Funimation Contest:
http://blog.funimation.com/2010/09/corpse-princess-giveaway/
5 people will be chosen to receive

•Corpse Princess – Part One – Aka DVD
•Corpse Princess – Part One – Aka Poster
•Corpse Princess – Part Two – Kuro Poster

For more info visit the contest link above.

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Funimation Contest : http://blog.funimation.com/2010/08/win-the-legendary-sweatpants-of-immortality/

1 Lucky Person will receive:
•1 The Legendary Sweatpants of Immortality – Owned and Autographed by Todd Haberkorn (Voice of Ling from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
•1 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Wallscroll – Autographed by Todd Haberkorn
•2 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Necklaces
•1 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Pin Set

For more info visit the contest link above.

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Kumoricon 9/5 - 9/7 Portland, OR
DragonCon 9/5 - 9 7 Atlanta, GA
Nan Desu Kan 9/10 - 9/12 Denver, CO
Anime Weekend Atlanta 9/17 - 9/19 Atlanta GA

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New Bleach episodes start on Adult Swim in the Saturday block technically Sunday at 1:00 A.M.. Also there is a bit of a change in the schedule. The new schedule is as follows.

10:00 A.M. EST King of the Hill
10:30 A.M. EST King of the Hill
11:00 A.M. EST Boondocks
11:30 A.M. EST Boondocks
12:00 A.M. EST Full Metal Alchemist : Brotherhood (Repeat)
12:30 A.M. EST Kekkaishi (New)
1:00 A.M. EST Bleach Episode 168 (New)
1:30 A.M. EST Inuyasha
2:00 A.M. EST Cowboy Bebop
2:30 A.M. EST Cowboy Bebop
3:00 A.M. EST Ghost in the Shell
3:30 A.M. EST Ghost in the Shell
Repeat 12:00 A.M. Block
4:00 A.M. EST Full Metal Alchemist : Brotherhood (Repeat)
4:30 A.M. EST Kekkaishi (New)
5:00 A.M. EST Bleach Episode 168 (New)
5:30 A.M. EST Inuyasha

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Our affiliate Game Stop has the following promos for you this month.

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Hope you caught todays launch of DBZ Kai on the CW 4kids. Don't miss the next episode which will air next Saturday. Same time. Same place.

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Last week we told you on August 14th we would get a preview of Toonzai on the CW 4Kids Saturday morning line-up, and that the preview show they air would be Dragon Ball Z Kai. We now have a time for you. Dragon Ball Z Kai will air next Saturday at 10:00 A.M. EST.

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On August 14th we will get a preview of Toonzai on the CW 4Kids Saturday morning line-up. The preview they are going to air will be Dragonball Z Kai. When the block officially starts in September more shows will be added. The official lineup for Toonzai hasn't been announced at this point but hopefully will be announced in August.

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4kids announce that they will launch a new site dedicated to uncut anime to go along with the launch of Toonzai. The site will be called Toonzaki and it is hoped to be online by the end of August 2010 with a few titles with more being added aggressively in the following months. According to Senior Vice President of Digital Media at 4Kids Entertainment Mark Kirk, the Toonzaki site will be like the Toonzai's site bigger brother. Toonzai will have it's own online component dedicated to video for the kids while Toonzaki will have the subbed and uncut versions of some of the same shows. The deals for licensing agreements for additional content of the new Toonzaki site are ongoing and they hope to offer a library of uncut and subbed anime there.

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The American licensing company 4Kids Entertainment confirmed with its clients before its 2010-2011 season upfront presentation that it will be rebranding its Saturday morning programming block on affiliates of The CW network. Currently, TheCW4Kids block runs from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 4Kids will tentatively rename the block as "Toonzai," as part of the larger effort that includes the addition of Dragon Ball Z Kai. 4Kids also indicated that it will retain Yu-Gi-Oh! and Sonic X in its lineup.

4Kids Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Alfred Kahn said in March that "4Kids needs to return to its roots as a licensing and merchandising company [that] specializes in bringing wonderful Japanese programming and merchandising to the rest of the world." Kahn added that the company will be producing very little animated series on its own because it is much more costly than bringing over a Japanese franchise, even with the costs of dubbing, and so the "overall risk reward ratio is much more favorable."

Kahn added he has worked closely with his partners in Japan over the past year and a half, and the company had signed an agreement for a "very important Japanese property." Kahn also said that his company updating TheCW4Kids block with a number of "substantial Japanese hits."

In related news there is a very interesting article I found online about the Toonami Toonzai likeness. Read it here. Was it inspired by Toonami? Perhaps. Check out the article to form your own opinion.

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4Kids Entertainment has reached an agreement with Funimation Entertainment to air the new refreshed and re edited Dragon Ball Z series. Dragon Ball Z Kai will air on the brand new Saturday Morning Block Toonzai coming in September 2010! Toonzai will replace the current CW 4Kids. 4Kids will return to licensing anime from Japan this year.

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In celebration of publishing a combined total of 100 million copies of SHONEN JUMP, the fine people over at the manga are planting over 7,000 trees in the Yamanashi mountains in Japan, and calling it "Naruto's Forest". We think it's very cool what they are doing so we thought we'd help spread the word and mention it here. That's not all, they are offering an opportunity to have trees planted in YOUR name! Enter a drawing and winners will receive a "certificate of planting" for their very own tree!

Check it out and enter the drawing here!

Source: The Hokage's Room

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There's rumors of a new Code Geass project known as Code Geass Gaiden: Boukoku no Akito (Akito of the Ruined Nation) being in the works. What we hear is it's set in atb 2017, seven years after the start of the original Code Geass series, likely 5-6 years after the end of Lelouch's story, and unfortunately the world peace that was supposed to ensue didn't. Europe is in the midst of a big war-- and a small squadron of folks from Area 11 are on a mission that has only a 5% likelihood of success.

Also circulating around the rumor mill is that CLAMP will be back for character designs, as will Akira Yasuda for the Knightmare Frames. Ichirou Okouchi and Gorou Taniguchi, who came up with the original Code Geass story, will be back for the new piece. There are also some newcomers to the franchise: One Shigeru Morita, who did scripts for Mobile Suit Gundam Seed and a variety of episodes of Blood+ and Toward the Terra, will be on screenplay duty for the new Geass. And Kazuki Akane, whose directed works like Vision of Escaflowne and Noein, will helm the new series.

Not much else is known or has anything been confirmed at this time. This is all just rumor at the moment.

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Kekkaishi is coming to the Saturday line up May 29 at 12:30 AM (encore at 4:30 AM)!

Kekkaishi ("Barrier Master") is an ongoing supernatural manga series by Yellow Tanabe. It is about Sumimura Yoshimori, a 14-year-old junior high school boy, who is a descendant of Kekkaishi, or an exterminator of monsters. He is vying for the heir to the family with Yumikura Tokine. Tokine is older than him, and she is his childhood friend as well as his rival Kekkaishi (Barrier Master). Both must defend their school from the spirits drawn to the sacred land it is built upon. Kekkaishi received the 2007 Shogakukan Manga Award for shônen manga.

Kekkaishi Fansite Link

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Our host was doing some upgrades to the server etc. Which caused us to have to reconfigure a few things. All is well now and the forums are back up. Sorry for delay and downtime.

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