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 Sailor Moon fever has infected Suzuhito Yasuda, illustrator on the Durarara!!, author on the Yozakura Quartet manga and character designer Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. The results were a 30 minute sketch of Sailor Venus, illustrated while he was taking a break

久々の休憩３０分落書き　圧倒的なヴィーナス派　 pic.twitter.com/D8JPhtwRhC

— ヤスダスズヒト (@suzupin) July 14, 2014

 

Some of his other from recent months include...

Patlabor

 

Gundam Build Fighters

 

Ichibanya curry girl

 

Sengoku Basara's Li Chokutora

 

 

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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.

Well, except the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Because in this season 3 finale of "Epic Rap Battles of History," the original Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo completely kick turtle ass. It's — dare I say it? — a masterpiece.

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This week weekend the Twitter feed for for fall's season season of Gundam Build Fighters announced that a big update to the series' site will go online Thursday, July 17th, also the suggesting that they'll be revealing the mecha who silhouetted in the teaser visual.

 

In the meantime, they've continued to post new illustrations from the mecha design team's plans.

 

 

by Michinori Chiba (Gundam Build Fighters' character animation director, Gundam 00 character designer and character animation director, key animator on Hunter x Hunter's fourth opening)

A possible swim club coming up in season 2?

 

 

 

by mecha animation director Shinya Kusumegi

Gundam Astray Blue Frame Second L

 

stoyboard artist, mech animator and opening animator Ken Otsuka

Dragon Gundam

mecha and opening animator Hiroki Mutaguchi

 

opening and mecha animator Munetaka Abe

Gundam Mk-Ⅱ

 

Chief mecha animator and opening animator Hiroshi Arisawa

 

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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.

As promised, Nintendo announced a new addition to the Super Smash Bros. roster this morning. They actually ended up delivering more than that, though, with the return of Captain Falcon as well as more characters from Fire Emblem: Awakening.

 

Lucina and player avatar Robin (male and female versions) are all joining the lineup when Super Smash Bros. hits Nintendo 3DS this summer, followed by Wii U this winter. 

 

UPDATE: Here's the video! (and Chrom is in the mix as an Assist Trophy, not playable)

 

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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.

ニュータイプ8月号「Fate/stay night」ピンナップより

With the new anime's debut, plenty of people are at least a bit nostalgic for Sailor Moon. Among them is Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward, who "drew a perfect sailor moon from memory."

 

@natazilla I drew a perfect sailor moon from memory pic.twitter.com/HlsdiJ3uJB

— Pendleton Ward (@buenothebear) July 8, 2014

 

 

thumbnail via http://www.rainbowmuffin.com/

 

 

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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.

Twitter account the Worst Muse isn't even a week old, but it's already a premiere source of hilarious writing advice. Below's a selection of our favorites.

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Since HappinessCharge Precure! is meant to celebrate the franchise's 10th anniversary, the game will feature all the characters from past PreCure series as well.

Read HappinessCharge PreCure! Kawarun Collection Headed To Nintendo 3DS on Siliconera!

A new trailer for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax shows off cutscenes pertaining to the game's new playable characters.

Read Persona 4 Arena Ultimax’s New Trailer Is All About Cutscenes on Siliconera!

Comcept have shared new gameplay footage of Mighty No. 9, explaining how Beck’s in-game actions work.

Read Mighty No. 9 Videos Demonstrate Beck’s Basic Actions And Absorb Ability on Siliconera!

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is not region-locked, Atlus USA announced this morning.

Read Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Will Be Region-Free Says Atlus USA [Update] on Siliconera!

Nintendo will stream a new Nintendo Direct presentation in Japan, focusing on third-party games for the Nintendo 3DS.

Read Japanese Nintendo Direct To Focus On Third-Party 3DS Games on Siliconera!

The relaunch of Dungeons & Dragons begins this week with the release of the D&D Starter Set, a $20 box designed to be the perfect introduction to tabletop fantasy role-playing games. I tested it out with a group of neophyte gamers, and we had a blast.

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This April, for the first time in many years, Michael and Matthew Chapman, released a brand new Homestar Runner cartoon. It was wonderful. And now, here's even better news: the flash cartoon website will be churning back to life full time. Eeeeeemail!

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Laika's next stop-motion venture, The Boxtrolls, is bringing a lush world of crooked buildings, lavish costumes, cheese-fiending villains, and, of course, the Boxtrolls themselves with their elaborate mechanical inventions. We visited the set, and if you have any doubts about the movie's glorious puppets, props, and sets, take a behind-the-scenes look at The Boxtrolls.

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There's been little in the way of newly announced concrete plans for the anime adaptation of historical warship girl browser-game phenomenon KanColle, but Comptiq has published a visual of its take on the Super Dreadnought Battleship, Kongo indestructible mountain who lent her name to the class of battleship that was among the most heavily armed in any navy when built.

Comptiq also publishes Sasayuki's KanColle side:Kongou manga.

In the game she's voiced by Nao Tōyama. The ship daughter's quirk is that she frequently adds English words and phrases into her dialog as a reference to her British. She's also been the star of a drama CD.

 

 

 Her game cards and CG

 

 

 

 

When the KanColle anime was first announced in September 2013, the planned time was this summer at the earliest. In January, Keizou Kusakawa (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha) was introduced as the director for the Diomedea production with Jukki Hanada (Beyond the Boundary) writing series composition. The latter announcement lead to some industry watcher speculation about a switch in the project's creative team, with a potential resulting delay. 

Currently, few details about the anime are official other than the involvement of Kusakawa, Hanada, Diomedea and involvement of game characters/cast Destroyer Fubuki (voiced by Sumire Uesaka), Aircraft Carrier Akagi (voiced by Saki Fujita) and Aircraft Carrier Kaga (voiced by Yuka Iguchi).

game card:

game card:

game card:

 

If you don't follow the game too closely, there's been some nice new upgrades introduced lately...

 

July 4th's Myoukou Kai2

 

June 20th's 

Sendai Kai2

 

Ayanami Kai2 

 

via @earlbox

 

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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.

Nintendo is spinning off Kirby Fighters into a downloadable 3DS game with extra stages and Dyna Blade is in one of them.

Read Kirby Triple Deluxe Extra Modes Will Be Split Into Separate Downloadable Games on Siliconera!

Anime Mirai was launched in 2010 by the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA) with 214.5 million yen (about US$2.27 million) from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs to foster the talent of young animators through on-the-job training by annually funding the production of shorts such as Trigger's 2013 Little Witch Academia.

 

In April, JAniCA announced that they will no longer be running the initiative.

 

Now run by the Association of Japanese Animations industry group, proposal for Anime Mirai 2015 projects were accepted through June 27. The four shorts selected to be funded were announced this week, with a screening planned for March 2015 at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2015.

 

By J.C. Staff:

Director: Youhei Suzuki (HENNEKO)
Producer: Yuji Matsukura
Production Producer: Yuji Matsukura
Title: Aki no Kanade

By Synergy SP:

Director: Yumiko Suda
Producer: Kenichiro Hayafune
Title: Robot Kaa-san

By Studio Deen:

Director: Ken’ichi Ishikura (D.C.III ~Da Capo III~ )
Producer: Norimitsu Urasaki
Title: Ongaku Shojo

By Tezuka Productions:

Director: Makoto Tezuka (Black Jack)
Producer: Yoshihiro Shimizu
Production Producer: Mitsuaki Oiishi
Title: Kumi to Tulip

 

via AnimeSlovenija

 

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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.

Almost 80% certain I’ll be announcing a new artbook at Otakon.

Fingers crossed!

If you're having trouble understanding what happened in the World Cup today, then perhaps this highly scientific Pokémon image of Mega 'mon versus baby Pokémon can break it down for you.

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It’s a short story published at the end of April, from the 28th to 30th before the Type-Moon mobile website shutdown. The title is very self-explanatory. Bits of the setting info were translated by food, and you can find them here. And you can download the story from Takeuchi and Nasu’s diary in their doujin […]

Following the big presentation at Anime Expo with the news that Akira Amemiya (Inferno Cop, Kill La Kill episode director) will be helming Trigger's 2015 adaptation of "Bradley Bond and Philip Ninj@ Morzez'"s Japanese take on the American take on Japanese sci-fi and martials light novel series Ninja Slayer, the project's site has been updated with a teaser video.  

 

About NINJA SLAYER FROM ANIMATION
STAFF
Original story written by Bradley Bond and PhilpNinj@ Morzez; translation by Yu Honda and LeikaSugi
Series Director: Akira Amemiya
Main Theme: BOOM BOOMSATELLITES
Animation Production: Studio TRIGGER

 

Story
Kenji Fujikido is a salaryman whose wife and child were killed in a ninja turf war. In a brush with his own death, Fujikido is possessed by an enigmatic ninja soul known as Naraku Ninja. Fujikido cheats death and becomes "Ninja Slayer" -a Grim Reaper destined to kill evil ninja, committed to a personal war of vengeance. Set in the dystopian underworld of Neo-Saitama, Ninja Slayer takes on Soukai Syndicate ninja in mortal combat.

 

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The premise of these reviews is simple: watch the first episode of a series and then immediately sit down to record a review mini-podcast. The reviews are five- to ten-minutes long and entirely off the cuff. As always we only review new shows (so no sequels or continuations) and try to avoid anything that just looks outright awful. These are the first batch from the new season:

Listen – First impressions of Sailor Moon Crystal from Toei Animation. It is streaming on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and VIZ Anime.

Listen – First impressions of Aldonoah.Zero from A-1 Pictures. It is streaming on Crunchyroll, Hulu, Daisuki, and Aniplex Channel.

Listen – First impressions of Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock- from Studio Deen. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – First impressions of Glasslip from P.A. Works. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – First impressions of ARGEVOLLEN from Xebec. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – First impressions of Locodol from FEEL. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – First impressions of Rail Wars! from Passione. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Listen – First impressions of DRAMAtical Murder from Naz. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.

 

Filed under: 2014, Anime, Anime Seasons, Favored Topics, Guides, Mecha, Podcasts/Videocasts, S.W.A.T. Reviews Tagged: Aldonoah.Zero, ARGEVOLLEN, DRAMAtical Murder, Glasslip, Locodol, Rail Wars!, Sailor Moon Crystal, Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock-

Although we've covered many ways of getting free books and music before, Noisetrade has a huge selection of both—and it's all legal.

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The official site for the Kuroko's Basketball anime series is just updated with a new teaser visual for the upcoming third season of the TV anime. It is officially confirmed that the highly-anticipated third season is slated for sometime in 2015.

 

Tadatoshi Fujimaki's basketball-themed manga has been serialized in Shueisha's Shonen Jump since 2009 and the latest 28th tankobon volume is released in Japan on last Friday, July 4. The two previous TV anime adaptations were both animated by Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell, Haikyu!!). The 25-episode first season was aired in Japan from April to September 2012, then the second season with more 25 episodes followed from October 2013 to April 2014. The last/9th volume of the anime second season's Blu-ray/DVD is scheduled to be released on September 24.

 

 

The teaser visual for the third season

 

 

The cover of the manga 28th volume

 

 

The 9th Blu-ray volume of the anime second season

 

 

Source: "Kuroko's Basketball" anime official site

 

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

 

Samus should have known that the 14-Ex wasn't an express train, but an extraterrestrial line.

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Happy July! Shonen Jump is celebrating with a series of monthly calendar wallpapers featuring Gintama, Kuroko's Basketball and Assassination Classroom, each with characters' birthdays marked.

 

Get the fullsized versions at shonenjump.com/j/free/wall.html

 

 

 

 

 

and, there's a bonus ēlDLIVE

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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.