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D.C.'s Japanese Embassy, Smithsonian to Show Free Anime
One Piece, Jungle Emperor, Atagoal, 5cm, Appleseed sequel in next 2 weeks
Five anime films will be shown for free at the Japanese Embassy and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. over the next two weeks. The Japan Information and Culture Center of the Embassy of Japan and DC Anime Club will screen Takahiro Imamura's One Piece: The Desert Princess and The Pirates: Adventure in Alabasta in the Galleria at Lafayette Centre III on March 27 at 6:30 p.m. The center will also screen Shinobu Yaguchi's live-action Swing Girls comedy film on March 26. Both English-subtitled films are free but require reservation.
The Smithsonian Institution's Freer Gallery of Art will screen Hayashi Shigeyuki's film adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Jungle Emperor Leo manga, Mizuho Nishikubo's Atagoal: Cat's Magical Forest, Makoto Shinkai's 5 Centimeters Per Second, and Shinji Aramaki's Appleseed: Ex Machina on April 5 as part of the Cherry Blossom Anime Marathon. (The National Cherry Blossom Festival will run in Washington, D.C. from March 29 to April 13.) The Jungle Emperor Leo screening will be English-dubbed, while the others will be English-subtitled. Free tickets for all four films will be distributed on April 5, starting at 10:30 a.m.
The Freer showings are presented in conjunction with the Japan Information and Cultural Center and Otakorp, Inc.
Bandai Entertainment has sent out a press release announcing that Code Geass will begin airing on Adult Swim Saturday, April 26th at 1:30 AM. In addition, episodes will be made available for viewing on adultswim.com every Friday night. Code Geass follows main character Lelouch as he struggles to overthrow a totalitarian government that has taken over Japan.
First off in the news we have the first trailer of the anime Soul Eater streamed. Here is the full article from animenewsnetwork.com.
Soul Eater TV Anime's Promotional Video Streamed
The official website for BONES' Soul Eater supernatural action anime series posted a three-minute, 30-second promotional video, only to quickly remove the link on Wednesday. However, the pre-broadcast video is still directly accessible on Media Factory's own website. The anime is based on Atsushi Ohkubo's "cool & pop action fantasy" manga, which Square Enix has been serializing in Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine. The 11th manga volume will ship in Japan on March 22, and the anime will premiere on April 7.
The story begins at the Shinigami Weaponry Vocational School, a school for technicians and their living weapons. One of the human students, Maka Alban, is paired with Soul Eater, a boyish figure whose true form is a scythe. The production reunites Square Enix with many of the Fullmetal Alchemist staffers, including scriptwriter Akatsuki Yamatoya, character designer Yoshiyuki Ito, production designer Shinji Aramaki, and the BONES studio animators. Relative newcomer Chiaki Omigawa voices Maka, while Kouki Uchiyama voices Soul Eater. Japanese pop artist T.M. Revolution (Gundam Seed and Rurouni Kenshin) will sing a theme song.
Here is the video for any of you who are interested (No subs).
Its going to have a lot of competition with Vampire Knight, which releases on the same day.
Moving on, we have Evangelion news. And the merchandise milking continues.
Eva Store Offers Misato's Cross Pendant, More Coffee
The official Neon Genesis Evangelion website announced this month that the official Misato Katsuragi Cross Pendant and more Evangelion coffee will go on sale. The pure-aluminum cross pendant costs 21,000 yen (about US$210) and comes with a serial number and special case. To mark the DVD release of the Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone movie remake, UCC Coffee is offering two new Evangelion variants of its Milk & Coffee cans in mid-April. The new designs feature a Rei Ayanami drawing from designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and the cast from the deformed Petit Eva ~Evangelion@School~ spinoff.
Just a little peek at what is in store
And lastly we have LIFE SIZED DOLLS.
Life-size Haruhi Suzumiya Figure Offered in Tokyo
The Paper Moon doll-making company is accepting orders for a life-size figure of the title character in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya light novels and anime for 380,000 yen (about US$3,800). A sample is on display at Asobit Chara City in Tokyo's Akihabara district. Orders submitted before April 10 for the 158-centimeter (5-foot, 2-inch) figure will include a stand and a wig that duplicates Haruhi's long hair when she first entered the story's fictional school. Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan
I thought this was really cool or is it just me.
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Rival mags share crossover cover on Wednesday; joint Konami game planned
The 50th anniversary issues of both Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine and Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday hit Japanese stores on "Team Wednesday" with a rare crossover cover between the two rival magazines. The joint cover spread features the title character of George Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo (Shonen Magazine) shaking hands with the title character of Gosho Aoyama's Detective Conan (Shonen Sunday). This is the first time, to ANN staff's knowledge, that Shonen Magazine ever mentioned Shonen Sunday's name on its cover. Both magazines debuted on March 17, 1959 so strictly speaking, the 50th anniversary will be next year.
In a unique joint event in Tokyo on Wednesday, the two magazines announced the projects that will commemorate the anniversary. The Konami game developer will be making a game featuring popular characters from both magazines. Card games and prizes are also planned. For the next 53 weeks starting this Wednesday, the Unqlo apparel maker is selling a different weekly t-shirt featuring the magazine's characters. As previously reported, Yōzaburō Kanari and Fumiya Sato's Kindaichi Case Files mystery manga will join forces with Detective Conan for a limited-run biweekly magazine that will ship in April and May. Mitsuru Adachi (Touch, H2), Rumiko Takahashi (Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha), Tetsuya Chiba (Ashita no Joe), and Fujiko Fujio A. (Doraemon's Motoo Abiko) appeared at the event.
This week's Shonen Magazine issue also uses Morikawa's Ippo cover illustration for a poster which pairs Ippo with Joe Yabuki, the main character in Ikki Kajiwara and Chiba's pioneering Ashita no Joe boxing manga. The issue includes a trivia feature that notes the magazine has published 2,942 issues with 4.55 billion copies sold. If a person bought the magazine every week from the inaugural issue to last week's issue, that person would have spent about 380,000 yen (about US$3,800). Kodansha has published 516 of the magazine's titles into compiled volumes, and has published about 1 billion compiled volumes in total. The longest running serialized manga is 1989's Hajime no Ippo, while the first compiled volume of Kindaichi Case Files sold the most copies of any Shonen Magazine volume: 2.75 million copies. Model/singer Yuko Ogura has appeared the most times on the magazine's cover of any idol.
Shonen Sunday offers its readers a sticker collection featuring the cover images of the first issue, the current issue, and every decade anniversary issue in between. The current issue's history feature describes the unusual highlights of the past five decades, such as the time when the magazine offered three collie dogs and 12 Shiba dogs for free in a 1964 giveaway contest. To mark this year's anniversary, the magazine is giving away a 24-carat, 60-gram (about 2-ounce) gold figure of Lum from Urusei Yatsura. The magazine values the figure at over 200,000 yen (US$2,000). 499 runners-up will get two silver versions, eight bronze ones, and 490 clear ones.
Source: Muhyojo, ITmedia
Removal from video site follows similar actions last year on Gonzo's behalf
The Bokurano, Rocket Girls, Romeo × Juliet, Mahou Sensei Negima! OVA Haru, and Mahou Sensei Negima! OVA Natsu anime projects were removed from the Crunchyroll video-streaming website between last year and this year, reportedly at the request of Funimation and Bandai. The first three projects have not been officially announced as licensed for North America, but a removal request is not necessarily a confirmation of any license. Funimation reported at Otakon 2007 last July that its Negima! license at the time covered the television series, but not the OVAs.
Funimation had previously sent a letter, on behalf of the anime studio Gonzo, to request that a fan group cease and desist its subtitling of Romeo × Juliet. Funimation emphasized at the time that the series had not been licensed for North America distribution, but the copyrights of the Japanese rights-holders are still applicable and enforceable worldwide. Gonzo produced Romeo × Juliet and Bokurano (pictured at right), while Happinet Pictures produced Rocket Girls. TV Tokyo and Kanto Magic Society (the corporate entity formed for Negima's anime productions) are responsible for the Negima! OVAs. ANN contacted Funimation and Bandai Entertainment on Monday, but both did not comment before this article was posted.
Another big woot for Saiyuki fans...I think it would be considered a woot.
Saiyuki, Sunset on Third Street Manga Go on Stage
The Saiyuki mythical adventure manga from Kazuya Minekura (Bus Gamer, Wild Adapter) will be adapted into a stage musical in Japan this September. Saiyuki Kagekiden: Go to the West will play in Tokyo's Ginza district from September 13 to September 21. The nostalgic post-war manga Sunset on Third Street will also get a non-musical theatrical play. Source: Animate, Sports Nippon.
