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Just why in the hell does a series take so long to be released!?
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Funimation just announced that they acquired this violently cool space mecha series called Soukou no Strain (that will be retitled Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry). Then as I read further, the press release stated that the DVD release date for the first volume will be: MARCH, 2009.
Today is Thursday, May 15, 2008. The first DVD of a 13 episode series will be released 10 months from now. And just to remind everybody, this series aired in Japan MORE THAN A YEAR AGO from November 2006 through February 2007. Does it really take almost a year to dub a 13 episode series!?
This is unacceptable.
If a company asks why they're losing out on sales, this is beyond the pale the main reason why they're losing money on new titles. If the higher ups in companies like Funimation, ADV, VIZ and the rest, could only see to double dip then they might actually... I don't know, maybe make their money back several times over.
Simply put, double dipping works. If you need reference, look at the regular, director's cut, Platinum series and the platinum series thinpak of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Now, I know a whole lot of people in the anime community may b1tch and complain that there might be a DVD first volume with subs only that may get released a couple months after airing in Japan, only to get a re-release with sub and dub and maybe some extras a year after the completion of releasing the sub only series.
Got all that?
First a sub only release and then a sub/dub release after the completion or partial completion of series: that is a sound business model. Here's a good example- the drop dead coolest mecha series in over a decade, Gurren Lagaan is getting released in sub only format from Bandai and it'll have 9 episodes for between $23-30 (probably $19.95 at Best Buy). It's release date is July 8. The series ended it's 27 episode run on September 30, 2007. 9 months between it's end and an American release, compared to more than 2 years for Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry.
If these frivolous and needlessly long waits continue, then people who download and blow through a series which an audience becomes completely ready and willing to purchase, the audience will shrink dramatically when more and more and more new series churn out each season in Japan and then that series that they were so ready to buy gets forgotten!
End of story.
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Posted by ntrop on Thursday, May 15 @ 12:36:21 CDT (4 reads)
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JAPAN NEWS: An amusing story of an American mother teaching discipline
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I'll give you this in it's entirety because I find Marie Mockett's story of Discipline and Manners amusing:
Three days into a trip in Japan and my mother and I were sitting in a coffee shop in Kyoto. In came a foreigner (meaning, a white woman) with two kids. I knew they were trouble, the sort of children to whom everything–including bad behavior–is “explained,” which seems to be a trend in child-rearing these days. The younger child, a girl, had a tendency to scream, to which her mother said, “Now, do you think this is a place where it is okay to scream? If you scream, you will have to play outside.”
The girl kept screaming.
After the third screaming, my mother, ever the ferocious enforcer when she wants to be, turned around and said quite sharply (and in English) “Hey! Stop it! This is Japan. You do not scream in Japan. That is not acceptable.”
Everyone–including me–was stunned. The girl was stunned. Her older brother, her tormenter who had been the cause of the screaming, was stunned. He even tried to defend his sister, but my mother turned her steely eyes on him and said, “No. You do not scream here. That does not work. End of story.” And, really, even though Japan has seriously changes since the Showa era and I don’t get the dog-and-MILF-thing, at least the kids don’t scream.
I felt sorry for the foreign mother. She looked harried, like she was just looking for some place to rest for, oh, fifteen minutes so she could caffeine it up a bit. I thought that her kids looked mixed–like me–but that she was divorced or separated. She did not seem married. Her daughter looked wild. None of them apologized. They just ate as quickly as possible and departed. The Japanese in the coffee shop pretended to ignore the whole thing. I was embarrassed. I hate being the center of attention. I like observing. But . . . I was secretly and enormously proud of my mother. Very proud of her to try to battle social ills and try to set them straight. I love that about her.
At the same time, it can be so unsettling to see your own children publicly scolded like that by a stranger. There have been times in Japan when I’ve had the impulse to stop someone from doing something embarrassing. What are your experiences? What do you think?
link: http://japundit.com/archives/2008/05/14/8436/
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Posted by ntrop on Wednesday, May 14 @ 11:05:48 CDT (10 reads)
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IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa
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The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is the organization that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide, tried to teach kids not to download pirated music has instead given them a wider model to download even more pirated material! Music, movies, TV shows, anime, hardcore pr0n. Is this another case of back asswards?
Torrent Freak reports: Together with the charity Childnet, IFPI recently launched a campaign to educate kids, teachers and parents about the dangers of filesharing. Ironically, the legal alternatives they suggest direct the kids to LimeWire, Kazaa and sites that sell hardcore adult movies.
Does anybody fact check these kind of things before they deploy IFPI agents to schools?
Before the name Limewire or Kazaa comes out of their mouths, wouldn't it be a good idea to download and try out that software before telling people that it's a better alternative to Torrent downloads?
For the full story, click on "Read More."
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Anime on TV Mon. Mon. Mon. May 12 - Mon. May 19
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From Cartoon Network, to Canada's YTV to cable stations like Starz, Showtime and more. Are you tired of bad repetitive reality TV and even worse sitcoms? If so, then gather around for this weeks anime on tv!
Plan your days around this list. NOW!
Click on "Read More" to for the full schedule.
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2nd week of Iron Man crushes 1st week of Speed Racer
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This probably doesn't bode well for future American made live action anime adaptations. Iron Man made $50.5 million dollars in it's second week, down only 49% from it's opening last week. At this point, Iron Man has made $117 thus far. Speed Racer came in at a distant second place in it's opening weekend, earning a miserable $20.2 million.
Comic Book movies, so far have been doing fairly well at the box office with movies like Spider-Man, Dark Knight and X-Men. But of course, for every good comic movie, there's pretty crappy ones too... Catwoman or Elektra, anyone? So far, there's really only been one American made adaptation of an anime and that was Fist of the North Star, but that made me want to shove hot coals into my eyes. Matrix was based on a lot of Ghost in the Shell but it doesn't count.
So yeah, Speed Racer is the first movie of 2008 that wound up bombing badly at movie theaters. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 35% positive, with 141 reviews- 49 positive and 92 negative. Meanwhile, Iron Man is so far the best reviewed film this year! Iron man scored a 92% positive- 171 positive and 14 negative.
This should put the fear of God into the next batch of live action American made anime movies like Dragonball, Akira and Ghost in the Shell.
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Posted by ntrop on Monday, May 12 @ 09:13:06 CDT (12 reads)
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Does changing a website kill their audience?
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It's no secret around here that we hate our web hosting company like a nun hates a steaming pile of dog doo dropped on sacred texts. Our server company should should shove their their collectively demented faces into an industrial powered electrical fan and then have their corpse thrown to disease-ridden wolves with hepatitis and bowel cancer. We hate 'em. We hate 'em deadly!
Anyhow, on a lighter note, we've noticed that keiichianimeforever.com has gone down the toilet since they redesigned their website and for the most part jettisoned the "anime news" section of their website. Their Alexa rating is dwindling at a rapid pace. Although, I'm VERY certain that this past week had piss-all for anime news. I couldn't report on a single thing because there was nothing to report. Just because of that fact, our website's numbers have dropped off substantially.
This week sucked!
This week TOTALLY SUCKED DONKEY BALLS!!!
"Where did all the anime news go?"- you all asked.
Nothing.
There wasn't a damn thing to post, and why is that? YOU PEOPLE AREN'T BUYING ANIME DVD'S!!! With no sales, there's no news.
I'd probably like the people behind the staff of Keiichi Anime Forever. In fact, they're probably just like us here at Love of Anime. They took a chance and because of that, over at the Alexa web information ratings, they show a drop-off of almost 15-20% from their audience in the last 3 months. We can't complain because we recently lost about 10% of our audience because of our outdated design and lack of both resources and links.
Thing is, Keiichi took a chance and we're considering updating ours in a FAR greater improvement. But, frankly, we're a little scared. We don't make money here. If we make anything, it is a tiny fraction of what it takes to keep this website up for you guys. I'd beg for PAYPAL donations, but if you're like me, you probably don't care.
So, just to let everyone know, yes, in fact, we're in the process of bringing this site into the 21st Century. We're a little worried of losing more people but then again, this website doesn't (AND CAN'T) post pictures, video or links because of our extremely crappy PHP Nuke website coding. I'd spit napalm on their MKULTRA PHP bootstraps, if possible. Can't. But I can dream, can't I?
So, yeah, Keiichi Anime made a decision and it ultimately sucked. We're thinking of going in a different direction and a more "sell-out," updated, 21st Century, all encompassing Anime website. If anything, all I'm trying to say is that we're here for you. If there's anything you'd like to see, PLEASE COMMENT AND LET US KNOW!!!!!!!!!!
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Anime on TV Mon. Mon. May 5 - Mon. May 12
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From Cartoon Network, to Canada's YTV to cable stations like Starz, Showtime and more. Are you tired of bad repetitive reality TV and even worse sitcoms? If so, then gather around for this weeks anime on tv!
Plan your days around this list. NOW!
Click on "Read More" to for the full schedule.
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Gurren Lagaan episodes 1-9 on sub-only DVD: YOU WILL BUY IT!!!
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan is seriously, the best mecha show ever! Sight unseen, BUY IT! You will not be an unsatisfied customer. MONEY BACK GUARANTEED!!!
Check wikipedia for what it's about here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurren_Lagaan
It's seriously awesome!
Now preorder it here: ($22) http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/catalogmgr/8fWFWauAeQ8L-QP3iV/browse/item/80021/4/0/0
Or buy it in stores on July 8th.
YOU WILL BUY IT!!! Don't make me a sad panda.
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Posted by ntrop on Monday, May 05 @ 09:02:05 CDT (39 reads)
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JAPAN NEWS: Ph33r the l33t c0rp5e of the H5N1 b1rd flu sw@n
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OHMYGODLOOKATTHETERRORISTBOMB!!!
No? Ok, how about, OHMYGODLOOKATTHEDEADLYBIRDFLUVIRUS!!!
Yes, the bird flu virus is back to scare the bejesus out of nervous germaphobes everywhere throughout Japan. Scare them and they will flee! WATCH OUT!!! SARS is around the corner! BOOOO!!!!!! It's easy to control an easily stupid public. Look at American voters. Luckily the Japanese aren't usually stupid. Not as stupid as us, anyhow. But, yes, there was a dead swan in Hokkaido with the H5N1 bird flu virus. That means WE'REALLGONNADIE!!!
See story here: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080505p2a00m0na025000c.html
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Posted by ntrop on Monday, May 05 @ 08:56:23 CDT (36 reads)
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Can't wait to see Speed Racer this weekend? See 3 minutes for free HERE!
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Mach a Go-Go-Go, or better known here in the US as Speed Racer, now has this small low budget indie film that has the dad from Roseanne in it. It comes out this weekend, but you probably haven't heard anything about it. After all, it just has that little girl from Addams Family Values in it and it's a documentary about cars. Well, cars that go fast.
In fact, you should just stay home and watch Nascar. Better yet, Nascar can't fill up enough seats at their events lately because of a "slow economy." Yeah, whatever that means. So, yeah, go buy tickets for Nascar.
Well, if you're still insistent about it, then see 3 minutes from this little heard-of movie over at IGN. I never would've even heard of this movie if it weren't for them. Never heard of it before! Really.
link: http://anime.ign.com/articles/871/871442p1.html
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Posted by ntrop on Monday, May 05 @ 08:44:31 CDT (40 reads)
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ASKROB asks: What did you pick up on FREE COMIC BOOK DAY?
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Ok, so this past Saturday was Free Comic Book Day. You probably have heard of this before. I did, after all, report on it... like, several times. I'm kinda repetitive that way. As our giggling murderer of a president once said, "In my line of work you need to repeat things; you've gotta sorta catapult the propaganda."
Well, I hope some of you went to your local comic shop and picked up your free manga and maybe a comic book or two. Did any of you get the free All-Star Superman #1 like I told you to?
ASKROB asks: WHAT DID YOU GET ON FREE COMIC BOOK DAY?
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Posted by ntrop on Monday, May 05 @ 08:35:45 CDT (34 reads)
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Free Comic Book Day is TOMORROW! Viz, Drawn and Quarterly Manga FREE!!!
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Your homework for this weekend is to find your nearest comic book store in your area, call them up and ask if they're participating in this Saturday, May 3rd FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. If they are, it is your duty to get to that comic shop and get free crap!
Of the different manga publishers, VIZ, Drawn and Quarterly, Tokyopop, Antarctic Press, Del Rey Manga and Yen Press will all have FREE MANGA given away. Everything is first come / first serve, so get there early. Every give away is limited to one each and some shops will restrict how many items will be given to each person.
And do try and get your hands on the free ALL STAR SUPERMAN #1 because it is probably the best Superman comic in decades! The horror anthology of the E.C. COMICS SAMPLER will be the first thing I want on my list.
Find out what's being given away here: http://www.freecomicbookday.com/the_comics.asp
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Posted by ntrop on Friday, May 02 @ 11:05:56 CDT (42 reads)
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Want to know more about trendy Tokyo culture?
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Nightjar has this new documentary DVD that is just really cool. It's called Tokyology and looks at the Tokyo culture of what's fresh and new and hot and takes a gander at the ultra-kakkoi fashion sensibilities. (It's kinda fetish / goth-like)
There's also coverage on the Tokyo Anime Fair and an interview with Serial Experiments Lain director Yoshitoshi Abe!
You can buy the DVD here: http://tokyology.tv/shop.html
Watch the trailer here: http://tokyology.tv/trailer.html
I feel a strange and sudden urge to use my PayPal account. I wonder why?
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Posted by ntrop on Thursday, May 01 @ 15:51:06 CDT (35 reads)
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JAPAN NEWS: Japanese gas up 90 cents a gallon over night!
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Ok, for one, it is general consensus that all retail sectors in America are hurting really, REALLY bad. One of the reasons that many anime distributors are cutting back their licensing of anime titles is because people aren't buying the DVDs. Moreover, a lot of people CAN'T buy DVDs because they are forced to be more picky on what they spend.
The cost of food is up, the cost of gas is WAY up, everything is going up in price but minimum wage is still the same and most of the other middle class people like us aren't having our pay go up. If you were a teenager 2 years ago, working a crap job at Wal-Mart for minimum wage then after 2 weeks you could buy a couple of DVD and other things. Then the cost of getting to work doubled, your hours are cut or just outright fired: no more DVD purchases.
In Japan, not many people in city areas have a car. It's like NY, Manhattan, you don't need a car because there's easy public transport everywhere. But in the rural areas, being Japanese and having to drive just started to INCREDIBLY AND EXTREMELY SUCK ASS!!!!!
Gas in Japan jumped approximately 90 cents (124-164 yen per liter) overnight. All this in time for Golden Week (ie GET BACK TO WORK!!!!!). They were lined up in three rowS of 14 cars each at one station in Oji at 9pm at night yesterday! How will this effect the anime DVD / manga industry at large in Japan? We'll have to wait and see.
link: http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?t=13375
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Posted by ntrop on Thursday, May 01 @ 14:46:16 CDT (44 reads)
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Torrent download website mininova.org's traffic doubles within a year
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With your help, next year we can make mininova.org the largest and most hunted by the MPAA and RIAA bit torrent website on the entire internet(s).
Torrentfreak tells us that as a comparison between Mininova’s traffic last month, and a year before that.
March 2007:
57,605,816 visits
261,460,196 pageviews
March 2008:
109,304,822 visits
530,181,594 pageviews
This is a great website to download an episode of Bleach or Heroes, as well as radio shows, movies, games and whatnot but you should always be cautious downloading anything. If there's a comments section, it's best to check what other people have said about a particular torrent. Unless you have a Mac, your PC is a scrawny weak little child without an immune system and you're exceedingly more likely to get a virus.
Silly PC people, when will you ever learn? GO MACINTOSH PEOPLES!!!
link: http://torrentfreak.com/mininovas-traffic-doubles-in-a-year-080430/
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Posted by ntrop on Thursday, May 01 @ 11:27:54 CDT (42 reads)
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Per usual, here are the Top 10's at the Japanese Box Office and the Japanese phrases of the Month.
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Anime COnventions for the month of May
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Northern Michigan Anime Convention
http://nmacon.webs.com/
Traverse City, MI
May 10, 2008
Anime Central
http://www.acen.org/
Rosemont, IL
May 16 - 18, 2008
JACON
http://www.jacon.org/
Orlando, FL
May 16 - 18, 2008
Click "Read More" to see the rest of the conventions for May...
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I added this poll based on the suggestion from member Yuugiri. Thanks Yuugiri!! Please vote when you get the chance, everyone. ^.^
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In the market for a DVD projector? Check out the coolest Star Wars item ever!
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So let's say you've downloaded the entire seasons of Hayate, Claymore and have a few episodes of Macross Frontier. You've put these to your iTV or burned these to DVD and are ready to play them on your DVD player on your TV. Now, let's say that your 50 inch LCD Sony TV isn't big enough to watch these shows. Well, there is hope- a New Hope, in fact.
If you're a fan of Star Wars - and lets face it, who isn't? - there is a super expensive toy that will be your best electronic friend ever. Here, we have a fully functional R2D2 projector and a Millennium Falcon remote control. Check out the super-badass YouTube video and maybe purchase said item. BTW, it's $3000.
R2D2 Projector video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpVQ_BXZOHw&eurl=
Buy it here: http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/product.xml?product_id=1218818
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Posted by ntrop on Thursday, May 01 @ 10:17:02 CDT (48 reads)
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Columnist gives anime a chance
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It seems lately that those who are outside anime & manga culture that write about the subject are getting better at covering the subject. For years I've read and roasted atrocious hack-job know nothing "journalists" that write about anime. But it seems that between this article and Monday's NPR broadcast, anime is starting to seem into the Mainstream Media (MSM).
Ok, so only me and a hanfull of other people on this website ever listen to NPR and sure, this article is a College Campus newsletter website but hey, it's a start. Oh yeah, and it all about Death Note.
Read Patrick Battle's little article on anim.... Death Note here:
http://www.northernstar.info/article/3418/&cid=0&ei=0pgYSLmeNJG2lgS2oOjZCw&usg=
AFrqEzddS-oKgzY3VSu5cnoz_laRrlCBjA
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Posted by ntrop on Wednesday, April 30 @ 13:29:27 CDT (56 reads)
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