Just catching up on recent announcements, tantalizing hints, and one long, slow demise...

First, the long, slow demise (if they can't get it over with, at least we can). The Dot-Anime website of Bandai Visual USA (which is to be liquidated and wrapped into Bandai Entertainment beginning in early July 2008 and completely vanish by September) continues reporting the odd bit of new information, and has added another episode to its streaming site.

The first episode of Galaxy Angel Rune is now viewable on the Dot-Anime site, to join three others already streaming there. Interestingly, this episode is listed as "viewable until 09/03/08," which implies that the site will continue running even after Bandai Visual USA is mostly liquidated. It would seem that Dot-Anime will be wrapped into Bandai Entertainment? Or can we expect the site to disappear in September (after the last running day of Rune) when the last bits of this company evaporate?

Certainly at least a couple of Dot-Anime's blogs continue to be updated, so somebody, at least, is keeping the home fires burning there.

Meanwhile, speaking of blogs, that's where the "tantalizing hints" come in, on the Bandai Entertainment website. Toshifumi Yoshida, who recently joined the Production department of BE, keeps posting bits and pieces on the