Anime News Network is reporting that MYC & Associates, the trustee for Central Park Media’s assets now that they’ve filed for bankruptcy, has begun liquidating CPM’s licenses, and material related to those licences (DVD packaging design, and the subtitles).
More news on the results of the auction will be posted as it arrives.
Sci-Fi Wire is reporting that Comedy Central has ordered a new 26-episode season of Futurama. The series was axed of Fox 6 years ago, but was kept alive through various direct-to-DVD films (of which we’ve reviewed the first.)
Kotaku is reporting that Activision-Blizzard is suing EA to prevent them from releasing Brütal Legend, the fantasy & metal themed action/adventure/RTS game from Tim Schafer, the creator of Psychonauts, as well as a lot of Lucasarts adventure games (including Day of the Tentacle, and the Monkey Island games).
CNN is reporting that actor David Carradine was found dead in his Bankok hotel room.
Carradine had performed in over 100 feature films, including the cult classics Death Race 2000, The Silent Flute, and the Kill Bill duology. He was 72 years old.
So, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have had their Press Briefings at E3, showing off the games to come for their systems. The question is, from a Genre fan’s standpoint, what do they have that’s interesting?
The anime series of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has become perhaps one of the more popular anime series to make the jump to the US, and one of the few anime series based off books to have the original source of the series get translated into English. I have already seen the series (and a review is forthcoming, once I finish with Patlabor), the question is, how does the book hold up?
This weekend’s review, takes us out of the Patlabor TV continuity, and back to the OVA continuity, with a sequel to the first movie, set several years later, and also puts the franchise back in the hands of Oshii, who brought this movie out before Ghost In The Shell, but after the creation of his (in)famous Jin-Roh franchise, and his first live-action film, which was also in the Jin-Roh series. Can he bring the funny back, or will we start seeing some of the humor-less tone of his later works? Continue reading →
So, we conclude our review (which we started last week) of DC: The New Frontier with the second half of the comic, in which things come to, well, a conclusion (as opposed to just getting left hanging – which is annoying. The ending of DC: The New Frontier on the other hand… well, I’m not going to spoil my own review. Continue reading →
Anime News Network is reporting that the first volume of the Akira and Ghost in the Shell manga are currently up for pre-order on Amazon.com. Making the fact that both of these manga are coming back into print slightly more notable is that the titles are not being published by Dark Horse Comics, their previous licensor, but by Kodansha Comics. Kodansha is the Japanese rightsholder for both of these titles, and published the original manga for both titles in Young Magazine.
Dark Horse is the licensor of several other Kodansha titles, including You’re Under Arrest, Oh! My Goddess, Gunsmith Cats, and Blade of the Immortal.
Well, the first four of Central Park Media’s prior titles have been saved from near oblivion. AnimeVice reports that ADV has grabbed the licenses for Grave of the Fireflies, Now and Then Here and There, World of Narue, and MD Geist (the main character of MD Geist was the “mascot” for CPM’s “US Manga Corps” line. The status of other series such as Dominion Tank Police, Patlabor, Armored Trooper Votoms, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Project A-Ko, and Record of Lodoss War are still up in the air. Continue reading →