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.
Short interview with voice actor David Vincent, where he talks about how he got into voice acting by being friends with Steve Blum.
Director Kazuhiro Furuhashi talks about his reasons for working on Le Chavalier D’Eon.
Mamoru Oshii talks about Tachigui/Eat and Run, one of his live-action movies, and fast food.
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.
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.
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).
Short article comparing the US box office rollout of Howl’s Moving Castle as compared with Spirited Away, including the gross and number of screens for each.
Author Kouta Hirano and Yasuyuki Ueda talk about rebooting the Hellsing franchise with different goals and Hirano’s inspiration as an author, and various other things.
A short interview with [the best US voice actor ever] Steve Blum.
Animetics 