Japanese Anime Updates

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There have been a few anime discussions here and there on the site, but no central place where you can easily find other opinions, and most importantly updates on anime release and production. So here are a few at this time and place I have to mention, and some personal observations and experiences as well. Some of my news may be old, since I'm old school and often out of the loop, so have mercy and tell me what you know!

1. Just picked up Blue Submarine No. 6 at the Cold Wars Convention (Lancaster, PA), because I remembered that it had gotten good comments in The Anime Encyclopedia (Second Edition). What's a wargame miniatures convention (or any other type of event) without anime? Why, a day without sinshine! After watching the two hour "series" (its really a movie) I recalled that I'd seen the very ending once years ago (probably on Adult Swim back in the days when Anime was king there), and thought it very confusing. Now I have reached enlightenment and closure! PS: It rocks!

2. It seems that the final season of Inu Yasha will never come out on disk--you can only see it online. This is because they changed the ending, and manga goddess Ms. Takahashi didn't like it. Others have recounted to me that they had great difficulty bootlegging it to disk, with some results working and some not. I'm watching it now for my first time, and already in early episodes (of 27 in the TV season) one character has been changed and one has died!

3. I started a thread about LUM not being available easily. It is, but the reason the contract is up with Animego is that it was going to be redone. However, now it seems that the TV distribution deal is falling through, and it might not happen. So I finally got to see Movie Five "The Final Chapter," which gives some ending to it (sort of), and I really enjoyed it, after waiting so long to view it.

4. The guy I bought from in #1 above was my age (old enough to know better) and upgrading to Blue Ray. Will anime really become available in the new format? You can always get second hand bargains when someone is upgrading, although in the past I've gotten old casettes when others were going to DVD. Haven't moved on to Blue Ray or High Def myself.

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I just attended Cold Wars Con down in Lancaster, PA (so I'm not mentioning New York City in this post at all), attending a discussion about The Greatest Warrior Women In History. Afterward, I walked up to the guy who presented on Joan of Arc, and told him I knew of a connection between The Maid and Japanese Anime. Boy, was he surprised. Anyone know what it is? Hint: The Anime in question is [b]Infinite Stratos.[/B]