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    No more stickers! The Landing! Operation Mothra Liberation board has been picked clean of free Mothra event stickers. Photo courtesy of Daisuke Ishizuka. ©SUBNADE © TOHO CO.,LTD. Photographer: Daisuke IshizukaOfficial Site: https://www.subnade.co.jp/event/mothra_in_subnade202408 SciFi Japan recently ran an article previewing "Mothra in Subnade" (モスラ イン サブナード, Mosura in Sabunādo), a special promotional campaign celebrating the 51st anniversary of Shinjuku Subnade, the largest underground shopping mall and parking lot in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The promotion runs from Friday, August 9th to Sunday, October 27th, 2024, and feature various Mothra-themed events and decorations throughout the Subnade . We are now pleased to share more "Mothra in Subnade" photos courtesy of Daisuke Ishizuka, who visited the mall forf the event. Photo courtesy of Daisuke Ishizuka. ©SUBNADE © TOHO CO.,LTD. Photo courtesy of Daisuke Ishizuka. ©SUBNADE © TOHO CO.,LTD. Photo courtesy of Daisuke Ishizuka. ©SUBNADE ©

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    Photo by Andrew Nguyen. TM & ©TOHO CO., LTD. Author: Andrew Nguyen From August 10-30, the Hashimoto Contemporary served as the site of an art exhibit in honor of the Godzilla series' 70th anniversary, hosted by Spoke Art and Ghost X Ghost along with the support of Toho Studios. Titled "70 years of Godzilla," the exhibit contains officially licensed art pieces from 40 artists with a variety of different styles presented. Several of the art pieces were created by well-known artists that have previously worked on Godzilla related merchandise. The opening ceremony was on August 10 and on the day before the opening of the exhibit, the two companies hosted a screening of the original GODZILLA (1954) at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The art exhibition will gradually release copies of the pieces presented in the exhibit with the last of them being made available

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    Photo courtesy of HIDIVE. ©1993 Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Mad House/JVC/TOHO Co. LTD/Movic Inc. In Theaters September 11, 12 & 15 and Now Available in Both United States and CanadaSource: HIDIVE press release Official Site: https://mailchi.mp/iconicreleasing/ax-cinema-nights-interest Special Thanks to Scott Barretto (AMCN Entertainment Group) Photo courtesy of HIDIVE. ©1993 Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Mad House/JVC/TOHO Co. LTD/Movic Inc. This September, AMC Networks’ HIDIVE and Iconic Events Releasing have partnered to present a three-day, 30th anniversary theatrical release of NINJA SCROLL (獣兵衛忍風帖, Jūbē Ninpūchō), the critically acclaimed, samurai period drama film written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and originally released in 1993. Originally announced at Anime Expo 2024, the film’s theatrical release has been expanded to now include both the United States and Canada — with more than 600 theaters locations during its September 11, 12 & 15 run. As an exclusive experience available only in theaters, moviegoers will be treated

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    Source: Iconic Events Releasing press release Official Site: https://www.iconicreleasing.com/ax-cinema-nights/ Special Thanks to Erik Jansen (MediaLab Public Relations) Los Angeles, CA – Iconic Events Releasing, a company specializing in distributing limited engagement theatrical events to movie theatres, has announced an extraordinary lineup of acclaimed classic anime films scheduled to screen across the U.S. and select cities in Canada as part of the latest edition of Anime Expo Cinema Nights (“AX Cinema Nights”). These immersive, experiential community screenings commence in September and continue into Q2 of 2025. Subtitled and dubbed screenings will be presented for most titles. Each film will be shown in more than 500 theatres throughout North America. This season’s AX Cinema Nights program includes some of the most influential anime films ever made. The lineup includes the 30th anniversary theatrical release of the acclaimed, samurai period action adventure, NINJA SCROLL, the futurist cyberpunk mindbender, METROPOLIS 2001,

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    TM & ©TOHO CO., LTD. Source: Toho Co., Ltd, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences press releaseSpecial Thanks to Jonah Keel To celebrate the anniversary of the first GOJIRA film, which was released in theaters in Japan on November 3, 1954 (referred to as Godzilla’s birthday), the Academy Museum presents its first-ever all-day marathon, featuring five classic and contemporary Godzilla films. From his origin as a symbol of the atomic menace, through his years as a colossal defender of the Earth, to modern incarnations that continue to reimagine his identity, Godzilla has proven to be a remarkably malleable cinematic icon, his image as indestructible as the monster himself. Throughout the day, be on the lookout for the famous kaiju on the move around the museum! Sunday, November 3, 2024 | David Geffen Theater Programmed and notes by Robert Reneau. Special thanks to Toho

    The Mothra in Subnade promotion is featured on a starcase inside the mall. Photo courtesy of Daisuke Ishizuka. ©SUBNADE © TOHO CO.,LTD.

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    The Mothra in Subnade promotion is featured on a starcase inside the mall. Photo courtesy of Daisuke Ishizuka. ©SUBNADE © TOHO CO.,LTD. Photographer: Daisuke IshizukaOfficial Site: https://www.subnade.co.jp/event/mothra_in_subnade202408 SciFi Japan recently ran an article previewing "Mothra in Subnade" (モスラ イン サブナード, Mosura in Sabunādo), a special promotional campaign celebrating the 51st anniversary of Shinjuku Subnade, the largest underground shopping mall and parking lot in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The promotion runs from Friday, August 9th to Sunday, October 27th, 2024, and feature various Mothra-themed events and decorations throughout the Subnade . We are now pleased to share some "Mothra in Subnade" photos courtesy of Daisuke Ishizuka, who visited the mall on the first day of the event. The adult Mothra from the 2003 movie GODZILLA: TOKYO SOS hangs from the ceiling of the mall. Photo courtesy of Daisuke Ishizuka. ©SUBNADE © TOHO CO.,LTD. Armor Mothra from

    Promo art for the Mothra in Subnade campaign. Photo courtesy of Shinjuku Subnade Co. ©SUBNADE © TOHO CO.,LTD.

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    Source: Shinjuku Subnade Co., Ltd. press releaseOfficial Site: https://www.subnade.co.jp/event/mothra_in_subnade202408   Promo art for the Mothra in Subnade campaign. Photo courtesy of Shinjuku Subnade Co. ©SUBNADE © TOHO CO.,LTD. Shinjuku Subnade, the largest underground shopping mall and parking lot in Shinjuku, Tokyo, is collaborating with Toho Co., Ltd.'s monster character Mothra for a special promotional campaign. Entitled "Mothra in Subnade" (モスラ イン サブナード, Mosura in Sabunādo), the campaign will be held from Friday, August 9th to Sunday, October 27th, 2024.   Flying into Shinjuku! A tired Mothra has come to rest her wings! GODZILLA (ゴジラ, Gojira, 1954), a film produced by Toho Co., Ltd., is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2024. Mothra is a popular monster and a prominent character in the Godzilla series, and has even had its own films. Her colorful design and adorable eyes are popular with both men and women.

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    Photo courtesy of Crunchyroll. ©2024 Crunchyroll, LLC. All rights reserved. Source: Crunchyroll press release Photo courtesy of Crunchyroll. ©2024 Crunchyroll, LLC. All rights reserved. Crunchyroll, the ultimate home for anime worldwide, announced today that tickets for global J-Pop sensation LiSA’s concert film, LiVE is SMiLE ALWAYS -LANDER-, are now on sale for North American audiences. The concert film, distributed by Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment, will come to theaters in North America for a special-three day event on August 17, August 18, and August 21. The concert film will transport audiences to LiSA’s “LiVE is SMILE ALWAYS -LANDER-” tour stop at the Tokyo Garden Theater on December 16, 2023. The high energy and powerful vocals of J-pop superstar will allow fans to experience LiSA’s most personal music to date in a new never-before cinematic way. Tickets can be purchased now at: http://lisalivemovie.com/

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    Win a set of three Godzilla Penguin Young Readers books! Photo courtesy of Penguin Random House. TM & © TOHO CO., LTD. Source: Penguin Random House Special Thanks to Garrett Bond   SciFi Japan is offering our readers a chance to win new Godzilla books provided by Penguin Young Readers. We have three sets of the children's books Love From Godzilla, Brave Like Godzilla and What is the Story of Godzilla? Love From Godzilla is written by Olivia Luchini and Illustrated by Jordan Bradley and Milo Moore. This hardcover gift book, complete with monstrously adorable illustrations of everyone's favorite kaijus, is perfect for that special someone. Love From Godzilla is intended for readers ages 5-8 and retails for $9.99. Brave Like Godzilla is written by Charlie Moon and illustrated by Jordan Bradley and Milo Moore. In this story, Minilla and his friends are

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    Photo courtesy of Well Go USA.  Source: Well Go USA, LBHpr  Special Thanks to Leif Helland Photo courtesy of Well Go USA. Well Go USA Entertainment is offering SciFi Japan readers a chance to win a Blu-ray of the mind-bending, time-traveling, South Korean sci-fi action adventure ALIENOID: RETURN TO THE FUTURE (외계+인 2부; Euigye+in 2-bu, 2024). Writer/Director Choi Dong-hoon (THE THIEVES) and stars Ryu Jun-Yeol (A TAXI DRIVER), Kim Tae-ri (THE HANDMAIDEN), and Kim Woo-bin (MASTER) are together again for the epic sequel to the mind-bending, time-traveling, sci-fi action adventure​ that retains “… all the action, hilarity, and drama of the first film …” (Elements of Madness).  In the acclaimed sequel, after locating the Divine Blade, a shaman and a modern-day woman race through time to battle a powerful alien commander intent on destroying mankind. ALIENOID: RETURN TO THE FUTURE is now available

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    Photo courtesy of Fantasia International Flm Festival. Source: Fantasia International Flm Festival press releases Official Site: https://fantasiafestival.com/en Special Thanks to Ted Geoghegan, Maggie Caroddo and Annie MacLeod       Montreal, Quebec -- The Fantasia International Flm Festival will celebrate its upcoming 28th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 18 through August 4, 2024, returning yet again at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screens and events at Montreal’s Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée. The festival’s 2024 poster art, created by Montreal visual artist Donald Caron, brings back two of the festival’s most-beloved characters from earlier editions, returning by popular demand. The cinema-loving cat and pug, barreling into the future on a sidecar motorcycle, embody the excitement, playfulness, and absurdity that Fantasia has championed since its inception in 1996.

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    The One Piece 25th Anniversary: Symphonic Voyage Performed by the San Diego Philharmonic Orchestra Celebrates the Global Hit Anime from Toei AnimationSource: Toei Animation Inc. press release Special Thanks to Scott Barretto Photo courtesy of Toei Animation. ©Eiichiro Oda/Shueisha, TOEI ANIMATION Toei Animation and Crunchyroll are teaming up at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con to bring fans a mix of immersive ONE PIECE activations that features the showcase event, the One Piece 25th Anniversary: Symphonic Voyage. Produced specially for San Diego Comic Con 2024, the One Piece 25th Anniversary: Symphonic Voyage is a live outdoor concert experience celebrating Toei Animation’s worldwide hit series ONE PIECE as part of the franchise’s global 25th anniversary celebration. This once-in-a-lifetime ONE PIECE experience will be performed by the San Diego Symphony at the iconic Rady Shell in Jacobs Park and is free with open limited seating, on a first-come, first-served basis,

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    Photo courtesy of Japan Society. Ⓒ Japan Society Source: Japan Society press release Official Site: https://japansociety.org/film/japancuts/ Special Thanks to Sylvia Savadjian   JAPAN SOCIETY PRESENTS THE 17TH ANNUAL JAPAN CUTS: FESTIVAL OF NEW JAPANESE FILM July 10–21, 2024 · Japan Society · New York, NY North America’s largest Japanese film festival presents two weeks of contemporary premieres, including new films from Kei Chika-ura, Takeshi Kitano, Gakuryu Ishii, Shunji Iwai, Sho Miyake and Shinya Tsukamoto 31 films including 5 International Premieres, 10 North American Premieres, 4 U.S. Premieres, 2 East Coast Premieres and 7 New York Premieres Includes the International Premiere of SHIN GODZILLA: ORTHOchromatic Photo courtesy of Japan Society. Ⓒ 2016,2023 TOHO CO., LTD.   Japan Society presents the full lineup of the 17th

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    Image courtesy of Toho Co., Ltd. ©2024 My Hero Academia the Movie Production Committee ©Kohei Horikoshi/Shueisha Source: Toho Co., Ltd., Toho InternationalOfficial Site: https://heroaca-movie.com/ (Japan)Special Thanks to Adrian Figueroa, Jonah Keel and Andrew Nguyen A SciFi JAPAN EXCLUSIVE Toho Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Hiroyasu Matsuoka) and Toho International Inc. (Headquarters: California, USA; President and CEO: Hiroshi Ueda) have provided information and images from their upcoming anime film, MY HERO ACADEMIA THE MOVIE: YOU’RE NEXT (僕のヒーローアカデミアTHE MOVIE ユアネクスト, Boku no Hīrō Akademia THE MOVIE Yua Nekusuto). The movie opens next month in Japan and this October in the United States.   Image courtesy of Toho Co., Ltd. ©2024 My Hero Academia the Movie Production Committee ©Kohei Horikoshi/Shueisha INTRODUCTION More than 100 million copies sold worldwide!The latest in Weekly Shonen Jump's world-famous and highly-anticipated series! Image courtesy of Toho

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    Image courtesy of Crunchyroll. World Premiere First Looks at Witch Hat Atelier and Solo Leveling Season 2, TRIGUN STARGAZER, and More During Other Crunchyroll Hosted PanelsSource: Crunchyroll press releaseSpecial Thanks to Tyler Schirado Crunchyroll, the ultimate home for anime worldwide, held its Industry Panel at Anime Expo 2024 on Saturday, July 6 at 5:00 PM PT in the Los Angeles Convention Center in California. Image courtesy of Crunchyroll. During the panel, Crunchyroll announced multiple acquisitions of several hotly anticipated animated series from Japan that it will stream for fans around the world in the coming year. Those announcements included the following: It was announced to the world that Crunchyroll and Aniplex will be adapting the widely popular Korean web-novel turned webtoon OMNISCIENT READER into an anime series. In production and coming soon, key art and a first-look teaser debuted

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    Photo courtesy of HIDIVE. ©1993 Yoshiaki Kawajiri/Mad House/JVC/TOHO Co. LTD/Movic Inc. Source: HIDIVE press release Official Site: https://mailchi.mp/iconicreleasing/ax-cinema-nights-interest Special Thanks to Scott Barretto (AMCN Entertainment Group) and Erik Jansen (MediaLab Public Relations) LOS ANGELES — July 6, 2024 — Today at Anime Expo 2024, Iconic Events Releasing, in partnership with AMC Networks’ HIDIVE, revealed plans for a 30th anniversary theatrical release of the critically acclaimed, samurai period drama film NINJA SCROLL (獣兵衛忍風帖, Jūbē Ninpūchō,). Written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, NINJA SCROLL was originally released in 1993 and is considered a truly seminal work in anime filmmaking. The 30th anniversary theatrical release of NINJA SCROLL is part of Iconic Events Releasing’s 2024-2025 AX Cinema Nights series and will screen in over 500 U.S. theaters on September 11, 12 & 15 and be presented in both Japanese with English subtitles and English dub. AX Cinema Nights is

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    Photo courtesy of Picturehouse. ©2023 CREATPS Inc. Source: Picturehouse press release Official Site: https://great-absence.com/ Special Thanks to Isaac Davidson (Cinetic Marketing & PR) Photo courtesy of Picturehouse. ©2023 CREATPS Inc. GREAT ABSENCE (大いなる不在, Oinaru Fuzai, 2023), written & directed by Kei Chika-ura and starring legendary actor Tatsuya Fuji (IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES), opens Friday, July 19 in New York at Angelika Film Center opens Friday, July 26 in Los Angeles at Laemmle Monica and Glendale. The national rollout will follow.   Synopsis Distanced from his father for twenty years, Takashi is brought back home by a jarring police call – his father’s second wife, Naomi, is missing, and Yohji himself has disconnected from reality. Takashi starts a search for truth in the present – that has long fingers into the truth of his past. 2023 / Japan / 133 minutes

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    Photo courtesy of TOKYOPOP. Source: TOKYOPOP press release Special Thanks to Erik Jansen (MediaLab) Publisher TOKYOPOP returns to North America’s most celebrated anime convention this summer as it announces plans and show exclusives for Anime Expo 2024. Included for this year’s event will be a slate of not-to-be-missed panels, special guests and special booth activities and premiums that will be available during the convention. Anime Expo will take place July 4-7 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. The annual event draws more than 100,000 attendees and is the nation’s biggest dedicated anime fan convention. TOKYOPOP will be located on the main exhibit area in Booth #920. Additional details on Anime Expo are available at: https://www.anime-expo.org. The TOKYOPOP booth will be a hub of activity with a variety of exclusive manga and recently launched titles available for purchase as well as additional

    Celebrate the 70th anniversaries of Godzilla and the Mirai Tower with multiple events in Nagoya. Photo courtesy of NAKED, INC. Godzilla TM ＆ © TOHO CO.,LTD.

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    Celebrate the 70th anniversaries of Godzilla and the Mirai Tower with multiple events in Nagoya. Photo courtesy of NAKED, INC. Godzilla TM ＆ © TOHO CO.,LTD. Author: Keith Aiken Source: Nagoya TV Tower Co., Nagoya Railroad Co., and NAKED, INC. press releasesOfficial Site: http://www.nagoya-tv-tower.co.jp/event/miraitower70/ Main artwork for the event. Photo courtesy of Nagoya Railroad Co. Godzilla TM ＆ © TOHO CO.,LTD. Chubu Electric Power Company's MIRAI TOWER (formerly Nagoya TV Tower) celebrated its 70th anniversary on June 20 this year. To commemorate the occasion, Nagoya TV Tower Co., Ltd. (Address: 6-15 Nishiki 3-chome, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Representative: Kazuhiro Osawa), which operates MIRAI TOWER, has partnered with Nagoya Railroad Co. to host a tie-in special event featuring Godzilla, who also celebrates his 70th anniversary in 2024. The "Godzilla Attacks Chubu Electric Power Company's MIRAI TOWER" (中部電力 MIRAI TOWERにゴジラ襲来, Gojira ga Chūbudenryoku MIRAI TOWER o Shūgeki!) event will run

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    Photo courtesy of Toei Animation. ©TOEI ANIMATION Source: Toei Animation Inc. press release Special Thanks to Scott Barretto Legendary anime studio Toei Animation returns to Anime Expo this year and is bringing an exciting merchandise showcase to the Los Angeles Convention Center for fans to indulge in throughout the 4th of July weekend. And this includes the first-ever Mugiwara Store Pop-Up Shop in the United States! Toei Animation is recreating the famed retail concept known as the world’s largest official One Piece store – with eight locations across Japan offering over 10,000 items from both the anime and manga, including numerous limited edition items not available elsewhere. Located within the Toei Animation exhibit booth, fans will be treated to a unique One Piece shopping experience that features not only the look and feel of the Mugiwara stores but also One Piece merchandise exclusive to Mugiwara and previously

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