Challenging Amazon
For years Walmart, Best Buy, and the other big box stores have been chasing Amazon. The online giant had no retail stores, so they...
Seven Seas Sails Toward Some Revisions
Translation is an art. It's especially difficult when translating between two dissimilar languages. For native English speakers, Japanese tends to be one of the...
Accounts Getting Hacked is Not FUNi
Do you remember last July? Ah, July. Seems so long ago. Convention season was in boom, anime like ReLife and Orange had just started...
Dark Horse Embraces Its New Home
Neon colors. Big hair. New wave music. Arcades. Indiana Jones. Full House. Transformers. Care Bears. Blockbuster stores. The 1980s introduced a lot of trends...
A Look at the Funimation and Hulu Partnership
Am I the only one who thinks the saga about anime streaming sites should be turned into a comic or show?
You know, something like...
The Ups and Downs of Square Enix’s Manga UP!
Here's something I haven't had to do in a while: try out a new manga service!
Well, technically, Manga UP! isn't new. Gaming and media...
More Companies Get in on the Manga Biz
While the major English manga publishers all have variety in their releases, they also tend to have niches. VIZ Media has some of Japan's...
Pirate Hunting
Can you tell the difference between these two products?
Well, one is an official product, the other is a knock-off. It's easy to tell because...
Crunchyroll Springs a Surprise on Fans This Spring
Whenever a company gets new management, everyone has the same questions: what's going to change? What's going to stay the same? On one hand,...
Movies and Shipping and Books, Oh My!
With the holiday break and the changing of the calendar, let's cover a few news tidbits.
The Video Rental Market Gets Even Smaller
The changing marketplace...