Bandai Entertainment to Cease North American Distribution

Bandai Entertainment will no longer produce and distribute new titles beginning in February 2012.  Instead, they will be focusing on licensing their titles with other companies especially for broadcasting and digital distribution.  All is not lost as they will continue to distribute their current catalog lineup. Some of the forthcoming titles have been canceled.  They are as follows: [...]

Theatrical Event – TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance 3D

TEKKEN:  Blood Vengeance 3D (2011) AMC Lynnhaven 18 Cinemark Norfolk Mac Arthur Center 18 July 26, 2011 at 7:30 pm Namco Bandai Games, Bandai Entertainment and NCM Fathom are partnering to bring TEKKEN Blood Vengeance 3D to movie theaters for a One Night Only event on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at 7:30 pm. This special event is based [...]

Gurren Lagann Movies on DVD in July

Anime News Network – Aniplex of America will be releasing Gurren Lagann the Movie – Childhood’s End on DVD on July 1, 2010 and Gurren Lagann the Movie – The Lights in the Sky Are Stars on DVD on July 30, 2010.  The DVDs will only be available online through Bandai’s online store and at [...]

Darker Than Black Friday Anime Day & Night

Where: Michelle’s House Watched: Baccano!-Episode Commentary for Ep.9, DearS, Eureka Seven-Disc 5 Voice Actor Commentary: Crispin Freeman, Haibane Renmei, Nabari no Ou (2 Episodes), Nightwalker, Saber Marionette J, and xxxHolic (2 Episodes) Baccano! (2007)- Episode 9 Commentary Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther [...]

Halloween Anime Night

Where: Amy’s House Watched: El Hazard, and Eureka Seven El Hazard: The Wanderers (1995) Makoto Mizuhara is working on his latest experiment in the school science lab, but when he takes a break his lifelong rival Katsuhiko Jinnai shows up and attempts to destroy the device and discredit Makoto. This overloads the experiment and transports Makoto, [...]

September Anime Night

Where: Michelle’s House Watched: Kannagi Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens (2008) An art student named Jin Mikuriya carves a statue from the wood of the Kannagi tree only to have the statue come to life in the form of a goddess, who has now taken over the statue. He and “Nagi” work together to destroy the [...]

August Anime Night, Part 1

Where: Michelle’s House Watched: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and The Wallflower Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002) In the future, life between the digital and physical world has been blurred. The boundary of technology and humanity has been stretched beyond imagination with lives being led in both the electronic and [...]

January Anime Meeting 2

Where: Crystal’s House Watched:  Betterman, Hell Girl, NANA (Live Action), and Rozen Maiden    Betterman (1999)  A deadly virus known as “Algernon” has attacked humanity with vicious meaning. At the forefront of the battle is the mystifying Akamatsu Industries – disguised as a heavy machine factory in Tokyo, this undercover organization uses neural enhanced weapons known [...]

January Anime Night

Where: Michael’s House  Watched: Claymore, El Hazard, and Gurren Lagann    Claymore (2007)   In a world rife with deadly creatures called “youma”, a young silver eyed woman, Clare, works on behalf of an organisation that trains female youma halfbreeds into warriors with the ability to destroy these creatures. Considered a rogue for picking up a stray [...]

July Anime Night

Where: Heather’s House Watched: Ghost Stories, The Gokusen, Kodocha, Nerima Daikon Brothers, Please Teacher!, and Saber Marionette J   Ghost Stories (2000) Kids and ghosts. When young Satsuki finds an old book of spells from her passed away mother, she gains the power to fight ghosts that are haunting her new school. With the help [...]