Odex, the Singaporean anime distributor that has recently been firing a barrage lawsuits at fansub downloaders, has announced today that it plans further legal action after its recent failure to extract subscriber information from Singaporean ISP Pacific Internet (PacNet).

Unlike some Singaporean ISPs (i.e. SingTel), PacNet had taken up Odex’s legal challenge with the result being that District Judge Ernest Lau blocked Odex’s request; this stemmed from that fact that Odex did not even hold copyright, or exclusive license, to the material that was being infringed (in fact, the company only holds one exclusive license!).

In the latest move, Odex has again stated that they have the support of the real copyright holders. This has been corroborated by Gonzo Digimation and Toei Animation, the latter stating that they would send representatives to Singapore if necessary.

Gloomy days for Singaporean anime fans.

Check out some of the following Singaporean Anime blogs for regular coverage of Odex’s activity:

- Dark Mirage
- THAT Animeblog
- Riuva
- Anime Desho Desho

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The Japanese love to utilize available housing space to the fullest. They also apparently like to fully utilize available space in their wave pools. The following video was taken at the Tokyo Summerland pool yesterday, it is pretty crazy:

Via: BoingBoing

The Super Soldiers has updated their list of anime releases on Home Video for August through October 2007. If you’re looking to find out when you can pick up your person favorite on DVD and even some coming to Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, head on over there.

Peter Ahlstrom, Tokyopop Editor, has confirmed to ANN that their license for Marmalade Boy (Pictured Left), a romantic comedy anime series, episodes 1-24 have expired. However, they still retain the license for episodes 25-76 which will not expire for a “couple [of] years”. According to Peter Ahlstrom, the reason for this is, “The first 24 episodes were licensed much earlier, so their license expired much earlier.”

In addition, ANN has also confirmed that Tokyopop’ s held licenses for Saint Tail (Pictured Right), the magical girl anime series, have also expired.

Moon Phase [via ANN] is reporting that a new XXXHOLiC television series has been cleared for production in Japan.

The staff and cast members will remain the same as the prior television series.

Anime News Network is reporting [via Moon Phase] that this winter, on the TBS network in Japan, a TV Special, Aa— Megamisama— Tatakau Tsubasa (Ah! My Goddess: Fighting Wings) will air this winter to commemerate the 20th anniversary of Kousuke Fujishima’s Ah! My Goddess. Director Hiroaki Gohda will employ the usage of several story installments that were not in the previous television series.

Japan is once again being graced with the image of Evangelion’s Rei Ayanami, except this time, she won’t be in a mecha. This time she will grace the cover of Rolling Stone magazines September issue in Japan.

The cover goes hand in hand with an article which will appear in the next issue called “Eva no Saishinsaku wa Eco Datta?” (”The Latest Eva Work Is About Ecology?”) with the English subtitle, “Does Evangelion Save Us?”

The article itself will cover Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone, a movie remake of the science fiction series.

Source: ANN