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PlayStation 4 owners aren't the only ones who can look forward to playing the latest in the NieR series next year. During this week's Gamescom event, Square Enix announced plans to bring NieR: Automata to PC via Steam in early 2017. 

 

In the meantime, dig into a modest new set of screens below, followed by two audio-only versions of the theme song.

 

 

J'Nique Nicole version:

 

Emi Evans version:

 

Via Gematsu

 

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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.

When Roger Ailes history of sexual harassment came to light just a few short weeks ago, the media world was stunned. Yes, there had been rumors, but nothing concrete. Response was fast and furious as dozens of women lined up to share their stories, some going back decades. Under intense pressure from the public, Roger Ailes was forced out of Fox News and Rupert Murdoch was on the hunt for his replacement.

After decades of a white perverted old man running the show, Murdoch should have known to find a woman or at least an outsider to come in and clean up Ailes' mess. But hey, why do that when you can promote a few of Ailes' own minions?

Author of the Ailes tell-all "The Loudest Voice in the Room," Gabriel Sherman, writes in NY Magazine that Murdoch divided Ailes’s job into two "co-President" positions. CEO Jack Abernethy will be in charge of the business side while Bill Shine will oversee content and talent. Both men have been with Fox News under the direction of Roger Ailes for at least 20 years.

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An August 21 broadcast date was announced for the Gundam Build Fighters Try Island Wars special TV episode last month, and English-speaking audiences can now look forward to watching, as well. The special will stream with English subtitles for free for a limited time on the Gundam.Info portal starting August 21, streamable on PCs and smartphones. 

 

Here's the promo from July:

 

Synopsis: 

The Try Fighters team have been invited to the Nielsen Labs on a tropical island, as test pilots for Yajima Trading's new battle system. However, due to bugs in the new system, they find themselves on standby at the lodging facilities.

 

As they wait expectantly at the resort-like lodging facilities, Sekai and the others encounter the trio of Shia, Minato, and Gyanko, who have also been invited as test pilots. And a puzzling mystery awaits the rivals who have been reunited on the tropical island...

 

Now the Try Fighters face their biggest challenge!

 

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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.

New Yahoo View streams anime, Korean dramas, movies, show episodes for free with ads

The new September issue of Young Magazine Third, out this weekend, has launched a spin-off of Akira Hiramoto's Prison School manga. Ero-manga author ReDrop illustrates the series of Vice President Tries Her Best shorts, two chapters and a color page of which will be featured in the manga magazine's latest issues. 

 

Color page

 

Issue cover

ヤンマガサード９号、本日発売！
3巻発売間近『ありそうでNASA荘』の眩しすぎる表紙！『監獄学園』スピンオフ『副会長ガンバル。』連載開始&超COOLな『監獄学園』着せ替えカバー！ 巻中カラーは衝撃展開の『偶像事変』！イイね！夏だね！ pic.twitter.com/IgU2D36npL

— ヤングマガジン the 3rd (@ym_3rd) August 6, 2016

 

 

And speaking of Meiko Shiraki, SkyTube has a 1/6th scale figure scheduled for January 2017. She stands 27cm (with hat) and features alternate odango hair part. The statue by Zac sells for 12,744yen.

 

And, a bit of Prison School from the recent Young Magazine 35

 

via Natalie

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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.

Fareed Zakaria explained in detail, with examples, all of the reasons he called Donald Trump a bullshit artist. From the transcript: But first here's my take. Earlier this week I was asked on CNN to make sense of one more case in which Donald Trump had said something demonstrably false and then explain it away with a caustic tweet and an indignant interview. I replied that there was a pattern here and a term for a person who did this kind of thing. A bullshit artist. I was not using that label casually and in case you have sensitive ears I'm going to use it a few more times. Trump is many things, some of them dark and dangerous, but at his core, he is BS artist. Harry Frankfurt, an eminent moral philosopher, wrote a brilliant essay in 1986 called "On Bullshit." Frankfurt himself wrote about Trump in this vein in "TIME" as have Jeet Heer and Eldar Sarajlic. Frankfurt distinguishes crucially between lies and BS. "Telling a lie is an act with a sharp focus. It is designed to insert a particular falsehood at a specific point. In order to invent a lie at all, the teller of a lie must think he knows what is true. But someone engaging in BS," Frankfurt explains, "is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false, his eyes not on the facts at all."

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Add the Trump Taj Mahal to the long list of Trump brands that have unexpectadly closed or gone bankrupt, leaving employees in the lurch with no jobs, no benefits and no salaries. Trump screams that there are no jobs in America and he is bringing them back. While complaining that companies outsource their jobs overseas, he is also actively hiring foreign workers at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida.

Yes, this casino isn't "technically" Donald Trump's problem anymore as of 6 months ago, but it was for 25 years and he nearly drove it into the ground. It still retains his name and much of the staff has stuck around since well before it changed ownership.

Press of Atlantic City reports that Trump's Taj Mahal casino and hotel is set to close after Labor Day weekend. Whoops. I guess we can just add this to the long list of Trump branded items that have gone under, including steak, water, airlines, etc.

Trump has not owned the hotel since it went into bankruptcy back in 2014. He sold it to his good friend, Carl Icahn. But the casino has always retained Trump's branding and logo, which apparently is not carrying as much weight lately.

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Robotech also available streaming on Amazon

Macross, Robotech also available on same platform

2nd half of Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki manga's final arc began in June

High Score Girl, Rensuke Oshikiri's manga about adolescent fighting-game players in the early '90s, has returned to Big Gangan magazine. Timed for the resumption, volume six and new "Continue" editions of the first volumes, with bonus content, are out today. All of this is promoted in a commercial featuring a voice that should be familiar to gamers who listen to the Japanese dialog. 

 

 

Last August, a settlement was announced between Square Enix and SNK Playmore in the case of Rensuke Oshikiri's acclaimed Hi Score Girl manga. Square Enix announced that, after agreeing to pursue collaborative opportunities, SNK Playmore will drop their criminal complaint, withdraw civil complaints and allow continued sale and publication of the series. 

 

After SNK filed a copyright infringement suit in May 2014 against Square Enix for the alleged infringement of its intellectiual property by featuring its characters in the Hi-Score Girl manga without its permission, Square-Enix publicly fired back with its own countersuit against SNK to defend itself against the allegations, which led to a raid by Osaka law enforcement on all Square Enix operated properties in order to gather evidence for the infringement allegations in August of the year. 

As a result of the raids and initial litigation, Square-Enix was forced to halt publishing many publications related to Hi-Score Girl until the litigation had run its course and the company had cooperated with law enforcement in good faith.

 

The series, set in 1991, is about a boy who seems to have nothing going for him, who lives for video games, and who then has that crutch removed when a rich, popular girl shows up at the arcade and destroys him in Street Fighter II. It came in at number two on the 2013 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Male Readers survey, and was nominated for the 6th Manga Taishō and the 17th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

 

An anime adaptation was announced in 2013.

 

August issue of  Big Gangan

Kunio-kun collaboration t-shirt, offered in a promotion campaign

 

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alternate cover by Capcom, formerly SNK artist Shinkiro

Standard edition cover

Continue edition covers of first 5 volumes

 

 

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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. 

We've got a bit of time between one convention and another, so Gerald takes this opportunity to review the recently-concluded Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Gundam.info site streams movie trilogy with English subtitles until September 21

For this weekend's San Diego Comic Con, figures maker/distributor Kotobukiya is preparing to present a look at art for Marvel Comics' popular comedy heroine Bishoujo Squirrel Girl, as redesigned for their Bishoujo line by Shunya Yamashita. She's joined by a look at Yamashita's take on Street Fighter's R. Mika. 

 

And, here come the dudes!. A new Ikemen (handsome) series kicks off with DC Comics' Bat Family, first presented by Dick "Nightwing" Grayson. 

 

 

via Kotobukiya 

 

 

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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. 

Get ready for some Manga Math! I was a couple credits away from a Regular Math minor, so, even if I haven't used any in years, this might be correct. One Piece started on July 19, 1997. (happy 19th anniversary!)

 

According to the new issue of promo newspaper Dai One Piece Shinbun, Eiichiro Oda has pinned the series at currently 65% complete. So, assuming that it's going at an approximately constant pace (which isn't consistent past comments, but bear with me), it's going to take another 13 years to wrap up the series, for a total of 32 years. So, if you started reading One Piece at age 13, you'll be 45 when it's over and you might have your own 13-year-old reading it.

 

Now, assuming you're not subject to the Otaku Expiration Date, how old will you be when the series wraps up?

 

via Heiji 

 

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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. 

I don't know about you, but I plan to get all my televised Republican Convention Coverage from Stephen Colbert / Jon Stewart. (And my blog coverage from Crooks and Liars.)

Colbert took to the stage yesterday and hijacked the podium for a hot minute before being ushered off. While there he blacked out at the name of "Mike Pence" and announced the GOP Hunger Games in fine form.

And then there's Stephen Colbert's Republican Convention Bingo. Let's all play!

The Late Show bingo card is here.

This week, Blizzard Entertainment first-person shooter Overwatch, released in Japan by Square Enix, revealed character addition Ana Amari, a 61-year-old Egyptian Overwatch founder/bounty hunter with a Biotic Rifle capable of healing sniper shots. Appropriate to the character, she's gotten a veteran seiyuu for her Japanese voice in Yoshiko Sakakibara (Hellsing's Integra, Psycho-Pass' Bureau Chief Joshu Kasei, Nausicaa's Lady Kashana, Gundam's Haman Karn, Patlabor's Shinobu Nagumo, Cobra's Armaroid Lady). 

 

 

Check out the other Japanese cast members here.

 

via 4Gamer

 

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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.

Although it was initially lost in the shuffle during Crunchyroll's coverage of "Bikini Day", we're now happy to report that bikini-themed fantasy / ecchi anime Bikini Warriors was getting in the spirit of things on July 05, 2016, by teasing a major announcement to follow later.

 

本日7月5日は「ビキニスタイルの日」。1946年の今日、ビキニの水着が発表されました。そして来る7月24日のワンダーフェスティバル及び、7月25日発売の月刊ホビージャパン9月号にて重大発表が！ お見逃しなく!! #ビキニウォリアーズ

— アニメ『ビキニ・ウォリアーズ』公式 (@bikiniwarriors) July 5, 2016

 

The major announcement will be published on July 24, 2016, at the Wonder Festival 2016 (Summer) toy fair at Makuhari Messe convention center in Mihama Ward, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It will also be published in the September issue of Monthly Hobby Japan magazine, which will be released on July 25, 2016. Could more Bikini Warriors anime be on the way?

 

 

The 2015 Bikini Warriors TV anime is directed by Naoyuki Kuzuya and features animation by feel.. It is licensed and distributed by Funimation, who describe the series as follows:

 

"Prepare yourself for an adventure of epic proportions. With warriors so skilled at battling questionable slimes and taming tumescent tentacles, there’s no need for all that bulky armor.

 

Brought to you by some of the masters of the female form, Bikini Warriors features character designs by Rei Hiroe (Black Lagoon), Tony Taka, Odanon (Queen’s Blade), and Hisasi. All your favorite RPG classes beginning with the athletic Fighter, elegant Paladin, and enchanting Mage—are busting the min/max barriers for maximum blood loss! Are you equipped?

 

Unsheathe your sword and prepare for battle!"

 

Sources:

Otakomu

Official Bikini Warriors Twitter feed (@bikiniwarriors)

 

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

The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA) announced on Wednesday that this year's Anime Expo convention had 100,420 unique attendees,...

July is here, and it’s time for another jumbo-sized helping of GME! Anime Fun Time. This time Tom, Daryl, Dylan, and I examine Giant Robo: The Animation – The Day the Earth Stood Still, a 7 episode OAV series from the Nineties directed by Yasuhiro Imagawa and inspired by the manga works of Mitsuteru Yokoyama. Don’t let the term “robo” fool you: Giant Robo is closer in spirit to the heroic wuxia tales of classic Chinese literature than to something like Mobile Suit Gundam. CLICK HERE or on the image above to download our review of the series.

2 parts to open in December, January in Japan

Company shares concept art, story details

You guys asked and now Crunchyroll is delivering..... a second helping of Food Wars! The Second Plate!

Food Wars! The Second Plate starts Saturday, July 2 at 7AM Pacific Time for members in the following territories: USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Turkey, Austria, Bulgaria, Comoros, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Croatia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain.

 

About Food Wars! The Second Plate

Yukihira Soma has been helping out at his family diner his entire life. Upon graduating from junior high, he is prompted by his father to join an elite cooking school, Totsuki Teahouse Culinary Academy, where less than 10% of students have been known to make it to graduation. Soma overcomes many challenges and hones his culinary skills, meeting like-minded classmates and influential figures in the student body along the way. 

Soma eventually wins the right to compete in the academy's traditional Autumn Elections where only the chosen few first-years are allowed entry. Soma loses to his opponent by a single point, but makes it into the next round along with Megumi, Takumi, Hisako, Alice, Kurokiba, Hayama, and Mimasaka. Whom among them will be his next opponent, and who will emerge victorious?

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Yes, it's bad Comico Star Blazers comics. I know some of the people involved knew their Star Blazers, yet they managed to kludge it up pretty badly. The first series was published in 1987 and had weird Phil Foglio/Doug Rice art, and a convoluted story that read like bad fanfic, and the second one was from 1989 and had even weirder art and that's what we're making fun of here.

FUN FACT: I have a letter published in one of these comics, pimping the EDC. That's what kind of nerd I was back then.