According to Carrie Keranen’s frontpage, Carrie will be making an appearance in the April 7th episode of Fringe on FOX. Carrie is best known for her roles in Berserk, Magic User’s Club, and the FOX Kids’ version of TMNT. The Fringe episode is titled Inner Child and is the 15th episode in the show’s first season. She promises that “You won’t believe you[r] eyes…”

According to former Anime Insider editor Rob Bricken, Wizard Magazine has chosen to shutdown Anime Insider magazine and let go of the staff. This news follows a series of recent layoffs at Wizard Entertainment in Chicago and canceling its Wizard World Texas convention. The final issue on newsstands will be #67. Anime Insider, while not as thick as competing anime magazines, managed to survive the rough and tumble world of print publications from 2001 until 2009.

Crispin Freeman has set up at Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy offering a Voice Acting Workshop, Script Adaptation class, and a Anime Mythology Seminar. If you happen to live in or around Los Angeles, more details are listed after the jump. Crispin will also be stopping by the University of Texas at Dallas on April 14th to join Professor Marc Hairston’s annual anime-related class. Professor Hairston has been offering a range of Japanese culture related subjects for several years now with UTD.

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RightStuf’s Critical Mass line has been on a bit of a licensing spree lately with a couple of new titles and several from Central Park Media’s Anime 18 line.

New:
Sinners Paradise: Genesis (Digital Works) – 4/28/09 – PR
Sinners Paradise: Revelations (Digital Works) – 5/26/09 – PR
Destined for Love: The Promise (Milky) – 6/30/09 – PR

Re-licensed:
Chains of Lust (Digital Works/Vanilla) – 5/26/09 – PR (Anime 18 Review)
Maison Plaisir (Discovery) – 5/26/09 – PR
Angel Blade (Digital Works/Vanilla) – 6/30/09 – PR
Crimson Climax: Cursed Beginnings (Green Bunny) – 6/30/09 – PR (Anime 18 Review)

Following this pattern, the 3rd episodes of Angel Blade — released as Angel Blade Returns — and Crimson Climax — released as Crimson Climax: Island of Sin — will likely be announced in the coming weeks.

Bandai Entertainment has opened up their own YouTube account to offer a deep sampling of current anime series Bandai is releasing on DVD. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 currently airs on SciFi Channel’s AniMonday with the first collected set coming out on DVD on May 19th. Code Geass is part of Cartoon Network’s Saturday night anime line-up and has already completed the first season available in three (Set 1, Set 2, Set 3) two-volume collections. Gundam 00 features the first three episodes in English and Japanese while Code Geass covers the full 25-episode first season in English and Japanese.

Line Producer: Christopher Bevins
ADR Directors: J. Michael Tatum and R Bruce Elliott 
Script Adaptations: Taliesin Jaffe 

Romeo: Chris Burnett
Juliet: Brina Palencia
Antonio: Maxey Whitehead
Cordelia: Colleen Clinkenbeard
Benvolio: Sean Michael Teague
Conrad: R Bruce Elliott
Francisco: Eric Vale
Curio: Robert McCollum
Mercutio: Christopher Bevins
Amelia: Larissa Wolcott
William: J. Michael Tatum
Hermione: Carrie Savage
Tybalt: Mike McFarland
Lord Montague: Sean Hennigan

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The Team Roster (cast):
Takaya Abe – Greg Ayres
Ren MIHASHI – Sean Michael Teague
Azusa Hanai – Joel McDonald
Kosuke Izumi – Chris Burnett
Yuto Sakaeguchi – Aaron Dismuke
Yuichiro Tajima – Todd Haberkorn
Shoji Suyama – Anthony Bowling
Fumiki Mizutani – Jean-Luc Hester
Kazutoshi Oki – Chris Cason
Chiyo Shino’oka – Cherami Leigh
Maria Momoe – Cynthia Cranz
Tsuyoshi Shiga – Chuck Huber
Kyouhei Akimaru – Jason Liebrecht
Shuugo Kanou – Jamie McGonnigal
Atsushi Hatake – Josh Grelle

Voice Director: Christopher Bevins 

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For those that remember the series Rave Master when it aired on Cartoon Network, you will be pleased to know the show is back. As part of SciFi Channel’s AniMonday schedule, Rave Master is airing two episodes every week on Monday nights at midnight (EST) / 11PM (CST) starting March 16th.

A Manga Entertainment logo appears at the beginning of the episodes suggesting the license has transfered to the Starz-owned company since TOKYOPOP has left the anime series licensing arena. Sadly, the episodes still appear in the edited form — cropped from widescreen to fullscreen along with music, certain scenes, etc. being edited out — so a new, uncut release on DVD is fairly unlikely.

Last week, we had a news item about the presence of some Vancouver dub actors (and Ocean Productions staff member Ian Farthing) in the movie Watchmen.

The item neglected to mention that David Hayter (Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid; co-screenwriter of X-Men, X2, and the Scorpion King; Tamahome in Fushigi Yûgi) co-wrote the screenplay.

In addition, CrystalAcids administrator (and resident Vancouver dub expert) drakh has confirmed that Mark Acheson (Tawalya in .hack//Roots, Unicron in Transformers: Armada) and Garry Chalk (Optimus Prime in the Armada, Energon, and Cybertron series of Transformers; Optimus Primal in Beast Wars and Beast Machines; Colonel Chekov in Stargate SG-1) have uncredited roles as a questioned bar thug and one of Pres. Nixon’s generals respectively.

Wandering through Wal-mart today I spotted the new DragonBall Evolution movie toys sitting on the shelf. You don’t want to know how much they want for the 3 3/4″ and you definitely don’t want to see the price for the larger 6″ series. As usual for female figures, Bulma is one per case and was already missing from the shelf. You can find preview pics of the line shown at Toy Fair 2009 here.