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Questioning Fandom: What’s Your Spring 2012 Anime Simulcast Status
The spring 2012 anime season has been pretty massive in terms of the number of shows that are getting simulcast, to say the least, but the general consensus is that we’re also getting a much wider range of shows and fewer of the “cutsie” moe shows that have populated past seasons, though they’re not completely [...]
MangaGamer Announces Release Date & Trial Version for ‘Dengeki Stryker’
MangaGamer fans will be glad to hear that the company has announced a release date for Dengeki Stryker and that they’ll be releasing a trial version as well. The latest game from the company is set for June 22nd for €34.95 and they’re taking preorders for it now. The game has its animation directed by Watanabe “Nabeshin” Shinichi! Vocal [...]
Questioning Fandom: Do You Share Your Interests?
When it comes to any fandom, especially in the Internet days, it’s easy to find other like minded people to talk about your interests. Having been involved in our own forums for well over a decade and a few others, as well as numerous social media sites, it’s definitely not hard to connect with others and get [...]
Questioning Fandom: Assemble Your Team
The success of The Avengers is certainly going to motivate Disney and Marvel to bring out more works and will definitely help bolster their plans for both movies, live action TV series and the animated realm. It’s a new golden time for comics fans to see some of their favorite characters be so well received, especially [...]
Is It Worth The Hype? Off to the Movies: Avengers? Assemble!
The following article is best read with some sort of badass superhero music playing in the background. Segment Introduction I’m the type of person who tries to stay away from things that get a lot of hype. If I’m told repeatedly how awesome something is I get worried that it won’t deliver on its promises [...]
Questioning Fandom: The Theater Experience
Last week, there was an interesting article over at Deadline that came out of CinemaCon as there are some theater owners that are looking at the potential of making some screenings of certain movies open to texting and social media during it. The whole intention behind it is to try and grab the youth market to entice them [...]
Is It Worth The Hype? Midnight Channel Edition: Persona 4!
Blows dust off this article segment. Cough. Cough. COUGH! Segment Introduction I’m the type of person who tries to stay away from things that get a lot of hype. If I’m told repeatedly how awesome something is I get worried that it won’t deliver on its promises and I avoid it like the plague. I’ve [...]
Questioning Fandom: Your Most Treasured Toy
Over the weekend we were doing some office cleaning around here and ended up going through a lot of stuff we hadn’t pulled out in ages, simply because they were well stored. You can see that video here. The whole process got us to thinking though about the things we value from our fandoms, be [...]
‘PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale’ PS3 Demo Video Released
One of the things that has long made Nintendo fans very, very happy is the Super Smash Brothers games which puts a lot of their big name characters together for action fun that makes for great group entertainment. Sony has long been expected to follow suit and they’ve finally done so with the recent announcement of [...]
‘EVE Burst Error’ Game Gets MangaGamer License Rescue
The folks at MangaGamer have made a new acquisition that will delight some fans as they’ve picked up the classic mystery game EVE Burst Error that was previously released by Himeya Soft. The game is an all ages title that in its past release was known for its top-notch writing and Multi-Sight System. The game is is set [...]