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Thu 17 Apr 2008

Yen Press Licenses the Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu Manga Adaptation

Posted by moeu under News., Bandai, manga, Haruhi Suzumiya
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According to ANN, the Haruhi manga has been licensed by Yen Press. This is pretty good news. Now, hopefully, we will see someone bring over the novels.

In other Haruhi related news, the ASOS Brigade website has updated again. This time with more of the cryptic source code messages. It seems that something will be announced soon. Though it’s still up in the air if it is a Haruhi related announcement, or just more Kadokawa and Bandai Entertainment announcements (see: the announcements for “Lucky Star” and “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” )

 

Sat 31 Mar 2007

Big News!

Posted by moeu under Misc., Reviews, Opinions, News., Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Nodame Cantabile, Bandai, Gundam, Gunbuster, Gunbuster 2, Fansubs, Jinki:Extend, manga, Karin, Blood+, DVD, Haruhi Suzumiya, Ikkitousen, Code Geass, 2x2 Shinobuden
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First off, Haruhi season 2 was announced! Unfortunately, the animation will be handled by C&S, the same studio responsible for Gundo Musashi, and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda, with character designs by Hisashi Hirai. Kadokawa officials were unavailable for comments.

 

In other news, JAM Project will be signing the opening and endings to the new, hot-blooded Kyo-Ani epic “Lucky Star”. Lead signer Hironobu Kageyama reported that it will be their “most hot-blooded, intense, song ever!”

 

Speaking of Kyo-ani, after the series “Lucky Star” is completed, Kyo-Ani will go out of business. Anecdotal reports from Japan say that the OVA quality animation cost so much that they needed more revenue, but due to American fansubers, they lost every yen they had, and couldn’t feed their children. In bloging news, Impz has renounced his hatred of Mech and Shonen anime. He reported that he has already amassed a collection of Gundam models worth $2000, and has Naruto’s portrait plastered around his house.

Lastly, I will be changing the focus of Moe Union. While I still love anime, I have been convinced by many commentators that I have a need for Viagra and flowers for my non-existent girlfriend. This is what I feel I must focus on.

Good night, and good luck…

 

Wed 21 Mar 2007

Manga Review: Ikkitousen Vol.1

Posted by moeu under Reviews, manga, Ikkitousen
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So, being the new fan to Ikkitousen that I am, I jumped at the chance to read it for free when I found that my local library system had it.

However, as enjoyable as the art and overall story was, the adaptation was horrendous. Tokyopop should be ashamed of themselves for letting the Griffonator touch it. I don’t know Japanese, I’ve never even read the book before a week ago, but I know that some of those characters weren’t saying what they said in the original version by the expressions the characters had. It’s blatant.

Other than the cringe worthy dialogue changes, it was a very enjoyable read. The overall story is still enjoyable, and lots of nice fanservice.

Story summary:

Sonsaku lives with her Mother, and attends high school like most normal girls her age. However, we learn that her Mother has been training her from an early age to be a skilled martial artist. Soon, she gets into a fight with a “toushi”, a person who possesses the sprit of a person from Three Kingdoms era China in a jewel (the Magatama) that they carry with them. Sonsaku proceeds to get in a fight and beat the snot out of said toushi.

Her Mother then sends her to a new high school in the town where her cousin, Koukin, lives. This town is where all of the toushi have began gathering. Thus begins the fanservice fest.

Later in the volume, we get treated to Ryomu kicking around some various people, and another group of toushi fighting some random toushi from the school where all of the reincarnated Wei officers have gathered.

Not all that much happens, but it is the first volume. An enjoyable read.

Score:

Adaptation: D- (at least it’s not edited)

Art: A+ (this is the main draw [haha a pun])

Story: B+ (exciting, but not much happens)

Overall: B

 

Fri 16 Feb 2007

Blood+ coming to Adult Swim, Karin licensed, Jinki: Extend manga to be continued.

Posted by moeu under Opinions, News., Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Jinki:Extend, manga, Karin, Blood+, DVD
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A few tid-bits of news have come out in the past few days. First off, Blood+ has formally been announced for AS, and was given the 12:30 A.M timeslot on Saturdays, starting March 10. It was obvious that Blood+ would be airing as soon as one of the current series ended. However, Eureka 7 will be finishing soon as well, so that leaves another time slot up for speculation. Most likely E7 will be replaced with the Witchblade series that premiered in Spring ‘06 in Japan. Witchblade has been mentioned by sources unrelated by CN as acquired by the network. However, this doesn’t really mean anything until CN actually confirms it. I liked what I saw of the Witchblade series, but I really hope that Haruhi will get acquired. The show needs all the exposure it can get, so airing it wouldn’t hurt at all. Guess we’ll just have to see.

Next up, Karin was licensed by Geneon today for distribution in the R1 region. I’ll definitely buy this, though, the final episodes left me feeling empty. Good to see that the R1 market seems to be recovering now.

Finally, the Manga-ka of the Jinki: Extend manga reported that he has received over ten offers from various magazines in Japan to continue publication of the series after it was dropped from Comic Blade Magazine. While I haven’t been following the Japanese run of the Jinki: Extend manga, it is good to know that it will more than likely continue. Now it has a better chance of being picked up (again) by a English language manga publisher than it did a month ago. Very good news indeed.