"A Lasting Partnership"
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan, Headquarters U.S. Forces Japan has developed a manga comic entitled “Our Alliance; A Lasting Partnership” to highlight this historical landmark. Read 永続的ãªãƒ‘ートナーシップ (Eizoku-tekina pÄtonÄshippu) online |
The Season Of Anime: Starblazers (Yamato) and Captain Harlock
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Yamato: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oN5yYGdXPM&feature=player_embedded Harlock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24HC4vmEH1A |
Okay Sci-Fi Geeks, updated "Space Cruiser Yamato" (Starblazers) trailer!!!
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| I hope they can release this in the American market or direct-to-video. |
JIHAD STRAIGHT TO YOUR IPOD? AQAP's Latest Gimmick
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| SNIPPET: "Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) put out a new audio production through their media outlet, Al-Malahim Media, by way of Al-Fajr, featuring former GTMO detainee, Shaikh Ibrahim al-Rubaysh, who is now a religious authority for AQAP. I’m drawing your attention to this, not because his statement entitled, “How Could You Abandon Jihad?” was that compelling – because it wasn’t (although it was pretty alarmist) – but because of the banner graphic they used featuring a personal audio player. I’ve seen this before but for some reason I was inspired to comment this time. The notion that kids anywhere... |
CARL MACEK, ROBOTECH CREATOR (1951-2010)
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Mutual friend Bob Cabeen has just informed me of the passing of my former business partner Carl Macek. Carl died of a heart attack on Saturday. Among his many accomplishments Carl created Robotech, co-founded Spumco with John K. and co-founded Streamline Pictures (Akira, Fist of the North Star, Laputa, etc.) with me. Carl began his career doing grassroots promotional work on sci-fi films such as Star Wars and Alien, and worked for numerous industry icons including Dino Di Laurentiis and Ivan Reitman. He wrote the book The Art of Heavy Metal (Animation for the Eighties) in 1981. In 1984, Macek... |
Racist NH Dem Rep on Japanese: “2 Nukes Just Wasn’t Enough”
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Meet New Hampshire Democratic State Rep. Nick Levasseur. Here he is with his pal, Barack Obama. And, via Red Hampshire, here is his latest Facebook entry: "Anime is a prime example of why two nukes just wasn’t enough.” Or in other words, he’ like to kill more Japanese citizens because he doesn’t like their cartoons. Don’t expect this to get much play in the state-run media. It doesn’t fit with their propaganda. |
New Jersey jihadist arrested in Yemen worked at nuclear power plants
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| "New Jersey jihadist arrested in Yemen worked at nuclear power plants" SNIPPET: "The South Jersey man who Yemini officials are calling a terrorist with links to al-Qaeda previously worked at three local nuclear power plants. Sharif Mobley, 26, is being held in a jail in Yemen after he allegedly killed a police guard and seriously injured another during a shootout at a hospital on Monday. The Buena, N.J. native has also been accused of taking part in several acts of terrorism, Yemini officials say. He also purportedly has ties to the same branch of al-Qaeda who are suspected of attempting... |
Live Action Starblazers!!! (Anime fans rejoice)
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| I was trying to look up info on the upcoming live action robotech movie when I found this little diddy. Either this will rock the anime world or it will be a first class suck-o-rama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBu1cZm4Gqg&feature=player_embedded |
[VIDEO] Uchuu Senkan Yamato Fukkatsu-hen (Space Battlehip Yamato) New Film Trailer
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| This is the official trailer from the official website for Uchuu Senkan Yamato Fukkatsu-hen, the first Yamato feature film in 26 years! It has begun streaming a 30-second teaser trailer and a full 90-second trailer. This video is the 90" trailer. [...] The new film is set in 2220, or 21 years after the first Yamato story and 17 years after the story of the last film, "Final Yamato." A 320,000-kilometer-wide black hole threatens Earth, so 300 million people set a course for Amaaru, 27,000 light years away. The transport fleet is attacked, and the new Yamato battleship leads the... |
The Joker Had It Right: Why So Serious?
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| I recently said something at a gathering of some of my closest friends that made them look at me like I just clubbed a baby fur seal to death with the lifeless body of a cute little puppy that I had just strangled to death with my swastika arm band. What could be so downright unnerving? Did I say I drank human blood? Did I say I was attracted to little children and poultry? Did I say I wanted to desecrate the local house of worship, non-denominational of course, by throwing feces at it and blaming those inside for all... |
Japanese Man Wants To Marry Anime Character
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| "A Japanese man has posted an online petition, arguing that Japan should change its laws to allow people to marry comic book characters. Japan, currently, like most countries legally only allows humans to marry. What's more bizarre about this story is that the online petition has attracted more than 1,000 other people." |
Popular Cartoon Series Makes Japanese Shrine a Magnet for Fans
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Devotees Are Mainly Young Men, Who Dress Like the Characters -- in Miniskirts By HIROKO TABUCHI July 30, 2008; Page A1 WASHIMIYA, Japan -- For many years, Washinomiya Shrine has been a quiet place of worship, attracting just a trickle of sightseers to this sleepy town outside Tokyo. Then last summer, priests started noticing a new kind of visitor. Young men, some clad in miniskirts, stockings and pastel-colored wigs, were lining up for photos at the shrine's vermilion gate. Over the big New Year's holiday in January, nearly 300,000 such visitors -- almost 10 times the town's population -- showed... |
'The Way of the Christian Samurai' - New Book Provides Christian Reflections from Samurai Writings
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| MEDIA ADVISORY, June 21 /Christian Newswire/ -- As Japanese culture becomes more prominent in American entertainment, mysterious and awe-inspiring tales of the samurai have become more familiar to the Western world. A new book, The Way of the Christian Samurai: Reflections for Servant-Warriors of Christ (ISBN 0-9772234-6-9) explores how the advice and stories of real samurai can help modern-day Christians. As Christians, we are called to be both servants and warriors for Jesus Christ. The samurai, whose very title means "one who serves," were skillful warriors of feudal Japan who devoted themselves fully to the service of their masters, willing... |
Grave of the Fireflies (Collector's Edition
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| I was thinking of getting this dvd {I have seen the movie}. because of the Historical Perspective disscused after the movie and the fact that it a sad but excellent little movie and would like to get the opinions freepers who have it |
Virginia Man Sentenced in Landmark Obscenity Case (Anime Porn)
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Virginia Man Sentenced in Landmark Obscenity Case 03/10/06 Cyber graphic with FBI Seal Two years ago, Dwight Whorley went to a local office of the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) in Richmond, ostensibly to look for jobs online. Instead, he used the state’s computer to download and send Japanese “anime” cartoons showing graphic acts of child pornography. Because of a 2003 federal obscenity law, that’s illegal . The law, designed to help protect children from sexual exploitation, makes it a federal crime to produce or distribute obscene drawings, cartoons, paintings, or any other visual representations involving the sexual abuse of children.... |
I Got A Retro Feel: How Innocent Hobbies are No Longer Safe
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Well, since this is going to show that I am a newbie here, I expect to be smacked for general cluelessness. Anyway, I was perusing some websites regarding one of the hobbies I enjoy (Watching Japanese animation - anime.) when I stumbled upon a link to the following website: Voices for PeaceWhich is publicizing a war protest album which, judging from the list, seems entirely filled with songs from the Vietnam era: War Pigs Eve of Destruction War Again For What It's Worth Masters of War Sunday Bloody Sunday War, One Tin Soldier Blowin' in the Wind Fortunate Son Where... |
ANIME EXPLOSION: It's... Profitmón!
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| From Pokémon to Full Metal Panic, the anime industry is doing everything the rest of show biz isn't: embracing technology, coddling fans—and making a killing. It was 2 a.m. when John Ledford heard the banging at his door. Stumbling from bed on that night in the fall of 1999, he threw on a robe over his boxers and opened the door of his Houston apartment to a twentysomething guy with glasses and a face full of freckles. Ledford was about to tell him he had the wrong apartment when the stranger launched into a speech.... |
[BitPig] Char Aznable -- For Real
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Life Imitates Anime Okay, the Real World just keeps getting weirder and weirder. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Case in point -- this report from Agence France-Presse:A Japanese Internet whiz is tipped to become the world's fourth space tourist -- and he wants to orbit the earth dressed as an ace pilot from a hit Japanese animation series. The candidate for the 20-million-dollar trip is Japanese investor Daisuke Enomoto, a 34-year-old former board director of the Livedoor Internet firm headed by flamboyant entrepreneur Takafumi Horie, local media said. Enomoto has already passed medical checks and started flight training... |
Anime, manga fuel oddball 'otaku' biz boom (cultural insights on Japan's "ultra-geek" subculture)
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Dozens of grown men from their 30s to 60s crowd around the tatami mat room in Kagetsuen, a Shizuoka Prefecture ryokan inn, and begin playing with their train sets. More than 90 percent of the inn's guests are adults who enjoy playing with toy trains. These mature train setters have not only kept the inn afloat as others around it have fallen into oblivion, they've helped it grow in a prime example of the otaku business that's now booming throughout Japan, according to AERA (7/18). "Thanks to trimming down our target market, we could stay in business," Eiji Misu, Kagetsuen's... |
Harmony Gold Honors United Nations' 60th Anniversary (Robotech)
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Characters from company's classic anime series "Robotech" to star along with PSAs from Sean Connery, Michael Douglas, Colin Farrell, Lenny Kravitz and other celebrities. LOS ANGELES April 4, 2005 In honor of the United Nations' 60th anniversary this year, the United Nations (UN) will debut a special Public Service Announcement (PSA) at MIP TV 2005. The 60-second spot, produced by Harmony Gold, is part of a broader effort to increase awareness of the work of the UN during this special period culminating with the 60th opening session of the UN General Assembly in the Fall. The unique element... |
Communism and human nature (Bolshie Mod sez, Arise ye kittens of the earth!)
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in... |
She's Baaaack! (The Major, and ready to kick the liberal a$$...)
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| As my system is back up and running, I thought I'd call the Major in off the beach. Too many Blue Hawaiians won't do this character any good. Meantime, congratulations to President Bush, Vice President Cheney, their families, and of course, Condi Rice, as they continue to guide our nation through perilous waters. Be Seeing You, Chris |
(Vanity) Dreamworks messes up Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence DVD release.
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Hello. For those fans of the Ghost in the Shell anime/manga sagas, I should warn you, DO NOT buy the new Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocences DVD released by Dreamworks. The DVD is messed up. Not only did Dreamwork not included a English dub to it, but the English subtitle to the movie itself is in 'closed caption' ONLY (white text in black bars) and instead if it being in the at the bottom of the screen in the bottom black bar (GitS2:I is widescreen) it is near the center in the animation picture itself in large font no... |
Japanese Animation Catching on in U.S.
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer TOKYO - Animation in America once meant Mickey Mouse, Snow White and Winnie the Pooh. These days, it's just as likely to mean Japanese fighting cyborgs, doe-eyed schoolgirls and sinister monsters — thanks in large part to people like John Ledford. The 36-year-old American is one of the top foreign distributors of Japanese "manga" comics and animation, known as "anime," building his fortune on a genre that is rapidly changing from a niche market to a mass phenomenon. Ledford, who's so busy his dubbing studio in Houston runs 24 hours a day, says the... |
Remember Gargoyles; A Very Good Cartoon Series (Vanity)
Thursday 9th of September 2010 01:25:16 PM
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| Hello. For you fans of good anime/animation; reruns of a VERY GOOD cartoon series called Gargoyles is returning to basic cable/satellite. If you don't remember or have never heard of it, Gargoyles is the only GREAT cartoon series that Disney produced (please don’t hold the fact that it was produced by Disney, against it). It was action/drama series with an excellent plot and well thought-out characters. It was produced in 1994, in the same vain as Fox's Batman The Animated Series, with that dark gothic style, BUT BETTER!! The show is about a group of honorable gargoyles in 994 AD... |
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