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Samurai Champloo: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
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Person 4 transmitted by new extended Promo for animation sequences
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Shihoko Hirata, the lead singer of the song's opening and ending themes for the game of 4 original person, carried out also opening theme of the anime "sky's the limit" and the final song "Beauty of fate" (with Lotus juice). The official account of the anime Twitter confirmed that the anime last two kuru or half a year and published official site the second key visual image of the anime.
Director Seiji Kishi (Angel Beats!, my bride is a mermaid) and the ASTA AIC anime Studio being adapted game 4 of the Atlus person in a TV series. Person concept designer Kazuma Kaneko, original character designer Shigenori Soejima, and musical composer Shoji Meguro are reprising their respective roles in the game of the anime.
Convert Member Daisuke Namikawa (Yu Narukami), Showtaro Morikubo (Yosuke Hanamura), Yui Horie (Chie Satonaka) and Ami Koshimizu (Yukiko Amagi), Tomokazu Seki (Kanji Tatsumi), Kappei Yamaguchi (Kuma), Unshou Ishizuka (Ryotaro Dojima), Akemi Kanda (Nanako Dojima), and Mitsuaki Madono (Toru Adachi) are all returning from play to play their respective characters.
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Watashi wa shadow Noriko Kasuya Manga gets Live Show
Naohito Fujiki (GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka, 20th Century Boys, Hotaru no Hikari) will play husband of the Seine, Takefumi, who is also a detective. Kenta Shuji (zero of crows, Beck), Arata Furuta (century XX Boys, Utsurun Desu.), Sei Ashina (Kamen Rider Hibiki), Kenichi Endo (crows zero, origin ~ spirits of the past ~), Yuriko Ishida (Princess Mononoke, Kokuriko-Zaka Kara) and Humberto Vélez (Casshern, Dark Water) complete the cast. Aki Isoyama (Ikebukuro West Gate Park) will produce the series.
Watashi wa shadow was published in the magazine le journal between 2007 and 2010. The manga follows Seine Asagi, a mistress of House that is completely dedicated to supporting her husband, but accidentally becomes a detective and makes a fresh start as a strong woman.
Source: Natalie Comic
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Tiger & Bunny gets manga
Weekly Young Jump announced this month that Masakazu Katsura drawing a special page 39 unique number Tiger & Bunny manga. Katsura is the original designer of Tiger & Bunny, and is also the creator of the manga as DNA², I "s, Video Girl Ai and Zetman.
Anime Tiger & Bunny dawn focuses on Heroes for hire - super powered beings known as follows using logos sponsor while combating crime on live television. Keiichi Sato (director of Karas, The Big O mechanical character and Designer) is cane project and Yoshihiro Ike (Blood: The Last Vampire, Karas, leaves dead) is to compose the music.
VIZ Media is streaming anime outside of Japan, which is transmitted.
Source: Yaraon!
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It indomina to produce the film's live action Afro Samurai
Thursday, July 21, 2011
The film be shot next year in the Republic Dominican Indomina Pinewood studies.
Samuel Jackson voiced the character of title in the 2007 television series Afro Samurai, and again on television TV movie Afro Samurai: Resurrection. Anime and manga by Takashi Okazaki origin presented a hair afro samurai wandering in a futuristic but feudal alternate-world Japan.
Jackson commented: "This has been one of my very favorite properties from our amazing debut at Comic-Con the pilot of the original series of Japan." "I can't wait to produce epic feature film with our new partners in the Group of Indomina".
Snigh Indomina Mann described Afro Samurai as "the perfect property" to exploit channels vertical thrrough, aimed at what Snigh calls "an audience of fanboy".
The producers plan to attach a screenwriter and director of this summer and complete the casting at the end of the year. Stacey Smart Stanley is overseeing the development of the film for Indomina and Chris Carlisle for Gonzo.
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Update: Projection Hoshi Otakon or Ou Kodomo will be subtitled
The film focuses on Asuna, a girl who spends her lonely days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the radius of glass received from his father as a souvenir. However, she embarks on a journey of adventure to find a mysterious boy only met and thus get to know the cruelty and the beauty of the world, as well as loss.
Otakon 2011 will take place 29-31 July at the Convention Center in Baltimore, in Baltimore, Maryland.
By Samuelp in Forum of ANN for the update.
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© Hiroya Oku/Shueisha © 2011 "gantz" film partners
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Ai ore Mayu Shinjo! Manga Gets the film
The manga centers around two teenagers: Mizuki, the female "Prince" of its girls school and a girls rock band guitarist and Akira, the male "Princess" of the all boys school. Akira wishes to join the band of Mizuki Blaue Rosen to the singer of the band moving foreign, but must first overcome distrust suspicious of Mizuki.
The manga released in Shojo Comic in Shogakukan (now called Sho-Comi) under the title Ai or Utau yori mineral or Oborero! However, the manga moved to the monthly Asuka Kadokawa, and thus Shinjo had changed its title. He finished the first arc of the manga and the series is currently in recess.
VIZ Media published the first volume of the manga in North America in May. Viz also publishes manga by Shinjo Kaikan Phrase.
Source: Natalie Comic
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Highschool of the Dead, Vol. 1
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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Preview 1934 tank Tankuro Manga gajo Sakamoto in English
The sleeve of tank Tankuro chronicles the adventures of the Tankuro robot tank and the villain fighting, Kuro Kabuto ("black town"), in the decade before World War II. As such, the character precedes even Mighty Atom/Astro Boy manga and anime pioneer Osamu Tezuka.
The book of Tankuro tank has pages 240 comics also essays and biographical information. Chris Ware designed the cover (pictured).
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Kimi ni Todoke, English trailers Enma-kun streaming
NIS America (NISA), the subsidiary company of Nippon Ichi Software Games American, began their official trailers for the launch of kimi ni Todoke - From Me to You - and Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera, subtitled in English of transmission last week.
The first part of kimi ni Todoke - From Me to You - will be sent in October and NIS America will provide more details about the release of Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera once they are established.
NIS America also broadcasts its Atelier Totori of the burst launch trailer: Arland adventurer game Monday:
NIS America plans to send this game for the PlayStation 3 this autumn.
Derived JoJo runs on Mag fashion women
The manga full color will revolve around Rohan Kishibe, a fictional manga Creator who appears in the fourth part of JoJo's bizarre adventure and other works of Araki. Few years after his trip to the Louvre Museum in Paris (as recounted in Araki Rohan manga project au Louvre), heads of Rohan to Florence with the memory of his grandmother bag in hand.
This will be the first work of Araki in the women's fashion magazine. More details about the manga will be provided in the September issue of spur on Saturday.
This year, Araki celebrates 30 years as a manga creator and the 25th anniversary of JoJo Bizarre Adventure. The eighth part of the strange adventure of JoJo, Jojolion, released in Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine in May. VIZ Media published the volume of the manga in North America the past 16th December, and Super Techno Arts unveiled series version anime original video until that arose a controversy over a picture of the Qur'an in the sixth episode.
Source: Natalie Comic
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The first berserk streaming movie Teaser Trailer
Friday, July 15, 2011
The title of the first part, Berserk Ogon Haou Jidai-Hen I: no Tamago (mother of the golden age arc I: Supreme ruler egg), unveiled last week. The first film in the count of three parts of the arc of the golden age of manga by Kentaro Miura opens in Japan next January.
Image © Kentaro Miura Hakusensha Berserk film partners
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Film Festival in Austin to show Boys on the Run, Yakuza weapon
Playwright and director Daisuke Miura supervised living children in project execution and singer Ginnan Boyz Kazunobu Mineta plays the main character Toshiyuki Tanishi, a seller of juguetes-cápsula almost thirty years. The film follows Toshiyuki changing fortunes in love and life.
Yakuza weapon is the film of a sleeve of Ken Ishikawa, a protégé of Go Nagai. Bills of distributors Yakuza weapon as "a tough royale battle with gangsters hard, threatening women and cyber penis implants". The co-directors are Yuudai Yamaguchi (who directed the alto de vivo Cromartie - The Movie) and Tak Sakaguchi (who also starred in the film).
Other Japanese films at Fantastic Fest include the American premiere of the film's body temperature of Takaomi Ogata on the relationship of a young man with a doll of life-size sex, "bizarre musical/variety/samurai/love story" Milocrorze, a love story, Shinji Imaoka of Yoshimasa Ishibasha pink film love underwater from a worker of the fish factory and a mythical creature and a tenth anniversary of Ryuhei Kitamura Versus projection.
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Variety: James Collett-Serra direct film Akira alive (updated)
Variety also noted that according to "inside", the film is "who is reenvisioned as a $ 90 million" project of blockbuster.
In may, former director Albert Hughes left the project due to "creative differences" in the film.
Also in may, reported that he had spent Keanu Reeves in the role of Kaneda in the film, and that "most" of the staff of the film had been let go.
Gary Whitta, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby writers were previously linked to the project, but the development team with producer Andrew Lazar (Jonah Hex, Space Cowboys, Get Smart) hired a new so-called writer Albert Torres. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio the Aviator (Titanic) is producing through his production company Appian Way. When the project was originally announced in 2008, it was intended to be the debut as a director Ruairi Robinson of Ireland. Last year, Hughes said the news site of the Japanese film Eiga.com that his next film would be Akira.
In March, an alleged list of possible cast, Justin Timberlake and Robert Pattinson, was published by the film news site deadline. While Pattinson himself downplayed the report, television Star Trek George Takei promoted petitions against the alleged "washing" (only Caucasian casting actors) in the series, whose original characters are Japanese.
Update: Added more background information.
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Live Kimi ni Todoke to undergo tests in Dallas
In this film directed by Naoto Kumazawa, schoolgirl Sawako Kuronuma (Mikako Tabe) becomes an outcast, and his long hair leads fellow Nick him after the demonic Sadako from the film of horror Ringu. However, Sawako then gains new friends and begins to come out of his shell.
Sleeve of Shiina began in 2005 in Bessatsu Margaret, and has 16 million printed copies. Production I.G was adapted as an anime television series in 2009, and the second season of anime premiered this January in Japan last month. The manga was also nominated for the first manga Taisho Awards in 2008 and won the award for best Shojo Manga in the 32nd Annual Kodansha Manga awards in the same year.
Thanks to Marc Hairston for the news tip.
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La Haruka no Himitsu novels get more Anime
Thursday, July 7, 2011
The story follows a boy who discovers that the most unattainable girl from his high school is a secret otaku. The series inspired an anime series in 2008, not followed by La Haruka Himitsu: Purezza sequel anime television in 2009. Mamiko Noto and Wataru Hatano took the voice of portraying the girl, Haruka la and the child, Yuto Ayase, respectively. CrunchyRoll broadcasts the second anime series out of Japan who went on the air.
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Moyoco Anno draws Manga 1 history since the break of 2008
On Friday, the August issue of young people feel Shodensha magazine is the publication "20 years", the first manga of history that has drawn Moyoco Anno (flowers and bees happy Mania, Sugar Sugar Rune, Sakuran) since it went into recess in 2008.
Despite his rest of story manga, Anno has continued to draw manga essay and newspaper each week. He also drew art to encourage Japan after the disaster of the great earthquake of Japan East (Higashi Nihon plain) from March 11.
The special "20 years" sleeve of four pages, One Shot is part of the 20th anniversary of feeling Young. Anno has not published a manga in young people feel Kantoku Fuyukitodoki from the latest installment of the manga's essay in the edition of January 2005, six years and seven months ago. She also published a history of manga (instead of trial manga) there since "Tokyo Bangaichi" edition of January 2004, seven years and seven months ago.
Other works in celebration of 20th anniversary of feeling Young include "Hitohada of Peco Watanabe," "usuku teawai sumako kari", "Birthday" Katsura Murakami and Natsuo Motomachi "Natsufuku ni Kigaereba" (the first manga magazine in history of Motomachi in a woman).
VIZ Media published the Anno flowers and bees manga in North America, Tokyopop had released happy Mania, and the King had released Sugar Sugar Rune.
The August issue of young people are also still Usagi Drop Bangai-Hen manga by Yumi Unita derived his manga Bunny Drop (drop of Usagi) recently concluded. An included DVD presents the series adaptation anime July Usagi drop and the film adaptation of the August. Yen Press publishes the manga Bunny Drop and Crunchyroll, siren Visual and ANN are airing the anime outside of Japan.
Source: Natalie Comic
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Despite his rest of story manga, Anno has continued to draw manga essay and newspaper each week. He also drew art to encourage Japan after the disaster of the great earthquake of Japan East (Higashi Nihon plain) from March 11.
The special "20 years" sleeve of four pages, One Shot is part of the 20th anniversary of feeling Young. Anno has not published a manga in young people feel Kantoku Fuyukitodoki from the latest installment of the manga's essay in the edition of January 2005, six years and seven months ago. She also published a history of manga (instead of trial manga) there since "Tokyo Bangaichi" edition of January 2004, seven years and seven months ago.
Other works in celebration of 20th anniversary of feeling Young include "Hitohada of Peco Watanabe," "usuku teawai sumako kari", "Birthday" Katsura Murakami and Natsuo Motomachi "Natsufuku ni Kigaereba" (the first manga magazine in history of Motomachi in a woman).
VIZ Media published the Anno flowers and bees manga in North America, Tokyopop had released happy Mania, and the King had released Sugar Sugar Rune.
Source: Natalie Comic
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Tona-Gura! Romantic comedy manga ends at Japan
The 13th and final volume of Hidetaka Kakei Tona-Gura! manga romantic comedy sent in Japan on Thursday. The manga ran in Comic Rush of Jive magazine, which went from print to digital format in March. The manga had been running in Comic Rush since January 2004, and continued in the form of the magazine until August 2011 "question".
The history of Tona-Gura! revolves around Kazuki and Yuuji, two childhood friends and neighbors. Yuuji back in his home after 10 years, and Kazuki, who has had a crush on him all this time, has its representation of Yuuji shattered the reunification the two.
Strings library Comic Toranoana, Comic Zin, K-libros and Mangaoh are each offer different special card and illustrations of paper to commemorate the liberation.
The manga was adapted into a thirteen episode anime television series by the Studio of anime Daume and director Tatsuya Abe (dogs: massacre & bullets) in 2006.
Source: Natalie Comic
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Strings library Comic Toranoana, Comic Zin, K-libros and Mangaoh are each offer different special card and illustrations of paper to commemorate the liberation.
The manga was adapted into a thirteen episode anime television series by the Studio of anime Daume and director Tatsuya Abe (dogs: massacre & bullets) in 2006.
Source: Natalie Comic
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Man pleads guilty to coercing girl that he met in Anime
According to the Office of the Prosecutor of United States for the District of Maryland, Michael Allen Alper was already a convicted sex offender when he met the girl at the Conference in a hotel of Oxon Hill, Maryland, in February 2010. Alpher was 33 years old, and he had only come from parole a month earlier. Allegedly befriended the girl on Facebook and through mobile phone conversations under the name "Michael allen" and engaged in explicit sexual conduct twice in the next month.
According to the Prosecutor's Office, the girl later discovered the true identity of Alper when a friend is your registration of sex offenders under his full name. Alper allegedly proceeded to create another fictional identity online and contacted the girl again, "lying on the charges that led to the condemnation of the sexual offender".
Under the agreement, Alper agreed to register as a sex offender where he lives, works and studies. If the Court accepts the agreement between the parties, Alper shall be sentenced to between 10 and 14 years in prison. The Court has scheduled its ruling on October 28.
Alper had been convicted of rape with another girl he met online in Virginia in 2003. He was sentenced to three years in prison (all except six months suspended) and three years probation.
Katsucon was held in a hotel in Oxon Hill in February 2010.
Katsucon Anime News Network has provided with the following statement regarding the incident:
at Katsucon have recently has made known the case of an Assistant to Katsucon pleaded guilty to coerce a minor in criminal sexual activity several weeks after the first meeting of the lowest in our Convention.Sources: WJLA, Washington Examiner
Firstly, we want to express our condolences and sympathies to the family of the minor had to undergo an ordeal that difficult and the minor in question.
The staff and volunteers at Katsucon work extremely hard to make our event one that is safe for young workers. To this end, reaching parents and guardians to be aware of our event and what we have to offer.
In all cases, we suggest that Katsucon is a Convention that encourages parents and guardians to experiment with their children, and when that is not possible, always need to complete a parental consent form for the parents and guardians are aware that your child is to attend our Convention.
Katsucon also employs a staff of full security that works in conjunction with the security at our Convention Center staff to protect all our assistants while they are in the areas of the Convention. We do everything possible to separate the Convention of categories of age appropriate programming and implementing controls of ID to the events of the Convention which are geared towards attendees adults.
Even will all these measures, often predatory nature people are hard to identify unless it is too late.
In this event, Katsucon will make it possible to check our list of assistants pre-registration against sex offender records published by the Federal Government and local and ban the assistance of those identified as a threat to our attendees in hopes to avoid an incident like this once it occurs again.
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SHUEISHA to launch, relaunch 3 Manga Mags in 2011-2012
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The Japanese Publisher Shueisha announced on Monday that will combine its seinen magazines (young) business jump and Super jump to create a new bi-monthly magazine this fall. Business jump will end with the 21st edition of this year on October 5, and Super Jump will end with the 21st edition of this year on October 12. In addition, it will launch an independent monthly magazine this year. On the other hand, the sequel to magazine jump Kai will be relaunching as a periodic journal regular next spring.
Some 200,000 copies of Super Jump sent each second and fourth Wednesday. It was released in October 1988 as a seinen magazine aimed at the generation in Weekly Shonen Jump. Their titles are Ring or Kakero 2, Jin and Gotakeshi.
SHUEISHA explained that he is making these changes in response to the changing environment of seinen manga and the changing tastes of readers.
Sources: Mantan Web of Mainichi Shimbun, Natalie Comic
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Blade Visual books Queen Original Anime DVD package
The books of the art collection includes two DVD with 40 minutes each original new anime. About 20 minutes will be than a story about the revolt of characters that have not appeared in Queen's Blade anime so far. 20 Minutes will be dedicated to an anime in which the character Alleyne and Siggy give private lessions. The stories are set after competition from Blade of the Queen of the original games in the Japanese hobby but before the rebellion. Taking place after the story of Blade Utsukushiki Toshi-tachi video anime the recent Queen.
Yosei Morino (Dokyusei 2, I "s) he will lead the new anime in weapons, the Studio behind releases of the previous Queen Blade anime. Hideki Shirane (Aria the Scarlet ammo, martial master of hearts) and Michiko Ito (Blade 2 the Queen: the evil eye, Blade Utsukushiki Toshi-tachi Queen) are scripting new anime and Rhine-Sin, Takayuki Noguchi and Yukiko Ishibashi again to design the characters and oversee the animation. ERI Kitamura (Alleyne) Reprise his role with Aya Endo (Annerotte), Yu Kobayashi (Siggy) and Ayaka Saito (Ymir).
Source: Saishin Anime Joho
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Sukeban Deka Manga creator Shinji Wada passed Away
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One Piece Excellent Model P.O.P ~STRONG EDITION~ Brooks 1/8 Scale PVC Figure
Friday, July 1, 2011
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Hidan no Aria author: second season needs more BD/DVD sales
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CrunchyRoll posts Usagi placing Anime Banner (updated)
Usagi drop, the animation Production I.G Studio, adapted manga segment of the life of the Yumi Unita Usagi Drop (Bunny Drop).
In the story, 30 years Bachelor Daikichi (Hiroshi Tsuchida) discovers a little garden at the funeral of his grandfather of the girl named Rhine (Ayu Matsuura) of his grandfather. Rhin is not desired 6-year-old daughter of the grandfather of Daikichi and Daikichi decides to take her when no one in the family does not accept responsibility.
The Bunny Drop manga began in 2006, and the eighth compilation volume book Envoy last October. Yen Press published the third volume of manga in North America in March, and the title was nominated for the Eisner Awards this year. A version of the film opens in Japan on 20 August with the director Sabu, lead actor Ken ' ichi Matsuyama (Death Note, Detroit Metal City, Gantz) and actress Mana Ashida.
Update: URL added of background information.
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Direct primary brands is committed to make offer for borders
Najafi, the parent company of the book club brands, has made a preliminary agreement to become the "stalking" horse to the American bookstore chain borders at an auction in July. A "stalking horse" undertakes to make the initial bid before the auction begins and can receive compensation if you do not win.
As part of the same agreement, borders will sell an indeterminate number of stores for cash 215.1 million and 220 million dollars in the assumption of liabilities. According to the borders, the liquidators, Hilco, and Gordon Brothers, have agreed to acquire any stores not to sell and close "in" an orderly manner.
Bids are due on July 17. If he wins Najafi, borders would be a direct subsidiary of brands. Najafi is surpassed by borders, requested by the chain rupture rate is $ 6.45 million.
Borders reports that if it did not reach any agreement for sale, with Nafarji or with another company, then the borders has a contract with a joint venture of the liquidators Hilco and Gordon Brothers, plus SB Capital Group, Tiger Capital Group and great American group. In this case, would be liquidated 399 borders stores. It is bordered by estimates that its liquidation at $252 to 284 million dollars.
According to Publishers Weekly, "a chainwide go out of business/store closure sale should take place before the 22nd of July." However, if a sale of concern goes it would take place on or before July 29 and at the latest on 5 August. "
Source: Publishers Weekly
Fractale Manga continues despite the request of the Director
Yamamoto reported on his Twitter account last week calling for production of the franchise Committee to suspend the manga series. Artist of manga, Mutsumi Akazaki, had written in his blog from the beginning of this week found the work "no interest" and added that she wanted to work in a sleeve which enjoyed. After making his request, Yamamoto noted that the final decision rests with the Commission of production.
Gangan Online website also lists on July 28 as a release date for the next chapter of the manga. Next month is when the second volume of the compiled book of manga has been programmed to send before the dispute.
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© 2010 Mutsumi Akazaki/Square Enix
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