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[wielder]

Lots of Code Geass news out today, but here's the top two:

Code Geass: Bōkoku no Akito to Screen in Theaters This Summer
Miyu Irino, Maaya Sakamoto to lead cast; stage musical, social game announced

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... his-summer

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Gets Film Project
Separate from Code Geass: Akito the Exiled anime

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... lm-project

[NastyNate]

Starting Jan 26th through March 11 Taco Bell is going to have an online voucher with every big box meal for a voucher to when a PS Vita
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/01/ ... l-ps-vita/

This counts as mecha and anime as it will have a gundam game coming soon and day one comes with Netflix support.

[prince_of_zeon]

A blurry, but nonetheless ultra-cool preview of the Code Geass Gaiden, Akito the Exiled dropped today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... MP8czTf3Wo

[eanetdude]

The Chinese are at it again! http://gundamguy.blogspot.com/2012/01/c ... -suit.html

"Chinese [actually Taiwanese] TV station 東森 (Eastern) will be premiering the anime series Mobile Suit (Gundam?) AGE on January 18th 2012."

[Dollow]

For WTF News

CyberConnect2 CEO to Run Paris Marathon as Naruto

Be on the lookout for Naruto at April's Paris Marathon. CyberConnect2 CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama and his staff will be running the full 26 mile marathon to celebrate the Naruto franchise's recent 10 million shipped feat. Matsuyama will go the extra mile and cosplay as Naruto.

Namco Bandai's announcement of the promotion included this pic of cosplaying Matsuyama.

This promotion is separate from the world tour that Namco Bandai will hold for the Naruto series starting in February. As reported yesterday, the world tour will include tournaments and developer talk events. Details will be announced at the Naruto portal site later.

[gundamtype0]

Funimation sues A.D. Vision and its subsidiaries for breach of contract:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... $8-million

[Wingnut]

The journey to the final frontier begins again today as principal photography starts on the twelfth Star Trek movie. This is the sequel to the 2009 film with Chris Pine as Kirk.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=85995

The entire cast sans Pike returns with three newcomers to the mix. J.J. Abrams also returns to direct again, so expect plenty of gratuitous lens flares.

[Mekton GM]

China is at it again with aother Gundam booleg rip off show. This one includes not only Gundam Seed and Eva, but Monsters vs Aliens as well.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2 ... py-results

Sometimes, mere words cannot describe the sheer audacity with which China liberally takes concepts from Japanese anime and mutates them together, oftentimes making direct copies of other series, or worse yet making the end result super creepy.


The latest in such Chinese efforts is XiYouJi, which takes elements from Gundam SEED and Evangelion to make....well see for yourself below (or start at 2:28 for maximum brain damage).

Story follow up.

http://gundamguy.blogspot.com/2012/01/c ... ideos.html

The Chinese service Xu You Ji lets parents pay to have their children turned into 3D models and animated in their own CG action-adventure shorts. The children also dub their own voices into the work. The custom video service debuted in 2009, but recently garnered attention because of one of its videos, featuring Gundam models and other anime elements, was posted online this week.

The company's FAQ page claims the following regarding copyrights:

"We design and develop our own animation with their own copyrights. They do contain elements of popular titles, but all are adapted ourselves so there is no copyright concerns."

[NastyNate]

Don't know if this has already been posted but there is going to be a rurouni kenshin live action movie that comes out in august. That is if this trailer is telling the truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4wdshVQ ... ture=share

[TheSuspiciousRedLamp]

Yep
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2 ... ross-anime

[Mr Bushido]

George Lucas is retiring.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magaz ... .html?_r=2

“I’m retiring,” Lucas said. “I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.”

He was careful to leave himself an out clause for a fifth “Indiana Jones” film. But otherwise, “Red Tails” will be the last blockbuster Lucas makes. “Once this is finished, he’s done everything he’s ever wanted to do,” says Rick McCallum, who has been producing Lucas’s films for more than 20 years. “He will have completed his task as a man and a filmmaker.”

[Vent Noir]

Super Robot Wars Z2 Part 2 announcement

New series featured:

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 season 2 (which sucked)
Taiyo no Shisha Tetsujin 28-go (New Gigantor)
Macross Dynamite 7
Macross Frontier: Sayonara no Tsubasa
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
Gurren Lagann the Movie –The Lights in the Sky Are Stars- (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Ragan-hen)

EDIT: Another article, from Siliconera

[Mekton GM]

Zone of the Enders HD Anime Intro Teased

http://www.mechadamashii.com/news/news- ... me-teased/

[wielder]

Yes, now we (well, some of us) can actually try out Yang's tea.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes Café Opens in Tokyo

Cafe celebrates space opera novels' 30th anniversary, upcoming stage play.

The Legend of the Galactic Heroes Café opened at Tokyo's Tea Room 2525 on Saturday to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Yoshiki Tanaka's space opera novels. The café is now serving Yang's tea, Frederica's crêpe, and Alliance pancakes (with the Alliance's symbol on top in powdered sugar) for 600 yen (about US$7.80) each.

Source:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interes ... s-in-tokyo

[Nick Izumi]

I'd qualify this one as a head-scratcher...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhYLtTAt ... CoChUtEMHr

Gundam.info has started Streaming SD Gundam Sangokuden. That's not the weird part, the weird part is 1. they dubbed it and 2. they have made no noticeable announcement about this that I have seen.

[Vent Noir]

1st Gundam designer Okawara shows his take on Turn A Gundam

[gundamtype0]

Possible end of Microsoft banana money?

http://kotaku.com/5878676/rumor-microso ... ey-instead

[Vent Noir]

Code Geass: Oz The Reflection's details revealed

[The Fowl Sorcerous]

so disney's japanese marketing branch has a habit of releasing album full of covers by japanese pop and rock acts every 2-3 years. this year is a little extra strange in that we have only male voice actors with mecha anime in thier background: there's Tomokazo seki (domon Kasshu, sosuke sagara) singing 'go the distance', hiroshi kamiya (tieria erde) singing 'you can fly', Kenichi suzumura (shinn asuka) singing 'a whole new world', jun fukuyama (lelouche) doing 'bippidipobidiboo", takahrio sakurai (suzaku) for 'when you wish upon a star', tomozaku suguta (Brooklyn 'bullet'luckfiel, kyon) covering 'one jump', hikaru midorikawa (heero yuy) doing 'can you feel the love tonight', toshiyuki morikawa (kyoske nanbu) singing 'once upon a dream', miyu irino (king arthur himself, saji crossroad) singing 'under the sea', and Koishi Yamadera (spike spiegel, gyunie guss) singing 'the circle of life'

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interes ... ongs-on-cd

if you follow the link in the ann article you can preview 40ish seconds each song.

[wielder]

Just for the sake of trivia, because it's nice to see the guy acknowledge his own roots and do non-Eva stuff.

Hideaki Anno Storyboards Yamato 2199's Opening

The official Yamato Crew membership website announced on Wednesday that Evangelion director Hideaki Anno is storyboarding the opening for the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 project. Anno remarked, "If there was no Yamato, I would not be me now."

Source:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... 99-opening