We here at Animekon cherish this time of the year. Not because we get lots of (underaged) presents, but because it is a time for everyone to enjoy some free time with their friends. In our case, enjoy some quality time playing bowling with our l33t Wiimotes. Hell, I managed 5 consecutive strikes! So, it is our pleasure to wish you all good luck, many little sisters, a happy time this winter and various other things. Enjoy your loli hollydays! Because Suzumiya said so. (Yes, I would rape her).

Pink. Lolita. Must... stop... thinking... about sono kono ano... That's right, my obviously pedo friends, the tenth Zero no Tsukaima novel includes a happy little note that informs us about a second anime series. What can be more arousing interesting than an underaged witch with pink hair, a loli maid, and a random little girl with blue hair, glasses, that resembles so much with Yuki-chan from Suyumiya Haruhi? Doing this, and that, and various other things? You get the whole picture, I hope. DO NOT ENTER UNLESS YOU ARE PURE HEARTED!

Why would GONZO do such a terrible thing? Out of nowhere, their managing director stated that the Mardock Scramble OAV, which fans were waiting for quite some time now, has been canceled due to "various reasons" that the company cleverly kept to themselves. This show was supposed to be an adaptation of the Mardock Scramble SF novel by To Ubukata, a novel that won 1st prize as the Japanese best SF thingy for 2003. There even was a three-book special edition (which, I guess, featured some delicious lolita posters as well), published by Hayakawa, that sold over 160.000 units. That's almost as much as Japanese porn sells.

When they first announced this production, GONZO assigned Ubukata himself to do the scenario, while Yasufumi Soejima, responsible for stuff like Animatrix or Gankutsuou, was supposed to do the directing. Like, directing the little sisters to their rightful owner(s). Me. Well, too bad, one less OVA to shower us with much needed lolicious content. I'm a very sad panda. I need a hug.

Does the anime phenomenon go too far? No, it does not. Thanks to ANN, I have just found out that Gaza, a place where people are almost black and kill each other on a daily basis, due to several conflicts involving stuff I really don't give a crap about, hosts little girls that like anime. While protesting against Hamas, against terrorism and various other things (like onii-chan doing sono kono ano to her while daddy was not watching), a young (but black, not yellow) girl was toying around with a placard hosting precious Haruhi Suzumiya, and bearing the text "Stop Killing the Children". While I can obviously see the correlation between Suzumiya and children (and Mikuru is the first thing that comes to my mind... then Yuki), I don't see how it will help kids not being murdered on the streets anymore. The protest was, it seems, a reaction to some dude shooting here and there, killing three children in the process.

I have been ranting long ago about Americans not wanting foreign stuff to win their crappy awards. Well, it's easy to do that - delay the title long enough so that it may not join the fight. Since it has been some time now since Advent Children (mmmm, children) has been released in Japan (and carefully avoided by most over-the-seas publishers), Wise Ass Uncle Sam has decided to finally release it. In Texas, too. Sony, a.k.a. the guys who got owned by Nintendo and who screwed up their next-gen thinghie by releasing an overpriced console (which DOES NOT have a Wiimote controller, hence you can't run around bus stations, chasing little girls), will release, by popular demand, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Limited Edition Collector's Set (I wonder how they will be able to stick this awfully long title on the DVD cover) on February 6, for only 49.95 USD. That's the price of Twilight Princess. This piece of Japanese animation will include the short anime Final Fantasy VII: Last Order, ten postcards, an English movie script (what the hell for? Wanking?), a booklet with the main characters, and your average content from the Advent Children disc. Now now, where is my God damned Aeris poster? I need it next to my Miu-chan poster. And my Miharu poster. And my Hinata poster. And my *cough* Lady Aribeth poster *cough*.

We are truly very sorry for keeping you away from your much needed pedo ratios for days on end. It must have been... like... three whole days since Animekon went down under, along with the server it's currently hosted on. But have no fear, we'll be moving it soon to a dedicated server so you can enjoy it 24/7.

And speaking of 7, I sure hope that Santa isn't mad at me for this, and (s)he'll still bring me what I asked for Christmas this year. Mite mite!


* hint: it's not the pink fluffy... thing

...and after shamelessly doing sono-kono-ano with its imouto-web-chan TVkon, for a healthy couple of hours or so, Animekon has just given birth to a new Trailers section. Here you will find all the latest clips of interest automatically listed from TVkon, so be sure to check it on a regular basis.

The clips are mostly safe for work too, so you don't have to worry about your boss / mom / over-aged girlfriend finding out about your deviant sexual preferences. Well, mostly...

Anyway, be sure to check it right away, because I'm sure you'll have at least one pleasant surprise sex in there.

Oh yes, I remember this show. I remember it because I said then, and I quote myself in a very profesional manner, "a little girl of not even 16 years old". With bold characters. GONZO is making me wait too much for this, really. I still have one question though - why in the Nine Hells of Faerun, in almost every anime, the main plot-related chick must have red hair? I mean look at this. Mai Hime. Mai Otome. Freaking Kanon. And the list can continue up to the not-so-important (and with a shitty ending) Munto. All of them have red hair. What's wrong with black? Or, more importantly, what's wrong with pink?

After careful considerations (and tons of anime sessions complemented by tons of vodka), I have came to the conclusion that pink is starting to fade away from the anime scene. We used to have not one, but even two pink haired characters per show (Elfen Lied comes in mind, in a very sick and perverted way), and now all we get is some random little girl with a dash of pink in her hair, that usually dies of cancer, gets eaten by hungry tentacles (which firstly do sono kono ano to her), or decides to sign up for some american college in Texas. Where they have cows. And pigs. And other random animals.

Eh, well, enough ranting about that, back to Romeo Screws Juliet, GONZO is giving us some teasers. On the show's official website, we can spot a pretty long trailer, depicting several characters, swords, clashes, and, of course, a white pony with wings. And a horn. Since my pedo comrade is asleep, as usual, having wet dreams about his beloved Chi-chan, you might want to check it out from the original source. Once he has awaken, I shall molest him until he can put the trailer on imouto-web-chan. Though I doubt it is possible, it's just a Flash thinghie.

Update: Check the full-res trailer on TVkon.

The related TV series has had more episodes than I can actually count. And I can't really count past sixteen, what lies beyond that (in age, especially) is none of my concern. One Piece loosely competes with The Young and The Restless for the title of Best Soap Opera ever. Well, since these things tend to be imortal, the producers have opened a new website for the 8th One Piece animated movie, entitled Episodo obu Arabasuta (Episode of Alabasta, for lazy people not learning Japanese with their imouto-chans), and it is bound for release on March 3, 2007. The story takes place, according to certain internet loud voices, during the Alabasta arc of the TV Series (beats me, I haven't seen any piece of One Piece yet). Toei Animation, the big bad-ass guru of young anime girls, lets us know that viewers all over the world will shed rivers of tears upon watching this. Heh. If it ain't Air, Kanon or Saikano, no rivers of tears from my behalf, no sir. ANS also has some insight about the staff breaking their backs to put this on the screen:

Original story by Eiichiro Oda, Director: Takahiro Imamura. Production by the 2007 One Piece Production Committee composed of Toei Animation, Shueisha, Fuji Television, and Bandai.

Paprika is hot! Especially the smoked hot paprika powder, that our neighbours from the West are using to spice up their kick-ass goulash. Mmm... Anyway, I'm not here to talk about Hungarian cuisine (though my stomach urges me otherwise), but about one of this year's most hyped anime movies.

I'm sure that Madhouse's Paprika needs no more introduction. But if it does, AniDB and the official website would be more than happy to introduce it to you. The critics love it, the fans love it, our imouto-web-chan loves it,... but for some reason, I doubt that uncle Oscar will love it as much as everyone else does (uncle Oscar has been known to love all kinds of zoophilic animations, but he's not very attracted to Japanese animes; in other words, uncle Oscar has issues).

As the hype escalates, people are beginning to wonder when they might get their hands on Paprika. Well, fortunately for those of you living in the UK, Anime UK News has word that one online retailer is already listing the Paprika DVD with a release date set for March 5, 2007. This should be great news for the Brits who have been waiting for this release. And if it's not - hey, don't blame me! I'm just here to post pretty pictures and stuff.