Next January Ryuhei Tamura’s supernatural comedy manga Beelzebub will be adapted into a Television Anime. The manga follows a high schooler who is forced to be the surrogate father of the devil’s son. The voicing cast of the anime will include Tomokazu Seki, Katsuyuki Konishi, Aki Toyosaki, Miyuki Sawashiro, Shizuka Itou and Takahiro Mizushima. Currently, there is a Beelzebub event anime which will run during Shueisha’s Jump Super Anime Tour 2010 in Fall.
Source: http://animenation.net/blog/
On Monday Weekly Young Magazine will formally announce that a TV anime of adaption of Tomonori Inoue’s sci-fi/military manga, Coppelion, will be going into production. The story of the manga follows 3 female survivors of a nuclear accident in Tokyo, who together form a special task unit in the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force with the codename ‘Coppelion’.
Source: http://animenewsnetwork.com/
Below is a screencap of a Japanese teaser site containing “Code 1935″ in its URL. The first Valkyria Chronicles game, as many fans would know, was based in a 1935 alternative-universe Europe. What would logic tell us? If that isn’t enough to satisfy speculation Sega has apparently already registered the URL http://valkyria3.jp. Oh, and one last thing: he teaser site specifically states ‘Not to be opened till 9.16′ or September 16, which is also when the Tokyo Game Show starts. What a coincidence huh?
Source: http://kotaku.com.au/
Mystery Teaser Website
On Wednesday Sunrise announced that the Mobile Suit Gundam 00 movie will be making its American premiere on October 10 at the New York Anime Festival. It will feature in Japanese audio, but will have English subtitles. The film will be opening in Japan on September 18.
Source: http://animenewsnetwork.com/
“Embarrassed by those wrinkles starting to appear near your eyes? Slip on these goggle-style glasses and you won’t look tired and old any more! Just wearing the Mejikara for 5 minutes every day will improve the appearance of your face.”
So apparently these things can take years off your life. They supposedly have specially designed ridges on the inside of the goggles that put pressure on the skin and cause the eyes to re-align to where they originally were. They’re made of silicone rubber, and best of all – they’re made in Japan!
Source: http://japantrendshop.com/
Wrinkles, Be Gone!
And the start of Sony. Following the defeat of Japan in World War 2 Sony’s founder, Masaru Ibuka, attempted to invent an Eletric Rice Cooker. It was released under the banner of the Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute and was well hidden in the guise of a wooden bucket. Most times the rice cooker was used, it brought some very undesirable results; examples of this were severely undercooked or overcooked rice. The product was never released on the market, and its legacy still lives on in a glass cabinet at the Sony Archives in Shinagawa.
Source: http://www.sonyinsider.com/
What a product.
On Tuesday Taiwanese production company Gala TV announced that it will be involved in a Live-Action TV adaption of Kenjirou Hata’s manga ‘Hayate the Combat Butler’. The storyline revolves around Hayate(played by George Hu), is a butler and bodyguard to Nagi(Korean Actress Shin-Hye Park), he works to pay off a significant gambling debt. The over feel of the manga itself could be described as comedic, and was adapted into an anime which aired on Tokyo TV from April 2008 to March 2009.
Source: http://urisuretokauwasatoka.blog134.fc2.com/
Hayate the Combat Butler
In celebration of its 50th birthday Sanrio has erected an 8-meter-tall balloon statue of its most popular character, Hello Kitty. The statue has been placed in Tokyo’s artificial island, Odaiba, and will stay there until August 22nd. Surrounding the statue is 28 additional balloons, each portraying different characters of the Sanrio universe(including Kiki & Lala, My Melody and many others). Throughout the day a fountain show periodically takes place and at dark this is accompanied by laser lights. Above is footage of the display uploaded to YouTube.
Source: http://www.47news.jp/
Throwdown!
The Nikkei Times have reported that Osaka-based video game developer Capcom has decided to take a piece of the Facebook pie ala FarmVille with games like Resident Evil or Street Fighter as early as next month. Confirmation of the news is not completely ironclad as of yet but the games, if ever to come into existence, will be free. Capcom plans to earn revenue by selling virtual items, much like other games delivered via the websphere. I for one cannot wait to throwdown with my bestie on a Facebook iteration of Street Fighter.
Source: http://crunchgear.com/
How convenient.
Travelling in Japan? Keitai runs flat? Never Fear! Now days many Japanese convenience stores/hotels have machines that are able to charge your cellphone wether you have the power cord or not. You simply select the model of your phone on the machine’s interface and plug it into a slot. Problem solved.
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