John Sears | December 28, 2010
‘Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?’ is, as previously mentioned, a new anime series debuting in Japan in a few weeks featuring a Zombie protagonist. A fairly lengthy promotional video is now online, and… Yeah. This looks like one strange show. Part harem-comedy, part horror series, part Magical Girl thing (think Sailor Moon if you’re not [...]
John Sears | December 24, 2010
There’s a question mark in the title because, of course, I haven’t seen it yet, but hopefully it will be one of those series that gets snatched up and near-instantly subtitled on Hulu. The show in question is called ‘Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?‘, and is summarized thusly: Summary: Aikawa Ayumu is a normal high [...]
John Sears | September 20, 2010
The Anti-Zombie products seem to be coming out of the Far East in waves lately: The North American publisher Vertical has announced at its Anime Weekend Atlanta panel on Sunday that it licensed the Velveteen & Mandara (Becchin to Mandara) manga by Jiro Matsumoto. The story centers around Velveteen (Becchin), a high school girl who [...]
John Sears | September 7, 2010
I apologize in advance for the motes of dust visible in some of these shots; the camera lens apparently was badly in need of cleaning. Also odd in these photos is that my camera’s automatic configuration mode seems to have been driven slightly batty by the weird lighting in the Marriot (as were my eyes, [...]
John Sears | September 6, 2010
Well, that was a satisfying 3 days of activism indeed. Our last day in the Vendor area went quite well, and I’m happy to report that we sold completely out of Zombie Strong wristbands. That’s a ‘nice problem to have’, as they say on Metalocalypse. We’re going to put in a new order, eh, probably [...]
John Sears | September 4, 2010
First of all, I finally got around to verifying the proper spelling of the con, and it’s apparently Geek.kon. I’ve seen it other ways on other forms, and for some reason had fallen into the habit of writing it as “Geek-Kon” If this has caused immense personal hardship to anyone I deeply apologize. So, how [...]
John Sears | August 15, 2010
I wrote previously about the announcement that Highschool of the Dead would be coming stateside and the lightning speed with which that announcement came. A free promotional episode has now been posted on Anime News Network’s video viewer, and the ZRC was able to conduct a screening and an in-depth review. I’m actually shocked at [...]
John Sears | July 14, 2010
This commentary will contain spoilers for the first half-dozen or so episodes of Soul Eater, so please be advised.
John Sears | July 5, 2010
Anime News Network helpfully runs a seasonal preview feature highlighting the newest shows from Japan, and their summer previews have just kicked off. The good news? This provides some valuable intel on how soon-to-be-imported, likely-megahit zombie-bashing anime High School of the Dead is doing in the establishment press. The bad news? Sometimes the establishment press [...]
John Sears | July 3, 2010
So our friends across the Pacific have hopped onto the Romero bandwagon with an anime adaptation of the aptly named ‘Highschool of the Dead’ manga, whose story and content are clearly inspired by the grandmaster of Living Supremacist film. I had seen this news before, and wondered what the chances of the anime adaptation being [...]