The forum and other areas of the site will have minor upgrades and bug fixes. Hope it makes everyone’s experience a little more pleasent.

 DNAngel’s return has been confirmed after a month or more after Yukiru Sugisaki saying herself that the series will continue soon. In a way, it was confirmed a long time ago in that case…

Newtype USA should have a goodbye issue where the staff explains the sad news. There should be a February issue since PiQ doesn’t hit stands till mid March. At least, you’d think there would be. The final cover will be etched into your mind forever.

The forum has a new theme and it’s up. Hopefully soon the mainsite will have a new content management system and will match it. It has a small bug in some people’s Internet Explorer 7 and not others. If anyone is interested in interviews of anime bloggers and guides for anime blogging, it’ll be a new project soon.

New banners will be put up for the main site and the community area. The downloads area is being re-worked.

Wide Eye Gaming is our new anime themed video gaming forum. It’s to expand the also new general video gaming forum. Our creativity forum returned for fanfiction, writing, tutorials, fan art, and drawing. A fan art and graphics gallery, too.

Shin Megami Tensei may have another game. Rumors point to the Playstation 3. Other big names in gaming include Call of Duty 5 and Silent Hill V.

Yu Yabuuchi’s Naisho no Tsubomi manga will be adapted to an anime and will air on Japanese airwaves Apirl 25th.

People ask why anime or what makes it popular. Just ask yourself why, then why again when you create an answer. My answer was that it’s surreal and unworldly. Anime is able to pull things off that you can’t do in live action or television, while not looking silly or B movie like. Style and the fact that an anime doesn’t have to explain itself like science fiction. Two other aspects that seperates anime from other media is the strong focus on music. Looking at day time and evening shows, there’s little music and it plays a very small role if there is. The second, is how often you see characters on roof tops or very high structures. Being symbolic, random, and giving an epic feel makes up for the lack of plot focus. Because anime is animation, almost any type of movie or show that has people can be animated. More variety and more soul.

The video game Tales of Vesperia will feature work from the anime company Production IG, but it hasn’t been announced what consoles it’ll be for. The official site had Xbox 360 in the meta tags. Ooops.

Senko no Ronde is a budget Xbox 360 game, 2D gaming with 3D aspects. It’s basically a spin on Sega’s old Virtual On arcade series. Ubisoft released the original Senko no Ronde in the US. Now, Sega not long ago announced Senko no Ronde Rev. X for early 2008. In Japan, it’ll go for 2940 yen (roughly $27 USD) and will likely include a few more twists to add more to what is described bellow.

 In Senko no Ronde, you have an armor (life bar, but you’re able to fly with it empty), Overdrive (for a while, you fight and survive better), and charge gauge (for special attacks). Depending on the character, they may be able to unleash their more unique attacks with less charge than others. B.O.S.S. Stock is another part you keep track of, a couple times during a match you can transform into a much larger and deadly form, which is basically a boss form. Further to complicate the upper area of the screen, round scores and a time counter.

 With the mech, you have other things to control and keep tabs on.  Dashing (you’re a mech, not a ship) and rings around your area showing barriers and weapon controlling. Your barrier rings will not work the same if dashing.

Cuilan is likely one of the more known characters, as he even has own shotacon manga called Space Cum Boy. He’s a thin small boy with fanboys, as he’s often confused for a girl. The sequal will of course bring new flashy characters. Perhaps later an anime will come of it.