Those of you eagerly awaiting the release of the third Hellsing OVA, will have to turn down the caffeine level a bit, because, according to this "News and Info" section of the Japanese official Hellsing website, the production is way behind schedule, and the team responsible for it cannot respect their before mentioned deadline. So there you go, from a February 9th debut, the OVA is being pushed forward until sometime... later this year. A big Hellsing fanboy, eh? Go cry some more in the corner. Vampire hunters should get a life, and a girlfriend to top that.

It is a happy day for Canadians, yes, indeed. The time for them to bask in the glory of what we call anime has finally come. Canadian site Zannen reports that the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission (Jesus Christ, that's a freaking long and disturbing name) has approved YTV's application to create a brand new network, entitled "The Anime Channel", network targeted, apparently, to adults over the age of 18 and beyond. Smells like lots of ero shows to me. Part of the deal was for YTV to broadcast at least 65% worth of anime material, and up to 35% of other anime related content (with suggestions coming from Animekon, pointing at school girl uniforms, pink underwear and tons of swimsuits). The same website also noticed that G4TechTV will broadcast several Geneon titles across Canada, shows like Tenjho Tenge, GunxSword, or Trigun. It seems like the broadcast for Tenjo Tenge has already begun, actually. Terrence and Philip will now have new wanking material.

One Japanese multimedia site, Anime BB, hosts the first episode of the upcoming Reideen series. Free for online viewing, of course. The episode in question is DRM encoded, so it requires for you to have a version of Windows Media Player installed on your porn temple computer, in order to view it. Tough luck. The said show will premier on the WOWOW TV network somewere around March 3rd, and we are eagerly NOT expecting it.

This show will be amazing, and I can't wait to get my hands on it. Until then, though, all I can do is re-watch the trailer over and over again, and, starting today, looking at some nifty screenshots from Cinema Today. The guys there managed somehow to get their hands on these images, and, as you can see, they look sensational.

If you didn't get the chance to watch Azumanga Daioh when you had to, then screw you. Thankfully, Gyao's Bandai Channel is hosting 13 episodes of this great comedy show online, free of all charge, giving you the holy right of repentance. We will still be considering you a complete retard, with the lack of the most basic pedolicious subculture - but hey, that's just us. Japanese language only, so dub lovers, go flurp your dubbed fluids somewere else please.


Mega-Spoilers: Yukari-sensei is still the hottest english teacher that has ever set foot in Japan, and Kimura-sensei is still my pedo hero. And Tomo-chan still scares the shit out of me.

Ladies and gentlemen, bring your little sisters in front of the screen and be amazed by the Kiddy Grade 2 official Presite! Nothing there yet, no screens, no wallpapers, no trailers. Yet. I'm a very confident lolicon though, so I await, with patience fit for a buddhist, for GONZO to start showering us with more and more info regarding this show.


By the way, did you know that our beloved Lumiere is only ten years old? How's that for a C Class GOTT ES Member? Eclair, on the other hand, is 16. Almost too old. Eh, well...

We should probably create a new blog category, entitled "Suzumiya Haruhi, the hype, the lolis and Yuki's yet undeveloped boobs" - because the news regarding this here show just won't stop flowing. So, what do we have this time? Bandai Entertainment just announced, via asoesbrigade.com, that the first volume of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya will be finally released on May 29, to the delight of fans all over the world. There are also rumors floating around about a Special Edition that includes all 4 volumes (and, we hope, some nifty extra content, like the Mikuru porn I've been ranting about for the last couple of months). The new video uploaded on asosbrigade.com also talks a bit about the fansubs available on the internet, on portals such as Youtube or BitTorrent, and, to my surprise, these guys approached the subbing phenomenon with outmost diplomacy. It is stated that "it's pretty cool" (that people are already flurping on subbed episodes of the show), but the company also recommends that fans get their lazy asses out of the house and purchase the original DVD. My pedo comrade's beloved Yuki even states that this is the only way to save this plane's existence.

Mostly all of the anime series we here enjoy watching usually fall into three categories: the first one, obviously enough, is the kind that stimulates our perfectly normal lust for lolis. The second category is made out of various kinds of shows that we have no clear recollection about, due to excessive use of alcoholic beverages. And finally, there's also a third kind of anime we very much enjoy watching, over and over again: Beyond the Clouds, more commonly known as The Place Promised In Our Early Days, or Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho. That's right, it's a single animated production that's so... so perfect, that it deserves its very own category. It's largely attributed to Makoto Shinkai, who has recently completed work on his latest project - Byousoku 5 Centimeter (5 Centimeters per Second) - a collection of short stories presented as an hour-long animated feature.

As announced on the official Byousoku 5cm blog (via MSFW), Makoto Shinkai's team has finished the final part of editing, so they can now focus on promotion, advertisement, and finally the premiere.

The good news is that 5cm is coming a lot sooner than we could have hoped for. Whereas last year I didn't expect it any sooner than mid 2007, the official blog says that the Japanese premiere will actually take place this March!


The only bad news is that, well, if we keep watching Beyond the Clouds any longer, we'll run out of hankies by the time 5cm gets subbed. And we don't want that to happen!

P.S. If you missed the 5cm preview trailer last november, now's yer chance!

A quick word, just to show you that my real name has Nostradamus in it. Remember when I told you that the evil imperialists from across the Atlantic will do anything to keep their much beloved Oscar festivities clean of outsiders? Remember when I told you that Paprika will (probably) be carefully avoided in the list of Oscar nominees for the Animated Feature Film category? Well... I was right, of course, The nominees for the said category are, as follows, Cars, Happy Feet and Monster House. All hail gay penguins, talking idiotic cars and... some living house that eats people. Fascinating choices. Well, what would you expect from people that nominate some dude named Leonardo di Caprio for the Best Actor in a Leading Role?

Playing another round of anime news catch-up tonight, I found 11 trailers released over the last couple of weeks or so, that I had shamefully missed until now. You'll probably be bored to death by most of them, but there's one in particular that will surely put you nasal blood vessels to the test. Or thou shall not be a lolicon!

I'm talking about the full opening sequence for the Ichigo Mashimaro OVA, coming this February at a horny fansubber near you. By the looks of it, it's perfectly continuing the style of the original series (which we loved many, many times... especially episode 3), and that can only be delicious news for those of you waiting to get your sticky hands back on Miu-chan, Chi-chan, Matsuri-chan and Ana-chan. Nobue onee-chan is still there, so don't worry if you're into older ones. Loli Jesus forgives you.

Ichigo Mashimaro OVA opening

The other ten new clips you can find here in the trailers section, or over on TV-kun, are in no particular order as follows:

- To Heart 2 OVA promo #2
- To Heart 2 OVA promo
- Le Chevalier D'Eon trailer (what a waste of good visuals)
- Dragon Ball Z remarstered trailer
- Venus Versus Virus promo #2
- Saiyuki Reload: Burial OVA promo
- One Piece Movie 8 promo
- Moonlight Mile promo (Planetes copy-cat?)
- Hitohira promo
- Hidamari Sketch promo

The Ichigo Mashimaro OVA DVD Volume 1 should come out soon in Japan, on February 23, but I'm not sure I can keep it in that long. Especially with the likes of Manabi Straight teasing me like crazy.