And the Fandom Rejoiced/Anime

Anime and Manga fandoms are known for being particularly reactive to large announcements; here's a list of some major moments to enjoy.

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• Another Mahou Sensei Negima anime, huh? What, are they going with the Neo pl- THE MAGIC WORLD ARC?! ANIMATED ETERNAL NEGI FEVER!?
  • Kodansha takes over publishing Negima in America... hello, what's this? Rereleasing the early volumes in an omnibus edition? Retranslated?
• Lucky Star's getting dubbed? Oooookay... Wait, dubbed by the same people who brought us Haruhi Suzumiya? DARLING DARLING PLEASE!
• When Batman: Gotham Knight was announced, fans were unsure about whether or not a Batman anime was a good idea... until they learned that Kevin Conroy was gonna play Batman again.
• Wow, the Devil May Cry anime is licensed in America. Let's hope FUNimation knows what they're- hold up, Reuben Langdon as Dante?! This party's gettin' crazy!
• Sengoku Basara had an animation series, and then FUNimation picks it up for dubbing. We know the disaster of Devil Kings so I guess they will dub them as Devil Ki—HOLD UP, THEY ARE DUBBING IT AS THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF SENGOKU BASARA!?!? PUT YA GUNZ ON!!!
  • What? Reuben Langdon is not reprising his role as Date Masamune for the anime? Boo... Wait a sec, what's this?? Stephanie Sheh and Laura Bailey as Kasuga and Oichi!? Oh the bliss of Sheh orgasming! And Bailey is probably the most perfect person to lift up the American hate towards Ichi! This is still going to be great, even without Masamune sounding like Dante...
    • And not only that Johnny FUCKING Yong Bosch returns as Yukimura Sanada!
• Season two of Haruhi Suzumiya was such a let down... we didn't get any Vanishment episodes... "Endless Eight", you are officially forgotten. Wait, a movie... BASED ON VANISHMENT?!!!!.
  • Not to mention the movie appears to have art close to Season 1, as opposed to the low-quality "K-Onification" of Season 2.
  • The dub of season 2 will be released in a boxset. Thanks Cristina!
    • Wait, Bandai didn't just license Season 2, but also the movie?! AND Haruhi-chan and Nyoron Churuya-san?! And they're all being dubbed?!! (cue mass applauding)
  • As for the Kyon/Yuki shippers, there was much cheering, and Squees after the whole movie. Yuki has a major crush on Kyon, and the tugging of his jacket, and her Woobie-ness...
  • They're gonna release the 1st part of Novel 10 in the next Sneaker magazine? Pfft... * 2 months later* OMG! It's true! There's a 70-page preview! Ryoko is back!
    • Which has now gone out the window as the Baka-Tsuki project has been forced to stop
    • You can still find translations on the internet. I found one of the preview, and it was awesome!
    • According to the BT forums, the Cease and Desist letter only covered the first 9 novels. It's now up to the translators to see whether they want to risk angering the lawyers.
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass Manga. Akira Himekawa, what have you done to Astrid?! Linebeck?! Or, Link and Tetra, for that matter?! OK, this is, officially, the worst Manga adaption since Oracle of—Princess Zelda goes Badass spirit-form?! Screw the DS game, this should have been in Brawl!
  • Ironically, the very same plot-twist caused a Fandom Rejoice moment for the next installment of the games, Spirit Tracks. Apparently Nintendo was running out of ideas and took a look at the Manga... except that the Game Spirit Zelda is awesome for completly different reasons than the Manga Spirit Zelda
• Black Lagoon dubbed by Canadians? Oh crap, not another disastrous dub...WOAH! They had more F-bombs than the Japanese original!? In good English!? With actual, believable accents!? This is going to be fun!
• Johnny Yong Bosch as Lelouch? Boy, talk about bad casting...Wow, he actually pulled it off! With an even better Evil Laugh!
  • Bandai's dubbing Code Geass? Boooooriiiing! Wait, Crispin Freeman as Jeremiah!? Yuri Lowenthal as Suzaku!? Michael McConnohie as Emperor Charles!? Man, I'm gonna watch this!
• Another Fullmetal Alchemist anime? Sigh, you know what they did the last time...Hey, isn't that Ling Yao and Lan Fan?!
  • Wait a sec... Vic Mignogna and Travis Willingham are back?! The (almost) original cast? Cue fangasm! Oh, the Risembool Rangers and the Miniskirt Army are gonna be all over this!
  • They're replacing Roy Mustang's voice actor? Screw that! Wait... they've got Miki Shin'ichiro?!
  • Rumors that Adult Swim had 3 new anime? Eh, it's probably gonna be an attempt to troll us with more Tim & Er-- Wait, it's confirmed that one of them's the new Fullmetal Alchemist? YES!!!
    • Bah! They'll just shove it into 2 AM with no advertising—Wait, it's at 12 AM? And there are actual ads? Hey, AS cares about anime after all!
  • Olivier said "...passed down the Armstrong line for generations!"?! FOR THE FIRST TIME?!
  • Ugh, they're probably just going to be like, "shouldn't have worried, blahblahblah..." Wait, whoa. WHOA. Did Roy just seriously hug Riza?!
  • Another corny train leave . . . what the hell are they saying . . . Wait, did Ed just propose?!
  • Oh God, the anime isn't following the manga! Hey... wait... This is AWESOME.
  • A certain faction of the fandom experienced another one with the publication of the third art book and its Word of God pronouncement that the Roy/Riza ship is, in fact, canon. Specifically, the author said that the military's anti-fraternization law is the only thing keeping them from getting married.
  • sigh They'll dub FMA for German release, huh? Oh well, at least I can assume they wont butcher the script and anyways, I can always turn on the original with sub- HOLY SHIT they cast DAVID NATHAN as Roy?! THE GERMAN VOICE OF JONNY DEPP?!!!
• The English dub of Hellsing Ultimate got this when it was announced that pretty much all of the English cast for the TV series, including Crispin Freeman, would be returning. Rightly so, considering that, if anything, the dub of Ultimate is even better than the original series' dub.
  • And in November 2011, Funimation announced they will finally dub episodes 5-8 with the same cast and crew as before. Much rejoicing indeed.
    • Plus, "When You Start the War, Fight With Arrows, Spears and Swords!" was one of the most popular songs from Hellsing TV. When we heard it as the ending theme to Hellsing Ultimate episode 8, we were so happy.
• The new seasons of Slayers are being dubbed by FUNimation? Oh, great, they'll probably just end up getting ADV's cast from the movies and-WHAT? They're bringing back the voice actors from the first three TV series?! OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!
  • Aw, but they replaced David Moo. His great Xellos performance easily made up for that laughably awful Sanji voice of his... Wait. Michael Sinterniklaas is the one replacing him? This might be interesting.
• The Pretty Cure fandom has a bad habit of declaring the franchise Ruined FOREVER upon the announcement of every new season. Usually, it takes a few weeks of the season actually being on the air for things to settle down. When Heartcatch Pretty Cure was announced, everything began as normal. Then Nana Mizuki, best known for her roles as either adorable love interests, Dark Magical Girls or both, was cast as the lead. A good number of arms were laid down that day.
• When the Book Adaptation of Breath of Fire IV came out, reactions ranged from "HOLY CRAP THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING WITH THE FRANCHISE" to "They Changed It, Now It Sucks" to "Why the hell did Capcom wait seven friggin' YEARS to license this?" (Did we mention the entire franchise had been in Development Hell for approximately four years?) This was, of note, until they SAW some later scenes in the aforementioned manga—particularly the scene where Soniel is decapitated by Fou-lu which is a massive Take That to the bowdlerisation of the scene in the game and Cray PUNCHING YUNA SO HARD THAT HE SLAMS HIM INTO A WALL AND CRATERS IT. Insert And the Fandom Rejoiced Here.
• Subverted in the case of the Eden of the East dub. Apparently, Oasis' label did permit Funimation to get the rights of the anime's OP, "Falling Down"...but only for the first episode.
• Man, Initial D will probably never get a proper adaptation...wait, Funimation got it? AND they're giving it a proper dub with the Eurobeat?
• The fact that FUNimation is dubbing Keroro Gunsou could be considered one of these moments, though many fans were wary of the fact that it utilizes Woolseyism...then we realized that Christopher Sabat is voicing Giroro.
  • Well, to be fair, the Woolseyism was exactly what the Sgt Frog anime needed, in order to offset how watered and toned down the anime production was from the original manga. To say nothing of how the implimentation of it was almost sheer genuis in everything from episode titles to obscure references that even the nerdiest nerds of nerdom wouldn't have even expected.
  • Oh and of course, the "Test Episode". WHAT IS THIS?? NATSUMI RENAMED TO NATALIE?? THE FROGS NAMES CHANGED TO BE ONE LESS SYLLABLE? PLANET WUSSIAN?! MISTER FURBOTTOM?!? WHAT ARE THEY DOING, IT'S RUINED FOREVER!! Oh wait! They listened to the fans's feedback and the real series will have no transliterated name changes after all?? Hooray for FUNimation!!!!
• Funimation licensing One Piece after 4Kids lost the rights. Nothing more really needs to be said here.
  • For manga readers, the news that Viz would be releasing five volumes per month starting in 2010, bringing the English edition up to speed with the Japanese one.
• Brad Swaile as Light Yagami? ...Holy crap! He really pulled off that evil laugh there!
• Ah, FUNimation is dubbing Axis Powers Hetalia? Cool.... Wait, they're using accents? Fetish Fuel ahoy!
  • There was also a small bout of panic when it was announced that the Ending Theme was going to be changed. And then the preview for Hatafutte Parade was released...
  • Some against type casting (mainly Vic Mignogna as Greece) was offset by some really great choices for Belarus, Rome, Chibitalia, and Sealand. And then came some of the main characters, sending the squees to a fever pitch.
  • Hetalia season four? Zippedy-doo-dah! FUNimation licensed that, season three and the movie? HALLELUJAH!
    • And all on the same day? I'll go get the defibrillators...
  • So Himaruya's taking Christmas requests again this year? Sweet... HOLY CRAP IS THAT FRANCE!? LET THE 2010 BLOODBATH BEGIN!
  • In general, when a country is revealed the fandom rejoices (especially fans from said country). Fans will also rejoice if a country is added into the manga plot.
• The FUNimation dub for Dragon Ball Kai had Freeza recast and voiced by a male voice actor (Christopher Ayres) whose performance will supposedly be very faithful to the Japanese version. It's what the fandom's been waiting for ever since the Kai dub was announced.
  • The creation of the "dub with Japanese music" track for the Dragonball Z season sets. The issues with "remastering" and the cropped aspect ratio harmed this somewhat.
    • Later when the Dragon Ball GT season sets were announced... Correct aspect ratio, less problematic remastering, removal of the Theme Tune Rap and replacing it with an English version of Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku sung by Vic Mignogna. Also, the Dragon Ball season sets finally (after almost 15 years) making the first 13 episodes available uncut and bilingual in America.
    • And of course, the fact that Funimation are now releasing the Dragon Boxes for Z. The ultimate remastered version done for the Japanese home release. And at a much cheaper price than they were in Japan.
  • And now Dameon Clarke is set to reprise his role as Cell in Kai.
    • However, unfortunately, this news is not without it's disappointing tradeoff. Meredith McCoy's famously sexy Android 18 vocal depiction is now gone, as she has not come back from retirement for the role.
  • An example from the Hungarian fanbase, which went through some zigzagging: News hit of a Dragon Ball show finally airing on TV, 12 years after its infamous cancellation. Fans went nuts. Then it turned out it's only Dragon Ball GT. Fans lost faith. Then they revealed the dubbing studio managed to reunite a large bulk of the original cast, save for a few very minor characters. Fans cried happy tears.
• Black Butler is getting a second season, with Sebastian and Ciel gone for good? None of the cast returning? Oh WTF come on how-...Then came the day when episode one of Black Butler II premiered. Let's just say the advertising team trolled the entire fandom.
  • The Relationship Voice Actor teamup for the dub leads caused a major squeefest.
• Aniplex is distributing Durarara in America. Dammit, they're probably not even going to bother with a dub and... Huh? They are giving it a dub? Well, they'll probably outsource it to Singapore and give everyone crappy voices and... Wait a sec - Crispin Freeman is gonna be in it? As Shizuo!? THIS WILL BE THE GREATEST DUB EVER!
  • Let's not forget Johnny Yong Bosch as Izaya, Yuri Lowenthal as Shinra, Patrick Seitz as Simon, and Steve Blum as Dotachin Kadota!!
  • Durarara is going to be on Adult Swim in June!
• Goddamn FUNimation pandering to lolicons and perverts by licensing the second season of Strike Witches and Girls Bravo—Wait, they also licensed Eva 2.22 and Summer Wars? I-I'M FREAKING OUT A LITTLE!
• It is now confirmed that Berserk will soon be issued in a whole new anime, now with a short to prove it indeed. Fangasm ahoy!!
  • Bah, it for sure they will do the same thing they do with the orig- wait a minute, that's the Skull Knight? OH. MY. GOD!
• Hm... Revolutionary Girl Utena is getting rema-oh PLATNIUM (almost)! Oh, but we'll never see it in America, Central Park Me-Nozomi picked it up OH GOD AND THEY ARE ASKING ADVICE FROM FANDOM!
• They brought back Who's that Pokémon? for the Black and White dub!
  • And then later they brought it back to the Japanese version!
  • Cool! Another season of Pokémon, I wonder how it'll compare to D/P - they have a female sidesick who isn't Ms. Fanservice? They're cutting Brock from the main cast?! They're cutting down the filler?!
  • There was also some fan-squeeing when the Team Rocket trio slipped back into their original motto for one episode in D/P.
  • Team Rocket is getting a promotion. Likely going to goof it up somehow... wait a second. Are they actually being competent? Taking their job seriously? No silly little fantasies about the boss? They have not been sent blasting off again ever since this new series started?! Holy shit, this is the most incredible growth in badassness ever!
  • Holy crap, Ash just turned his hat backwards.
• Ugh, Yu-Gi-Oh Ze Xal? What a rip; it's too kiddy, the Exceeds are Game Breakers, and the Augmented Reality duels are a step backwards from the holograms we got...wait, Augmented Reality? As in what The Eye Of Judgment has? And the 3DS has it as an app?! Konami, you better not screw us over with this...
• The Sailor Moon manga is being re-released in Japan, Italy, and America?
• Loveless being re-released as a dub? YES!
• Dammit, Puella Magi Madoka Magica is being postponed indefinitely...how can can this be happen—Hang on, They're going to air the final 2 episodes after all? THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!! and it's Back-to-back, even!
  • A video game for the PSP by Namco Bandai? The Problem with Licensed Games rears up agai- Gen Urobuchi is supervising the scenario? Studio Shaft is still doing animation? Gekidan InuCurry is designing new witches? March can't come soon enough.
• Persona 4 is getting an anime!? And it's not going to be a spin-off!? SQUEE!
  • That's not all! The director is the same one made Angel Beats. Squeeing like a little girl!
  • More Squee for the fact that the original seiyuus of the core 4, Daisuke Namikawa (protagonist), Showtaro Morikubo (Yosuke), Yui Horie (Chie) and Ami Koshimizu (Yukiko) are returning. Now all we hope is that the rest of the crews return as well!
    • We've got confirmation on Tomokazu Seki and Kappei Yamaguchi! We're also getting Nanako, Dojima, and Adachi!
    • Now we have confirmation on Rise!
    • Aside of the confirmation of Naoto, it has now been confirmed that this anime is to be dubbed!
• All right, so FUNimation set up a beta version of their new site and- wait, they got Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt? Nice!
  • Meh, they'll probably just use Hulu to host their vid- wait, they're not using Hulu? You mean Canadians can actually watch their streams? Sweet.
• Rurouni Kenshin is to get a new anime series along with a live action movie. Are we finally going to get our Jinchuu Arc animated?!
• Digimon Frontier: Ayumi Miyazaki or AiM not in it? I'll pass.... Wait, Kouji Wada is doing all the songs? FIRE??? WITH THE WILL!!!!!????? YES!!!!
  • After Disney bought the company that dubs Digimon, the very first thing announced was that they'd go dub every movie that had been made up to that point (starting with Revenge of Diaboromon). And there was plenty of cheering.
    • But they never got a chance to dub Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!! or Digital Monster X-Evolution, though...
• A lot of people were really annoyed when they heard Sayaka Ohara playing Beatrice for the first time on a drama CD of the second arc of Umineko no Naku Koro ni. Her voice was too low and deep, there was no way that she could troll and cackle the way Beatrice is supposed to. Then they actually got to hear her in the anime. Let's put it this way - there's a reason that both of the quotes on her page are from Umineko.
  • Speaking of When They Cry, Higurashi Kira? Pfft... What a way to milk the franchise, Studio DEEN.... Wa--- Wait, what!?
  • Adding to Higurashi Kira, the latest preview for episode 3 features Mion x Keiichi. At least half the fandom (excluding Keiichi x Rena fans) squeed here.
• So they are going to do an anime of Fate/Zero, guess we are going to have to get use to Studio DEEN somehow messing this one... Wait, it's not Studio DEEN? It's ufotable doing the animation and they hired the Drama CD VA's, Nice. But what about the music... Yuki Kajiura (another person familiar with Kara no Kyoukai, having done the haunting sound track there. Also just finishing a stint with Puella Magi Madoka Magica). This is going to be good...
  • Laconic version: Fate/Zero is getting Kara no Kyoukai treatment. Guess what that means.
• Anime Expo 2011, big time. Licenses include Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Ao No Exorcist, Steins;Gate, Deadman Wonderland, the anime version of Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two., Kimi ni Todoke, and many more! Our wallets are going to hurt very soon.
• It was nice of Discotek to bring over First Contact, even though we likely won't be getting any more Lupin the 3rd entries for a long ti—What. They just got the first season, with the green jacket Lupin and the episodes done by Hayao Miyazaki? I don't care if it's not dubbed, this is awesome!
• Wait, Pokémon Special is finally going to be re-released in America?! YES! No more expensive imports from Singapore! Going beyond the first seven volumes?! The GSC arc is finally going to be released in America?! YES AGAIN!
  • Although now there are quite a number of fans who don't like how Viz is running things when it comes to Pokémon Special. Running the fourth gen arcs aside of the second gen to catch up with the Japanese release? A few possible spoilers aside, yay! The not-yet-collected-in-volume-form fifth gen arc is being released as well? Um, okay, even if the previous point also applies here and that a lot of details that get changed from the magazine to the volumes...What?! You have no plans to release the third gen arcs, whose loss will inevitably cause massive plot holes in the arcs you have already published? BOO VIZ, Ruined FOREVER.
• Fall 2011 Anime: FATE/ZERO ANIME BY UFOTABLE and KALAFINA?!?! PERSONA 4?!?! Old news, *Spit Take* THE THIRD SEASON OF Shakugan no Shana!?!? THE SECOND SEASON OF SHINRYAKU IKA MUSUME!?!?! A K-On! MOVIE!!! FALL IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!
  • Mirai Nikki. That is all.
• This is a bit old, but... Media Blasters LICENSED THE FIRST SEASON OF SAYONARA ZETSUBOU SENSEI!!! Finally!!! Now if only they would stop postponing its release...
• "Crap, Mobile Suit Gundam Age looks like it's gonna be a stupid kids' show. Wait... JAM Project are doing the OP? This is gonna be awesome!"
  • And you thought AGE-1 is just that, AGE-2 and AGE-3 MS have been revealed, and they're a homage to the Zeta and Double Zeta! EPIC!
  • It may not be crossbone but an animated Pirate gundam HELL YEAH
• Sentai Filmworks rescued both Rozen Maiden series and will release them in a collection. That's nice, though FUNimation already released them, so—Hold the phone! They got the Ouverture OVAs too? Worth it, even with no dub—What? They ACTUALLY GOT Bang Zoom to dub them, and there will be an individual release, too? You have my respect, guys!
  • The relationship between Sentai Filmworks and Bang Zoom continues with the licensing of the Fate Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works movie and the second season of K-On!, getting the old dub cast members back. Naturally, fans rejoiced.
• They're finally releasing the original Gundam series in an Anime Legends pack? Well, that's good news I suppose, since the originals are long out of print. Wait, we're finally getting the Japanese audio too?! Squeee!
• Well, Shakugan no Shana III is J.C.Staff's main anime this year, I guess we'll have to wait another year for To Aru Majutsu no Index III and To Aru Kagaku no Railgun II—Wait, A movie for Index is coming out this year!? YESSSSSSS!!!
• Gintama's announcement that they were going to release the Benizakura arc was a Big Yes for the fandom. And then, when they decided to bring back the TV series a year later, everyone went nuts.
  • On the US side of things, the fans were sad that Sentai Filmworks stopped releasing the TV series...until they eventually licensed The Movie (which covers the Benizakura arc, from the unlicensed portion of said adaptation), with an English dub made for it. To top it off, the ADR director isn't Steven Foster. Needless to say, much joy was had at that point.
• X Men being aired on G4 with an English dub...oh great, they're going to get Milo Ventimiglia Ventifaglia back as...wait...Steve Blum coming back as Wolverine in the X-Men anime!! W00T!!! Marvel, you have finally been redeemed in the Marvel anime project.
• From Viz Media in New York Comic Con: Tiger and Bunny is getting an English dub
• The fact that one character will be orange and another green in the up-coming Smile Pretty Cure made the fandom overjoyed.
• Lyrical Nanoha: Reinforce (Eins) fans cheered when it came out that their beloved White-Haired Pretty Girl would be getting more screentime.
• Mini-Skirt/Bodacious Space Pirates? I'm not sure about this...Oh, so Tatsuo Sato is the director? Sounds like it might be fun. (2 years later) What the-- Sentai's pre-emptively licensed this series? Sign me up!
• For the love of God, the Berserk anime is getting a remake?! Susumu Hirasawa is back?! OOOHHH YEAAAAH!!!
• Samurai Pizza Cats to be released DUBBED AND SUBBED. DISCOTEK, ALL MY MONEY!!!
• Cartoon Network brought back its Toonami block as an April Fools' Day joke on Adult Swim.
  • AND IS CONSIDERING BRINGING IT BACK!
  • TOONAMI'S BACK BITCHES.
• To Love-ru Darkness is having an anime release? The one manga that was declared too hot for tv is being released on tv? YES! I AM SO WATCHING IT!