Ghost Talker's Daydream's Okuse to Launch Kaen Majin Remake Manga?

                              

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The June issue of Wani Books' Monthly Comic Gum magazine announced on Thursday that Saki Okuse (Ghost Talker's Daydream,Twilight of the Dark Master, Flowers) will launch the Kaen Majin ~Oni Harai~ remake manga in the magazine's next issue. Okuse launched the original Kaen Majin manga series in Hakusensha's Monthly ComiComi magazine in 1986, but the work was unfinished.

The horror fantasy story centers on people who work to eliminate demons. Hakusensha published a compiled book volume of Okuse's original Kaen Majin manga in 1987.

The North American graphic novel publisher Dark Horse released the sixth compiled book volume of Okuse's Ghost Talker's Daydream manga last May, and Digital Manga published his Twilight of the Dark Master manga in 2005. JManga, a platform for reading legal manga online, listed volume one of Okuse's Teizokurei Monophobia manga for future release last August.

Wani Books will release the July issue of Monthly Comic Gum in Japan on May 26.

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Promo Video Posted For Fuse Anime Film's!!

                                       

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The official website for the Fuse Teppō Musume no Torimonochō (Fuse: A Gun Girl's Detective Story) anime film adaptation of Kazuki Sakuraba's Fuse Gansaku: Satomi Hakkenden novel began streaming a promotional video on Friday. The 48-second video introduces the film's title gun girl Hamaji who hunts dog-human hybrids known as Fuse. The video also reveals that the film will open in Japan this October.

In Kyokutei Bakin's classic Japanese epic novel Nansō Satomi Hakkenden, eight samurai serve the Satomi clan during Japan's tumultuous Sengoku (Warring States) era. The Edo-era samurai are the reincarnations of the spirits that Princess Fuse mothered with a dog named Yatsufusa. In Sakuraba's Fuse Gansaku: Satomi Hakkenden novel, the female hunter Hamaji comes to her brother in order to hunt Fuse. Thus, the karmic cycle of retribution that began long ago with the Satomi family begins anew.

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Kokoro Connect's Opening Theme by Eufonius Listed:

can't find english subs for it :(

but here's the video!!

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Online retailers in Japan began listing the maxi-single CD for the Kokoro Connect anime's opening theme on Friday. According to the listings, the musical duo eufonius is performing the song for the television series on Starchild's King Records label. The title of the July 18 CD release, the 16th single from eufonius, has not been revealed yet. The group had previously performed songs for Clannad, Polyphonica, True Tears, and many other anime.

Sadanatsu Anda's original "love and teen pentagonal comedy" light novels follow the strange phenomena at the Yamahoshi Academy's Culture Club, starting with the five male and female club members switching bodies with each other. Takahiro Mizushima, Aki Toyosaki, Miyuki Sawashiro, Hisako Kanemoto, Takuma Terashima, Shizuka Itou, Keiji Fujiwara star in the voice cast.

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The Teaser for Android Smartphone Evangelion Online

                                     

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Japanese mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo has posted the first teaser trailer for its next phone developed in collaboration with Studio Khara for the forthcoming third Evangelion film. The phone is designed to look like Misato Katsuragi's own NERV issued smartphone and demos the custom user interface overlay while the phone itself will run Google's Android operating system. More details will be confirmed next week according to the official site.

As a proud owner of the first Evangelion cellphone, I can't wait for this one to come out and promptly show up on ebay for triple its retail cost. As the phone definitely won't be released outside of Japan, any of you out there brave enough to try and import one?

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ANIME EXPO 2012 WILL FEATURE VOICE ACTOR STEVE BLUM AS AN OFFICIAL GUEST OF HONOR!!

Anime Expo, North America’s largest anime, manga and Japanese pop culture celebration, announces popular voice actor Steve Blum as an Official Guest of Honor..

One of anime’s most prolific voice actors, Blum will participate in a meet-and-greet, autograph signing and focus panel at Anime Expo when it returns to the LA Convention Center from June 29 – July 2, 2012.

Steve Blum is an amazing voice actor, he is well known for his voice acting in Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop and Zabuza from Naurto. 

This is so exciting! I can't wait for the anime expo!

and if you're unaware of the anime expo, it is held every year in L.A California at the end of june. 

Everyone in the L.A. area should go to this if you're a huge anime fan!! 

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Anime Addicts Satisfy YOUR Thirst With 'Evangelion Water Body' Bottles

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Curvy bottle shapes are nothing new, as Coca-cola's classic "coke-bottle" has demonstrated for decades but few other beverage companies have gone for that ergonomic yet obviously female form - until now.

Displayed prominently at the recent Foodex Japan 2010 show in Tokyo were a pair of Evangelion Water Body bottles certain to warm any anime lovers heart... and soothe their thirst in the bargain.

The bottles are not only voluptuously curved, but sport futuristic red and white bodysuits that reference those worn by characters Asuka Langley Soryu and Rei Ayanami in the mega-successful Neon Genesis Evangelion series of manga, movies and games.

              

The bodacious bodysuited bottles are set to be released to retail outlets on May 26, 2010, to coincide with the release of "Evangelion: Destruction" on Blu-ray and DVD. The estimated cost per each 280ml (9.5 oz) bottle is 368 yen or about $4.

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ANIMES BEST ENGLISH DUBBED MOVIES!

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Few topics in anime, apart from maybe piracy, are as divisive as English dubbing. Some love it because it makes their favorite shows that much more accessible to other audiences; some hate it because it was done outside of the original production team, or because they resent dubbing on principle.  CHECK FOR WHICH ONES ARE AVAILABLE!

I've been on both sides of this argument, and a big part of what's moved me gradually into the pro-dub camp has been the gradual but measurable improvement in quality of the average English-dubbed anime title. So much so that it seemed high time to compile a list of titles that have dubs of note.

When putting together this list, I opted for diversity first. It made sense to provide a taste of all sides of what English dubs could be -- faithful, experimental, or downright outlandish. Some of them are titles that have long held most-favored-dub status with fans (Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex). Some are titles which take enormous risks with the dub process but get away with all of them (Shin-chan). And some are flagship shows that deserve being called out for having excellent work done across the board (Fullmetal Alchemist).

Also, this is an open-ended list: it'll be added to as new and noteworthy dubs cross our desk.

See the complete list of our most notable English dubs, and feel free to make suggestions in the comments 

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