
Beleaguered anime producer Gonzo has by way of its participation at the Tokyo Anime Fair announced its support for Ishihara’s policies of anime censorship, and has also announced a continuation to its hit anime Last Exile in the form of a new series.
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Funimation’s English release of top pantsu anime Strike Witches is all but here, with the DVD due at the end of the month. To commemorate the occasion, Funimation and Sankaku Complex are offering users the chance to get some free copies of the DVD.
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One magazine’s estimation of what the most shocking anime news of 2009 was makes for some interesting reading, with all manner of upsets evident.
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Nopan mahjong anime Saki seems to managed some quite scrupulous revisions in the transition from TV to DVD, which are compiled exhaustively by one of 2ch’s image specialists above, with the DVD on the right.
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In a surprise announcement which may be the death knell for troubled studio Gonzo, the production for the second season of Strike Witches has apparently been confirmed as moving to studio AIC, despite earlier assurances that Gonzo would retain the rights.
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Generic school anime Seitokai no Ichizon has attracted attention with a complete Strike Witches parody, which as the credits to the episode indicate actually involved cooperation with Gonzo…
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Keen observation by fans of nopan mahjong anime Saki has revealed that the anime is environmentally conscious enough to recycle frames from earlier episodes wherever possible, which some unkind fans have labeled a cheap cost-cutting measure by a studio on the brink of disaster.
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Troubled pantsu anime studio Gonzo has been given a lifeline with the confirmation that they will retain the rights to animate the hit pantsu-laden WWII influenced mecha musume series, Strike Witches, after earlier speculation that they would lose the franchise…
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A US release of loli pantsu anime Strike Witches is imminent, as US distributor Funimation has announced acquiring the license.
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Mahjong and occasional nopan anime Saki has been exposed as either being ignorant of the most basic rules of mahjong, or else of encouraging cheating.
Of course, an alternative possibility is that it has some extraordinarily lax quality control…
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2ch circulates an interesting rumour of uncertain provenance: evil publisher Kadokawa may drop Gonzo as the producer of the upcoming second season of Strike Witches, supposedly as they have no need of them.
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Toei, for reasons which well might include Gonzo’s impressive success with Strike Witches, has announced at the recent Tokyo International Anime Fair that they will also work on a new project that involves mecha-musume, tentatively entitled “Robot Girls”. Read the rest of this entry »