Kaiyodo, the company behind the awesome Revoltech articulated figures has just announced their latest character: Black Vash from Trigun.
Black Vash next to the original.
Expect the figure to come out in late Summer for around $25. These small figs aren’t cheap but they look so damn cool.…
Ame-comi is a DC Direct action figure line consisting of female characters influenced by Japanese anime. I have one figure from the line, Wonder Woman. At $50 per figure and rising, they’re not cheap. I thought this line wasn’t popular because most toy messageboards I frequent, don’t like the line. The collector’s think it’s overpriced, while the hardcore anime fans think that it doesn’t represent manga very well.
So it was a surprise to me that 3 of the character’s costumes will be sold exclusively online at Costume Craze. Wonder Woman, Catwoman and Supergirl will be available in the summer …
Son of loaded Oracle founder, David Ellison and his film company Skydance Productions is trying to get the rights to a 70’s animated TV series called Star Blazers which was based on the anime Space Battleship Yamato. He’s hoping to turn it into a live action feature film. Ellison and his Skydance funded half of True Grit for Paramount which has brought in $165 million domestically so that puts him in a nice position to negotiate.
Other projects Ellison’s got going include funding the next Mission Impossible, another Jack Ryan installment starring Chris Pine, and a collaboration with Dark Horse Comic …
“Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit,” “Seirei no Moribito” – powerful story, amazing art – on Hulu and Cartoon Network
I just finished watching this series, which was beautifully done. It is based on fantasy novels by Nahoko Uehashi. She develops many characters that I respected and wanted to watch grow. Taking place in a fantasy world with many lands and races, the anime follows a bodyguard beauty, Balsa. She gets caught up in a royal incident that includes a prince, Chagum. She must protect the boy, who is fated to bear the egg bearer of a water spirit. It’s …
Based on a manga by Hiroyu Oka, Gantz is a live-action feature-length film co-starring Kenichi Matsuyama, the very popular actor who played the eccentric genius “L” in Death Note: L Change the World, and equally famous actor/musician Ninomiya Kazunari aka Nino. The anime adaptation is rated TV-MA and contains some pretty graphic violence and sex. But the movie seems to have managed to veer away from at least some of those more extreme aspects as it was given a PG-13 rating.
Gantz is about these two guys who get killed and end up in an apartment version of limbo with …
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Stu Levy, the guy who founded Tokyopop, the American manga distributor who introduced titles like Cardcaptor Sakura, is hosting a reality series called America’s Greatest Otaku. In it, he’ll be traversing the United States, 20 cities to be exact, interviewing different fans of the subculture at cons and such. For those who might not know what an otaku is, the American definition is someone who is really into manga, anime, video games, etc. But not every fan of the popular culture can be considered an otaku; this person lives and breathes the stuff. The term “otaku” doesn’t have any really …
Anime Expo 2011 will be the organization’s 20th anniversary and they’re giving out big prizes for cosplayers. The big prize is for the “Best Of Show” winner, a whopping $10,000. It’s the biggest prize for a cosplay event in North America. So expect cool and even more creative costumes at the event. AX 2011 will be from July 1-4, 2011.
Below is the press release, along with the other prizes:
“Anime Expo, North America’s largest anime and manga event which attracts tens of thousands of elaborately costumed fans for one of the world’s largest masquerade events, will reward its most creative …
WB sent along the pic above as well as the press release for the new animated show, Thundercats.
“Roaring to life through WBA and Studio4°C’s use of the Japanese animated artistry of anime, “ThunderCats” characters Lion-O, Mumm-Ra, Panthro, Cheetara and others will spring off the screen with realistic cat-like characteristics inconceivable in previous incarnations.
The new “ThunderCats” will appeal to viewers who have loved the characters all their lives as well as young newcomers to the franchise. A sweeping tale combining swords and science and boasting ferocious battles with the highest of stakes, the grand origin story of Prince Lion-O’s ascension …
Warner Brothers Pictures has three live-action anime adaptations on the horizon to watch out for. Rumors are swirling about these and they are all currently considered “in development” so a lot could change from now until they’re released. But here’s what’s reportedly in the works so far…
AKIRA – WB has been hard at work on a live-action adaptation of this legendary anime. It’s had all sorts of names attached to it at different times including the possibility of Zack Efron playing Akira and Morgan Freeman as the Colonel. Other rumors that Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be playing Tetsuo have also been …
What do they have in common? Big news for fans of the popular Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku, now you can hook up the Xbox Kinect to your PC and use the motion-capture to make Miku dance in real time. Here’s the video released by the developer of the MikuMikuDance program, Yu Higuchi. (This guy’s dancing is pretty hilarious, too).
Kinect is the add-on for XBox 360 that Microsoft released in November which allows you to use your body to control what the character is doing on the TV screen. Kinect uses a camera that records your movements instead of any hand-held …
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