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From November 2004.
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11/18/04 .... okay, I did a huge news update, what the hell happened to it??? DAMN YOU ANGELFIRE!! Bah.

Animeworks, the people behind Berserk and Samurai Deeper Kyo will release a shirt for each series in December, hopefully the first of many, you can check them out at just about any online anime store at the moment.

Software developer ESP has announced the development of a Playstation 2 game based on Koyama Yuu's samurai action manga Azumi. The Azumi PS2 game

FUNimation has revealed that the 1996 theatrical Lupin the 3rd: Dead or Alive movie will be released on DVD February 22nd.

At the recent Anime USA convention, AD Vision officially confirmed plans to release former VHS titles Debutante Detective Corps, Maps, and Princess Minerva on DVD. However, AD Vision does not plan to re-release all of its VHS catalog titles on DVD.

AD Vision is considering releasing the 12 minute long Kino's Journey episode 0 in America.

AD Vision confirmed that the version of Super Milk-chan broadcast on the Cartoon Network will be the "accurate" English dub, not the "Americanized" re-write.

As an extension of the success of its manga line, AD Vision is considering licensing and translating Japanese genre related novels.

According to the official Japanese Samurai Champloo website, the "second season" (episodes 18-26) will air on the BS Fuji satellite TV network Saturdays from 10:30 to 11 AM beginning January 22, 2005. Each episode will get a repeat broadcast on Friday nights from 1:30 to 2:00 AM beginning January 28th.

FUNimation has scheduled the debut DVD release of "Kodocha" (Kodomo no Omocha) anime TV series for June 26th, 2005.

Dreamworks has officially announced that the Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence DVD will be released domestically on December 28th. The DVD will feature Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1 audio with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features will include an insightful commentary by movie director Mamoru Oshii and animation director Toshihiko Nishikubo detailing their collaboration on this visually compelling film, plus a behind-the-scenes program featuring interviews with the filmmakers and voice talent.

Geneon spokesman Chad Kime has explained to industry newswatch corporation ICv2 that Toei Animation of Japan is moving into American anime distribution itself. Toei Studios of Japan will apparently translate and localize anime titles for American release, and Geneon will sell and ship the Toei produced DVDs to American stores. Toei will be exporting anime titles to America that it hasn't already licensed to other American distributors, and American distributors including FUNimation expect to continue licensing North American distribution rights to Toei productions in the future.



11/14/04 Okay, so I did lie, I didn't mean to though. Over the next week I'll be updating all the missing news over the past while that I've been neglecting my poor site. Still think I'm lying? I updated with FOUR new Pen Thoughts to the Pen Penny section. I also moved the four old ones there to Previous Pennys. Still think I'm lying after the biggest Pen Penny update in the history of this site? eh? eh?

I will SO update tonight, what? I'm really not lying.

11/6/04 Just when I thought I had tamed the beast my windows goes kaputt, it seems one of the files that is so important died, I have the windows installing disc somewhere, just have to find it. Hopefully I'll fix it all and can update again.

11/5/04 I've been trying to update for a while but my computer is acting mean. For some reason my cable modem is now acting like dial-up but it's at least working, so I hope to update within the next day or two, don't know if I'll update with the entire about month's worth of things I missed or not, probably not, because that would be a lot of digging, but I should have at least one if not two Pen Thoughts up when I return, and they're not the standard version, so yea. Hopefully I'll be back for good this time.

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