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SPJA Industry Awards
Anaheim, California (March 27, 2008) — The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA), the overseeing body of the nation’s largest anime/manga convention (Anime Expo®), announced the SPJA Industry Award finalists for 2008 at the SPJA Symposium held at Tokyo International Anime Fair held within Tokyo Big Sight’s Special Theatre 2(Thursday; March 27, 2008; 16:30-18:00-Tokyo time). More information can be found on the website www.spja.org.
Leading the pack, of top five (5) companies receiving nominations, is Bandai Entertainment with thirteen (13) nominations including two (2) for Best Voice Actor (English) followed by Viz Media with twelve (12) nominations including two (2) for Best Voice Actor (English) as well. Geneon Entertainment follows with 11 nominations including two (2) for Best Voice Actor (Japanese), Bandai Visual with 9 nominations including two (2) for Best Background Design and FUNimation with seven (7) nominations.
to vote go to
http://www.spja.org/spja-industry-awards/
you can only vote once per IP so make in count
TOKYO (AP) -- Kaku Yamanaka, Japan's oldest person, has died of old age in central Japan, officials said Saturday. She was 113.
Yamanaka died at a hospital where she was taken early Saturday from her nursing home in Yatomi, Aichi Prefecture...
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Two sixth-graders from Gasden, Alabama were arrested Thursday for possession of a Death Note that held the names of teachers and fellow students. The students were not reported to have been serious about carrying out any attacks, but the authorities were quite serious about the incident, as the two boys are awaiting a juvenile court hearing. They (law enforcement) called the Death Note terrorist threats. That makes me laugh, having watched/read some Death Note myself, loathed it, and can totally see where they are coming from.
Since there have been other incidents involving Death Note in the past, this seems like this is a problem that will not readily go away. My advice is that if Death Note watchers/readers really want to keep their series, let alone reputation as human beings, they should leave the notebooks and things like that at home. It may be fiction, but it can still upset people. The whole thing about killing other humans tends to unnerve people, no matter how open to anime/manga and fictitious situations they may be. It's okay to be proud of who you are, but just don't bring everyone else down with you.
Sources
Anime News Network
Gadsden Times (linked in ANN article)
Sony to Sell Manga Ent. Anime in Non-English Regions
Sony Pictures plans to distribute Ghost in the Shell, Street Fighter
Video Business reports that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has been named the exclusive distributor for Anchor Bay Entertainment and its sister Starz Media subsidiary Manga Entertainment in worldwide markets outside the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain. Plans are already underway for Sony to distribute Manga's Ghost in the Shell and Street Fighter II, although it is not clear exactly to which works in those franchises the contract applies to. Anchor Bay hopes to use this partnership to extend its market presence in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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It’s a slow news week
Big News
Ichigo from that podcast theO show that we love so much and Anime-Pulse is moving to Japan this summer 
and has releses a statement on the future of both podcast and his plans for Japan. The statement is posted at the Ichigo fansite.
http://www.theotaku.com/worlds/ichigofansite
Hisaishi to Mark 25 Years of Ghibli Music with Concert
On August 4 and August 5, Tokyo's Nippon Budokan complex will host a concert program of music pieces created by Studio Ghibli's Joe Hisaishi for the films directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Hisaishi will participate in the concert, accompanied by a 200-piece orchestra and 400 chorus singers. The event, titled "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea Movie Opening Commemoration" will commemorate 25 years of cooperation between Miyazaki and Hisaishi. The two began working together in 1983, when Hisaishi wrote the music for the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind movie image album. Hisaishi went on compose the scores of every one of the full-length films that Miyazaki directed since then, and pieces from all of them will be featured.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-04-02/hisaishi-to-mark-25-years-of-ghibli-music-with-concert
Code-E Sequel Mission-E's Promo Video Posted Online
The Japanese distributor avex entertainment has launched the official website for Mission-E, the "psychic buddy action" sequel to the CODE-E comedy anime series, with a promotional video. The story continues with CODE-E's main female lead Chinami (Mai Hashimoto) joining forces with a new main lead Maori (Yuuna Inamura). The series was first announced in October and named late last month. It will premiere this July on Japan's TV Saitama and other broadcasting stations.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-04-02/code-e-sequel-mission-e-promo-video-posted-online
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