Another week of pretty much nothing as far as anime goes on the television, short of the 'sorta anime' Boondocks and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood on midnights, Saturday. Been totally burning the candle at both ends. There's a great new woman in my life, so again, anime has taken a back seat. Though I have gotten a chance to check out Giant Killing, about soccer and triumph over adversity. If you've seen Ladiebugs, or Sandlot, or Little Giants or even any sports anime... well, you've pretty much gleaned all you need to know about this series. Giant Killing is also bizarely animated, as though it was a relic from late 1990's animation but much more raw. Also took in Angel Beats and need to see more if I plan on making a judgement call.

I'll be checking in periodically. Send me stories and I'll post em! Low content mode for now. Meanwhile, for the full listings of what anime is playing in your neck of the woods, click on "Read More."

I just found out this morning.

Had it not been for Carl Macek , Anime, the way we see it today might look quite different. Love him or hate him, he brought The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA to the US, hacked them together to make Robotech. I was a child of the 1980's and remember Robotech fondly and even have both Robotech and those three series on my shelves. It was partially because once I found out Robotech was this thing called anime, I had a friend in middle school, who also got me into reading comic books, to import the 2 episode per VHS tapes of Macross. I was hooked and so were kids across America. Once Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon came to the US, it came on the back of Robotech playing on Sci-Fi and Cartoon Network. Robotech created an entire generation of schoolkids fascinated by anime.

Robotech was his first foray into bringing anime into the US. He also brought over Lensman, Robot Carnival, Doomed Megalopolis, Twilight of the Cockroaches, Crying Freeman, Wicked City, and the original English dub versions of Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Fist of the North Star, Akira, Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro through his Streamline distribution. He was working as a scriptwriter for the English dub of Bleach for Viz Media, and consulting for Harmony Gold on Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles before his passing.

Because I've worked conventions so often, I had several opportunities to meet the man and you'd be hard pressed to find another person who loved anime as much he did. Whenever he was asked about how fans were angry about editing 3 series into one and changing entire storylines and you know what? He said if given the choice, he wouldn't have had it any other way. His idea of using the "by any means necessary" approach to drag America kicking and screaming into the world of anime and if it meant caving to producers wanting "something original" then he'd did whatever it took. If you were raised watching anime on Sci-Fi as a kid and running to Blockbuster to find more, Carl Macek was the reason. I thank him greatly and hold him in the highest of respect. He will be greatly missed and the world of anime one less.

So it's been a couple weeks since I posted last. I've actually been seeing a girl and as what's usual, the fairer sex trumps my nerdery. There's been a slew of new anime shows that's premiered since the beginning of the month and I've only seen 2 of them. My geek power level is under 9000 and falling rapidly. Think I need a Senzu bean, a nap and a few hours to catch up. Even been missing the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood on Adult Swim. For shame.

Anyhow, I'll be trying to keep up with the day to day around here but in the meanwhile, here's what's on the boob tube this week. Heh, heh, boob. Click over to "Read More."

1. Doraemon: Nobita's South Sea Adventure. 3rd week, pulling in $3.05 million.
2. Sherlock Holmes. 2nd week, pulling in $2.63 million.
3. Pretty Cure All Stars DX2: Light of Hope - Protect the Rainbow Jewel! 1st week, pulling in $2.46 million.
4. Avatar. 13th week, pulling $2.26 million.
5. Liar Game: The Final Stage. 3rd week, pulling in $2.04 million.
6. Nine. 1st week, pulling in $1.33 million.
7. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. 1st week, pulling in $1.21 million.
8. G-Force. 1st week, pulling in $1.13 million.
9. The Hurt Locker. 3rd week, pulling in $786k.
10. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. 4th week, pulling in $661k.

TOP 3 WINNERS!!!

... sorry Avatar. :(

The ongoing Tokyo International Anime Fair 2010 began on Thursday, and as expected there is a generous amount of promotion of new anime series and movies due out later this year at the event.

Generous otaku armed with video cameras have done an excellent job of recording a plethora of trailers being shown in the Big Sight’s halls this weekend, viewable below: CLICK HERE.

Japanese women asked what they would feel most dejected about finding in their boyfriend’s room or residence reveal they consider the presence of anime posters rather more troubling than cockroach infestation…

Men hoping to impress Japanese ladies with their domicile apparently need only keep things clean and avoid any reminders of past conquests. Men with anime posters can probably afford to keep them up, so low is the probability of a female interloper in these cases.

The rest of the ranking picked out common points of disorder, such as clothing being stored on the floor or a fridge filled with unrecognisables, practical problems with the room, such as it being too small or lacking a bath, or worse yet having thin walls, and of course the usual female bugbears of porn or idol posters lying around.

The equivalent ranking for a girlfriend’s room focused almost exclusively on points of hygiene, presumably because men have higher expectation of female hygiene than women do of men.

That Japanese women loathe otaku is already painfully clear, but that women find them less preferable to the company of cockroaches is perhaps a new low.

 See also the top 10 most shocking things to find in either a man or a woman’s room – those wondering at the distinction should note that those lists refer generally to “shocking” things found in anyone’s room, whereas this ranking specifically points to “depressing” things found by a girlfriend investigating her partner’s room.