A homicide survivors group has called to ban Naruto action figures from sale in Australia because of their violent undertones and perfectly sculpted weaponry. Check out the awkward looking photo of the toys in the article. It looks like Naruto hasn’t been eating right and Sasuke hasn’t held a weapon of any kind [...]
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I was sifting through my stack of DVDs the other day and found a short article about Animania 2004 from the Movie show on SBS that aired in January 2005. So I thought I’d imortalise it on Youtube. Much like any video article from the past there is a certain element of wtf [...]
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The SOS Brigade Australia Division launched their site last month (at least according to the news update, the hit counter tells another story). No viral marketing on the scale of the U.S. license, (the cat was out of the bag ages ago) but there was a small nod to that on Madman’s anime [...]
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Today is the luckiest day ever apparently (for another 70 years or 100 depending on what kind of luck you subscribe to) so I thought I’d put us some random links that I’ve been kicking about today. This sounds like in the future real life Section 9 will be outsourcing. Here’s some photos from the JAUWS [...]
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Today, the Animania Festival website was updated by yours truly with some info about this years Fan Dub competition. For the uninformed, Fan Dub is a quasi-improvisation re-dub of a short anime clip, where competitors do their best to come up with the funniest audio track possible that still holds some kind of a plot. [...]
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For those of you in Australia who don’t already know, Ergo Proxy will begin airing on ABC2 tonight at 9pm, picking up Cowboy Bebop’s time slot. Big thumbs up to the ABC for picking Ergo Proxy, it’s not the kind of show that would typically make it to TV in Australia (then again [...]
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Remember that terrible sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subways? The group responsible for it Aum Shinrikyo have turned their efforts towards more positive outlets. They’ve funded the creation of this short film about their leader. It’s incredibly happy for a man who’s been pulled up on 27 murder counts and now awaiting execution. [...]
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For those of you who frequent Anime on DVD you might have noticed for the last few days every “s” and “o” on the front page links to this site http://asosbrigade.com which states that on the 22nd of December “The World As You Know It Is About to End”. The Anime on DVD admin’s [...]
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While helping someone make money on Google AdSense I followed a link to Sailor Moon merch, a rather standard affair really. Bootleg DVDs, clocks, figures, and then I found this. What posesses someone to make this let alone try and sell it to other people? The item description is gold, let me show you. “WOW these [...]
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In another 13 days and 14 or so hours Geneon will launch the Ergo Proxy dvd site. So right now what we’re left to look at is a less-than-good looking flash count down and a trailer. What’s so interesting about this? Well the trailer isn’t dubbed. Which is kind of weird. Maybe I’ve been [...]
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