New release date for Kanon 6

Mark your calendars!

The product listings for Kanon volume 6 on Right Stuf and Robert’s Corner Anime Store now feature a new release date: 14 October 2008. I expect other online retailers to update their own product listings soon.

Tip of the hat to Anime News Network for breaking the good news first.

And another well-deserved hat tip to Robert’s Anime Corner Blog for first alerting us to the possibility of an October release.

Anime and the Classics: Pachelbel’s “Canon in D major”

Today the spotlight falls on Johann Pachelbel‘s Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo, featured in the 2006 animated series Kanon.

Well, this sucks.

From Anime News Network: “ADV Films Reportedly Suspends 4 DVD Titles Indefinitely“.

Robert’s Anime Corner Blog has some up-to-the-minute information on this issue here.

Kanon 6 – the LAST volume in the series – is one of the four.

As one irate commenter pointed out on the message board: “Umm, ADV? You do not drop out of a series while releasing THE LAST DISC. Stop failing so much and give me my UGUU.”

Amen to that!

UPDATE (05 July 2008): It appears that ADV’s distribution rights to Kanon – along with dozens of other titles – have been transferred to Funimation. Details are a little sketchy, but Anime News Network has a full list of titles here (and the original press release is here). I don’t know if they’ll be able to ship out Volume 6 anytime soon, but at least there’s a good chance that we will get it at some point in the future. (Preferably tomorrow. But now’s fine, too.)

The postman cometh . . .

. . . bearing gifts!

It’ll probably be more of the same from Kanon Volumes 3 and 4 (in terms of content/features, that is), so expect the LE version of Lucky Star Volume 1 to be reviewed first.

Incidentally, now that I’ve upgraded my photographic armament to a Sony DSC T-300, I plan to start doing what other bloggers have always done: link the small images in my posts to bigger, sharper versions of the same. (Don’t bother clicking on the image above, though – this change will only be implemented in future posts, and certainly not in all cases. Storage and bandwith limits remain critical considerations.) (I decided to give it a shot, so click away.)

Cheerio.

UPDATE (01 June 2008): I’m still rather busy on weekdays, so I’ve only gotten around to opening the DVD cases. Turns out there’s a major defect (not quite fatal, but very unwelcome) in the Lucky Star disc. I’ve contacted the customer service department of YesAsia (where I bought all this stuff from) and I’m currently waiting for their reply. This of course means that my review will be significantly delayed. Sorry ’bout that.

Summer shopping list

Time to blow past yesterday’s emo moment and go through my latest batch of shelf stuffers.

Kanon – Volume 2 (review)

I’m still bogged down by work, but with the Holy Week holidays upon us I suddenly find myself with a surplus of time – and an opportunity to publish this long-overdue post.

Today the spotlight falls on Volume 2 of ADV’s Kanon Region 1 DVD series.

Kanon – Volume 1 (review)

Nothing warms up a winter wasteland better than a procession of sad girls in snow.

Today the spotlight falls on Volume 1 of ADV’s Kanon Region 1 DVD release.