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Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino's long awaited space elevator work G-Reco, or Gundam Reconguista in G kicks off on ANIME-ISM, a midnight programming block of MBS, in October. Before that, a theatrical compilation of the first three episodes will be screened in 13 thearts across Japan between August 23 and September 5. And now, before that, a 10 minute preview has been scheduled for August 8th.

『ガンダム Ｇのレコンギスタ』第1話冒頭10分の無料配信が決定！8/8（金）18時より、公式ＨＰほかにて配信開始の予定です！ http://t.co/691iGMOV2T (広報いぬ) #gレコ

— Gのレコンギスタ (@gundam_reco) August 1, 2014

The opening 10 minutes will be shown online at locations such as http://Gundam.info  along with an inteview with Tomino and making-of.

The main staff:

Chief director: Yoshiyuki Tomino

Character design: Kenichi Yoshida

Mechanical design: Akira Yasuda, Ippei Gyoubu, Kimitoshi Yamane

Design works: Shigeto Koyama, Kinu Nishimura, Cheese Gouda, Pablo Uchida, Takumi Sakura, Ayumi Kurashima

Color design: Nobuko Mizuta

Art director: Tomoaki Okada

Music: Yuugo Kanno

Sound director: Eriko Kimura

Planning/Production: Sunrise

Distribution: Toho Visual Entertainment

The main voice cast:

Berli Zenam - Mark Ishii

Aida Reihanton - Yu Shimamura

Nored Nagu - Minako Kotobuki

Crim Nick - Ryota Aisaka

Ruin Lee - Takuya Saito

Munny Ambassador - Ayahi Takagaki

Lalaiya Mundy - Yukari Fukui

Mecha

G-Self

Cut Sea

Rekuten

Grimoire

And speaking of streaming, an English subtitled version of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, the 1987 movie that served as a climax to the rivalry between original protagonist and antagonist Amuro and Char, is officially online for a limited time.

via kraker2k

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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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An early Shonen Sunday scan listing the staff and cast of October's The Seven Deadly Sins adaptation has started to make the rounds on Japanese blogs. Tensai Okamura (Darker than Black, Blue Exorcist) is down for directing the A-1 Pictures (Blue Exorcist, Magi, Sword Art Online) production.

Shotaro Suga (Darker than Black, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) is on series composition with Keigo Sasaki (Blue Exorcist) on character design and overseeing animation direction. Hiroyuki Sawano (Blue Exorcist, Attack on Titan, Kill La Kill) provides the music.

Principal cast includes Yuuki Kaji as Meliodas, Sora Amamiya as Elizabeth and Misaki Kuno as Hawk.

The next issue will announce the opening and ending theme. Plans for a game are also mentioned.

via AnimeSlovenija and Yaraon

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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.

Here's the deal: Marvel has just registered a trademark on the ridiculous, fan-favorite superheroine Squirrel Girl. As Bleeding Cool rightly points out, Marvel usually only bothers to do officially register a character when a movie, TV show, videogame or cartoon featuring said character is on the way. So what the hell is up?

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What titles do you recommend for the Vertical Inc. Sale? Check out Flowers of Evil, Knights of Sidonia, Mobile Suit Gundam:The Origin and more today!

To see what else is on sale visit: http://www.rightstuf.com/n/FT0000007164

To honor the geckos in the mating experiment aboard the Foton-M4 satellite, which the Russian space agency lost contact with for a few days last week, artist Fernando Reza has made this fanciful poster imagining those geckos floating about their weightless sex den.

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Back in June, Warner Brothers Japan confirmed that the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders run be a full year, 4 cour production, adapting all Stand encounters from Hirohiko Araki's Part III manga, which ran from chapter 114 to 265 in 1989-1992, collected in volumes 13 to 29. Today, in a webcast moderated by Osamu Kobayashi, it was revealed that the four seasons will not air consecutively. A break is planned after the second.

After a fall pause, the series will return in the new year to adapt the Egyptian phase of the battle against Dio.

The production also reiterated this week that an adaptation of Part 4 Diamond Is Unbreakable has not been greenlit.

現状は未定です。皆様のお力添えがあれば！WB寺 RT @rotter_mm: まさか4部もやるんですか？

— TVアニメ『ジョジョの奇妙な冒険』公式 (@anime_jojo) July 30, 2014

via Gigazine

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Marie from Persona 4 Golden joins Adachi as a downloadable playable character for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. For the first week after the fighting game launches in North America, Marie will be free to download.

Read Marie Will Be Free DLC For Persona 4 Arena Ultimax For One Week on Siliconera!

We all know the punchlines about manga artists like Kentaro Miura and Yoshihiro Togashi becoming addicted to games. For a while, Otome Yōkai Zakuro creator and Penguimdrum character design Lily Hoshino was heavily into the KanKolle browser game. She'd Tweet about the ship daughters she recruited and post sketches. Now, with Idolm@ster SideM, a spin-off of the idol franchise with male characters, relaunched and running, that's evidently what she's into.

The results...

Also, a resent Rose of Versailles sketch

Penguindrum

Her Kancles

And a look at the evolution of her style over the years

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Is San Diego Comic Con still for comics? For years, people have bemoaned the fact that SDCC is increasingly about movies and TV, and now comics retailers are giving up. Yesterday, we listed comics as one of the "losers" of Comic-Con, but veteran journalist and Image Comics staffer David Brothers disagrees. Here's why.

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The latest addition to this year's New York Comic Con is a big one, with Death Note artist Takeshi Obata joining in on panels and autograph sessions on Thursday and Friday during the convention. Obata will be appearing at the con with the support of Viz Media and the Japan Foundation. 

Takeshi Obata, the highly acclaimed artist of Death Note and Bakumanₒ joins us at #NYCC! http://t.co/RkmNPHBgyH pic.twitter.com/b7hkzdXvQK

— New York Comic Con (@NY_Comic_Con) July 29, 2014

In addition to drawing Death Note alongside the writing of his frequent collaborator Tsugumi Ohba, Obata is also known for his work on Hikaru no Go, Bakuman., and most recently the manga adaptation of All You Need is Kill. 

New York Comic Con will be held October 9-12 at the Javits Center in New York City, and Obata's autographing and panels are set to take place on October 9 and 10. The artist will also participate in a special signing outside the Javits Center as part of NYCC's Super Week, with more information on events to be revealed in the coming weeks. 

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In news that should shock absolutely no one (because they do this every year), the Wonder Festival Project Office have announced the date for Wonder Festival 2015 Winter on their website. As always, it'll be the second Sunday in February (right around my birthday), which this time is February 8, 2015.

Unless we hear otherwise (and I have no reason to believe it'll change), WonFes 2015 Winter will return to Makurhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, for another day-long celebration of all things Japanese collectibles. 

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS will feature a stage from Paper Mario for the first time in the series.

Read Super Smash Bros. For 3DS Has A Paper Mario Stage on Siliconera!

The Good Smile Company revealed a bunch of new merchandise at the Wonder Festival 2014 convention in Japan.

Read Fire Emblem: Awakening’s Lucina Figma Is Still Alive on Siliconera!

Along with Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel anime and Fate/grand order smartphone game news, this weekend's Fate Project presentation announced plans for print series based on Fate/strange fake, the 2008 elaborate April Fool's joke from TYPE-MOON and writer Ryohgo Narita (Baccano, Durarara).

Narita and artist Shizuki Morii will be back for planned Fate/strange fake novels and manga, coming simultaneously from TYPE-MOON books and Dengeki Bunko.

The TYPE-MOON wiki describes the premise:

The plot centers around a Grail War faultily copied from the Third Holy Grail War in Fuyuki. After the end of the third Grail War, an organization from the United States that has magi separate from the London based Mage Association as members took data from Fuyuki's Grail War and planned their own ritual. After seventy years, they used the city Snowfield as the Sacred Land for their own Grail War. They were unable to successfully copy every aspect of the ritual, which lead to it acting only as an imitation that has lost the Saber class and allowed for the summoning of strange Servants due to the definition of a "hero" being blurred.

The Mage's Association has sent Rohngall and his pupil, Faldeus, to investigate the city and the status of the war. Faldeus, a spy from the US organization, has Rohngall sniped upon arrival, despite knowing that Rohngall was simply a puppet. He announces that their Holy Grail War has been in development and that it is real, which causes an uproar at the Clock Tower, and wishes to "advertise" the project to the Association.

via Dengeki Bunko

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Anime studio Ufotable laid out the scope of their plans for adapting modern fantasy visual novel Fate/stay night during last night's Fate Project presentation. The TV series starting this October, then continuing in a split cour for its second half, will adapt the story's Rin Tohsaka focused Unlimited Blade Works route.

There will also be an anime movie adaptation of the Sakura Matou focused Heaven Feel Route.

Smartphone (iOS/Android) game Fate/grand order, with the battle for the Holy Grail across seven time periods, was also announced.  Scenario writer Kinoko Nasu is joined by a very impressive collection of artists from Huke to BunBun

via @ikari_gendo and RollingPirahna

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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.

Bravely Default has shipped 1 million copies worldwide, Square Enix have announced.

Read Bravely Default Sales Reach 1 Million Worldwide on Siliconera!

Those of you who've followed the blog will know of my near continuous requests for scale Cardcaptor Sakura figures. Well, good news has come out of Wonder Festival - it's finally happening! 

Surprisingly, though, they won't be coming from Good Smile Company, who we thought had the licence sewn up. Instead, a placard in the Kotobukiya booth announced that they'll be adding both the titular Sakura Kinomoto and long-time friend/rival Syaoran Li to their ARTFX J range. The announcement is accompanied by CLAMP illustrations, suggesting that Koto may be styling the characters more after their manga incarnations than their anime ones.

Needless to say I'm totally thrilled by this. Kotobukiya have turned out some incredible figures in the ARTFX J range recently, so outstanding quality is practically a given. I'm really happy to see Syaoran announced alongside Sakura too - he's such a key character and it's always great to see more boys in the figure world. We've not got any details beyond a 2015 release date, but we'll be certain to pounce on anything the moment it comes out.

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Aniplex has posted the ad for the anime adaptation of of Nakaba Suzuki's shounen fantasy adventure Seven Deadly Sins, now slated to run Sundays at 5pm on MBS/TBS.

The series is published in North America by Kodansha and runs digitally on Crunchyroll.

Nanatsu no Taizai CM (HD) by AnimeSlovenija

via @ikari_gendo

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Manga, comics and art book publisher UDON had plenty to announce at San Diego Comic Con including the Kill La Kill manga and impressive selection of new art book licenses.

Udon is commitment to the Street Fighter comics series with new hardcover editions have announced that Super Street Fighter V2 is almost complete.

They've also announced that the Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia that will coming next year. The reprint feature new material Ultra and included brand new artwork.

And speaking of Capcom, they've announced that The Art of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies is coming in 2015.

UDON has also secured the rights for the English-language edition of the Kill la Kill manga, which will be released in 2015

Upcoming Manga Classics include

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Emma by Jane Austen

Two new titles appearing in December 2014:

- Katamari Volume 1 the collected ShiftyLook comic by Alex Culang and Raynato Castro

- Makeshift Miracle Volume 2: The Boy Who Stole Everything by Jim Zub and Shun Hong Chan

Record of Agarest War: Heroines Visual Book and Record of Agarest War 2: Heroines Visaul Book

Shining Blade and Ark, featuring the amazing work of Tony Taka! This title collections the artwork of the Shining Blade and Shining Ark games, and is UDON’s forth title in the Shining series.

Yu-Gi-Oh Dual Art collects the artwork of Takahashi Kazuki from the Yu-Gi-Oh series, including card art, personal illustrations, manga illustrations and more.

Osamu Tezuka art books!!! Osamu Tezuka Anime Character Sketchbook is an unprecedented look into the sketchbook drawings and designs of this master artist; Osamu Tezuka Anime Character Illustrations is a unique collection of character model sheets and animations spanning his impressive body of work.

UDON will be producing an English-language version of the Professor Layton Official Fanbook, published by Level 5 and QBIST in Japan.

Gungnir Official Art Chronicle is based on an epic Norse-inspired JRPG and is part of the “Dept. of Heaven” series.

Border Break Artworks, UDON’s first full-on mecha art book! Chock full of schematics, sketches, pilot designs and background materials

Finally, they announced plans for Robotech/Macross art books More details to come soon.

.@UdonEnt at #sdcc - comic-coen debut editions of SF25: the art of street fighter & Udon's art of Capcom pic.twitter.com/mhRxtTRiDo

— Deb Aoki (@debaoki) July 27, 2014

.@UdonEnt at #sdcc - Breath of Fire artbook - debuting at PAX pic.twitter.com/6qhkXtqNjO

— Deb Aoki (@debaoki) July 27, 2014

.@UdonEnt at #sdcc - The Art of Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies - coming 2015! pic.twitter.com/wUPnnTC01H

— Deb Aoki (@debaoki) July 27, 2014

.@UdonEnt at #sdcc - Katamari Damacy comics by Alex Culang & Raynato Castro (buttersafe) - part of shiftylook comix pic.twitter.com/jUw2EfFtuL

— Deb Aoki (@debaoki) July 27, 2014

.@UdonEnt at #sdcc - Katamari Damacy comics by Alex Culang & Raynato Castro (buttersafe) - part of shiftylook comix pic.twitter.com/jUw2EfFtuL

— Deb Aoki (@debaoki) July 27, 2014

.@UdonEnt at #sdcc - "Osamu Tezuka anime character illustrations" + "anime Character Sketchbook" 2 volumes - 2015 pic.twitter.com/1dVS2JoFo8

— Deb Aoki (@debaoki) July 27, 2014

.@UdonEnt at #sdcc - New artbook license: Yu Gi Oh Duel Art: Art of Takahashi Kazuki - 2015 pic.twitter.com/dQsGT3dqDD

— Deb Aoki (@debaoki) July 27, 2014

.@UdonEnt at #sdcc - new license: Robotech/Macross art books! - freshly inked deal, details to come! pic.twitter.com/Egxpt5KEhE

— Deb Aoki (@debaoki) July 27, 2014

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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.

Manga publisher Kodansha Comics announced today at San Diego Comic-Con that it would add two new series to its 2015 slate: the hit shonen series Yamada-Kun and the Seven Witches, and a moving tale of ballroom dance, Let’s Dance a Waltz.

Kodansha descrbes the series

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Peek in your closet or scan your gaming shelf and you might just find a robot in diguise. Takara Tomy Arts is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Transformers along with the 20th anniversary of Sony's original PlayStation by mashing the console and Autobot leader Optimus Prime together to make a super gaming robot. 

Due out in early 2015, this is actually the second project that mixes Transformers and video game systems. There's also a Mega Drive Megatron due out in September for ¥10,000 ($98). Yep, you'll finally be able to realize your dream of combining the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console and the nefarious Decepticon villain into a transforming figure.

Via Polygon

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. His blog can be found at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter at @Moldilox.

The latest 20th anniversary Detective Conan Secret Report features the announcement that sibling series Magic Kaito is being adapted into a TV anime series. A-1 Pictures (Silver Spoon, Magi) is on board to produce the phantom thief Shounen Sunday based series, which is planned for October.

A series of TV specials between 2010 and 2012 previously adapted the series.

via Yaraon

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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.

No. Not the adaptation of OrchidSeed's bishoujo Seven Deadly Sins figures. It's still radio silence on that project. The adaptation of Nakaba Suzuki's shounen advanture Seven Deadly Sins has now been slated to run Sundays at 5pm on MBS/TBS.

The series is published in North America by Kodansha and runs digitally on Crunchyroll.

via Yaraon

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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.