Third installment of the anime-inspired, Heavenly Sword, prequel animations is up for viewing. It can be watched here.
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As reported by Zannen.ca, these are the final voice actors for the Death Note dub. Note, the voice actors used in the originally released English trailers were not the final actors.
Light Yagami: Brad Swaile
L: Alessandro Juliani
Souichirou Yagami: Chris Brichon
Ryuuk: Brian Drummond
Raye Penbar: Michael Adamthwaite
Aizawa: Trevor Devall
Misa Amane: Shannon Chan-Kent (?)
Rem: Colleen Wheeler
Matsuda: Vincent Tong
Naomi: Tabitha St. Germain
Good things have already been said about the dub, by Canada’s own Ocean Group. Read more over at Zannen.ca’s post.
The news article with the statement “Anime is a Japanese form of animated porn.” was flooded with comments from enraged anime fans as news of it spread around the internet. Now, two days of the article in question was published, the page has been taken down. Tired of getting the same response from fans repeatedly or perhaps realize their error? Who knows. Original post can be read here.
Below is an interesting article that shows the backlash the man behind the multiple suings of people in Singapore over downloading anime from the internet, faced in light of his actions. Fans were not only outraged they’re being specifically targeted but also how casually he threw around the term, “I’m busy suing people.” He claims it was infrustration over dealing with them. He has been flooded with complaints and even a few death threats since then.
Read the whole article here.
And yet again ignorance abounds as another source has cited anime as ” …Japanese form of animated pornography.” Fortunately a quick fan has pointed out their insultive fault. This newspaper will be tracked to see if any apology or correction is made.
Read the full article here.
A few websites for upcoming anime series have surfaced; Night Wizard, Spicy Wolf and StarChild.
Zannen.ca has posted YTV’s new line-up for this Fall including the North American premiere of the Death Note anime.
The upcoming Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles OVA, Tokyo Revelations (the second Tsubasa OVA to date) has been announced as completed. The preview screening for critics, contest winners and other so priveledged is planned for October 21st.
Source: CLAMP Now
A new season of XXXHolic has been announced as being in the works. A few cast changes were noted but no specifics. To fans of CLAMP’s supernatural partner to the less than well recieved Tsubasa anime, this is good news indeed.
Source: GiaPet.net
A DVD of anime-styled Batman segments is planned for release prior to the 2008 movie, The Dark Knight. The events played out in the newly animated shorts will connect events between The Dark Knight and it’s 2005 predecessor, Batman Begins.
Source: Newsarama