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Black Jack Returns With A Contest

Black Jack

The legendary Osamu Tezuka’s medical manga, Black Jack, returns this year with a big bang. Weekly Shonen Champion recently announced that the manga will be featuring medical stories that have been experienced first hand by the readers.

For those unfamiliar with the manga, Black Jack is a brilliant doctor who lends his talents only to those who have the largest amount of money to offer. His ominous appearance and cold, calculating character doesn’t make him popular in the public eye. Keep Reading

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One Piece: Pictures x Movies x Experience This March

One PieceDive into the experience of the New World along with Luffy and his pirate friends through an upcoming event created solely for these heroes. The popular One Piece pirates’ adventures will be put to the spotlight as the makers of this popular manga / anima collaborates to produce with a one of a kind display. The event promises an interactive taste of the pirates’ journey to which the whole exhibition is set-up and supervised by no less than the manga creator himself, Eiichiro Oda. Keep Reading

By カリス, ago

Walt Disney To Release Studio Ghibli’s Arrietty Within 1,200 Screens In The US

The Secret World Of ArriettyWalt Disney Pictures is said to be releasing the Secret World of Arriety within US, hitting 1,200 screens on the February 17th. This is the most prominent US release of a Ghibli Studio creation to date, as reported by the Wall Street Journal financial newspaper. Co-executive producers Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy of the American Dub told the Wall Street Journal financial that the film’s marketing will be widespread, as they will plan to take in the fans of the classic bestseller The Borrowers (1952) by Mary Norton, to which the animation was based in. Keep Reading

By カリス, ago

Japanese Female Pop Group AKB48 Gets Animated

AKB48 animeAKB48, the Japanese all-girl idol group that holds the biggest number of members, is set to launch an animation of their own. Garbed in pink kawaii suits, these girls will not only sing, but also save the world from an impending doom. The storyline highlights the 9 new idol newbies, whose aim is to become world renowned superstars.

Check out the story plot below:

At the start of the 21st Century, the interplanetary traveling technology was greatly affected by the world war.

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By カリス, ago

Rock Lee Gets His Own Show

Rock Lee in Rock Lee No Seishun Full-Power Ninden

Weekly Shonen Jump has proudly announced that on April 2012, an anime adaptation of Naruto’s spin-off manga Rock Lee No Seishun Full-Power Ninden starring Rock Lee himself will be released.

Rock Lee was introduced in the first few episodes of Naruto as a ninja without a talent for both ninjutsu and genjustsu. Instead of being let down by his peers, Lee persevered and was taken in by Maito Gai. Perpetually optimistic and hardworking, Lee is easily indentified as a younger clone of Gai-Sensei, both having the very same bowl-shaped hair cut and eyebrows that could rival even the fuzziest caterpillars. Keep Reading

By SchoolGirlBlogger, ago

New Godzilla 2012 Movie News

Godzilla 2012 concept art by Legendary

Godzilla is one of the most prominent faces of pop culture that would instantly remind people of Japan. Appearing in one form of incarnation to another in movies, video games and even in children’s cartoon program, Pucca, Godzilla will always be a part of the media. From news that circulated two years ago, 2012 was the proposed release year of the new Godzilla movie. 2012 has already arrived and fans are eagerly waiting for news of the return of the King of Monsters. Keep Reading

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GetBackers To Be Released On DVD

Ginji Amano and Ban Mido are the GetBackersRelive the adventures of Ban Mido and Ginji Amano as they “get back” the things people lost! Sentai Filmworks is a North American anime company that releases licensed Blu-Ray and DVD copies of great anime titles. It was announced on their official website on February 1, 2012 that they have gained the license of the famous anime that was produced by Studio DEEN and that they would be releasing the series in digital formats sometime this year. Keep Reading

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