We are just having fun reviewing and discussing comic books, graphic novels, manga, anime/animation, music and movies that we have recently read, listened to or watched.
Ever wanting to take Chemistry with your favorite fictional characters. You can with these two books. Chukei Publishing Company has released Impressive Learning Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) with Lucky Star, where the reader is reading the story with the Lucky Star characters taking the class with them. This release follows the company’s earlier release Impressive Learning Chemistry (Theories) with Lucky Star. School would have been so much funnier if I would have had these type of text books.
Pony Canyon has begun streaming the trailer for Hanasaku Iroha: Home Sweet Home on their YouTube channel. It looks to be a pretty descent movie. It will open nationwide in Japan March 30 and advance ticket buyers will receive a 5 card exclusive postcard set of the characters. Hopefully this will be brought to the North American market and the exclusive incentives would be cool to get with movies here in the States. Every so often this has happened with a free poster or even in the past a free comic book and do you remember the free Yu-Gi-Oh cards that came with the showing of that movie. I would like to see this more often, it just makes movie going so much neater. Anyway, back on topic here is the trailer for Hanasaku Iroha: Home Sweet Home:
This week we get a look at “bat21wae” AMV. The video takes the song “I Get Knocked Down” performed by Tubthumping and edits scenes from Eureka Seven around it. The scenes that are picked work with the lyrics and the transitions are smooth. The only thing negative about this video is that it has subtitles are the button and the location number in the top left hand corner of the video. If these would have been edited out the AMV would be so much better. If you can look past the subtitles and counter number this is a pretty good video. You can watch it below or on YouTube under “Eureka Seven – I get knocked Down”:
Saban Brands announced, that later this year, Digimon Fusion will air on Nickelodeon. No specific date for the debut has been set yet.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-02-05/nickelodeon-to-air-digimon-fusion-anime-series
Cartoon Network will begin airing Soul Eater on it’s Adult Swim Toonami block starting Sunday, February 17 at 1:30 a.m. EST.
The Pasela Resorts cafe, in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward has transformed a part of their cafe into a xxxHOLIC themed cafe to kick off the debut of the xxxHOLIC live action Television Series. January 21 – March 3 the cafe will have a themed xxxHOLIC themed menu and those that order off of the special menu will receive one of six limited original coasters, that can be seen above. If you happen to be in Japan during this time on vacation this could be one of your stops in Tokyo. Pictures were provide from Kodansha’s Young Magazine and AnimeNews Network. For additional pictures follow the link.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-01-28/clamp-xxxholic-cafe-unveiled-in-tokyo
Aksys Games, the distributor for Hakuoki: Warriors of the Shinsengumi, North American release began streaming the trailer below on their YouTube Channel. The video game will be available for the PlayStation Portable on February 19. Might be something to consider for you next video game collection purchase:
For all of the fans of CLAMP’s Xxxholic will definitely be interested in this. Xxxholic will be a live action television series this year and the above pictures are the main cast members. The top picture has Anne as Yuko Ichihara and Shota Sometani as Kimihiro Watanuki. The second picture has Karen Miyazaki as Himawari Kungoi, Shota Sometani again and Masahiro Higashide as Shizuka Domeki. Hopefully when this goes to DVD/Blu-ray it will be made available for the North American region.
This week’s AMV Spotlight is on “Fenix86R”. In this AMV, the individual takes the song “Bullet-Proof Skin” performed by Institute and edits in images from the Gatchaman OVA. The editing is done nicely and the song works, but to be honest I chose this AMV because I’m a little biased toward Gatchaman. When I was in elementary I would run home and watch Battle of the Planets. At the time I was so young that I had no idea that it was a Japanese property. Of course I know better now and anything that has any incarnation of Gatchaman hits my sweet spot. Have fun watching the AMV below from “Fenix86R” on YouTube:
For everyone who enjoys the vampire genre (admit it, it has pretty much become it’s own genre with so much out there) Clamp’s Blood C is available from FUNimation for your anime collections. Thanks to FUNimation through YouTube for the following trailer: