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Innovative Multimedia Group Follows Up Chart Toping Full-Length Album With New U.S. Release Featuring Vocals By World’s First Virtual Pop Star

New York, NY, August 31, 2011 – Following up the release of its first full-length record in the U.S., Sony Music Direct (Japan), Inc., a division of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Inc., has announced the U.S. release of a brand new EP by the Japanese pop artist/group, Ryo (Supercell). The new release, SEKIRANUN GRAFFITI, is available now exclusively on iTunes and Amazon and features vocals from Hatsune Miku, the world’s first virtual pop diva.

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Everett, Washington – August 30, 2011- Online, free-to-play video game publisher, GameSamba proudly announces its fun filled end of summer event, Septemberfest.  Thousands of prizes will be awarded to players actively playing GameSamba’s titles, ranging from Slurpees^®, energy drinks and corndogs at 7-Eleven locations

(North America) to the much coveted FUNimation prizes including Blu-ray and DVD box sets of their most popular series.  Prizes will be given out daily and weekly, leading up to the granddaddy of all prizes: an Alienware M11x gaming laptop. The laptop will be given to the player who captures the funniest moment or “sickest frag” in a screenshot, which will be voted upon by a combination of the GameSamba Community, sponsors, and GameSamba staff.

Newest YU-GI-OH! GX Volume Takes #1 Spot And Is Complemented By Other Top Manga Properties Including BLUE EXORCIST, BLEACH, BAKUMAN?, BLACK BIRD, FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, NARUTO And More!

San Francisco, CA, August 30, 2011 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North America, has announced that its titles swept the latest Top 10 on the New York Times Manga Bestseller list for the week of August 20^th.

The top selling VIZ Media manga (graphic novel) titles included:

1.           YU-GI-OH! GX Vol. 7

“The Radius”:

Title: Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 26

Author: Hiromu Arakawa

Distributor: Viz Media

American Release Date: September 20, 2011

Format: Traditional Manga

Genre: Steampunk, Action, Adventure, Shonen

Publisher Age Rating: T (Teen)

Personal Review Grade: A

Similar Series: The Qwaser of Stigmata, D. Gray-man

The end is one volume away! What the heck is going to happen!

Synopsis:

Previously in Vol. 25

Volume 25:

“The Radius”:

Gon volume 1

Author/Artist: Masashi Tanaka

Distributor: Kodansha Comics

American Release Date: August 30, 2011

Format: Manga

Genre: Comedy, Nature

Publisher Age Rating: T Ages 10+

Overall Personal Rating: A+

“The Radius”:

Title: Hero: 108 Season 1, Volume 1

Director: Trevor Wall

Distributor: Viz Media

American Release Date: June 14, 2011

Format: Cartoon DVD

Genre: Comedy, Action

Length: 130 minutes, 1 DVD, 6 Episodes

Industry Age Rating: Not Rated

Personal Review Rating: C

Similar Series: Xiaolin Showdown, Kung Fu Panda

Hidden Kingdom was once a place of peace and happiness but then a dirty human decided to tell the animals it is all a lie.

Synopsis:

“The Radius”:

Title: Grand Guignol Orchestra Vol. 4

Author: Kaori Yuki

Distributor: Viz Media/Shojo Beat

American Release Date: September 6, 2011

Format: Traditional Manga

Genre: Gothic, Shojo, Supernatural, Drama

Publisher Age Rating: T+ (Older Teen)

Personal Review Rating: C+

Similar Series: D. Gray-man, March Story

The news of Duke Rhodonite’s death has reached the Queen and she is not pleased at all.  Lucille knows that the Queen is getting fed up with his antics.  He needs to hurry up and find the Black Oratorio so that he can save his sister.

“The Radius”:

Title: Bleach Volume 36: Turn Back the Pendulum

Author: Tite Kubo

Distributor: Viz Media/Shonen Jump

American Release Date: September 6, 2011

Format: Traditional Manga

Genre: Supernatural, Action, Adventure, Drama

Publisher Age Rating: T (Teen)

Personal Review Rating: A+

Similar Series: Samurai Champloo, Soul Eater, D. Gray-man, Law of Ueki, Zombie-Loan, Waqwaq

“The story that has been pressing on into the future, temporarily stops here, then swings back to the past.”

Synopsis:

“The Radius”

Title: Naruto Vol. 52

Author: Masashi Kishimoto

Distributor: Viz Media

American Release date:  Sep 6, 2011

Format: Manga

Genre: Action, Adventure

Publisher Age Ratting: T (For teens)

Overall personal ratting: B-

Similar Series: Bleach, One Piece

Kakashi has taken it upon him self to eliminate Sasuke and in his weakened state after the fight with Danzo, Sasuke should be easier to finish off but not that easy. Now a true member of the Uchiha clan is fighting a man who was given the same powers as the Uchiha.

“The Radius”

Title: One Piece Vol. 58

Author: Eiichiro Oda

Distributor: Viz Media

American Release Date: Sep 13, 2011

Format: Manga

Genre: Action

Publisher Age Ratting: T+ (for older teens)

Overall personal ratting: B

Similar Series: Naruto, Beet the Vandal Buster

Synopsis:

After the Capture of Portgaz D. Ace, also known as Fire Fist Ace,  all of the White Beard pirates and all the other crews that are aligned with White Beard went to war with the Navy to prevent the execution of Ace. The White Beards aren’t alone, they also have the help of Monkey D. Luffy and various escaped prisoners from Impel Down.  This is a battle between super powers, but who will win?

The Radius

Title: Peace Maker

Original Story:  Nanae Chrono

Director: Tomohiro Hirata (Japanese), Don Rush (USA)

American Publisher: Funimation Entertainment

American Release Date: September 6, 2011

Format: 4 DVD box set, 24 half hour episodes (600 minutes)

Genre: Historical, Drama, Comedy

Rating: TVPG

Overall Personal Rating: A-

“The Radius”

Vampire Knight: Guilty Volume 3

Director: Kiyoko Sayama

Written By: Matsuri Hino

Studio: Studio Dean

U. S.  Distributor: Viz Media

U. S. Release Date: July 26th, 2011

Format: DVD / 100 minutes / episodes 9-13

Genre: Shojo, Romance, Supernatural

Age Rating: T+ for Older Teen

Overall Personal Rating: B+

Similar Titles: Trinity Blood 

The time has come for all the pieces to fall into place and discover what the true future for Zero, Yuki and maybe even Cross Academy. Will Zero evolve into the E Class and need to be destroyed or will he overcome the demons within and become everything he was meant to be?

The October issue of Gentosha’s Monthly Comic Birz magazine is announcing on Tuesday that Hidekaz Himaruya will begin serializing his Hetalia manga in the magazine in the next issue in September. The October issue also has the latest information on the anime adaptation.

Until now, Himaruya released his manga online. He is also contributing to the first issue of the new magazine Comic Spica from Gentosha. (Gentosha already hosts the online magazine Web Spica.)

Tokyopop published the manga in North America until it shut down its North American publishing operations this past May. Funimation is releasing the first television anime seasons, the two seasons of the Hetalia: World Series television sequel, and the Hetalia Axis Powers: Paint it, White! film.

Voice actor and narrator Junpei Takiguchi passed away Monday, August 29 at 7:33 a.m. due to stomach cancer. He was 80 years old.

Takiguchi’s best known voice-acting role was Dokurobee, the head of the Dorombo Gang in the Yatterman franchise from the first anime series to the 2008 remake and even Takashi Miike’s live-action film. He was also Uranai Baba and other roles in the Dragon Ball series. From 1992 to July of this year, he narrated the popular railroad travel program Burari Toch? Gesha no Tabi on NTV for a total of 958 episodes.

“The Radius”

Title: SGT FROG, Season 3, part 2

Studio: FUNIMATION

Genre: Comedy

American release Date: Aug 23, 2011

Format: DVD/ 300 Minutes

Age Rating: TV PG

Overall Personal Rating: A +

Similar Titles: Jin the King of Bandits, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Ninja Nonsense

Sargent Keroro and the ARMPIT platoon is back and ready to take over the world or fail trying. The comedy ensues with every new plan to take over the world and various schemes to get money and Gundam Models. Get ready for invasion and maybe this time, our froggy friend will actually do something right but probably not.

“The Radius”

Title: Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten

Platform: Playstation 3

Developer: Nippon Ichi Software

Publisher: NIS America

Release date: September 6, 2011

Genre(s): Adventure; Comedy; Fantasy; Sci-fi

Format: Turn-based Strategy RPG

Age Rating: Teen

Replay Rating: B

Overall Personal Rating: A

Similar games: Final Fantasy Tactics series, Luminous Arc series, Shining Force series and Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

The Pillows, the Japanese rock band known for songs in the anime titles FLCL, BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad, and Moonlight Mile, will be touring the United States in September.

The NAP Utatane tour will have The Pillows — consisting of Sawao Yamanaka (Vocal, Guitar), Yoshiaki Manabe (Guitar) and Shinichiro Sato (drums) — in a lineup with two other bands. The Japanese girl band noodles once performed as the opening act on the Delicious Bump U.S. tour with The Pillows. All Ages is a San Francisco-based punk rock band.

The new tour details follow:

News source: games.yahoo.com/pluggedin

The battle over digital game distribution just took a turn for the ugly.

Video game retail giant GameStop has been opening up brand new PC game boxes of the critically-acclaimed shooter Deus Ex: Human Revolution and removing packed-in coupons granting free copies of the game to users of the OnLive cloud gaming service.
OnLive and Deus Ex publisher Square Enix announced the coupon deal yesterday, which would let buyers of a boxed PC copy download and play another copy of the game, for free, via OnLive’s cloud based network, a $50 value.

Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing, the second anime series in Gonzo’s Last Exile franchise, will air a special on October 7, one week before the premiere of the actual anime itself in Japan. The special program will outline the world of the anime through talk segments with the staff and cast. Aki Toyosaki (Fam), Aoi Yuki (Giselle), Ai Kayano (Milia), and other cast members will appear on the program.

The story centers around Fam, a girl from an aerial family, “and her trusted navigator, Giselle, as they pilot their vanship, Vespa, through the free and peaceful skies.” Funimation licensed the anime for North America.

The October issue of Takeshobo’s Manga Life MOMO magazine is announcing on Monday that a television anime adaptation of Ru Tatuki’s four-panel manga Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki has been green-lit. The slice-of-life manga centers around a mysterious “spherical cat” named Poyo, its family, and the people in Poyo’s everyday life.

Tatuki launched the manga in 2004, and the ninth compiled book volume shipped in February. A Nintendo 3DS game, in which the player raises and communicates with Poyo, will ship next February.

Takeshobo had previewed the cover of Manga Life MOMO’s October issue, but deliberately obscured the anime announcement on the cover until recently