Gam3r Boi (aka Christina Vee is hawt):

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Kite Liberator:

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Above you'll find an exclusive look at the preview for Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0, which was shown at the end of 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance. It's a cam-corded video, & a pretty bad one at that, but at least it's something. Between the bad quality & the fast moving footage, it's pretty hard to tell what's going on in the preview. There is however one very noticeable spoiler towards the end. Leave it to Asuka to make wearing an eye-patch look hot. =b Still a pretty weird change, though.

Below, you'll find an amazing trailer for a movie called RoboGeisha, from Noboru Iguchi. After that is the latest trailer for one of his other new films, Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein girl. Plus, a look at a new Ultraman film- with 50 Ultra-men!

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Trigun wasn't the only cam-recorded movie trailer at Anime Expo this year. Imagi's long-awaited Gatchaman CGI film finally showed its first official trailer at the convention as well. The quality of the recording isn't really that good, but it does its job of giving us our first real taste of the film. This is REAL G-Force movie, unlike that Disney wannabe. Imagi's other anime-turned-American-CGI-movie, Astro Boy, is due out this Fall.

iTunes is once again giving us some free anime downloads to enjoy. Viz Media began adding episodes of both "Honey & Clover" & "Nana" to iTunes today. For Honey & Clover, the first 12 episodes of season 1 have been added, & the first episode can be downloaded completely free. The rest of the episodes will cost you $1.99 each to download, or you can buy the whole "season set" in bulk for $19.99 which includes the bonus OVA episode (which can't be downloaded on its own). The episodes are dubbed in English, & as fan of the Japanese version, I can say for the most part I really enjoyed the episode 1 dub.

The first 11 dub episodes of Nana were also added, which is quite good timing considering today is Nana Day (7/7). Again, each episode will cost you $1.99, or $19.99 for all 11 plus the special recap episode 11.5 (which again can't be downloaded on its own). Unfortunately there are no free episodes for Nana. But get your free Honey & Clover ep, hit up the link below:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?i=319682712&id=318745265&s=143441

Yasuhiro Nightow & Satoshi Nishimura, the two guys behind the Trigun manga, brought a special surprise with them at their Anime Expo panel- the world premiere of the Trigun Movie trailer! The film was originally slated to come out in 2009, but that doesn't seem very likely at this point. It's still in the middle of production, & no release date was given at the panel.

Anime Expo was a bit quieter this weekend when compared to years past. There weren't tons of new announcements made by every company, but FUNimation did have the most things going on.

In terms of new licenses, they've FINALLY gotten the DVD rights for the first 13 episodes of DragonBall, something they've been trying to get for the past decade. Now that they have those, Funi will start re-releasing the entire DragonBall series in remastered season sets, similar to what they've done for DBZ & GT. Season 1, the first 31 episodes of the original series, will be released on September 15. They also got the anime adaptation of the Nintendo DS game "Sands of Destruction" (World Destruction: Sekai Bokumetsu no Rokunin). Both Funi's season set & Sega's American release of the game will hit in Spring 2010. Finally, in a very up the the wire last second announcement, they cleared the rights to Production I.G's Sengoku Basara. Funi also stressed that they haven't lost the One Piece DVD license & DVD sets will continue to come out. They also stated that they don't have the Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0 movie yet.

FUNimation confirmed that they plan to launch ShoDojo.com, a brand new online anime community site to take the place of their now defunct animeOnline. Thousands of streaming anime episodes will also be a part of the site, meaning they're probably planning it to compete with Crunchyroll.

FUNimation also announced the dub cast for Slayers Revolution. & they're keeping most of the original cast! Best news I've heard all con. The fabulous Lisa Ortiz will resume her role as the lead character Lina Inverse, & most of the others will also be the same. The only exception is Xellos, who will now be voiced by the (relatively speaking) newcomer & extremely talented Michael Sinterniklaas. He will also direct the dub. Pretty interesting how FUNimation, which is located in Texas, is letting all the recording for this series go to New York. Especially considering Zelgadis' VA no longer lives there & has since moved to join the California voice actors. The main cast:

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Needless Ending:

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers- the Movie:

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NicoNico All-Stars:

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Just a friendly reminder from your neighborhood Nebs that Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season debuts tonight on Sci-Fi/SyFy. The first two episodes will air back-to-back on their AniMonday block at 11pm (Eastern/Pacific). Bandai Entertainment's dub of the series debuts only exactly 3 months (to the day) after it ended in Japan, proving once again that they've gotten pretty good at speed-dubbing.

Unfortunately, AniMonday wont be re-airing the first season as they did with Gurren Lagann (at least not anytime soon). But luckily season one is legally available for free on both YouTube & Crunchyroll. So check out those sites for a refresher.

I posted this in the This Week in Free Anime post, but felt it was important enough to merit its own post. Kadokawa, who has been uploading full RAW Haruhi Suzumiya episodes to YouTube a week after they air on TV this season, recently just put up the first 8 episodes (chronological order) of Haruhi with full English subtitles. This of course includes episode #8- aka the first episode of season two!

The first 7 episodes, which were part of the original first season, are actually Bandai Entertainment's official English subtitles that were used in their DVDs. Episode 8 (aka season 2 episode 1) uses a different font for the subs, & the flow of the translation feels different from Bandai's. It seems Kadokawa is using the same translator from the Haruhi-chan & Nyoron Churuya-san shorts.

These first 8 episodes will stay up on Kadokawa's YouTube channel until July 5th, so they're only giving us a 1 week viewing window. Presumably, more official English subbed episodes will be forthcoming, including more season 2 episodes. & hopefully there'll be a smaller window of time between the Japanese broadcast & the official streaming subbed episodes as well. But for now, let's enjoy our first taste of legal Haruhi season 2. Check out subbed ep 8 above or the playlist player below:

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Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 1-8 (sub!):

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Episode 41 - Chenquieh!

I'm not sure how easy it is to spot, but the "worst that could happen" left Joey with a black eye throughout the rest of the episode. It's easy to overlook, but it's a pretty funny edit.

A lot of old favorites return in this episode- Pegasus, Zack & Cody, & of course Borat Shadi. Can you believe it's been over two years since his last appearance? While I'm sure Shadi's reappearance was highly anticipated among many Abridged fans, it's Tristan & Duke that really steal the show in this episode. While in the actual series they were rescued shortly after falling off the side of the blimp, LittleKuriboh keeps them hanging for their lives throughout most of the episode. "In another few hours, the sun will come up!"

RIP, Chad from accounting.

Another Abridged Season 3 plot hint at the end? Hmmm....

Wow. Could you ask for more Blood: the Last Vampire vids? With the film finally hitting US theaters, a lot of clips have been appearing online as of late. Check out the clip above & plenty more below.

Besides Japanese trailers for new films like Summer Wars, Kaiji, & Tales of Vesperia, there's also some highly anticipated American trailers. We finally got a dub trailer for Miyazaki's Ponyo, the first trailer for the Last Airbender, & a special look at Astro Boy. All that & more below:

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