New Berserk Anime Teasers Online

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The homepage for Kentarou Miura’s Berserk manga has begun streaming two of the five new anime teaser trailers narrated by singer/actor Gackt. The precise format of the new Berserk production – TV, OVA, movie – has not been revealed yet.

The CG footage of Zod in the second teaser looksa bit stiff, but there’s a good chance that the footage on display was actually produced two years ago and may not reflect the production quality of the project in its current status.

Source: Anime News Network

Tokyopop Seeks Temporary Junior Film Editor

Los Angeles-based manga publisher Tokyopop is currently seeking a junior film editor to work at the company's offices for four to six weeks to edit the company's Internet-based reality show, America's Greatest Otaku. The show was announced in May, and throughout the summer convention season, Tokyopop CEO Stu Levy and associate producer Daisuke Kinouchi joined six interns traveling to conventions, bookstores, and libraries around the country. The show's goal is "to find America's Greatest Otaku, the person who best exemplifies a truly unique fervor and passion for all things influenced by Japanese pop culture."

[Via EntertainmentCareers]

Aniplex USA to Rerelease R.O.D.

Aniplex USA has announced plans to release a domestic Blu-ray boxed set containing the complete R.O.D. anime franchise this winter. The bilingual five-disc set will contain the 3 episode OVA series from 2001 and the 26 episode sequel television series from 2003.

The OVA series was previously distributed on American DVD by Manga Entertainment. The TV series was previously distributed on American DVD by Geneon.

Source: Anime News Network

Akihabara’s Top Ten Words of 2009

A list of the top words and phrases to be unleashed upon Akihabara in 2009 provides results unlikely to surprise anyone familiar with the year's top stories…

The ranking:

Overall winner:

Untan!♪ (Yui of K-ON!'s catchphrase)

Top ten other words and phrases of 2009:

1. Goran no arisama da yo! (A certain unfinished eroge's now notorious catchphrase)

2. Majikon (Flash cartridge action)

3. Rekijo (History loving women – referring to a modest boom around titles such as Sengoku Basara)

4. Odaiba Gundam (The giant Gundam statue)

5. Da-je! (The catchphrase (gobi) of Yuuki, of nopan anime Saki)

6. Endless Eight (Kadokawa's legendary marketing coup)

7. Judgement desu-no! (To Aru Kagaku no Catchphrase)

8. Madobe Nanami (Windows7-tan theme by Microsoft)

9. Isshoni Trainingu (Anime aerobics marketing gimmick)

10. Moe Moe Kyun (Akiyama Mio's moe catchphrase)

It would appear Akihabara spent 2009 firmly in the grip of the moe boom…

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60% of Japanese Women “Turning Into Men”

60% of Japanese women questioned in a recent survey report "turning into men," with 70% reporting "there are men more feminine than I am around me" and 94% "I'd like to become more womanly."

The survey, covering unmarried Japanese women aged 25-35, also found some other vaguely masculine traits, with 32% at times wanting "a wife or secretary" themselves, and 42% liking to drink alone.

Even more tellingly, 69% said they were conscious of being insufficiently womanly.

Just how this can be reconciled with a male population apparently displaying the opposite tendency is not clear…

 

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Dream C Club on PlayStation: “We’d Like To!”

The developers of hit hostess seduction simulator Dream C Club have expressed their desire to bring the game out on the PlayStation.

D3 have the following to say about it:

"By the way, a lot of people are saying 'We'd like to see Dream Club on the PlayStation,' and we'd like to accommodate those wishes."

Observant souls will notice just which PlayStation platform is not specified, leaving the door open for some half-baked PSP port.

The Xbox 360 is lately in such dire straits in Japan that it seems even Microsoft is reluctant to keep throwing good money after bad; "development assistance" to help keep the title Xbox exclusive seems unlikely…

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Hetalia Anime's Third Season Green-Lit (Updated)

New episodes to launch on web, mobile phones in March 2010

 

A third season of the anime adaptation of Hidekaz Himaruya's Hetalia - Axis Powers comedy web manga has been green-lit for production. Like the first two seasons, it will run on the Animate.tv computer website and on the Japanese mobile phone site Mobile Animate starting in March of 2010. More details will be provided on the official Hetalia.com homepage, in Gentosha's Monthly Comic Birz magazine, and through other sources.

The "cynical gag" manga and anime take the archetypal characteristics of about 20 countries and regions, and anthropomorphize them as (mostly) bishōnen characters. The story re-imagines various historical eras including World War I and II. A theatrical film was previously announced for an early summer 2010 opening in Japan.

The first hall event for the franchise, the tentatively titled Marukaite Kanshasai, will be also held on March 7. The castmembers Daisuke Namikawa (Italy/South Italy), Hiroki Yasumoto (Germany), Hiroki Takahashi (Japan), Aki Kanada (Chibitalia), and Atsushi Kousaka (Estonia/Prussia) are scheduled to attend. The event is planned to have a video screening, a discussion section, and various other parts.

Source: Animate.tv

Image © 2008 Hidekaz Himaruya, Gentosha Comics, Inc./Hetalia Production Committee

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