Hello there! I'm stararnold, and welcome to Starship Fandoprise! This WORLD features a mix of features/news posts based on multiple topics regarding anything of pop culture (incl. animation/cartoons/anime, comics/manga, music, books, video games, live-action TV/Film, etc.), as well as webpolls/websurveys and brief posts about what goes on in my fanboy life. Hope you enjoy your visit!

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About the WORLD's Host

Other WORLDS runned by the host (check 'em out for more content by this guy)
Leijiverse 999, DC and Marvel Assemble, Star Trek Nation

Known at DeviantART as
beavers2010

Birthday
04/10/1986

Gender
Male

Where I live
LaSalle (Montreal), Quebec, Canada

Anime Fan Since
Early 1990s when I started watching The Transformers (1984), though that was before I learned that not all cartoons are American (However, while the classic Speed Racer series was the second anime I got into, you may consider this what made me the anime fan I'm today if you don't consider the original Trasnformers to be anime)

Member of theOtaku.com since
05/30/2005

Achievements
Medal for Meals-on-wheel's service, Medal for conflict manager team, Mabel Award at High School Graduation, Honouroll at college, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting and Drawing concentration) in University

Favorite Music Genres
Rap, Rock 'N Roll, Disco

News: Sentai Filmworks Rescues Gatchaman

When it was revealed that Imagi's plans to do a CGI animated Gatchaman movie were abandoned two years ago, thinking about the problem itself while noticing that all North American commercial distribution licenses to the Gatchaman anime expired before the start of Imagi's planning began made me worried that futre generations of North America-based anime will never have a chance to officially be introduced to the anime superhero legend, especially when it was the original 1972 Gatchaman T.V. series that began the sentai trope in anime. But then fortunately during the weeekend, ANN revealed that U.S.-based anime distributor Sentai Filmworks had gotten the license to commercially distribute both the 1972 Gatchaman T.V. series and the 1994 Gatchaman OVA minseries on DVD and blu-ray. The North American re-releases are to happen in October 2013.

Now, North American audiences who haven't yet been introduced to Gatchaman can finally experience the landmark superhero anime classics, that is if they're willing to give anime classics a fighting chance of course.

12:44 AM Canada EST

Anime Online Viewing Status of 5/20/2013

Today, I finished watching on streaming video, Space Pirate Captain Herlock: Endless Odysssey, and what an amazing work I found it to be, though I was disgusted by the last episode's ending. At least Captain Harlock's creator Leiji Matsumoto was not part of the team that made the anime itself, and it's not part of Harlock canon either.

In the meantime, I await to see if more episodes of the edited-for-DVD cut of Space Battleship Yamato 2199 will arrive on streaming video websites so I can finish watching the whole store as I am at episode 14 of the cut itself.

6:25 PM Canada EST

stararnold's Anime DVD Collection

Here's another piece of info about me as an otaku. This time, I present to you, a list of all Region 1 anime DVDs I own so far.

• Speed Racer Collector's Edition (English Dub) Added to the list on 3/15/2013
• Battle of The Planets 25th Anniversary Collection (English Dub)
• The Best of G-Force (English Dub)
• Galaxy Express 999 (English Dub/English Sub) Added to list on 10/11/2012
• Mobile Suit Gundam Movie I - Special Edition (English Sub)
• Mobile Suit Gundam Movie II: Soldiers of Sorrow - Special Edition (English Sub)
• Mobile Suit Gundam Movie III: Encounters in Space - Special Edition (English Sub)
• Arcadia of My Youth (English Sub)
• Super Dimension Fortress Macross Vol. 1: upon the Shoulders of Giants (English Dub/English Sub) Added to list 5/07/2016
• Super Dimension Fortress Macross Vol. 2: Under Crimson Skies (English Dub/English Sub)
• Super Dimension Fortress Macross Vol. 3: Dangerous Divisions (English Dub/English Sub)
• Super Dimension Fortress Macross Vol. 4: Fallen Angels (English Dub/English Sub)
• Super Dimension Fortress Macross Vol. 5: When Worlds Collide (English Dub/English Sub)
• Super Dimension Fortress Macross Vol. 6: Eve of Destruction (English Dub/English Sub)
• Super Dimension Fortress Macross Vol. 7: Hell's Fury (English Dub/English Sub)
• Original Dirty Pair: OVA Collection (English Dub/English Sub)
• Hyper-Combat Unit Dangaioh (English Dub)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (English Dub/English Sub)
• Appleseed - Essence of Anime (English Dub/English Sub)
• Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (English Dub/English Sub)
• Ghost In The Shell 2.0 (Englsih Dub/English Sub)
• Armitage III: The Complete Saga [Anime Classics] (English Dub/English Sub) Added to the list on 12/18/2015
• Slayers OVA Collection (English Dub/English Sub)
• Harlock Saga (English Dub/English Sub)
• Mazinkaiser Vol. 1: Turbo Smashing Sensation (English Dub/English Sub)
• Mazinkaiser Vol. 2: A Fire Blast From The Past! (English Dub/English Sub)
• Patlabor Movie 3: WXIII (English Dub/English Sub) Added to list on 8/06/2012
• Galaxy Angel Z Vol. 3: Stranded Without Dessert (English Dub/English Sub) Added to list on 8/19/2011
• Ghost in The Shell 2: Innocence (English Dub/English Sub) Added to list on 4/5/2012
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: The Empty Battlefield (English Dub/English Sub)
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: The Far-Away Dawn (English Dub/English Sub)
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: The Rumbling Sky (English Dub/English Sub)
• Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO Vol. 1: The Hidden One Year War (English Sub) Added to list on 5/07/2016[/*]
• Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO Vol. 2: Apocalypse 0079 (English Sub) Added to list on 5/07/2016
• Inu Yasha The Movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island (English Dub/English Sub) Added to list on 8/06/2012
• Street Fighter Alpha: Generations (English Dub/English Sub)
• Halo: Legends (English Dub/English Sub)
• Wolverine: Marvel Animated Series (English Dub/English Sub) Added to list on 4/12/2013
• Harlock: Space Pirate (English Dub/English Sub) Added to the list on June of 2015