April 01, 2008
Gonzo to Stream New Anime Series Simultaneous with Airing
I must keep this in mind come Friday.
The Japanese media company GDH has announced that the YouTube, Crunchyroll, and BOST online video services will be streaming new titles from GDH's Gonzo animation studio — worldwide and on the same day as their Japanese broadcast. The video streams, which will be in Japanese with English subtitles, will start with The Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk (pictured at right) and Blassreiter anime series. Druaga will premiere on April 4, and Blassreiter will premiere on April 5.[...]
GDH added that its "decision to provide its content globally in parallel with Japanese broadcast is an effort to offer equal accessibility and new viewing opportunities to fans around the world, while at the same time showcasing a legal online alternative to illegal file-sharing and downloading."
(via warren ellis, anime news network)
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March 27, 2008
Achi-wa ssipak has Mutant Smurf Attacks
In a future where energy is made from fecal matter, the government rewards defecation with "juicybars". Small-time hustlers try to get rich while fending off the mutated Diaper Gang.
Hyper-violent American teenagers ready yourselves annnnnd: indulge.
Technically Achi-wa ssipak( Aachi And Sspak) is Korean animation and not japanese. It caught my interest no matter where it is from.
(via Panel and Pixel, mutant smurf war you tube)
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March 22, 2008
SOUL EATER Might Kick Your Ass
That looks beyond all cool.
(via andrew cunningham, official)
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December 13, 2007
FLCL Cosplay Check is More than Special
I'm avoiding work again. This FLCL cosplay moment made me smile a little.
Ok, a *lot*. Let's just keep that between you and me, internet. You know how to keep a secret, right?
(via rhythm wily deviatn art)
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December 06, 2007
Scivee: Scientists very Own You Tube
SciVee is doing this thing where they preload the video without you asking. I dropped that sucker under the cut cause that's annoying as all hell.
Not half as entertaining* as Moyashimon but then again what is?
(via warrenellis)
(*Scivee is not meant ot be entertaining. It's meant to share information. But who says hard fact can't be interesting too? 21st century Bill Nye/Mr Wizard, 'Where the hell are you??')
Here's a Microbeworld video on episode 11.
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November 07, 2007
BACCANO!: I Don't Know What was said but He Just Kicked Your Ass
Andrew Cummingham shared this cip of BACCANO! and claims shit like this happens in it all the time.
Consider me sold.
UPDATE: I know what was said now. Firo was right to kick your collective asses.
(via andrew cummingham, panel&pixel)
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October 19, 2007
Opening Up to: Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture
Are you wondering, "what the fuck?"
Read about Moyashimon:
The main character is Sawaki Tadayasu, a regular Japanese blond guy who's just moved to Tokyo to attend a college of agriculture, along with his best buddy Yuuki Kei . The trouble is, Tadayasu isn't very regular at all -- in fact he can see, touch and speak to germs. Being able to discern what types of germ inhabit a puddle of goo can be quite useful, and this potential is clear to Itsuki Keizou, a germ researching professor, who's an old friend of Tadayasu's grandfather. Not everyone is convinced Tadayasu is telling the truth, however, and to prove his abilities he's put through a rigorous test by the department's graduate student and resident bondage babe, Hasegawa Haruka.
And people say there are no new things on TV.
(via infected youtube)
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October 18, 2007
Furi Kuri!: Do It or Risk Overflow
If you people don't watch this before it disappears, well, I don't want to know you.
Nothing will happen if you don't swing the bat.
My love for this Gainax creation outshines the brightest star. I may have mentioned this before:
Searching for Kanchi
Furi Kuri overload
Fooly Cooly Loves You Crazier
Groonkly Bit
FLCL
(via anime loving warren ellis)
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October 12, 2007
Cutey Honey TV Show Less Silly than the New BIONIC WOMAN
Yes. Cutey Honey just fought the Bad Guys with her tits and ass.
God bless Japan.
Hmmm. Maybe if the new BIONIC WOMAN did that in every episode every ten minutes, I could be bothered to give a damn about the show. If Katee Sackhoff did that, well, that will have bought me for the entire season.
And holy damn, did you see what that Stairs Stuntman did there? You couldn't pay me enough to do that stunt.
BTW I watched the Cutey Honey movie once, too.
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April 09, 2007
WEB TRAILER: Drawn By Pain
Drawn By Pain is a web series that involves live action and anime-like drawings. From what I can tell, a real life girl has the ability to bring her drawings to life. Of course, the little girl has been damaged all to hell.
The trailer's better than most web made shows I've seen. It's too late to view any of the series but view it I shall. As soon as I'm awake at a "decent" hour.
Also, the brightcove feature looks like a handy bit of code. The auto-start is a bit annoying. I might drop the code below the jump in a day or so.
UPDATE: It happened. The trailer's under the cut.
(via shey.net, drawnbypain.com)
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March 02, 2007
New PAPRIKA Trailer Stuns My Brain with Beauty
This has to be the one movie I'm looking forward to this spring. Aside from 300, of course.
The trailer's only at the Apple site right now. You Tube doesn't have it yet.
Damnit.
And if this is the intro to PAPRIKA...holy shit, man!
(via warren ellis, first PAPRIKA trailer, second PAPRIKA trailer)
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January 16, 2007
Anime Innovation Tokyo Entices Indie Animators and Small Studios
Because animation should be mind blowingly awesome:
(via CENCOROLL, jean snow, and warren ellis)
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December 07, 2006
PAPRIKA is Curiously Cool Looking
This ain't your mama's paprika. This here PAPRIKA will invade your headspace and cause fits of cool to shudder throughout your body.
Can dreams drive you crazy? Is the boundary between dream life and so-called real life permeable? Satoshi Kon has been making brilliant animations based on these and similar questions since "Perfect Blue," his 1998 feature debut about an idol singer whose life, inner as well as outer, is invaded by an obsessed fan.His latest and, he says, last investigation of this dream-vs.-reality theme is "Paprika," which premiered at this year's Venice Film Festival and has been selected as a possible nominee for an animation Oscar. I have no idea if his film will make it into the final five, but it is definitely different from not only the talking-animal, 3G animation for kiddies that is now standard in Hollywood, but also the manga-based, sci-fi fantasy that the Japanese animation industry exports in large quantities to the world.
True, it has SF elements, the main one being a gizmo called the DC Mini that looks like a futuristic hearing aid and can transmit the wearer's dreams -- think of an MP3 Web site that allows you to share dreams instead of tunes.
But instead of focusing on his hardware or spinning the usual good-vs.-evil SF story, Kon takes his audience on a wild, fantastic ride into a land of extreme dreaming, where primal desires and fears (absolute freedom, appropriation of one's identity by a malevolent Other) come to gaudy, phantasmagorical life.
I know it sounds like THE CELL. But this actually has a thought behind it. I'm sure of this(sight unseen) cause director Satoshi Kon did the amazing PERFECT BLUE, the mesmerizing MILLENIUM ACTRESS, and the flat out awesome PARANOIA AGENT.
That's 3 to 1 against CELL director Tarsem Singh.
All THE CELL did was show me J Lo smoking pot(points for the panty shot) and Vicnent D'Onofrio in weird hair. It got points for mentioning FANTASTIC PLANET but lost all off them when it turned into a 90 minute music video.
There's a one sheet under the cut.
(via ontd and anime luving YouTube and The Japan Times)
"excuse me, who are you?"
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April 16, 2006
FANIME: Conjure One "Center of the Sun" + Metropolis
Honestly, one of the coolest anime/music mash-ups I've seen ever.
Listen to those vocals. There's Poe in there.
(via myspace conjure one blog)
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January 05, 2006
So much Miyazaki, So little time
There's a whole mess of Hayao Miyazaki movies airing this month on Turner Classic Movies channel. And by a whole mess I mean a month. And by a month I mean every Thursday.
The whole damn thing kicks off tonight with Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke.
Now even if you never even heard of anime or flat out don't like it, I encourage you to give any Miyazaki flick a try. His work transcends the anime barrier and creates a category all it's own. A category named Consistent Good Storytelling.
Some call Hayao Miyazaki the "Japanese Walt Disney." I prefer to call him "God of all Stories." He shares the title with Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon, when he eats all his vegetables.
Warren Ellis relegated himself to Internet Jesus. So his title is defined.
I'm stoked that I finally get to see "Nausicaa of the Valley" and "My Neighbor Totoro". Though I'm disappointed that "Kiki's Delivery Service" didn't make the list.
(via co-infomaster Dunc!)
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November 07, 2005
7 Days in Japan
7 Days in Japan follows "Japanese animation super fan Joe Doughrity, the black guy with the Irish name, as he sets out to fulfill his dream of visiting Japan".
Next time that black guy visiting Japan will be me.
Though I'll leave all the beer-can fucking to Demonbaby.
But if they're just lying there in a vending machine, who's to fault me for buying one for novelty purposes? I mean, it's not like I'd actually fuck the thing.
Maybe.
...
I'll shut up now.
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August 29, 2005
Anime Watch
Memento may be a way for me to keep up with the latest anime in Japan.
I was looking for something called Speed Grapher and managed to find a trailer for it. Not sure about that one.
I haven't run across any really good and new series lately. What's with the slump, guys?
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