Infinite Stratos gets new Encore Video on BD/DVD

The official Twitter of the anime IS (infinite Stratos) account confirmed Sunday that a new video is called Encore "ni Koi Kogareru Roku-Juso" (to Sextet desire of love) will be released in Blu-ray and DVD on November 25. The announcement was made for the first time in the event "Is only Festival" on Sunday.

More details will be announced on the official website, but the organizers were already taking pre-orders for the version immediately after the festival ended. The Twitter account also announced that the Festival unique is Yes Blu-ray disc and DVD will be released on October 26. (Reservation on the site of the event is only so much IS Festival Encore releases included a poster of art event with reproduced signatures of Yoko Hikasa, Yukana, Asami Shimoda, Kana Hanazawa, and Marina Inoue.)

Anime adapts the Izuru Yumizuru light novel series "romantic comedy popular School of high speed battle". The story focuses on the Academy: a school for training the pilots of the infinite Stratos weapon system, which can be used by women. Candidates started for girls in countries around the world come here, as well as a boy named Ichika Orimura. As it turns out that Ichika is "the only male in the world that you can use the".

The image is © Izuru Yumizuru, Media Factory/Project

[Via Moe Ota-noticias, Sokuho]

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One Piece Excellent Model P.O.P NEO-DX: Boa Hancock 1/8 Scale PVC Figure

the Empress of Pirates enters P.O.P! - The Pirate Empress finally joins the P.O.P-DX series! - Being a member of the 7 Warlords of the Sea, and the captain of Kuja Pirates, here is the 'Princess of Snakes', Boa Hancock. - Her high-class charms and beauty has been turned 3D, exactly as her image. - Plus, the left arm and face parts can be swapped to recreate 2 different expressions, this is surely an item for all the fans to look forward to!


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Yumeiro Pâtissière Shōjo Manga kitchen ends Friday

Natsumi Matsumoto announced on his Twitter account Thursday that she end her shojo Yumeiro Pâtissière cooking manga in the July edition of the magazine Ribon magazine, which will be released on Friday. Matsumoto released the manga in 2008. The series will have a total of 10 volumes.

The story focuses on a 14 year old girl named Ichigo Amano who wants to be a pâtissière (pastry chef female), but it is hampered by its own stupidity. One day, it is part of St. Mary Academy, a culinary school of sweets and complies to a "spirit of sweets".

The manga was adapted into a TV anime in 2009, and a season of spin, Yumeiro Pâtissière SP Professional, issued in 2010. CrunchyRoll issued both series on his website.

Yumeiro Pâtissière won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the category of children in January. Matsumoto created previously the supernatural adventure St. Dragon Girl, and Viz Media manga had published the eighth and final volume of Saint Dragon Girl in North America in September.

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Waiting for orders from judge on United States Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime license

On Thursday, the judge of the bankruptcy of United States Shelley Chapman ordered TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems (NAS), the owners of Yu-Gi-Oh! anime franchise, to comply with an automatic stay in the anime licenses. According to the order, the owners may not return the franchise or otherwise exercise control over the rights of the franchise. The rights were held by the American Distributor 4Kids under their contracts of 2001 and 2008 with TV Tokyo and NAS.

TV Tokyo and NAS had announced in March that could end up 4Kids Yu-Gi-Oh! license and sue the dealer. The owners stated that 4Kids fraudulently concealed income that should have been subject to royalties for Japanese owners.

In his order on Thursday, judge Chapman also said that the trial on the licensing of the franchise it carried out in two phases: the first will determine if TV Tokyo and NAS announced the cancellation of the license of 4Kids was valid, and the second will determine if 4Kids owes money to the owners and exactly how much. 4Kids must respond to the demand on June 10, followed by the discovery, objections, and lists of witnesses. The first phase of the trial will begin on August 29.

4Kids went bankrupt in April; the company had previously stated that it may have to the file after Yu-Gi-Oh! demand. Demand judging and preventive or submitted, the demand before the Court of bankruptcy because of the relationship between the two cases. When 4Kids learned ADK, the owner of Nihon Ad Systems, to promote the new Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal series licensing International Expo at the end of this month, 4Kids filed a motion requesting the application of the automatic suspension before mentioned.

Image © Kazuki Takahashi Studio dice/Shueisha, TV Tokyo, NAS
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AX to the Host singer Maon Kurosaki, Orange Road Matsumoto

Anime Expo (AX) announced on Thursday that will not be secondary seat of the dead and Toaru Majutsu singer Maon Kurosaki index II, creator of the manga Kimagure Orange Road Izumi Matsumoto and creator of comic strip of Megatokyo Fred Gallagher during his event of 1 - 4 July in Los Angeles.

Kurosaki recently rose to fame after performing in Tokyo Akihabara otaku shopping area. His performance of "Magic World," the theme of Toaru Majutsu no index II, debuted in the top 20 of the weekly Oricon charts. Kurosaki held his debut concert in United States on July 3 on the stage at Club Nokia. She will also be available for a meeting-and-greet/signing autographs and a panel of AX approach.

Romantic comedy of Matsumoto Kimagure Orange Road manga ran in the magazine weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1984 to 1987, and inspired two films, a series of anime TV and several volumes of original video anime. The story focuses on a love triangle between the protagonist Kyosuke and his two friends Madoka and Hikaru.

Megatokyo which has been running since 2008. The comic has been released in six graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics. The main characters, Largo and Piro, regularly parody anime tropes in trying to return to the United States of Japan.

Among the other guests of Anime Expo Hatsune Miku and founder of the Idea Katsuyuki Hirano factory.

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Live Hayate, VitaminX Anime Promos streaming

Official Formosa TV channel on the YouTube website started to air a video of 21 seconds for the adaptation of the series Taiwanese of Hayate's Kenjirou Hata sleeve Butler fight on Monday. The series will be released on June 19 at 9: 40 PM

The story follows a boy named Hayate that serves as a Butler, bodyguard, confidant and a girl named Nagi to pay off a huge debt. In the re-imagined version of live action, 21-year-old Korean Park Shin-Hye actress will play Nagi, while 28 years George Hu will play Hayate himself.

The official site of the original anime DVD project VitaminX addiction began the second promotional video of 96 seconds of transmission on Thursday. Unlike the previous video, this new contains animated real archival material. The anime adapts VitaminX HuneX/D3 Publisher players of dating SIM game. The anime will be sent in three monthly DVD of 25 minutes from July 15.

The story takes place in already Gakuen, a private Academy elite who teaches at every level from kindergarten to the University of Tokyo. A new teacher named Yuri Minami begins its second year of teaching here, and it is now rising teach high school students to the allowance which she had sought: grammar for high school students. Unfortunately, she gets assigned to the "class X," an infamous group of older persons; It is said that all his previous teachers have withdrawn due to ulcers and neurosis. Minami must try to reach out to these students and the University.

[Via Yaraon!, Saishin Anime Joho]

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University of Chicago for Mari Yamazaki of Host water thermal Romae

Harper College will host the next "of Rieko Saibara Manga Showdown" ("Saibara Rieko no Taiketsu of Garyoku Jinsei") with award-winning hot springs Romae manga creator Mari Yamazaki (right photo) in the suburb of Palatine Chicago, June 26 at 2: 30 p.m. This will be the first event of the series of "manga Showdown" overseas, where Saibara (Kaasan - life/Mainichi MOM Kaasan, right photo) has live drawing "competitions" with other creators of manga. Yamazaki was born in Tokyo, he now lives in Chicago.

Romae in thermal waters of Yamazaki is a comedy about Lucius, an architect of public bath houses (baths) in ancient Rome, which tiempo-viajes to several baths of today in Japan. Through passages of manga and essay, Yamazaki explores the two cultures in the world "who wanted bathrooms most: the Japanese and the Romans!" The play won the Manga Taisho Prize (Prize for cartoons) the year passed, followed by the short Prize work of Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize in the 14th. A version of the film with Hiroshi Abe and Aya Ueto will open in Japan in the year 2012. CrunchyRoll began transmission Saibara Kaasan - anime of life of the mother throughout the world in 2009.

Tickets for the event of Harper College, which will be in Japanese, cost of us $10. The Japanese Publisher Shogakukan sponsors the event in collaboration with the Japanese Chamber of Commerce & industry in Chicago.

"manga Showdown" guests have included Naoki Urasawa (children of the twentieth century, Monster) Kiminori Wakasugi (Detroit Metal City), Takashi Murakami (ga Namakemono Miteta), Nobuyuki Fukumoto (Kaiji), Hisashi Eguchi (Stop!) Hibari-Kun), Tetsuya Chiba (Ashita no Joe) and Fujiko Fujio (Doraemon).

Origin: Comic Natalie

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