http://animeanime.jp/news/archives/2009/05/7_50.html
Apparently that equals out to 22.2% of all households watching tv during the show’s 12:45 AM broadcast time. noitaminA knows how to pick em!
http://blog.excite.co.jp/exanime/10297151/
Goth-rockers Asriel have their first album on a major label, unveil, out tomorrow, distributed by Geneon. It’ll feature their OP for Monochrome Factor, “Metamorphose”, as well as songs they did for Never7 and 11eyes. The band also has 8 self-released albums out.
I guess I had known somewhere in the back of my mind that Asriel were technically signed to a label, but it just seems strange that they’d release this album less than a month after their M3 doujin album release. I wonder if they’ll keep doing doujin alongside their work for the label, cause I have no idea how their Geneon handlers would react to that.
http://natalie.mu/comic/news/show/id/16711
Again, these might be brief – I’m eating pancakes in 20 minutes, then leaving on a jet plane.
Kawaguchi is jumping back into action barely a month after he broke his arm in a bicycle accident, and Zipang will continue its run in Morning with its 26th issue, released on May 28.
http://mainichi.jp/enta/mantan/news/20090520mog00m200060000c.html via 2ch
Mainichi is reporting that Morning 2 is preparing to offer the entirety of the next three issues of the magazine published on their website for free, followed by similar uploads with a one-month delay until 12 issues have elapsed. However, a special print-only booklet will be released alongside the next 3 issues of the 390-yen magazine featuring a creator-drawn parody of the magazine’s hit title Saint Young Men. It’s noted that when they previously offered issues for free with a month delay, they received 400,000 hits in 3 days, and their sales rose drastically, and they are hoping for a similar effect with their new experiment.
Morning 2 is released on the 22nd of each month, and its website can be found here. Information about the issue to be released tomorrow can be found here, for the time being. Click the 最新号を試し読みする button to read the issue once it’s out.
http://gimpo.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/moeplus/1242882332/l50
Out of concerns for concertgoers’ health, the 5/23 Osaka stop on the Idolm@ster tour has been cancelled. (Insert snide remark about how people who don’t ever leave their houses don’t have to worry about getting swine flu from each other.)
Hope you didn’t buy scalped tickets on YAJ!
http://changi.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/anime3/1241612763/n114-117
“Source: 2ch” of course, but here’s a quick rundown of the ridiculous number of anime/manga/game/sentai/etc licenses that the pachinko/pachislot folks are coming out with in the next few months:
Pachinko:
Warau Salesman
Kidou Shinsengumi Moeyo-Ken Shippuu Dodou-hen
Kikaider 01-Z
Obocchama-kun
Rose of Versailles ~Bara wa Utsukushiku Chiru~
Super Umimonogatari (not an anime… YET!)
Thunderbirds 4
Momo Kyun Ken
Kamen Rider MAX
Cyborg 009
Hana no Keiji Kumo? Zan?
Hana no Keiji ~Ai~
Kidou Senkan Nadesico
Super Dimensional Fortress Macross F
Dai-Yamato ZERO
Gin’iro no Kami Agito
Great Teacher Onizuka
Death Note
Ultraman
Gundam SEED
Ashita no Joe
Souten no Ken
Super Umimonogatari in Okinawa Special
Saint Seiya
Maison Ikkoku
Yokai Ningen Bem
Super Robot Wars
Meccha Moe
Slot Machines:
(Still pending:)
Shinseiki Evangelion 4
Ashita no Joe
009-1
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Zettai Shougeki ~Platonic Heart~ (what the fuck)
(Approved:)
Akagi FSA
(Scheduled for release:)
Queen Galaxia
Tokimeki Memorial
Kidou Senshi Gundam 3 ~Meguriai Uchuu-Hen~
Akagi
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Oh, and “Shin Night Shift Nurses” is listed under “other.”
http://www.saiani.net/article/119896024.html
Apparently the “fall” part is the new info, but I could be wrong!
http://natalie.mu/comic/news/show/id/16656
I noticed this morning that ANN has a perfectly good writeup of this so I’m just going to link to it and not say anything else, other than the observation that the JOKER editors really seem to be pushing this yandere stuff.
http://natalie.mu/comic/news/show/id/16663
The OAD will be released packaged with volume 27 of the manga.
(no shaft op no watch)
http://natalie.mu/comic/news/show/id/16682
The 480-page book detailing the history of the children’s manga magazine, a formative part of my youth, and home to more toy tie-ins than you could imagine, will be released on the 29th. The book will feature many interviews with famous contributors to the magazine such as Fujiko Fujio (A).