Finished the directors cut of Afro Samurai, 5 episodes, good shit.

Continuing Soul Eater, just got to the episode on the snowy island, good shit, which is unusual for this series.

Finished all 5 FOTNS Legend of the True Saviour movies. Each is about 1 and a half hours long so it's like watching a 20 episode series. It's completely awesome but I'm unsure if series newbies would get it.

Gave up on Mitchiko and Hatchin, got very boring.

Saw the first two episodes of Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

Done by A-1 pictures the same studio as Fairy Tail and Black Butler.

Seems pretty cool so far. It's an anime take on the Arabian Knights Aladdin tale with a big ass genie, magical dungeons, street rats and Alibaba. Very fun, colourful and adventurous. I hear series 2 is well on its way to being localised here and I look forward to it. I have high hopes for this series, hits all the right notes.

Exclusive: Vampire Hunter D Has New Animated Series in the Works

California-based production studio Unified Pictures told ANN that it is unveiling plans for a new CG-animated series based on Hideyuki Kikuchi's long-running Vampire Hunter D novel series at Anime Expo. The company is co-producing the series with Japanese CGI animation studio Digital Frontier (Resident Evil: Degeneration, Tekken: Blood Vengeance, Mighty No. 9).

Kikuchi himself, as well as Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust director Yoshiaki Kawajiri, are also involved with the project.

Unified Pictures producer Scott McLean said the company is looking to bring the series to television. "I've been a fan of Vampire Hunter D since I was a teenager," McLean said. "I'm overjoyed at being able to be a part of creating a new chapter for a story I greatly admire."

Unified Pictures will share more details, such as plans for the show's format and story, at its panel at Anime Expo on Thursday, July 2. The company will also host a Q&A session at the convention on Saturday.

Anime Expo will be held from July 2-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Kikuchi began the novel series in 1983 and Asahi Shimbun Publications published the 29th volume (cover pictured in the ad above) in May. The story follows D, a half-human, half-vampire who hunts vampires in a desolate far future. Dark Horse Comics publishes Kikuchi's original novel series in North America, and Digital Manga Publishing releases the manga adaptation by Saiko Takaki.

The novel series previously inspired an original video anime in 1985 and the Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust film in 2000. The film was co-produced by Vampire Hunter D's American licensing company Urban Vision, and dubbed in English before it was dubbed in Japanese.

Sentai Filmworks announced in April that it had licensed the 1985 Vampire Hunter D anime, and will release it with a new English dub in addition to the Japanese language track. Discotek Media announced in February that it had licensed Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, and plans to release it this September without the Japanese dub track.

Canadian horror magazine Rue Morgue reported in 2010 that Kikuchi was working on a new anime series.

Magi: Adventure of Sinbad's New Original Video Anime Previewed in Video

Needs more Yatterman.

Yowamushi Pedal Film's Trailer Highlights Original Story

What's the lowdown on this series?

I'm 15 episodes into Magi Labyrinth of Magic and it isn't quite Fairy Tail levels of fun. It's still very solid, but it felt like it was going to be a super fun filled adventure in the Arabian Nights world. And instead it's gotten bogged down in a ground war revolt against royalty and has become a little too serious for its own good. It's still very solid, good entertainment but hasn't lived up to its early promise.

Also finished the Leaf village raid in Naruto, 82 episodes in. Naruto is great fun, eventually. And managed to mix goofy humour with tense nail biting confrontations.

I've also only got two episodes of Spice and Wolf to watch and I don't want it to end It's a slow grower but you become very attached to it.

Also on One Piece - Collection 11 -each collection is 4 discs so do the math 44 DVDs watched. One Piece just gets better and better. The CP9 story is great, everything is directed so well and the animation quality is finally at a modern level.

Live-Action Attack on Titan Writer Warns Fans of More Changes:

If you ever plan to catch the sequel to the live-action film adaptation of Attack on Titan, don't expect to know everything going into the film.

Screenwriter Tomohiro Machiyama recently stated the films in the series are expected to feature drastic changes to plot points and characters readily established and even beloved by fans, with popular characters not even appearing in the film.

"I think fans of the anime will get rather heated over [the changes]," Machiyama stated.

The first film, for example, portrays severe deviations for main protagonists Eren and Mikasa. Whereas Eren vows to destroy every titan in the original story, the movie has Eren as a regular boy who denies the existence of titans and becomes crippled with terror when seeing them. Mikasa, on the other hand, becomes more of a love interest who serves as fuel for Eren to rise and fight.

Some of these alterations, however, were even made at the behest of the original author Hajime Isayama.

"Please change Eren's character," Isayama pleaded of the writers. "He's not that sympathetic as a shōnen manga hero. ...I want him to be an ordinary youngster who gets paralyzed with fear when he sees a titan."

"It was important for us to reach out to the orginal author about changing his characters," Machiyama remarked on working with Isayama.

Even the setting was changed to be in a more Japanese area and have a more Japanese tone, citing concerns over Japanese actors playing essentially-German characters.

"This is already a fundamentally different world," Machiyama explained. "So we'd have to put in in Japan."

While some names remained the same, this change in setting led to the rather shocking exclusion of Levi in this and future installments in the film series, despite being a popular and crucial character to the original story. This decision was made to the dismay of even some of the production staff. According to Machiyama, the Japanese setting made the inclusion of the katakana "vu" in one's name stick out too much, as no Japanese name would normally include that character.

Despite the many changes, Machiyama still believes that the movie will be well-received, stating that moviegoers can sympathize with Eren and his desire to escape.

"Everyone wants to live happily within the walls, but that's not enough for Eren. He wants to overcome them."

The first film opens in Japan on August 1. Attack on Titan: End of the World will open in Japan on September 19.

North American Anime, Manga Releases, July 26-August 1

I completed Kill la Kill it was great.

Sort of Off-topic I didn't know where to post this link.

Three voice actors from Dragonball Z redub classic movie scenes

It is funny hearing King Kai give Bill Pullman's speech from Independence Day than at the end saying "Suck it Aliens!"