The Daily Dose June 11

Filed under Anime News, CODE GEASS, Daily Dose, Macross by Omni | 49 comments

  • Weekly Shounen Sunday has confirmed that, after nearly 12 years, the InuYasha manga will be ending in next week’s issue.
  • I’ve seen a lot of discussion recently about CODE GEASS R2’s relatively poor television ratings. Apparently it’s on the upswing, as episode nine got a 3.3%, the highest of any R2 episode so far. The previous high was a 3.0% for the premiere episode, and the low was 1.4% for episode four. In comparison, Gundam 00’s episode nine got 4.5% last year, but the caveat is that Gundam 00 had an arguably superior time slot. The Japanese blog AAA~Yuukyuu no Kaze~ has the full numbers for last week along with a handy chart comparing the ratings of every major Saturday/6PM series so far with R2.
  • The Macross Frontier soundtrack is not only good, but it’s also been selling quite well, having moved over 72,000 copies and staying in the #2 or #3 spot for the past week. As the Mainichi article notes, no anime soundtrack has done this well since the End of Evangelion one almost 11 years ago.
  • The website for the upcoming Hakushaku to Yousei series has updated with staff and cast listings. Notables include Mizuki Nana and Sugita Tomokazu.
  • The website for the upcoming Strike Witches series has updated its staff and airdates listings. (Note: this is the new television series starting in July, not the OVA from last year)
  • The Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu website has been redesigned.
  • TV Tokyo has posted its preliminary website for the upcoming World Destruction series. The show is set to premiere on TV Tokyo on the night of July 7th.
  • If you find anything that you think I should mention on any particular day’s Daily Dose, please send me an email with the words “ANIME NEWS” somewhere in the subject line.

    • Image at left courtesy of ゆうや on pixiv (account needed to access).

     

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    1. RmX at 5:46 am on June 11th, 2008

      I spy Seitenkan.

    2. justme at 5:53 am on June 11th, 2008

      Kyonko! :D

    3. Kresnik at 5:55 am on June 11th, 2008

      It seems those new shows is quite promising. Any release date yet..?

    4. Shin at 5:58 am on June 11th, 2008

      I almost had a heart attack when I thought one of the articles was a confirmation on the Seitenkan….

    5. Omni at 5:58 am on June 11th, 2008

      Kresnik: Pretty much all the summer shows have airdates now. Refer to MOON PHASE’s list, or wait a couple of weeks for my Summer 2008 Preview.

    6. Furuba at 6:17 am on June 11th, 2008

      wow inuysha’s finally finshing o_o wonder how it’ll end :O
      oooo Hakushaku to Yousei looks good, and world destruction does too =O!! -adds to list to watch when then come out-

    7. GP at 6:36 am on June 11th, 2008

      About those poor Code Geass ratings, time slot or w/e aside (that’s often just an excuse imo). Maybe viewers finally figured out that it’s not going to be what they thought originally. I mean what, with people from jupiter coming to earth to steal our pizza and all.

    8. outcast at 6:39 am on June 11th, 2008

      So what is your opinion on the ending of inuyasha?

      I’m not familiar on this title and i don’t know the value of this news bit.
      Is it the end of something special?

    9. KokWeng at 7:03 am on June 11th, 2008

      thx for the news

    10. shinigami99 at 7:20 am on June 11th, 2008

      @outcast
      Well as you probably seen from omni’s post, the Inuyasha manga has been running for 12 years now. The ending is special cause (at least for me) its like a piece of my anime life ending. Inuyasha was my beacon and my igniter into the world of anime-viewing. Im not sure if it applies to everyone but, Im sure that those who DO follow the Inuyasha manga, will have sum sort of sad emotion to see it go(after we followed it for sooooooo long). It had its ups and downs. There were some arcs that nearly turned me off completely but i persevered. Now that its ending, as much as its for the better(as well as the fact that chapter 557 shaped it up pretty good), I think everyone will be sad to see it go.

    11. Westlo at 7:55 am on June 11th, 2008

      I’m happy to see Inuyasha ending so I can see something new from her.

    12. Myssa Rei at 8:00 am on June 11th, 2008

      As for Inuyasha, I have to say, it’s about time. Sheesh I was, what, in high school when it started. Talk about drawn-out. I have to wonder HOW the story will end though…

      And I have to wonder if Omni has any idea how much his pic selection for this article surprised people.

    13. mundox at 8:51 am on June 11th, 2008

      I’m loving this daily dose news thingy, keep ‘em coming.

    14. Hakurei at 9:04 am on June 11th, 2008

      The World [ ends with inuyasha ]. Bout time, sometime to read from Rumiko Takahashi other than Ranma 1/2.

    15. meh at 9:07 am on June 11th, 2008

      wish i could speak and read japanese then i could register for that pixiv site to to view the pics

    16. Yukiruchan at 9:10 am on June 11th, 2008

      OMG!! Finally! Inuyasha is ending!
      I was waiting for it to end before reading the rest, which was so long I forgot all about it.

    17. kagebutsu at 10:03 am on June 11th, 2008

      While it’s sad to see inuyasha end I can only hope that they continue the anime series, although I doubt that will happen.

    18. Burn at 10:50 am on June 11th, 2008

      oh ye! talking about the macross soundtrack, its fucking good. It’s almost unbelieaveble that i didn’t want watch macross when i see the preview and in my opinion, macross is doing better than CGR2.
      And congrats to owner of this blog! Always bringing fresh news for us. Thanks!

    19. BROOKLYN otaku at 11:12 am on June 11th, 2008

      JESUS H. CHRIZZZEIST!!!!!!! I THOUGHT THEY FINISED INUYASHA YEARS AGO!!! how can that have gone on for so long with just “one type of slash attack??” …man….i never forgave that lady for RAMNA 1/2..ohh well

    20. mutio at 11:54 am on June 11th, 2008

      Yeah, finaly InuYasha will end. Hope Rumiko won’t screw up the ending like in Ranma 1/2..

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