Huge announcements have been coming out the last couple weeks and I've been way to lazy to mini blog about each one. It also looks like there is a few new Live Action Anime shows being tossed about as well but I'll blog about those in another post since that would just be too much stuff in one post. Now get ready for some new videos and some not so surprising news.

Did you like to do those exercises with Hinako? Did it tire you out? Well finally the second release of the Otaku girl turned anime character will be a DVD to help you learn to sleep better. Called Isshoni Sleeping: Sleeping with Hinako it will show Hinako teaching the watcher how to get better sleep. Yeah if you thought the last DVD was a total lark and an Otaku ecchi guilty pleasure than guess what this one is. Of course I'll be checking it out as well.


After the end of the second season of Koihime†Musō ended they announced that they would be releasing a new OVA in July where the girls leave the School Academy and go to an island get away so you can expect more fanservice goodness out of this franchise. since it's a bit far off there isn't any previews for it at the moment so check out this old video until something new comes up.


On the licensing front FUNimation did their little five day bender which you can see on their blog in entirety but I thought it was odd that the only new anime series from this season that were licensed was something I found entirely lame and somewhat (if you're South Korea) controversial: AXIS POWERS HETALIA and the alright but damn there's so much better stuff out there: The Sacred Blacksmith.
Here's a preview of The Sacred Blacksmith


There is a new trailer out of the Fate Stay Night movie if you want to check that out


Good news on the second Sekirei season it was recently revealed on their webpage that the second season would air in April of this year. Finally!


Last but not least is the OVA for Sengoku Basara trailer the DVD with the OVA should have been out since the 6th of this month so hopefully subbs should be out some time this month. I was hoping for more hottie ninja action but it looks like the OVA will feature the two bit players from the first season and a new bad guy.

Recapping a week in anime news and junk. The first in hopefully a recurring weekly feature where I discuss anime stuff that wouldn't normally fit into it's own blog post because there is just to little to write a full post on. Also sort of a quick place to note breaking news and updates on what I'm watching. Sounds like fun right. Well hopefully that will be what it's all about anyways we'll just have to wait and see what it turns out to be or if I end up scrapping it all together later.

Lets hit on the biggest WTF moment of the week. For the fansub watchers one of the best ways to find new subs for all things Otaku suddenly went down and we lost Tokyo Toshokan. The rumors were that FUNimation was responsible for it due to One Piece subs but there was nothing official on that so I'd still just treat it as a rumor. Thankfully it just looks, from their website, that something just broke. Of course those who didn't have other means of finding recent fansubs were left flapping in the wind and scrambling to find new places for torrents. My suggestion would be to just look at the anime you're watching and head to the official fansubbers' website and start there. At least until TT is back up and running some time after Christmas.

I've been finding several previews for the upcoming winter season and while it's not that many total shows coming out in winter there seems to be plenty to watch. I'll showcase a few of them later during the week along with some downloadable ones that are not viewable on YouTube. Should prove to be interesting and worth a couple days posts...hahaha yes I'm going to be lazy this week.

For fans of Studio Gibli they announced a new movie to be released in 2010 and it's going to be a remaking of The Borrowers a book about little (think action figure size) people who live in the human world and borrow things from it to survive. While not exactly the same I grew up watching a cartoon called the The Littles which was basically the same principle so I'm a bit more interested to see this movie unlike their last two. The title of the film is called Karigurashi no Arrietty.

Last but not least this week is my huge annoyance at NETFLIX who keeps pissing me off with it's incredibly slow anime releases and disk availability someone on either side of the spectrum really needs to get their asses in gear and fix the damn problem once and for all. I'm tired of waiting MONTHS to get a new release I don't know if this is just an issue here in Boise or it's a wide spread problem but I'm really thinking of cutting back Netflix to their cheapest service and going some where else for my anime rentals. Is any one else using Netflix for anime also experiencing this issue? If so how do you deal with it? Also is there a better service out there just for anime titles that doesn't have any issues like this? Hey I like watching anime on DVD legally but dammit all to hell at least make it easy for me (and others) to rent the damn titles when they are actually released not months later.

I think I'll leave you this week with a bit of anime video goodness and the trailer to....well something not entirely anime related but pretty damn cool none the less.