Chatterbox - Anime & Manga

Excuse me while I go cry in the corner about having basically shot myself in the foot with the episode 5 BD.

The Daisuki Anime Streaming Site Is Finally Up.

So far they have the first five episodes of each of the following series up:

• Lupin III Part 2
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (HD remaster)
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica
• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
• Sword Art Online
• The Prince Of Tennis OVA: The National Tournament

Considering how it got delayed by a month, this starting line up feels a little disappointing.

English trailer for Eureka Seven AO

Another english trailer for Lupin III The Woman Called Fujiko Mine

Nyan Koi! is getting a bilingual rerelease in September. Score! >^.^<

Sentai also announced the license for This Boy Caught a Merman at the same Anime Central panel.

EDIT: More industry licenses — Funi has full rights to Attack on Titan, and Viz has done the same with K.

edited 18th May '13 1:34:49 PM by PikaHikariKT

Anyone know if Nyotaika!! Sekai no Dokusaisha Retsuden (Genderswap!! Dictator Biographies in the World) has released actual biographies of the moe genderswapped versions of the title dictators? I want to know what they did with the monstrous atrocities of fem!Hitler and fem!Stalin.

Unless there's been a follow-up I'm not aware of, there's nothing like that. The biographies are mostly just explanations of what parts of the person's life the artist drew inspiration from

Has anyone translated those parts?

...I haven't really been keeping up on it. I can say that the danbooru pool only has a few of them translated, though. No idea about the rest of the internet

I've never seen the anime myself, but it seems that Eve No Jikan has a Kickstarter project.

And it made it's goal in less than a day.

Anyone know why fight-happy Delinquents in anime/manga often wear their hair in an Elvis Presley-style pompadour? That looks like a high-maintenance hairstyle, which doesn't fit with how delinquents are supposed to be rather ordinary or even below average in terms of their financial situation.

Same reason the punk mohawk exists. Big hair like that adds height and thus intimidation factor.

I may have found the greatest manga ever made.

It's by one of the guys who made Death Note, and it's about an old scientist who turns himself into a 2000 horsepower agriculture robot. It's called Cyborg Grandpa-G, and it is seriously one of the werdest, coolest things I've ever seen.

edited 1st Jun '13 4:16:30 PM by MrMallard

Some interesting info

Top 10 Best selling Manga Series in Japan of the past year.

1. One Piece (7,944,680 copies sold)
2. Magi: Labyrinth of Magic (4,787,519 copies sold)
3. Kuroko No Basuke (4,712,773 copies sold)
4. Attack On Titan (4,292,208 copies sold)
5. Hunter X Hunter (3,616,288 copies sold)
6. Naruto (2,860,385 copies sold)
7. Assassination Classroom (2,504,200 copies sold)
8. Silver Spoon (1,926,298 copies sold)
9. Fairy Tail (1,853,510 copies sold)
10. Terra Formars (1,721,651 copies sold)

edited 2nd Jun '13 7:17:20 PM by dmysta3000

...One Piece is down, so far as I can tell. Relative to prior positions.

2012 First Half - http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-06-01/top-selling-manga-in-japan-by-series/2012-first-half

One Piece is lower but 2-10 have higher sales than last year's 2-10.

I really should check out Attack on Titan...

Wait, that "Mars cockroaches" manga is in the top 10? I "judged that book by its cover" and didn't think it would be all that interesting. Might check that out as well.

@ One Piece

Bossin

Seriously, Kishi let people down last week. Hopefully he makes up for it this week.

After tired of reading seasonal anime previews which are outright biased towards certain genres and having incomplete coverage, can anyone suggest something that covers all shows, give reviews of equal length and depth and has no preferences towards or against any genre? Any help is appreciated!

The options are so lacking that I'm tempted to start a blog myself.

PM me if you do. I am longing for a complete, detailed, equally discussed and unbiased seasonal anime preview.

As a side note, ANN and Random Curiosity are more or less unbiased but they don't do all shows. Hashihime and The Cart Driver have the most coverage, but both are quite biased against merchandise driven, slice of life, harem and kids' shows (while missing Cross Fight B-Daman eS for fall 2012 and Danball Senki Wars for Spring 2013).

edited 4th Jun '13 4:14:47 PM by murazrai

Unbiased is very difficult thing for a single person to pull off.

I read previews done by teams and they are as biased as everyone else.

There's our season listings, I guess. In the sense that everything gets a one or two line description of the premise

Wait, what does RC skip?

That is a listing, but when I say previews, it is more or less a review based on first impressions towards trailers/first episodes. Also, RC skipped kids' shows.