Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan on VIZAnime.com and Hulu

VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), is showing Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan on VIZAnime.com just hours after the episodes are shown in Japan.
This will happen every Monday.

The videos are hosted on Hulu, as you can see on the player at VIZAnime.com.
After getting to the page, I waited...and waited...and got nothing on the player but a black screen.

So I went to Hulu and did a search on Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, found the page there and it loaded right up.

Maybe VIZAnime.com was just having a glitch that day.

By the way, it says on the Hulu site...
" Each Monday Hulu will add -- direct from Japan -- subtitled episodes of Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, one episode per week immediately following their original Japanese airdates."

So if you go to VIZ and can't see the anime, just go to Hulu.



Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan on VIZAnime.com and Hulu, posted to http://anime-times.blogspot.com/ on July 7th, 2010

Bleach, Naruto Shippuden and Monster Hunter News

Dragon Ball Z Kai and Naruto Shippuden
Over at NY Breaking News, Neo discusses Dragon Ball Z Kai airing on CW4kids this fall and the latest Naruto Shippuden English Dub Episodes on iTunes.
You can see Neo's vlog here

Monster Hunter
Okay, Monster Hunter is a game that spawned a manga (Monster Hunter Orage), not the other way around, but since the game is very popular with anime and manga fans, I thought I'd include this.
Capcom has announced that this summer, it will release its new Monster Hunter spinoff game with a Flash-animated tie-in project on Japanese television.
On August 26th, MonHun Nikki Pokapoka Airū-mura will ship for the Sony PSP console in Japan.
Full story here

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Part 1, comes out on DVD and Blu-ray this week, and you can read a review of it here

Also coming out this week are Bleach, Vol. 28 and Kenichi: Season One.

On a side note, I have seen where you can watch Bleach Episode 272, Ichigo Vs Ulquiorra Conclusion, many places on the web, but so far, I haven’t found a single one that actually works.
If you find one that actually is a link to the episode, you can post it in the comments.
But I'll check the link before I approve it, so no funny business...LOL



Bleach, Naruto Shippuden and Monster Hunter News, posted to http://anime-times.blogspot.com/ on May 25th, 2010.

InuYasha

InuYasha, full title InuYasha, a Feudal Fairy Tale, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. The story centers on a time-traveling middle school student, a half-demon, a lecherous monk, a fox demon, a demon slayer, and a nekomata during the Sengoku period who seek to find all the fragments of the Jewel of Four Souls (Shikon no Tama) and to keep them out of the hands of evildoers, especially Naraku.

The manga was adapted into a 167 episode anime series produced by Sunrise. Masashi Ikeda directed the first forty-four episodes, while Yasunao Aoki directed the remainder of the series. InuYasha premiered on Yomiuri TV in Japan on 16 October 2000 and ran until 13 September 2004. The television run of the anime ceased without a conclusion to the story. As of April 2008, the manga is still being released in Japan, but has recently begun its final story arc.

In 2002, the manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen title of the year.



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Video Girl Ai

Video Girl Ai is a manga series created by Masakazu Katsura and published by Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump. It also has an anime adaptation. The manga is published in English by Viz Communications and in Spanish by Grupo Editorial Vid. It was formerly published in the anthology Animerica Extra by Viz.

It was started in 1990 and continued until 1993, and fifteen manga volumes were produced. The first 13 volumes tell a story about a video girl named Ai Amano. The last two volumes, which came years later, focus on a video girl named Len, hence the new name for these two volumes – Video Girl Len. In fact, a pun is present here which is lost in translation; the two video girls' names, "Ren" and "Ai", combine to form ren'ai – a Japanese word used to describe the type of romantic comedy that Video Girl Ai is. Although they have different protagonists, the "Ai" and "Len" sub-stories are not entirely unrelated; they take place in the same setting, with a similar premise. Two characters from the first 13 volumes also appear in volumes 14 & 15. Volume 15 concludes with a bonus chapter about Video Girl Haruno. Her story is totally separate from the stories of Ai and Len.

A live-action movie of Video Girl Ai was released in 1991.

The Video Girl Ai anime is a six part OVA series which was produced by I.G. Tatsunoko. The series was released in 1992 by Jump Video. It roughly covers most of the material found in volumes 1 and 3 of the manga (and some of Volume 2). The character designs for the anime remained faithful to the manga style.

It is commonly speculated that the author, Masakazu Katsura, used this series as what could be described as a pilot; although he wanted to write a straight romantic comedy, he included sci-fi and action elements, so that the series would guarantee to be a success with both his publishers and (teenage male) audience.

Video Girl Ai was followed in 1993 with another sci-fi/romantic comedy manga DNA² and by the straight romantic comedy I"s in 1997.

Sexy Magical Girl Ai Vol. 1 - Magical Girl Cometh DVD




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