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Online service promotes Eiichiro Oda‘s first One Piece art exhibit

The official website for Eiichiro Oda‘s One Piece art exhibit released a wanted poster maker on Friday. The “Wanted Maker” web service allows users to create a unique image with a personal photograph and nickname.

On Friday, the website also launched the “Today’s Wanted” project that gives people who purchase an art exhibit ticket a chance to have their personalized wanted poster displayed at the show. The nation-wide edition of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper’s March 20 issue will feature select fans’ wanted posters as part of the “Minna no Wanted” (Everyone’s Wanted) campaign.

The first One Piece art exhibit will run from March 20 to June 17 at the Mori Arts Center Gallery in Tokyo’s Roppongi district. The show will include new art from One Piece manga creator Oda, artwork of the story’s famous scenes, showings of a “special movie,” and interactive art displays.

[Via Comic Natalie]

Hideaki Yoshikawa‘s “science trouble” manga of 2 beautiful girls born from science

The 30th volume of Akita Shoten‘s Champion RED Ichigo magazine is announcing on Monday that an anime adaptation of Hideaki Yoshikawa‘s Kagaku na Yatsura manga has been green-lit. The anime will be bundled with the manga. The “science trouble” romantic comedy follows a cyborg girl and a half-dog girl who go to extremes with the power of science.

The manga just launched in late 2010, and Akita Shoten published the second compiled volume last month.

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Game publisher CAPCOM posted a new, three-minute character trailer for the forthcoming game Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. The third-person shooter game is the latest in the long-running survival-horror franchise, and the trailer showcases the six playable characters, as well as some returning villains.

The game will be released on Windows, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms on March 20 in North America, on March 22 in Australia, on March 23 in Europe, and in 2012 in Japan. CAPCOM released several other trailers for the game in recent months.

Re-license of ADV release from 2004, scheduled for DVD “later this year”

The North American anime licensing company Sentai Filmworks announced on Wednesday that it acquired the Getbackers television anime series. The anime will soon be available digitally through multiple outlets, with a home video release on bilingual DVD scheduled for later this year.

Based on the manga series by Yuya Aoki and Rando Ayamine, the show follows the adventures of Ban and Ginji, two young men who hire themselves out to “get back” things that people have lost. The 49-episode series premiered in 2002, with an American release by ADV Films following in 2004. Tokyopop once published the manga before losing the rights in 2009.

Image ©YUYA AOKI •RANDO AYAMINE •KODANSHA/TEAM Get Backers

Griffith’s Takahiro Sakurai narrates “Guts vs. Band of the Hawk” video for Saturday opening

The Warner Brothers Movie Channel on the Yahoo! Japan website began streaming a 125-second special preview on Wednesday. Takahiro Sakurai, the voice of Griffith, narrates the “Guts vs. Band of the Hawk” preview.

Berserk Ōgon Jidai-Hen I: Haō no Tamago (Berserk Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler), the first film in the three-part retelling of the Golden Age arc of Kentaro Miura’s manga, will open in Japan on Saturday.

Griffith’s Takahiro Sakurai narrates “Guts vs. Band of the Hawk” video for Saturday opening

The Warner Brothers Movie Channel on the Yahoo! Japan website began streaming a 125-second special preview on Wednesday. Takahiro Sakurai, the voice of Griffith, narrates the “Guts vs. Band of the Hawk” preview.

Berserk Ōgon Jidai-Hen I: Haō no Tamago (Berserk Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler), the first film in the three-part retelling of the Golden Age arc of Kentaro Miura’s manga, will open in Japan on Saturday.

Voice actress group stars, sings in April anime with FMA director Seiji Mizushima

The official website for the Natsuiro Kiseki television anime series began streaming the first 5-minute special promotional video on Wednesday. The anime features the voice actress group Sphere in the main cast and on the theme songs.

Seiji Mizushima (first Fullmetal Alchemist anime, Gundam 00, Un-Go) is directing thie anime with assistant director Ryuichi Kimura (Hanamaru Kindergarten). Tatsuhiko Urahata (Saki, Ichigo 100%, Monster) is editing the series scripts, and Hidari (Fractale) created the original character designs that Yuichi Tanaka (Toaru Majutsu no Index, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, Last Exile) adapted for animation.

The anime will premiere in April.

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Image © Natsuiro Kiseki Production Committee

Voice actress group stars, sings in April anime with FMA director Seiji Mizushima

The official website for the Natsuiro Kiseki television anime series began streaming the first 5-minute special promotional video on Wednesday. The anime features the voice actress group Sphere in the main cast and on the theme songs.

Seiji Mizushima (first Fullmetal Alchemist anime, Gundam 00, Un-Go) is directing thie anime with assistant director Ryuichi Kimura (Hanamaru Kindergarten). Tatsuhiko Urahata (Saki, Ichigo 100%, Monster) is editing the series scripts, and Hidari (Fractale) created the original character designs that Yuichi Tanaka (Toaru Majutsu no Index, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, Last Exile) adapted for animation.

The anime will premiere in April.

[Via Yaraon!]

Image © Natsuiro Kiseki Production Committee

Princess Resurrection DVD Complete Collection
This complete version is the first release in its franchise to include an English dub. Even a good dub cannot hide the flaws in this monster romp centered around a monster princess, however.

The Story of Saiunkoku GNs 5 and 6
The Story of Saiunkoku is a nice change of pace from a lot of other translated shoujo with its heroine with bigger ambitions than earning her M.R.S.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica Vol. 1 Blu- Ray
Madoka Magica is truly attempting to do something different, introducing a host of wildly creative and deeply sinister elements, reaching inside the very heart of the genre itself and pulling it inside out.

Sacred Seven: Shirogane no Tsubasa
Though it is a compilation movie, it may prove to be fairly impenetrable to those new to the world of Sacred Seven due to the very small amount of even basic information given to the viewer regarding plot and characterization.

Haganai Episodes 6- 12 Streaming
It’s still worth watching, particularly if you’ve grown attached to Yozora and the gang, but only just.

A Devil and Her Love Song GN 1
Despite what the back cover says, and even in spite of the title, this is not a love story.

Skip Beat! GN 26
If there’s one thing that can be said about Skip Beat it is that it has been consistently enjoyable. This volume is no exception.

House of Five Leaves GN 5
For those who can get past the pacing and the art, House of Five Leaves is an interesting tale of a disparate group of people fallen into crime. With complimenting characters, a clear sense of the time in which is takes place, and intertwining motivations, Ono’s series is one for the older reader who is ready for something a little different that doesn’t involve students or superpowers.

Twin Spica GN 11
The uplifting message still shines through, and the main characters don’t just lecture about getting stronger and moving forward—they actually go out there and do it.

Broken Blade
Fantastic mecha battles and a novel technological base highlight this gritty, graphic, adult- slanted sci fi/ fantasy story about friends forced to oppose each other in a war that neither side wants or can avoid.