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It looks as though Nintendo do plan on adding more communities to the 3DS Miiverse as time goes on, even for older games.

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The official site for the upcoming TV anime Future Card Buddyfight added two new promotional videos yesterday, a 30-second TV CM and 8-minute long PV to introduce the theme songs and main characters with their partner monsters. The OP song "Card of the Future" is performed by Psychic Lover x Suara and Sora Tokui, who voices Paruko Nanana in the show, sings the ED theme song "Buddy Buddy Fight!." The long PV was also screened at the "Special Conference" event held in Tokyo on December 16. The TV anime based on Bushiroad's new trading card game is produced by OLM (Pokémon, Inazuma Eleven, Danball Senki) and will be premiered in Japan on January 4, 2014.

30-second CM

8-minute PV

© Aibou Gakuen/TV Aichi

Noitamina Apparel, the clothing line associated with the like named alt-audience programming block, has a history of semi-functional or unusual items based on its anime. It's now introducing Samurai Flamenco as its 10th collection. Though it boasts trying to balance sophistication with impact, the first item is a surprisingly conventional print shirt, not unlike what you'd see from a typical character goods maker.

The designer item is available for three sizes at 5,775 yen. Delivery is planned for May.

The Galilei Donna colllection is a bit more interesting. It includes

A flannel shirt, available in three sizes goes for 13,440yen

T-shirts - three designs are 3,150yen each

Swappable iPhone case - 3,129 yen

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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.

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Happy Holidays and Sieg Zeon from Vertical and The ORIGIN Team!!

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In an interview with Kevin Smith, writer and television producer Paul Dini complained about a worrying trend he sees in television animation and superhero shows in particular: executives spurning female viewers because they believe girls and women don't buy the shows' toys.

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Manga magazine Sunday GX has been previewing the special goods planned for Comiket 85 doujinshi event running at Tokyo Big Sight from December 29-31. In addition to the ever interesting Black Lagoon merchandise, they've offered a look at some based on Jormungand author Keitarou Takahashi's new schoolgirl assassin series Desutoro 246.

Offered items include

Lagoon Company shirt - 3,000yen

Balalaika "НИКТО, КРОМЕ НАС！" shirt - 2,500yen

Lotton the Wizard muffler style towel - 1,500yen

Sexy Cowgirl Revy boxers - 3000yen

2 sized water proof bathroom poster - B3 size (364mm × 515mm) 1000yen

M51 jacket jacket, 16,800yen

clearfile - 300yen

And a number of previously offered goods are returning

Desutoro 246 clear files

A soft cell phone case hasn't been previewed yet.

Jormungand goodies are also coming back

Oh, man. Christopher Lee is so old, you guys. Which is partially why it's so wonderful that's he's still churning out awesome holiday music like this new heavy metal cover (with accompanying metal lyrics!) of "Jingle Bells" titled, of course, "Jingle Hell." The other reason is that his singing voice is still amazing.

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Illustrator micro cosmo casts two of the ladies of Adventure Time as Modern Madonnas. Princess Bubblegum is Mary with Lemongrab child while Marceline sheds tears for the Ice King in an echo of the Pietà.

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The hot new otaku obsession of 2013 was the browser based free-to-play game starring anthropomorphic moe battleships Kantai Collection or "Combined Fleet Girls Collection", KanColle for short. More manga are constantly launching. An anime is in the works. It's near the top of the list of doujinshi for Comiket 85. Everyone from Lucky Star's Kagami Yoshimizu to Serial Experiments Lain's Yoshitoshi ABe are creating homages

Don't quite understand what it's all about?

Imagine-Nation, an anime/manga/game spotlight show on NHK World's public broadcasting global service, hosted by Super Sentai actress Chiaki Horan and Greek martial artist Nicholas Pettas, have a helpful overview with producer Kensuke Tanaka talking about the project.

Watch it here.

One thing that impressed Mr Pettas about Kan Colle is how the girls show battle damage with outfit destruction. That concept is exploited in a series of hug pillows, due from Cospa in March 2014

Shimakaze (Illustration by Naru Nana)

Nagato (Illustration by Atsuko Shinozuka)

Atago (Illustration by Eri Natsume)

Yukikaze (Illustration by Tohru Minazuki)

Kongo (Illustration by Eretto)

thumbnail via Admiral Hao

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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.

Namco Bandai held an event for J-Stars Victory Vs. and one of the key details at the presentation is the crossover fighting game will not have any additional characters that will be paid DLC.

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The rumor from a German site that says Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS will be released this spring is incorrect. Director Masahiro Sakurai says the official release date is sometime in 2014.

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It is officially confirmed that the feature film of the Space Brothers anime series is scheduled to be released in Japan in summer 2014. The screenplay of the film is newly written by the original manga creator Chuya Koyama. A-1 Pictures, the production company which has been responsible for the on-going TV anime series, will also produce the film with the director of the TV series Ayumu Watanabe. The film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It perhaps means that the TV series will be ended before the release of the film in the summer of 2014? The TV anime began airing in Japan on April 1, 2012 and so far 86 episodes have been broadcasted.

It was also adapted into a live action film starring Shun Oguri and Masaki Okada as the Nanba brothers Mutta and Hibito in May 2012 and it earned 1.57 billion yen (about US$1,520,000) in the Japanese box office.

The visual for the announcement

The key visual for the TV anime

Source: Comic Natalie

(c) Space Brothers CES2014

 In order to thank fans for the success of the Madoka Magica Rebellion movie, with over 1.3 million tickets sold, and get them back to the theaters for another showing, a special limited Witches Artwork booklet with Inu-crry art was distributed started this weekend. Among the designs showcased is a look at Homulilly, the  Witch of Mortal World, aka Homura in Witch from the Madoka Magica Portable game.

Homulilly is not much or a spoiler since only appears in a Game Over screen in the game if a player loses to Walpurgis Night in Homura's route, under specific conditions. She is not playable in the game or bonus dungeons, nor is any other information provided in the game or bonus materials.

First and second forms

Her Clara Dolls familiars

Charlotte with her minions pyotr and polina

 Oktavia Von Seckendorff and variant

via  momomoca1234 and SGCafe

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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.

Redditor sneakylawyer and his girlfriend were doing a bit of urban exploration in Ronse, Belgium, when they came across an unexpected sight: a bevy of Batman graffiti, featuring a variety of Jokers.

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Arc System Works released an update for Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold that unlocks Sho Minazuki… the other Sho Minazuki whose name is written in katakana.

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When Marnie Was There, the 1967 novel by Joan G. Robinson. It was #18 on Hayao Miyazaki's list of recommended children's books, so this shouldn't be a shock, although it's worth pointing out that Marnie will be directed by The Secret World of Arriety's Hiromasa Yonebayashi, as Miyazaki still maintains he's retired.

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Browncoats rejoice! Joss Whedon's space Western Firefly may never return to television, but the 'verse goes on. And soon, you'll be able to have a ship and crew of your own, when Firefly Online launches for the PC and Mac. We've got an exclusive first look at the ships, the guns, the characters and more.

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Martin Freeman: Talented actor, serial middle-finger flipper, and awesome interviewee answered a few questions for Showbiz 411, and his answers may surprise you. Unless, of course, you already know that Martin Freeman answers most interview questions as ridiculously as possible.

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The official site for the ongoing TV anime adaptation of Wataru Watanabe's bicycle racing-themed manga Yowamushi Pedal announced today that 45-year-old veteran voice actor Kouji Yusa plays Akira Midousuji of Kyoto Fushimi High School's bicycle racing team, one of the rival teams of the protagonist Sakamichi Onoda's Souhoku High School. Recently Yusa is known as the voice of Kyosuke Hyoubu in The Unlimited: Hyoubu Kyosuke and Yuri Petrov/Lunatic in Tiger & Bunny. 

Though being still a first year student, Midousuji rules the club by his extraordinary speed. He is the type of racer who uses everything to win, even his seniors as his troops. Yowamushi Pedal is now available to Crunchyroll users in the following territories: United States, Canada, Caribbean, South Africa, and Central and South America.

The cover of the manga's 16th volume

Kouji Yusa

Source: Otasuke

© Wataru Watanabe/Weekly Shoben Champion/Yowamushi Pedal Production Committee

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For the release of volume three, Kadokawa has posted a promo for Kafuka Asagiri and Hirukawa 35's Bungo Stray Dogs, a supernatural mystery from Young Ace magazine about an orphan who becomes involved with a detective agency specializing in dangerous cases. The series is notable for featuring Japanese seminal early 20th century writers.

  series' lead detective

a starving orphan who when he saves suicidal detective

Doppo Kunikida - a novelist and romantic poet who helped established the Japanese naturalist literary movement

 Ranpo Edogawa - author still influencial for his mystery and sci-fi genre work

Kenji Miyazawa - beloved children's writer whose work has influenced anime greats like Hayao Miyazaki

Akiko Yosano  - controversial pioneering feminist, pacifist poet

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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.

Though she's drawn them recently, Kinako, the original character designer for this summer's Gatchaman Crowds, has strayed from her frequent fan art subject of sexy Hellsing Nazis to offer a tribute to Kill La Kill's Satsuki Kiryuin and Shirou Iori.

Other recent work has featured...

Persona 3

Breath of Fire

Nights

Hellsing

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Attempt to design a Monster Hunter outfit

One Piece

Ajin 

Siren

and her "alter of cool people"

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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.

From re-imagining James Bonds' retirement plan (to make and market his own line of artisan sorbets, naturally) to finally giving us the Robocop reboot that we really want to see, these fake movie posters are all perfect.

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We looked at some of his retro-remakes earlier this fall, and now Keiichi Tanaka, of ComiPro! fame, is at it again. The daughter of manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka has said of these parodies "We can accept Lion King, but Taknaka Keiichi is unforgiven."

The latest mimic mash-up of hot trends witht he classics sees Tanaka drawing Ryūko Matoi from Kill La Kill in the style of Tezuka and Go Nagai, seminal figure in the devlopment of the transforming magical girl and the piloted mecha.

He's also done a Mako x Space Battleship Yamato crossover

Speaking of Yamato, Tanaka has done a Leiji Matsumoto version of the Kan Colle ship girls

He also did a Tezuka style Kan Colle girl

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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.

Capcom is bringing Monster Hunter Frontier G to pretty much every console in Japan. The Wii U version has at least one special item, Fire Emblem Awakening costumes.

Read These Fire Emblem Awakening Costumes In Monster Hunter Frontier G Look Pretty Cool on Siliconera!

The Hokkaido branch of the Japanese Post Office has started offering an original frame stamp sheet featuring the Silver Spoon anime series since December 2. The prefecture is used as the main stage for the story of the based manga created by Hiromu Arakawa and TV anime series produced by A-1 Pictures. The price for the ten 80-yen stamps set is 1,800 yen (about US$18). The 3,000 limited set, which includes a silver-color spoon (not made of silver), is now sold at 97 major post offices in Hokkaido. It is also available at the Japan Post Office's online store.

The stamp mount and spoon

Source: Japan Post Office

© Hiromu Arakawa, Shogakukan/Ezonousai Jikkou Iinkai

On the anime's 25th anniversary, we've seen some amazing fan tribute to Akira. There was Bartkira earlier in the year. Now, there's The Arvo Brothers' 200 page guide to building Kaned'a bike in LEGOs.

via bannister

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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 previously reported on this talented manga artist and illustrator by the name TAKUMI and he keeps posting amazing work! He recently posted his version of a One Piece work that you do not want to miss. Takumi also posted a wickedly charming Santa Claus inspired by Jojo's Bizarre Adventure on his Twitter.

Takumi is gaining more and more fans with his dark and sexy art style. Above, his version of One Piece. What do you think?

Here is his original character with holiday theme, inspired by Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

In commemoration of the release of Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan: The Movie in Japan tomorrow, a Tokyo-based company Imperial Enterprises has just released a high-end collaboration wristwatch featuring both series named "Taiketsu no Toki/Face Off" (The time for confrontation). The watch features the silhouettes of Lupin and Conan, a gunshot mark, and handcuffs on the face, and comes with message cards written by the original creators of the series, Monkey Punch (Lupin) and Gosho Aoyama (Conan). The price for the 5,000-limited watch is 29,300 yen (about US$293). The scheduled delivery day is in February 2014.

 Movie trailer

Source: press release

(C) 2013 Monkey Punch, Gosho Aoyama/"Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan" Production Committee

The second Persona 3 movie will be titled Persona 3 the Movie #2: Midsummer Knight’s Dream, the film’s official website has revealed.

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