A short interview with US Voice Actress Jennifer Sekiguchi.
Via Anime Insider: Jennifer Sekiguchi (November 2006)
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Via Anime Insider: Takashi Okazaki (October 2006)
Afro Samurai author Takashi Okazaki talks about creating the series, how it became a multimedia franchise, and how Samuel L. Jackson got involved. Also includes comments by director Fuminori Kizaki.
The story of how the anime got started because of a toy on a producer’s desk seems like another silly gonzo story from an ever-growing pile, but it’s likely not the only reason. Still, it is an interesting starting point.
Via Anime Insider: Tales of Earthsea’s Reception (October 2006)
An article talking about how Goro Miyazaki’s Tales of Earthsea movie was perceived in various quarters.
Via Anime Insider: Anime on Cable TV (October 2006)
An article with some info on anime-based cable/on-demand channels (really the anime network, though the funimation channel is mentioned).
Also, the captions on that image are painfully bad, not that it’s exclusive to this article. If this magazine didn’t have a lot of authentic info/interviews, I would have quit looking at it a long time ago. The various attempts at humor throughout the run are soul-crushing.
Via Anime Insider: David Vincent (October 2006)
Short interview with voice actor David Vincent, where he talks about how he got into voice acting by being friends with Steve Blum.
Via Anime Insider: Kazuhiro Furuhashi on Le Chavalier D’Eon (October 2006)
Director Kazuhiro Furuhashi talks about his reasons for working on Le Chavalier D’Eon.
Via Anime Insider: Mamoru Oshii on Tachigui (October 2006)
Mamoru Oshii talks about Tachigui/Eat and Run, one of his live-action movies, and fast food.
Sell Me in 20 Minutes: Rokujyouma no Shinryakusha and Tokyo ESP
I spent most of today working, being ecstatic about Lebron James leaving Miami, and then dealing with a Chris Bosh-shaped knife in my back.* Anime’s happening, though, with today’s new stuff being of the super-volatile variety.
Fun With Numbers: Various Case Studies of Oricon Manga Charts Versus Copies in Print
Oricon manga reports tend to fall well, well short of the “actual” values reported by publishers. I’ve written before about one of the most extreme cases (Yuruyuri’s one million copies with 0 weeks in the charts), but there are plenty of others out there. This isn’t a comprehensive look at it (and these series may or may not represent “average” cases of underreporting); it’s just me picking a couple confirmations and counting up the total (i.e. total on weekly charts from last week a volume appeared) Oricon reported sales up to the point when the publisher reported a given number.
Some of these may simply be unsold copies, another part may represent copies sold at a 10k/week rate in the long-tail shadow of the charts, and a few may come from the overseas sales Oricon chooses not to count. How to separate those three is anybody’s guess. I’m not trying to do that, just give some idea of how big these gaps can be.
Via Anime Insider: Female Audiences in the US (September 2005)
An interesting piece examining efforts by various people within the US anime/manga industry to reach female viewers, which also mentions that female viewers fairly consistently made up about 25% of the 6-11 viewership of toonami around this time (specifically, a 26% value for June 2005 is said to be “fairly consistent” by an industry source).
Animetics 