We launch a new segment here in The Notebook which will rundown all of the latest top anime and broadcasting stories from ZEN Otaku Honbu or from the interwebs or from the source itself. We will call it… THE NOTEBOOK RUNDOWN (not related to the ANC News show “The Rundown”)

The Rundown is going to be short, punchy and direct to the point with a hint of commentaries and analyses, You won’t need a coffee to read the news items here, Kinda like “Sapul”, only in Anime Journalism form. You will see this segment every other week or every week, depending on the flow of the information.

For our first Rundown post:

1. CASSHERN SINS AND YATTERMAN ON TV5 – Yes, that’s right, TV5 will premiere two big animes this coming May, Yatterman! and Casshern Sins. Yatterman! will premiere on 3 May while Casshern will debut on the next day. These two animes are remakes of their original Tatsunoko franchises. We see another big hits again on the much revered TV5 AniMEGA primetime lineup.

2. TV5 ANIMEGA FB REACHES 1000 – The anime network wars had just gone online. TV5′s AniMEGA FB, which was only launched last last Monday, 12 April, had reached a total of 1361 new fans as of this writing in just a span of more than TWO WEEKS! while ABS-CBN’s FB page, meanwhile, as of this writing, is lagging second with a total fanbase of 1029.

And ABS-CBN’s Team Animazing FB is running since November!

If you want to have an inkling of the Online Network Wars, just visit facebook.com and after the slash, type either “teamanimazing” or “animegatv5″

3. GO KAISHO ANNOUNCES NOMINEES AND TICKET SELLING INFO – Go Kaisho, the event on 8 May at the PhilTrade (the trade center operated by the Dept. of Trade and Industry) has announced the nominees for their Pinoy Otaku Awards and also informed the otaku populace on how to buy tickets.

If you want these information, go to this site here

4. MASTER OF EPIC (FAIL) ON ABS-CBN AND HERO TV – Master of Epic is the next anime on ABS-CBN’s fabled morning anime fest. It will air on Weekends, Saturdays at 8:45 am replacing TMNT Fast Forward and Sundays at 10:00 replacing Sunday’s BusoRenkin starting the 1st of May.  Hero TV, meanwhile, is set to premiere this anime on 5 May and on a daily basis. Weekdays at 1, 5:30 and 9:30 pm., and

5. ABS-CBN UNVEILS NEW CONTROL ROOM FOR STUDIO 7 – If you just happen to watch TV Patrol World this week, you may have noticed that Phoem Barranda of Star Patrol is in a some sort of a modern control room with LCD TV’s.. No, it’s not the Main TOC of ABS-CBN or even a control room of a foreign news show., It’s the brand, spanking new Studio 7 Control Room which will be the nerve center of ABS-CBN’s main Newscasts like Patrol, Bandila, Umagang KayGanda and News Patrol. It will also be the global nerve center of ABS-CBN’s Election Coverage, Halalan 2010: Boto Mo, Ipatrol Mo! Ako ang Simula on 10 May, We’re hoping that this control room will be HD-ready on the day of the Polls!

That’s the Rundown for this week… And that’s the way it is.

-HeAdIn’-OuT!-