Right Stuf, Inc. is pleased to welcome Toshifumi Yoshida – Bandai Entertainment (and GURREN LAGANN) producer – to episode 67 of ANIME TODAY.

A veteran whose producing credits include Inuyasha, Ranma 1/2 and Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade,  Yoshida discusses his start in the industry, talks about the appeal of Gurren Lagann, and shares details about Gurren Lagann’s upcoming sub-only and bilingual releases. Additionally, he talks about the differences between producing longer series versus shorter series and his upcoming projects

Also in Episode 67:

• Chad tells listeners “What’s Hot” in the world of anime and manga.
• Shawne shares how listeners can “start summer with a bang” by saving on DVDs and books from Viz Media.
• Rich and Nick announce the winners of the Dark Wraith of Shannara graphic novel and Death Note Movie contests, and they kick off a new contest celebrating the box set release of FUNimation’s Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid.
• Marie checks out the recent anime movie Vexille.
• Rich and Nick provide a rundown of upcoming conventions, courtesy of AnimeCons.com.
• Listen to musical clips from the JapanFiles.com CD Funtique by Silk Road.
• And finally, ANIME TODAY highlights some of the newest fan reviews from RightStuf.com visitors.

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I am having a hard time even making past the first few minutes with the craptastic music.*shudders*

So skip ahead - the Bandai interview was interesting, we got details on the releases we didn't have before.

There was no way I was missing out on the Gurren Lagann interview.:) I just had to whine about the music once, because wow lol.

The Yoshida interview was pretty good, although I was a liitle bit disappointed that it was never revealed as to what was the situation as to how Bandai took Gurren Lagann away from ADV. Still, though, it was a very informative interview, and I think Yoshida will do a great job at Bandai.

I'm probably going to rent Vexille after listening to Marie's review of the movie. It sounds like an interesting movie to check out, but I didn't see the Appleseed movie and I didn't like the Resident Evil movies, so it may not be a movie I would enjoy as much as others would (especially action junkies). Still I think it's worth a look IMO.

The melodies aren't too bad, but as for the rapping, yeah I have to agree that it wasn't pleasant to listen to. Rap and the Japanese language is like oil and water - it just doesn't mix .

Sorry if any of you had trouble listening to this week's cd. I chose it because it was the only genre on JapanFiles.com that I hadn't featured yet. I know Hip Hop/Rap isn't that common on the Japanese music scene but I thought this cd was toe-tapper

If anyone has any JapanFiles.com cd suggestions for future episodes, I'll see what I can do!

i don't know about japanfiles.com, but i'd be more than willing to share any of the japanese music and anime ost tracks from the cds i own. all of them are legit import or domestic cds that i paid for.

there's a reason my email address is "debtqueen" :P

It was an interesting interview. I'm not really all that interesting in Gurren Lagann myself, but it was nice to see a little bit of what was going on behind the scenes.

Please don't play music from more than one CD per episode if you can help it. Unless the hosts act more like DJs. In AT E64, the was a song with haunting vocals and music that intriqued me and I would have like to heard more from those artists but with two CDs and no DJ, I had no idea which CD was being played. I'm not a huge music fan but I would have been willing to look into buying the CD if I only knew which CD to look at. Unfortunately, too busy to do much searching on my own and need all the help that I can get.