News from March, 2004!
News from March, 2004!
3/9/04~ Tokyopop has announced the September debut
of a series of manga novels, prose versions of manga-type stories complemented by a stream of manga-style illustrations. The first three Tokyopop manga novels include the Slayers text novel by Rui Araizumi and Hajime Kanzaka, which formed the basis for the popular and humorous manga and anime misadventures of
Lina Inverse, Clamp School Case Files: Paranormal Investigators, which is set in the Clamp School milieu popularized by the Tokyopop manga series, and
Karma Club, the latest project from D.J. Milky, the creator of Princess Ai and Juror 13. All three manga novels are set to debut on September 7.
Media Blaster's recent announcement that they had
acquired the rights to Saber Marionette R (SMR) has raised a lot of questions among the Internet anime fan community. Most notably, what happened to Bandai,
will Media Blasters re-dub it, and when will it be out? Bandai Entertainment released SMR on VHS but never came through with a DVD release, one was scheduled for release in late 2001, but it was canceled. According to a statement made by a Bandai rep, the masters for SMR had been lost.
Media Blasters has since picked up the rights to Saber Marionette R, as well as the English translation used by Bandai for their VHS release. Media Blasters stated that they plan to use the original dub, and that they will only re-translate for the subtitles if they are unhappy with the existing script. As for when it will be released, Media Blasters plans to release it on July 13th 2004.
A new trailer for the upcoming Final Fantasy VII:
Advent Children is now available from IGN here.
Major changes are ahead for the Cartoon Network,
chief among them the replacement of the weekday Toonami Block with the new Miguzi Block. Starting Saturday, April 17, Toonami will move to Saturday
night, where it will air from 7pm to midnight. The Toonami block will feature numerous anime series
including Gundam Seed and Rave Master as well as Dragon Ball Z, Yu Yu Hakusho, Transformers: Energon, Dragon Ball GT and Rurouni Kenshin; but it will not be all anime, it will also include Cartoon Network original series such as Justice League and Megas XLR. Instead of focusing on the after school needs of 6 to 11 year-olds, Toonami will now be targeted at teens, with the top anime and action series on the
Cartoon Network.
