I’m not a big anime-watcher these days so I tend to leave the anime news to other sources but since so much has come up in the last little while, I figured it’d be of interest to my visitors for some sharing. And so, quick anime recap!
Funimation’s big New Show-A-Go-Go has come to an end with lots of Geneon rescues, a few inevitables and a couple surprises. The complete list of licenses are:
Ikki Tousen
Gad Guard
Vandread
Nabari No Ou
Last Exile
Oh! Edo Rocket |
Gankutsuo: Count of Monte Cristo
Slayers Revolution
Gungrave
Samurai Champloo
Soul Eater
Evangelion: 1.0 |
It’s great seeing Funimation rescue some of these great series and it’ll likely mean that fans will see some affordable boxsets in the future. May I highly recommend Gankutsuo, Gungrave and Last Exile. I’m also happy to see Nabari no Ou licensed because I’d really like to watch it after seeing the first episode a while back. Oh Funimation, you’re making an anime-watcher out of me again!
December was a month of boys’ love anime announcements following the news that the manga Sex Pistols would be made into a set of OVAs. Now not only are we getting an animated version of Kaori Monchi’s Hey! Class President, but also a remake of the retro-popular Ai No Kusabi (and the leads are very attractively redesigned, if I do say so myself).
Meanwhile, Crunchyroll is on, well… a roll, when it comes to picking up animes for showing on their free, ad-supported website. Since stripping the site of its illegal fansubbed work, they’ve wasted little time in refilling the site with lots of subbed, legal and still free works to view streamed from their site. Since the list is too long for me to dig for and post, I’ll just direct you here. Happy legal watching!
And finally for this anime-day posting, it was announced early in December that CLAMP’s Kobato series would be getting the anime treatment by Madhouse. All I can say is that if the studio handles it half as well as they did Cardcaptor Sakura, then all is well in the anime world as far as I’m concerned ;)
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