Ask John: Was Inception Inspired By Anime?
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 29/07/10 @ 3:24AM. Located In Syndicated News
Question: Why do people keep calling Inception “original” when it’s clearly “inspired” by Paprika and, even if it wasn’t, has been done before in the cyberpunk genre, much like The Matrix before it? Are they that oblivious to the latter anime’s existence like they appeared to be with Ghost in the Shell? Or are they [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
G4 To Broadcast Marvel Anime
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 27/07/10 @ 6:59AM. Located In Syndicated News
The G4 television network now hosts a streaming trailer for the Madhouse animated Iron Man anime television series, along with a confirmation that Madhouse’s television series adaptations of Iron Man, X-Men, Wolverine, and Blade will air on the network next year. The Iron-Man anime will premiere on Japan’s Animax television network on October 1. Personally [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Tokyopop Announces New Acquisitions
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 27/07/10 @ 6:59AM. Located In Syndicated News
Tokyopop has announced its acquisition of domestic publication rights to Yuna Kagesaki’s Sakura’s Number One (Sakura no Ichiban), Koge Donbo’s Pavane for a Dead Girl (Naki Shoujo no Tame no Pavane), and Touya Tobina’s Mr. Clean: Fully Equipped (Keppeki Shounen Kanzen Soubi) manga series. Source: Anime News NetworkThis Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Drawn & Quarterly Reveals New Manga Acquisitions
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 27/07/10 @ 6:58AM. Located In Syndicated News
Drawn & Quarterly has announced its acquisition of publication rights to Shigeru Mizuki’s Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths (Soin Gyokusai Seyo!) and NonNonBa (Nonnonba to Ore) manga series. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is Mizuki’s semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks faced by a Japanese infantry unit before the end of WWII. The award [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Steins;Gate Anime Announced
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 27/07/10 @ 6:57AM. Located In Syndicated News
The head of the 5pb. game production company, Chiyomaru Shikura, has publicly announced that the 5pb & Nitroplus co-developed Xbox 360 “hypothetical science adventure” visual novel game Steins;Gate is getting an anime television series adaptation. The game revolves around teens in present day Akihabara, Tokyo that modify a microwave oven to send text messages to [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Opening A Day
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 27/07/10 @ 6:56AM. Located In Syndicated News
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening (and ending) of the 1974 magical girl television series Majokko Meg-chan. The theme song is “Majokko Meg-chan,” sung by Yoko Maekawa.This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Ask John: What Are some Current 80′s Style Anime?
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 27/07/10 @ 6:55AM. Located In Syndicated News
Question: I was a big anime fan a few years ago and I’m getting back into it now. I was wondering if there were any newer anime you could recommend that hearken back to the styles and themes of the late 80s/early 90s. For example, I have seen and enjoyed Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne, which [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
CR to Stream Mitsudomoe
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 24/07/10 @ 3:41AM. Located In Syndicated News
Beginning today, Crunchyroll will begin simulcasting new weekly episodes of the ongoing Mitsudomoe slapstick comedy anime television series. The series’ first three episodes will become available to viewers in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Portugal today. Future episodes will stream on Crunchyroll [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Bandai Reveals New Acquisitions
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 24/07/10 @ 2:26AM. Located In Syndicated News
Bandai Entertainment, at the ongoing San Diego Comic Con, has announced its acquisition of the 1999 Turn A Gundam and 2008 Tales of the Abyss television series and Eri Takenashi’s Kannagi manga series. I’m glad to see that there’s a lot of eagerness surrounding the Turn A license. Personally, I’ve never liked the show. I [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Top Shelf to Publish Cigarette Girl
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 24/07/10 @ 2:26AM. Located In Syndicated News
Top Shelf Productions, the American publisher of the AX: Alternative Manga anthology, has announced plans for an English language publication of the late Masahiko Matsumoto’s 2009 collection of vintage gekiga manga Cigarette Girl (Tobacco-ya no Musume). The manga is a collection of realistic, dramatic manga stories for mainstream adult readers originally published in the 1970s. [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Second Hen Zemi OAD Announced
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 24/07/10 @ 2:24AM. Located In Syndicated News
Japanese publisher Kodansha has announced that limited edition copies of the fifth collected volume of Tagro’s comedy manga series Hen Zemi (“Abnormal Physiology Seminar”) will include the franchise’s second OAD. The series’ first anime episode was released last week with limited edition copies of the fourth manga volume. The fifth volume will go on sale [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
New Rokjoma no Shinryakusha Anime Streaming
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 24/07/10 @ 2:24AM. Located In Syndicated News
The homepage for the ongoing “We Want to Adapt Rokujoma no Shinryakusha!? Into Anime!” campaign has added a new 29 second streaming anime clip. This is the third bit of original Rokujoma no Shinryakusha anime footage released since the site launched last March. Source: Moon PhaseThis Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Opening A Day
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 24/07/10 @ 2:21AM. Located In Syndicated News
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the openings of the two Dancing Blade: Katte ni Momotenshi interactive anime from Kyoto Animation (K-On, Lucky Star, Kanon) and Konami. Originally released in 1998 & 1999, these specific openings are from the 1999 Dreamcast “complete editions.” The theme song [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
John Asks: Why is Josou Shounen Becoming a Mainstream Trend?
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 24/07/10 @ 2:07AM. Located In Syndicated News
Question: Following the announcement of the Mayoelle Otokonoko anime about crossdressing boys, I started to wonder to myself what the root of this emerging trend is. Answer: Crossdressing is a historical and cultural tradition in Japan. Male actors have played female roles in Noh dramas since the 1300s. The onnagata male actor playing a female [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Sentai Reveals Two New Titles
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 23/07/10 @ 6:48AM. Located In Syndicated News
Sentai Filmworks has revealed its acquisition of the CANAAN and Kimikiss ~ pure rouge anime television series. The first 13 episodes of the 24 episode Kimikiss romantic drama will be released on October 5 in a subtitled DVD volume retailing at $49.98. The complete 13 episode action/gunplay mystery series CANAAN will be released in a [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
New Negima OAD Trailer
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 23/07/10 @ 6:47AM. Located In Syndicated News
Japanese publisher Kodansha has released a trailer for the fourth Maho Sensei Negima! ~Mou Hitotsu no Sekai~ OAD. The fourth of five planned “Magic World” OADs will be released with limited edition copies of Ken Akamatsu’s 31st compiled volume of Negima manga on August 17. Source: Moon PhaseThis Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Vertical Acquires Lychee Light Club
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 23/07/10 @ 6:47AM. Located In Syndicated News
Vertical has announced its acquisition of translation & distribution rights to Usamaru Furuya’s 2005 single-volume horror manga Lychee Light Club (Litchi Hikari Club). The story revolves around nine boys school students that create a lychee fruit powered machine to find beautiful women. The macine gains sentience and begins not only measuring beauty but delivering “justice” [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Square Enix Announces International Digital Manga Store
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 23/07/10 @ 6:46AM. Located In Syndicated News
Japanese manga and game publisher Square Enix has announced plans to launch a digital manga store in North America and France this fall. Square Enix currently distributes free sample chapters of the Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater, Kuroshitsuhi, and O-Parts Hunter manga series. However, Square Enix Digital Publishing spokesman Koutarou Ishii has cautioned that titles offered [...]This Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Yumekui Merry Anime in Development
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 23/07/10 @ 6:44AM. Located In Syndicated News
The latest issue of Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine includes a formal announcement that Yoshitaka Ushiki’s fantasy adventure manga series Yumekui Merry is being adapted into an anime television series. The manga series about a high school boy with the ability to enter people’s dreams has been ongoing since 2008. Source: Anime News NetworkThis Website, Domain Name, Twitter Account, and Content, is FOR SALE. Please Contact Us If You Would Like to Breathe New Life into This Website or Purchase the Domain and Hosting. The Twitter Account is Free. animeaustralia.com.au expires on the 11th of September 2011
Viz Acquires Detroit Metal City Movie
[ 0 Comments ] Written by Quin Rose on 23/07/10 @ 6:43AM. Located In Syndicated News
Viz Media has announced its acquisition of translation & distribution rights to the 2008 live action Detroit Metal City movie. The film is an adaptation of Kiminori Wakasugi’s popular comedy manga series. Source: Anime News Network