From the land of Geek
TweetHere’s a charity worth supporting: Scotland Loves Anime. They’re coordinating a festival/series of anime screenings in Scotland and it seems like an absolute age since the last one so these screenings are likely to be popular indeed. The festival will be taking place from the 8th to 10th of October in Glasgow and the 15th [...]
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TweetThe CW‘s Supernatural starting Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles is to go anime. The anime will be produced by Mad House for Warner Bros. There’s a website up already but it’s in Japanese except for the pages which say “Coming Soon” – which is about all of them. Of note is the low low price [...]
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TweetAnime heroes tend to come and go. Sure, the likes of Bleach, Dragonball Z or even Pokemon have been around for years – but compare that to Batman or Superman. Compare those to the likes of the Phantom or the Shadow. I’m no expert but my gut feeling is that Gundam is one of the [...]
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TweetFunimation and CapCom have got their hands on (some of) the Sengoku Basara license. The anime is coming out on blu-ray on October 12 and so is the computer game. In Europe the computer game will be out just a few days later. The problem here is that Funimation doens’t appear to have the anime [...]
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TweetThis anime inspired verison of Iron Man won’t reach US TV any time soon. We’re looking at the last three months of 2011. Grok knows how long/if it’ll be before it appears on UK TV. This is a Warren Ellis scripted production – I mean; it’s really his thing, isn’t it. Mr Transhumanist. He’s the [...]
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TweetSince very popular Bleach fansite Bleach7.com is down for the count I thought it might be a good idea to put a placeholder live for Bleach 280. Why? For many fans this will be the first Bleach they’ve had to go looking for without Bleach7.com. Let’s hope 280 is a good episode! This isn’t a [...]
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TweetScanlation is not popular with the anime and manga license holders. They see it as an enhanced form of piracy. They may or may not be right. The debates remind me, very much, of the debates going on in the music industry. Fan site Bleach7.com has been caught up in the drama. It was once [...]
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TweetVariety are reporting that Starz wants out of movies. This means that Starz Media is for sale. Starz owns Overture, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Film Roman and Starz Animation. They also own Manga. Starz also has stakes in companies like POW! ENtertainment (That’s Stan Lee’s company) and Archie Comics as well as been part of funding [...]
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TweetSuccess with Final Fantasy and Science Ninja Team Gatchaman has made Yoshitaka Amano famous. It’s no surprise that fans sat up and took notice when it was announced he would be directing his first ever anime film. In fact; news of the film helped explain a mysterious panther-like creature that Amano has put on display [...]
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TweetThe Hereoman anime is a collaboration between Stan Lee and the anime studio Bones. Created by Stan Lee (yes; that Stan Lee) Heroman follows Joey Jones after an accident turns his toy robot into a real and rather large actual robot. Jones teaches Heroman about right and wrong and, of course, learns a few lessons [...]
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