From ANN:
At Otakon 2008, a new sort of industry panel took place. Attempting to bridge the gap between the American anime industry and the fansubbers that are increasingly overtaking them as the means fans use to get their anime, the panel hosted several prominent fansubbers (under their IRC pseudonyms) from groups LivEEviL (YaoiBoy), Shinsen [...]
Fansubs and Industry Panel @ Otakon 2008
Bakuman online | Fujisawa Tohru’s new manga
As you may know, Ohba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi’s (Death Note authors) new manga about 2 students trying to make themselves mangaka, Bakuman, has been out for a while. JumpLand has made the first chapter available in 4 languages (english, german, japanese, french) on their site. So if you missed it or want it [...]
Michiko to Hatchin Trailer looks good
When the first trailer got out, I wasn’t really impressed, but now, “WOW!” is all I can say. So this anime is basically about Michiko, a sexy diva who destroys a supposedly inescapable prison fortress, and Hatchin, a little girl that ran away from her strict parents. They join forces and set out on a [...]
LOL @ Lucky Star Decepticons
Found on xorsyst and apparently the video uploader found it on /co/. Funny lil decepticoned Lucky Star opening must I say.
Make a manga-style avatar with FaceYourManga
Discovered this site via Protaku and on the left you can see what came out. It’s a funny little site where you can generate yourself a manga-style face which you can use as an avatar or even get as a print for a small price. You have lots of stuff to chose from, ears, [...]
How to enable UTF-8 encoding in mIRC
I’m a heavy mIRC user, I use it to chat, to get help, to download, etc., but that’s not important! I often find myself explaining to people how to enable UTF-8 encoding, especially for japanese characters encoding, in their mIRC clients, so I decided to write a little tutorial to make my life easier.
NOTE: This [...]
2nd 20th Century Boys movie & Afro Samurai live-action (WTF?)
The second movie of the 20th Century Boys live-action trilogy adaption of Urasawa Naoki’s manga has been set for January 31, 2009 and the third and last movie is set for somewhere around the fall of 2009. The first movie will air this month, on the 30th. Airi Taira will play the main character Kenji’s [...]