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-Subject: Hey People
Posted on Sunday, July 18, 2004 @ 6:24 -=- By {-Otaku Goku -} 
-Like The Layout?
Lol, anyway i will be making some sections work just give me some time and brandon is working on getting the other content up while working on the layout some more also, please dont ask for affiliation right now...we are not ready to accept anyone at the moment we are trying to get everything working first
Thanks,
Otaku Goku!
-=- Otaku Goku.
-Subject: "Anime" gets a little exposure on Conan O'Brien again.
Posted on Friday, July 16, 2004 @ 10:11 -=- By {-Sam -}
-Uptade: - I just caught the re-run of the Conan O'Brien episode. Pierre Bernard basically just sits on this comfortable recliner and complains about Cowboy Bebop being removing from CN's 12:30 am EST line-up and being replaced with Case Closed. After he criticized Case Closed, he said that AS should replace it with Sakura Diaries, Amazing Nurse Nanako, or Bubblegum Crisis. But while describing the anime Bubblegum Crisis Bernard made a little boo boo. He said it's about police men while the show itself is about 4 female officers, and not men. After that comment I don't think he's really is an anime fan. They just put that in the script so the show draws more attention through anime fans. If you missed the show then go to ASF and download the movie clip for it.
ANN reported today that - "A segment called Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage, on the Late Night Conan O'Brien's show on NBC mentioned Adult Swim and a number of other anime shows this evening. Bernard complained about AS replacing Cowboy Bebop with Case Closed, explaining that he liked Cowboy Bebop in its time slot because the music is soothing and good for sleeping. He then said they should put on Sakura Diaries, Amazing Nurse Nanako, or Bubblegum Crisis. This episode will repeat tomorrow evening and Monday on Comedy Central." The show comes on at 12:30 AM, but Check your local TV listing for what time the show re-runs air. Well this is great because Anime gets just a little more exposure on another major US channel. Late Night with Conan O'Brien is probably one of the best latenight shows and the show pulls in good ratings. I'm just going to sit back & watch as anime becomes one othe the major forms of entertainment in the States. Yeah!
-=- Sam.
-Subject: Anime is now considered a form of mainstream entertainment in the U.S.?
Posted on Monday, July 12, 2004 @ 11:42 -=- By {-Sam -}
-According to NPR, an international news provider on national and local radio stations – Anime has become one of the hippest elements in American pop culture. Anime has finally reached mainstream in the US because it influences a lot of US movies and TV programs (e.g. Matrix, Kill Bill). The Anime business (worth $4 Billion) in the US is growing so fast that no one can even keep track of it. The audio commentary from NPR Day to Day News can be downloaded here.
Animation critic and historian Charles Solomon talks about the growing popularity of Japanese animation, known as anime, in the United States. “Japanese animation or anime has become one of the hippest elements in American popular culture. Kids are playing Yu-Gi-Oh and Beyblade. While there older siblings are watching Cowboy Bebop, Trigun and Spirited Away. Last weeks anime convention in CA the Anime Expo 2004 drew more than 25,000 anime fans. But for many adults anime is a mystery” …
…“15 years ago anime was the realm of hardcore fanatics who played and traded bootleg Japanese tapes. Today it is one of the most vitally going areas of popular entertainment in the States. There are a dozens of new titles appearing every month. The entire anime industry in US (including, Hove Video, DVD, TV, Merchandise, Toys, and licensing combined) is about $4.3 billion dollars.” …
…“In America animation is mainly being used for humors cartoons and children’s entertainment. In Japan animation can be used for any subject and to tell any kind of story. It varies in time from children’s favorites Pokemon and Beyblade to the tragic sci-fi comedy of Trigun.” …
…“Anime has become an important element of American pop culture, influencing the TV programs from the matrix movies to Kill Bill and the power puff girls. The anime business in the US is growing so fast that no one can even keep track of it…”
Informers: Digital Design News / NPR (National/Local Radio News)
-=- Sam.
-Subject: Sony launches Hindi animation channel
Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2004 @ 2:14 -=- By {-Otaku Goku -}
-WE ARE RETURNING THE 15th OF JULY!!!! w00t
(news Below)
Arjuna and his brothers may have gone into battle with his cousins in The Mahabharata, but in Animax, the animation channel launched by Sony Pictures Entertainment this week, he’s helping out a young Japanese girl named Juna Ariyoshi.
Armed with bow and arrow, she saves the earth from evil demons called “rajas”. It’s the sole Indian touch to Animax’s 24-hour programming of anime – the distinct Japanese style of animation — but you won’t hear children complaining.
Eleven-year-old Gaurav Noronha has already heard of Animax at school, even though his cable guy in Kurla still has to tune it in. “I like Japanese cartoons — the samurais.
They jump high and the sword fighting is good,” says Gaurav, who has collected 140 Pokemon cards over time.
Anime already swept the world through the little yellow mouse Pikachu in the Pokemon movies, but now there’s buzz about it even succeeding Western animation.
One of Japan’s largest movie grosser Spirited Away was dubbed for a worldwide release, even winning at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival. Club anthem One More Time (Daft Punk) had Japanese animation and Gorillaz actually made three anime music videos.
Plus, Quentin Tarantino’s fourth film Kill Bill Volume 1 last year broke into an anime sequence, done by Japanese company Production IG, for Oren Ishi’s flashback.
Tarantino got so hooked during its making, he’s reportedly telling the prequel to Kill Bill in a full-length anime feature.
In comparison, anime here has been restricted to stray programmes on Cartoon Network (Gaurav is already hooked to Samurai Jack).
“I think that anime’s popularity is well-demonstrated by the power of Pokemon that has even held sway in India,” says Sony Pictures Entertainment’s vice-president Betty Tsui, “Animax will feature programmes a lot better than even Pokemon — it’s the perfect vehicle.”
For now, its programming has a 12-hour Hindi dub, but the channel plans to launch a 24-hour Hindi Animax as well.
Among the hot favourites in Animax Asia already are Astroboy (a repackaged cult TV series) and Cyborg Kurochan, a robotic cat that foils the attempts of an evil, but inept inventor Dr Goal.
It also has Princess Sarah based on A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. All of them feature anime’s strong features — huge eyes, triangular faces and lip movements not synchronised to the sound.
“It’s a cultivated taste. For those brought up on Disney, anime’s a bit difficult to get used to,” says Ram Mohan, India’s pioneer in animation, “I have doubts about it being accepted, at least short-term, in India.”
Mohan should know. He collaborated with Japanese animators to create the Ramayana series in 1992-94. “It did have a slight influence of anime. I had to redraw all the initial characters so that they would look more acceptable to us.”
Anime does have its critics. It has been deemed violent (especially in its contemptuous treatment of women), full of sex, with bewildering titles (Clamp School, D T Eightron, Ultra Maniac) and promoting a hungry consumerist culture through its excessive merchandising — seen through the Pokemon cards.
“Teenagers felt that cartoons were for kids, but they can now relate to anime through its science fiction themes,” points out Mohan.
Animax also has specific programming for teens through series like Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex about cyborgs and D T Eightron, where a group of kids explore a desert-like world post-Apocalypse.
“We’ve selected a balance of programming, that starts at age 7 to 24. Critics have a biased perception of anime,” clarifies Tsui.
Anime is also considered jerky and staccato, but this Mohan puts down as a positive. By doing only one drawing per four frames instead of one per frame, anime is actually far less time-consuming and inexpensive than your average Disney.
It’s definitely seizing over world animation through its pop culture and comic book feel. Mohan already knows what he’d like to see of anime on Indian screens.
“Miyazaki’s (Hazuo) films in a serial form,” referring to the maker of Spirited Away, about a girl who plunges into a Wonderland-like place in a deserted amusement park where a witch runs a spa!
For now, though, Animax’s wonder cat, teenage sleuths, Arjuna-backed Juna and next-gen Samurais will do.
-=- Otaku Goku.
-Subject: Whats This....AHHHH!!!!
Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2004 @ 5:44 -=- By {-Otaku Goku -}
-July 15th 2004 Mark Ur Calenders! Saiyanz Rage RETURNS!
-=- Otaku Goku.
-Subject: 'STELLVIA' Anime Soundtrack Coming Soon
Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2004 @ 5:35 -=- By {-Otaku Goku -}
-Another anime soundtrack release from Geneon Anime Music, is the first original soundtrack to the still yet to be distributed anime Uchuu no Stelvia. Find yourself with this great sense of audio style and prepare yourself for the anime release in future weeks with the sounds of Stellvia to the action, adventure and science-fiction television series. There also happens to be a complete music video featuring Stellvia music and animation available to view as well!
A wonderfully large and extremely fantastic collection of songs and themes for the up and coming release of the science fiction drama Uchuu no Stellvia, the original Japanese animation soundtrack Stellvia Original Soundtrack CD: Sound Wave of Stellvia is a great assortment of music. Perfectly complimenting the anime series as yet to be distributed by Geneon Entertainment, this original soundtrack contains beautiful instrumentals, solemn vocals, and much more. "Sound Wave of Stellvia" will give anime fans something to enthrall themselves in until the cosmic action and drama series arrives.
It should also be noted that for an--as of now--unknown amount of time, fans who go to the "Multimedia" section of Geneon Entertainment's Anime Music website will be able to view a music video featuring music from the Stellvia Original Soundtrack.
With many of the tracks as composed by experienced and all around wise composer Seikou Nagaoka, the OST for Stellvia is surely a work of art. A highly anticipated listen for those interested in the anime series and also for those who just like to hear some good tunes, this compact disc holds more than forty tracks and is over one hour and fifteen minutes in length! Scheduled to arrive within the first week of August on the 3rd for a simple $14.98, the Stellvia Original Soundtrack CD: Sound Wave of Stellvia includes the introduction song "Brilliant Road to Tomorrow" and both ending themes to the anime as well, which are "Beautiful Night Sky" and "The End of the World." Other great tracks on this original soundtrack include "Elegant Wings," "Destination Unknown" and "Premonition of a Breeze." Geneon Music's release of this soundtrack with works from Nagaoka will resonate with fans of anime music from classic shows such as Tenchi Muyo! and Dual: Parallel Trouble Adventure. Stay tuned to Animation Insider for release information concerning the anime itself, Stellvia, as to be distributed by Geneon Entertainment.
-=- Otaku Goku.
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