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.
For gamers in the Atlanta, Georgia area get ready to duel. The Yu-Gi-Oh Championship Series is coming to your area for it’s first tournament of 2012, February 18-19. It will be held at the Georgia International Convention Center. Be sure to let your gaming patrons know and it might be an opportunity for your library to hold a local tournament event, for the one’s that can’t go to this big event.
Toyota is having an IDOLM@STER event this February 11 to March 31. Individuals can call ahead to the Toyota Amlux Showroom in the Ikebukuro Ward to reserve a test drive in the car above or two other IDOLM@STER deco’ed cars. For 1,000 yen, or roughly $13.00 one can rent a 60 minute test drive of a Prius, Ractis or Wish vehicle and have fun driving around. It’s a unique way to make some money for Toyota and let fans have some fun for an hour at a fairly reasonable price.
We are slowing it down this week. This weeks AMV comes from YouTuber Mapache9999. Mapache9999 takes the song “Making Love Out of Nothing At All” performed by Air Supply and edits it with images from Utawarerumono. The editing of the scenes with the music is good. There isn’t any harsh transitions between cuts. However, the subtitles are the bottom of the video are a little distracting and could have been left off. It is an older AMV, but it is still worth checking out on YouTube under “Utawarerumono AMV – Making Love out of Nothing at All” or check it out below. Thanks again to YouTube and Mapache9999.
FUNimation has announced that it has licensed the television anime Pretear. With this happening we can expect to see this title offered probably midyear or towards the end of this year. Let your patrons that enjoy anime know that is will be forthcoming and you might want to keep an eye out for it to include in your library’s anime section when it becomes available.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-02-02/funimation-licenses-pretear-anime-series
This weeks AMV comes from YouTuber Leylaashley. Leylaashley takes the anime Appleseed and edits it around the song “Blow Me Away” performed by Breaking Benjamin. The editing is well done, nice clean cuts between scenes. I’ve always enjoyed the computer animation in this version of Appleseed. It is very clean looking. The song is a perfect fit and would go with any military type video. You can go to YouTube and look under “Appleseed AMV – Blow Me Away” and you can also check it out below. Great job Leylaashley.
This weeks AMV comes from YouTuber ThreeMadCookies. ThreeMadCookies takes the song “I’ll be There for You” performed by The Rembrandts and edits it to scenes from Library Wars. The editing of the cut scenes is really clean and there is no jerkiness to the video. The song fits well with the edited scenes and follows the characters Iku Kasahara and Atsushi Dojo well. If one has read or watched Library Wars you will know that this song fits the show well and that ThreeMadCookies did a great job in selecting it for this AMV. You can find the video on YouTube by looking under “Library Wars – I’ll be there for you” and you can check it out below.
Pasela Restaurants in Japan is having a promotional with a fifteen item menu themed to the IDOLM@STER anime. Pictured above are the Takane Shijo’s Extra Large “Ramen” and Iori Minase’s Gorgeous Celeb Strawberry Milk. To see the other 13 menu items follow the link below. If you order off of the IDOLM@ASTER menu you will also receive one of six exclusive coasters with character images. The promotional will run during the month of January.
Bandai Entertainment has announced that the company will cease releasing anime and manga in North America effective the end of January.
Anime Titles Cancelled:
Turn-A Gundam; Nichijou; and Gosick
Manga Titles Cancelled:
Kannagi Vol. 4-6; Code Geass: Renya; Gurren Lagann Vol. 7; Gundam 001; Lucky Star Boo Boo Kagaboo; Nichijou Manga; Code Geass r2 Novels; and Tales of the Abyss: Jade Vol. 1-2
Blade the anime series will begin airing January 13 on G4. This will appeal to your Marvel comic book fans and Japanese anime fans, so be sure to pass the news along. Thanks to ICv2 and YouTuber azraelknightify for the trailer.
In the spirit of the holidays I choose this week’s AMV. YouTuber noburulez took the Christmas song “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays” performed by N*SYNC and edited it to several different anime. I was able to pick out Ramma 1/2, Chrono Crusade, Tenchi and Love Hina. Noburulez did a nice job of editing all of the different scenes together and I couldn’t see very many hard jerks between edits, very smooth transitions. Images were chosen because of their Christmas feel. This AMV was just recently posted on YouTube so go to the site so go watch it and rate it. You can find it under “MERY CHRISTMAS—AMV (MULTI ANIME MIX)” and check it out below as well.