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Aniplex of America has announced that the third Puella Magi Madoka Magica movie -Rebellion- will be available on Blu-ray starting on April 8th.

 

Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie -Rebellion- will be imported from Japan and released in North America in both Collector’s and Standard Edition Blu-rays. Both the Collector’s and Standard Edition will include the -Rebellion- movie, the theatrical trailer and textless opening. Bonus extras in the Collector’s Edition Blu-ray include exclusive new cover art on both the Rigid Box and Digipak, a deluxe booklet and an original soundtrack CD.

 

Customers who purchase the Collector’s Edition through Aniplex of America’s official retailers will receive a translation booklet for the deluxe booklet. In addition, for those who purchase the Collector’s Edition through MadokaMagicaUSA.com, Aniplex of America will also include 3 exclusive clear files featuring the theatrical poster images while supplies last. Pre-orders for both editions begin today.

 

Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie -Rebellion- Blu-ray Collector’s Edition features:


<BD Features>

 Language: Japanese

 Video: Color, Widescreen

 Subtitles: Japanese, English (*audio commentary and bonus contest don’t include subtitles)

 Total length of more than 116 minutes!!

 Theatrical Trailer

 Commercials

 Textless Opening

 Audio Commentary and more

 

<Collector’s Edition Extras>

 Rigid Box featuring New Artwork

 Digipak Case featuring New Artwork

 Exclusive BD: Rebellion Theatrical Release Commemoratory – Understand the Hit Anime Series

“Madoka Magica in 2 Hours!”

 Deluxe Booklet

 Original Soundtrack CD

 

<Aniplex of America Exclusive>

 English Translation Booklet of Deluxe Booklet

 

<MadokaMagicaUSA.com Exclusive (fulfilled by Right Stuf) >

 Exclusive 3 clear files featuring images of the theatrical posters*

 

*While supplies last

 



StreetDate - April 08, 2014

SRP - $118.98

Store price - $94.98

Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie -Rebellion- Blu-ray Standard Edition features:

 

 Language: Japanese

 Video: Color, Widescreen

 Subtitles: Japanese, English (*audio commentary and bonus contest don’t include subtitles)

 Total length of more than 116 minutes!!

 Theatrical Trailer

 Commercials

 Textless Opening

 Audio Commentary and more

 

Product number and UPC bar code

Street Date - April 08, 2014

SRP- $68.98

Store Price - $54.98

 

Both the Collector’s Edition and Regular Edition Import can be pre-ordered and purchased at:

 

Right Stuf: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray (Import): Rightstuf.com/i/aoa4901


Standard Edition Blu-ray (Import): Rightstuf.com/i/ansx3531

 
Official Retailers: http://www.AniplexUSA.com/retailers

 

For complete detailed information on the Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion-

Collector’s Edition and Standard Edition Blu-ray, visit: www.MadokaMagicaUSA.com

 

About Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Rebellion

Madoka Kaname is a magical girl who sacrificed her very existence to set every magical girl free from their cruel destiny. Homura Akemi is another magical girl who still dreams of the day she can finally see Madoka once again. Were all the magical girls truly saved from despair? Now… the great “Law of Cycles’ leads the magical girls to their new fate. This third film will once again bring together the extraordinary members of the Madoka creative staff. Led by  chief director Akiyuki Shimbou, the script will be written by Gen Urobuchi from Nitroplus and the original character concept designs will be by aokiumi. SHAFT will once again be the studio that will be bringing their work to life. With a completely new screenplay and new animation Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie –Rebellion- is a brand new
tale of magical girls.

 

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.

Following the 15-second CM, the official site for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Mari Matsuzawa's Saikin, Imouto no Yosu ga Chotto Okaishiin Daga./Recently, My Sister is Unusual. love comedy manga has posted a 2-minute promotional video featuring narrations by the protagonists Mitsuki Kanzaki (CV: Chinami Hashimoto) and Hiyori Kotobuki (Yui Ogura). The OP theme "Binkan Attention," which you can hear in the PV, is sung by the three main voice actresses; Chinami Hashimoto, Yui Ogura, and Hisako Kanemoto (Yukina Kiritani). And the ED song "Charming Do!" is performed by Yui Ogura (check the short PV on the bottom of this article).

 

A high school first grader Mitsuki Kanzaki start living with her step brother Yuuya. One day Mitsuki is possessed by the spirit of a dead girl Hiyori Kotobuki, who has lost all of her memory but only remembers that she loved Yuuya when she was alive. In order to rest her in peace, Mitsuki has to fall

in love with her step brother...?! The TV anime produced by project No.9 (Ro-Kyu-Bu!) will be premiered

on Tokyo MX and Sun TV on January 4, 2014.

 

1st PV

 

 

1st CM

 

 

The Ed song "Charming Do!" short PV by Yui Ogura

 

 

© Mari Matsuzawa/KADOKAWA Fujimi Shobou/"Imocho" Production Committee

Supple Skin: Built on plastic the new electronic skin contains arrays of pressure sensors, thin-film transistors, and organic LEDs.

A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has developed the first user-interactive “electronic skin” that responds to pressure by instantly emitting light.

“The goal is to use human skin as a model and develop new types of electronics that would enable us to interface with our environment in new ways,” explains Ali Javey, an electrical engineering and computer science professor at Berkeley and leader of the e-skin research team.

The electronic skin is made up of a network of sensors placed on thin plastic substrates that can spatially and temporarily map pressure. Javey describes the network as an array of 16 by 16 pixels, each one equipped with a carbon-nanotube thin-film transistor (TFT), a pressure sensor, and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) on top. When the sensor detects touch, the TFT powers up the OLED, which then emits red, green, or blue light. The harder the pressure, the brighter the light will be. The end product is a thin, flexible material that can be placed on top of all sorts of surfaces.

Takao Someya, creator of a different type of electronic skin and an associate professor at the University of Tokyo’s Quantum Phase Electronics Center, was particularly impressed with the team’s use of carbon nanotubes. “One of their great achievements is to demonstrate feasibility of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors for large-area, flexible electronic applications,” he says.

Javey, who has been working on developing the e-skin for the past five years, has high hopes for his new material. He’d like to create user-interactive wallpaper or a dashboard that responds to cues such as the driver’s eye or body movements. When asked to describe how the interactive wallpaper would work, Javey referred to the scene in Minority Report in which Tom Cruise controls a computer by moving his hands. “That’s the direction we’re heading to—a new type of interfacing,” he says. “Getting rid of the keyboard, getting rid of display, and become in sync with our surroundings so that you don’t have these physical components sitting around. It’s part of the table; it’s part of the wall.”

In Javey’s proposed system, light sensors would read hand and body motions, and pressure sensors would respond to different degrees of touch. But there’s a good deal of work that must be done before we’ll be seeing interactive wallpaper, he says. “We know how to make complex systems on tiny silicon chips, but on plastic it’s a whole different story,” Javey says. “It’s still not a very complex system we have shown, but it’s still one of the most complex systems we have to date on plastic.” He adds that his team is interested in integrating light sensors as well as data-processing and wireless-communication capabilities onto the substrates.

“This is an inspiring development in the plastic device technology, which is likely to make many everyday experiences more stimulating,” says Nicholas Kotov, a professor at the University of Michigan who is working on flexible, stretchable electronics.

John Rogers, a materials science professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says “the work illustrates the extent to which research in nanomaterials, once confined strictly to fundamental study on individual test vehicles, is now successfully moving toward sophisticated, macroscale demonstrator devices, with unique function. The results provide more evidence that the field is headed in the right direction.”

Now that we got that out of the way, shall we begin?

I had previously believed that originality was rare, and even if found it would require a grand amount of execution to become truly special and memorable.

I still do.

But that’s not to say that originality is dead. Hell no. My brother literally slapped me silly for believing that. It is indeed possible to find such “original anime” in this decade; very few shows like The World God Only Knows, Durarara!, Hyouka, Chuunibyou, were able to provide truly unique experiences, or a unique twist – invigoration – of an established genre/formula.

Where am I going with this? This show, of course! I went into Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C³-bu expecting another trashy, K-On copycat, only to find myself enjoying what could be a fairly unique twist on the moe, slice-of-life, high-school club anime.

It starts out in familiar fare, with a dreamy-eyed girl, named Yura Yamato, on her first day of high schoo- HOLY CRAP that school is huge! Alright, so not everything is completely within Yura’s fantasy, but seriously; first world problems, I tell ya.

Uh, where was I? Right, then Yura finds a gun under her pillow- whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, a GUN?! Yes, and this is where things get interesting!

The gun’s fake, by the way.

Cue the opening sequence. Soon after, we’re greeted by an insane cast of characters, and I mean INSANE. Whether it’s Yachiyo and her wackily huggable expressions, the G36K-wielding meganekko Honoka, the cake-loving Rento with beautiful hair, or the machine gun-totting american stereotype Karila… they are all borderline sociopathic!

One minute they’re sweet as tea, and the next they handle their guns with eerie anticipation, and firing rounds with big smiles on their faces! It’s weird! And crazy! And I love every minute of it.

I admit it! I’ve fallen in love with these characters. Their passion for airsoft complements their madly eccentric personalities perfectly, constantly providing us with loads of on-screen hilarity and entertainment. It certainly helps that the chemistry and interaction between the entire cast are nothing short of fantastic. All of it feels particularly fresh, despite being held back by some K-On-ish moments. (Complete with tea, cakes and everything!)

The show feels polished as well. The animation is splendid where it counts (if you can get past the cutesy character designs), especially during the airsoft battles. The original creator definitely did his research when it came to military tactics. Being constantly on the move and switching between cover-to-cover, rolls, cover-fire, hand-signals, and surprise ambushes – there were no shortcuts or flashy stunts. Just good ol’ gunplay, and it was AWESOME. I also really liked Yura’s fantasy vision, which gave the battle a slight Chu-2 vibe to it. And who can forget that smooth jazz playing in the background?

So far, I like what I’m seeing. Clean animation, cute style, insane and memorable characters, and an awesome premise that sets itself up for intense, over-the-top airsoft battles! And to top it all off, no fanservice! The bad kind, I mean.

As long as the show doesn’t wallow in nothing happening at all, it may turn out to be one of the best shows of this season! My expectations are high, and I look forward to more of this insanity.

What a great way to kick start the summer season!

willith writes "I got to sit down with ISS TOPO Flight Controller Josh Parris at the Houston Mission Control Center and talk about how NASA steers all 400 tons of the International Space Station around potential collisions, or 'conjunctions,' in NASA-parlance. The TOPO controller, with assistance from USSTRATCOM's big radars, keeps track of every object that will pass within a 'pizza-box'-shaped 50km x 50km x 4km perimeter around the ISS. Actually moving the station is done with a combination of large control moment gyros and thrusters on both the Zvezda module and visiting vehicles. It's a surprisingly complex operation!"

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If you thought Free! was homo... well then you're right, but it becomes even more of a BL party as a whole gang of naked men have been added to the character roster, including one too old to be a highschooler.

The day has come, otaku can now get their very own loli without fear of jail-time (public ridicule and dejection still included unfortunately) - a massive 1/4 scale figure of Papakiki's Hina will be available soon.

Catching up on blu-rays. Enjoy!

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Here's an old Google/Airtel commercial from 2007 that was restored and enhanced for the Computer History Museum. It's from India and it was the result of a partnership between Google and Airtel, a mobile network operator. The commercial announced the launch of Google search on Airtel Live.


Director: Ram Madhvani
Writers: KS Chax, Ajay Gahlaut, Pradyumna Chauhan
Agency: Rediffusion DY&R, Delhi

{ Thanks, Kristian Serrano and Roney Thomas. }

5pb posted a short version promotional video for nao's "Dimension tripper!!!!" on its official YouTube channel today. The ex-fripSide vocalist's 5th solo single is featured as the OP song for a 2013 Summer TV anime Chou Jigen Game Neptune The Animation, which will start airing in Japan on July 12. The anime is based on the PS3 game Hyperdimension Neptunia series, and nao has sung the OP songs for the first game Hyperdimension Neptunia (August 2010), the second game Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2 (August 2011), and the third game Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory (August 2012). How do you like the song and the PV?

 

"Dimension tripper!!!!" short PV

 

"Chou Jigen Game Neptune The Animation" 1st PV

 

 

"Chou Jigen Game Neptune The Animation" 2nd PV

 

© 2013 Idea Factory/Compile Heart/Neptune production Committee

If you open Google Reader, you'll see this message:

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Why was Google Reader discontinued?

Please refer to our blog post for more information.

I don't understand why Google removes Reader data so soon and why the message uses words like "systematically deleted", "permanently, and irrevocably deleted". It's like they try to get rid of everything that's related to Reader. I can still download Google Buzz data from Google Takeout. A similar message was posted for Google Health, but users had one year to download their data.

"Mozilla today announced that the regional launches of Firefox OS smartphones will begin soon. Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica will release the first Firefox OS devices, the ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fire and the ZTE Open, soon. Individual partners will announce specifics about launches in each market soon." Lots of soons in there.

vikingpower writes "Clinkle, a new mobile payments start-up, may or may not have succeeded where so many other efforts have fizzled by inventing a practical way to replace credit cards with smartphones. It's hard to say, though, since Clinkle won't say much about how its system works. Its website is, well ... slight. But a prominent group of Silicon Valley investors who do know what Clinkle is cooking up are acting as though it has achieved a breakthrough. On Thursday, Clinkle announced that it had raised $25 million in early financing from Accel Partners; Andreessen Horowitz; Intel; Intuit; Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce.com; Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal; and a long list of other investors with technology industry pedigrees. The Huffington Post has an article on Clinkle, or rather on Stanford students putting their degree on hold to go work at Clinkle. The Wall Street Journal [paywalled] mentions Clinkle having some 30-odd employees already."

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