Registration Open for Pacific Media Expo
Pacific Media Expo announced earlier this week that they have started registration for their convention later this November. For the time being the Membership pass will be at $30. The first price increase will take place on September 20th where it will cost $35. The second price increase will be on October 20th where it [...]
Viz Picture and Fathom to Release DEATH NOTE II on the Silver Screen
Viz Pictures and NCM FATHOM are teaming up once again to bring you full length Japanese movies onto the silver screen before they hit the store shelves. This time it is the popular sequel to the first DEATH NOTE movie, it’s “DEATH NOTE II: The Last Name” that will appear in almost 400 theaters across [...]
VIZ Media to Debut and Re-release Three of Takehiko Inoue's Hit Titles
A press release arrived last week from Viz Media that featured several new titles and artbooks set to hit our shores within the next thirty days from famed manga artist Takehiko Inoue. Here’s a quick bio of him via the press release: Takehiko Inoue is a skilled artist whose intricately detailed and lifelike visual style [...]
Broadway Musicals of the 1940s – GRAVITATION T-Shirt & Hoodie Sweatshirt
Nozomi Entertainment sent out a press release announcing their new T-Shirt & Hoodie Sweatshirt featuring the Gravitation stars Shuichi and Ryuichi. While both items are in the color blue, the Hoodie is a cotton/poly (80/20) blend available from small to extra-large while the pre-shrunk cotton T-shirt will be also include XXL. All sizes for the [...]
Comic Con 2008 Special – Kotobukiya's Booth (Part 2)
The next report on Kotobukiya is on a new ARTFX+ Statue collection is on the new Star Wars CGI movie, The Clone Wars. The movie is… a prequel to a… side story that takes place… during the prequel saga (pardon my humor Mr. Lucas). The Clone Wars collection is divided up into two (hopefully more) [...]
One Review Posted: Anime Expo 2008
Sorry for the delay! It’s funny how one convention can suddenly drop a whole lotta work load ontop of another. To give you an idea about my review, one of the hot topics over AX this year was over its location. There was also talk about moving the convention over to a bigger and better [...]
If Her Shovel Doesn't Get You… Organic Hobby Annouces the Release of Strike Witches Elizabeth
Last month Organic Hobby announced that it will be releasing the resin model of Elizabeth from the series “Strike Witches” in the US Market. This will be in conjunction with the company Beagle. If you’re looking for information on her, you might have to dig a little deeper than usual. Although her character design is [...]
Comic Con 2008 Special – Kotobukiya's Booth (Part 1)
So if you’ve been following my blog, one of the companies that I follow closely is Kotobukiya. I originally met them at last year’s Comic Con and I’ve always had a lot of fun posting their new resin models ever since. When I met up with them this year I was (at the very most) [...]
Pacifc Media Expo Set for Veteran's Day Weekend
This was actually announced back in June, but hopefully I will be forgiven… I stopped by the PMX website a couple of days ago and discovered that the convention will be returning to the LAX Hilton on Veterans Day weekend. This will be the second time that the convention will be held during this holiday [...]
Kawai Eri Passed Away August 4, 2008
For everyone that has been a fan of something or another, the people and things involed deliver to you a moment that makes more of a fan than you could’ve ever imagined. For me those moments included hearing Dave Grohl play Everlong in acoustic for the first time, or when House wrapped up his lecture [...]