Yeah, not going to happen. ;p

Should have them up tomorrow evening my local time. #3.1

At this rate, I'm tempted to pay that out to you out of my own cash and claim a reimbursement. I'm really not certain what's going on there. =/ #1.1

Remind me to never run this system for contests again. ^^;; It's an utter pain to calculate everything, and doing it in between all the other work I have is making it go slow. #2

Indeed. All of the series you've given as examples there were male focused. Given that red is the leader in any kind of Super Sentai show....I'm expecting there's some connotations there that us foreigners don't get. #1.1

I'll join everyone else here in saying that I'd be more than willing to import, but not at the currently inflated Japanese market prices.

Having said that, if they were selling overseas, than that means they're realizing all those revenues themselves. The sheer increase of volume should give them significantly better economies of scale, and thus lower production costs. If they didn't then discount, then they'd be just outright price gouging, and everyone w... #5

Being an almost absolute dictator has its advantages. ;) #6.1

What a stupid, shortsighted decision by Kadokawa pictures. If they're having so many issues there, that should just be an indicator to them that their distribution model in their own country needs some serious work. Maybe they should, as other companies are looking into, just drop their international licensor's and just distribute their own Blu-Rays internationally with English subtitles already on them. #1

Let it be known that Ramna1 has just received a permanent block.

It's one thing to be ignorant of how the rules work. But to continue making these sorts of posts, and to go so far as to post a news article which was outright pornography (seriously, the first thing you saw after clicking through was a picture of a girl covered in semen), is simply unacceptable. That's not ignorance, that's willful ignorance. #7

Not to defend Gawker, but Kotaku.com.au (which is actually separate and distinct to Kotaku.com) has some very good coverage of news by local writers. Not just all local news either. #1.1.4

Speaking as someone who actually has a degree in consumer behaviour....

There's a hell of a lot more to marketing than porn and sex. They can work to the right market, but most certainly not to every market, and I very much doubt to the market this company is aiming at. #1.1

If it helps there Syn, I can tell you that they're currently looking to recode not just AnimeShinbun but the entire Newsboiler network again from the ground up. I actually had some of my own ideas on how user reviews could be handled, though I don't know as of yet if they'll be incorporating them (or for that matter, how many of those suggestions from the feedback I asked for all that time ago will be included). #2.2.1

The Capsule Computers block is not an AnimeShinbun block, but a Newsboiler wide block. I know why, but not all the details. All I can really say at this point is it's due to something reported over on N4G, and is currently under investigation by the staff there.

Though I will say that I did a double-take when I heard about the reason, and that I would be very surprised if it's true. If it is, it's quite disappointing, but the block would certainly be justified. #3

I think the concern many others here may be having is the same concern I personally have, and will be checking out as I go over submissions and reports over the next few days.

Namely, that while things do need to be approved by the community....it's hard for that to happen if someone's gaming the system to get their submissions approved. Doesn't even need to be multiple accounts or anything like that, might just be a bunch of friends who all hit approve as soon as... #5.1

I PMed this to Ramna1 a few minutes ago, but in the circumstances I feel a public post is needed.

So, Ranma1, a few guidelines for you to follow if you don't want me to follow what is clearly the community's wish.

a) As a general rule, while we're fine with "ecchi" pieces being submitted (within reasonable limits, since this site is meant to be safe for work), pure smut and hentai is off limits (regardless of if the picture or the short... #6

Updated the image to the correct article image as actually used by Kotaku. A lot more family friendly. #6

Keep in mind koga, I'm not just the guy running AnimeShinbun. I also run Bulbagarden/Bulbapedia, the world's largest Pokémon website. ;) #1.3

Hey everyone,

Sorry for being a bit AWOL these past couple of weeks. Those prizes should start going out over the next couple of days.

The January prizes will be defaulting to contributors and commentators. In the end, after going through all entries to the mascot competition we only had 1 valid entry (simply because the other entries we did receive were too derivative of well known Shounen Jump series, instead of being original), and we were a little uncomfo... #3

That's an interesting suggestion there koga, and something that we may consider. I don't think any of our random draws thusfar have actually been won by someone who was below that threshold to begin with, so it wouldn't really change much.

Everyone here has pretty much hit on the head why we prefer random draws to simply going for the person with the most posts. Even if every single piece of English language, worthwhile anime news, reviews and commentary posted so... #2.2.1

It's about time we had more Japanese bands releasing their stuff overseas. We've had a minor K-pop boom in Australia thanks to the SBSPopAsia digital radio station, and it's always frustrated me how the Japanese labels wouldn't allow for wider releases online.

Speaking of which....this will only be available for digital download for US audiences, so I'll still miss out. Damnit. #1

What were your thoughts on the manga? It's been years since I last read it, and I was amazed to hear last year that it's still ongoing. #2