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casshern sins: coming in september
Classic anime Casshern (and its live-action adaptation by Kaz Kiriya) gets a new blood transfusion that feels half Ergo Proxy (colors), half Inhumanoids (how Madhouse depicts fights). Please accept our lacking but enthusiastic impressions with monkey gratitude. Series starts in September. (link, via twitch)
No commentsanime eyes: extrawide contact lenses for that watery look
Companies like Geo and Dueba are behind the new trend of extrawide contact lenses for the anime eyes look. The extrawide lens don’t change Japanese girls that much and I haven’t seen any pics with Europeans, so that’s just basically a dailykawaii post for today, allofya. Lens cost $30-$50 per pair. (via investorspot via boingboing)
THE DOSE issue 1 - Tokyo cyberpunk on Scribd
If you were really into MySpace and how industrial/cyberpunk bands started making friends on community sites some two years ago, THE DOSE might ring a bell. It was a free PDF magazine (that I designed to be print-ready just in case I got the possibility to make it into a commercial venture that I failed miserably, but anyways) focusing on a single city in every issue, showing all the interesting music, bands, DJs, pieces of art that we thought would be fascinating for you. I learned how to do proper DTP and layout with the mag. I also came to know excellent people and musicians, made the magazine count at a few places. I made three issues (Budapest, Tokyo, London, consecutively) and then I became a full-time journalist and decided I didn’t have the time to continue this project anymore, because, let’s face it, the majority of the work was done by me. (This is how I get good results. But I digress.)
So now I declare extended hiatus and also upload the previous issues to Scribd. Share the love, download the mag, contact the bands and also drop me an email to planetdamage at gmail if you think this idea is good enough to monetize. Or tell me you love the mag and break my fucking heart in two.The Dose website is in a state of death and dismay, by the way.
2 commentsmanga, manga and more manga: hungarian comic con loot
A brief conclusion of the latest Hungarian comic con: first volumes of Battle Angel Alita: Last Order and Blame!, full versions of Ghost in the Shell 1.5 and 2 and the Hungarian version of Alive released by Mangafan (who happened to present me with the first volume of Nana as well that somehow got lost in the process of making this photo. On second thought I might have left out the Steampunk: Manimatron trade paperback, too.)
5 commentsSpielbergs helms 3D live-action remake of Ghost in the Shell
Google Trends is a tricky little bastard. It tells us the Philippines are the most interested in God, bukkake is common as bread in Italy and cyberpunk is practically dead, even when Hollywood pushes the Neuromancer project through the frontline trenches.
If it wasn’t enough for you, cover your eyes, I have something that is very much bordering on wrong. Variety (and right after that, a zillion sites) announced that Steven Spielberg directs a 3D live-action adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell with DreamWorks having the rights. The project is penned by newcomer Jamie Moss, whereas one of the producers, Avi Arad, was responsible for the three Spiderman movies, three X-Men movies and the Fantastic Four ones as well. No Japanese crew members announced.
I want to throw a contraceptive nailbomb on the planet.
5 commentsイヴの時間 [eve no jikan] trailer
Trailer of science-fiction movie about life in world populated by robots, life-like androids.
News from ANN:
Studio Rikka has opened the official Japanese website for its Eve no Jikan science fiction move and posted a trailer in high-quality and low quality versions. Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Mizu no Kotoba, Pale Cocoon) directs this “non-hard science-fiction” story about everyday life in a world populated by robots and life-like androids. The studio first screened this trailer at Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008. The English subtitle of the Eve no Jikan film title, which literally translates as “Time of Eve,” is written as “Are you enjoying the Time of Eve?”
vexille: uk trailer online, uk theatrical release date set
Fumihiko Sori’s new cyberpunk/biotech movie Vexille gets a UK trailer and all you lucky British cunts can watch it from the 9th of May on them huge frigging screens. The UK trailer is really here, the YouTube above is just the Japanese version with English dubs. Here’s the synopsis if the title doesn’t ring a single bell. (via)
“The year is 2077 - 10 years has passed since Japan had decided to leave the United Nations to go into isolation. They have completely blocked the islands with an ultra magnetic field which prevents anyone to see what is going inside. This was a result to opposing to a treaty which UN has passed, preventing the development of all bio and robot technology which has evolved drastically and has become a threat to the human beings. When Japan finally begins to move, the US government sends in a special force team SWORD, lead by a female commander Vexille, to find out what is really happening inside the country.”
3 commentsappleseed: ex machina (new dvd trailer)
március 11-től lehet megrendelni az amazonon az új appleseed: ex machina 2DVD-s verziót. már keveri mindenki a blu-ray, hddvd és szimpla dvd, valamint az ezekből összeállított szimpla, dupla és collector’s edition verziókat, egyesek szerint angol-spanyol-francia nyelvű audiotrackek vannak rajta, az eredeti japán nincs is, úgyhogy sanyarú szívvel kell megrendelnem kipróbálásra ezt is az eredeti appleseed coll-ed meg az új vexille mellett (ami viszont csak május 20 után jön ki). de azért csak mellékelem a higgadtzenés-majdnemnégyperces prada-verziót is.
official new kite liberator trailer, subtitled
A Twitch értesülései szerint március 25-én érkezik a KITE LIBERATOR Amerikába. Korábban már írtam a filmről, a trailer feliratozott és némileg újabb, a DVD már előrendelhető, a hivatalos oldal még mindig itt. Űrgóliátokat félcopffal lekezelő iskoláslányok, szevasztok. (via)
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