Anime News
Monkey Punch Inspired Characters in Ginroku Gijinden Roman Anime
Nippon Columbia, a music company, has recently revealed more details about a new animation in the works. On Thursday, the company discloses that Ginroku Gijinden Roman, a popular pachinko game that has the original designs by Lupin III artist Monkey Punch, will be having its own television anime series and will hit the local small-screen on January 7, 2013.
Ginroku Gijinden Roman will feature Monkey Punch’s familiar character handwork; elaborate and long hands and feet, sheepish grins and a smart aura that seems to be ready for adventure. Keep Reading
The world just can’t seem to get enough of Neon Geon Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン)! As we loom closer and closer to the release of Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo, Asgard brings you this week’s Evangelion news starting off with the Izakaya Pub discount.
The planned Kuroko’s Basketball (黒子のバスケ) Doujinshi event set by Japanese even organizing company Youmedia has announced that they have cancelled the Kansai Only Festa 2012 Autumn Part 2 as requested by the local police. Everything related to Kuroko’s Basketball has been receiving threats of one form to another including letters and dangerous substances.
If you don’t know Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明,), then you don’t know Dragon Ball (ドラゴンボール). The legendary manga artist that gave us Son Goku (孫 悟空) and the rest of the Z Warriors met up with Japanese nu metal band, Maximum The Hormone (マキシマムザホルモン), at Electric Lady Land in Nagoya, Japan last October 29, 2012.
14-year-old Leonid Hmelev was found dead after jumping off more than 100 feet from the highest point of an apartment in Chaikovsky, Russia. The cause of his depression and ultimately his untimely death is seeing Naruto character, Itachi Uchiha (うちは イタチ), die in the anime. The Daily Mail, a British news media, has reported this unfortunate event last Friday.