FUNimation and RoboGeisha

FUNIMATION ENTERTAINMENT ACQUIRES
“ROBOGEISHA” FROM T.O. ENTERTAINMENT

Flower Mound, Texas (January 5, 2010) - FUNimation® Entertainment today announced that it has acquired home video, broadcast and digital rights to the live-action splatter comedy “RoboGeisha ” from T.O. Entertainment.

FUNimation and Live Action Kamui

FUNIMATION ENTERTAINMENT ACQUIRES
“KAMUI GAIDEN” FROM SHOCHIKU

Flower Mound, Texas (January 5, 2010) - FUNimation® Entertainment today announced that it has acquired home video, broadcast and theatrical rights to the live-action dramatic epic “Kamui ” from Shochiku Co., Ltd.

YuGiOh Twilight Edition

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. Embarks on a Year of Spectacular Releases with Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s TRADING CARD GAME Twilight Edition

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – (January 5, 2010) – Looking for a New Year’s resolution that can be kept? No need to give up sweets, caffeine or lose weight. Make a pact to experience the world’s best-selling trading card game, the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME, and what better way to keep to that resolve than by playing with cards from Twilight Edition, Konami Digital Entertainment Inc.’s first introduction for 2010.

FUNimation Entertainment and the Shaw Brothers Film Library

FUNimation Entertainment To Distribute
Select Titles From Famed
Shaw Brothers Film Library

~FUNimation Acquires 15 Films From The King Fu Masters~

Flower Mound, TX – January 4, 2010 – FUNimation® Entertainment announced today that it now has U.S. home video distribution rights to 15 live action films from Celestial Filmed Entertainment, Inc.®’s expansive film collection featuring films by those known as “the Kung Fu masters”: the Shaw Brothers

Anime comes to the iPhone and iPod Touch

APPLIYA ANNOUNCES A PARTNERSHIP
WITH FUNIMATION ENTERTAINMENT
TO BRING ANIME APPS TO THE iPHONE AND iPOD TOUCH

A Japanese iPhone app developer partners with North America’s premier anime licensor to distribute apps based on a variety of anime titles including Fullmetal Alchemist, Shin chan, and Afro Samurai.

Tokyo, Japan, January 1, 2009 - Appliya Inc., a leading Japanese iPhone app publisher, is proud to announce a partnership with FUNimation Entertainment to create iPhone and iPod Touch apps for anime fans across North America. The first app in the series is Fullmetal Alchemist: State Alchemy Exam, which is now available exclusively on the iTunes App Store. The State Alchemy Exam app features 130 questions that quiz your knowledge of physics, chemistry, and the events and characters of the original Fullmetal Alchemist TV series—one of the world’s most popular anime. Being an anime expert won't be enough to master this challenge; you'll need good knowledge of the fundamentals of science to earn the prestigious title of Alchemy Sage.

Personal Review: Spice & Wolf vol.1

Review By Jong Chung

Spice & Wolf is Isuna Hasekura's debut work, which was first published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunko imprint in Feb 10, 2006. Since then, there have been a total of 13 volumes in print . We are able to enjoy the Spice & Wolf series in English thanks to Yen Press' ever-impressive efforts.

Personal Review: Faust 2

Review By Jong Chung

It was after classes that I had found myself browsing through random manga and light novels at my local Japanese book store. It was then that my eyes met with a book sporting one of the most colorful (and distinctly Japanese) covers that I've seen on the shelves. Of course, curiosity kicked in. Picking the rather small volume up, its caption line drew me in from the get-go: “Fiction and Manga from the cutting edge of Japanese Pop Culture.”

Naruto is Number 6

According to Yahoo!, Naruto got the sixth spot for the top ten searches of 2009. The anime is right behind Britney Spears, but beat the reality show American Idol. The following is the list of top ten searches:

1- Michael Jackson
2- The Twilight Saga
3- WWE
4- Megan Fox
5- Britney Spears
6- Naruto
7- American Idol
8- Kim Kardashian
9- NASCAR
8- RuneScape

Here is the link to Naruto on "Yahoo! Year in Review 2009." All the winners for in a manual sideshow format.

All I got to say is that it is awesome to see an anime get into the top ten!

Congratulations to everyone!
© 2009 Linda Thai