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Taken from today’s announcement over at ANN, Funimation picked up title and distribution rights for several shows from Geneon’s now defunct US branch. Noteable series include Ergo Proxy, Black Lagoon, Higurashi, Rozen Maiden, Shana, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, The Story of Saiunkoku, and The Familiar of Zero.
Sidenote: Yay Nanoha DVDs. The White Devil is finally coming to the states.
Shiki Ryogi returns to kick more ass in Kara no Kyoukai: Satsujin Kosatsu (Murder Speculation), Part 1. The story goes back in time to explore the origin of the strange relationship between Shiki and Mikiya. This movie is basically all exposition with tons of back story crammed into it.
Here’s my short list of manga that I’d like to see get anime adaptations. I don’t feel like writing an exposition for this article, so just click the jump to see my picks.
Night Wizard flew under a lot of radars during its Fall 2007 run. Sure it started off as a run-of-the-mill game adaptation, with neither the story nor the concept being particularly original, but Night Wizard was still a solid show. It’s a shame that more people didn’t watch this show, because I think it had a lot going for it.
July is steadily approaching, and if you haven’t seen it already, I’ll steer you over to Moetron’s Summer 2008 Guide. This looks to be a pretty good season for a summer lineup, even if there are a whopping nine sequels… And a show based on a pachinko game, which consequently enough looks like a joke.
My watchlist: Natsu no Sora, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, Seikirei
The contenders: Birdy the Mighty Decode, Chocolate Underground, Natsume Yuujin-Chou, World Destruction, Strike Witches, Koihime Musou
As someone who hasn’t been too impressed with the selection of anime in the past few years I’ve found myself frequently going to more “exotic” avenues to fill my need for DVD hoarding. Even so far as to go into the terrible world of non-animated purchases. The horror. However my current attitude makes me more willing to try out various random things as my budget isn’t already slotted for 20+ anime DVD purchases for the next two months. That’s what eventually brought me to Oban Star-Racers, an interesting fusion in every sense of the word. The show itself is a 2D/3D experiment of sorts and the show was created by a collaboration of French and Japanese creators with the French actually leading the project.
When I heard that BONES had actually done a movie, I was like, how on earth did I miss this? And after watching it, I must say, did I miss the hype for this movie or something? Because I hardly heard anything about it, but as a wise man would put it: Sword of the Stranger is nothing short of a masterpiece.
So here’s a quick review.
Here are the Top 10 on the list. It was easy enough to pick the girls. The hard part was actually putting them in order. Without further delay, check out the results after the jump.
I know most lists are usually of the Top 10 variety, but sometimes ten spots just aren’t enough. Even having twenty still forced me to cut some of my favorites from the list. A Top 30 would have been a bit much, so this is a good compromise. I’ve decided to separate the list into two entries to make it more manageable. So who made the cut? Find out after the jump.
I could easily say that Dragonaut: The Resonance was overhyped and flopped. Conversely, I could also say that not enough people gave the show a chance and it was tossed aside before being given a chance for redemption. I don’t think the show was outright terrible, but it did have a much longer way to fall since the expectations placed on it were so high.
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