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The Japanese have done it! The life sized Gundam’s shall take over earth……or protect it from evil invaders. In any case, this is one of the coolest things EVER conceived! Take a gander below!
SOURCE:
GIZMODO: The Tokyo Gundam Like You Have Never Seen It Before
GUNDAM wiki page
Tags: Anime, Giant Robot, Japan, Japanese, Statue
Yep, Warner Bros. (America) has acquired the rights to the immensely popular Japanese Manga series Death Note. I LOVED the Manga and I tolerated the Japanese live action adaption. I wonder who they chase after to direct this little gem. Let the casting rumors begin. One site I saw had already prematurely casted Zack Efron as the main character, Light Yagami (There will no doubt be a name change). Aside from the usual moans and groans, if you look at a side by side comparison of Light and Zack, I gotta say, it kinda looks right. Even down to the hairstyle. This should be quite interesting.
SOURCE ARTICLE:
Variety article: Warner brings ‘Death’ to bigscreen
INFORMATIONAL LINKS:
Death Note Wiki page
Japanese live action Death Note Wiki page
Death Note on Hulu
Here are two projects that please my Half-Breed sensibilities.
I’ve been watching promo’s for Disney•Pixar’s “Up” for sometime now. I have always loved Pixar’s work from the very beginning as have many other people around the world. It wasn’t till I watched a promo in HD, however, that I noticed something different and very interesting. That chubby little boy you see running around with the film’s main protagonist Carl, is, get this, Asian! I didn’t need an Read the rest of this entry »
The newest trailer for the 6th Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was just released online and if you want my honest opinion, it looks phenomenal. And it looks like we get more Quidditch which is always cause for celebration. I enjoyed the 5th film but the director, David Yates may have done one better. At least it looks that way from the trailer. It will be released on July 15th simultaneously in the UK, Australia, the US and Canada, despite what the poster says.
Watch the brilliant trailer below. Be sure to watch it in full screen.
LINK:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Warner Bros. Website
Tags: Books, Fantasy, Film, Harry Potter
Embedded below is the newest trailer for the new Astroboy (鉄腕アトム) movie due out in October of this year. Done right, this could be the 2nd coming of the Astroboy character. The character designs look true to the originals, you know, as true as they could get being done by non-Japanese. Let’s just hope they get a coherent story out of this. It’s looking good at the moment.
The story of “Astroboy” centers around a boy robot built by a scientist to replace the son he lost in an accident. It started out as a manga then was made into a phenomenally popular Anime series that started in Japan and then came to US television screens soon after. It was created by the father of Japanese manga and animation, Osamu Tezuka.
Be sure to watch the trailer in HD. It makes ALL the difference.
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Wow, the Ghostbusters 3 news won’t stop. About a week ago Harold “Egon” Ramis was reported as saying the Rick “Louis Tully” Moranis would be starring in the next installment. Now, his teammate Dan “Ray” Aykroyd is saying that Sigourney “Dana” Weaver , despite being the only other member of the original cast to decline the invite to add her voice to the game, is apparently up for the film.
“She will definitely be in the third movie—we sure need her there, for sure.”
Who knows if all of this will come to fruition but if the guys want to keep talking, we’re all willing to listen. It also seems that Aykroyd likes the way he looks in the Wii version of the game because they made him look like one of the Incredibles.
Here’s the full Newsweek Interview with Dan Aykroyd:
Whatcha Gonna Play?
Here is some new box art for the game I just found. This looks amazing. June cannot get here quick enough:
INFORMATIONAL LINKS:
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Official site
Ghostbusters wiki page
RELATED BLOG:
Moranis on for GHOSTBUSTERS III?
Tags: 80's, comedy, Entertainment, Film, Ghostbusters
They even protested it and everything but apparently the story was never true to begin with. It was reported all over the Chinese internet that two of Japans biggest AV stars, one I know of, Aoi Sora (蒼井そら, pictured left) and one I’ve never heard of until now, Matsushima Kaede (松島かえで, pictured right), was to make a special appearance on the eve of a special a anniversary near a memorial of all places. But it looks like the story is completely bogus. This apparently pissed off Sora who wrote about it in her blog. How or why this got rumor got started is beyond me. Damn, and I had my bags packed and everything….
FULL STORY:
AV Stars Not Amused by Chinese Web Fuss
LINKS:
AOI SORA’S OFFICIAL BLOG (in Japanese)
AOI SORA’S WIKI PAGE (in English)
MATSUSHIMA KAEDE’S OFFICIAL BLOG (in Japanese)
Christopher Hitchens, one of the most famous, most outspoken and without a doubt, most abrasive anti-theists out there has been immensely busy lately. He’s been on the circuit debating seemingly any theologian that he can and even just recently had a most heated exchange with Mos Def on Real Time with Bill Maher. (See below)
Now it seems that he is shopping around a documentary based on Read the rest of this entry »
If you are a fan of Japan, film or animation and you like that all that mashed together in a big, boiling pot of goodness and you live in the Los Angeles area then this is your week. The second annual Read the rest of this entry »
….and if you think about it, he isn’t Japanese either. DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION, the live action adaption of the immensely popular Japanese Manga/Anime series is about to hit theaters this week (although the lack of television commercials and reviews have me thinking it will see a release as dismal as the last Street Fighter movie. Ugh!), so naturally the Otaku are all abuzz about the similarities between the original show/comic and it’s movie counterpart. One of the most frequent arguments I hear is “Goku isn’t even Japanese” or “Why is Goku played by a white dude? Goku is Japanese?”. But if the fanboys and fangirls really sat down Read the rest of this entry »