Archive for the ‘Anime’ Category

Wonder Festival 2008

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Danny has provided a good coverage of the figures exhibit over at Wonder Festival summer event which ran over the last weekend. Check out his link below for all the photos. DannyChoo.com - Wonder Festival 2008 I got these Cosplay gallery links from his site as well. There's even a Ranka ...

Gundam 00 Season 2 Trailer

Monday, August 4th, 2008

  For those of you who can't get enough of Gundam 00, here's the a funny new trailer for the upcoming season 2. Warning .. there may be some spoilers :D

Artist of the Month - Aya Hirano

Friday, August 1st, 2008

  Aya Hirano (平野 綾, Hirano Aya?, born October 8, 1987) from Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is a seiyū and J-pop singer who has had roles in several anime, visual novels, and TV commercials in Japan. She is contracted to Space Craft Produce, a branch of Space Craft Group for her seiyū ...

Mamoru Oshii’s SkyCrawlers

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

  Mamoru Oshii's (Ghost in the Shell) latest military drama sci-fi epic is set for release in Japan this weekend 2nd August 2008. Set in an alternate universe, it follows the trials and tribulations of a group of young pilots engaged in a constant dogfight warfare. Rinko Kikuchi of Babel fame ...

San Diego Comic Con 2008

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Halfway across the globe we have the Western version of an anime convention, the San Diego Comic Con 2008 ! SDCC 2008 was held from the 24th till 27th July at San Diego Convention Center. In Asia we have people cosplaying as Gundams and while in the West we get ...

Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff

Monday, July 28th, 2008

  Hayao Miyazaki's latest work, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, has been breaking box office records in Japan. With ticket sales closing in on 1.5 billion yen over the opening weekend, it still failed to take over his 2001 Spirited Away with the highest opening ever. Ponyo on the ...

Geass de Chocobo

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Stumbled on this really funny clip of Code Geass remixed with the Chocobo theme from Final Fantasy, it had me rolling on the floor.Enjoy =))

Ghost in the Shell 2.0

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Via DannyChoo Looks like another classic hit is up for a refresh for the 2.0 generation.  Ghost in the Shell was recently remade with stunning new CGI effects and with some new scenes introduced in it. If you're not already confused with the new numbering system, this is the original 1995 ...

Cowboy Bebop Live Action Movie in the Works

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Via ANN - iF Magazine THE SKINNY: If anybody is in the mood for some exhilarating, long-anticipated, previously-unannounced breaking news about anime series COWBOY BEBOP, iF Magazine has the exclusive scoop for you. We caught up with producer-extraordinaire Erwin Stoff at the NBC TCAs where he was promoting his upcoming updated-David-and-Goliath-based ...

More Hikki Goodies

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

More updates on Hikki. Here are two videos from her live performance of Beautiful World which was the theme song for the Evangelion 1.0 remake and her cover version of Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day. Enjoy. Beautiful World Boulevard of Broken Dreams Hikki Forever Gallery Zyrex - Utada Hikaru Wallpapers