Sunday, July 27, 2014

Serendipity is very close to not meeting the funding mark

Back around the 10th of the month a new crowd-funding  website popped up on the Internet, It's focused specifically on Japanese Animation/ Anime.   Their very first project  is called Serendipity

Anicool seems to borrow quite a lot from the more well-known Kickstarter. The most obvious similarity is the various rewards offered to people that give a certain amount of money to the funding goal.




 Anicool  funds projects in Yen as opposed to USD.   In order for Serendipity to be fully funded "they" need a total of 1,000,000.00 Yen. I ran this through Google and it converts to around 9,818.84 USD. Valid exchange rate at the time of this post.

Friday, July 18, 2014

Only hours left until the 2nd episode of Sailor Moon Crystal

It will be released by the time you read this but  Tomorrow is the third Saturday of the Month and that means the next episode is going to be released onto Crunchyroll and Hulu.

If you saw episode 1, we're going to meet the next key character. Hopefully the chosen voice talent is able to do the role justice.



Friday, July 11, 2014

An old Barenaked Ladies music video is linked to Digimon?

So I was hopping around Youtube listening to a selection of my favorite songs from the 1990s and I got to "One Week" via the official Warner Bros. records channel. For some reason  the track artwork for the "buy this" song  section has a (small) image of the Digimon Anime.
"Buy" One Week via Youtube image

The song itself has mentions of Sailor Moon, but not Digimon. Some other Japanese related things like Sushi, and film director Akira Kurosawa. I never really watched Digimon/ Digital Monsters growing up. So was this song played during the series?  You can watch the music video on Youtube



Sunday, July 06, 2014

Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods to be screened in Illinois

 Very limited screening days and the information below is based on  Funimation's own website listings .

 
 August 5th to the 9th of this year.

Chicago, IL
Studio Movie Grill Chatham 14




Rosemont, IL
Rosemont 18

Elgin, IL 
Elgin Fox Theatre 15

Addison, IL
Addison Cinemas

Gurnee, IL
Gurnee Cinemas

There are a few more listed theaters for Illinois. Just use Google or Bing map services to get exact addresses and directions.


They  are using something called Open Street Map  to show the theater location markers on a US map. TThe Get tickets buttons don't seem to work. Perhaps it is too early in July for the links to be active? More likely better to just call and ask the Theatre. 


Friday, July 04, 2014

Anime Midwest 2014 - A convention going on right now in Rosemont IL

Anime Midwest 2014 is actually going on today (Friday) July 4th until (Sunday) the 6th. Seems like a fairly new fan convention because they have this thing about limiting the attendance to 10,00 people.  I'm guessing so that's the magic number for the staff to be able to manage things at the moment.  According to their attendance tracker, they've only sold half of their maximum capacity. Good chance you can go there during the weekend.

Seems like if you are a fan of drinking Mountain Dew soda, than this is a good place to hang out as Attendees get free soda and Ramen ( have no clue if it's instant or an actual ramen shop setup. )



It is being held in the town of Rosemont, IL, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center and Hyatt Regency. Now if these to venues sound familiar then you're thinking of the other Anime Con that happens in Illinois, Anime Central. "Acen" took place in May of this year.


Some notable attendees :

  • Nostalgia Critic (Doug Walker)
  • Linkara
  •  Johnny Yong Bosch
  • Sonny Strait
  • Chris Patton
  •  Caitlin Glass


Link to their website
Link to their Facebook page 

Tuesday, July 01, 2014

Finally getting around to watching the Sailor Moon Crystal trailer

It's going to begin airing in Japan in 4 days. This trailer was originally uploaded to a Japanese Youtube account back in the beginning of June. Features the character,  Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon.  looks so much cleaner/sleeker than how she was in the early 1990s.

The original Japanese voice actress for Sailor Moon is back to reprise her role. Which is awesome that she can still do the high pitched "Whinny" sound from the 1990s. Kotono Mitsuishi has since gone on to play other notable roles such as Misato Katsuragi (Neon Genesis Evangelion)  and Marrue Ramius (Gundam Seed/Destiny.) I'm really hoping that there is more to this iteration of Sailor Moon than a crybaby Usagi-chan.  Come  on lead writer for the show, hope you can do something


We get quick still shots of the other 4 Sailor Senshi. Wonder how many of those actors are returning? Looks like Viz Media already picked up the rights for it in North America.


 Here's a link (redirect to Youtube) for those who can't see embeded flash video