Archive for the ‘Editorial’ Category

Being one of the few latino anime journalists in this little game, I’ve noticed in the years since the introduction of anime on DVD that many licensors and distributors would include Spanish dubs/subs on many titles, with the two biggest properties in terms of recognition in the US being Neon Genesis Evangelion and Dragon Ball [...]

In their typically shortsighted “wisdom”, the United States Federal Trade Commission is now enforcing a very arbitrary set of rules for bloggers concerning product reviews and the disclosure of any connections to companies providing products for review starting today. The intention behind these rules is to increase transparency and the elimination of obvious paid reviews [...]

Recently, Microsoft and Shueisha jointly announced the forthcoming launch of a new mobile manga service for Microsoft Windows Mobile based devices beginning in December via the recently launched Marketplace for Mobile application store currently compatible with devices running Windows Mobile 6.5 (compatibility with older devices running Windows Mobile 6.0/6.1 is said to be arriving later [...]

This thread on 4chan’s /cgl/ board about the worst examples of the mythical weeaboo and fangirl brought back a flood of hilarious and painful memories for me. If you’re not familiar with the term, a weeaboo is an extremely obsessed Japanese anime/manga fan (usually white, though there are exceptions) that goes out of their way [...]

So I watched Disney XD’s treatment of Naruto Shippuden on Wednesday and it was far superior to the treatment given by Cartoon Network for the first series. It turns out Cartoon Network’s edits for the whole of Naruto were garbage compared to the light touch Disney gave the first four episodes of Shippuden.

Noted websites have posted a rather damning report concerning Funimation and the One Piece episode leak debacle, going into extensive detail regarding the distributor’s lack of security for its public video server, and the apparent knowledge that they knew about the capability to rip its videos for months. A damn good read for those that [...]

Sony Pictures CEO Micheal Lynton said this during a breakfast co-hosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker this past Thursday: I’m a guy who doesn’t see anything good having come from the Internet, period. [The internet] created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want [...]

Lately, I’ve been seeing posts all over the anime blogosphere touting the advantages and disadvantages of having mobile and electronic manga in a similar manner as the Japanese market. What all of these posts fail to address is the vagaries of this market and the fanbase as a while ignoring key points in infrastructure that [...]

When the blog and Twittersphere went nuts over the weekend after discovering that swaths of LGBT themed publications were delisted from Amazon sales rankings and general search (on Easter weekend no less), people were rallying the torches and pitchforks, convinced that Amazon was censoring the offending material and sending a message of veiled bigotry. It [...]

After months of hushed speculation and rumor stretching as far back as the beginning of last year, the official launch of the Bandai Entertainment YouTube channel this weekend not only signals the distributor’s attempt to offer VOD programming, but it quietly acknowledges the speculation that Bandai Entertainment was in fact planning to launch a full-fledged [...]