Alainmendez

hodgman:

I found the problem. (at Delta Terminal - LaGuardia Airport)

fiascodownunder:

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Neil Gaiman talk Science, Gods, Religion. And Rainbows.

In the Fire Emblem: Treasure art book, Shouzou Kaga details his infatuation with Hirota’s character designs.

Read Fire Emblem Artist Spotlight: Mayumi Hirota on Siliconera!

Buy Freedom Planet: http://bit.ly/1eLYPzH
See what else James Recommmends: http://bit.ly/JRecommends
Subscribe for new recommendations every Friday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC ----- (Click for more!)

Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux
Coming Soon: Wii U

Get our full list of recommended games on Steam! http://bit.ly/ECCurator
___________

James Recommends Freedom Planet because it offers interesting twists on the high speed platforming formula that Sonic the Hedgehog made famous on SEGA systems back in the 1990's. This retro styled indie game pays homage to its roots, with many-layered levels that force the player to choose quickly between multiple paths, but it also introduces an attack button that interrupts the flow of the action as players stop to deal with interesting and complex enemies.
___________

Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon

Follow us on Twitch! http://bit.ly/ECTwitch
Follow us on Twitter! http://bit.ly/ECTweet
Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/ECFBPage
___________

Recommended for you!

James Recommends - Fast-Paced Brawler Fighting Game
One Finger Death Punch: http://bit.ly/1KTZMUz

Extra Credits - Don't Waste Time
Awesome Per Second: http://bit.ly/1KTZOf1
___________

Get the theme music here!
http://bit.ly/1l9KYld
___________

Check for hidden annotations or turn on subtitles for Bonus Facts about Freedom Planet!

Japanese online retailers including Amazon Japan and Animate have listed the digitally-remastered Blu-ray box of the five anime films and two OVA series based on Hajime Kanzaka's popular light novel series in 1990s, Slayers, for a release on October 30, 2015. As reported, it was originally scheduled for February 27, 2015, but was cancelled three months before it. The reason for the cancellation was explained as "an issue on production" at the time.

 

This is the first time for the eight titles to get Blu-ray releases, following the DVD box in November 2006. The Blu-ray versions are newly remastered from the original 35mm negative films. The 41,040 yen (about 337 US dollars) set contains:

 

"Slayers Perfect" (1995 film)

"Slayers Return" (1996 film)

"Slayers Great" (1997 film)

"Slayers Gorgeous" (1998 film)

"Slayers Premium" (2001 film)

"Slayers Special" (1996 OVA: 3 episodes)

"Slayers Excellent (1998 OVA: 3 episode)

 

The novel's original illustrator Rui Araizumi provides its box illustration, while the anime character

designer/animation director Takahiro Yoshimatsu draws its digi-pack jackets. 68-page booklet,

newly-recorded audio commentaries by Megumi Hayashibara (Lina Inverse), Maria Kawamura (Naga

the White Serpent), Hiroshi Watanabe (the director of the anime series) and Takahiro Yoshimatsu,

and the original trailers/CMs are also included in the set.

 

 

Box illustration

 

 

Source: Amazon Japan, Animate

 

© Hajime Kanzaka, Rui Araizumi/"Slayers" Production Committee

 

It'll be showed off at the San Diego Comic Con.

Read Get Your First Look At The Mewtwo Amiibo on Siliconera!

Lantis has posted two preview videos for the latest character song CDs from the recently-finished TV anime Kuroko's Basketball. The 18th solo series CD featuring Seijuro Akashi (CV: Hiroshi Kamiya) and 12th duet series by Tetsuya Kuroko (Kensho Ono) and Taiga Kagami (Yuuki Ono) were just released in Japan yesterday, July 8. The Akashi CD ranks 11th in the Oricon daily single chart on its first day, while the Kuroko & Kagami one took 15th.

 

 

"Kuroko's Basketball Character Song Solo Series Vol.18"

     Seijuro Akashi (CV: Hiroshi Kamiya)

 

 

 

"Kuroko's Basketball Character Song Duet Series Vol.12"

     Tetsuya Kuroko (Kensho Ono) and Taiga Kagami (Yuuki Ono)

 

Source: Kuroko's Basketball TV anime official website

 

© Tadatoshi Fujimaki/Shueisha, Kuroko's Basketball Production Committee

 

"Between the White Kingdom and Black Kingdom… is the Invisible Kingdom."

Read Take A Look At Fire Emblem Fates’ Third Scenario, Invisible Kingdom on Siliconera!

It's the eve of San Diego Comic Con, North America's largest geek event and besides laying out their plans for event exclusives, FUNimation has dropped a Dragon Ball hint.  

 

==TRANSMISSION RECEIVED== ░✘▒░g▒✘▓▓░♜░↻▒▓▒░ó☠Ò▒▓☴▓░▒▓☣▓▓▓☴▓▓Ⓝ▓☹▓▓☳☳ƨ☳✜☳ƺ☱☲☳☴☵☶D☷⊌⊍⊎⊏⊐ ⊚☁ ᴎ≝ᵒ↻Ⱦ☴☠ℬ▓▓ᵊ☳♜♜☳ᵧ✆✆✆✆✆☠☠☠☠☠☠☠ pic.twitter.com/rIln7j7nz7

— FUNimation@SDCC#4135 (@FUNimation) July 9, 2015

First 100 to stop by our #SDCC2015 booth tomorrow get a ticket for a guaranteed autograph from the #DBZRF English voice cast!

— FUNimation@SDCC#4135 (@FUNimation) July 9, 2015

We're going to @Comic_Con! We have a ton of things we're doing that you can find on our blog: http://t.co/JMz814JUps pic.twitter.com/rO9e96Vgp5

— FUNimation@SDCC#4135 (@FUNimation) July 8, 2015

Pick up exclusives of #DBZRF, #AttackOnTitan, #CowboyBebop, #FairyTail, & #LostGirl at our booth #4135 at #SDCC2015. pic.twitter.com/FgNWOfpRfV

— FUNimation@SDCC#4135 (@FUNimation) July 8, 2015

 

-----

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.

Katsuyoshi Koya led character design on Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, but stepped down for Thracia 776. Read about him inside.

Read Fire Emblem Artist Spotlight: Katsuyoshi Koya on Siliconera!

Along with chapter 500 of Hayate the Combat Butler, Weekly Shonen Sunday, out in Japan July 8th (yeah, Sunday is released on Wednesday) announced that author Kenjirou Hata is preparing to start a new manga that will run alongside Hayate in Sunday. The subject and title will be introduced in August 5th's 36/37 double issue, then the series will launch in September 2nd's issue 40th. It will then run monthly.  Hayate will also be continuing. 

 

 

 

via Natalie

 

 

------
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.

Subscribe for new episodes every Wednesday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC
Watch more episodes from this season of Extra Credits! http://bit.ly/1GVGAQv
Join us live on Twitch! http://bit.ly/ECTwitch ---- (Episode details below...)

Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet
Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage
Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator
___________

The Witcher: Wild Hunt distills all the best practices of hard-boiled detective novels and translates them brilliantly into a game. To understand how and why this works so well, we have to look at the origins of detective novels, going all the way back to Edward Allen Poe first showing us how feats of logic (as opposed to feats of raw strength) could be engrossing. Characters like Sherlock Holmes and authors like Agatha Christie turned that revelation into a formula, but one that often revolved around the English upper class or quaint country life with stories led by a detective who seemed outside and above it all. American detective novels like those of Raymond Chandler, whose essay in the Art of Murder could practically be a design document for the Witcher 3, broke with that tradition: they expanded the stories to not only show lower class people but humanize them, allowing the reader to learn and empathize with their stories through a detective who moves smoothly between both upper and lower classes with disdain for neither. The recent war upheavals in the Witcher create a society much like that in the hard-boiled detective novels, where everything and everyone is in flux. Geralt fits perfectly into the mold of the gritty detective, a sarcastic, unflappable person who can both give and take a beating but whose honor throughout is both unquestionable and unheralded. The main storyline of the Witcher III is a thread we follow as players, but the real value of the game lies in the stories we find along the way: the human moments we discover because the game gives us so much to explore.
___________

BONUS! Get the GameChops Album of Splatoon Covers!
Splatunes: http://bit.ly/1HN30IA
___________

Recommended for you!

Extra Credits - How a Gay Character Made Persona 4 Great
Sexual Diversity: http://bit.ly/1S8XLmd

Side Quest - Character Creation and Introduction
Dark Souls: http://bit.ly/1FKBLqS
___________

Get the intro music here!
http://bit.ly/1eIHTDS

Get the outro music here!
http://bit.ly/1JPm4GL

Splatoon's still hanging around in the top 5, too.

Read This Week In Sales: Fire Emblem Fates Stays On Top on Siliconera!

The A.V. Club has unearthed this summer movie preview piece from Entertainment Tonight. In addition to containing some fairly absurd descriptions of classics, it also makes a pretty strong case for 1982 being the best year for science fiction film.

Read more...

There are few things more frustrating for fans than knowing something excellent exists but having no way to (legally) see it. At least in the case of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Sentai Filmworks has good news.

Read more...

The first details of Zero Escape 3 were revealed during a panel with Uchikoshi at Anime Expo 2015.

Read Zero Escape 3 Takes Place In Mars Facility And Will Make You “Question Philosophies” on Siliconera!

Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon
Watch the Justinian and Theodora series! http://bit.ly/1J89hPd
Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC

Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/ECFBPage
Follow us on Twitter! http://bit.ly/ECTweet
Follow us on Twitch! http://bit.y/ECTwitch
____________

A group of monks declared sanctuary for two hooligans from the demes (Constantinople's fanatical chariot racing factions) who had miraculously survived a hanging. The public wanted them pardoned for their crimes, so when Justinian made his public appearance at the next chariot race, they begged him to have mercy. When Justinian refused, the crowd turned on him and became a rioting mob that tore through the streets of Constantinople. During the Nika Riots, they burned down neighborhoods and even the Hagia Sophia cathedral, rampaging until Justinian agreed to pardon the two men from the demes. Now, however, the mob would not accept that. They demanded that he fire his advisors. Then they decided to appoint their own emperor, a man named Hypatius who was related to the previous emperor Anastasius. Assaulted on all sides, Justinian made plans to flee, only to be confronted by Theodora. She gave a now famous speech asking whether he would rather live a failure or die an emperor, announcing that she would choose the latter. Justinian followed her lead and made new plans to retake his city. He called Belisarius and Mundus, his best generals, to marshal a force. He also sent the eunuch Narses to bribe one faction of the demes and begin dismantling their leadership. Then he ordered his forces to invade the Hippodrome, where they cut down some thirty thousand civilians and executed the false emperor Hypatius. Justinian's reign was once again secure.
____________

Get the intro music here!
http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7
*Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H

Get the outro music here!
http://bit.ly/1NbpIcd
__________

Extra History - Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai
Battle of Okehazama: http://bit.ly/1xgZxfi

James Recommends - Looking at Features and Failures
Total War: Attila: http://bit.ly/1IUl5iz

At Viz Media's Shojo Beat label panel at this weekend's Anime Expo event, the North American publisher announced plans to release Vampire Knight author Matsuri Hino's 2014 ongoing Shuriken and Pleats and Ouran High author Bisco Hatori's 2014 ongoing drama club titles Behind the Scenes, aka Urakata!! 

 

Baka Updates descibes Shuriken and Pleats.

With the Meiji Restoration and the abolishment of the Samurai system, the once feared and respected ninja were forced underground, to continue their work in absolute secrecy. In modern times, the descendants of a certain ninja clan have continued their ancestors' legacy by employing the ninja arts in their work as bodyguards for the rich and famous. 

Kirio Mikage is the daughter of the CEO of "Shadow Village Company," a private security company that operates as a front for the clan's ninja activities. For as long as she can remember, her father has been training her physically and mentally to be a ninja, drilling their clan's mantra into her head: "Be a shadow." Ever since she was a child, Mikage's only source of comfort and encouragement has been her employer, James G Rod. Rod is a kind, handsome and mysterious British businessman who is using Shadow Village Company's ninjas for his personal security and who, when Mikage was only about 10 years old, requested that she be assigned to complete her apprenticeship as part of his security team. His wife, whom he loved dearly, was Japanese but she and the couple's daughter were killed by Rod's enemies prior to him hiring Shadow Village Company to see to his personal security. 

Rod seems to regard Mikage as a stand-in for the daughter he lost, whereas she is half in love with him as the only person who has ever shown her kindness. One day, Rod asks Mikage to let him adopt her and send her to school in Japan like any normal teenage girl, so she can lead a happy life. Mikage is troubled by his offer because of her feelings for him and the fact that the penalty for any ninja who turns their back on the clan is death. But before she can decide, Rod is killed in a bombing. Mikage finds out after his death that, before he was killed, Rod paid Shadow Village Company a sum equal to her entire lifetime's wages in exchange for her freedom from her obligations to the clan. In honor of his memory, Mikage decides to fulfill Rod's wish for her and returns to Japan to attend high school there.

This is the story of ninja Mikage's life as a normal high school girl!

 

 

 

 

@shojobeat announces Shuriken and Pleats manga! #AnimeExpo pic.twitter.com/DkfPwoo08I

— VIZ Media (@VIZMedia) July 4, 2015

@shojobeat announces Behind the Scenes manga! #AnimeExpo pic.twitter.com/k6aSLZTTTE

— VIZ Media (@VIZMedia) July 4, 2015

☆☆New Shojo Beat #manga series coming in February!☆☆ Behind the Scenes!! by Bisco Hatori pic.twitter.com/CXYRtvsFeC

— Shojo Beat (@shojobeat) July 5, 2015

☆☆New Shojo Beat #manga series coming in March!☆☆ Shuriken and Pleats by Matsuri Hino pic.twitter.com/GFkM0JeJkY

— Shojo Beat (@shojobeat) July 5, 2015

.@shojobeat at #AX2015 - "we have no plans to revive the SB magazine in print or digital at this time... all we're doing is lots of manga!"

— Deb Aoki (@debaoki) July 4, 2015

 

------
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.

Watch the Zero Escape 3 and other announcements Aksys made at Anime Expo.

Read Watch The Aksys Panel Where They Announced Zero Escape 3 on Siliconera!

RightStuf held its industry panel at Anime Expo on Friday in the wake of its recent and extensive site relaunch, and did not disappoint in terms of announcements, with new sescuesries, re and the confirmation of its first Blu-Ray disc releases.

 

First, RightStuf's Nozomi Entertainment will release the following series beginning this and next year:

• Tamayura (2015)
• Umi Monogatari (2015)
• Pita-Ten (2016)
• Big Windup Season 2 (2016)
• A Town Where You Live (TBA)

 

Second, the publisher announced that it would release its first Blu-Ray titles after years of fan demand with the first Mobile Suit Gundam series and Revolutionary Girl Utena getting the Blu-Ray treatment. However, the publisher has since confirmed that the Gundam Blu-Ray release will still exclude the infamous "Cucuruz Doan's Island" episoode that was excised in previous US home video releases of the series.

 

Finally, the publisher confirmed more Gundam series slated for home video releases in the future:

• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
• Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
• Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
• After War Gundam X

---

Humberto Saabedra is the Owner of AnimeNews.biz, Editor-in-Chief of PhoneNews.com and a part-time recording engineer. He can also be found musing on things (and Nico Robin) at @AnimeNewsdotbiz

On the heels of the announcement that Viz's Haikasoru label will publish Yoshiki Tanaka's Legend of the Galactic Heroes, a space-opera based on 19th century Prussian conflicts that inspired a huge body of anime between 1988 and 2000, including 110 OVA episodes and 52 side-story OVA episodes Sentai Filmworks announced at Anime Expo that they have licensed the cult anime! 

 

Along with this,Sentai Filmworks licensed  When They Cry (aka Higurashi ga Naku Koro ni), the anime adaptation of 07thExpansion's rural horror/mystery doujin visual novel series'

 

When They Cry was originally acquired by Geneon. FUNimation acquired the distribution license to the show with the other Geneon titles in 2008 after Geneon ceased to distribute titles in North America, but subsquently let the properly lapse.

 

------

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

Following the anthology novel book published by Fujimi Shobou in January, an art exhibition to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hajime Kanzaka's long-running light novel series Slayers will be held at Art Gallery GoFa in Aoyama, Tokyo, from July 11 to August 30. It will focus on the works by the series' official illustrator, 49-year-old Rui Araizumi, displaying his original and copied arts and offering special collaboration menu at its cafe.

 

The exhibition will be divided into three periods: 1st stage (July11-26), 2nd stage (July 28-August 9), 3rd stage (August 11-30). Some of the items will be changed for each periods. On July 19, Araizumi will appear on a talk show with the novel author Kanzaka, and advance tickets for it are already sold out.

 

The first volume of the Slayers series was published in January 1990. So far it has 50 volumes in total

(original series: 15 volumes, Special series: 30 volumes, the ongoing Smash. series: five volumes), and

its total print has reached over 18 million copies. 

 

 

Main visual for the exhibition

 

 

The cover of the 25th anniversary anthology novel book

 

Source: press release

 

The 10th edition of Comp Ace's irregularly published TYPE-MOON spinoff hit Japan on July 1st with news about various multi-media projects inspired by the Fate/stay night visual novel creator.

 

 

Illustrator/co-founder Takashi Takeuchi offered a look at Return to Avalon, a combination art book and travelogue of his trip to Saber's British homeland.

 

 

And speaking of Fate/ the latest on the Heaven's Feel anime movie

 

It also updated the plans for long anticipated remake of vampire vidual novel Tsukihime, which is actively being worked on, but which still has no release date. The center of action is being moved close to Tokyo and in addition to updating the designs for the existing cast new characters will be introduced, particularly related to protagonist Shiki Tohno's school.

 

 

 

via Yaraon and deadfish

 

------
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.

Like most of Bandai Namco's other upcoming titles, Project X Zone 2 got a Japan Expo trailer this week. That's the good news. Unfortunately, the strategy-RPG sequel also got slapped with a delay, pushing its western release back from fall 2015 to early 2016. 

 

Dig into the lengthy "Crossing Paths" trailer below.

 

 

Project X Zone 2 hits Nintendo 3DS in Japan on November 12. 

 

-------

Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. His first mini-comic, SLIME, is now available. His blog can be found at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

Before it was an anime, Legend of the Galactic Heroes started off as a series of science fiction novels by Yoshiki Tanaka. During Viz Media's Anime Expo 2015 panel, the company announced plans to bring the novels to North America. 

 

Legend of Galactic Heroes coming to North America! #VIZpanel #Ax pic.twitter.com/XOul4LjVqV

— VIZ Media (@VIZMedia) July 2, 2015

 

Right now they have the first three scheduled, but they'll need fan support to get all ten out there.

 

Update: Volume 1 is set for March 8, 2016.

 

LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROS v1: DAWN—March 8, 2016.

— Haikasoru (@Haikasoru) July 2, 2015

 

LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES v2, Ambition, and v3 Endurance, will also appear in 2016. We're going to binge-publish!

— Haikasoru (@Haikasoru) July 2, 2015

 

-------

Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. His first mini-comic, SLIME, is now available. His blog can be found at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven will have two new playable characters.

Read JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven Adds Lisa Lisa And Pet Shop on Siliconera!

You might use GURPS to play a fantasy campaign, then try a cyberpunk campaign, then switch to superheroes next. Or you might just have a wizard with a machine gun alongside a psi-mutant cyborg on a Sherman tank. That’s the power of GURPS.

Read more...

This weekend's events, such as Paris' Japan Expo, are offering a look at BONES' new original anime Concrete Revolutio Chojin Genso. Fullmetal Alchemist and Un-Go director/writer collaborators Seiji Mizushima and Sho Aikawa are back at the studio for the project, set to be broadcast for two cours starting fall and stream on Daisuki. Kaito Ishikawa, Sumire Uesaka and Aki Toyosaki voice the leads in superheroes in "Apotheosis" era Tokyo. 

 

Concrete Revolutio poster and trailer at @japanexpo on Daisuki booth cc @Yuyucow pic.twitter.com/CANmOjOGCU

— Sakuga Taisen (@sakuGAR) July 2, 2015

 

 

via Yaraon

 

------
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.

 

Fans of Miho Obana's classic shōjo manga, Kodomo no Omocha (Kodocha for short) are in for a treat, because the September issue of Shueisha's Ribon magazine will feature a new original Kodocha story, the first to appear in Ribon in 17 years. 

 

 

Kodomo no Omocha features the adventures of a hyper-energetic child-actress named Sana as she grows up and falls in love. Kodomo no Omocha originally ran in Ribon magazine from 1994 until 1998. Tokyopop published the manga in English from 2002 to 2006, but the license has lapsed and this version is now out-of-print.

 

The September issue of Ribon goes on sale on August 03, 2015.

 

Source: Mantan Web via My Game News Flash

 

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

Subscribe for new episodes every Wednesday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC
Watch more episodes from this season of Extra Credits! http://bit.ly/1GVGAQv
Join us live on Twitch! http://bit.ly/ECTwitch ---- (Episode details below...)

Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet
Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage
Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator
___________

Social play allows players like Emily to take on greater challenges than solo play. With the player's confidence in the game's mechanical challenges well established, the design can now push them towards social challenges. For example, the player may recognize instantly how to beat a high level raid boss, but to succeed at their plan they need to recruit other players to form the right party. Their successes naturally lead to them making friends with players they get along with, and at this point the community takes initiative into its own hands as players elect to join guilds or even step up to leadership. At the peak of social curve design, the prestige players get from coordinated play (exclusive loot, titles, and other visible bragging rights for beating the most difficult quests) becomes more of a reward than stats alone. While the designer must provide tools to make it easy for those players to coordinate with one another, they should still avoid the pitfall of making interactions automatic since that would undercut the entire cycle of social challenge and reward.
___________

Recommended for you!

Extra Credits - Easing Players into Communication
Social Difficulty Curve: http://bit.ly/1BXStbb

Design Club - Tutorial Mechanics
Portal: Test Chambers: http://bit.ly/1CDDi22
___________

Get the intro music here!
http://bit.ly/1eIHTDS

Get the outro music here!
http://bit.ly/14cJwKQ