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Dorohedoro volume 05

Writer: Q Hayashida

U.S. Publisher: Viz Media / Viz Sig Ikki

U. S. Release Date: Dec. 20th, 2011

Format: Manga / 175 pages

Genre: Dark Fantasy, Supernatural

Age Rating: M for Mature

Overall Personal Rating: B+

Synopsis:

Caiman, a human, is still searching for the sorcerer who stole his face and memories. He made his way into the Sorcerers dimension and is looking for a Sorcerer named Risu. So far, he has only managed to get some really weak leads and has become very hungry. He manages to help out a shop keeper and is offered a job cleaning around the restaurant. This gives him a few allies and plenty of food.

Tokyo-Dwango Co. announced that a novel cosplay fashion show “TOKYO NICONICO COSPLLECTION” will be held on December 4th at Nicofarre, the cutting-edge performance venue in Tokyo’s Roppongi district. The show is hosted by Nico Nico Douga and Cure, the Japan’s largest cosplay website.

TOKYO NICONICO COSPLLECTION will introduce “Japanese Cosplay Culture” through the unprecedented show which recreates virtual worlds of Japanese anime, games and Vocaloids using Nicofarre’s 360-degrees LED screens with visual effects and high-quality audio system. More than 100 famous cosplayers dressed up as popular characters from “One Piece”, ”Evangelion”, “Tiger & Bunny”, “Final Fantasy”, “Toho Project”, “Hatsune Miku” and more will appear and walk on the stage surrounded by each character’s image and theme song!

San Francisco, CA, November 29, 2011 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North America, will delight manga (graphic novel) art fans with the release of D.GRAY-MAN ILLUSTRATIONS: NOCHE on December 6^th. The new art book arrives just in time for the holidays and will carry an MSRP of $21.99 U.S. / $25.99 CAN.

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Title: Case Closed 41

Author/Artist: Gosho Aoyama

Distributor: Viz Media

American Release Date: Jan 10, 2012

Format: Manga

Genre: Mystery, Comedy

Publisher Age Rating: T+ for older teen

Overall Personal Rating: B+

Synopsis:

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Title: Chaos;Head

Original Story: 5pb and Nitro+

Director: Ishiyama Takaaki (Madhouse)

American Publisher: FUNimation Entertainment

American Release Date: November 29, 2011

Format and length: DVD, 12 episodes

Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-fi

Overall Personal Rating: B

Titles in the Radius: Steins;Gate, The World God Only Knows and >Welcome to the NHK

What is reality? Is it is what we perceive or is it something else? If everyone believes something, does that make the item real? Chaos;Head explores this concept, but with added level of augmented reality (virtual reality that interacts with the real world).

HOUSTON, November 29^th, 2011 – Section23 Films is pleased to announce today’s release of this year’s most riveting animated thriller LOUPS=GAROUS: The Motion Picture. Available today on both DVD and Blu-Ray.

Title:                 LOUPS=GAROUS

Running Time:   98 min.

Age Rating:       TV 14 (V)

Language:         English & Japanese with English Subtitles

CAT:                 SF-LG001

UPC:                814131017413

Published by:    Sentai Filmworks

Distributed by:  Section23 Films

Street Date:      11/29/2011

Format:             DVD

SRP:                $29.98

Title:                LOUPS=GAROUS BLU-RAY EDITION

Running Time:  98 min.

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The remake of Battle Royale, which went into development in 2006 (see “Battle Royale Remake”) will probably not get made, producer Roy Lee told Movieweb.  The Hunger Games, which is getting a strong run-up to release (see “’Hunger Games’ Trailer”), has a similar storyline and “definitely took a lot of the wind out of the sails,” Lee said.  The Battle Royale manga and films tell the story of a future annual battle between the members of a high school class placed on an abandoned island to fight it out in a game of survival.  Hunger Games is set in a world where each of twelve districts in a post-apocalyptic North America send a boy and a girl to fight to the death in a televised competition.

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Title: I’ll Give My All…Tomorrow

Artist/Author: Shunju Aono

Distributor: Viz Sig

American release date: December 6, 2011

Format, Genre and length: Slice of Life Manga 208 pages

Publisher/Industry Age Rating: T+

Overall Personal Rating: C+

A manga about  a slacker who is no longer young, working at a fast food place and playing video games?

Synopsis:  

For an introduction to the series, here is a review on the first volume:

Title: Tenjo Tenge!

Author: Oh! great (Shueisha)

American Publisher: Viz Media

American Release Date: December 20, 2011

Age Rating: M

Format and length: Manga, 2 volumes

Genres: Fantasy, Martial Arts, Romance, Seinen

Overall Personal Rating: A-

In the Radius: Ikki Tousen and Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple

It’s the end of the world of the world as we know it, but Katsuhiro Otomo and Bandai feel fine.

The Mayans predicted that 2012 would bring about the apocalypse, so it’s oddly fitting that it’s the thirtieth anniversary of Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo’s seminal post-apocalyptic manga. Debuting in 1982, the series took both the Japanese and Western world by storm, winning the prestigious 1984 Kodansha Manga Award for best general manga.

The film version in 1988 catapulted the franchise into international superstardom and helped to cement anime and manga’s popularity in the West. Alongside films like Blade Runner, Akira established a dystopian, futuristic tone which influenced titles like Ghost in the Shell, Armitage III and Western works like The Matrix.

Garena strikes deal to distribute highly anticipated team-based shooter game in Southeast Asia and Taiwan for US$23 million

Laguna Hills, CA – November 28, 2011. Red 5 Singapore Pte. Ltd. (“Red 5 Singapore”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The9 Limited (NASDAQ: NCTY) (“The9”), today announced that its highly anticipated team-based shooter game, Firefall, is licensed to Garena Online Private Limited (“Garena”) for distribution across Southeast Asia and Taiwan. The agreement is for a term of six years, during which Garena will pay Red 5 Singapore US$23 million, plus royalties, for the exclusive right to distribute Firefall to game players in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong and the Philippines, and is an important step in the global rollout of Firefall. This collaboration between The9, Red 5 Singapore and Garena is expected to deliver enhanced outreach of Firefall in these markets, as well as an unrivaled gaming experience.

 Flower Mound, TX (November 28, 2011) – FUNimation ® Entertainment has acquired the live action film Incredibly Ever After (also known in Hong Kong as Mr. & Mrs. Incredible), which is set for a fall 2010 DVD release.

Retirement is not all it’s cracked up to be; at least that’s what former superheroes Gazer Man and Aroma Woman have come to find out.  Having retired from their crime fighting days, the dynamic duo move to a small village to try and start a family, but their romance takes a toll as tranquility doesn’t seem to agree with Gazer Man’s libido.

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Bakuman Volume 8

Authors: Story By Tsugumi Ohba

Art By Takeshi Obata

Distributor: Viz/Shonen Jump

American Release Date: Dec. 6th, 2011

Format: Traditional Manga/ 192 pages

Genre: Shonen, Comedy, Slice-of-life

Publisher Age Rating: T (for Teen)

Personal Review Rating: C+

Similar Series: Kingyo Used Books, Solanin, Yawara!

Synopsis:

TOKYO, JAPAN (November 25, 2011) –niwango Inc., known for its “Nico Nico Douga (Niconico)”  video sharing website (www.nicovideo.jp), and Aniplex Inc. have jointly announced today that they will host a live-screening of the OVA  “Rurouni Kenshin -Reflection” subtitled inEnglish for free on the NiconicoLive-Streaming channel on Saturday, December 17th at 1:00am Japan local time.

Earlier this year, the NiconicoLive-Streaming channel also hosted a screening of the OVA “Rurouni Kenshin -Trust & Betrayal”, there were approximately 122,000 viewers and over 131,000 live-comments (grand total of all countries).

Title: Bleach

Author: Tite Kubo  (Shueisha)

American Distributor: Viz Media

American Release Date: December 6, 2011

Format: Manga, 10 chapters

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shonen, Supernatural

Publisher Age Rating: T

Personal Review Rating: C-

Similar Series: Dragon Ball, Full Metal Alchemist, Hunter x Hunter, Kekkaishi, Naruto and One Piece

Authors like to pair up their protagonists with specific antagonists in order to help develop their characters. Sometimes these antagonists have similar, but opposing goals. Often in shonen action series there are plenty of antagonists designed for unlocking or honing skills, and sometimes, like this volume of Bleach, the antagonists are designed to be opposing personalities of some type.

news source Yomiuri Online

The manga creator Takehiko Inoue (Vagabond, Slam Dunk, Buzzer Beater) received the Japanese government’s Medal of Honor with Dark Blue Ribbon award from his hometown of Isa, Kagoshima Prefecture on Friday.

Inoue made a monetary contribution of an undisclosed amount to the city through the furusato n?zei (hometown tax) system. The Medal of Honor with Dark Blue Ribbon goes to individuals who donate more than 5 million yen (about US$65,000) to government institutions towards public well being. This is the first time in Kagoshima Prefecture that such a merit award has been given because of a hometown tax system contribution. According to Inoue’s wishes, his contribution will go towards children and the promotion of youth health in Isa.

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Title: Toriko vol. 7

Author/Artist: Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro

Distributor: Viz Media

American Release Date: December 6, 2011

Format: Manga

Genre: Action, Adventure,Comedy

Overall Personal Rating: B

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Pokémon the Movie: Black — Victini and Reshiram, one of this year’s two films in the Pokémon anime franchise, will air on the American cable channel Cartoon Network on December 10.

The digital theatrical distributor Cinedigm will also hold a limited two-day screening of the other 2011 film, Pokémon the Movie: White — Victini and Zekrom (Gekij?ban Pocket Monster Best Wishes! Victini to Kuroki Eiy? Zekrom), in the United States during the December 3-4 weekend. The official Pokémon movie website is streaming two individual trailers and one joint promotional video for both of this year’s Pokémon films.

news provided by AnimeNews.biz

The latest feature film by acclaimed director Makoto Shinkai in Hoshi o Kodomo (Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below) has been licensed by a yet unnamed North American licensor, following the cancellation of its planned screening at the Waterloo Festival of Animated Cinema yesterday in Ontario, Canada.

The confirmation of the license came as part of the announcement confirming the screening cancellation to the attendees, with no further information given on which company obtained the license.

Santa Ana, Calif. – NIS America announced today that Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2 for the PlayStation®3 Computer Entertainment System will be shipped out in late February 2012 in both the North American and European markets. Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2 is the sequel to the popular RPG Hyperdimension Neptunia, in which you control personifications (humanoids) of videogame consoles with the objective of protecting the world of Gamindustri. In Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2, the four heroines are the younger sisters of the CPUs (Console Patron Units) from Hyperdimension Neptunia. Once again, fans can indulge in the mysteries and adventures found within Gamindustri!