…Sorry, went a little overboard on the rhyming there. But the site really is up! Check it out at http://www.vampire-knight.jp. Not that there’s much information beyond the start month (April) and the cast info, which matches the drama CDs I believe: Light/Tamaki/Setsuna (Mamoru Miyano) as Zero, Ayu/Naru (Yui Horie) as Yuki, Daisuke Kishio as Kaname, Lelouch (Jun Fukuyama) as Aidou, Greed (Junichi Suwabe) as Kain, Kira Yamamoto (Souichirou Hoshi) as Shiki, and Susumu Chiba as Ichijou. There IS a glimpse of what the anime will look like, finally, though.

Original source: vampire-knight.jp
Secondary source: Ultimatum

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Whenever a post appears on the ASOS Brigade website, especially one as cryptic as this, I always start looking for their usual spots to hide stuff.

A select-all on the page doesn’t turn up any hidden white text, but a view source offers a few messages (Edit: Uh, fixed!):

!– It is time for us to say goodbye ;_; –
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!– Lots of days have passed since counter was last repaired. The Cyber Integration Thought Entity encourages you to practice safe internets and appreciates your supports. —
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!– It is not really goodbye. Just the end of this closed space construct ^^ –
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!– Wh…what? We were all just constructs? –
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!– Will you please get her to put those back on before someone sees and tapes it. –
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!– Ahahahahahahahahahah I heard guys like that, nyoro~! –
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!– We make the preparations for The Ending now. –
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!– It’s been fun! –
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!– System shutdown authorized by root. Please save your data soon. –

Well, well. Farewell, ASOS Brigade.

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Current Mood:  Go Me

Well, okay, not so much a history book as ComiPress’s Backstage, which profiles groovy anime/manga websites in an attempt that they be not forgotten should they go offline. And their subject for this issue? Why, animeOnline, of course! They not only interviewed Rob, Dale, me, and Bryan– they actually chatted with FUNimation head honcho Gen Fukunaga. Though he didn’t say anything surprising, I guess, but still. Thanks, ComiPress :)

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Seriously, I have to wonder - their SDCC blog on Active Anime kind of made sense, as a short promotional thing. But now Anime on DVD is hosting Del Rey’s OFFICIAL forums?

Call me crazy, but it seems like a manga publisher that’s part of Del Rey should be pretty capable of hosting their own forums…and blogs. I mean, it’s obviously not all that complicated, since even I’ve managed.

My only guesses are a) maybe they’re having trouble getting traffic to their site and are banking on the pre-established traffic to AA and AoD? Or b) I did notice that all of the Del Rey sub-sites have the same basic layout. Maybe Del Rey is being very inflexible or something.

Still, it seems kind of silly…

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I know the blogiverse is going crazy over some dopey article about people who are into “anime manga,” but I think I found something worse. (Edit: Due to popular demand - here is the “anime manga” article, and it was found by Brigid at MangaBlog.)

Meet AnimeMine, which is apparently a social networking website for “anime otakas.” Yes, OTAKAS. That is from THEIR press release, people. Yeesh.

(Edited #2: They’re pretty quick on the ball and have not only noticed my post, but also fixed their typo. I have included a screencap from the original version for the LULZ.)

(P.S. Sorry it’s been quiet here - between theO, some freelance deadlines, and me getting my ass kicked by a bad cold, it’s been hard to get shit done. Look for a big fat catch-up post later today, followed by me resuming my usual blogging activities.)

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