Now, I can't remember if this was brought up earlier, but this happened to strike me as odd. While flipping through the March edition of Anime Insider, I found something quite fascinating: Hello Kitty for men.
According to the article, January saw the launch of Sarnio's Hello Kitty line targeting teens and twentysomethings of the male gender. Clothes, watches, bags and things like that sport less girly colors and characters, including the infamous Badtz-Maru. This is the first line from Sarnio to target men.
As a female who never caught on to the Hello Kitty thing: Good luck.
Source: Anime Insider, Issue 54, March 2008
For anyone who with the capabilities to think back further in time to before phenomenons such as Naruto and Death Note turned anime into near main-stream titles, this is big news. According to the April 2008 edition of Dragon Magazine, the anime show Slayers is going to resume this autumn with a new season!
Based off of the light-novel series of the same name, Slayers is an anime centering around a young sorceress named Lina Inverse. Lina, along with her group of mismatched friends, travel around in a RPG-esque world of magic, demons and saving the world from the brink of destruction. The last series, Slayers TRY, finished airing in 1997, eight years after creator Hajime Kanzaka first began to pen the novels. There had been rumor of a fourth anime season, but like the infamous Dragonball Z live-action movie theory, it was only a myth until recently.
As of late, there is no conformation as to the cast. There was even no say as to whether Lina Inverse would be voiced by Megumi Hayashibara, who loaned her voice to Lina in the rest of her adventures.
Slayers has been licensed in English by TokyoPop, Central Park Media and FUNimation.
...and may I ask the question: Will Amelia and Gourry ever run into Naga this season? We can only hope.
Sources:
animenewsnetwork
Dragon Magazine (translated article)
-Nehszriah
According to KOMO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Seattle, Washington, 10-year-old Codey Porter died at 3:35 p.m PST today. The boy was hospitalized on Saturday after suffering respiratory failure when he was buried, headfirst, in a sandbox. He had reportedly asked his playmates to bury him in order to recreate the attacks used by the fictional ninja from the Naruto anime's fictional Village Hidden in the Sand.
Porter had been resuscitated with CPR and taken to an Everett hospital and later transferred to the Children's Hospital in Seattle where he died.
A memorial fund has been set up for Porter on the Gold Creek Community Church's Web site.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-03-10/boy-dies-after-imitating-naruto-in-sandbox
This article speaks for itself.
10-year-old was recreating attack by ninja from Village Hidden in the
Sand
KOMO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Seattle, Washington, reports that a 10-year-old boy has been in critical condition at a local hospital, after being buried headfirst in a sandbox in an imitation of scenes from the Naruto anime series. Cody Porter was playing with five other children in a family friend's backyard in unincorporated Everett on Saturday when he reportedly asked them to bury him in a one-foot-deep sandbox from his head to his chest. According to Porter's half-brother whose three sons were with Porter, the incident was an attempt to recreate the attacks used by the fictional ninja from Naruto's Village Hidden in the Sand.
Porter is said to have thrashed around before the other children realized there was a problem and called for adults. The adults summoned medical help and adminstered CPR to get Porter breathing again. Medics took Porter to an Everett hospital and then to the Children's Hospital of Seattle. The broadcast television version of KOMO-TV's report included clips from the Naruto anime series and a description of the "sand ninjas."
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-03-10/boy-hospitalized-after-imitating-naruto-in-sandbox
Our condolences go to the family.
My thoughts on this
NOBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello this is Ryosuke Forever. I am one of the reporters for the Bootleg News Report. This report is semi old (3-7-2008) but I thought everyone would enjoy watching the video.
Full First Episode of English Aquarion Streamed
The IGN entertainment website has posted the full first episode of Funimation's English dubbing of the Aquarion anime series. The story follows pilots who defend Earth from mystical creatures — through three fighters that combine to form the robot Aquarion. Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Escaflowne) directs the animators of Satelight (Macross Zero, Noein) on this 26-episode television series. As she did for Kawamori's Macross Plus and Escaflowne, Yoko Kanno composed the soundtrack for Aquarion. Funimation will release the first 13-episode DVD set on March 11.
http://media.dvd.ign.com/media/142/14238105/vids_1.html
In other news, One Piece fans can now scream HUZZAH!!!!!!! Funimation is finally releasing One Piece Uncut (How uncut, I don't know). Season 1 Part 1 of the insanely popular anime will hit retailers on May 27 2008 (Retail Price: $49.98). No news yet on how many episodes are in the box set.
Product synopsis
As the Pirate King Gold Roger was executed he revealed that his treasure, known as "One Piece," was hidden somewhere on the Grand Line. Monkey D. Luffy dreams of finding the legendary treasure and becoming the Pirate King, and after eating the devil's fruit he gains the power to do so. But first he must find a crew...
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.
That is all for now.
