Canned Dogs

Bakuman is incredibly… not interesting.

Eroge brand Meteor is coming back as Comet
Oniichan’s mogumogu will be monopolized again

Hollywood is offering to do a remake of Detroit Metal City
Hollywood’s going to show Krauser their special technique of raping the original story 11 times in a second!

Ore no imouto ga konna ni kawaii wake ga nai sold out again
New shipment from the 2nd print run sold out in a few days again.

Evangelion entry plug USB flash drive
It’s going to be 2gb and sold for 3,980 yen. Release date 27th Sept.

Toradora anime
Doesn’t seem to look as bad now looking at the character design art

I hadn’t noticed till now but Bakemonogatari’s anime character design is by Poyoyon rock.

Also I realised Sound Horizon’s Moira made its debut at #1 on Oricon album daily rankings for 9/2.

Next Ametalk special will be a 3 hour special on Slam Dunk
Good show

How Hirano wore her swimsuit, and how it should have been worn
I thought it was minor news but apparently it’s big important news!

Oshii’s Sky Crawlers was screened at the 65th Venice International Film Festival and he received a warm applause from the audience. He apparently also commented that Miyazaki’s Gake no ue no Ponyo was just some old man’s fantasy. Reaction to Ponyo at Venice Film Festival.

Code Geass R2’s online streaming was a big success
Approximately 420,000 views for the first episode on biglobe and subsequent episodes maintained 230,000 to 250,000 views each. Bandai visual says it’s amazing because prior to this, their popular anime only got between 40,000 to 50,000 views per episode.

The official site for the game book series Queen’s Gate has announced on their official website that Shiranui Mai will be joining the line up on the 31st of October. The art is by Izumi Mahiru apparently. At this rate a Nakoruru book by “Empress of Comic Market” Nanase Aoi wouldn’t be too far off!

Speaking of which, Nanase Aoi started doing doujin again early this year, but I doubt there’re as many fans left as during her peak.

I realised it has been over a year now since the original announcement on Marimite season 4 and there has not been any additional info yet. I hope it’s still coming…

Announcement of Minami-ke season 3 on official site
The also put the announcement on the individual pages for both season 1 and season 2, I wonder if that means that both Doumu and Aslead will be doing the anime again…

40% of users on 2ch are female
And the majority of 2ch users are aged between 30 to 49. Might be surprising news to some who don’t know what 2ch is like.

Diavolo no daibouken final release
Distribution of the game will stop at the end of September. It’s a great rogue-like RPG so JoJo fans should give it a try if you haven’t.

MATSUDA98 reports on his blog that the latest issue of Dengeki Daioh has announced that Tetsudou Musume, the series of figures made based on girls working in train companies, will be made into a TV drama. MATSUDA98 is the author of the official Tetsudou Musume manga that’s running in Daioh.

Whoever thought of trying to make this into a TV drama is crazy!

Detroit Metal City movie starts at #2 in box office
Ponyo still #1 for the 6th week in a row. Sky Crawlers? What’s that?

Sound Horizon 6th album “Moira” to be released 3rd September
Been two years since their last album, I hope it’s good.

Code Geass R2 DVD vol.1 sold 26,000 on the first week
Sales of BD version not announced yet.

Toradora anime
Minamike’s Chiaki…? I hope the actual anime looks better, it feels like Toradora is lowest priority because JC Staff has four TV series running concurrently next season.

Lucky Star OVA commercial

Umineko ep3 was nice.

Hirano Aya #1 on Oricon idol/image DVD first half of 2008 rankings
She got first with total sales of only 5,807 in the first half year of 2008. Second place had total sales of 1,204. I never knew this particular market was so… tiny.

Lucky Star OVA screening + talk show in Satte City

Radio controlled cars with Macross Frontier itasha designs

Saber Lion Nendroid
!?

The guys running Nico douga wanted to draw animated slime icons for use in nico, and contacted Squareenix to ask if it was okay to do so. But when they did, Horii Yuji together with the rest of the DQ development team replied that they wanted to help to do something bigger instead.

It’s not known what they will be doing yet, but details of their collaboration will be released soon. DQ related icons have already started randomly appearing in nico douga right now.

I hope it’s a vid of Horii Yuji going naked and drinking hi-potion.

Yuzuki Ryouka and Koyama Rikiya to appear together on The☆Net Star
1000000% gotta watch this!

Full Metal Alchemist new TV series

Man☆gatarou’s manga is going to get made into a video
I can’t imagine how it’ll turn out but I definitely want to see it.

Got Ore no Imouto ga konnani kawaii wake ga nai since it seemed to be highly recommended. It’s a light novel about a normal non-otaku guy who finds out that his little sister is secretly an otaku who likes battle mahou shoujo anime and plays eroge about little sisters.

I was expecting it to be full of otaku stuff with the premise but the main story focus was actually on his sister and it ended up being pretty entertaining. I’ve hated light novels for a while because I ran into a number of crappy books, but maybe I should start looking again.

550,000 people attended over the 3 days of Comic Market 74

Clannad After Story trailer

Ranka Lee got finger cramps from doing the キラッ☆ pose too much

POP is doing the character designs for Cave’s new shooter

Kumatanchi PV
Awesome sprites

Detroit Metal City movie gets rated 80/100
Review praises how the movie wasn’t trying to please the readers of the original manga but instead tried to appeal to all the people that didn’t read the original. Though, the storyline wasn’t really important in DMC so it probably can’t go off-track even if they make major changes.