Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Tokyo Revelations News  Not ground breaking news, but good to hear: Chibiyuuto has posted a translation of CLAMP's radio show which says that Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle: Tokyo Revelations will almost like the manga. Cool! Like this site? Subscribe to Loop's site feed or email newsletter to get our updates as soon as they're online. Puu! Labels: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Anime News posted by Brad  # 7:42 PM  (0) comments links to this post Loopy Rant, Rants and More Rants!  Having just seen Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and LOVING it I decided to search the web and find some other movie reviews of it and came across CriticsRant.com. Yeah, there was an alright review of the movie but the problem is, all the comments are full of.... well, RANTS! Just by the very nature of the site, most of the movie discussions have a very ranting (i.e. negative) vibe to them that wears thing after a while. The tv shows discussions are the same and it's something I'm kind of sick of really. We get enough ranting on the web as it is (especially in the fandom) and thankfully 100% of posters on TsubasaAnime.net rock but I've seen other sites (particularily Harry Potter ones) who have self destructed due to the members forgetting what it is they like about the fandom as well. As the Tsubasa anime continues to be dubbed I'm glad to see the fandom as a whole keeping a level head (maybe partially because of the good job they're doing). Let's not become like those Anti-Sailor Moon Dub Nazis! CriticsRant.com is a pretty good site... but I guess I'm just a kind of "glass half full" person. ;) Feel like a rant though? Check it out. The site even lets you win prizes by ranting! :D Like this site? Subscribe to Loop's site feed or email newsletter to get our updates as soon as they're online. Puu! Labels: web posted by Brad  # 7:22 PM  (0) comments links to this post Loopy Sunday, July 29, 2007 Updates here and there... everywhere!  I know I've been neglecting my little baby so I've done some cleaning up here and there by adding a new section for the upcoming Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle: Tokyo Revelations which has all the basic info you need to know about the OAV. I also added the some links to the Links page which has almost everything official covered now. I found it interesting that Funimation has created a separate site for the second season of the anime. Weird. Updated the DVD Shopping Guide with links and images for the third Tsubasa DVD which crept up out of nowhere. If you haven't ordered yours yet (I just grabbed mine yesterday) ORDER NOW! Volumes 13 and 14 of the manga have also been released recently. Expect my reviews soon. Also, a big hello and thanks to everyone who has subscribed to the site feed! Over 230 subscribers is amazing! Cheers guys! Have something you'd like to say? Why not leave a comment to this post? Like this site? Subscribe to Loop's site feed or email newsletter to get our updates as soon as they're online. Puu! Labels: dvds, manga, shopping, site, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Anime News posted by Brad  # 5:15 PM  (2) comments links to this post Loopy New US+Korea+Japan CLAMP Manga in 2009!  Exciting news for all CLAMP fans! Seems that Dark Horse will be producing a new CLAMP manga series that will be released simultaneously in Japan, the US and South Korea starting in 2009! Taken from the Dark Horse website: Last year Dark Horse celebrated its twentieth anniversary of publishing original graphic works by some of the world's greatest creators. Next year, Dark Horse celebrates their twentieth anniversary of publishing manga in English. This year, at San Diego Comic-Con Dark Horse is proud to announce that these two commitments held for so long have come together. Dark Horse will have the honor of publishing a new original manga created by Satsuki Igarashi, Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi and Ageha Ohkawa--the manga-ka all-female supergroup known to their millions of fans worldwide as CLAMP. These four brilliant writers and artists work together to produce award-winning, best-selling manga, including RG VEDA, X, Chobits, Tsubasa, and xxxHOLiC. CLAMP's original manga with Dark Horse will be launched simultaneously in the United States, Japan, and Korea. The story will come out in a small digest consisting of about eighty pages each, which will then be collected into trade paperbacks with bonus material. CLAMP and Dark Horse are coining the bilingual term Mangettes to describe this innovative new format for manga distribution. This digest format, or Mangette, signifies CLAMP's personal wish to reach their large international readership by now speaking to them directly as artists through Dark Horse, and on a basis of equality with their Japanese fans. CLAMP and Dark Horse chose the term Mangettes to describe this revolutionary format, whose Japanese pronunciation, mangetsu, means "the full moon." The two kanji in mangetsu also have the individual meanings of "fulfilled" and "monthly," reflecting what will be a monthly appearance of each CLAMP Mangette. According to CLAMP, "Mangettes are a completely brand new experience for us, too, and we're really happy to be working on this. And we're really looking forward to the day when we can bring you this new story from CLAMP, and the day when we can meet our fans face-to-face to hear what you think about Mangettes!" "Dark Horse has made original comics for over twenty years; our editors have seen the hard work of individual Japanese creators in every manga we've ever brought over. Now we're going to work just as hard to meet the trust CLAMP has placed in Dark Horse to publish their original work," explains Mike Richardson, president and founder of Dark Horse. "Thanks to CLAMP, Dark Horse is today a manga publisher in a complete sense. After two decades of experience in adapting licensed editions of manga released previously by Japanese publishers, we will now become the original publisher of CLAMP, creators at the top of the manga world." Soon to come, details on CLAMP's exciting new story. Also from Publisher's Weekly: Known for such bestselling manga series as Del Rey’s xxxHolic and Tsubasa and Tokyopop’s Chobits, CLAMP, Japan’s superstar all-female manga team, has signed a groundbreaking deal with Dark Horse Books to produce an original manga series beginning in 2009. The deal gives Dark Horse something it has lacked—a powerful shojo manga property in a U.S. market dominated by licensed shojo manga. In addition, for the first time, a major manga will be simultaneously published in three countries: the U.S., South Korea and Japan. Dark Horse founder and publisher Mike Richardson said that the deal took two years to come to fruition, and is the company’s entry into the shojo manga category. “We didn’t just want to jump into it,” he said, emphasizing Dark Horse’s tradition of working with famed Japanese storytellers like Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub). “If you look at manga in Japan and the huge pool of creative talent, CLAMP comes to mind. We wanted to be in business with them.” The publisher will also pioneer a new form of publication that it calls “mangettes,” 80-page novellas of the CLAMP story in a digest form that will be released on a monthly schedule. “We’re always experimenting with format,” said Richardson. “We wanted to come up with a pleasant reading format, something fun that can be released in a form that’s similar to the way [manga] is read in Japan. Like serialized comics, the mangettes will then be bundled and released in the familiar graphic novel/tankoubon format.” Richardson expects to bundle three mangettes per tankoubon (or volume). Michael Gombos, Dark Horse director of Asian licensing, said the simultaneous publication will benefit English-speaking manga fans, who learn about popular Japanese titles, thanks to the Web, and complain about having to wait for licensing and translation. Gombos said simultaneous publication will bring readers “closer to the Japanese experience [of reading manga], but in America.” Exciting, huh? Possibly Tsubasa and xxxHolic may be finished by 2009 so they may have plenty of time to put into this series (.Kobato could still be going though). I wonder what it will be about? Completely new series or a continuation of existing characters? The best thing about this is that English readers will not get spoiled by people who have been reading the Japanese version! Tsubasa has been ruined for me on several occasions due to such "fans" and it's annoyed the Hell out of me. Spoiler Warnings people! What do you think? Leave a comment below and help spread the word! A new CLAMP manga! Puh! Like this site? Subscribe to Loop's site feed or email newsletter to get our updates as soon as they're online. Puu! Labels: CLAMP, manga posted by Brad  # 11:42 AM  (0) comments links to this post Loopy Saturday, July 28, 2007 Buy Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations  YesAsia has just added Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle 21 which comes with the first Tokyo Revelations DVD due out in Novemeber here for preorder. As far as I know only a limited ammount of DVDs will be made so preordering is recommended. I know I'll be doing it. I'll update the store pages with this info soon. Also expect some DVD reviews shortly as well as more pages of info concerning the Season 1 episode guide as well as character and world guides. Like this site? Subscribe to Loop's site feed or email newsletter to get our updates as soon as they're online. Puu! Labels: site, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Anime News, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Manga News posted by Brad  # 7:50 AM  (0) comments links to this post Loopy Friday, July 27, 2007 New Tsubasa Item at Gaia Online!  Gaia Online has started a new Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle event here but unfortunately it's only viewable by people in the US or Canada so I can't report much about as I'm in Japan. The last two items were a cool white Mokona and Syaoran's cape! Can't wait to see what this one is! Like this site? Subscribe to Loop's site feed or email newsletter to get our updates as soon as they're online. Puu! Labels: web posted by Brad  # 8:14 AM  (2) comments links to this post Loopy Tuesday, July 10, 2007 Tsubasa Chronicle Tokyo Revelations News  The official Tsubasa Chronicle: Tokyo Revelations website has uploaded with an amazing new picture featuring the two Syaorans and Sakura (notice the blood!) and some very cool news that Yui Makino who voices Sakura will be singing the opening theme song (she also sang several songs for the anime and the closing theme song for the movie) and Maya Sakamoto will be singing the closing theme! This is great news as 1) we now know we'll be getting new music with the OAV and 2) There'll be a sense of continuity with the first two seasons of the anime! In other news, ChibiYuuto has found several cool pics from the upcoming CLAMP in Wonderland 2 well worth a look! Like this site? Subscribe to Loop's site feed or email newsletter to get our updates as soon as they're online. Puu! Labels: CLAMP in Wonderland, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Anime News, web posted by Brad  # 7:28 PM  (0) comments links to this post Loopy Saturday, July 07, 2007 Tsubasa Season 2 Confirmed and Sakamoto News  For those who didn't know, Funimation has confirmed that it will be releasing season 2 of Tsubasa next year following the release of the first season on DVD! Nice to have it confirmed! Fans of Maya Sakamoto (who sang Loop and Kaze Machi Jet and voice Tomoyo) should check out this report at ANN which has some Maya news as well as some cool stuff from Production I.G. P.S. Just saw Ghibli's Tales of Earthsea and it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen!!! Definitely rent first!!! Like this site? Subscribe to Loop's site feed or email newsletter to get our updates as soon as they're online. Puu! Labels: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle Anime News, voice actors posted by Brad  # 6:55 PM  (0) comments links to this post Loopy Wednesday, July 04, 2007 Tsubasa in Gaia Online!  This is what I get for not reading Gaia Online announcements! Since the 14th of last month Gaia Online has been having a special Tsubasa campaign where you can win an official Saoran's Cloak for your Gaia character! Pretty cool! Check it out HERE and good luck (the questions are pretty easy though!). Like this site? Subscribe to Loop's site feed or email newsletter to get our updates as soon as they're online. Puu! 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