The second season of the musically inclined anime series, K-On!, now aptly titled “K-On!!” (note the two exclamation mark) will have a boost in terms of it’s theme song when it was revealed that famous band Asian Kung Fu Generation will provide their creativity in penning it.
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The latest copy of the shoujou magazine Bessatsu Margaret has announced that plans for a live action adaptation movie for popular shoujo series, Kimi ni Todoke is in plan.
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Hinako’s hit otaku exercise video Training with Hinako is set to receive a sequel, Sleeping with Hinako (Isshouni Sleepingu), due in February on DVD and Blu-ray.
Information is scarce at this point (”Sleeping with Hinako is an anime to help with pleasant sleeping and waking”), but attention focuses on just what it is exactly the viewer is supposed to be doing whilst sleeping with the lovely Hinako…
Yoshito Usui, author of the famous manga Crayon Shin-chan has been found dead on mount Arafune after a hiking trip gone wrong
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In another case that smoking is really bad for your health, a man in Australia was beaten, bashed and nearly killed by kids wanting a fag from him.
Glenn Lambourn, 35, said he was walking to catch a cab after drinking with friends at the Palmerston Tavern in Palmerston CBD when the attack happened on Sunday. 20 teenagers, ranging from 14 to 8 (and racistly identified as Aboriginal decents) approached him to ask for some fag.
Lacking one, the gangs then started to beat him up, using a lump of wood and even bicycles. The gang then piled on top of him and repeatedly kicked him in the head, he said. Read moar...
TIME has finally released the result of an online poll where people voted for the “Most Influential Person of 2008“. And suprise suprise (pfft), 4chan mogul empire’s Dark Lord, moot has won with an overwhelming majority. But honestly, does TIME does not realised they were trolled? The moment that moot was inluded in the list, most of the anons at 4chan who have nothing better to do started voting him in the masses. Not only that, they also started to fix the vote
An interesting article from Asahi Shimbun (translated version via Artefact of Sankaku Complex). It tells of industry’s analyst that the anime boom has passed, and blamed it on suprise suprise, moeshit tards
Anime industry figures say the anime boom of the past several years is ended, and the industry is quick to point fingers.
There seems little doubt that the production of anime has cooled off of late: in 2000, 124 anime titles were broadcast on Japanese TV, but in 2006 this had risen precipitously to 306; in 2008 it declined to 288. The latest season sees 30 shows airing, whereas the same season in 2006 saw 60. Read moar...
Pathé has recently released the trainler for the live action adaptation of Mamoru Oshii and Hiroyuki Kitakubo’s Blood: The Last Vampire anime.
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