November 21, 2008 by Firedauz
Event: JUMP Festa 2009
Official Website: http://www.jumpfesta.com
Date: 20/12/2008 - 21/12/2008
Location: Makuhari Messe, Chiba
Sauce: http://www.jumpfesta.com/stage/dragonball.html
Japan’s Jump Festa to Preview Dragonball Film Footage
Shueisha will be previewing footage from James Wong and 20th Century Fox’s live-action film adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s Dragonball fighting manga at its annual Jump Festa event on December 20. The footage will be shown during a special Dragonball stage panel from 1:20 to 1:50 p.m. at the Makuhari Messe convention complex east of Tokyo. However, the special footage will only take up a small portion of the panel’s entire 30-minute length; the rest of the panel will introduce special guests from the film for a live discussion. Attendees who come early enough to get seats will receive a Medicom Bearbrick — a toy figure shaped like bear dressed in the orange gi uniform of Dragonball’s hero Son Goku (Justin Chatwin). The film will open in Japan on March 13 and in North America on April 8.
As it usually does every year, the two-day event will feature 30- to 50-minute stage events for other manga titles in Shonen Jump magazine. The Prince of Tennis manga creator Takeshi Konomi, Bleach’s Tite Kubo, One Piece’s Eiichiro Oda, Naruto’s Masashi Kishimoto, and Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar’s Kyosuke Usuta will all appear at the panels for their respective manga creations. Reborn! and Gintama will have panels, but their creators are not scheduled to appear.The main actors from each of these manga titles’ anime and musical adaptations will also appear at the panels.
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Event: Comiket 75
Official Website: http://www.comiket.co.jp/index_e.html
Date: 28/12/2008 - 30/12/2008
Location: Tokyo Big Sight, Odaiba Island
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As every year, my advise will be:
You have exactly ONE MONTH to save up & fly here to attend these awesome end-year events 
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November 20, 2008 by Firedauz
KUALA TERENGGANU: Three locally-produced animation series will be shown on local television following the setting up of the e-Farm here.
Thirteen episodes each of Tiga Dara Pingitan, Aca and Atuk and Qabillah will be shown on Astro Prima, Astro Ceria and Astro Isis in April 2009. Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the quality of the animation series was high. “Our animators were trained by experts in Hollywood. I’m proud of them. Malaysians should support the series.
“I hope we can sell the series to South Korea to promote the state,” he said after chairing the weekly executive council meeting here yesterday.Ahmad said the state government had invested RM4.1 million in the three animated series, which were produced by Epict Eastern Pacific ICT, a government-owned subsidia-ry. The state government spent RM65,000 monthly on 45 Terengganu-born animators who graduated from e-Farm.
Source: NST.com.my
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November 18, 2008 by Aoshi_88
Swinburne Anime and Manga Society(SAMS) and I’ve Anime! will be having a Chibi Con on the 6th of December 2008 in Kuching, Sarawak.
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November 17, 2008 by Firedauz
Wonder how it will be like if you are just casually eating your lunch on a boring Wednesday afternoon, when suddenly a VF-1 Valkyrie shows up right on the main road infront of you? That would be awesome yet too complicated story anyway, but I guess the ROBOTECH live-action movie storyline is so hard to be penned that it now has 2 writers working on it! The Hollywood Reporter newspaper reports that Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have signed onto the proposed film adaptation of the ROBOTECH animated series. Gough and Millar co-wrote Spider-Man 2, Herbie Fully Loaded, and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and they also produced the first seven seasons of the Smallville television series. Robotech was Harmony Gold’s edited and rewritten adaptation of three separate anime science-fiction series: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada. The producers have yet to announce which, if any, of the three anime that the Warner Brothers project will most follow, or how it will deal with the copyright dispute between Harmony Gold’s partner Tatsunoko Production and the creators of Macross (the most popular of the three anime).
Gough and Millar will be the third writer team to be attached to the film. Craig Zahler was the originally assigned writer, but no new word has been given on his status on the project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lawrence Kasdan wrote a draft, but Gough and Millar were recruited to “bring action and geek cred to the table.”
Most importantly — Min Mei??
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November 17, 2008 by Aoshi_88
ACF2 was held on the 15th to 16th of November. We at Shrine are proud to present you our article and review on Anime Comic Fest 2 2008 at Berjaya Times Square.
After speaking with two doujin booth owners whom I posed 5 questions too, here is their response. The first person I interviewed was Kalvin Ho. Kalvin Ho has been attending such ACG events now for the last 6 years and this is his view on ACF2.
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November 16, 2008 by Aoshi_88
Main article in Otakuzone can be found here.
I will only quote excerpts from the article as it took up an entire newspaper page and is thus very long.
For all aspiring otakus, if you wish to test how much you know on the anime and manga industry, this test is surely for you. Though at the moment from the article, it seems that it is currently limited to Japan only.
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November 12, 2008 by linkinstreet
Makoto Raiku
The long ongoing battle between Makoto Raiku and publishing company Shogakukan finally ended with Shogakukan agreeing to pay Raiku up to 2.55M Yen. Raiku sued the company when feeling he was underrated and overworked at the company, and ended his largely famous and successful series, Konjiki no Gash Bell! in 2007. He then asked Shogakukan to return his original manga artwork and colour drawings for the series, to which he discovered 5 was missing. The case largely divided the mangako world, but most of the other mangaka supported Raiko.
The original lawsuit was for 3.3M Yen, and he also requested Shogakukan to agree that original artwork has “artistic values” but Shogakukan kept silent about it. The news of his victory was posted on his blog yesterday. Raiku already vowed never to work with Shogakukan again, and it’s still a guess wether or not he would still work as a mangaka as his only other option would be Kodansha. Shueisha, the publisher of Shounen Jump is the owner of Shogakukan, thus speculation said that he won’t consider that an option.
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November 11, 2008 by linkinstreet
Seems that the economic crisis does not spare even the Japanese studio. As reported by ANN Read the rest of this entry »
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November 11, 2008 by linkinstreet
Coming to a cinema near you (in Japan)
Yesterday’s edition (ironically, of December) of Kadokawa Shoten’s popular anime guide magazine Newtype revealed the new design for Evangelion Unit-02 which would be piloted by our favourite tsundere queen, Soryuu Asuka Langley in the upcoming Evangelion Shin Gekijouban: Ha” (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:破).
Magazine pic
TV CM spot
As a friend of mine commented, “It looks like a fucking cockroach!!”. And I can’t agree more. *facepalm*. GODDAMIT ANNO! WHAT DID YOU DID TO MAH ASUKA DAMMIT!!?
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