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Bravely Default contains a teaser trailer for Bravely Second, but you don't need to complete the game to watch it.

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Good news! Mathematics has confirmed what we already suspected: You should most definitely be ordering a larger pizza.

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The creator of Wookie the Chew , and a multitude of additional wondrous works of art , James Hance, painted this on his daughter's wall. We are so jealous.

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Office copies!!!

Gundam the ORIGIN 5 and What Did You Eat vol 1

Note that they are the same height. (Gundam is why thicker since it is an omnibus and hardcover.)

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After another hiatus, Brad and Tim are back! The podcast is now coming to you from both sides of the US as Tim explains why he’s now a California resident. Also we get a lot of stuff off our chests about Flappy Bird, critical analysis of things, and a whole bunch of other odds and ends. You don’t want to miss it!

The figure, titled “Dwell Persona 4 Arena Mitsuru Kirijo Another Color”, is based on character Mitsuru Kirijo, who originally appeared in RPG “Persona 3”. The 1/7th scale figure depicts Mitsuru as seen in fighting game spin-off “Persona 4 Arena”, and is an alternately-colored version of a previously-released figure. The current release shows Mitsuru in a striking bright red and black outfit, contrasted with her removable, crimson fur coat and jet black hair.

The figure will retail for 12,960 yen, tax included.

The figure’s highlights include Mitsuru’s crimson fur coat and jet black hair.

Mitsuru’s skin shows through cutouts in her stealth suit.

Reverse view

 

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Links:
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Persona 3: The Movie

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Bravely Default producer Tomoya Asano lists out some of the improvements made to Bravely Default: For the Sequel in an effort to streamline the game.

Read These Are The Improvements To Bravely Default In Our Version Of The Game on Siliconera!

Bravely Second will expand the world of Luxendarc, but more from a story rather than exploration standpoint, says producer Tomoya Asano.

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After a year's break, the David Production adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's long running, ever shifting JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga returns this April with a new anime based on Part III: Stardust Crusaders.

A new preview focuses on returning hero Joseph Joestar and his Stand, Purple Hermit.

Stardust Crusaders, the only of the series' eight parts to be released in English, was previously adapted into two OVA series in 1993 and 2000. The horror/travelogue introduces super powered alter egos called stands, which became a pillar of the franchise going forward as it follows brilliant delinquent Jotaro Kujo's search for the vampire Dio Brando.

The anime production staff

Director: Naokatsu Tsuda

Series Director: Kenichi Suzuki

Series Composition: Yasuko Kobayashi

Character design: Masahiko Komino

Animation Production: David Production

Cast

Jotaro Kujo : Daisuke Ono (Juurouta Kosugi in earlier OVA)

Joseph Joestar: Unsho Ishizuka (Chikao Ohtsuka  in OVA, Tomokazu Sugita in All Star Battle and earlier seasons of anime)

Avdol: Kenta Miyake (Kiyoshi Kobayashi in OVA, Masashi Ebara in All Star Battle )

Kakyoin: Daisuke Hirakawa (Hirotaka Suzuoki in OVA, Kōji Yusa in All Star Battle)

Polnareff: Fuminori Komatsu (Katsuji Mori in OVA, Hiroaki Hirata in All Star Battle)

DIO: Takehito Koyasu (Nobuo Tanaka in OVA)

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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.

After four years and seven episodes, Gundam Unicorn wraps up this spring with the 90-minute seventh and final episode hitting Japanese theaters for a limited run May 17th before a June 6th home video release.

Meet the NZ-999 Neo Zeong, presumably the series mecha, mobile armor end boss

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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.

This week’s Famitsu magazine says that, in Persona Q, characters will be able to use additional Personas for the first time.

Read Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Characters Can Use Other Personas on Siliconera!

Atlus and Nintendo will make a Nintendo 3DS XL system for Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. The system will have a unique design and include the 3DS game, but details about what the limited edition handheld will look like have not been released.

Read Persona Q: Shadow Of The Labyrinth Limited Edition 3DS XL Coming To Japan on Siliconera!

Vertical manga through the years:

• 2003 (1) - Buddha
• 2006 (1) - Ode to Kirihito
• 2007 (4) - To Terra, MW, Apollo’s Song, Andromeda Stories, Seven Magi
• 2008 (2) - Dororo, Black Jack
• 2009 (0) -
• 2010 (5) - Ayako, Chi’s Sweet Home, Twin Spica, Peepo Choo, 7 Billion Needles
• 2011 (6) - Lychee Light Club, Velveteen & Mandala, Book of Human Insects, No Longer Human, Drops of God, Princess Knight
• 2012 (9) - GTO 14 Days in Shonan, GTO The Early Years, Sakuran, Flowers of Evil, 5 Cm Per Second, Heroman, LIMIT, Paradise Kiss, Message to Adolf,
• 2013 (11) - Knights of Sidonia, Gundam the ORIGIN, Utsubora, Helter Skelter, Twin Knights, Wolfsmund, Tropic of the Sea, Sickness Unto Death, PINK, Summer Wars, From the New World
• 2014 (9) - Insufficient Direction, What Did You Eat Yesterday?, Cardfight!! Vanguard, In Clothes Called Fat, AJIN, Witchcraft Works, The Garden of Words, Prophecy, My Neighbor Seki

Chi’s Sweet Home is our longest running series over time - four years (Flowers of Evil is second now). Most volumes belongs to Black Jack (17!!)

The search for our 2015 list begins next week! License window opens on Tuesday!! Get your suggestions ready!

Thatz Not Okay, 17 February 2014:

Recently I’ve invented a hobby whereby I invent factoids that are close enough to the truth to be believable, or just so totally random that they’re difficult to prove/disprove (e.g. “Professional hurdlers run faster and make fewer mistakes when forced to jump over animals of the exact same height as a hurdle.”) I tell these facts to friends and acquaintances in such a manner that they believe to them be irrefutable truth. Recently, I overheard a friend repeating a disprovable fact to a group of friends, who mocked her. I enjoy making up these facts and don’t want to stop, even though other people are going to look foolish for believing them. Is that okay?

Dear The Most Wholesome And Well-Intentioned Fibber of All Time,

The way the Bad Advisor sees it, you’re simply providing a bevy of fun trivia nugs for your friends to repeat—it’s on the shitty, disdainful rest of the world if the rest of the world wants to take them to task and mock them mercilessly for it. After all, no one expects to establish a base level of trust with friends who they depend on not to actively enjoy their public humiliation. 

Enjoying pulling one over on those who foolishly believe the people in their lives aren’t outright mocking their rank gullibility is one of the great pleasures of the human experience, and in no way suggests that you are a shitty person. Carry on!

It's horribly impractical for ladies to wear bikini armor while leaving their midsections imposed...or is it? Artist Stjepan Sejic reveals the "truth" behind half-naked women warriors.

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We've got two Frozen deleted scenes that give us lots more time with Anna, Elsa and Kristoff. Unsurprisingly, they are all completely delightful and adorable and can we all just go to Norway and build a snowman together?

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This morning, following the recent events surrounding Atlus and Sega, Persona series chief director Katsura Hashino posted a message for fans on the series’ blog.

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Wyldstyle was one of the most memorable new characters in The Lego Movie — and she went thorugh a lot of changes on her way to the screen. Check out official concept art that reveals the many, many different versions of Wyldstyle. Plus more concept art that reveals major spoilers for the film's ending.

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Taito Station is looking for the best Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold players in Japan and are holding a tag team tournament to find them.

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In the little Dutch town of Geldrop there is a neighborhood with streets named after characters from the stories of J.R.R.Tolkien. You'll find the names of hobbits, dwarves, wizards and elves – but there's at least one name that's conspicuously absent.

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Artist Joe Alexander has created this gorgeous set of prints showing just how iconic the silhouettes Disney's animation has created. And my how they loom.

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Yuzuru Hanyu mania continues to sweep the internet, and perhaps the best tribute to the Sochi Olympics gold medalist figure skaters comes from Ꭲ Ꭺ Ꮶ Ꮜ Ꮇ Ꮠ, the artist of the hit Hunter x Hunter x Dragon Ball mash-up. In the new viral hit, Hanyu is illustrated in the style of Hirohiko Araki's cult manga Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. 

金メダルおめでとう！羽生選手を荒木先生風に描いてみた。　#sochi　#jojo pic.twitter.com/NPzWVuSeII

— Ꭲ Ꭺ Ꮶ Ꮜ Ꮇ Ꮠ ™ (@takumitoxin) February 15, 2014

He's also posted

You can see over 800 other tributes to Hanyu on Pixiv.

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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.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog was this perfect little burst of musical-theater supervillainy, which rocked the internet... and then there was no more. Are we going to have to summon the Evil League of Evil to get us a sequel? Apparently not. It's still happening... just very, very slowly.

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What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than with master of the wedding party George R.R. Martin? We've got the author exclusively explaining the wildly romantic, political complexities behind the various cultural weddings in Game of Thrones.

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A brand-new trailer for the documentary about Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky's failed attempt to make a Dune movie has dropped, and the look it provides at what could have been is fantastic, bewildering, and a little soul-crushing, mostly because we never got to see Salvador Dali as the Emperor of Space.

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Teddie is hilarious as usual in Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, but he doesn't drool over Aigis like he does with other female characters. Their meeting is a little more… exciting.

Read Rawr! Teddie Meets Aigis In Persona Q: Shadow Of The Labyrinth on Siliconera!

Yoshiki Tanaka's Legend of the Galactic Heroes, telling a sci-fi war based on 19th century Prussian conflicts inspired a huge body of anime between 1988 and 2000, including 110 OVA episodes and 52 side-story OVA episodes. Now, for the first time in over a decade and a half, a new anime project is in the works.

The series had plenty of die-hard fans, and it's the ones who attended the opening of the latest stage production, Legend of the Galactic Heroes Chapter IV: After the Clash, who first heard this news.

Bit of latte art celebration

【激震（自分的に）】「銀英伝」約20数年ぶり再アニメ化決定！ キャラデザは誰？ 声優は誰？（声優界総出演とまで言われたスペース・オペラ。大御所は殆ど出ているので若返りが図られると思うが、ヤン、ラインハルト、キルヒは誰が？） pic.twitter.com/KY0dwP6i3k

— BELCORNO@ラテアート (@BELCORNO) February 12, 2014

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.

The second I saw all the designs of Dragon's Crown, I knew that they'd make fantastic figures. The ridiculously busty Sorceress, the gloriously thighed Amazon and the lithe Elf were seemingly made from the ground up to have fantastic toys made for them. Well, as you can see here, Megahouse has done quite a bang-up job with the Elf and Amazon. They won't sell you on the designs if you didn't like them before, but if you were fond of them before, you'll like them even more now.

The Elf looks fantastic, caught in the middle of a leap and firing her arrow at an unseen foe. The Amazon is wielding her massive axe, ready to bring it onto the head of any that would oppose her. They are both looking like must buys for fans of the games. Unfortunately, they'll likely be expensive, as their size, base requirements and detail all look high-end. That's alright though, as long as the final product is great. I guess it's time to start filling my poor, abused piggy bank.