April Fools Day & Actual Real News

Photo From Japanator

Some of the anime world decided to grace us with their attempts at gag's this year for April Fools day. Tokyopop announced this afternoon Lady Gaga is doing a live action Sailor Moon. Japanator replaced all their news stories today with hand drawn images. Youmacon's site boasted a change in direction to You-Ma-Con a convention dedicated to moms, complete with My Little Ponies & the promise of daycare.

Honoring tradition AnimeCons.com released no news today. Good marketing practice if you ask me. It relieves the angst of gag-press releases.

In something that I wish was a joke, FUNimation now has it's own channel (on Demand) with Charter. It's $6.99 a month. But the real kicker is that it promises "Up to 50 hours of new programming each month." Hmmm....so in an average 30 day month, there is 720 hours. With FUNimation you get 50 hours of new stuff, and you get 670 hours of the same crud you have probably already seen. Thats if there is 24 hour programming and it turns out not to be just an "on demand" channel. So you do the math. I would think it wouldn't be that worth it. But then again I'm someone who doesn't usually watch dubbs of anime, because I'm usually watching it as it comes out in Japan.

I can only assume that a majority of their programming is going to be dubbs. And you know it's going to be chock full of all the "regular" stuff. Meaning you are going to have One Piece, FMA, Ouran, and the such.