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J-Rock singer Gackt is no real stranger to video games and anime, but his latest stunt should is interesting.

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So our latest license is Satoshi Kon’s Complete Short Stories - Dream Fossil.

400+ pages on sale Summer 2015.

The Nintendo 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. has an exclusive stage called Pac-Maze, director Masahiro Sakurai has revealed.

Read Super Smash Bros. For 3DS Has This Exclusive Pac-Man Stage on Siliconera!

“My challenge to myself for Bayonetta 2 was to create the right enemy motion for each attack,” says motion designer Takaaki Yamaguchi.

Read Bayonetta 2 Will Have More Detailed Enemy Reactions And Animation on Siliconera!

This week at their Anime Expo panel, Studio Trigger announced a few more details regarding their Ninja Slayer anime.

Read Ninja Slayer Anime To Be Directed By Kill la Kill Director on Siliconera!

A new gameplay trailer for Hyrule Warriors shows Agitha off in combat.

Read Agitha And Her Insect Powers Take To The Battlefield In Hyrule Warriors Trailer on Siliconera!

MangaGamer will be releasing a new version of the game on Steam, and touched upon it at Anime Expo earlier tonight.

Read Higurashi When They Cry Getting New Translation And Sprites For Steam Release on Siliconera!

We all know Sunrise will produce Yoshiyuki Tomino's Gundam Reconguista in G with the anime adaptation of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's Gundam The Origin for the 35th anniversary of the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise in the coming years. Moreover, the company has already started planning the next anniversary project five years from now.

Gundam's 35th anniversary project today launches a teaser site for "REAL G Next Project," the upcoming project to built new full-scale mobile suit statues for the franchise's 40th anniversary in 2019, following the famous RX-78-2 Gundam model in front of Diver City Tokyo Plaza in Odaiba, Tokyo. Seemingly, the teaser site will soon reveal the names of the mobile suits. Which mobile suit do you want to see in full-scale?

The screenshot of the teaser site

18-meter statue of RX-78-2 Gundam at DiverCity Tokyo Plaza (photo © Mikikazu Komatsu)

Source: Gundam 35th anniversary site

© Sotsu/Sunrise

Grab Mario Kart 8 for $45 with free ship, Drakengard 3 for $40, or Monster Hunter 3 on the 3DS for $20.

Read Mario Kart 8 Gets 25% Discount While Drakengard 3 Drops 20% on Siliconera!

Miyazaki Hayao may have retired from filmmaking, but Studio Ghibli is still bringing us beautiful fare. The trailer for their upcoming supernatural story When Marnie Was There is packed with lovely landscapes and hints at the friendship at the heart of the film.

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Yes, if renting Lego sets is something you'd like to do, then you'd best bookmark Pley.com immediately. The site allows you to rent your choice of Lego sets on a monthly basis, and then return them. Yes, really.

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Atlus celebrated the launch of the full Persona 4 Arena Ultimax website with some info about western DLC plans. Tohru Adachi and his Persona Magatsu-Izanagi will be available as free DLC when the fighter launches on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the Americas this fall. 

Be sure to act fast, because Adachi will revert to paid DLC after the first week. In the meantime, enjoy some English screens below.

Atlus also announced that they'll be at EVO 2014 with hands-on demos for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. They'll be chipping in $1,000 and some Atlus goodies as a total prize purse for an original Persona 4 Arena side tournament at the event. 

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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.

Though the Sailor Moon reboot doesn't start broadcasting until July 5th, footage of an advanced screening has leaked—notably, Sailor Moon's new transformation sequence, as well as the new intro to the show.

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Atlus USA have shared over an hour of gameplay footage of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax.

Read Over An Hour Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Gameplay In English on Siliconera!

Everyday is great with this Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth downloadable content. If you want Nanako to cheer you on as a Persona navigator the Nanako Navi Voice DLC pack is for you.

Read The Final Persona Q: Shadow Of The Labyrinth DLC Is Nanako And Mari Navi Voices on Siliconera!

Hyrule Warriors will have costume DLC, and download codes for some of those costumes will be available alongside different versions the game in Japan.

Read Some Of Hyrule Warriors’ Costume DLC Revealed on Siliconera!

Mad Catz are releasing new arcade sticks based on Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Atlus announced today.

Read Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Arcade Stick Coming From Mad Catz And Atlus on Siliconera!

Shadowrun Online is still in development, but there are big plans to tie the game to tabletop Shadowrun's big summer campaign, Lockdown. The developers let me try an early build of the game, and talked to me about all things cyberpunk.

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“The characters from Persona 3 and Persona 4 are really precious to the fans, and since they were costarring this time, I really felt a lot of pressure as a scenario writer,” shares Kido.

Read Persona Q’s Key Developers Talk About How The Game Came To Be on Siliconera!

 Kadokawa has posted a new preview for the fully-voiced PS Vita port of Fate/stay night follow-up Fate/hollow ataraxia, with a look at its minigames such as new tower defense Capsule Servant, limited edition's Nendoroid Petit Avenger. Also announced today, the theme song with by Aimer (Gundam UC 6). The game is set to be released in Japan November 27th.

Vita版Fate/hollow ataraxiaのPVを公開しました！本作の主題歌担当は「Aimer」。機動戦士ガンダムUCシリーズの主題歌も担当した注目の歌手です。ぜひご覧下さい！ https://t.co/DJgI3zMqy4 pic.twitter.com/9JriWShVg6

— psv_hollow (@psv_hollow) June 27, 2014

【お見逃しなく】7/10発売コンプティーク8月号付録は「フェイト/ホロウ アタラクシア」ドラマCD!　ホロウの世界から飛び出したサーヴァントたちが、己の意地とプライドをかけて冬木の波止場で料理対決！ pic.twitter.com/wlYgvdKLNp

— psv_hollow (@psv_hollow) June 26, 2014

【本日解禁】PSV「フェイト/ホロウ アタラクシア」の限定版特典、アヴェンジャーのねんどろいどぷちの原型画像が到着しました！　 pic.twitter.com/a3r6f0RrdD

— psv_hollow (@psv_hollow) June 26, 2014

皆様、こんばんは。本日もマチ★アソビVol.12で行った「フェイト/ホロウ アタラクシア」フルボイス化エピソード上映会で、参加者の方から頂きましたコメントをご紹介していきます！ pic.twitter.com/YCq4a776e1

— psv_hollow (@psv_hollow) June 25, 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.

Kasoku brand Aurora's Girls und Panzer cycling clothes have proved quite popular with that series' zealous fans, as plenty of photos on Twitter has attested. Last month, they sold Love Live! gear, and they should prove pretty popular. Starting this week, and running thorough July 16th, Don't Lose Your Way! because they have Kill La Kill items on sale ahead of a September release.

Also distributed by Good Smile Company, items include:

· KILL la KILL: Cycling Jersey (Three Star Goku Uniform Ver.) -13,000yen
· KILL la KILL: Cycling Jersey (Kamui Senketsu Ver.) -13,000yen
· KILL la KILL: Cycling Jersey (Kamui Junketsu Ver.) -13,000yen
· KILL la KILL: Cycling Pants  -13,000yen
· KILL la KILL: Cycling Bib Shorts -13,000yen

The Love Live items

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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.

Hawaiian raised actress/model Sumire has been cast as Lum, the striped bikini clad alien/oni of Rumiko Takahashi's classic manga comedy Urusei Yatsura for Suntory's Regain energy drink. The ad compaign with the cosplaying talent features Kenshin's Makoto Kawamoto singing a take-off on the drink's 80s theme song, "Sign of Courage."

You can see more at the promotional site 

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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.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Detective Conan, a two hour The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History, involving a case from the de-age sleuth's past, will be airing this year. Cast and dates are will be announced later, but animation director Yasuichiro Yamamoto is confirmed as continuing his Conan work, helming this project.

via  Mantanweb

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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.

"Gundam? Never heard of her?" Japanese lifestyle magazine R25 ran into a bit of a problem when it tried to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Gundam by surveying young men about franchise mecha. Polled by a market research firm, 51% of the sample set of guys in their 20s didn't know enough about the series to name a favorite design or mech they'd like to pilot.

The internet otaku ranks were a bit appalled by this “How could you not know?” and “Gundam and JoJo are compulsory courses.”

Some however did manage to frame the response from a positive perspective: “It’s great that half of the people knew about a work that was created 35 years ago.”

via RocketNews24

thumbnail via http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=39165423

Gundam Build Fighters' Rinko Iori "tried building a Gunpla too!"

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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.

It is officially announced today on June 30 that Happinesscharge PreCure! Ningyou no Kuni no Ballerina　(The ballerina in the doll country), the feature film version of the on-going TV anime Happinesscharge PreCure! will open in Japan on October 11. The date is two weeks earlier than the five recent PreCure films released in fall. The last year's Dokidoki! PreCure film was released on October 26, and the 2012 Smile PreCure! film was on October 27.

Happinesscharge is the 11th installment of Toei Animation's long-running PreCure TV anime series, and is also produced as the franchise's 10th anniversary title. While the poster visual introduces new characters for the film including a girl dancing with Cure Lovely, the details of the story is still not clear to the media, except it is set in the doll country as the title shows. The tagline says, "Love and bonds of friendship make a miracle happen!" A special advance ticket with two types of "Kururin Odekake Bag"

illustrated with the PreCure girls will go on sale in theaters across Japan from July 19.

The poster visual

via: Cinema Today

© Movie "Happinesscharge PreCure!" Production Committee

The physical characteristics of Miis play a role in their fighting style in Super Smash Bros.

Read Your Mii’s Size Influences Its Fighting Style In Super Smash Bros. on Siliconera!

Following the first teaser posted in the early February, the official YouTube channel for the upcoming anime film adaptation of Chuya Koyama's astronaut training story manga, titled Space Brothers #0 (number 0), has posted a 40-second second teaser including the footage from the film. The tagline in the end of the teaser says, "The Story of Farewell and Courage." The prequel story newly-written by the manga creator Koyama features Brian Jay, NASA's astronaut who was already dead in the story lines of the manga and TV anime.

Space Brothers #0 opens in Japan on August 9.

Second teaser

First teaser

Key visual drawn by Chuya Koyama

via: Mantan Web

© Space Brothers CES2014

Persona 4 Arena is getting a stage play in Japan. It will run from December 19th – 23rd.

Read Persona 4 Arena Is Getting A Stage Play Adaptation on Siliconera!