Well, I certainly hope everyone had a tiptop weekend or whatever. I've noticed a few issues with the site (and fixed some). Most of them stem from the move to Windows as a server. Most of it, I've had to fix without any real help from any official source. Nice to see WordPress is so cross platform minded. Anyway, I am using a mod_rewrite ripoff for IIS that does URL redirects in a strictly superficial sort of way, so often next page links are sending to less sexy URLs. Nothing I can do about it though. Not at this point anyway. If WP would just keep page links in the same format, this wouldn't be an issue. Damn you, WordPress! Anyway, I have to take my car to the shop and do a bux-fix install for a client, so let's do this thang!

Anime/Manga

• Central Park Media laid off most of it's staff in preparation for bankruptcy. Best of luck to the newly unemployed… unless you worked on dubs. In which case, get a real job, you hippie.
• FUNimation will be putting out Beck in the US, or so they said at Anime Boston.
• They also sent out a press release announcing their acquisition of FMP: The Second Raid. The first volume will be out October 3rd.
• Donbo Koge announced the premiere of a new Di Gi Charat anime at Anime Expo. Weird.
• Speaking of Koge, Broccoli just licensed Yoki Kota Kiku and the Disgaea manga. Borders will get an exclusive on the former until October. Look for the first volumes in July.
• ADV has licensed the Jinki:Extend TV series.
• Apparently, the kids are all wet in the trousers for Naruto. More likely, however, is that a bunch of malodorous post-teens are lapping it up in all it's poorly dubbed glory. It' still sort of saddens me that our 18-20 year olds are on the same sort of emotional level as Japan's 6-11 year olds. Sad, sad, sad. I feel bad for Aka-san, though. He's good people.
• This is sort of a game thing too, but anyway… Rurouni Kenshin PS2 game site is opened.
• Otome wa Obokusama ni Koishiteru got it's Star Child site opened up. That's always good.
• The much talked up Busou Renkin got a site opened up this weekend. My nose has been running all morning. Fuck.
• Yumeta Company is going to be producing a TV anime for Kiniro no Corda. That's some hot sex for it. How can one man produce so much mucus?!
• The Japan Times tries to call a spade a spade, but ends up wasting the opportunity. John didn't when it came upon him.
• Let's see… *sigh* and *sigh sigh sigh.* Please stop it, FUNimation.
• Media Blasters is helping to make a new Kite OAV. It'll be 45 minutes long, and probably suck.
• Mobile Suit Gundam Seed C.E.73: Stargazer is set to screen at Tokyo Anime Center's Akiba 3D Theater on July 7th, and a week later online. I think I just blasted more snot than is legally allowed in most countries. These allergies suck.
• ADV is making a ton of series available for download through ZVUE.com. Be sure to check out the sweet sex.

Figures

• I will do figures after lunch. I have some stuff to take care of. In the mean time, I'll post this up and link to a nice figure.
• A nice figure.

Ok, I lied about coming back to do figures. I shouldn't be too busy with work tomorrow, so I will try to do a figure rush. If anyone reading this just got fired from CPM and you'd like to talk about it, or anything like that, I'm offering an anonymous, safe forum to vent anything. I'm not sure how much notice anyone got over there, but still. I'm here for you guys. Unless you worked on dubs in a voicing, or script writing sense. I'm serious. I hate that shit. It's in poor taste. But anyone else. Translators, editors, mail room people. Drop me a line, tell me your story, and we'll set up some space for you to vent and let the world know what happened, you know… if anything. Oh, and if you know anyone who was laid off, let them know about this too. Just send me a note with the contact form and I'll get back to you pretty quick.