FUNimation announces new portal and new anime

FUNimation has announced a new video service to showcase the largest selection of streaming, on-demand, premium anime for free. And free is a word we love here. The new service will be at www.funimation.com.video There will be full-length episodes, and many full length series. Some of the titles of the video player launch are episodes of Darker Than Black, Guyver, Black Blood Brothers, Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino, Jyu-Oh-Sei, Negima 2, Ouran High School Host Club, Romeo X Juliet, Shigurui: Death Frenzy, STRAIN: Strategic Armored Infantry and many other top titles that are not available anywhere else. I can’t wait to try out Ouran High School Host Club! Each week FUNimation will be rolling out new episodes of anime, including those that are actually airing in Japan right now. “The site was created to bring together the largest selection of the best anime and offer it in the highest-quality video available

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FUNimation starts countdown to 2009, Monday!

FUNimation has announced that they are going to celebrate the end of 2008 and bring 2009 in with style. Every day online at New Show a go go FUNimation will be announcing a new acquisition announcement every day starting on Monday, December 22 and leading up to New Year’s Eve. But if you are curious and impatient you can look on the website for “holiday postcards peeking out from behind some of our regular features”. This may give you clues as to what is coming.

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FUNimation Entertainment needs your help!

FUNimation Entertainment needs your help to decide if an anime gets created or not. They have begun work on Sgt. Frog and have released a test episode here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ5mQPVQmZ8 for you to watch. They would like you to watch the video and let them know what you think of it. Should they continue? Should they bury it? Sgt. Frog’s fate is in your hands. What is Sgt.Frog? The series follows the attempts of frog-like alien invaders to conquer Earth. Sergeant Keroro is the leader of the platoon which botches its attempt at world domination and is left behind in our hostile world! And then (dramatic pause), Sgt. Keroro falls into the hands of a human family …

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FUNimation teams up with Joost

FUNimation Entertainment has announced that they are partnering with Joost to provide streaming full-length anime for free. I’m telling you kids, this is a great deal! Starting in November, FUNimation will be launching it’s video channel with the following shows: Basilisk Black Blood Brothers (also available in the original Japanese with English subtitles) Blue Gender Galaxy Railways Kiddy Grade MoonPhase (also available in the original Japanese with English subtitles) Mr. Stain Mushi-Shi Peach Girl Rumbling Hearts (also available in the original Japanese with English subtitles) School Rumble Slayers Suzuka xxxHOLiC I’m definitely looking forward to checking out Peach Girl and xxxHOLiC since I own all the manga for those two series. “Joost recognizes that there exists a varied entertainment landscape and a thirst for unique content,” said Gen Fukunaga, president and CEO at FUNimation Entertainment. “Partnering with them offers us the opportunity to provide the content fans are already looking

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KagoMegan’s Anime Expo Day 3 Adventure!

Sorry for the belatedness! My computer’s been acting wonky. Anyway, just as we spent Friday, we spent the Saturday morning in line for [b]David Hayter[/b]. This time for an autograph! We were nowhere near close to the front of the line, despite being there 2 hours before even line-up time should have begun and we still had at least 4 hours ahead of us. As soon as they moved us into the Artist Alley where the real line was, some guy in line started blasting mem songs (ie: Rick Astley, Numa Numa…). I happened to have it on my iPod, so I made him play “Snake Eater” which made my day, strangely. We met alot of awesome people in that line. We also met up with some friends who we were looking for for two days. Holla to the cool people who chatted with us about Metal Gear and Pokemon!

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Unknown Anime of the Week 5/10/2008

Time sure does flies. I missed a week already! Well I actually have a great anime to present to you this week to make up. I know I’ve been focusing of late on science-fiction anime but to me these types of anime do get overlooked the most often. So, this week’s anime feature is Solty Rei. Remember you can always suggest a show to be featured here. By e-mailing me at Vainya[at]gamingangels[dot]com. [b]Name of series:[/b] Solty Rei [b]Licensed by:[/b] FUNimation Entertainment [b]Broadcast on:[/b] Anime Selects VOD [b]Genres:[/b] action, drama, science fiction [b]Age rating:[/b] Teen (for language, nudity and violence ) [b]Number of episodes:[/b] 24 [b]Plot summary by Anime News Network:[/b] In a future-based disaster-ridden city with an enormous gap between the rich and the poor, it is hard to tell which humans are walking around with cybernetic body parts. This makes Roy Revant’s job as a renegade bounty hunter/bodyguard-for-hire even

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