Hello again, I have good news, I just may get a "job" on an anime review site although this has yet to be confirmed. I'll be sure to let you guys know about this.
Naruto Going Green: Recently the Naruto manga officially sold over 100 million books in Japan and to celebrate the creators are going to create "Naruto's Forest". They are going to plant in total 7,610 trees on Japanese mountainsides. Indeed, they will continue to care for the trees for about ten years until they are able to survive on their own. This not only shows that the creators care about the environment (and are trying to plant back the paper they used) but also that they realise what a good milestone this is. In addition people can submit art and maybe receive "a tree" in their name. They'll receive information and a number so they can locate their tree. Personally, I'm just glad they're giving back to the environment.
Legal Scanlations: We all know scanlations are much more of a hassle than illegal uploads for anime, considering most animes you can legally view on site's like Crunchyroll or Hulu. However when it comes to manga scans we're talking a whole new ballpark. Very few sites can claim they legally distribute scans of manga especially mainstream ones. However one site plans on doing so. Digital Manga Publishing says they plan on opening up a site that legally distributes digital manga. However they plan on maker sure owners get their fare share of the pie. My only issue is that from rumors it seems the site will revolve around yoai and yuri. There's nothing wrong with either genre but, establishing the fact that I'm a hetrosexual male, obviously I prefer the later genre. Still it's good to know some sites are cleaning up their act. Many website's are still doing illegal scanlations and are being met with a lawsuit, when it has mostly legal scanlations though. Hopefully this is one website that will work out.
(WARNING: This article contains some explicted language) Hentai Anyone?: Getting to something a few days old it seems Japan is looking to revise the "Nonexistent Youth" Bill. What is this Bill again? Well basically it restricts certain types of porn, namely anime, manga, etc. etc. Basically if it revolves rape or incest or something of that variety. Although it's not too specific, I'm guessing it would either raise the minimum age to view porn in Japan or it would censor it even more so than they do now. I'm not going to try to get into to much detail for the sake of my mental health. But the reason we do have to worry is that some manga with genuine plotline and simply have hentai just for hentai's sake or because it's relative to the plot might be censored or cut out, making the story confusing. Although I havn't read any manga like that I have heard of some good ones that might have to be worried because of this bill. Personally though as long as it doesn't get in the way of my Pantsu I don't care. (Just kidding)
Best Selling Manga in America (According to the New York Times)
#1 Naruto Volume 48
#2 Vampire Knight Volume 10
#3 Bleach Volume 31
#4 Hellsing Volume 10
#5 Black Butler Volume 2
#6 Yu-Gi-Oh! R Volume 5
#7 Alice in the Country of Heart Volume 3
#8 Negima! Master Negi Magi Volume 26
#9 Naruto Volume 47
#10 Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Volume 13
A few comments about the bestseller list actually. I'm thankful that Naruto is up there with two volumes. I'm also thankful that I'm confirming how popular Black Butler is, reassuring myself to check it out. I'm going to start getting my allowance again next week so that's when I'll review Bleach Volume 31 and maybe Naruto. I'm also sort of surprised Yu-Gi-Oh is up there. I had no idea it was THAT popular. Oh well...
Anime Character of the Day: Soifon from Bleach
Soifon quote: "I have no interest in whether it is right or wrong. All I care about is executing orders as a captain of the Gotei 13. All who get in my way are my enemies. All enemies must be slain. That is all that matters."
Showing posts with label bleach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bleach. Show all posts
Friday, June 18, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
I'm not dead just tired!
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 Manga section and if it were to close down, I would have to drive to a different state next time I wanted some Manga.
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 Friday will be episode the 5th 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 Elric
Edward Quote: "I am not an ordinary Alchemist"
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 Manga section and if it were to close down, I would have to drive to a different state next time I wanted some Manga.
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 Friday will be episode the 5th 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 Elric
Edward Quote: "I am not an ordinary Alchemist"
Thursday, May 27, 2010
My First Blog
This blog is dedicated to anime and nothing else...except that statement...With that out of the way let's get started.
Naruto Box Set 2: I finally got Naruto shippuden box set 2 and finished watching it and I have to say even though I've already read the manga and know the outcome it's very interesting to see it in action, the battle is interesting if not slightly slow paced, and it's fun to see Sakura ACTUALLY FRICKEN' DO SOMETHING...but that's what any anime hobo would say so I'm going to be a bit more creative. It's fun to see Sakura stand there with a kunai and let someone else (Granny Chio) use her as a puppet to attack. Ergo, SHES STILL JUST STANDING THERE WITH A KUNAI.
Bleach Volume 30: HOORAY FOR: filllleeeeer filling up our story its gonna be a damned long time before we get some ploo-oot-ooot (sing that to the tune of thriller and you'll get the joke). Seriously all that happened is we further established how much Rukia is suffering because of killing Kaien and I suppose dedicating basicaly an entire arc to that backstory wasn't enough. Seriously he's dead and we get how much of an impact Kaien had on Rukia can we move on. To put it quite simply it was a great read, but I felt like nothing happened, just a delay really.
*Bankai: SPOILER ALERT* (the most powerful of Bankai): Chad figures out that his powers are really Hollow meaning?...he was really a Hollow in a past life? I'm not sure they don't explain it erm...he gets killed...almost. Then we transition to Rukia who begins fighting someone, but after going into an enclosed area he pulls off his mask revealing himself to be Kaien :O dun dun duuunnnn! Rukia amazed engages Kaien in a conversation were he briefly explains that he ended up merging with the Hollow after all as part of Aizens experiments, but ended up overtaking the Hollow in his (the Hollows) wounded state. For a brief moment Rukia believes him, but then he tell her to bring the heads of her friends and she comes back to Earth (or Hueco Mundo whatever). They engage briefly in battle and he explains (after Rukia shines light on his face transforming him into a jar with two skulls in it) that in spirit and in body he's technically Kaien. Rukia then gets stabbed unable to attack because it IS Kaien and has a flashback in which explained Kaiens belief that a persons heart is between a friendship. Rukia then kills the Hollow realizing Kaien wouldn't mind. We end on a shot of Ichigo standing off to Ulquiorra Cifer.
Anime Character of the day: Light Yagami from Death Note
Naruto Box Set 2: I finally got Naruto shippuden box set 2 and finished watching it and I have to say even though I've already read the manga and know the outcome it's very interesting to see it in action, the battle is interesting if not slightly slow paced, and it's fun to see Sakura ACTUALLY FRICKEN' DO SOMETHING...but that's what any anime hobo would say so I'm going to be a bit more creative. It's fun to see Sakura stand there with a kunai and let someone else (Granny Chio) use her as a puppet to attack. Ergo, SHES STILL JUST STANDING THERE WITH A KUNAI.
Bleach Volume 30: HOORAY FOR: filllleeeeer filling up our story its gonna be a damned long time before we get some ploo-oot-ooot (sing that to the tune of thriller and you'll get the joke). Seriously all that happened is we further established how much Rukia is suffering because of killing Kaien and I suppose dedicating basicaly an entire arc to that backstory wasn't enough. Seriously he's dead and we get how much of an impact Kaien had on Rukia can we move on. To put it quite simply it was a great read, but I felt like nothing happened, just a delay really.
*Bankai: SPOILER ALERT* (the most powerful of Bankai): Chad figures out that his powers are really Hollow meaning?...he was really a Hollow in a past life? I'm not sure they don't explain it erm...he gets killed...almost. Then we transition to Rukia who begins fighting someone, but after going into an enclosed area he pulls off his mask revealing himself to be Kaien :O dun dun duuunnnn! Rukia amazed engages Kaien in a conversation were he briefly explains that he ended up merging with the Hollow after all as part of Aizens experiments, but ended up overtaking the Hollow in his (the Hollows) wounded state. For a brief moment Rukia believes him, but then he tell her to bring the heads of her friends and she comes back to Earth (or Hueco Mundo whatever). They engage briefly in battle and he explains (after Rukia shines light on his face transforming him into a jar with two skulls in it) that in spirit and in body he's technically Kaien. Rukia then gets stabbed unable to attack because it IS Kaien and has a flashback in which explained Kaiens belief that a persons heart is between a friendship. Rukia then kills the Hollow realizing Kaien wouldn't mind. We end on a shot of Ichigo standing off to Ulquiorra Cifer.
Anime Character of the day: Light Yagami from Death Note
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