Right on time for Halloween Funimation decided to release their newest anime, but not on Adult Swim or the SciFi Channel's AniMonday weekly animated feature. They decided to put the first episode of Shikabane Hime Aka (Corpse Princess) on several video stream sites all on the same day.
The word "animation" is based on the Latin word for the soul: "ani". "Animism" is a religious term coined by an 19 century anthropologist named Taylor, describing the process of a soul coming to reside in an inanimate object. Animation allows one to bestow movement to an immobile drawing and breathe life into it! It is an act of God!
For the eleven of you out there who haven't seen it, meet Batman: Gotham Knight, by the good folks who brought you the Animatrix. It's the in-between parts from Batman Begins and Dark Knight.
