What They SayHer name is Kurau, and in a world of mercenary agents, she's the cream of the elite; a master swordswoman, martial artist and thief so skilled that no secret or objective is beyond her grasp. The greatest secret of all, however, is the one K...
What They SayAs the twin forces of betrayal and the GPO\'s expanding dragnet shatter Kurau and Christmas's temporary sanctuary, the Rynax pair is caught in the jaws of Wong and Ayaka's trap. Placing her trust in an unproven ally, a desperate Kurau finds...
What They SayA flight to sanctuary turns into triple jeopardy when Kurau and Christmas€™ shuttle is attacked twice; first by hijackers and then by the GPO! But surviving a three-sided battle in space and a blazing rain of burning wreckage i...
Intrigue, Secrets, Conspiracies and Revelations!
HOUSTON, TX " April 2, 2007 " Get ready to sink your teeth into a captivating sci-fi thriller when KurauPhantomMemory: Between Two Worlds premieres April 5, 2007 on Anime Network "America's #1 Anime C...
What They SayArriving in California, Kurau and Christmas seem to have briefly escaped the GPO, but the discovery of a facility designed to extract Rynax power quickly reveals the global scale of the conspiracy set against them. Before they can take furthe...
What They SayThe barriers between good and evil shatter as a shocking series of revelations turn Kurau’s world upside down! While Ayaka finally learns the truth about her family’s murder, Kurau and Christmas are confronted with horrifying evi...
"Engrossing Interplay Between Vastly Different Beings In A Fantastic World The Likes Of Which You've Never Seen." " NewtypeUSA
HOUSTON, December 11, 2006 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to announ...
What They SayTo Split Infinity The Review!Much like Ayaka comments on at one point, the series simply finishes out with an anticlimactic feeling.
Audio:
The two audio tracks included on this release are quite solid though the edge definitely goes to the...
What They SayHer name is Kurau, and in a world of mercenary agents, she\'s the cream of the elite; a master swordswoman, martial artist and thief so skilled that no secret or objective is beyond her grasp. The greatest secret of all, however, is the one K...
ADR Director: Matt Greenfield
ADR Script: Lowell Bartholomee
Kurau - Voiced by Monica Rial - A mysterious young woman employed as an "Agent": a freelance operative who takes any job that's potentially too dangerous or illegal to involve normal private e...
What They SayAs the twin forces of betrayal and the GPO\'s expanding dragnet shatter Kurau and Christmas\'s temporary sanctuary, the Rynax pair is caught in the jaws of Wong and Ayaka\'s trap. Placing her trust in an unproven ally, a desperate Kurau finds...
Catching up on the big pile of discs we got in from ADV Films recently, we\'ve got an early look at the 04/10/2007 release of Kurau: PhantomMemory Vol. #1 (of 6).
The summer heat has finally moved into our area which while not quite brutal is still slowing things down a bit. Catching up on one of last weeks new releases, we\'ve got a look at the 06/12/2007 title Kurau: PhantomMemory Vol. #2 (of 6) from ADV Films.
Keeping up on another series from ADV Films this week, we\'ve got a look at the 10/09/2007 release of Kurau: PhantomMemory Vol. #4 (of 6) from ADV Films.
Getting a bit caught up on one of this weeks past releases, we\'ve got a look at the 08/14/2007 title Kurau: PhantomMemory Vol. #3 (of 6) from ADV Films.
...e of them?KurauPhantomMemoryBoxset - 600 minutes - $34.99 - 07/28/2008 Red Garden Complete Collection - 600 minutes - $34.99 - 08/25/2008 Of course, you\'re getting the final volumes of the series at a reduced price but you end up with several vol...
HOUSTON, February 12, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to bring you the long-awaited release of the first volume of Kurau Pahntom Memory along with the fifth volume of Papuwa. Both titles are set...
Closing out this series from ADV Films as we\'ve finally gotten a copy in, we\'ve got a look at their 03/04/2008 release of Kurau: PhantomMemory Vol. #6 (of 6) this week.
HOUSTON, June 13, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to bring you a bevy of new titles, including the first volume of the fan-favorite Air TV, the third volume of the sci-fi adventure KurauPhantom ...
By Robert Stanton (rstanton@uiuc.edu)
Boogiepop Phantom is an animated series based upon the acclaimed written work of Kouhei Kadono. Set somewhere in common, urban, contemporary Japan, the dark science fiction premises of the show quickly take over and...
By Robert Stanton (rstanton@uiuc.edu)
Boogiepop Phantom is an animated series based upon the acclaimed written work of Kouhei Kadono. Set somewhere in common, urban, contemporary Japan, the dark science fiction premises of the show quickly take over and...
FUNimation is again going collection crazy with February featuring a whole lot of old and new shows in box set form. Of note is that former ADV Films titles Kurau: PhantomMemory and Nerima Daikon Brothers are talked about, both of which haven't...
March was a very difficult month for voting because of the delayed releases by ADV Films that hit from late January and into February. That caused a split to occur among the fan favorite releases of Kanon, which in the end lost because of it. The win...
This week bag is chock full of goodies. Obviously ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie’ is must have for the bag. The other Spielberg collaboration that all true Maniacs must have is the 25th Anniversary Editionof ‘Poltergeist’.&nbs...
New Hit Series Gurren Lagann Leads Off Lineup
December 19, 2007 – Anime Network, America’s #1 Anime Channel, today announced a new broadband service to stream high-quality anime on the Internet. This new service is free to the consumer, who ...
What They SayKarakuri, or \"mechancial puppets,\" are appearing at festivals throughout the country. Most take delight in these mysterious and magical contrivances of a new age, but one day, all that changes when the Wind Gang, a group of steam punks who ...
Congrats go out this morning to Susan Ladd who picked up our copy of the Kurau: PhantomMemory art box we had up for grabs. With that one closed it means it\'s time for a new contest, this time for the When They Cry empty art box!
According to Right Stuf, ADV Films has updated their release schedule that\'s been on the flaky side in the last few weeks. We\'ll be updating our information shortly with it:March 3: Project Blue Earth SOS vol. 1, Kanon vol. 2
Kanon vol. 2 + Collectors B...
If you’re like me, you watch television. And if you’re like me even more, when you watch television you probably record shows on your DVR so that you can zip through the commercials. But I must confess that there’s one series of ads t...
What They SayA scream in the night, and in that instant the world changed ... or at least, it appeared to. There have always been forces in the world and voices in the night: some friendly and other malevolent. Invisible until summoned; they slide through...
What They SayThere have been hints to the truth - pieces of the whole scattered throughout time and space. But what is the myth and what reality? Discover the final pieces in the culmination of the series.
EPISODE 10: POOM POOM
Poom Poom. Magical Poom P...
What They SayThis is the story of four high school friends, Takayuki Narumi, Haruka Suzumiya, Mitsuki Hayase, and Shinji Taira. Takayuki is drifting a bit and not really thinking about college entrance exams. After meeting Haruka he feels better about him...
What They SayDVD vol. 1 of TV Tokyo\'s anime \'\'Boogiepop Phantom\'\' based on the Award-winning novel. It\'s an anthology series about angst-ridden high school students with plenty of mysteries. Contains episode 1 \'\'Kioku No Shozou (A Portrait In Memo...
In anticipation of the upcoming comedy Evan Almighty starring Steve Carell, DotComedy has provided our Prize Closet with Carell DVDs to give away! One lucky Maniac will receive The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Office Season 1 and The Office Season 2. To...
What They SayEPISODE 10: POOM POOM
Poom Poom came down the heaven. He holds a balloon and travels floating around… to the flower country…. And the doll country… and the dinosaur country.
And, in the world of Poom Poom where everything i...
What They SayInitial pressing limited edition* High quality DVD edition of the acclaimed anime show based on the work by Kosuke Fujishima. It\'s a 2-disc set. Disc 1 contains the main feature, and Disc 2 containsspecial features. Comes in a memorial box. ...
What They SayInitial pressing limited edition* High quality DVD edition of the acclaimed anime show based on the work by Kosuke Fujishima. It\'s a 2-disc set. Disc 1 contains the main feature, and Disc 2 containsspecial features. Comes in a memorial box. ...
Opening Ceremonies
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Kikuko Inoue Press Panel
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Hi everyone! Quick report until the show gets going in an hour. The opening ceremonies o...
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Opening Ceremonies
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Media Blasters
Kikuko Inoue Press Panel
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Synch Point
AnimEigo
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Tokyopop
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This listing comes from the Diamond Previews catalog. These are early tentative bits of information though some of it has been announced already. Until formal announcements come from the studios, treat these as TENTATIVE and nothing more. No dates are pro...
The December slate of titles from ADV Films was listed late last night on the Right Stuf site and there are several new series kicking off and a couple of others ending. Mix in some collections/double packs and it\'s a busier month than you usually see fo...
Another week and another variety of titles across various studios that will likely have something for almost everbody:
Release Date
Title Name
Studio
Run Time
MSRP
08/14/2007
3x3 Eyes Vol. #...
The October slate of titles from ADV Films has come through on Right Stuf today and there\'s a good selection of new releases and repackagings for the holiday buying season:009-1 Vol. #3 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 10/16/2007 Air Gear Vol. #5 - 125 minutes -...
Between various re-releases and the heavy selection of final releases from Imaginasian for their first wave, this week is a bit full as we barrel forward towards the Christmas crunch:
Release Date
Title Name
Studio
Run Time
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Adding another studio with their August slate, the folks at ADV Films have had their initial round of info show up at Right Stuf:009-1 Vol. #2 (also w/box) - 100 minutes - $29.98/39.98 - 08/21/2007 Air Gear Vol. #4 - 125 minutes - $29.98 - 08/07/2007 Air ...
Each and every year it is on TV. It has become a must see event. A perpetual ritual for every child each Halloween is watching Charles Schultz’s It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. The story has never changed. Charlie Brown has a crappy Hall...
Due to the rescheduling of a number of titles from ADV Films, this week is pretty massive across the board with titles to choose from including a fair number of collections and re-releases:
Release Date
Title Name
Studio
Run T...
Working through their new distributor, ADV Films UK has had a new round of dates for some previously solicited titles show up today:009-1 Vol. #3 - 100 minutes - $19.99 - 05/12/2008 Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy Vol. #1 - 100 minutes - $14.99 - 04/28...
It\'s a real mixed week with what\'s slotted to come out as there are a bunch of re-releases and some titles which don\'t seem to be making it out to a lot of retailers just yet:
Release Date
Title Name
Studio
Run Time
M...
A bit of a contest came up earlier in the week when David Williams of ADV Films talked about posting some news today. The prize portion of it is still to be determined, but the news that came out is that Kuaru: PhantomMemory Vol. #1 now has a street date...
The second week of June has several titles that are of interest across the board, be it girls becoming boys or the undead storming the castle:
Release Date
Title Name
Studio
Run Time
MSRP
06/12/2007
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This week ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ arrives in three different formats of DVD: Standard DVD, High Definition DVD (HD-DVD) and Blu-Ray DVD. All of these formats are releasing the Harry Potter films in a box set. With...
It\'s a surprisingly light week this week, which makes it obvious already what the pick of the week will likely be, but there\'s at least one key title due out on Tuesday:
Release Date
Title Name
Studio
Run Time
MSRP
...
After a bit of a hiatus on them, several new Bittorrents have been put out for some shows from ADV Films:KurauPhantomMemory - Story Synopsis, Desktop Backgrounds, Character Art, and more!009-1 - Story Synopsis, Trailer, Character Art, and more!Innocent ...
At every video store I’ve ever worked, there was always one thing that was the same. We were always instructed to list our favorite titles that would coincide with that month’s holiday. Personally, ‘Gremlins', ‘Die Hard&r...
The second release week of October features a fair amount of re-releases once again but also some other anticipated titles worth checking out:
Release Date
Title Name
Studio
Run Time
MSRP
10/09/2007
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The June slate of releases for ADV Films has shown up on the Right Stuf retail site this evening with a couple of interesting things to note:009-1 Vol. #1 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 06/19/2007Air Gear Vol. #3 - 100 minutes - $29.98 - 06/05/2007KurauPhantom...
The February slate of titles from ADV Films has made its first appearance on the Right Stuf changelist and there\'s a good amount of new series and second volumes with art boxes to tickle the fancy of many:Devil may Cry Vol. #1 - 100 minutes - $26.99 - 02...
Urusei
Yatsura
(Those
Obnoxious Aliens)
Urusei Yatsura was an extremely
popular manga and anime series that ran in Japan in the early 80s. This anime
spans 195 TV episodes, 11 OVAs and 6 movies that are currently being released on
DVD in North Amer...
HD DVD Outselling Blu-ray 3:1:: Last week the North American HD DVD Promotional Group, the organization responsible for touting HD DVDs as you could probably guess from the name, issued a press release where they quoted the Nielsen VideoScan DVD sell-thr...
Welcome to the new site everyone for the Weekly Book Buzz’s first new edition on mania.com. I won’t waste your time with comments on the new design or site features because frankly, we’ve got too much to do with so many releases comin...
I was very pleased to hear that Mark Waid would be writing JLA. One of the biggest problems I have with team books like JLA, AVENGERS, and so on is that they often sacrifice any sense of character development that a one-character book would normally have ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another weekly web of Comicscape wonder. For the past couple of weeks, we talked about Spider-Man 3 in lieu of discussing the end of DC’s weekly maxiseries, 52. The film came out the same week as the final issue of...
Random thoughts alert!So, Fox is putting FIREFLY on hiatus in January. In case you don't know what "hiatus" means, it's when networks pull a show you really like off the air while making empty promises that it will return.The WB is making a move that make...
You cant keep a good hero down. Take former Green Lantern Hal Jordan, for instance. Youd think that going insane, slaughtering those nearest and dearest to you, and darn near ending all of existence would pretty much send you straight to hell for all of...
The oeuvre of the Hannibal Lecter stories begs to be psychoanalyzed as Dr. Lecter himself would do. Because some familiarity with the character of Hannibal `the Cannibal` Lecter is absolutely vital to the understanding of Harris`s long-awaited novel HANNI...
Ive never been much of an Oscar prognosticator; I dont see the point. Well, I do see the point: You pretend that you have some kind of insight into the voting, make a lot of predictions, and then after the fact tout your few hits while ignoring your far...
The second volume of Blood+ continues the fun from volume one, but still suffers from minor flaws that keep it from being as good as it could be.What They Say
They are called Chiropterans, ravenous creatures that can change their form, disguising themsel...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yoshihiro TogashiTranslated by:Lillian OlsenAdapted by:Lillian OlsenWhat They SayGon\'s going home to share his Hunter success with Aunt Mito, but Whale Island has a surprise in store for Gon - a message from his father to \"c...
What They SayThe Review!The popular 1994 comedy TV series has finally been remastered and released on DVD, and fans of the anime (and worshippers of Tsuru Hiromi and Kouda Mariko) Ghost Sweeper Mikami has never been better.
Audio: We are presented with ...
Kevin Brownlow is a movie buffs god. He has saved motion picture history for the world, focusing on the much overlooked Silent film era. With David Gill, he created Hollywood: The Pioneers in the 1970s, a 13-part work as insightful as it is at times hear...
VIDEO NEWSThe death bell has begun to ring for the VHS video system, a point made clear by a recent report in VIDEO BUSINESS magazine which tells that Circuit City has begun to phase out the format from their over six hundred stores. The article explains ...
As shooting on Superman the Movie project dragged on, producers Ilya and Alexander Salkind put more and more pressure on director Richard Donner to speed up production, knowing that they could bring in their old pal Richard Lester, who had directed th...
First, an apology: whereas I intended to run a reader response column to last week's COMICSCAPE about comics in the classroom, I've decided to run an original column instead. I only received a handful of letters and while all were original and several lea...
Some of you have expressed some confusion over the new small format discs I've been listing in this column. Well, I'm confused, too, so I've put together this little glossary. They're basically all about using the high capacity of the DVD format, but putt...
It was the 68th Annual Academy Awards and the Academy of Motion Pictures was about to give out its Lifetime Achievement Oscar. Robin Williams gave the opening address, and it wasn`t one of his most inspired. After the mandatory segment of clips, Williams ...
What a difference a year makes! When 1999 finished up, it was easy for fans of science fiction, horror and fantasy cinema to look back with a feeling of grand satisfaction. Genre entertainment truly ruled at the box office, taking all of the Top Six posit...
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ADV ANNOUNCES RELEASE DATE FOR RAHXEPHON-ORCHESTRATION 7: CRESCENDO
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SERIES COMES TO AN END WITH THE DECEMBER 2, 2003 RELEASE OF THE SEVENTH VOLUME OF THE TITLE
HOUSTON, October 13, 2003-ADV Films today offi...
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Settled by alchemists, the town of Wisteria has the reputation of being an idyllic retreat. But what Alponse and Edward find ...
Welcome to the second installment of "Fans Take On..." an ongoing feature where fans get to talk about a significant individual in the US anime industry. This month, we asked fans to talk about a legend in the American anime industry, Wendee Lee.
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Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Song Ji-HyungTranslated by:Dark Horse ComicsAdapted by:Dark Horse ComicsWhat They SayHuin Chang and Mina have known each other since they were kids, growing up like brother and sister. Chang has always been Mina\'s protector. ...
Last Wednesday, Judge Stephen G. Larson of the United States District Court, Central District of California handed down an historic ruling in the legal battle over Superman. As of right now, the heirs of Jerry Siegel—his widow Joanne Siegel and daug...
What They SayFile 1 - The Phantom Woman - AD Police rookie Leon McNichol gets his first lesson in the school of hard choices when he and his partner Geena are given the job of tracking down the cause of several incidents of Boomers running amuck. They soo...
"We didn't want to just push the envelope we wanted to lick it," says producer Rick McCallum of shooting STAR WARS: EPISODE II ATTACK OF THE CLONES entirely on digital video. Speaking before a packed room of theater owners and press in Las Vegas, Nev., ...
In terms of heroes and villains, the X-Men universe is filled with some of the coolest and most colorful characters around. It must have been hard to nail down who should appear in the movie. Once that was determined, it should have been even more difficu...
THIS WEEKS RECOMMENDATIONThe soundtrack for Hans Fjellestads new documentary, MOOG (released this week on Hollywood 2061-62471-2), is a remarkable celebration of the electronic instrument that revolutionized 20th Century music. The invention of Robert M...
Penguin Group USA unveils a powerful new anthology on hardcover featuring fantasy’s most prestigious character archetypes: the almighty, all-ass-kicking wizard. Neil Gaiman, Kage Baker, Orson Scott Card, and many other established fantasy authors ro...
What They SayEarth\'s last city, Olympus, rose from the ashes of a global war on the backs of Bioroids, artificial clones who make up half the city\'s population. Under the strict guidance of a supercomputer, humanity\'s last survivors enjoy an idyllic pe...
The Review!Since I have already did a R2 review of this movie already, I decided to write another review for the R1 version with expanded thoughts on the movie. Just to warn you this review contains some spoilers, but I tried not to reveal too much. With ...
What They SayThe discovery of extraordinary ruins beneath the high school becomes the adventure of a lifetime when several students and their teacher are transported to the magical world of El-Hazard! There, each learns to cope with strange new powers an...
With a movie like Appleseed, I have to really preface any comments made on it by simply being upfront in stating that not only do I have a "Shirow Tolerance" as said by a friend of mine, but I have a "Shirow Adoration". Now, that doesn't mean I'm blinded,...