Anime News (245)
What better way to spend the holiday season than to see what's new airing this season in Japan? A bit late we know, but this has been sitting on our desktops for months.
Enjoy.
Announced last month, Broccoli emailed their fans last week in regards to their closing. There was much speculation on the survivability of anime in the United States with its decline partially due to fansubs and scanlators, and within the last few months many companies and corporations were hit even harder with the economic down turn and Broccoli turned out to be one of them.
Broccoli has just finished running several giveaways as well as selling off a large portion of their remaining items from their office and warehouse.They are currently still trying to keep some titles licensed in the US by discussing it with other publishers.
The people at Broccoli USA are wonderful people and we've enjoyed working with them in the past. This is saddening news and we wish them the best of luck in their future endevowers.
Newtype has released an image of the new Eva unit 02 design. Most notable are the horn like features on top of its head.
From the scan, the second movie will be titled Evangelon: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance.
Full scan inside.
I was surprised to find a giant stuffed Domo-kun dangling from the ceiling entrance of my local Target store.
Apparently Target is using Domo-kun as their character theme for its Halloween promotion carrying such products such as candied Domo-kun, toys, chocolates, and more.
Domo-kun is the mascot for the television station NHK in Japan.
Pictures and promo video inside.
That's right, see what new anime will be airing in Japan this Fall 2008. each title now includes small description of the series.
Which titles are you guys excited about this season?
Make sure to click on the image for the full size after the jump.
Update: A few more series added, and reordered by air date.
Time of Eve Episode 2 World Premiere on Crunchyroll
Written by Theodore Mak
Studio Rikka famed for their earlier production, Pale Cocoon originally screened their highly anticipated short series Time of Eve (Eve no Jikan) at the Tokyo International Anime Fair back in March with much applause.
Crunchyroll.com will be streaming the unreleased English subbed episode 2 online on October 2, 2008 at 1 AM PDT.
There will also be a live online question and answer session with the director of the series Yasuhiro Yoshiura in November.
If you are looking for something a little more though provoking with some amazing visuals, I highly recommend watching this series. You can watch the first episode here.
More information and full press release after the jump.
Old news by now, but since most of the population seems oblivious, a new season of Full Metal Alchemist has been confirmed in volume 20 of the manga.
Supposedly a minor slipup occured in regards to a possible sequel at Anime Expo 2008. A couple weeks later, papers surfaced online listing staff members of BONES studio working on a new project. Most notably listing Yasuhiro Irie (Full Metal Alchemist Animator) as the the Director for "Fullmetal 2."
Shortly after, Mashahiko Minami President of BONES denies the authenticity of the papers, stating that a full internal investigation would ensue.
For any self respecting gamer, they should know that it's E3 week. Interestingly, Sony has announced that BONES studio is offering their new anime Xam'd: Lost Memories that is currently only available on their online store for download.
Video after the jump.
So apparently the Nia artbook from Gurren Lagann is out, and pictures of the book has surfaced online. Knowing the community, expect larger scans in the next day or two. Definitely picking up a copy of this book.
Pictures inside after the jump!
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The Lucky Star OVA has been pushed back a month (or so), from August 29th to September 26th, at least that's what retailers have been told. 
What better way to spend start your summer vacation than with some new anime airing this season?
Promo Trailer for New Macross Short Film "All That VF" Streamed
Jason Vien
A cool little promotional trailer for a new short film titled All That VF has sprung up on the official website for Macross Frontier (Viewable in 1mb or 500kb bandwidth). All That VF assembles the myriad variable fighters from the history of the Macross anime franchise, probably to do battle and fly around in an awesome and stylish fashion. An ID code included with both the Macross Frontier Volume 1 Blu-Ray Disc and the Macross Zero Blu-Ray Disc Box (releasing July and August, respectively) will allow owners to watch the complete short film online.