On the day Cure Macherie and Cure Amour joined the ongoing 15th TV series Hugtto! PreCure, Toei Animation introduces the official title and poster visual for the upcoming new PreCure crossover film to be released on October 27, 2018. In addition to the previously-announced Cure Black and Cure White from the first series Futari wa PreCure, the new visual for Eiga Hugtto! PreCure♡Futari wa PreCure All Stars Memories reveals that a total of 55 PreCure girls will appear in the 25th feature film.

And the happiest news for the fans is that all of the 55 original voice cast are confirmed to voice their characters. The last time all PreCure girls appeared with their voices in a crossover film was PreCure All Stars DX3 released in March 2011. While crossover films have been made every spring even after that, some PreCure girls from the past series were on the screen without their voices.   

映画最新情報
10月27日(土)公開
映画ＨＵＧっとプリキュア♡ふたりはプリキュア オールスターズメモリーズ』
で2年半ぶりにオールスターズが帰ってくる！
15周年を記念して歴代プリキュア55人が総出演！
ポスタービジュアルも到着しました#映画プリキュア #precure pic.twitter.com/dacA350ugG

— 映画ＨＵＧっと！プリキュア♡ふたりはプリキュア オールスターズメモリーズ』 (@precure_movie) 2018年6月17日

The 55 PreCure girls who are confirmed to appear in the PreCure franchise's 15th anniversary film are:

From "Futari wa PreCure" (2004-2005), "Futari wa PreCure Max Heart" (2005-2006)

  1. Cure Black (Yoko Honna)

  2. Cure White (Yukana)

From "Futari wa PreCure Max Heart" (2005-2006)

  3. Shiny Luminous (Rie Tanaka)

From "Furtari wa PreCure Splash Star" (2006-2007)

  4. Cure Bloom/Cure Bright (Orie Kimoto)

  5. Cure Egret/Cure Windy (Atsuko Enomoto)

From "Yes! PreCure 5" (2007-2008), "Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo!" (2008-2009)

  6. Cure Dream (Yuko Sanpei)

  7. Cure Rouge (Junko Takeuchi)

  8. Cure Lemonade (Mariya Ise)

  9. Cure Mint (Ai Nagano)

  10. Cure Aqua (Ai Maeda)

From "Yes! PreCure 5 GoGo!" (2008-2009)

  11. Milky Rose (Eri Sendai)

From "Fresh PreCure!" (2009-2010)

  12. Cure Peach (Kanae Oki)

  13. Cure Berry (Eri Kitamura)

  14. Cure Pine (Akiko Nakagawa)

  15. Cure Passion (Yuka Komatsu)

From "HeartCatch PreCure!" (2010-2011)

  16. Cure Blossom (Nana Mizuki)

  17. Cure Marine (Fumie Mizusawa)

  18. Cure Sunshine (Houko Kuwashima)

  19. Cure Moonlight (Aya Hisakawa)

From "Suite Pretty Cure♪" (2012-2012)

  20. Cure Melody (Ami Koshimizu)

  21. Cure Rhythm (Fumiko Orikasa)

  22. Cure Beat (Megumi Toyoguchi)

  23. Cure Muse (Rumi Ohkubo)

From "Smile PreCure!" (2012-2013)

  24. Cure Happy (Misato Fukuen)

  25. Cure Sunny (Asami Tano)

  26. Cure Peace (Hisako Kanemoto)

  27. Cure March (Marina Inoue)

  28. Cure Beauty (Chinami Nishimura)

From "Dokidoki! PreCure" (2013-2014)

  29. Cure Heart (Hitomi Nabatame)

  30. Cure Diamond (Minako Kotobuki)

  31. Cure Rosetta (Mai Fuchigami)

  32. Cure Sword (Kanako Miyamoto)

  33. Cure Ace (Rie Kugimiya)

From "HappinessCharge PreCure!" (2014-2015)

  34. Cure Lovely (Megumi Nakajima)

  35. Cure Princess (Megumi Han)

  36. Cure Honey (Rina Kitagawa)

  37. Cure Fortune (Haruka Tomatsu)

From "Go! Princess PreCure" (2105-2016)

  38. Cure Flora (Yu Shimamura)

  39. Cure Mermaid (Masumi Asano)

  40. Cure Twinkle (Hibiku Yamamura)

  41. Cure Scarlet (Miyuki Sawashiro)

From "Maho Girls PreCure!" (2016-2017)

  42. Cure Miracle (Rie Takahashi)

  43. Cure Magical (Yui Horie)

  44. Cure Felice (Saori Hayami)

From "Kirakira PreCure a la Mode" (2017-2018)

  45. Cure Whip (Karen Miyama)

  46. Cure Custard (Haruka Fukuhara)

  47. Cure Gelato (Tomo Muranaka)

  48. Cure Macaron (Saki Fujita)

  49. Cure Chocolat (Nanako Mori)

  50. Cure Parfait (Inori Minase)

From "Hugtto! PreCure" (2018-)

  51. Cure Yell (Rie Hikisaka)

  52. Cure Ange (Rina Hon'izumi)

  53. Cure Etoile (Yui Ogura)

  54. Cure Macherie (Nao Tamura)

  55. Cure Amour (Yukari Tamura)

Toei Animation Digital Division's 32-year-old Hiroshi Miyamoto serves as diretor. He made his directorial

debut with a 3DCG short PreCure to Refi no Wonder Night! (PreCure and Refi's Wonder Night!), one of

the three films in Go! Princess PreCure the Movie: Go! Go!! Splendid Triple Feature!!! released in October

2015, then directed his first feature film PreCure Dream Stars! in March 2017. 

Teaser

40,000-lomited advance tickets with two-type "Baby PreCure" sticker sheet will go on sale at theaters 

from July 13. 

プレゼントつき前売券
7月13日(金)から劇場窓口にて発売開始！
「いっしょにあそぼう♡ベビープリキュアシール」をプレゼント！
ひみつのお部屋にプリキュアのシールを貼ってはがして何度でも遊んじゃおう☆
数に限りがあるので、劇場へ急げ#映画プリキュア #precure pic.twitter.com/YTz8NMiFBg

— 映画ＨＵＧっと！プリキュア♡ふたりはプリキュア オールスターズメモリーズ』 (@precure_movie) 2018年6月17日

Source: "Eiga Hugtto! PreCure♡Futari wa PreCure All Stars Memories" official Twitter 

(C)2018 Movie Hugtto! PreCure Production Committee

In the words of Detective Conan, "one truth prevails." But how you get to that truth is another matter entirely. Fortunately for those of us who aren't as brilliant as the pint-sized sleuth, there's a new book teaching us how to approach problems his way.

Ultra-Basic Logical Thinking from Detective Conan is a study in the fictional detective's form of logic, breaking it down into a five-part strategy we can use in everyday life. The book also outlines exactly how to use this strategy when confronted wiht a difficult issue.

The book comes out June 18, and is up for pre-order now from Kanki Publishing.

>> Ultra-Basic Logical Thinking from Detective Conan Product Page

>> Watch Case Closed on Crunchyroll

Source: Anime! Anime!

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Kara Dennison is responsible for multiple webcomics, and is half the creative team behind the OEL light novel series Owl's Flower. She blogs at karadennison.com and tweets @RubyCosmos. Her work can currently be read in Stranger Tales of the City from Obverse Books.

Fans in need of a little more Fate/Extra Last Encore will be getting it next month -- and fans heading to FGO Fest will get theirs even sooner!

Illustrious Geocentrism, the TV special following Fate/Extra Last Encore, will be screening at next month's third annual FGO Fest in Makuhari Messe. The event launched the announcement along with a key visual for the new special.

The FGO Fest screening will also feature a talk with the main cast: Atsushi Abe (Hakuno), Sakura Tange (Saber), Rin Tohsaka (Kana Ueda), and Takahiro Mizushima (Gawain).

The screen will be held on July 28. Illustrious Geocentrism will air on TOKYO MX, Gunma TV, Tochigi TV, and BS 11 the following day.

>> Fate/Extra Last Encore Website

>> Fate/Grand Order Fest 2018 Website

Source: Anime! Anime!

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Kara Dennison is responsible for multiple webcomics, and is half the creative team behind the OEL light novel series Owl's Flower. She blogs at karadennison.com and tweets @RubyCosmos. Her work can currently be read in Stranger Tales of the City from Obverse Books.

Remember that Pop Team Epic collaboration with JRA we mentioned a while back? The one where you could make your own Popukos and Pipimis? The one where, once they hit one million fan-made avatars, a mysterious "something" would be unlocked?

Well, you did it. You went and unlocked a whole new episode of Pop Team Epic.

Once the number of fan-made avatars passed 1 million, the Umabi website announced that Pop Team Epic would be back for a new online episode. What will that entail? We don't know yet, but we're guessing it will continue the JRA collab and have something to do with racing. Or it might not. When it comes to this show, we've learned not to take anything for granted.

Of course, this also means anyhere from two to four new voice actors taking on the lead roles. Though if this episode is anything like the previous ones, we won't know who they are until the episode is underway.

More news about the special Pop Team Epic episode will come out -- we hope -- soon. In the meantime, you can check out the Popukos and Pipimis made by your fellow fans.

>> Pop Team Epic x JRA Website

>> Watch Pop Team Epic on Crunchyroll

Source: Otakomu.jp

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Kara Dennison is responsible for multiple webcomics, and is half the creative team behind the OEL light novel series Owl's Flower. She blogs at karadennison.com and tweets @RubyCosmos. Her work can currently be read in Stranger Tales of the City from Obverse Books.

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary for Arina Tanemura's magical girl shoujo manga series Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne/Phantom Thief Jeanne, BANDAI SPIRITS will release a refined replica of Rosary, the protagonist Maron Kusakabe's transformation item, from its PROPLICA brand at the price of 12,960 yen (about 120 US dollars) in November 2018. The memorial item's main target are women in their 20s to 30s, who grew up with the manga and anime adaptation in their childhood.

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20th anniversary project logo

Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne was serialized in Shueisha's monthly shoujo manga magazine Ribon from its

February 1998 issue to July 2000 issue, and compiled in seven tankobon volumes, printing more than

five million copies in Japan. Its TV anime adaptation produced by Toei Animation was aired for 44 episodes

between February 1999 and January 2000.

The 1/1 scale replica of Rosary (180 mm) can play various voices of Maron, including her signature phrase

"Checkmate!," newly recorded by Maron's original voice cast in the anime, Houko Kuwashima. Its first

production lot also comes with five manga illustration sheets (148 mm x 105 mm), one of which is newly

drawn by the manga author herself for the memorial release.

The newly-drawn illustration sheet by Tanemura (the art is kept secret)

Source: BANDAI SPIRITS press release

(C) Arina Tanemura/Shueisha

(C) Arina Tanemura/Shueisha, Toei Animation 　

Even after becoming the top-grossing film in the anime franchise, Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer has been showing no sign of slowing down. Easily beating four new major-release Japanese films, the 22nd Conan film remained #1 at the weekend box office for its seven straight weekend in a row since release on April 13. It has also become the most successful film of 2018 so far in Japan, surpassing Star Wars: The Last Jedi (7.4 billion yen). 

In its seventh weekend, it still made an impressive 180 million yen from the 130,000 ticket sales, bringing its total domestic earnings to 7.56 billion yen (5.8 million admissions). The box office record of the film series will be continued to be renewed for a while.

The film's official Twitter thanks moviegoers for the box office record

【V７】
　動員数580万人
興行収入75.6億突破

週末動員ランキング、7週連続1位となりました。
コナンファミリーの愛と熱に感謝しかありません。

本当にありがとうございます。#ゼロの執行人 が末永く愛される作品でありますように。#ゼロコナン https://t.co/TYsdZBjg1G

— 劇場版名探偵コナン【公式】 (@conan_movie) 2018年5月28日

Meanwhile, the live-action film adaptation of Jun Mayuzuki's love story manga Koi wa Ameagari no

Youni (Love is Like After the Rain) ranked 4th in its debut weekend with a not-so-impressive 120

million yen on 86,000 admission. It was only 56% of that of director Akira Nagai's previous film

Teiichi: Battle of Supreme High released in April 2017. Judging from the opening result, the Nana

Komatsu-starring film may be possible to earn around one billion yen by the end of its domestic run.

Weekend box office in Japan (May 26-27, 2018)

 (ticket sales basis)

 1 (1). "Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer"

 2 (new). "Tsuma yo Bara no youni: Kaziku wa Tsuraiyo III"

 3 (2). "Peter Rabbit"

 4 (new). "Koi wa Ameagari no Youni"

 5 (new). "Yu-zai"

 6 (5). "Avengers: Infinity War"

 7 (3). "Nomitori ZamuraIi"

 8 (4). "Rampage"

 9 (new). "Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: Oudou"

 10 (7). "Laplace's Witch"

"Koi wa Ameagari no Youni" trailer

Source: Eiga.com

© 2018 Gosho Aoyama/Detective Conan Production Committee 

©2018 Movie "Koi wa Ameagari no Youni" Production Committee

Record of Grancrest War is written by the original Record of Lodoss War author Ryo Mizuno, and its upcoming PS4 game features Parn and Deedlit as guests. Here’s a glimpse at the two from a new video.

Read Record of Grancrest War On PS4 Shows Record of Lodoss War Guests Parn And Deedlit on Siliconera!

It's no surprise that Aggrestuko, the day-jobbing red panda with her own Netflix series, is quickly gaining popularity among Sanrio fans. What the company wasn't expecting was the outpouring of support for X JAPAN crossover mascot Yoshikitty -- who is currently tied for third place in the company's annual popularity contest!

2018 marks the 33rd year that Sanrio has put their myriad characters to a vote, allowing fans to stump for their faves and find out which cute critter is currently the most popular. Cinnamoroll is currently leading the pack, followed closely behind by Pompompurin. But international votes have launched Yoshikitty, the first Sanrio character to be modeled on a real person, into the unexpected tie.

The character is a mashup of perennial favorite Hello Kitty and X JAPAN rocker Yoshiki -- whose major surgery and subsequent bounce-back has kept him even more in the public eye than usual.

A breakdown of international votes shows that Yoshikitty and Aggretsuko are consistently in the top three abroad, with looks in from Gudetama, Kuromi, the current first- and second-place champs, and Sanrio's interpretation of Cyan from SHOW BY ROCK!!

Voting is open until June 10 -- so whether Cinnamoroll takes the lead again this year or is dethroned is partially up to you!

>> 33rd Sanrio Character Ranking

Source: Anime! Anime!

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Kara Dennison is responsible for multiple webcomics, and is half the creative team behind the OEL light novel series Owl's Flower. She blogs at karadennison.com and tweets @RubyCosmos. Her work can currently be read in Stranger Tales of the City from Obverse Books.

GKIDS has been on a roll when it comes to releasing Ghibli and Ghibli-adjacent properties. The latest addition to their U.S. lineup—Ronja, the Robber's Daughter—comes from director Goro Miyazaki and POLYGON PICTURES, who worked together with Ghibli on the 2014 anime series. 

Ronja hit Amazon back in January, and international media news site World Screen reported on GKIDS' acquisition earlier this week. In addition to GKIDS in the U.S., Serious Lunch secured distribution deals for Ronja with UYoung Media in China and PTS in Taiwan. Production on a French version will soon be underway thanks to deals with companies in France, French Belgium, and French Switzerland.

Here's how Amazon describes the 26-episode series:

The daughter of a professional robber, Ronja realizes the complicated nature of her father's profession when she befriends Birk, the child of a rival tribe. Ronja struggles to balance the relationship with her family and the bond with her self-proclaimed brother Birk as she comes to understand the intricate issues of family and friendship and how differences can be overcome with the help of love and understanding.

Via Anime News Network

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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 at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

Atlus developer Kazuhisa Wada, producer of the upcoming Persona Dancing games shared some info on the company’s current developments in a recent interview.

Read Atlus Working On Mid & Long-Term Plans For Persona Including A New Numbered Title on Siliconera!

Zero Two isn't the only horned cutie with a "Darling" -- old-school anime fans will always have a soft spot for Lum, the alien heroine of Urusei Yatsura. And to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary, Union Creative is rolling out some cool memorabilia featuring the Rumiko Takahashi characters.

The company's eight heart-shaped pinback buttons features vintage art with technicolor flare and hologram accents. Each measures 57x52.5mm and retails for 702 yen. Pins are sold individually, so fans can grab several copies of a favorite or collect them all.

The line also includes a triangle multi-case, which can be used for pencils, glasses, or whatever else you want to keep on hand. The pattern features technicolor Lums against a black background. Cases are 2,160 yen each.

Presales for all Urusei Yatsura items are open until June 10.

>> Union Creative Product Page

Source: Comic Natalie

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Kara Dennison is responsible for multiple webcomics, and is half the creative team behind the OEL light novel series Owl's Flower. She blogs at karadennison.com and tweets @RubyCosmos. Her work can currently be read in Stranger Tales of the City from Obverse Books.

Vertical Comics had a handful of announcements to make at this weekend's Anime Central, including its license of Iruka Shiomiya's manga adaptation of Keiichi Sigsawa's Kino's Journey light novels. The series should start coming out in English next summer.

Crunchyroll streamed the recent Kino's Journey -the Beautiful World- the Animated Series adaptation. Here's the synopsis:

"The world is not beautiful, therefore it is." A story about Kino, who travels around the world with nothing but guns for protection and the talking motorcycle Hermes. Kino travels to many mystical worlds, each with its unique customs and people, and learns about the world through their stories, at times conjuring humor and inspiration or other times piercing cynicism. However, Kino's own custom is to stay no longer than three days in every town without exception, as it is enough time to learn almost everything important about the place while still leaving time to explore new lands.

Among the other license announcements are Aki Irie's Go with the Clouds, North by Northwest, an Iceland-based mystery manga that's scheduled to come out in May 2019. The story centers on a 17-year-old's search for someone… oh, and he's also a detective with a talking car who's weak around women. 

Vertical will also be releasing Keisuke Matsuoka's Sherlock Holmes and Hirodumi Ito novel next March, followed by omnibus collections of Tsutomu Nihei's Blame! and Knights of Sidonia Master's Edition in April. The Knights of Sidonia collections will have about three and a half volumes in each, adding up to seven omnibus volumes. 

Via Anime News Network

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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 at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

Hinamatsuri is a masterpiece of an anime, and my favorite thing about it may be Hitomi, the middle school bartender. As unethical as this seems (and is), Hitomi has an entrancing charm about her when mixing drinks! I don't know what it is about her, but everything she makes seems like it'll be the best drink ever. But how can a middle school girl look so professional???

At first I thought that the magic was all in the drink recipe. After all, if you follow a recipe, you can't go wrong, right? She makes her teacher two drinks, but, to me, the Million Dollar cocktail looked the best, so that's what I went for. This cocktail was reportedly invented in Yokohama, Japan, in 1894, by Louis Eppinger. He also invented the famous Bamboo cocktail for his European clientele. Eppinger was a German man, dubbed by Japan Times as the father of bartending in Japan. According to the same article, the cocktail was thus named for an expensive ingredient at the time- an egg.

"An egg???", I hear you exclaim loudly, "You can't drink raw eggs! Think of the DISEASES!"

Yes, well, nonetheless, the Million Dollar cocktail uses egg whites. At the time the drink was invented, I'm sure they didn't care about "safety" or "bacteria" or trivial things like that. Nowadays, if you want to drink raw egg, you need to make sure the eggs have been pasteurized. Like pasteurizing milk, this process ensures any harmful bacteria is killed off in a low heating process before consumption. Pasteurizing eggs is pretty simple- heat eggs up in a pan of water to 140 F for 3 minutes. It heats the egg enough to kill bacteria, while not cooking the egg.

So, I compiled the ingredients and got shaking. The cocktail was good...it just didn't seem to have the same joie de vivre Hitomi's cocktail embodies. Where was I going wrong? Up till this point, I'd been serving it in a martini glass, renowned for its conical shape. But that wasn't quite right...perhaps it was in the glass.

Hitomi uses a Coupe cocktail glass, otherwise known as a Champagne Saucer. According to legend, it was developed to model the shape of a lady's breast, but practically speaking, this probably isn't true. It was created specifically for Champagne, which we all know is expensive, sparkly, and classy. If you want to drink something fancy, most people will go for Champagne. Serving the Million Dollar cocktail in such a glass would surely serve to elevate the overall feel of the drink. After all, Hitomi is a classy girl. Who needs a martini glass- boring, plain, a has-been in the cocktail world- when you can have a Champagne Saucer. Right? I was convinced. I immediately dispatched my first available minion to go purchase such a fine receptacle for the Million Dollar Cocktail. Thank you, World Market.

Finally, I was ready to try again. I had the recipe. I had the glass. Was I missing anything else? In a last minute review of the episode, I wondered if I'd maybe glossed over the most important thing of all. Hitomi, when crafting her cocktail has such a peace about her, such an elegance. Perhaps the perfect cocktail was less about what I was making and more about how I was making. No furious shaking, no obsessive straining- what if I just needed to relax a little and become one with the cocktail.

So, that's what I did. I quickly assembled the ingredients, tightened the lid, and started to shake. I thought only of sunny days, rolling green fields, and dandelion seeds. I poured the drink. I tried it.

It was *smooches fingers* perfect. Smooth, sweet, and a little fluffy in the mouth. Not sickly sweet, but rather sweet, tempered with the tang of the gin. The egg white creates the wonderful foamy texture, without hindering the taste. You must try this for yourself.

Assemble the ingredients, pick a mood to embody, and shake with every fiber of your being. What comes out of your cocktail shaker...well, that's up to your shaker, and what you are able to find in your very soul.

I hope you can try this recipe! Watch the video below for more step by step tips.

Ingredients for the Million Dollar Cocktail

-2 oz Gin
-1 oz Sweet or Dry Vermouth (I used dry, but sweet will increase the...sweetness of the cocktail. That makes sense.)
-1 oz Pineapple Juice
-1/4 oz Grenadine
-1/2 oz Pasteurized Egg White, room temperature

To Make the Million Dollar Cocktail

1. Place all ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Shake thoroughly, and then strain into a chilled glass.

If you’ve ever seen elves or dark elves in Japanese video games, anime, or manga, there’s a good chance their designs drew inspiration from Yutaka Izubuchi who did illustration work on Record of Lodoss War.

Read Persona And Record of Lodoss War Artists On Dark Elves And Why Elves Have Long Ears on Siliconera!

A new crew member and the main character designs have been revealed for Sarazanmai, a mysterious original TV anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara (Revolutionary Girl Utena, Yurikuma Arashi) that is scheduled to begin broadcasting in 2019.

Illustrator MiGiiiiii provides the original character draft for the series. The above illustration depicts two of the main characters for the series, Reo and Mabu, who are dressed as police officers. Although the characters are somewhat masculine in appearance, the names Reo and Mabu as they are written in Kanji are generally women's names.

Additionally, a spin-off comic entitled Reo to Mabu~Futari wa Sarazanmai~ will begin serialization on May 22, 2018. The series will be published during odd-numbered months in Gentosha Comics' RuTile magazine, and during even-numbered months on the RuTile Sweet website. The spin-off comic features artwork by MISAKI SAITO.

Sarazanmai features animation production by MAPPA and Lapintrack. Further details about the project have not yet been revealed.

Sources:

Ota-suke

Comic Natalie

Official Sarazanmai TV anime home page

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

The mere mention of a Cowboy Bebop collab cafe was enough to get our mouths watering -- and now, Animate Cafe and Good Smile have revealed the menu and goods for the big event. From what we can see, they definitely don't disappoint.

The food and drink offerings include pub-style soups, sandwiches, and snacks -- many themed to the show. Lunch and dinner versions of some dishes are available, and the dinner menu also offers simple snack plates to go with drinks. Just a few of the dishes on offer:

Mushroom Samba (Lunch Version): Grilled shiitake mushroom burger with mushroom and potato salad

Son-of-a-Gun Stew: Cream stew, ham salad, and baguette

Toys in the Attic: Crepe with coffee jelly and coffee ice cream

Teddy Bomber Parfait: Chocolate and vanilla ice cream, chocolate pudding, cornflakes, and popping candy

Of course, there's also a variety of drinks from the bar, renamed to suit the characters from the series:

Spike Spiegel: Old-Fashioned with mixed nuts and chocolate

Jet Black: Cowboy

Faye Valentine: Martini

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV: Cinderella (non-alcoholic)

Coffee, tea, beer, and other mixed drinks will also be available.

The limited merchandise features the crew of the Bebop in their anniversary best, and includes acrylic standees, cork coasters, cocktail glasses, A4 trading posters, and an engrated Zippo lighter (set to be delivered in August).

And to ensure you get the perfect photo op, there are life-sized standees of the crew.

The cafe is now open and will run until June 10.

>> Cowboy Bebop x Animate Cafe Website

>> Watch Cowboy Bebop on Crunchyroll

Source: Anime! Anime!

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Kara Dennison is responsible for multiple webcomics, and is half the creative team behind the OEL light novel series Owl's Flower. She blogs at karadennison.com and tweets @RubyCosmos. Her work can currently be read in Stranger Tales of the City from Obverse Books.

Good news, Agents. SHIELD lives to fight another day.

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The official website for Gakken Plus' monthly anime magazine Animedia announced today that the stock of its latest June 2018 issue has almost run out just in two days after release, so it will get a second print run for the second time in the magazine's 37-year history. The issue featuring Conan Edogawa and Toru Amuro from the 22nd Detective Conan film Zero the Enforcer on its cover was released in Japan on May 10. The additional prints are expected to be shipped by later this month.

Animedia was launched in 1981 and is the second oldest ongoing monthly Japanese anime magazine, following Tokuma Shoten's Animage started in 1978. Its current circulation is 34,567 copies (October-December 2017) according to Japan Magazine Publishers Association (JMPA).   

【重版のお知らせ】名探偵コナン ゼロの執行人、シンカリオンのWカバーのアニメディア6月号は在庫僅少につき重版が決定しました。一般書店様、アニメ専門店様等で一時的に品切れとなる場合がありますが、重版分は5月下旬ごろ店頭に並ぶ予定です。詳細→https://t.co/o00LgcHLTW pic.twitter.com/IRTD7RAiBC

— アニメディア＠6月号表紙は名探偵コナン ゼロの執行人、新幹線変形ロボ シンカリオン (@gakken_animedia) 2018年5月11日

The magazine's first issue to get reprints was its February 2016 issue featuring "World Trigger" on its cover

Source: "Animedia" official website

This is not a drill, Utena fans -- they're back.

More than 20 years since Revolutionary Girl Utena first hit the pages and screens, artist Chiho Saito and writer/director Kunihiko Ikuhara have joined forces to write more of the story. The manga release coincides with Saito's 35th anniversary in the manga industry.

Released by Shogakukan's Flower Comics Alpha imprint, the story will run in three volumes: After the Revolution (released today in Japan), Beautiful Thorns, and The Eve of Their Revolution. The new story will revisit Utena and Anthy, as well as Touga, Saionji, Juri, and Miki. The books also include postscripts by the creators on the making of the original manga.

No overseas licensing information is yet available for After the Revolution.

>> Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution on Amazon Japan

Source: Comic Natalie

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Kara Dennison is responsible for multiple webcomics, and is half the creative team behind the OEL light novel series Owl's Flower. She blogs at karadennison.com and tweets @RubyCosmos. Her work can currently be read in Stranger Tales of the City from Obverse Books.

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