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Tokyo's Wonder Festival 2009 Winter Cancelled
World's largest garage kit event dropped due to last summer's escalator accident The executive committee of the Wonder Festival garage kit convention has announced that its next event, which was scheduled for February 15 in Tokyo, has been cancelled in the aftermath of an escalator accident last August. As the world's largest garage kit event, Wonder Festival is held at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition center twice a year with many models based on anime, manga, and game designs. However, 10 attendees of Wonder Festival 2008 Summer were injured — none seriously — on August when a four-floor-high escalator stopped without warning and changed direction. The cancellation of the February 15 event was caused by the continuing investigation into the accident's causes. Wonder Festival's executive committee is working to bring back the event as soon as possible.
Funimation to Stream Anime Samples on Joost for Free
The North American anime distributor Funimation has announced that it will launch a streaming channel on the Joost online video service with a free "sampling" of its various anime titles in November. The anime selections will be added monthly from the following titles:
Basilisk
Black Blood Brothers
Blue Gender
Galaxy Railways
Kiddy Grade
MoonPhase
Mr. Stain
Mushi-Shi
Peach Girl
Rumbling Hearts
School Rumble
Slayers
Suzuka
XXXHOLiC
All the anime will be English-dubbed, although Black Blood Brothers, MoonPhase, and Rumbling Hearts will also be available in Japanese with English subtitles. Joost will also incorporate its social community features with Funimation's channel.
Shin-Chan Film's Story Remade as Live-Action Film
The Sankei Sports paper reported on Tuesday that the story for the 10th Crayon Shin-chan movie, Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Appare! Sengoku Daikassen, is being remade into a live-action historical romance film called Ballad -Namonaki Koi no Uta- (Ballad: The Nameless Song of Love). Takashi Yamazaki, the director of the award-winning Always: Sunset on Third Street films, is overseeing the new project. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi of the perennial male pop group SMAP will star, and the story is set in Japan's Warring States period that has been made famous by hundreds of samurai films. The film is budgeted at 2 billion yen (about US$20 million) and is scheduled to open next September.
Watch the Two First Episodes of Ouran for Free
Funimation in a effort to promote the release of Ouran High School Host Club Season 1 part 1 releasing on Oct. 28 have release the first two episode for steaming view on the website the episodes are dubbed in English but its a great way to try it before you buy it. Go to the website at www.funimation.com/ouran
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