Don King perfomed for the crowd at Trump event in Cleveland, as was his place and his message.

Source: New York Times

The former boxing promoter Don King let loose a racial epithet while introducing Donald J. Trump in Ohio on Wednesday as the candidate was sitting just a few feet away onstage.

In the middle of making the case for why America, and “especially black people,” need to elect Mr. Trump, Mr. King recalled something he once told Michael Jackson about assimilation.

“I told Michael Jackson, I said, if you are poor, you are a poor Negro — I would use the N-word — if you are rich, you are a rich Negro,” he said at a campaign event at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights.

“If you are a talented intellectual, you are an intellectual Negro. If you are a dancing and sliding and gliding nigger, I mean Negro,” he said, as he chuckled briefly and those in the crowd laughed nervously around him.

Mr. Trump, who was sitting directly behind Mr. King and smiling broadly for much of his introduction, did not flinch or break his gaze. He kept his smile and turned to those sitting next to him, as Mr. King corrected himself.

A gif of the moment King used the n-word.

Crunchyroll has a lot planned for Anime Weekend Atlanta next weekend and here is some more of information if you are attending!

Convention Premium Member Perks
Are you a Premium Member? Great! Because you are getting the VIP treatment while at AWA. After picking up your convention badge stop by the Crunchyroll Premium Member check-in kiosk in the same room and log-in to your account to get your Premium Member badge.

Premium Member badge gets you:
+ Early access line to the Exhibit Hall each day
+ Early access line to many of the largest panels & screenings (see program guide and room signs for details)
+ $5 off the your purchase at the AWA merch store
+ Fast lane access for Premiere Member free gift at the Crunchyroll booth
+ Premium Member free gift

We have also teamed up with AWA to make an exclusive poster of their mascot Peach Girl and our very own Crunchyroll Hime! Poster available for $5 at the Crunchyroll booth store and AWA merch store.

 

We are also happy to be a part of bringing Masaya Matsukaze to AWA!!!

Masaya has voiced multiple characters in such series as Mobile Suite Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans, Sailor Moon Crystal, and Hunter X Hunter.

Guest Schedule
Thursday
6:00-7:00pm, Highlands: Meet Masaya Matsukaze

Friday
4:30-5:30pm, Dealer's Room: Autograph session
6:00-8:00pm, Main Events: Mobile Suite Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans Season 2 Premiere & Panel

Saturday
1:00-2:00pm, Kennesaw: Behind the Scenes: Robbie Daymond & Masaya Matsukaze
2:30-3:30pm, Dealer's Room: Autograph session

Anyone who attends his autograph sessions will also receive a free Mobile Suite Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans poster!

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Like with Anime Boston earlier this year, Crunchyroll is TEAMING UP with Anime Weekend Atlanta to bring an extra special experience this year for Premium Members and convention attendees. This will include events and panels, merchandise, premiers, and Premium Member perks. Leading up to convention we will have multiple announcements so stay keep checking back for updates and more information - we'll be updating everyone here on this thread!

Anime Weekend Atlanta is 9/29 - 10/2 in Atlanta, Georgia, and limited tickets are still available at the door - be sure to get there early to secure yours!

Good Smile Company and their Orange Rouge male figure label have launched pre-orders for their first Thunderbolt Fantasy Nendoroid and second Bungo Stray Dogs. From this season's puppet series comes Nendoroid Lin Setsu A aka Lǐn Xuě Yā aka Lüè Fēng Qiè Chén aka Guǐ Niǎo, or, because no one remembers Thunderbolt Fantasy's character names... Guy Who Looks Like A Vaping Wizard.

And, from the returning BSD comes Showa poet inspired Port Mafia martial artist Chūya Nakahara. He joins the previously solicited Osamu Dazai.

Nendoroid Lin Setsu A

The mysterious Lin Setsu A is joining the Nendoroids!

From the martial-arts fantasy glove puppetry series 'Thunderbolt Fantasy Sword Seekers' comes a Nendoroid of the mysterious and elegant Lin Setsu A!

The Nendoroid comes with three different face plates including a standard expression with a refined look, a chibi expression based the character drawn by Yuupon as well as beautiful expression based on the actual glove puppet used in the series!

Optional parts include his pipe together with special smoke effect parts as well as a little white bird for him to send his bird messages! Enjoy the mysterious Lin Setsu A in your collection!

Product Details

Product Name

   Nendoroid Lin Setsu A

Series

   Thunderbolt Fantasy Sword Seekers

Manufacturer

   Good Smile Company

Category

   Nendoroid

Release Date

   2017/02

Specifications

   Painted ABS/PVC non-scale articulated figure with stand included. Approximately 100mm in height.

Sculptor 

   Shichibee

Cooperation

   Nendoron

Nendoroid Chuya Nakahara

Chuya Nakahara. Ability: "For the Tainted Sorrow".

From the anime series 'Bungo Stray Dogs' comes a Nendoroid of Chuya Nakahara, one of the executives of the Port Mafia that have strong control over the ports! He comes with three face plates including his standard expression, a belligerent combat expression as well as a humiliated angry expression.

The long black coat he wears over his shoulders as well as his hat can both be removed for different posing options. Optional parts include his knife to place him in poses that show him off as the strongest martial artist in the Mafia, and he even comes with parts that allow you to pose him with walking pigeon-toed just as Osamu predicted! Be sure to display him with the previously announced Nendoroid Osamu Dazai!

Product Details

Product Name

   Nendoroid Chuya Nakahara

Series

   Bungo Stray Dogs

Manufacturer

   ORANGE ROUGE

Category

   Nendoroid

Release Date

   2017/03

Specifications

   Painted ABS&PVC non-scale articulated figure with stand included. Approximately 100mm in height.

Sculptor

   Shichibee

Cooperation

   Nendoron

Released by

   ORANGE ROUGE

Distributed by

   Good Smile Company

Planning/Production

   Good Smile Company

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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.

Heroes will rise to fight evil once more, because the official Japanese broadcast schedule for The Brave Yoshihiko and the Seven Guides - the 3rd series in a low-budget, late-night, live-action TV comedy that spoofs the conventions of Japanese roleplaying games and fantasy stories - is now available online.

The newest series is set hundreds of years after the conclusion of Season 2, The Brave Yoshiko and the Key of an Evil Spirit, which culminated with the defeat of the Deathtark, the God of Darkness. In Season 3, Yoshihiko finds himself reincarnated in an unfamiliar time and tasked by Buddha with once again saving the world from the forces of evil.

The Brave Yoshihiko and the Seven Guides stars Takayuki Yamada as Yoshihiko and is directed by Yuichi Fukuda, director of the live-action Gintama film. The series will broadcast on TV Tokyo every Friday during the late-night 24:12 time slot beginning on October 07, 2016. (Note: The 24:12 time slot is actually 12:12 AM JST on Saturday morning.)

Source: Cinema Today

Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.

Samantha Bee dived right back into this insane election season with an in-depth look at last week's disastrous Commander-in-Chief forum, Matt Lauer, and the dismal state of our Fourth Estate.

"I bet the veterans have some things they'd like to ask a draft dodging, Gold Star family insulting, war crimes advocating torture-phile whose worst Vietnam flashback involves scrambling for the last plane out of Gonorrhea," she mocked.

After skewering Lauer and Trump, she went after the rest of them for their aversion to checking facts, which seems to be an epidemic in this election cycle. And boy howdy, did she find some awesome clips, where journalists challenged their viewers to decide if Trump wants to violate the Geneva conventions.

"You heard her, average American. In your plentiful spare time when you're not working your two jobs or watching your screaming kids, why not spend 20 or 30 hours studying the Geneva Convention so you know whether or not it's okay to steal another country's oil," she mocked.

"There's no time to report the facts and what people feel are the facts," she warned. "You've got to choose one. Guys, we are swimming in bad information. Our dads are on Facebook. Chemtrails are not real, dad."

"Why can't the media just tell us what's true and what's bullsh*t? "

After playing some clips of the self-justification cable talkers give for why they can't possibly serve as fact-checkers -- like Tweety claiming Matt Lauer would be expressing an opinion by bringing up facts, Bee laid it out.

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We all know the Mainstream Media's addiction to both-siderism is to blame for Donald Trump. By insisting that Trump deserves the same consideration as Clinton, they ignore proven, real-life pay-to-play scandalous conduct while serving up endless nothingburgers about her 'reckless' email. The both-sides are equal press is pretending to be unbiased, but they are being decidedly biased by propping up a lying unqualified candidate.

Additional blame should be placed squarely on the shoulders of Republicans in the House, like Jason Chaffetz, (R-UT). Republicans are determined to destroy Hillary Clinton while fleecing taxpayers out of millions of dollars by conducting costly, redundant and highly biased hearings on a matter already asked and answered by the FBI. CNN's Manu Raju openly admits that the whole charade is a ploy designed by Trump's political allies in Congress to take the focus off him. They are trying to hide his incompetence in every measure of a decent candidate.

Thanks to Media Matters for the transcript:

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h/t Driftglass for the video.

In case you missed it, last night's Commander in Chief forum was so bad, its badness is being covered this morning by People Magazine.

Matt Lauer interrupted most of Clinton's answers in order to "move on." He was so nice and condescending to Trump, that EVEN the New York Times noticed. That's pretty bad.

Pretty brutal headline in the NYT. pic.twitter.com/HTnTRuv9vX

— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) September 8, 2016

@RealDonalDrumpf created the hashtag #LaueringTheBar which immediately started trending.

Because the problem is the media. The Problem. Is the media.

And Matt Lauer is singled out because it was one event with both candidates and the immediate comparison could be made. But it's being going on this way for months. Trump lies about everything. But emails! Trump actually paid a fine to the IRS for falsely reporting a contribution to Florida's AG. But Clinton Foundation Optics! Trump's 'doctor' is a pothead hippie who wrote Trump's "health report" without the patient present. But Hillary coughed!

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Straight from the roster of Street Fighter III, Urien is coming to Street Fighter V this month as the final "Season 1" DLC character. More details on the update's timing will be revealed during this month's Tokyo Game Show, but for now you can see Urien in action in his debut trailer. 

Check out Capcom-Unity's blog post for more specifics on Urien's skills.

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his webcomic, BIG DUMB FIGHTING IDIOTS, every week at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

For the past three weeks, all we have heard about is how many days it has been since Hillary Clinton held a press conference. The drumbeat has been relentless, consuming reporters on social media on a daily basis. On cable news, innumerable segments from everyone from Andrea Mitchell to Rachel Maddow to Wolf Blitzer were run complaining that Hillary isn't holding a press conference.

There was even a countdown clock. And as it turns out, that countdown came directly from the Republican National Committee, as Ashleigh Banfield admitted in her intro to a discussion with Jeff Zeleny about "the cough," which is the topic of today's huddle.

Turning to Zeleny, Banfield said, "Jeff, we get these e-mails from the RNC doing a countdown of how many days it has been since Secretary Clinton has held a news conference...We are at 276."

"Do these [impromptu Q&As] count towards that or is she trying to offset the fact she hasn't been doing business press conferences?," Banfield asked.

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Former CNN host Soledad O'Brien blasted the cable news business over the weekend for profiting off the hate speech that has fueled Donald Trump's political rise.

According to O'Brien, the media had gone through "contortions to make things seem equal all the time" when comparing Trump to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

"If you look at Hillary Clinton's speech where she basically pointed out that what Donald Trump has done -- actually quite well -- has normalized white supremacy," O'Brien explained to CNN host Brian Stelter on Sunday. "I think she made a very good argument, almost like a lawyer. Here is ways in which he has actually worked to normalize conversations that many people find hateful."

"I've seen on-air, white supremacists being interviewed because they are Trump delegates," she noted. "And they do a five minute segment, the first minute or so talking about what they believe as white supremacists. So you have normalized that."

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What's “Cruising the Crunchy-Catalog”?

With so many titles to choose from, picking an anime to watch can make you feel like a little lost lamb wandering in a vast wilderness. Fear not, gentle reader, because “Cruising the Crunchy-Catalog” is here to help. Each week we provide additional information and cultural context to help fans determine whether or not they'd like to take an unknown title for a test-drive.

What's Ringing Bell?

Ringing Bell is a 1978 short film directed by Masami Hata and animated by Sanrio, the creators of such cute properties as Hello Kitty and Show by Rock!!. The film is an adaptation of the 1978 book Chirin no Suzu (“Chirin's Bell”) by Takashi Yanase, the creator of Anpanman.

Crunchyroll describes Ringing Bell as follows:

“Chirin is an innocent though adventurous young lamb whose carefree life on the farm comes to an abrupt end when a wolf murders his mother. Confused and angry, Chirin pursues the wolf into the mountains, seeking revenge. The laws of nature are brutal, however, and hatred alone won't be enough to avenge the loss of his mother. Only the strong survive in the wild, and obtaining that strength may change Chirin forever.”

Yes, folks, Ringing Bell is a children's story with themes so bleak, they will make your head spin. It's also a surprisingly artistic work, one that is filled with both cartoony character animation and more dog-murder than a typical season of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

The Emotional Landscape.

If you watch Ringing Bell with a critical eye, one of the first details you'll notice is the use of space and environment to represent emotional and psychological states. When Chirin is safe with his mother and the rest of the flock, the pasture is all blue skies, green grass, and fleecy clouds. But when Chirin enters Woe's world, the mountain is a barren and intimidating place composed entirely of harsh, jutting crags.

Similarly, physical distance reflects emotional distance. Chirin and his mother's sense of love and intimacy is reflected in how they snuggle together on equal footing, but the relationship between Chirin and Woe is separated not only by distance but by height, with the powerful wolf towering over the weak and defenseless sheep.

The School of Hard Knocks.

Another element that gives Ringing Bell such a heavy emotional impact is its complete absence of a reassuring moral message. Unlike a typical Disney or DreamWorks animated film in which parents may die but ultimately the karmic balance is restored in the end, there is no happy resolution for Chirin.

Consumed by his desire for revenge and his hatred of his own powerlessness, Chirin ultimately cannot find peace with his identity as either a wolf or a sheep. In Ringing Bell, existence is perilous, the universe is indifferent to the suffering of the innocent, and bad decisions can ruin even the main character's life irrevocably. It's a heck of a message for a children's film.

For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Ringing Bell was originally released theatrically as a double-feature with The Mouse and His Child, a 1977 animated film that was co-produced by Japan and the United States and distributed by Sanrio. Ringing Bell was also released on VHS in the United States in 1983, and the English dubbed version features such veteran voice actors as Barbara Goodson as young Chirin, Gregg Berger as adult Chirin, and Jim Cummings as Woe the Wolf.

Crunchyroll currently streams Ringing Bell in the United States, Canada, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Minor Outlying Islands. The film is available both in the original Japanese with English subtitles and dubbed in English.

Ringing Bell is also distributed on R1 DVD by Discotek Media, and this release includes an enlightening audio commentary by the Internet's Mike Toole (@MichaelToole), whom fans may remember from Crunchyroll's Christmas Special.

If you have the opportunity and you're in the mood to experience a slice of anime history, please check out Ringing Bell. It's a dark, powerful, and emotionally-wrenching film, and it deserves as much attention as we can give it.

Is there a series in Crunchyroll's catalog that you think needs some more love and attention? Please send in your suggestions to cruisingcrunchy@gmail.com. Your pick could inspire the next installment of “Cruising the Crunchy-Catalog”!

Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.

DC Comics-based Suicide Squad opens in Japanese theaters on September 10, and, leading into its release, Good Smile Company has launched pre-orders for super-deformed Nendoroid figures of its crazy couple, Joker and Harley Quinn. (They have also recently done Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Nendoroids.)

Japanese cast for the movie includes:

Deadshot - Hiroki Tōchi

Joker - Takehito Koyasu

Harley Quinn - Kanako Toujô

Rick Flag - Atsushi Miyauchi

Amanda Waller - Noriko Uemura

Captain Boomerang - - Hisao Egawa

El Diablo -  Setsuji Sato

Clock King - Kazlaser

Enchantress - Miyuki Sawashiro

Slipnot - Tomoyuki Shimura

Katana - Karen Fukuhara (not dubbed)

And those Nendoroids

Nendoroid Joker: Suicide Edition

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!"

From the movie 'Suicide Squad' comes a Nendoroid of one of the most popular DC Comics villains - the Joker! The maniacal expressions of the Joker have been faithfully recreated in Nendoroid style, but have a very unique feel to them that shows an all-new potential for the Nendoroid series! He comes with three face plates including a smiling expression, a shouting expression and a glaring expression. Optional parts include a razor and electroshock tools.

A selection of the various tattoos on his body and face have also been included on the design to bring out as much of the Joker as possible in Nendoroid size! The figure is also fully articulated and features slightly longer hands and feet compared to standard Nendoroids, keeping the 'chibi' size while also preserving the bizarre side of the Joker for fans to enjoy in their collection!

Product Details

Product Name

   Nendoroid Joker: Suicide Edition

Series

   Suicide Squad

Manufacturer

   Good Smile Company

Category

   Nendoroid

Release Date

   2017/02

Specifications

   Painted ABS&PVC non-scale figure with stand included. Approximately 100mm in height.

Sculptor

   Masami Ushiro

Cooperation

   Nendoron

GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP Preorder Bonus

Preorders of Nendoroid Joker: Suicide Edition from the GOOD SMILE ONLINE SHOP will include a Nendoroid Joker: Suicide Edition GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP Exclusive Background Sheet as a bonus!

→ Preorder Here: http://goodsmileshop.com/en/p/GSC_NEN_WD_00671 

Amazon.co.jp Preorder Bonus

Preorders of Nendoroid Joker: Suicide Edition from Amazon.co.jp will include a Nendoroid Joker: Suicide Edition Amazon.co.jp Exclusive Background Sheet as a bonus!

Nendoroid Harley Quinn: Suicide Edition

The crazed supervillain in Nendoroid size!

From the movie 'Suicide Squad' comes a Nendoroid of the cute, crazed supervillain - Harley Quinn! The Nendoroid has carefully captured all of Margot Robbie's charm while still keeping to the cute Nendoroid design making her one of the cutest Nendoroids ever based on a live action movie character!

She comes with three different face plates, all of which feature her unique make-up and capture her captivating personality. The face plate to display her blowing bubblegum can also have the bubble part removed creating a fourth way to put her on display!

The figure is also fully articulated allowing you to easily place her in poses that come straight out of the movie as well as create your own original poses - she also comes with a baseball bat to recreate combat scenes! Be sure to add her to your collection and enjoy the crazy Harley Quinn by your side!

Product Details

Product Name

   Nendoroid Harley Quinn: Suicide Edition

Series

   Suicide Squad

Manufacturer

   Good Smile Company

Category

   Nendoroid

Release Date

   2017/02

Specifications

   Painted ABS&PVC non-scale figure with stand included. Approximately 100mm in height.

Sculptor

   Shichibee

Cooperation

   Nendoron

GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP Preorder Bonus

Preorders of Nendoroid Harley Quinn: Suicide Edition from the GOOD SMILE ONLINE SHOP will include a Nendoroid Harley Quinn: Suicide Edition GOODSMILE ONLINE SHOP Exclusive Background Sheet as a bonus!

A big part of the series local promotion has featured comic duo Maple Chogokin (Natsu Ando and Kazlaser) cosplaying as the pair

ところで。メイプル超合金さんといえば、この2ショットがあまりにも有名なので、本日のバージョンと一緒にアップしておきます❗️#スースク pic.twitter.com/pgayABTRZK

— 映画『スーサイド・スクワッド』公式 (@suicidesquadjp) August 30, 2016

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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.

Ed Martin, Phyllis Schlafly's spokesman, clearing up what is and what isn't considered racist in Donald Trump's Amerika. Martin spoke just before Jim Hoft, the conservative blogger The Gateway Pundit aka “The Stupidest Man on the Internet”. Martin was the former Missouri Republican Party director.

Source: St. Louis Dispatch

Ed Martin, who ran for Missouri attorney general four years ago and now is the chief spokesman and ally to conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, said at a Tea Party rally in the St. Louis area Sunday:

"You're not racist if you don't like Mexicans. They're from a nation. If you don't think Muslims are vetted enough, because they blow things up, that's not racist."

Martin told the Post-Dispatch in a written statement that his comments regarding Mexicans were aimed only at illegal immigrants.

Regarding his comments on Muslims, he said: "My point is that it is not racist to make clear that some Muslims should not be coming to America. They are not a race but a religion and there are white, black and brown Muslims and we need to make sure that the ones who wish us ill are not allowed to enter America."

The official website for the anime adaptation project based on Gamon Sakurai's Ajin: Demi-Human sci-fi action manga announced today that the second cour of its TV anime series will premiere on MBS and TBS on October 7, then on BS-TBS on the following day, in their "Animeism" midnight programming block. The first cour was aired for 13 episodes in the same block from January to April of this year. The story of the second cour focuses on Sato's new attempt to assassinate 15 VIPs in the Japanese government who are related to the Ajin incidents.

It has been also confirmed that the first OP theme song for the second cour, "Boku wa Boku de atte" (Because I am me), is collaborated by two-member unit angela and Satoshi Yaginuma-produced two-member unit fripSide. The CD single is set for a release on October 19. 

Meanwhile, the final third part of the film series, "Shougeki" (Impact), that tells its own original ending,

will be screened at 35 theaters across Japan from September 23 for a limited time of three weeks.

TV anime second cour key visual

【TV第2クールキービジュアル公開!!】
2016年10月7日より「亜人」第2クールがいよいよ放送開始!!作品のキーとなるキャラが集結したキービジュアルを本日公開！！https://t.co/JSnx8pggF7 #亜人計画 pic.twitter.com/5P7zB7zgJD

— 『亜人-衝戟-』9/23公開！ (@anime_ajin) 2016年8月31日

Full trailer for the third film "Shougeki"

Key Visual

【死ねない、最終決戦ーー】最終章『亜人 -衝戟-』キービジュアルとストーリーが解禁！https://t.co/mOozULlAD8 #亜人計画 pic.twitter.com/Vb87PpteIA

— 『亜人-衝戟-』9/23公開！ (@anime_ajin) July 8, 2016

Source: "Ajin" Anime series official website, Twitter

© Gamon Sakurai, Kodansha Ltd. / Ajin Management Committee

Porn and video games are replacing Christianity as the common language of American conservatives

These are good: Vladimir Putin. White identity politics. Star Wars. Austrian free market economics. Donald Trump. LOLs. Bitcoin. Darwinism. Silicon Valley. Science and technology. Transhumanism. Pepe the Frog.

These are bad: Islam. Feminism. Democracy. Black Lives Matter. The new Ghostbusters movie. Egalitarianism. Political correctness. God. Immigration. Hillary Clinton. Newspapers. Government. Academia. Liberalism.

Maison Ikkoku, a classic 1986 - 1988 TV anime based on the romance manga of the same name by Rumiko Takahashi, is returning to Japanese TV in August with an HD remastered re-broadcast on Chiba TV. The series will be broadcast Monday through Friday during the 18:30 time slot (6:30 PM JST) beginning on August 29, 2016.

The Maison Ikkoku TV anime originally ran for 96 episodes on Fuji TV in 1986 - 1988. The series follows Yusaku Godai, a luckless young man who moves into a boarding house to study after failing his college entrance exams. Godai wants to get serious, but he's constantly distracted by his nosy, noisy neighbords and by his growing attraction to Kyoko Otonashi, the beautiful young widow who manages Maison Ikkoku.

The original Maison Ikkoku manga was serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits seinen manga magazine from 1980 - 1987, and a total of 15 collected volumes of the series were released. Viz Media releases an English language version of the Maison Ikkoku manga in the United States. Viz Media also released the Maison Ikkoku TV series on R1 DVD, but this publication is now out-of-print.

Source: Net Lab

Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.

Following the eighth volume released in May of this year, the limited edition set of the next ninth volume of Gamon Sakurai's Ajin: Demi-Human sci-fi action manga series will also include a DVD containing a newly-produced anime episode.

While the first OAD was based on the "File:00 Shinya Nakamura Incident" episode included in the manga's second tankobon volume, the second one will focus on the daily life of the main characters: Kei, Kou, Tosaki, and Shimomura at a ryokan (Japanese style hotel) that they are using as a hiding place, and Sato and Tanaka at their secret hideout. Both the limited and book-only regular edition will be available on October 7. 

Preview

Key visual

Source: Kodansha

© Gamon Sakurai, Kodansha Ltd. / Ajin Management Committee

After a decade, Hideyuki Kurata's R.O.D: Read or Die is back with a 12th light novel on August 25th, and, an early look is indicating that Shueisha's Super Dash Bunko is hinting that the series might be returning to anime too. A "new anime project in development?!" notice on the cover raises the possibility, while also offering the caveat that it is under consideration, according to producer of the earlier TV anime and A-1 Pictures president Tomonori Ochikoshi..

The series was previously adapted into a 2001 OVA with a 2003 TV anime follow-up.

Crunchyroll describes the latter

From bulletproof dragons to lock-picks, a paper master manipulates paper to their will. In Hong Kong, three young paper masters, Anita, Maggie and Michelle, use their formidable skills to protect Nenene, an author targeted by a mad bomber. As their bodyguard duties take them to Tokyo, they will be educated on the dangers of literacy!

R.O.D 新作アニメもまさかの企画検討中⁉ pic.twitter.com/jAkHm4eTCO

— IEEE802.11 (@IEEE80211) August 22, 2016

volume 12 launch event illustration cards

via @IEEE80211

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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.

After 25 years away from the series, 47-year-old singer singer Hiroko Moriguchi, who performed Zeta Gundam opening "Mizu no Hoshi e Ai wo Komete" and insert song "Gin'iro Doresu," and Mobile Suit Gundam F91 opening "Kimi no Mitsumete -The Time I'm Seeing You-" and ending "Eternal Wind ~ Hohoemi wa Hikaru Kaze no Naka" (she also did One-Punch Man's ending) is now set to return to Gundam on the fourth part of prequel Origin.

There's also a new English subtitled preview (accessible through closed captions)

"Unmei no Zenya (Fateful Eve)," will be screened at 15 selected theaters across Japan for a limited time of two weeks from November 19. Advance pay streaming for the episode will also start simultaneously.

"Unmei no Zenya" will be the final episode of the "Char and Sayla" arc, focusing on the encounter between Char Aznable and Lalah Sune on the earth, and the first mobile suit fight in human history. While Char is still voiced by Shuichi Ikeda, in place of the original cast Keiko Han, Saori Hayami (Ayase Aragaki in Oreimo, Ha-chan/Kotoha Hanami/Cure Felice in Maho Girls PreCure!) is newly cast as Lalah. 

Hiroko Moriguchi

"Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin IV" Collector's Edition Blu-ray

Regular edition Blu-ray

Regular edition DVD

Main visual

via otakomu

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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.