Anime Banzai ! - アニメ万歳！- For Fans, By Fans

Appleseed TV anime series will be slated for a 2009 release and Character designer, Mikimoto will be working for the TV anime Appleseed: Genesis. For those who might know, Mikimoto is the character designer who did Macross and Gundam 0080.

Source: ANN

Haruhiko Mikimoto, the character designer best known for the Macross, Gundam 0080, and Gunbuster anime, will work on the computer-graphics Appleseed: Genesis television series that is slated for 2009

Anime Banzai’s first unofficial outing as your Funcasters meet up to catch some of the action they funcasted about themselves!

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Not really a fan of Armored Core, but I think Armored Core for Answer might make me get my first purchase of Mecha Themes Games for the PS3. The Trailer CG looks damn good, I also read elsewhere From Software will make up for all the shortcomings in the earlier PS3 / X360 version of AC4.

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Kodomo no Jikan Season 2 Confirmed ! More lolis for you, Sir?

A special limited edition of the 5th volume manga will retail on 11th July that will include a promotional trailer video of the 2nd season in a DVD.

Found this over at the DMC4 Xbox360 HP a video of an “Akihabara Idol girl” unboxing her Premium DMC4 game for xbox360. I know this is staged, but her cute megane (Glasses) and her fangirl style attraction to Nero got me interested. Sadly over at the PS3 camp no such video exist.

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Namco Bandai and CyverConnect 2 have created a CG anime based off the .Hack G.U PS2 games for DVD and Blu-Ray. Akibablog reports that it recently went on sale. Hit the jump for Videos and Screens.

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I’ll be popping in and out. Might even decide to blog an anime from Spring 2008. Just want to tell you that D. Gray Man is going to have a new opening! Its called “Gekidou” meaning “Agitated” by UVERworld. I’ve been waiting for UVERworld to make a theme for D. Gray Man. woohoo! and they did =D. chyeahh. It has a feel of “Shaka Beach ~Laka Laka La~.” Shaka Beach ~Laka Laka La~ is a HOT song. I love Takuya’s voice in it! I’m not understanding why they showed an episode which did not have this song as the theme. Maybe it was scheduled for this episode, but the song was chosen for another episode.

Also Hayate no Gotoku is getting a second season. Don’t you want more butler?

I miss you guys and Abanzai!

The official website for Winter Sonata the Animation, the adaptation of the hit live-action Korean drama series, has launched with a trailer. Click on the trailer link to launch the trailer. I am looking forward for this. ;)

So I got a link from one of my friends…and it was godly 萌え …so I had to share with everyone….
Didn’t get sick of it even after 50 repeats or so … なのです！

This week we take a look at all the upcoming shows for spring 2008. Icy Storm joins us for another week of fun and adds his two cents. We also discuss the latest news in the anime world.

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Intro: 00:00 - 03:13
News: 03:14 - 28:00
Spring Reviews: 28:00 - 1:15:00
Outro: - 1:15:00 - 1:17:00

Enjoy next week we will return to normal programming :)

Dont make it! Dont watch it! Dont download it! (well, there is no “stream it”)

With courtesy of ANN who posted the translation on their website:

“Fan-Subtitles” are visual works that feature unauthorized
subtitles in various languages done by ‘fans.’ Data
hasshown that in the United States, there have been over 6
million downloads in any given week.
In answer to this, the Copyright Network for Comic Authors
in the 21st Century, The Association of Japanese
Animations and the Japan Video Software Association with
cooperation from relevant government ministries, have
established a countermeasure council to address the issue
of internet piracy with particular attention on Fansubs. The
first meeting is scheduled to be held in April.

Tokyo Anime Center executive producer Masakazu Kubo considered fansubs as a form of “pirated copies. Earlier on, the working group suggested that it may be necessary to approach the illegal uploaders directly, so that Japan can formally approve these sites. We shall expect a few major changes to sites like Youtube, Nico Nico Douga and other related websites.

It is apparent they are pushing for a new direction in the anime industry. Of course, we wouldn’t know where this new direction will lead us, both the anime companies and the fans to.

AI DAYO!

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I like Hayate No Gotoku! very much and I’m very happy to hear the news. Even though it’s already 52 episodes long, I still can’t get enough of it. Why? Because of certain things that Hayate No Gotoku! have and other animes don’t. One of the obvious one is the wide variety of lovable characters. From the tsundere-Nagi to the can’t-help-but-to-love-Maria and other awesome characters such as the perfect-girlfriend-material-Hinagiku.

Other things that I love about the series are the characters breaking the 4th wall and the anime references. Hayate No Gotoku! has minimum plot and most of the episodes are not related to the plot at all. But I don’t mind and it’s good to watch animes like this once in a while. I don’t even mind if Hayate No Gotoku! goes on forever because I will never get tired of it. So, I hope that the 2nd season will be at least 52 episodes long just like the 1st one.

Source: ANN

The latest famitsu scans shows another special Character planned for the game. She is designed by Keroro Mangaka Keroro Gunsou creator Yoshizaki Mine and related to Angol Mois.

[via Moetron]

It’s summer break in Clannad. With Nagisa’s story over (not all of it), KyoAni decided to do an extra episode of Clannad. This episode shows some romantic and funny moments from Tomoya and Nagisa. Sunohara’s sister, Mei also makes an appearance in this episode and she is no doubt one of the highlight of the episode. Why do I use a Kyou image above? Because you won’t see much of it after this..

This is the last episode of Clannad before the 24th episode that will be released much later. You guys probably won’t see a Clannad article from me for a long time after this. So, here’s CLANNAD 23…

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