Square Enix has announced that it will launch a digital manga store in North America and France this fall.
The first chapters of Fullmetal Alchemist, Soul Eater, Black Butler, and O-Parts Hunter are already downloadable for free from Square Enix's North American and European websites in advance of the paid service's launch, with other series planned for later. (The North American website lists The Record of a Fallen Vampire, Pandora Hearts, Sumomomo Momomo, and Spiral: Bonds of Reasoning as "coming soon.") The service requires Adobe Flash Player on Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X.
Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...america-france...
The 1/1-scale, 18-meter-tall statue of the title robot from the Gundam anime franchise was unveiled on Friday at its new home in central Japanese city of Shizuoka. The statue will be officially open to the public from Saturday, July 24, 2010 to January 10, 2011.
Unlike when it stood in Tokyo's Odaiba Island, the statue now has a beam saber in its right hand. The Gundam now stands in front of Japan Railway's Higashi-Shizuoka Station.
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Keidai Hattori's Duel Masters: Honō no Kizuna XX (Double X) Will be released on August 21.
Duel Masters: the third Duel Masters film to open in Japan and the first after the April premiere of the Duel Masters Cross Shock television anime series. Duel Masters Cross Shock is the seventh television series.
The film's official website is streaming a 20-second trailer.
http://www.corocoro.tv/dm-movie/...
The August issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Gundam Ace magazine announced that a new manga version of the Mobile Fighter G Gundam television anime series will launch in the next issue in July. G-Gundam's original director Yasuhiro Imagawa is scripting the tentatively titled Kidō Butōden G-Gundam the Comic,while Kazuhiko Shimamoto and his Honō Production studio are drawing the actual manga.
G-Gundam was the first Gundam television series that was not set in the Universal Century timeline of the original Gundam anime. It re-imagined Gundam's robotic mobile suits as mobile fighter units that battle in tournaments every four years. Shimamoto had collaborated on the character designs for the G-Gundam anime.
Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...al-anime-staff...
As many of you probably remember we had a poll up on the last version of JustDubs asking if you were interested in buying a JustDubs T-shirt. In order to gather a little more information on the matter we have created a very short survey to help us better understand what everyone is looking for. The survey can be found here. It shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes to fill out the form and the effort will be very appreciated by the staff.
Link to the survey....
