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Figures.com Coverage of Tokyo Toy Show

posted on 2002-05-12 02:26 AEST by Christopher Macdonald

Figures.com has started posting coverage of this weekend's Tokyo Toy Show. Of course there's plenty of Anime related toys, pictures can be seen at figures.com.

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Tomoko Yamashita's Ikoku Nikki Manga Gets TV Anime

May 5, 12:03

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Manga about novelist, niece also has live-action film opening on June 7 ― Pony Canyon announced on Friday that Tomoko Yamashita's Ikoku Nikki (Diary of a Strange Land) manga is inspiring a television anime adaptation. The company also revealed a teaser promotional video, a teaser visual, and the show's main staff. Miyuki Oshiro (episode director for Durarara!!×2 Ketsu, Natsume Yūjin-Chō Go, To Your E...

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Bakemonogatari Manga Artist 'Oh! great' Launches New Manga

May 5, 02:54

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Kaijin Fugeki manga launches on May 29 ― Manga creator Oh! great announced on Tuesday that he will launch a new manga titled Kaijin Fugeki in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine on May 29. A Twitter account for the manga also debuted on the same day. Oh! great launched a manga adaptation of NisiOisin's Bakemonogatari novels (pictured at right) in Weekly Shonen Magazine in March 2018, and ended it in Ma...

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The ANN Aftershow - I Support Falin's Crimes

May 4, 06:00 anime

This week, it's hot monster mommies and less hot AI-generated light novels. ― I Support Falin's Crimes We've long joked on the podcast about the quality of light novel writing, but the news is out that the developers of the RyokoAI project have scraped Shosetsuka ni Narou...are fully machine-generated LNs in our future? Plus: Things get gorier in Kaiju No. 8, the world of yatagarasu politics unfolds...

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Nude Model: Tsubasa Yamaguchi Short Stories Manga Review

May 4, 02:00

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Each story is like a dark portal into a realm of human sexuality that society usually sweeps under the rug, but I can't look away. ― Nude Model delivers on the promise of its lurid title. This manga, consisting of three equally intense short stories, is charged with eroticism and danger, with epiphanies lurking around every corner. Created by Tsubasa Yamaguchi, Nude Model is nothing like her most wel...

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This Week in Games - EVO Japan 2024: You Ain't From Chicago If You Ain't Broken exA Before!

May 4, 00:30

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Find out about the young star who set the internet aflame and walked away with two medals. Plus: Thousand-Year Door updates, a new HunterxHunter game, and Miku! ― Welcome back, folks! As is my wont, I'd like to plug my El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster that went up earlier this week... but I've also got the disappointing news that Megaton Musashi W: Wired finally released in the US la...

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Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi shares what it was like to leave Pixar and how his studio will never shy away from honesty in their work, even when honesty isn't pretty. ― Director Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi contributed to films like Toy Story 3 and Monsters University while simultaneously crafting what became his Academy Award-nominated animated short film, The Dam Keeper. His latest short film, Bottle George,...

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This Week in Anime - Is The Anime Girl Band Era Here?

May 3, 05:00

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Chris and Nick put on their headphones and dust off their vinyl records for a look at this season's guitar-strumming, mic-swinging girl groups. ― Chris and Nick put on their headphones and dust off their vinyl records for a look at this season's guitar-strumming, mic-swinging girl groups. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the participants in this chatlog are not the views of Anime News...

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Video Game Review

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I cannot imagine how Square Enix could top themselves after this. ― Final Fantasy VII Rebirth initially launched on the last day of February, and if you look at the date of this review's publication, you will immediately be able to discern one thing about this second entry of the FF7 Remake series: It is gargantuan. The first game got plenty of praise (and plenty of flak) for taking the relatively sh...

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