Naruto, Bleach, Death Note anime now available on iTunes

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

The good folks at Viz Media have seen fit to finally make some money off the countless multitudes of anime downloaders on iTunes, and have made Naruto, Bleach and Death Note available on Apple’s iTunes service.
English dubbed versions of the first 25 uncut eps of Naruto, the first 41 Bleach episodes, and the complete run [...]

Shonen Jump fifth anniversary releases

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

In no particular order:
- There’s the Shonen Jump Fifth Anniversary Collector’s Edition, chock full of manga, articles, essays, interviews with top Shonen Jump mangaka like Kishimoto, Toriyama, Kubo and Oda, and even a free Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card.
- There will also be a bunch of Naruto novelettes (with, like word-type text in them!) , with [...]

NaruIchi mashup on yer desktop!

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I just couldn’t resist posting this up to the blog–not when it brings together in such joyful union two of the most important things in many a-Shonen-Jump-obsessed anime-slash-manga fanatic’s life.
It was especially clever of the artist to play around with the parallelisms in each show’s characters, and the archetypes they represent.
And that look on Rukia’s [...]

Bleach trading card game ad blitz

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

As if there weren’t enough anime-related merch to splurge your money on.
The Bleach Trading Card Game TV commercial will start airing on Adult Swim starting the week of April 16, and will feature voice talent from the Bleach anime. Magazines like Shonen Jump, Scrye, Shojo Beat and Anime Insider will take take of the [...]