Turn A Gundam, an old 1999 Gundam anime that has never landed anywhere other than Japan. If you ask a veteran of the series, they would likely say that the older series of the franshise have better plot, development, and greatly likeable characters. Just look at Loran Cehack, the main character is wide eyed character full of life. Turn A Gundam is also one of the last Gundam directed works of Yoshiyuki Tomino, so because of that, many fans may say that the franchise should have ended at this series.

 It’s unlikely Bandai will ever publish it, same with Gundam ZZ, Gundam V, Gundam X, and the other OVA’s, manga, or moives. They’re old, fanboys already watched them, won’t likely sell well in the US, and some even didn’t appeal well to Japan’s audiences, for example, one had more human like mech designs. Gundam is fairly known, but not that popular. With Gundam Seed’s poor CG animation, poor dubbing, Hisashi Hirai character designs, and emo characters that lead to awkward animated .gif images, it only hurts.

Maybe Turn A Gundam wasn’t lisenced because of the nude swim part in the first episode.
 

From pirate style to ones for eye infections, it’s what makes characters in anime and manga like Air Gear, Venus Versus Virus, Jubei-chan, Rental Magica, and Loveless. Favorites being Agito + Akito from Air Gear, move the medical patch over and you’re a new person. Love the mystery from them. Those two stringed eye patches like in Air Gear something good to wear at school or work. Great convo generator. Saw someone who threw keys into someone’s eye, so much fun making fun of the person with anime references.

Thrid season for Zero no Tsukaima was announced, discuss here.

Manga sales in Japan seem to be falling every year, even though it still makes over four billion dollars yearly there. Blame falls to interest in other media forms and lack of creative works. Manga about a mom and an autistic son not enough? Guess it’s time to make more manga based on other books and media.

 Chocolate Underground (being published in manga mag Bessatsu Margaret) is a good example, it’s based on a British kiddy book titled Bootleg. Two young boys running a chocolate factory in a country that has outlawed chocolate and other sweets. They’ll likely run out of the ingredients and deal with people who discovered their secret. Surely it’ll be less British in look and story. If the US and global markets hold though, you’d think manga will still be a force in Japan. Couple hundred million a year in the US and growing sections in your local bookstore, it’s likely stories about romance and pervert manga being placed in kid sections will become the past.

So far, there’s plans in the works for having the main site and the rest of the site bridged. Single log in and more possibilities. Other things include premium accounts, IRC channels, feature store, and SHOUTcast radio. If there’s a feature or something that you find missing that other sites don’t have, suggest it by clicking here.

The Wide Eye Gaming anime gaming section was added not long ago. If there’s interest in PC and video gaming, then a general video gaming forum will be added.

Rental Magica has the cliche of the detective agency that goes out to odd jobs. Someone acquires a business card, visits their pad, and begs for help. The animation is hard to enjoy. They used far too much blur during parts where there’s a lot of movement and to take attention away from areas that lack detail. The cast of characters lack emotion and character to where you won’t likely remember many of the names of them. If you passed this series, don’t bother looking back.

Rental Magica’s Ren Nekoyashiki, the executive director and smarty. He has a softer but very close close character design as Gin bellow.

Gin Ichimaru of Bleach. The guy with the eyes and really wide mouth.

Not far from now will be the addition of new CurrentAir Anime forums for the winter season of 2008. If you have any requests for new forums for such, try this thread.

Blahsoft recently scanlated and released chapter 17 of volume two of Doujin Work. They picked up the manga well before the anime was announced. Not a series you’d expect to be adapted.

Devil May Cry – Level 1 DVD is set to be released in the US Feb 5th of next year.