Recent content by Takao

I didn't realize that GAIM is a rebranded Luken Communications with different management. I guess this is PBJ Vol. 2 with Hasbro's library instead of DreamWorks Classics. That network lasted <5 years.

I can't imagine anyone in the U.S. is nostalgic for Dork Hunters.

At some point they started airing Animal Fanpedia, Di-Gata Defenders, Jade Armor and Prime Radicals. Angelo Rules is also back on the schedule. Starting in May: Living with Dad MaXi Time Jam: Valerian and Laureline

That's my assumption, too. The second E is Clue.

Hamtaro is a Shogakukan property outright (to the point the brand's official Japanese website is hosted under their domain) with no else besides TV Tokyo and the author in the show's copyright line, so I kind of assume Viz likely has it by default as their subsidiary. Maybe worth noting that...

I think whomever is sitting on the rights (Viz) is sabotaging any current year success by doing absolutely nothing with it. We've lived through a decade of cute mascot characters being pretty commonplace in the Anglosphere and somehow, a cute hamster with some nostalgia value has been entirely MIA.

Yeah, the FAST version very quietly debuted on Prime a few months ago and earlier this month on Plex. Hasbro actually announced it back in the fall.

An overly repetitive FAST channel is nothing new, but I don't know if Hasbro has the library to make a proper linear channel work - especially if it's limited to things that are at least a decade old. Maybe it'll convince someone at that company to get the rights to the bits and pieces of their...

If you look at Discotek's Blu-Ray release of the show, the back cover features Capcom and Shochiku. WildBrain simply acted as a digital distributor (primarily on YouTube) during Fully Charged's promo cycle. I think Capcom owns the '90s U.S. shows based on their games outright now. Street...

Will it be more popular than Nickelodeon's Italian Brainrot series?

If Toei had any interest in redubbing the original series, they would not have gone through the effort of remastering its existing dub for a release on Hulu.

No idea if you still care, but as Linus and Primo's website stated, Droners Season 2 premiered on January 19th. TV Insider's guide doesn't list episode titles, so I had no idea.

Because if there's anything anime fans need more of, it's subscription services ... Paramount+ isn't alone in not having any first-run anime. That is true of Apple TV and Peacock, too. The latter is actually somewhat surprising given NBC Universal is a relatively large investor in Japan.

Azuki's Anime.com will be hosting an Unlimited Blade Works livestreaming marathon on January 16th: They previously streamed the first two seasons of MHA on December 23rd. Curiously, that promo makes no mention of Crunchyroll, suggesting they got the show directly from Toho.

One last Saturday night addition: Joy Eternal This and Pipo don't appear to have been released in English before.