Archive for the ‘Manga’ Category
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
Via Variety
Warner Bros. recently acquired the rights to bring the anime/manga hit Death Note to the big screen. Screenwriters Charley and Vlas Parlapanides will be adapting the movie. Death Note follows the story of a college student who stumbles upon a mysterious notebook which allows the person wielding it to ...
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
Via Slashfilm
Mandalay Pictures has recently acquired the theatrical rights to the live-action movie version of the high-school action comedy anime Full Metal Panic!. Full Metal Panic started off as a novel which was later adapted to manga followed by 3 anime series with the latest one released in 2005, Full ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
ComicBookMovie.com reports that the Akira movie will be adapted into 2 movies based on the original 6 volume manga. Irish filmaker Ruairi Robinson will be making his debut directorial feature with the first time screen writer Gary Whitta as previously reported. The original Neo Tokyo setting has been Americanised to ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
FirstShowing.net reports that Leonardo DiCaprio's studio has yet again picked up another anime to be adapted into a live-action movie and this time its the ninja anime legend, Ninja Scroll. Screen writer Alex Tse who wrote the the upcoming Watchmen graphic novel adaptation will be writing the script but no ...
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Dropped by ACGC 2008 on a very packed Sunday. Online games booths dominated most of the event floor space but I gotta admit that ACGC had some of the best looking booths that I've ever seen in a while for an anime convention. The number of cosplayers were below expectation ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Date : 27 - 28 September 2008
Time : 10am - 9pm (free admission)
Venue : Midvalley Exhibition Center Hall 3, Midvalley KL
Looks like ACGC 2008 is back again for a finale. The first one was held sometime in February which I missed. There'll be doujinshi booths, Cosplay competition with a Nintendo ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Can't get enough of the Eva mania at your work place ? Impress your otaku work buddies with this pair of Evangelion inspired flash drives. On sale from 27 September, they come in 2Gb capacities and are priced at 3,980 yen each. After googling around I came across this chibi ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Via Kotaku
Looks like we've scored some screenshots from the trailer of the upcoming Dragonball live action movie that will be released in 2009. I think the general opinion from all the Dragonball fans is that the movie is probably gonna suck, and looking at Piccolo below probably confirms it. The ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Hobby Chara 2008 was held over the last weekend. Here are the coverage from various different sites:
Chara Hobby Official Site (Japanese)
DannyChoo's Gundam Coverage, Mecha Coverage, Figurine Coverage (loads of mouth watering pics)
Akiba Hobby (more on figurine coverage)
Mimibokuro Diary
Hinatatiki
Mainchi News Coverage
Post Channel Blog (too bad some of the shots were blurry)
Akiba ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Long time premier Gundam source Gunota Headlines is finally calling it wraps after almost 5 years citing time as a major factor for the closure. Gunota has been my main source of fresh Gundam news for as long as I can remember since they were one of the earliest around ...
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