Yes, after watching a downloaded copy I liked the movie so much I decided to shell out for it. My limited edition of "Byousoku 5 Centimeters" arrived from Play-Asia safely this morning with no custom charges. The last time I tried ordering a Japanese DVD, they taxed me around £10 or so... Originally I was planning to order from the...
That's right. There's going to be a novel of Shinkai's latest movie "5 Centimeters per Second" and it's going to have some extra content in it. In fact, it's already being serialised in the Japanese novel magazine, "Da Vinci" since the May issue. According to the official "5cm Staff Blog", what happened was some of Shinkai's fans who...
Well, that's twice I've e-mailed Animegamers.com since receiving my order from them two weeks ago. Nothing. I was expecting an apology or an explanation as to why my limited edition of "GetBackers Vol. 39" was missing the postcards that were supposed to have come with it. As I mentioned in my last post, they were the whole reason why I...
The Asian DVD (both the regular and limited editions) came out about a week ago complete with English subtitles. The limited edition contained the English dub too as well as other languages. I didn't pre-order this one like I did when "Spirited Away" was due for release even though I'm a fan of Ghibili's movies because its trailers just...
Shinkai Makoto's latest work "5 Centimeters per Second" just came out on DVD this Thursday, both the regular version and limited edition package. I didn't really know anything about it until I saw many versions of the RAW floating around on several Anime sites so I decided to look it up. I've actually watched some of his previous work...
This sound drama CD just came out a few days ago on June 27th and contains the following tracks: Again, I have this posted on Animesuki if you want to go somewhere to discuss these filler sound episodes. Translations of the first track and others can be found here. Stage 15.447 “Playing Strangers" Shirley
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Hikaru Utada's new song "Beautiful World", which is set for release on August 29th, will be the theme song to the upcoming first new Evangelion movie. Her "Fly Me To The Moon （In Other Words） -2007 MIX-" will also be used for the trailer currently being shown in cinemas only. You can listen to a sample of her remix on her official site....
The last two highly anticipated first season episodes of Code Geass still seems sometime away. Meanwhile drama CDs are being released with little fillers that take place in between scenes of certain episodes. The July issue of the Japanese Anime magazine "Newtype" comes with its own Code Geass drama CD special too. Here is my rough...
UCC's canned milk coffee featuring character designs from the Evangelion movies returns to vending machines and retailers today, complete with brand new artwork from the upcoming first new movie. It's been 10 years since their drinks last featured Evangelion characters back in 1997 which sold more than 12 million cans. If you pay...
Following the success of their previous two Pokemon Mystery Dungeon titles that has sold over 5.5 million copies, Chunsoft announces that they are now developing two more titles to add to their Mystery Dungeon series. No details or even subtitles have been revealed yet but they both be for the DS and is planned for sometime this year....