Robert, the R in RACS, reports from the retail front:
Just a quick post to let everyone know that since about the 3rd week of August the flow of Anime trade in's to arrive here at the warehouse has picked up from their regular flow to pretty much a total …read more
In an unlinkable discussion about Owen being inexplicably butt-hurt by failry innocous comment by SDS (of Ogiue Maniax), JP dumped like so -- quoted in full, so we can link the blasted thing:
read moreok fine, i'll give you the best bankai i can despite all of my books/notes/stuff being …
While I was away in Nevada, a server move has gone bad and Ani-nouto went off air. I resorted to dropping anime content to that other blog. It wasn't much anyway.
read moreIn Steven's comments instead of his own blog:
[After the deal,] Senior creditor gets the revenue stream from the existing licenses. Ledford et al break up the rest of ADV and let the shell die. Other creditors force the shell into bankruptcy. Senior creditor says "our debt is senior; the …read more
I think she's making fun of Potemayo... and herself. The simple pleasures of catching up to Nina, I really should make sure to check it out no more often than twice a year.
read moreAs Deb Aoki (a U.S. manga industry personality) reports (via), the only Japan-style manga cafe in SF Japantown closes after a short stint in business. I think Deb is right that there very, very few people in America who would read manga in Japanese.
Tangentially, I think shop "On …
read moreZyl asks (on the old, non-joint blog):
P.S. Have been ruminating over the following two posts for a while and I’ve had an epiphany. Yeah, slowpoke.jpg but still…
The only connection between Marimite and Taishou Yakyuu Musume that I see is that Mamiko Noto is in both …
read moreFor those who're into that kind of thing, Beta Waffle has a post up that takes a more palatable view on failures of Tokyopop and how ViZ applies its lessons. I didn't even read what Omo wrote, his title was too clever and my eyes glazed over trying to parse …
read moreJapanophile Isle reports on another Cease-and-Desist for an unlicensed show (Canaan) sent by BayTSP's robots. BayTSP is well known for this kind of thing. In fact it's even known outside of anime (for DoSing, too).
The BayTSP case brings to light the problem outlined in the paper "Large Recording Companies …
read moreI received my True Tears from RACS, 10 days ahead of the revised street date, and a few weeks after the originally promised release date. Oh well, at least it's here. I remember the announcement, and how a number of people (especially among inhabitants of #animeondvd) loudly proclaimed that Bandai …
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