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Here are you top anime stories of the day: Viz Media on iTunes Viz Media is now featured on iTunes with 3 of its premiere shows: Bleach, Death Note & Naruto. Bleach and Naruto will continue to supplement episodes overtime as the each series unfolds on network television. Meanwhile, the entire series of Death Note is available for purchase in the online store. More iTunes News: Batman: Gotham Knight As of today, Batman: Gotham Knight, the immediate sequel and prequel to Batman Begins &… Continue

This weekend, Adult Swim just wrapped up the Death Note: a very popular series in Japan. Death Note is a story about a young man named Light Yagumi who finds a mysterious notebook. Upon touching the notebook, a Shinigami (God of Death) appears to him and tells him that whatever name is written in the notebook, that person will die. From then on, Light uses the notebook to purge the world of evil-doers. As time passes, the public takes notice of these killings and proclaims there must be some div… Continue

Last post, I mentioned the connection between the classics and the new shows. At the same time, they should not be confused with one another. Some successors are actually pretty good at carrying on in a legacy of quality programming. But not all unofficial sequels are good ones. For example, everyone says that hip-hop is dying; I am inclined to agree. If you have ever heard UGK, Dr. Dre, Mac Dre, The Luniz, The Pharcyde, or even an artist as recent as Eminem, you understand that hip-hop was an… Continue

So being one of the writers for “Anime News”, I’ve been trying very hard to keep the blogs from being a personal statement, but I can’t help but use the first person for this. So two days ago, my siblings were in town and my future brother-in-law noticed that I was into anime and asked me about the new live action Dragonball movie. The conversation soon turned into a nostalgia session and I went through the entire series with him in great detail. And then I realized what these classic animes hav… Continue

The August issue (on sale on June 26) of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Gundam Ace magazine has launched Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Aoi Kioku (Blue Memories), Tarō Shiguma's new manga series based on the Gundam 00 anime television series. The magazine summarizes how the manga will deal with the lives of the Gundam Meister pilots by saying, "The present and the past…fiction and memories…the true selves of the boys will be revealed." The first installment, "Memory: 1 Setsuna," covers the memories of the ma… Continue

Not sure if anyone of you has ever seen Red vs. Blue, but it is a series that is filmed using the Halo series as a means of animation. What started off as a simple viral video series has turned into a major business/international Webisode show. This form of media is called Machinima meaning machine cinema, in which someone uses pre-rendered CGI (i.e. video games) to make a film. Though this isn’t necessarily anime, it still feels like it would fall under this category. Ok, so there isn’t any di… Continue

So, first post right? Ok so let’s talk about Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks which is considered one of the first great American animes. McGruder originally produced The Boondocks as a comic strip in daily papers nationwide. Even then, the strip’s art design was based in a manga style. But one of the key things that McGruder does with his anime that is very different from classic animes is the content within. McGruder still includes all of the wonderful things we love about anime: action, big ex… Continue