*head explodes* Great news for fans of the Queen’s Blade series! (or fans of the QB characters’…um…assets) With the release of the latest Queen’s Blade character books, Arain and Aldora, Hobby-Channel has announced that Queen’s Blade has been greenlit for production as a TV anime! Also covered by Heisei Democracy, the announcement hints at the possibility of Reina Vance being the main character of the series, but nothing concrete is stated as of yet. HD speculates that character designer for the series may be handled by Hisayuki Hirokazu, character designer of Reina (and her sisters Erina and Claudette)and the My-Hime series, which was created by Sunrise, a property of Bandai. Bandai apparently also owns Hobby Japan, so it seems like it could happen. Again though, nothing is certain as of yet. Some of the comments in the HD post also hope that it doesn’t turn out something like the Ikkitousen anime. Having just recently finished watching the first series of that and almost done with Dragon Destiny, I can say that I share their sentiments, and hope that it turns out better than Ikkitousen. Ikkitousen was almost painful to watch, but really I was only in it for the boobies lol. Dragon Destiny is slightly better, but most of it has to do with improved character designs. Let’s hope that Queen’s Blade has the best of both story and character design worlds eh?
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HHMMMMMmmmm. Well personally I actually think the people they cast look ok lol. I’m sure most people have already heard that there will be a Hollywood live action version of Dragonball…maybe. It will be directed by James Wong and feature a mix of asian and american actors. Saw it when I was checking Superhero Hype for Dark Knight news.
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So as with most of the stuff I post here, I recycle from a great source of otakusphere news Heisei Democracy, and this bit of news is also from there. A bit of interesting news this is… a live action infused with 3D version of Ghost in the Shell movie?? Directed by Steven Spielberg?? This could be pretty great I suppose; I haven’t really ever been disappointed by movies directed by Spielberg, so I don’t see why this would either (well…except if the script completely blows). I think Spielberg probably knows what he’s doing though and will probably make the best of what he’s got to work with and give his own input. I doubt he is the kind of person to tackle a universe he knows nothing about.
Full article about this can be read here.
Useless trivia: I went to the same high school that Steven Spielberg went to lol.
Don’t know where the picture came from, so I can’t give credit where it’s due. Sorry!
Yuup, hot off the heels of their 40% off Bandai sale, they go on and do this 40% off ADV sale. And what’s even better, there are even some ADV titles that are already massively discounted (we’re talking single digit $$’s here), though those aren’t eligible for anymore discounts. The sale lasts until March 16th, and will work on ALL ADV titles, including preorders. Just use the code below during checkout to get the 40% off.
40%/33% off code: genesis
Remember, the discount won’t appear until you enter the discount code during the checkout process. No tax unless you’re ordering from Iowa, and free economy shipping with orders over $49.
Check out the DVDs on sale here.
Check out the mangas on sale here.
Check out all other stuff on sale here.
Just saw this over at Heisei Democracy. A couple days ago there was some Figure Maker’s Exhibition in Akihabara, where figure makers could show off their latest works to the industry journalists without all the hustle and bustle of public crowds like at WonderFest and similar events. A few figures that were prohibited from being photographed at WonderFest were open to journalist cameras apparently as well. GoodSmile Company showed off this Hayase Mitsuki figure in a bikini from a series that I don’t see many figures made from (or maybe I’m just too late into the scene), Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. The last figureｓ I remember seeing from KimiNozo were Suzumiya Haruka kneeling in a white bikini with a wide brimmed straw hat on also from GoodSmile (first half of a bikini set hm?) and a CharaAni figure of Haruka’s sister, Suzumiya Akane dressed in some samba outfit which is quite revealing. Since I really love this show (One of my top 3 all time favorites in fact. <3 Mitsuki!), I will most likely be getting this bikini Mitsuki. I’ll need to think about picking up bikini Haruka, and maybe eventually samba Akane too lol.
More pics available at AkibaHobby.
Speaking of KimiNozo, the second episode of the KimiNozo ~Next Season~ OVA was pushed back from a February release and should be coming late this month. The cover for the first pressing limited edition of the dvd looks great! (more Mitsuki <3!)
Because I have some old goods that I’d like to get rid of. I put them up on eBay a couple days back, but figured “hey, I have a blog now don’t I? Let’s throw this up on there too!” And that’s how babies are born.
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Peeped this over on Akibablog. The final dvd volume of the anime School Days saw a Director’s Cut release today in Japan. The original on air tv version of the final episode censored the blood in the final chapter of the story due to a murder involving a teenage girl that hacked her father to death with an axe that occurred in Japan just prior to the airing. To avoid association with the murder, the episode was delayed, but was later shown with the censored blood. I dunno if the censorship involved just the blood, or if some scenes were cut as well, though it didn’t look like any of the scenes were cut at all from what I saw. In all honesty I don’t even know why they censored the blood; the violence was pretty brutal in itself imo. If anything was cut though, this director’s cut dvd would surely include them. Fans of the series that felt somehow incomplete (black blood doesn’t make sense…unless…omg Makoto was a robot!!) with the aired final episode can now rejoice.
AkibaBlog entry with images of scenes from the uncut dvd showing in stores
From now until March 3rd, RightStuf’s having another great sale, offering 40% off all Bandai DVDs and CDs! Just use the coupon code below during checkout.
Code: bebop
You can check out a list of everything that’s on sale here.
Some nice series to get after the jump.
Continue reading ‘[anime] RightStuf sale; at least 40% off all Bandai DVDs and CDs’
[anime] RightStuf sale!
Right Stuf has one of their famous 10 dvds for $50, or 25 dvds for $100 on ADV Film titles! RightStuf has these every now and then for different studios including Funimation, Geneon (in the past now…or I guess until their stock runs out), etc. I was able to score the entire series of Gungrave and Koi Kaze for $50 last year when they ran one of these for Geneon titles! Great since they are within my top 10 favorite anime titles. You can pick up entire series, or flesh out your collection if you are missing some volumes of a particular series here and there.
