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    Zeta Gundam prepares to use the Hyper Mega Launcher in the fan favorite series MOBILE SUIT ZETA GUNDAM. © 1985 Sotsu, Sunrise

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    Author: Andrew Nguyen Official Site: z-gundam.net (Japanese), gundamofficial.com/worlds/uc/zeta (US) Special Thanks to Erik Jansen (MediaLab) While MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM (Kido Senshi Gundamu) turned out to be a success, particularly in the form of a compilation movie trilogy, several years would pass before a sequel would take place. That sequel, the 50-episode MOBILE SUIT ZETA GUNDAM (Kido Senshi Zeta Gundamu), premiered in March 1985 to immense success. Its popularity has reached the point where fans and critics alike consider it to be one of the Gundam series most outstanding entries. Directed by Gundam series creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, many consider it to be one of his finest works, even when compared to his classic works like AURA BATTLE DUNBINE. As a director, Tomino added a level of realism to his series that few others at the time were willing to do: actually killing main protagonist

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    Watch Episode 1, Chat with Friends, and Talk with the Producer at 7:00pm EST/4:00pm PST Source: VIZ Media press release Official Movie Site: manga.com/watchandchat/monster Special Thanks to Jane Lui Manga Entertainment and VIZ Media are joining forces to bring anime fans a live event. Starting Thursday, May 13th at 7:00pm EST/4:00pm PST, fans will be able to watch a live streaming of NAOKI URASAWA`S MONSTER on Manga.com. Catch episode 1 of the critically acclaimed series (rated ‘M’ for Mature Audiences), chat with your friends and other fans of this anime classic, and take a trivia test at the same time. VIZ moderators will also be on hand to answer questions about the show. For anyone who misses the event, the same watch and chat experience will be available for episodes

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    SUMMER WARS, DANTE`S INFERNO and KING OF THORN Screenings in London Source: Barbican Centre, Sarah Harvey Publicity press release Special Thanks to Helene Muron The Barbican Centre in London continues their JAPANIMATION event series with a double feature of SUMMER WARS and DANTE`S INFERNO this month and KING OF THORN in June. Both screenings will be introduced by anime expert and author Helen McCarthy (The Anime! Movie Guide, Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation, and founder of the magazine AnimeFX). Animate the World 2010 Double Feature Tuesday 25 May SUMMER WARS (Samaa Woozu, 2009) 6:15 pm Dir. Mamoru Hosoda 114 min In Japanese with English subtitles Cert. tbc Kenji, the nerdy hero of SUMMER WARS, spends almost his whole life inside the

    ©2005 Nagaru Tanigawa/ Noizi Ito/ member of SOS

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    Slice of Life Blockbuster From Kadokawa Pictures Coming to Multiple Crunchyroll Platforms Soon Source: BAM! Marketing, Publicity & Promotions press releases Special Thanks to Chase Wang Crunchyroll, Inc. has announced the acquisition of the Kadokawa Pictures blockbuster title THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA for multiple Crunchyroll platforms. More information is available on the official official THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA series page on Crunchyroll. THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA follows the eponymous character voiced by Japanese idol superstar Aya Hirano. A classmate of hers poses: "I thought that when I entered high school, my days of believing in aliens, time travelers and ESPers were going to be over. That is until she introduced herself. Claiming to be interested in only aliens, time travelers, and ESPers, Haruhi Suzumiya was the strangest girl I`ve met in a long time." Crunchyroll will initially release the first season of THE

    VIZ Media has assembled a veteran voice cast for the North American debut of the anime VAMPIRE KNIGHT. Photo courtesy of VIZ Media. © 2008 Matsuri Hino/Hakushenshaa, Vampire Knight Project.

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    Source: VIZ Media, MediaLab press releases Special Thanks to Evelyn Dubocq and Erik Jansen VIZ Media, LLC has announced the cast for the upcoming North American debut of VAMPIRE KNIGHT, the gothic-romance animated series based on the bestselling manga by Matsuri Hino. VAMPIRE KNIGHT takes audiences to Cross Academy, which is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the Academy`s dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires! VIZ Media sought out a cast of talented voice actors and the recording expertise of Bang Zoom! Entertainment to bring this series to life. Yuki Cross, the adoptive daughter of

    The new VIZ Anime website allows fans to watch hundreds of streaming episodes for free. Photo courtesy of VIZ Media. © 2010 VIZ Media, LLC

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    Free Site Kicks Off with More than 400 Episodes from Hit Anime Series Source: VIZ Media press release Official Site: VIZAnime.com Special Thanks to Evelyn Dubocq In a significant news announcement, VIZ Media, LLC has detailed the launch of VIZ Anime – a brand new, free-to-use interactive web destination that will become a permanent home to some of the company’s best-loved animated series as well as new content which will be added on a weekly basis. VIZ Anime kicks off with more than 400 episodes from hit series such as BLEACH, BUSO RENKIN, DEATH NOTE (complete series), HIKARU NO GO, HONEY & CLOVER, INUYASHA (complete series) and INUYASHA: THE FINAL ACT, NANA, NARUTO (complete series) and NARUTO SHIPPUDEN as well as THE PRINCE OF TENNIS. The site will also be the future web home for many other eagerly anticipated anime series set to launch later this year!

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    Screening in London on April 28 Source: Barbican Centre, Sarah Harvey Publicity press release Special Thanks to Helene Muron The Barbican Centre in London continues their JAPANIMATION event series in April with a promotional screening of DEATH NOTE RELIGHT, the rogue shinigami-eyed view of an epic battle between two great minds. The film is presented courtesy of Manga Entertainment and VIZ Media, and will be introduced by anime expert and author Helen McCarthy (The Anime! Movie Guide, Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation, and founder of the magazine AnimeFX). JAPANIMATION SNEAK PEEK DEATH NOTE RELIGHT (2009) Wednesday 28 April, 8.30pm Director: Tetsuro Araki 130 minutes In Japanese with English subtitles Cert. 15 DEATH NOTE RELIGHT retells the groundbreaking DEATH NOTE psychological crime drama from

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    New 6 Part Original Video Animation Released Worldwide this Month Author: Andrew Nguyen Official Site: gundam-unicorn.net (Japanese), gundam-unicorn.net/en (English) Special Thanks to Erik Jansen (MediaLab) and Evelyn Dubocq (VIZ Media) MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UC (UNICORN ) (Kidoo Senshi Gandamu Yunikon, 2010) is the latest chapter in the long-running MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM metaseries. Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by the Japanese animation studio Sunrise, GUNDAM, which began in April 1979, is one of the premier mecha anime shows in Japan. GUNDAM was one of the first shows that used giant robots (called mobile suits) as actual military weapons. It has spawned numerous sequels and merchandise, particularly in the form of plastic model kits from Bandai of the numerous mobile suits that appear in the metaseries. Furthermore, as the launch pad

    Akira Takizawa poses for the mirror after discovering a stash of weapons. Photo courtesy of FUNimation Entertainment. © 2009 EDEN OF THE EAST.

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    Author: Elliot Gay Official Site: juiz.jp Special Thanks to Jackie Smith and Manny Alcala, FUNimation Entertainment EDEN OF THE EAST (Higashi no Eden) is a tricky show to look at in a lot of ways. Coming from Kenji Kamiyama, the man behind the GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX (K?kaku Kid?tai Sutando Ar?n Konpurekkusu) TV series, it’s something of a departure. The character designs have a decidedly more feminine edge, the season itself only ran an awkward eleven episodes and the story has yet to be concluded via a series of theatrical films. Yet despite all of this strangeness, the story manages to engage the viewer, making it maddening to have to wait for a proper ending. For those of you who don’t wish to read my reasoning beyond this paragraph, I’ll make it simple: I highly recommend EDEN OF THE EAST if you have any

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    ASTRO BOY and THE SKY CRAWLERS Screenings in London Source: Barbican Centre, Sarah Harvey Publicity press release Special Thanks to Helene Muron The Barbican Centre in London continues their JAPANIMATION event series with screenings of the computer animated film ASTRO BOY this month and Mamoru Oshii`s THE SKY CRAWLERS in March. Both films will be introduced by anime expert and author Helen McCarthy (The Anime! Movie Guide, Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation, and founder of the magazine AnimeFX). ASTRO BOY (2009) Tuesday 23 February, 6.00 pm Dir. David Bowers 94 min Cert. PG Nearly 50 years after creation, "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka`s enduring young super-hero returns to in a new version for the big screen. A brilliant

    Photo courtesy of VIZ Media. © 2006, 2010 Yellow Tanabe/ Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV, Sunrise

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    Source: VIZ Media, MediaLab press releases Official Site: shonensunday.com/series/kekkaishi Special Thanks to Evelyn Dubocq and Erik Jansen Today, VIZ Media, LLC brings the animated demon-battling action and adventure of KEKKAISHI to Hulu, an online video service that offers hit TV shows, movies and clips at Hulu.com and other online destination sites — anytime in the U.S. The series debuts with 5 episodes with new installments launching each week. To view KEKKAISHI, please visit Hulu.com. KEKKAISHI is based on a hit manga series by Yellow Tanabe (also published in North America by VIZ Media). Mystical forces are powerful in the region called Karasumori. For over 400 years, it has been the duty of a clan of “kekkaishi”— barrier masters— to guard the land and exterminate the supernatural creatures that are drawn to the area night after night. Yoshimori Sumimura is a junior high school student at Karasumori

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    Author: Kim Song-ho Source: Korean press materials Official Movie Site: evangelion.co.jp (Japan), Naver EVANGELION 2.0 Official Cafe (Korea) SPOILER WARNING: This article contains plot details for a new movie. EVANGELION 2.0: YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE (Evangelion Shin Gekijoban: Ha, 2009), the latest chapter of the "Rebuild of Evangelion" tetralogy, will be theatrically released in Korea starting December 3. The "Rebuild of Evangelion" is a series of new projects for the Evangelion franchise, conceived by creator Hideaki Anno himself. He established a separate company called Khara Co., Ltd. to focus on the projects, but have kept working with much of the staff from Gainax, the company which launched the original TV animated series NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (Shin Seiki Evangelion, 1995). The core of the "Rebuild of Evangelion" project is four

    What did the future hold for the Yamato? ©Tohokushinsha Film Corp.

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    SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 9 Author: Tim Eldred, Starblazers.com and Greasemonkeybook.com SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 1: The Anime Classic That Nearly Wasn`t SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 2: From Valley to Peak SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 3: ARRIVEDERCI YAMATO Goodbye Dark Ages, Hello Global Village SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 4: We`re Off to Outer Space SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 5: THE NEW VOYAGES Plural SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 6: BE FOREVER YAMATO...and the Kitchen Sink. SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 7: SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO III: The Ground Shifts SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 8: FINAL YAMATO: The Legacy Begins What do you do if you’ve just laid your greatest creation to rest and still have decades of your life ahead of you? Easy: you start making another one. That’s what Producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki did almost immediately after putting the finishing touches on FINAL YAMATO in 1983.

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    Director and Producer to Attend London Screening on October 26 Source: Barbican Centre, Sarah Harvey Publicity press release Special Thanks to Helene Muron JAPANIMATION SPECIAL: SWORD OF THE STRANGER (Sutorenjia Mukohadan, 2007) Monday 26 October, 8.15pm Dir. Mashahiro Ando 103 min In Japanese with English subtitles Cert. 18 SWORD OF THE STRANGER is a thrilling action anime and a hair-raising adventure laced with stunningly animated fight scenes and a high body count. Kotarou is a young boy pursued by the royal army of China’s Ming dynasty. When his trusty dog Tobimaru is injured in an ambush he reluctantly hires a nameless samurai for protection... however, No-Name has a guilty past to deal with along with some of China’s fiercest warriors.

    Promotional art for INUYASHA THE FINAL ACT. Episodes will begin streaming in the US next Sunday. Photo courtesy of VIZ Media. © Rumiko Takahashi /Shogakukan Inc. • Yomiuri TV • Sunrise 2009

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    VIZ Media to Stream Smash Hit Anime Mere Hours after Episodes Air in Japan Source: VIZ Media press release Official Site: ShonenSunday.com Special Thanks to Evelyn Dubocq VIZ Media, LLC delighted anime fans at New York Anime Festival yesterday with an announcement of the near simultaneous Japanese/American simulcast of the action-packed conclusion to the INUYASHA animated series- INUYASHA THE FINAL ACT (Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen). Beginning on October 3rd, INUYASHA THE FINAL ACT (subtitled) will stream on ShonenSunday.com/anime and Hulu.com mere hours after it airs in Japan. A new episode will air every Saturday thereafter. INUYASHA THE FINAL ACT anime is rated ‘T” teens. INUYASHA is a hit TV anime series based on the manga by famed creator Rumiko Takahashi, who won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for Inuyasha (Sengoku Otogizoshi InuYasha) in 2002. Many of the Takahashi titles have been adapted into other media such as anime,

    Poster for the rare 70mm showings of FINAL YAMATO in Tokyo and Osaka. ©1983 Tohokushinsha Film Corp.

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    SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 8 Author: Tim Eldred, Starblazers.com and Greasemonkeybook.com SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 1: The Anime Classic That Nearly Wasn`t SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 2: From Valley to Peak SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 3: ARRIVEDERCI YAMATO Goodbye Dark Ages, Hello Global Village SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 4: We`re Off to Outer Space SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 5: THE NEW VOYAGES Plural SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 6: BE FOREVER YAMATO...and the Kitchen Sink. SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 7: SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO III: The Ground Shifts Though unexpected turbulence brought the YAMATO III TV series to a close much sooner than expected, executive producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki wasn’t ready to give up on SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO yet. He knew from hard experience there was always a way to bounce back from near-defeat, and said so loud and clear in a text roll at the end of YAMATO III’s

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    London Preview of Upcoming DVD on September 29 Source: Barbican Centre, Sarah Harvey Publicity press release Special Thanks to Helene Muron JAPANIMATION: DEVIL MAY CRY (Debiru mei Kurai, 2007) Tuesday 29 September, 6.15pm Dir. Shin Itagaki 3 x 30 min episodes In Japanese with English subtitles Cert. 15 Marking the UK DVD release of the anime series DEVIL MAY CRY in October, anime expert Helen McCarthy (The Anime! Movie Guide, Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation, and founder of the magazine AnimeFX) will present a preview of episodes from the spellbinding television series based on Capcom’s popular game. Meet the Strawberry Sundae-eating half human demon hunter Dante who is hired through his mercenary business, ‘Devil May Cry’, to

    Cover of the 2001 DVD box of YAMATO III. ©1980 Tohokushinsha Film Corp.

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    SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 7 Author: Tim Eldred, Starblazers.com and Greasemonkeybook.com SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 1: The Anime Classic That Nearly Wasn`t SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 2: From Valley to Peak SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 3: ARRIVEDERCI YAMATO Goodbye Dark Ages, Hello Global Village SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 4: We`re Off to Outer Space SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 5: THE NEW VOYAGES Plural SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 6: BE FOREVER YAMATO...and the Kitchen Sink. As 1980 progressed, YAMATO’s star couldn’t have been flying higher. The summer promotional blitz for BE FOREVER had broken every record and the movie opened in August to huge acclaim. A tidal wave of merchandising was in flow, fan clubs were in full bloom, and the next YAMATO adventure was being readied for its October launch on TV. The story for this new series had been initially proposed prior to the development of

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    Source: New York-Tokyo press release Official Movie Site: disneypictures/ponyo The long awaited U.S. debut of animation master Hayao Miyazaki`s PONYO is here! New York International Children`s Film Festival is presenting the first East Coast screening of the film in a special pre-release event 3:00pm on Sunday, August 9th at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY 10025. Seats are selling out fast, so be sure to purchase your tickets asap! Also, if you`re feeling lucky, the media company New York-Tokyo will be giving away 5 pairs of tickets to this event through a random raffle. PONYO is a wonderful film for all ages, combining brilliantly colorful, flowing visuals and Miyazaki`s unparalleled warmth and humanity in a heartfelt story of friendship and devotion. The film opens theatrically on August 14.

    Original Movie Poster for BE FOREVER YAMATO. ©1980 Tohokushinsha Film Corp.

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    Author: Tim Eldred, Starblazers.com and Greasemonkeybook.com SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 1: The Anime Classic That Nearly Wasn`t SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 2: From Valley to Peak SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 3: ARRIVEDERCI YAMATO Goodbye Dark Ages, Hello Global Village SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 4: We`re Off to Outer Space SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, Part 5: THE NEW VOYAGES Plural What was the best year to be a Space Battleship Yamato fan in Japan? 1977, when the first movie proved to everyone that they were not alone in their obsession? 1978, when FAREWELL TO YAMATO showed the entire nation that anime was here to stay? Maybe. But if you were looking for non-stop Yamato action that filled an entire summer vacation from end to end, you could do no better than 1980. That’s the year BE FOREVER YAMATO rolled out in movie theatres, and from June through August it

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