Number One Anime Website Crunchyroll.com Sees Great Opportunities in Helping Traditional Media Companies Grow Audiences and Build Businesses Online

San Francisco, Calif. (May 3, 2010) ­ Crunchyroll, Inc., reported today an over 40% compounded quarter on quarter revenue growth for the last five quarters. Q1 2010 revenue experienced over 250% growth, against the same quarter last year. Crunchyroll¹s revenue is driven by the Œfreemium business model made up of advertising-supported and subscription streaming as well as virtual goods, monetizing professionally produced content through direct relationships with Japanese licensors and broadcasters.

Wondercon is a magical time in which geeks from all over can congregate in one small space. It's a special time of... Well, I'm getting off track a bit.

Wondercon is awesome!

This year seemed the usual fair. A few great costumes jumped out, and there were products aplenty with a great selection of artists to share their wares.

It would definitely be nice if the venue somehow booked more people, but it doesn't seem likely. It's not exactly a bad thing that it's small, we only really need ONE CCSD, but there's an awful lot of unused space on the showroom floor.

This time around I actually wandered through the artists alley and checked everything in full. There's a lot of great talent to scope out, and they sell you great art on the cheap. In my mind they're the core of Wondercon, though you often see bigger crowds surrounding the vendors down the way. If we didn't have people of all types working their butts off to put pen to pad or pencil to paper or stylus to screen we really wouldn't have such a large community of comic lovers.

It was another good year: plenty to see, plenty purchase, and lots to love.

Kick-Ass, for those of you who don't know, is a film based on a British comic book of the same name. How does this apply to The-O Network Online? Well, I saw it as part of a screening on Saturday April 3rd, the second day of Wondercon, a full two weeks before the U.S. release. It's a tad late, but here we go!

Now, time for some late late late impressions for Disney's viral event promoting TRON: Legacy!

Everything took place on April 2nd, the first day of Wondercon. The evening started with a cold wind and a small crowd. When I arrived at seven thirty, the main stage was set up, a searchlight was erected, and the mix position dudes looked incredibly bored. It took about half an hour for the crowd to get pretty big, and by then everyone was buzzing with TRON excitement.

I could go into a detailed breakdown of what exactly happened, but there's plenty of that to be found on the web. One of my personal favorite blogs, io9, goes into mind-numbing detail about the forty minute event here. Also check out the official website here.

Basically, Disney poured some decent dollar figures into making some fairly interesting entertainment to promote their new movie. I know nothing about the TRON universe, but the whole event was well put together. I was expecting something flashy, but the core of the show was a fake protest against Encom, the company responsible for the game "Tron" within the movie.

Between the too-long speech from the fake Encom executive, and the mildly interesting but oh-so-fake stage blitz from the protesters, nothing was terribly exciting. Things only really got interesting when a helicopter sporting the Encom logo buzzed the crowd twice, and a small blue figure leaped out of it to parachute down over our heads.

Frustratingly enough, no one explained who the stuntman was. I walked away wondering if it was just some flashy show of "ooo, aaah" to get people talking. Apparently, though, the man with the parachute was supposed to be the son of the main programmer for Tron. His parachute act was meant to "crash the party" and ruin the press conference.

All in all, the parachute sealed the deal. I don't regret my time there, but they definitely could have kicked everything up a notch. Did it make me more interested in the movie? A little, but you won't see me in line for a midnight release.

FLOWER IN A STORM BRINGS ON A FRENZIED ROMANTIC CHASE IN FUN NEW SHOJO SERIES FROM VIZ MEDIA

When A Boy Just Won’t Take No For An Answer Sometimes All A Girl Has Left Are Her Superpowers

San Francisco, CA, April 20, 2010 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, offers FLOWER IN A STORM, an imaginative romantic comedy from a fresh new talent of the shojo manga world, Shigeyoshi Takagi. Set to be published under the Shojo Beat imprint and released on May 4th, FLOWER IN A STORM is rated ‘T+’ for Older Teens and will carry an MSRP of $9.99 U.S. / $12.99 CAN.

FIND OUT WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE IT TO THE TOP AS A MANGA CREATOR IN THE NEW SHONEN JUMP SERIES BAKUMAN。

Two Students Must Have Perseverance, Innovation And An Uncompromising Will To Succeed In The New Series From The Creators Of DEATH NOTE