While a quick peek at the ‘academic’ releases each week have always been a part of my used-to-be-weekly watchlists, usually they would merit at best their own subheading, and often nothing more than a footnote.
Let things pile up for a month or two though and hey, actually there is a lot of this sort of […]

From: Matt
To: Bob
RE: AWA
Well since I didn’t get a phone call asking me to pick you up at the airport, I’m guessing you’re not making it down to ATL for Anime Weekend Atlanta. It works out OK, I guess, since it seems we were left off the press pass list anyway — or at least […]

In case you missed it [*snicker*]:
Anime Expo, Long Beach, CA. Today through Monday.
We here at the ’snob spend all of our money on beer and comics (and whatever is left over goes to anime, and more beer, and more comics, and then to trifling things like rent and food) so unfortunately there isn’t a travel […]

Technically this is a review of the just the novels, since they are the most recent (American) releases in this franchise, but I have the manga and anime on hand so they’re getting dragged into this, too.
Seikai Trilogy: Crest of the Stars

Volume one: Princess of the Empire
Volume two: A Modest War
Volume three: […]

Anime and Manga III
(make that: Anime, Manga, and Games)
You know, if I had an editor, she would be demanding my chestnuts for roasting right now, first because of last week’s filler column, and now especially for wasting days before getting a new 5by8 up for general consumption. Well my actual “editor,” such as he is, […]

So– much like an anime breaking down and doing a clipshow for ep 11 because the series got picked up for another 13 episodes two months ago and now we have to stretch a couple of scripts to bridge the plot into the second season, rather than wrap it up in the initially planned two-part […]

You may have found yourself defending anime at some point to a nonbeliever, telling them that “Well yeah, it’s all ninjas and robots and occasionally, duelling giant robot ninjas piloted by smokin’ hot high school students in skintight outfits, but really the reason *I* watch it is for the character development.”
Time to put some money […]

So here’s what I had to say to Bob on this title (from a recent email):
Hey Bob,
I just got in my review copy of the Anime Encyclopedia from Stone Bridge Press, and it’s a nice volume. So nice, in fact, that I’d be more than willing to pay $30 for it — and so I […]

The Ages of Fan:
– first — previous — next –
The on-going series where we look at just how American anime & manga fandom developed — to the point where today we use the phrase otaku, we know what it means, we know it’s not complimentary, and we still describe ourselves as otaku anyway.
It’s not ironic, […]

The Ages of Fan:
– first — previous — next –
The on-going series where we look at just how American anime & manga fandom developed — to the point where today we use the phrase otaku, we know what it means, we know it’s not complimentary, and we still describe ourselves as otaku anyway.
I was thinking […]

The Ages of Fan:
– first — previous — next –
The on-going series where we look at just how American anime & manga fandom developed — to the point where today we use the phrase otaku, we know what it means, we know it’s not complimentary, and we still describe ourselves as otaku anyway.
As anyone who […]

Stellvia, aka “Stellvia of the Universe”
26 half-hour episodes, on 8 DVDs.
Original Language: Japanese
Vintage: 2003
Production: Xebec/Foundation II
Director: Tatsuo Sato
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment
ADR Director: Wendee Lee
Translators: Tetsuya Fujita (eps. 1-4) & Richard Kim
ADR Writers: Clark Cheng & Wendee Lee
DVD Production: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc.
US DVD releases from […]

edit 5 April 2007: As you may have noted from it’s use in the review also posted on 3 April, I’ve settled on a new tagline, “On Anime”, for my animation posts. While this was written as a 5by8, it doesn’t really fit as one of those columns, which is what I was half thinking […]

The Ages of Fan:
– first — previous — next –
The on-going series where we look at just how American anime & manga fandom developed — to the point where today we use the phrase otaku, we know what it means, we know it’s not complimentary, and we still describe ourselves as otaku anyway.
(You know, in […]

Heavy Metal
1981
Executive Producer: Leonard Mogel
Producer: Ivan Reitman
Directors: Gerald Potterton & Jimmy T. Murakami
Rating: 3 out of 5
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We’re opening up the door to animation here at comicsnob.com, and we’re starting out with a review of 1981’s Heavy Metal.
True to the magazine on which it’s based, the movie gives us plenty of sci-fi and fantasy content with […]