I apologize for being absent, I have finals and it's been exhausting! To apologize formally I will a have a super special awesome mega chocolaty fudge coated extended edition of my blog.
Bleach On
Crunchyroll!!!:
Crunchyroll just announced that it will
stimucast Bleach on it's website. It will start with the latest (Japanese) episode, #274 and it will
stimucast it on June 8, 2010. It will also
stimucast episodes 266-273 on June, 15. It will be
available in
HD for premium members a mere hour after it airs on Tokyo T.V. and it will be available in SD a week after for regular members. It will be available in
English subtitles in so many countries you basically have to be in South Africa not to see it...oh wait...it's available there as well.
Top Selling
Manga (for Japan)
From November 23, 2009 to May 23 2010
1. One Piece Volume #57 Sold: 2,305,594
2. One Piece Volume #56 Sold: 2,276,013
3. Full Metal Alchemist Volume#25 Sold: 1,251,949
4.
Nodame Cantabile Volume #23 Sold: 1,223,488
5. Full Metal Alchemist #25 Sold: 1,208,345
6.
Naruto Volume #49 Sold: 1,152,551
7.
Naruto Volume #50 Sold: 1,119,029
8.
Naruto Volume #51 Sold: 952,072
9.
Kimi no
Todoke Voume #10 Sold: 939,831
10. Hunter X Hunter Volume #27 Sold: 918,059
Borders losing mo' money: Borders a major book store and media outlet reports a 15 percent quarter sales lost, a net loss of about 64 million dollars. They closed 6
domestic stores, however on the bright side there is about a 6 percent increase in international store sales. It a darn shame for me because my "local" Borders has a huge ass M
anga section and if it were to close down, I would have to drive to a different state next time I wanted some M
anga.
Awesome People to Produce Awesome Cartoon: Remember
Thundercats? Probably not but, like Transformers it's making an epic comeback.
Thundercats a cartoon from the 80's appears to be going to be animated/produced by 4
degrees Celsius studio. To give you an idea of just how spectacular this new series is going to be, these guys animated/produced, Ben 10, Batman: The Brave and The Bold, Teen Titans, and even Avatar: the Last
Airbender. If you hated any of these and argue they
aren't real
animes I have this flimsy response: could you do any better?
I
cAn haZ mOar mangas?: Finally Viz Media plans ANOTHER North American
Manga release of a series called
Mardock Scramble. The series is described as (and I'm quoting someone on this) "A young
prostitute named Balled...now a cyborg...chases down a variety of insane
villains..." I'm not shortening the quote to put down the series or altering it to make it look stupid, quite literally that's what it said. Although I must admit a crime fighting prostitute cyborg, is still not half as crazy as other
Manga or
Animes I've seen...speaking of.
Incest? Oh your step-siblings...: In conclusion today there seems to be a plan of a Direct release of an
anime called
KissXSis which follows the "forbidden love" of a brother and his two step-sisters. They DVD which ships F
riday will be episode the 5
th episode but ironically call #4 since the pilot was called episode #0. It will also be bundled with the first print of volume #7 of the
manga. My only issue is if having step-siblings in the same house be boyfriend and girlfriend was O.K. in Twilight, then I don't see how they make a big deal of it in this series. Then again, I'm the one who watched the entire Honey and Clover series.
Anime Character of the Day: Edward
ElricEdward Quote: "I am not an ordinary Alchemist"