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Weekly Recap: Anime Matsuri Hotness Edition
by Red Baylon, 04/14/2009

This past weekend was amazing. That is all.

Highlights this past week: ANIME MATSURI!!!, Dragon Ball Evolution Review, Dannychoo.com gets some (Brad) Rice, Texas Rep can't read them ch*ng-ch*ng names, porn that watches you, Podtoid-chans are sooooo KAWAII!!!, and somebody NINJA'd some bull semen.

ANIME MATSURI '09 COVERAGE:
Anime Matsuri '09: Remembering the Yaoi
Otaku travel alert: be careful with your lube choices
Anime Matsuri '09: Top five sexy things I want to do at Anime Matsuri '09
Anime Matsuri '09: We miss Anime Insider
Anime Matsuri '09: FUNimation panel liveblog
Anime Matsuri '09: Dragonball Evolution liveblogged
Anime Matsuri '09: The Green Power Ranger is dead to me
Anime Matsuri '09: The top five things that I didn't get to do at Anime Matsuri '09
Anime Matsuri: The RPG
Anime Matsuri '09: Child's Play Charity Auction
Anime Matsuri '09: Desutoid's Guide to Heart Break Avoidance 

Announcements & Contests
Japanator contest: Win a copy of Jonathan Clement's Schoolgirl Milky Crisis!
What's going on at DannyChoo.com?

Features, & Reviews
Japanator Interview: Nobuo Uematsu and Arnie Roth talk of Distant Worlds and the future
Podtoid-chan: Hayate no Gotoku!!
Podtoid-chan: K-on!
Paco and the Magic Book reminds me of my own whacky and sentimental childhood
Podtoid-chan: Queen's Blade
Japanator review: Dragonball Evolution

Weekly Regulars
Releases for the week of 04/13/09
Releases for the week of 04/06/09
Tuesday Otaku Debate: Battle of the Meisters
Japanator Radio 83

Sugoi & WTF Stuff
Bomb shelters sales are up, says one retailer in Japan
I give up: Chuo train line getting anime adaptation, 'Miracle Train'
New mobile service allows you to record crushes and hope for a love match
Weirdest theft ever? Vials of bull semen stolen from research lab
Woman bombards One Piece mangaka Eiichiro Oda with hate mail
Reason #546,956 why we love Japan: Boutique-Sha's dog fashion book
Some crazy Texan thinks Asian names are hard
Porn? In MY NicoNicoDouga? Yep, even more than you're already used to
In Japan, porn watches you!
Clean up like a true otaku with these new Haruhi tissues
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl is going to be the greatest movie ever made

Otaku News
Chou Hidamari Z, I ch-ch-choose you!
Rumor time: Full Metal Panic to become a live-action film!
Doujin shmups headed our way via Rockin' Android
Crunchyroll serves up more piping hot new shows, Natsu no Arashi, Saki, Kirugumikku V3
Keep track of 2008's PVC releases with the Bishoujo Figure Yearbook
Death Note: L, change the WorLd screening event, April 29th and 30th
Akina Minami confirmed to star in next Ju-On film
FUNimation streaming Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
FUNimation announces Strike Witches, Sankaku Complex sources everyone but anyone responsible for the news
Tentacle rape giant sword manga Berserk returns from hiatus
Clannad's Fujibayashi Kyou receives a one episode arc
Free 4-panel manga for Fullmetal Alchemist online
Bakumatsu Medaka-Gumi manga by the Z Gundam writer
More news about Rumiko Takahashi's new manga: Kyoukai no Rinne
Light novel Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu to get an anime
Lovely Complex's Nakahara to release Berry Dynamite series
Xenogears Perfect Works 100% translated! 
Dragon Quest tops requests for Hollywood adaptation of games

Japan News
Resonance film documents WWII Buddhist bell travels
Japan fears crappy foreign-guided tours are making them look bad

Music
Last Two Tickets: meet Nobuo Uematsu and see Distant Worlds
Take a sneak peek at Yoko's Idol music video right now!
Utada Hikaru: 'The Japanese Britney Spears'? Really?






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