http://otakucrave.com We at Otaku Crave will provide otaku enthusiast everywhere a place to cultivate their desire for everything anime, videogames, and computers. Our podcast presents just a slice of the American Otaku culture. Email us at otakucrave@gmail.com and visit us at www.Otakucrave.com Wed, 21 May 2008 08:39:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The official Japanese website for the School Rumble anime franchise is streaming a promotional video for School Rumble: Third Term, the newest anime adaptation of Jin Kobayashi's slice-of-life manga. The mini-series will ship in Japan with limited editions of the manga's 21st and 22nd compiled manga volumes, which will be ... http://otakucrave.com/archives/379 The Mainichi Shimbun paper reported on Monday that the Japanese publisher Shogakukan is considering ending its Weekly Young Sunday magazine. The seinen magazine premiered in April of 1987 as a biweekly publication, but moved to a weekly schedule in November of 1995. In the past, it published Rumiko Takahashi's One-Pound ... http://otakucrave.com/archives/378 The Sci Fi Channel in the United States lists two episodes of the Gurren Lagann science-fiction anime series on July 28 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT during the first hour of the Ani-Monday programmng block. Bandai Entertainment announced in April that it had acquired Hiroyuki Imaishi and Gainax's anime, after ADV ... http://otakucrave.com/archives/377 The North American distributor Bandai Entertainment has posted the trailer for its June 3 DVD release of the AIKa R-16 anime. The three-episode project is a prequel to the risque AIKa comedy anime that Central Park Media once released and Bandai Entertainment re-issued earlier this year. The trailer reflects the ... http://otakucrave.com/archives/376 Tidepoint Pictures, the American film distributor that specializes in Japanese horror and other cult cinema, will release an English-subtitled DVD of Long Dream, a 58-minute live-action adaptation of Junji Ito's psychological horror manga short story Nagai Yume, on June 24. The manga was originally published in Ito's 1998 collection The ... http://otakucrave.com/archives/375 At its Anime Central industry panel on Saturday evening, FUNimation Entertainment announced its acquisition of Romeo X Juliet, Gonzo's 24-episode science-fiction take on the William Shakespeare play. It will be released in two half-season boxes, with the first due out sometime in the spring of 2009. Funimation also confirmed that ... http://otakucrave.com/archives/374 Animax-asia, the international animation television channel owned by Sony, has announced that it is animating the LaMB script by Animax Award finalist Carmelo S. J. Juinio. Juinio submitted his 50-page Laminated Woman: To the Sand Planet Cerra script to the 6th Animax Award competition last year, which was the first ... http://otakucrave.com/archives/373 The North American distributor Funimation has confirmed that it acquired the DVD, digital, and broadcast rights for Shigurui: Death Frenzy, the 12-episode anime adaptation of Takayuki Yamaguchi's historical fighting manga. Yamaguchi's manga itself adapted part of Norio Nanjo's Suruga-jo Gozen Jiai (The Tournament at Suruga Castle) novel, which is set ... http://otakucrave.com/archives/372 Right Stuf is streaming the first trailer for its English-subtitled release of the Maria Watches Over Us (Maria-sama ga Miteru) anime series. The anime adapts Oyuki Konno and Reine Hibiki's light novels about the subtle interplay within the student body of Lillian Girls' Academy. Right Stuf also announced that its ... http://otakucrave.com/archives/371 On Friday, the Kyoto District Court found Masato Nakatsuji guilty of hiding a malicious program within Clannad anime images on the Winny file-sharing network and sentenced him to two years in prison along with a three-year suspended sentence. Since there is no law in Japan against the creation of malware ... http://otakucrave.com/archives/370