Anime Vice has their preview up of all 30 new anime that will be debuting this spring. Some of these shows may get licensed and brought stateside. Some of them probably won’t. My shows of interest are below the cut.
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Weekend Review – Bleach (Season 3)
Now that all of the episodes of Season 3 are out on DVD, does Season 3 successfully wrap up the Soul Society Arc, or does it not succeed in that regard?
Weekend Review – Record of Lodoss War (OVA)
This week, I’ve got a review of the classic, but unfortunately out-of-print, heroic fantasy anime “Record of Lodoss War.”
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Would you buy US comics in a “Shonen Jump” style magazine format?
A discussion topic at AnimeVice.com caught my attention, so I thought I’d pass it to all of you here. Currently, the way manga is published, the “chapters” of the manga (equivalent to one issue of a comic) are run in a larger magazine like Shonen Jump, Young King Hours, etc. usually on lower quality paper (similar to the quality of the paper in your Essential Marvel collections) and then the chapters are later collected in a Tankobon (basically the equivalent of a trade paperback).
Now, if you could choose to get you comics in a form similar to that, printed chapter-by-chapter in black-and-white in a magazine similar to Shonen Jump (Detective Magazine), with lower-quality paper, and then getting the color and so forth in the “tankobon” anthologies, similar to the trade paperbacks we’re getting now, would you do so?
Rick Eddleman pleads guilty to embezzling over $1.5 Million from Decipher
I don’t know how many of you, dear readers, play table-top role-playing games, or collectible card games. However, you’ve probably heard of Decipher, who put out the first Star Wars CCG, and the last Star Trek and Lord of the Rings role-playing games – both of the latter had problems getting books out for both of them, Lord of the Rings due to licensing issues restricting them to the films and not to Tolkein’s later material, and Star Trek due to lack of funds.
Well, we now know why the lack of funds happened – The Virginan-Pilot is reporting that former Decipher VP of Finance Rick Eddleman has plead guilty to embezzling over $1.5 million from the company. The embezzlement was not caught until 2000. Thus far they’ve only recovered $50,000 from Eddleman’s 401K – about 1/30th of the amount stolen.
Disney Cancels Power Rangers
The New Zealand Herald is reporting that Disney has canceled its long running “Americanized” version of the “Super Sentai” franchise of Tokusatsu shows, “Power Rangers”. The franchise ran on American TV since the early 90s with the original series “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” and has since gone through various other iterations reflecting the Japanese series from they’re adapted from (for example, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger becoming Power Rangers: SPD, Mahou Sentai Magiranger becoming Power Rangers: Mystic Force, etc.)
This leaves Kamen Rider as the only Tokusatsu franchise represented on American TV, with Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (adapted from Kamen Rider Ryuki).
More Anime on Blu-Ray from Funimation.
AnimeVice.com is reporting that Funimation has more anime releases on Blu-Ray lined up. Notable items on the list include Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid, Season 1 of Gunslinger Girl, Basalisk, Trinity Blood, and yet more DBZ movies.
Parody of Watchmen – Saturday Morning Cartoon Opening
Alexius writes, What would the opening look like if Watchmen were on Saturday morning? This!
Warning, this will break your brain. It broke my brain. Yes, I got better, but I was in a state of chuckling and shaking my head (and shaking my head and chuckling) for a period of several minutes before I recovered.
New Wolverine and Potter Trailers
Ogre writes, I don’t know how long it will last as MTV update their links pretty regularly, but there’s a two and a half minute X-Men Origins: Wolverine (direct link) trailer up.
Additionally, there’s a new Half Blood Prince trailer out: 480P, 720P, 1080P
Watchmen Review Up At Hollywood Reporter
chad writes, The Hollywood Reporter has reviewed the Watchmen movie and calls it “the first real flop of 2009.” Warning: spoilers if you haven’t read the comic.
Our own review of Watchmen should be up this weekend, once we’ve (we being the Royal We, referring to a member of the staff) had a chance to see it (we don’t get invited to those swanky advanced screenings, unfortunately.)
EDIT: Clarified the article title – sorry, those who were misled on the RSS feed. My bad.