With this recent wave of 3D movies, the anime industry seems to have taken some interest in trying it out for themselves, mostly because of fan pleas to the production companies. Toei Animation will be producing this movie like it has with all of the One piece movies. The movie is titled One Piece 3D right now but the name might change later on, the plot for this movie will center around Luffy’s Strawhat.

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Imagine having your marriage conducted by a robot. One lucky Japanese couple got their chance to experience this. Satoko Inouye and groom Tomohiro Shibata were married by the robot called “I-Fairy” a robot created by Kokoro Co.

The robot wed the couple at a restaurant in Tokyo. The wedding was surprisingly small, am sure more people would have attending knowing this involved a robot priest.

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Move aside giant Gundams it’s time for a giant Evangelion figure. One of Japan’s amusement parks, has announced that it will be opening a new pavilion called; Evangelion: World – Life-Size EVA-01 Construction Project” on July 23.

The Gaint figure ( If we can even call it that) will be located at Fuji-Q a major amusement park in Japan. The park is located near the foot of Mt.Fuji incase your intreseted in seeing this first hand when it’s built.

The pavilion will also have a life-size cockpit of an Evangelion unit (from where visitors can pay to have their photos taken), a life-size figure of the character Kaworu Nagisa, a video corner, a museum, a studio gallery for taking photographs, and a shop. Fuji-Q HighLand’s website will present the first interim report of the pavilion’s 150-million-yen (about US$1.6 million) construction on May 26

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Bad anime subtitles can be funny, bad real world translations have their own special humor aswell. These pictures were compiled by the nytimes;

Fortified by an army of 600 volunteers and a politburo of adroit English speakers, the commission has fixed more than 10,000 public signs (farewell “Teliot” and “urine district”), rewritten English-language historical placards and helped hundreds of restaurants recast offerings.

The campaign is partly modeled on Beijing’s herculean effort to clean up English signage for the 2008 Summer Olympics, which led to the replacement of 400,000 street signs, 1,300 restaurant menus and such exemplars of impropriety as the Dongda Anus Hospital — now known as the Dongda Proctology Hospital. Gone, too, is Racist Park, a cultural attraction that has since been rechristened Minorities Park.

It seems like these signs won’t be here for long.

The FBI seems to have begun targeting scan sites. The site which has been was shut down by the FBI is HTMLcomics.com which is a comic scan site .The site offered comics to download and view, the comics were things like; Incredible Hulk, Wolverine, Dilbert, Peanuts, Catwoman, Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Hellboy, Star Wars, 300, Predator, The Mask, Iron Man and Buffy and Vampire Slayer. The site has been shut down after the FBI served a warrant to the owner.

According to a press release from the law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, the FBI conducted the investigation with a consortium of comic book publishers and their legal counsels, including Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Bongo Comics, Archie Comics, Conan Properties Int’l LLC, Mirage Studios Inc., and United Media.

The press release also stated that the website had posted more than 5,700 comic series for viewing without authorization. According to the law firm, the site received an average of 1.6 million visits each day before it was shut down.

I wonder how much longer until this begins to affect anime and manga sites.

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Car looks amazing to bad the price is amazingly high as well.

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Think your universities dormitory is bad? Well it can’t be as bad as Kyoto Universities Yoshida-ryo dormitory;

A peek inside the Kyoto University dormitory first built in 1913 that still houses student squatters for the ultra low price of ¥2,500 a month. No wonder it looks like this

It’s looking pretty bad, but thats assumed considering it’s been neglected for nearly 100 years. The students have been doing minor repairs to the structure and have added Ethernet cables. The univeristy has been planning to demolish this dormintory for quiet a while now so it might be comeing to an end soon;

The university has recently been fairly insistent on their plan to replace it with a new, safer structure, which fits in with their aggressive earthquake-proofing campaign. But the current administration seems unlikely to take extreme action along the lines of Tokyo University’s demolition of Komaba-ryo in 2001, when its residents were literally dragged out of the building by over 570 private security guards and university staff in the midst of a raging typhoon.

Originally only housing male undergraduates, Yoshida-ryo went coed in 1985, started accepting foreign students in 1990, and since 1991 has accepted any sort of Kyoto University affiliated student, including graduate students, with some current residents living there from their freshman year all the way through the end of graduate school.

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K-On!!’s opening theme “Go! Go! Maniac” was able to reach #1 on Oricon weekly charts. The song is the first anime song to do so. The K-On!! girls also got number #2 for their ending theme “Listen!!”

According to ANN this isn’t the first time an anime has topped the charts, but unlike previous anime which were only able to hold the top for 1 day, K-On!! has held it for 7 days.

I am surprised that the songs did so well, I preferred season one’s songs, but this seasons songs are more catchy especially Go! Go! Maniac

Looks like Evangelion: 2.22 is going to be this years top selling anime film;

The Nikkan Sports newspaper reports on Tuesday that over 800,000 copies of the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Ha) film have been pre-ordered. The film’s Japanese home video distributor King Records will ship its release on May 26. According to King Records, Evangelion: 2.22’s 800,000 pre-orders far surpasses the 500,000 copies in the first shipment for last year’s hit film, the manga-based live-action Rookies: Graduation (Rookies -Sotsugyō-)

Evangelion was pre-ordered on amazon.co.jp; 88,000 orders in one week.

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I thought it was pretty cool that they even went as far as wearing plug-suits,  now thats accurate cosplay;

The official website of the Evangelion anime franchise has posted images from the first day of racing for Run’a Entertainment’s “Evangelion RT-01 apr Corolla” team in the Super GT300-class grand touring championship series on Saturday.

Not only was the team’s Toyota Corolla Axio painted in homage to the anime’s Evangelion EVA-01 unit, but the uniforms of drivers Koki Saga and Kosuke Matsuura were patterned after the plug suit of the anime’s main character Shinji Ikari. (Similarly, the “race queen” models Noa Mizutani and Yuuna Chiba wore outfits loosely inspired by the characters Rei and Asuka.)

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