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6:00 PM on 05.17.2013

Friday Night Fights: Ideon vs Dix-Neuf

*ding, ding, ding* It's Over! Shanoa was ready to use the Glypths that allowed her to defeat Dracula in Order of Ecclesia; however, Bayonetta has punched a being equivalent to God into the sun, so that makes her a stronger op...

Salvador G-Rodiles

10:00 AM on 05.13.2013

A Daily Dose of Final Blows: Diebuster

It's all lead up to this. Our hero has been bruised and battered, and on the bring of defeat. What can saved the day? Is there any hope left for humanity? In anime, you can alway count on the final blow! This week your favor...

Hiroko Yamamura

12:30 AM on 03.30.2013

Giga License Breaker: Aniplex rescues Gurren Lagann

It shouldn't be a surprise to people that the Gurren Lagann TV series would get revived by Aniplex USA, since they were the ones who licensed the two movies in North America. Knowing who the hell Aniplex is, they pl...

Salvador G-Rodiles

3:00 PM on 03.21.2013

Drive a Subaru: Gainax's Pleiades anime becomes a movie

Honestly, I am confused right now. I could've sworn that Gainax and Subaru's Wish upon the Pleiades was suppose to be said and done. Never mind, I forgot to take one important thing into consideration. Seeing how Pl...

Salvador G-Rodiles

9:48 PM on 03.20.2013

Gainax returns to their long dormant Blue Uru project

If you haven't seen Gainax's Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, what are you doing? Go grab a copy and enjoy some fantastic sci fi filmmaking. All right, you're back? Cool. As fantastic as Gainax's first f...

Elliot Gay

10:00 AM on 03.14.2013

A Daily Dose of Music: Old School Thursday

In honor of receiving my lovely new Super Robot Chogokin: Gunbuster, we have a lovely old school gem from one of my all time favorite series, Gunbuster: Aim for the Top!! Besides containing amazing charac...

Hiroko Yamamura



Friday Night Fights: Ayumu vs Makina photo
Friday Night Fights: Ayumu vs Makina
by Salvador G-Rodiles




Friday Night Fights: KOS-MOS vs Nono photo
Friday Night Fights: KOS-MOS vs Nono
by Salvador G-Rodiles


9:00 AM on 01.08.2013

Discotek Media licenses Gunbuster 2: Diebuster

Long time readers may remember that I reviewed Diebuster a couple years back. I fellated the show, and with good reason. It's one of my favorite OVAs, only topped by it's predecessor, Gunbuster. The only problem is that ...

Pedro Cortes



Friday Night Fights: Panty & Stocking vs Pandy & Retro photo
Friday Night Fights: Panty & Stocking vs Pandy & Retro
by Salvador G-Rodiles




Review: Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo photo
Review: Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
by Elliot Gay


4:23 AM on 11.01.2012

Evangelion: Q's theatrical trailer hits the internet

The theatrical trailer for Evangelion: Q has hit the internet, and boy is it a doozy. Between the giant pink Eva units, and Asuka being a badass, I probably couldn't be more excited. With all hell breaking loose in this thir...

Elliot Gay

1:00 PM on 09.12.2012

Medaka Box season two is ready to burst onto the screen

Following up this Spring's highly successful Gainax show Medaka Box, this Fall's second season looks to continue all the crazy antics we loved so much. It looks like things are kind of back to normal on&n...

Hiroko Yamamura



Japanator Kinda Recommends: Panty and Stocking photo
Japanator Kinda Recommends: Panty and Stocking
by Brad Rice




Final Impressions: Medaka Box photo
Final Impressions: Medaka Box
by Hiroko Yamamura


8:00 AM on 04.30.2012

FUNimation shares English dub cast for Panty & Stocking

A little more than a year after announcing their license, FUNimation finally announced the English cast list for Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt at Anime Central. Jamie Marchi will be trying to get laid as Panty, w...

Bob Muir



First Impressions: Medaka Box photo
First Impressions: Medaka Box
by Hiroko Yamamura


4:00 PM on 04.03.2012

New Medaka Box trailer for your hungry eyes

Only one more day until Gainax's new series Medaka Box hits the airwaves. I don't know much about the manga it's based on, but things look to be pretty zaney in the trailer. I have high hopes for the show, as I just couldn't ...

Hiroko Yamamura

2:00 PM on 02.23.2012

Gainax working on a live-action TV show? Count me in!

I did not see this one coming, but it might be interesting to see what comes out of this. The creative folks at Gainax have decided that they want to take a shot at producing their own live-action TV show. Teaming u...

Salvador G-Rodiles

6:00 PM on 02.08.2012

Sadamoto finally putting an end to Evangelion manga

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the dude behind the original on-going Neon Genesis Evangelion manga, is going to conclude the series by the end of his next volume, as confirmed by Kodokawa in the last 24 hours. Considering that this mang...

Marcus Speer





Midweek MADness: DaiconIV photo
Midweek MADness: DaiconIV
by Itsa Timmy




Third Evangelion film named, fourth film out in 2013 photo
Third Evangelion film named, fourth film out in 2013
by Chris Walden


10:00 AM on 12.08.2011

A Daily Dose of Music: Old School Thursdays

This week we go back to 1988 to the Gainax classic, Gunbuster: Aim for the Top! Gunbuster was short sweet, full of lovely ladies, jiggly action, robots, and fantastic Mikimoto character design. Did I ever tell you g...

Hiroko Yamamura

2:00 PM on 11.22.2011

Harajuku Evangelion store has launched

The guys over at ITMedia posted some images from the opening of the Harajuku Evangelion store that happened this week. The store store is set to fully open its doors Wednesday, but that didn't stop the party! Is that a f...

Hiroko Yamamura

4:00 PM on 10.14.2011

Take a peek at the walls in the old Gainax building

Have you ever heard the expression, "If these walls could talk?' It most certainly applies in the case of the old building that super anime studio Gainax used to call home. I have no idea what kind of awesome insanity&nb...

Hiroko Yamamura



Gunbuster posing up for a special edition Blu-Ray release photo
Gunbuster posing up for a special edition Blu-Ray release
by Marcus Speer




First Impressions: The Mystic Archives of Dantalian photo
First Impressions: The Mystic Archives of Dantalian
by Hiroko Yamamura


7:00 PM on 07.06.2011

Miyazaki, Anno show support for earthquake-damaged town

It's always good to hear about the anime industry helping out Japan in the wake of the devastating earthquake earlier this year. It's even more impressive when it's a bunch of major players like Hayao Miyazaki, the main creat...

Bob Muir

8:00 PM on 05.05.2011

Panty and Stocking OST Pt. 2 hits this summer

Remember that bitching soundtrack to that one show about that slut? Well, I certainly do and even toss it up on the ol' iPod now and then. For other fans of the OST who can't get enough of listening to such sophisticated trac...

Marcus Speer



Japanator Recommends: Evangelion 2.22  photo
Japanator Recommends: Evangelion 2.22
by Crystal White