Love Of Anime

Anime on TV Mon. Mon. May 5 - Mon. May 12

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.

Gurren Lagaan episodes 1-9 on sub-only DVD: YOU WILL BUY IT!!!

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.

JAPAN NEWS: Ph33r the l33t c0rp5e of the H5N1 b1rd flu sw@n

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

Can't wait to see Speed Racer this weekend? See 3 minutes for free HERE!

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

ASKROB asks: What did you pick up on FREE COMIC BOOK DAY?

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?

Free Comic Book Day is TOMORROW! Viz, Drawn and Quarterly Manga FREE!!!

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

Want to know more about trendy Tokyo culture?

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?

JAPAN NEWS: Japanese gas up 90 cents a gallon over night!

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

Torrent download website mininova.org's traffic doubles within a year

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/

May 2008 Newsletter

Per usual, here are the Top 10's at the Japanese Box Office and the Japanese phrases of the Month. Click "Read More" to see...