the new launch. Feel free to poke me and let me know any problems you’re having, or put them on the dev bugs forum thread, and I promise they’ll get looked at.
So thanks again, and hopefully thanks in advance for trying out Anime Vice! Here are today’s posts:
Hope you enjoy!
So, it’s not really all that surprising anymore that FUNimation sends cease and desist letters for titles they may or may not be in the process of licensing: they’ve done so before on behalf of Gonzo, for example.
But apparently issuing cease and desist letters to fansubbers (like Nyoron) who have released or are releasing Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone, and let’s face it– if it involves Gainax and/or Evangelion, it’s something to think about. Especially since previous Eva licensor ADV seems to still be recovering from hitting some financial snags.
The letter specifically states that FUNimation is acting on behalf of NTV and that the film is still unlicensed so this easily could mean absolutely nothing, especially since the companies have worked together before (NTV aired FUNi titles like Claymore and Host Club).
On the other hand, it could mean that FUNi is in talks, and we may finally see a Stateside release for the movie revamp of Eva. Who knows?
(P.S. On an unrelated note…hey, what’s this?…)
Categorized Under:
Manga,
News,
Western NewsDated: 19 Nov 2008
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broccoli books usa
I got an anonymous tip that led me over to Broccoli’s website and eventually to this press release (Japanese PDF), which declares that Broccoli International USA is shutting down and cites the extensive competition in the manga and character merchandise fields here as the reason.
I can’t gather all the details from the release, but the liquidation is expected to be complete by February of 2009.
Sympathies to all Broccoli employees– I love you guys and I’m going to miss your awesome panels! Drop a line and give me a heads up on your plans!
Categorized Under:
Anime,
News,
Western NewsDated: 19 Nov 2008
Tags:
dentsu ,
joost ,
kaiji ,
nippon tv
In another case of Japanese companies working directly with an Internet distributor in the States (after, y’know, that major CrunchyRoll coup), Nippon TV and Dentsu have just announced that along with entertainment company Yoshimoto Kogyo, they’ll be providing some Japanese entertainment to Joost, a VOD service created by former Skype creators.
The anime titles are Kaiji and Buzzer Beater, but wait– there’s more! There will also be a channel called Japanese Humor ~Owarai~ which will feature Japanese variety shows, such as Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! and Susunu! Denpa Shounen (at least, I’m pretty sure that’s the right show, assuming that the press release’s Susume! Denpa Shounen isn’t a different show). These shows start in December and will stream for free with commercials, in Japanese with English subtitles, and it’s only going to be available in the US (sorry, Canada).
What I’m not entirely sure of is what this deal means (if anything) in the wake of Dentsu’s intent to sell control of Geneon to Universal. As far as I can tell, neither title is distributed by Geneon, but I’m not quite sure what Dentsu’s specific connection to them (or to NTV) is– they own or invest in a LOT of companies. It could even be that one of their American arms simply brokered the deal; speculation on my part of course.
That all aside, I think it’s good to see some different types of Japanese media make it across the ocean. Hey NTV, we can has jdrama now?
(Via AnimeNews.biz and reader Sam– thanks!)
