Starship Fandoprise

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

Created By stararnold

News: Free Comic Book Day 2012

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Mark your calendars for May 5 because on that day will be the 11th annual Free Comic Book Day event. Like every other, Free Comic Book Day is a time when comic shops worldwide give out free copies of specific comic book one-shots(each one-shot carrying the "Free Comic Book Day" label on cover) and each year, it's a different list of free comic book choices for store visitors to choose from. The event is not just for comic book fans to celebrate, but also for those never before into comics to take the time to learn about the fun of reading and collecting comics so as to seek out which comics may have their kind of storytelling tastes.

Make sure to visit the Free Comic Book Day website on April to find out which stores in your area are hosting this commercial holiday. In the meantime, feel free to check out the site to find which comics will have free copies to be distributed during this year's event.

As for me, I'll probably be looking out for these free one-shots during Free Comic Book Day: Avengers: Age of Ultron, DC Comics The New 52 Special Ed., IDW Publishing's Transformers No. 80.5, and Witchblade: Unbalanced Pieces.

1:13 AM Canada EST

News: Neo Getter Robo Anime At Last Licnesed for R1 Release

At last, the 2000 Geter Robo re-imagining OVA miniseries Shin Getter Robo Robo Vs. Neo Getter Robo is finally being licensed for DVD and Blu-ray distribution in North America, and although a release hasn't yet been indicated, this will be...

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Please Choose Up to 8 Candidates For staranold To Draw Next for Anime Divas

As some of you already know, I'm currently working on a series of sketch cards called "Anime Divas", intended for art gallery showing at Otakuthon 2012 (scheduled to take place during Aug. 3-5.). My plan is to feature throughout this series of sketch cards, a mix of oldschool anime beauties and newschool anime ones. So far, I drew the following for this series:

Miyuki Takara (Lucky Star)
Tsuruya (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
Maetel (Cosmowarrior Zero)
Lina Inverse (Slayers)
Yoko Littner (Gurren Lagann)
Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex)
Mari Illustrious Makinami (Rebuild of Evangelion)
Black Magician Girl (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters)
Honey Kisaragi/Cutey Honey (Cutey Honey)
Sasha Kodai/Mio Sanada (Be Forever Yamato)

Anyway, my plan is to do up to 18 skecth cards for this series, including the 10 I already did, but although I am sticking to the plan of both featuring oldschool anime bishoujo and newschool anime bishoujo (which is a good idea for the sake of drawing anime history from past to recent), I'm having trouble deciding on which pretty gals will be best for me to draw for the next 8 cards, and like my "Anime Icons 2" drawings, I plan to have the installments in this sketch card series sold also at Otakuthon 2012.

Click on this survey to please choose up to 8 candidates you think I should include in "Anime Divas" in addition to the ones I already drew (but note that the survey is set to be closed on June 1). I will really appreciate the help.

3:29 PM Canada EST

UPDATE! The survey is now closed.

News: Warner Bros. Now Developing its Bleach

It's official, ladies and gentlemen. According to Variety, Warner Bros. has finally got the rights to work on its live-action movie version of the manga serial Bleach, and as plann...

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Petition By Open Media To Stop Internet Lockdown in Canada

Like in U.S., Canada is currently facing a crisis in which internet freedom is at stake, especially with the proposing of Bill C-11, which will block internet access and lock out users from their online services if passed.

Click on the link below to oppose this cruel political bill from happening in Canada.

No Internet Lockdown

10:09 PM Canada EST