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Bleach, Death Note, Naruto Added to U.S. iTunes Store

July 16th, 2008 by El Wiseguy | 2 comments

The American distributor Viz Media has announced that it added the Bleach, Death Note, and Naruto television anime series to Apple's iTunes online download store in the United States today. English dubbed versions of the first 41 episodes of Bleach, all 37 episodes of Death Note, and the first 25 uncut episodes of Naruto are now on the service. The three series are the first offerings in the new Viz Media studio section. Except for the later episodes of Bleach and the last four episodes of Death Note which just ran on America's Adult Swim television network, these episodes are also available on the Direct2Drive and TotalVid services. Funimation, Manga Entertainment, and Tezuka Productions have also added anime to the iTunes store in America.

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Anime on US Phones & Free Japanese Manga on iPhone, DS

July 14th, 2008 by El Wiseguy | 3 comments

Red Planet Media's JumpInMobile.TV video service began offering three anime series — MoonPhase, Gunslinger Girl, and Galaxy Railways — on its own version of the FUNimation Channel on America's Sprint and AT&T Wireless phone networks this week. It costs US$4.99 a month to watch any number of episodes from the MoonPhase or Gunslinger Girl package, and either package will include Galaxy Railways for free. Red Planet Media already began offering MoonPhase and Galaxy Railways on a pay-per-clip basis on the AT&T Wireless network on May 23. Funimation announced the new JumpInMobile.TV offerings at Anime Expo 2008. At the same event, Funimation also announced that Aquarion and Witchblade will be added to the iTunes Store in late July, and that the YouTube online video service will be streaming Blue Gender, Slayers, Peach Girl, Mushi-Shi, and Kiddy Grade.

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Japan's Foreign Ministry: Jojo's Issue is Regrettable

May 24th, 2008 by El Wiseguy | 7 comments

Kazuo Kodama, a Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, issued a statement on Friday that expressed regret for Muslims' feelings that were hurt by images deemed inappropriate in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime. The original manga's Part 3 ("Stardust Crusaders," pictured at right) has a scene in which the main villain, Dio, vowed to kill the main character Jōtarō Kujō while looking at illegible book pages. The staff of the anime version unknowingly inserted reproductions of pages from the Qur'an, the main religious text of Islam, in the corresponding scene of the sixth anime episode ("The Mist of Vengeance").

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