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.

Jura again. Delays and more delays. The skin for the forum and the radio have not been done. Not to mention activity is low, lack of interest in contests, and little has been added to our downloads area. Still haven’t gotten to a scanlation group and creating other sites for gaining more activity. We’re not going anywhere, I’m aware of the situation.

Shounen ai series Kaoru-kun has been picked up by Trine Scanlations.
www.community.livejournal.com/trine_scans/3489.html

A teen in the US is in some deep trouble after her school discovers her Death Note book. Nice to have a few days off from school, but they’ll likely have her see a head docter or two.

Later this year we will focus on activity and new members. However, before such, a new skin for the forum and soon after this main site will be added. Newsletters, return of the character adoptions, graphic activities, and more content will also come. We’ll also try to squeeze in an exclusive holiday wallpaper to be made. If you haven’t done so, bookmark us, as the nwvoid.com domain no longer redirects here. Thanks for your support.

Taro Komori at the age of three years was kidnapped along with his sister. The event left Taro with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and his sister dead. The spirituality part comes to play when Taro’s soul leaves his body into different worlds and dimensions. Along with a few other local kids that also are having similar experiences, Taro has to save his world from the spirit world. What’s kept the two worlds separate is becoming no more. Taro Komori, Makoto Ogami, and Masayuki Nakajima will likely be shown to not share the same views. Taro will likely come into contact with his sister again. Other characters include the witch doctor who is the grandparent of Makoto and the worried Miyako Komagusu. Ghost Hound is also known as Shinreigari and with Masamune Shirow leading the way along with the other well respected staff, this anime will be a fancy way to celebrate the anniversary of Production I.G. Especiallly with character designs by Mariko Oka.

ADV has issues. They’ve dropped some rather great manga. R2 and Gamerz Heaven were great choices for them to publish, though true they aren’t that known. Only volume one of Rise R to the Second Power ( R2 ) and just the couple first volumes of Gamerz Heaven. Makes one wonder if the same will happen to Lagoon Engine Einsatz. Another publisher would have to take over and it may not have the nice square shape that volume 1 had. The art to R2 is nice, though a bit too clean. R2 is also pretty rare to find as you won’t find this in more bookstores and likely a lot of online stores. You’d have to order it or Ebay it. It’s technically out of print. There is the site ( EvalPowar ) that did scanlations for it, but their scan group is pretty much dead. The site remains and you can direct download it from them, since all their torrents have also died. I’ll go chapter by chapter later this week of the first volume and write about such. Perhaps at a much later time the artbook ( R3 R:Cubism ) could be scanlated by us.

Two new CurrentAir Anime sub-forums have been added. Ghost Hound and Gundam 00. About a month before they are going to be aired. That’ll give it a head start.

There will be several things fixed later on. Links, images, and the forum’s random downtime. This part of the site and gallery will also be updated, which should bring new features. After such, the Character Adoptions will return and perhaps new things to discuss.