Fansub groups have it the worst. Companies send out letters and emails about how they should stop and small sites uploading the episodes they subbed as their own. Okay true, it’s not as though the anime they subbed is actually theirs to begin with useally, but having people pay for direct downloads of your torrented content and DDoS attacks isn’t nice. Must be even worst to have parent companies of GONZO and others make news about your dirty hobby. Anime has gotten so big to where the whole Western companies look at torrent trends to know what series to pick up saying is now useless. The just trying it out to see if I like it and I buy it if I like it is dead. Yes, fansub groups are a big global threat. Your torrent client likely shows Japanese also downloading the stuff you are. I support fansub groups though, as they give subs to anime that likely would have never be released in my country. Surely people in areas where they have a very tiny anime industry, they love to be able to watch anime as well.

Rumors of Super Mario RPG by SquareEnix for the Nintendo DS are brewing.

Adventura by Del Ray is to be released on the 30th of this month. So stop going to the same bookstore waiting for it. That far in the month, anime news sites and magazines should include reviews for it next month.

Fansub and scanlation group Eval Powar is active again. Mysterious Girlfriend X is their current project. There’s something similar between the manga they pick. Rise R, Beyond the Beyond, Shakugan no Shana, Elemental Gelade, and now MGX. It must be the boy with powerful girl thing.