Bandai Entertainment Leads with Most Nominations Followed by Viz Media,
Geneon Entertainment, Bandai Visual and FUNimation Entertainment

Anaheim, California (March 27, 2008) ‹ The Society for the Promotion of
Japanese Animation (SPJA), the overseeing body of the nation¹s largest
anime/manga convention (Anime Expo®), announced the SPJA Industry Award
finalists for 2008 at the SPJA Symposium held at Tokyo International Anime
Fair held within Tokyo Big Sight¹s Special Theatre 2(Thursday; March 27,
2008; 16:30-18:00-Tokyo time). More information can be found on the website
www.spja.org.
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Has someone in Japan finally woke up, or is this just more talk with no action? Masakazu Kubo, the executive producer of the Tokyo Anime Center, has submitted a proposal to the Japanese government’s Media Content Business and Japanese Brands Task Force mentioning how fansubbers should be dealt with.

Story From ANN

About 10 fans (whose translation abilities are high compared to professionals!) (*3) are said to put animated videos with foreign-language subtitles on YouTube, BitTorrent, and other file-sharing sites. If our country is to formally deal with YouTube and other services, it will be necessary to have some sort of approach to dealing with these individuals. Personally, I hope to resolve this by officially making use of their abilities.

This idea has been thrown around for awhile now and it seemed like a far off fantasy for Japanese and American companies to step in and actually work with fansubbers and use their skills. I don’t know how many fansubbers would be willing to work with the companies though, as most fansubbers are stuck up idiots who would see working with the companies as “selling out”. Do you think this is the answer to the fansub dilemma or is this just more talk from Japan that won’t go anywhere?

Because you are going to be without new episodes for awhile, I will try to update with blog posts when possible. I just came across this story about ADV removing titles from their website. These are some pretty big titles like Gurren Lagann, Kanon, Sergeant Frog, and many more. ADV has not said anything about this yet and the titles are still missing from the site. I would  love to say that ADV is facing it’s last days but from this story I’m not so sure. I want to see ADV go under to be honest. They are my least favorite american company and I can’t stand them and Mr. Greenfield. ADV has made so many contradicting statements I stopped trusting them a long time ago and look upon them as an enemy if anything. Do you think ADV is going to go under or is it just ADV cutting back on costs?

Also please join the fan site or Haruhi will cry.

Yesterday a horrible thing happened that almost burnt down my house as well as the AG Studio.

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R5 Central has killed Newtype! Shocking news indeed! I would be afraid, very afraid! What if R5 Central decides to kill the anime industry next!