Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki, one of the greatest directors and animators in Japanese cinema, has produced many of the Studio Ghibli films, after co-founding the company with his senior colleague Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki who was then an animation magazine editor at Tokuma Shoten. Miyazaki and Takahata have long been celebrated in Japan as visionary directors and icons in the field of animation.

why did i tell you this because Australian fans looking for information concerning the Region 4 DVD releases of Hayao Miyazaki's films can now check Madman Entertainment's Studio Ghibli webpage for screenshots and the latest release information for Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and more. Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, Laputa: Castle in the Sky and Spirited Away are all set to be released today in Australia

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Ghost in the Shell 2 DVD in December
October 20, 2004
Dreamworks has announced that it will release Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence on DVD on December 28. The film will be presented in 1.85:1 widescreen with a Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack with English subtitles. As has been the case with other Dreamworks anime releases there is no English dub version. Extras will include an audio commentary from Oshii, a Making of Ghost in the Shell 2 featurette and trailers. The SRP for Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence will be $29.99.



A number of other Ghost in the Shell items will be available by the time of the DVD release for GITS 2: Innocence, including several volumes of the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex TV anime from Manga Entertainment/Bandai (one of the hottest anime releases of the year so far, see "Ghost in the Shell Anime Special Edition") as well as Ghost in the Shell (Second Edition) and Ghost in the Shell 2: Man Machine Interface (January) graphic novels (by Masamune Shirow) from Dark Horse Comics. Manga Entertainment is also planning a December release for a new Special Edition DVD of the first Ghost in the Shell movie with enhanced visual quality and Bandai America plans to release a Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex PS2 game in November (GITS: Stand-Alone Complex starts its Cartoon Network run in November as well).

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Tuesday, October 19, 2004

   AH
TODAY WAS AN OTHER CRAPPY DAY AT SCHOOL!!!!! THE TEACHER WAS IN SUCH A RUSH, WE COULD HARDLY DO ANYTHING!!!!! SHE ALWAYS SAING WE ARE BEHIND IN STUFF!!! WE GOT MORE HOMEWORK BECAUSE A FEW KIDS KEAP ON ASKING THE TEACHER FOR MORE!!!!!!! I HAVE SO MUCH WORK TOO DO, AND I HAVE EVEN MORE BECAUSE TOMAARY IS THE DAY WHEN I HAVE TO MISS GYM, TO SO A SINECE PROGERT!!!!ITS LIKE DEVA`VU!!!!WELL IF THAT WASNT BAD ALREADY, I STAIED UP ALL NIGHT WORKING ON MY FANART, BUT I LEFTED IT ON MY DRAWING PAD, AND MY BABY COUIN CAME SO, SHE PAINTED ALL OVER IT!!!! MAN, I AM SO PISSED!!!
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Monday, October 18, 2004

my new art work
i am working on my first fan art ever!!! i will not tell you what it is, but it will be on Devart first, then it will come to mO.com, so noone thinks i copyed it.

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ENTER
HELP!!!!!!!! i need a new enter sign. if you can make a enter sign plz tell me.



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D3 Publisher has announced that it will create a subsidiary company based in North America called D3 Publisher of America. The company will open November 1 and will be located in California. The new subsidiary will be responsible for localization and publishing of games. Yuji Ito, the CEO for the Japanese division, will also head the U.S. division.

D3 Publisher is most well known for its romance games (called gyaru-ge, or girl game) as well as its Simple 2000 games. Also of note to longtime anime fans is the impending release of the game for PS2.

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well i am about to go 2 school, and i have a meag-head ache. i fell alseep at 3:00 and woke up at 7:55.

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Sunday, October 17, 2004

NARUTO!!


if you havnt seen naruto yet, well your a loser!!!
that why i am here to help. next saturday!! i will be showing eps1- Episode 28 shots of the anime.
be there!!
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Update: The Nanking Atrocities and Kuni ga Moeru
The previous article on Kuni Ga Moeru (The Country is Burning) indicates that the author used a photograph that cannot be accurately verified.

The picture, as well as the image used in the manga, are available [url]http://www1.odn.ne.jp/cjt24200/yamada/log/2/, and http://www.geocities.jp/nankin1937jp/page044.html

WARNING: The pictures are graphic and may be inappropriate for some readers; discretion is advised.

The point of contention is that the uniform in the photograph is not the uniform worn by members of the Japanese army during the 2nd Sino-Japanese war, and the Pacific War. However, when it was used in Kuni ga Moeru, Motomiya redrew the photo so that the soldier is wearing the correct uniform.

The Japanese Protestors cite 4 greviences with respect to the manga:
1. That the Nanking Atrocities require academic study to determine what happened.
2. That the photo, attributed to the Japanese army, is a Chinese falsification.
3. That Young Jump misrepresented history and unfairly influenced youth via use of the false photograph.
4. That the presentation is hurtful to those involved at the time, as well as their families, and thus the manga cannot be excused.

Shueisha announced on the 13th that it will be suspending Kuni ga Moeru, while stating: "It has come to our attention that the photograph used [in Kuni ga Moeru] is a falsification."

[ED's Note: For purposes of clarification: The groups and individuals complained directly to Shueisha, who reviewed their complaints and determined that the appropriate course of action was to suspend Kuni ga Moeru. The Japanese government was not involved in the decision to suspend the manga.
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TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- A Japanese publisher will suspend a comic series in its popular weekly magazine after receiving angry protests over its characterization of the 1937 "Rape of Nanjing," in which Japanese soldiers brutally massacred Chinese civilians.

Tokyo-based Shueisha Inc received nearly 200 angry phone calls and letters protesting its portrayal of scenes of the killings in its comic "Kuni ga Moeru" (The Country is Burning), published on September 22, a company spokesman said on Thursday.

"We have received suggestions and protests from people from all walks of life including local politicians," said a company spokesman.

"There were inappropriate parts and we decided to suspend the comic series for the time being."

Japanese politicians have often incurred Beijing's wrath by challenging China's account of the massacre, called the Rape of Nanjing, in which Beijing says as many as 300,000 Chinese men, women and children were slaughtered by rampaging Japanese troops in the former Chinese capital.

The 1948 Tokyo war crimes tribunal found Japanese troops killed 155,000 in Nanjing, mainly women and children.

The comic series, featuring the life of a Japanese bureaucrat in the tumultuous times of the early 20th century, had been carried by popular Weekly Young Jump.

The Shueisha spokesman said about 2 million copies of the magazine had been sold each week.

A group of 37 members of local assemblies protested to the publisher earlier this month, arguing that the Rape of Nanjing had never taken place and that the depiction of the scene in the comic distorted history.

The publisher plans to change or delete some parts of the comic when it publishes the series in book form, the spokesman said, without elaborating.

Japan-China relations remain bedevilled by the two nations' wartime past. China suffered from Japanese military aggression in the 1930s and 1940s.

Bilateral ties have been further strained by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's annual visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, which honors war criminals along with other war dead.

Koizumi has visited the shrine each year since taking office in 2001, most recently on New Year's Day, a visit condemned by China and South Korea, also a victim of Japan's wartime aggression.

P.S i cant post those images because the pictures are graphic and may be inappropriate for some readers.
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Saturday, October 16, 2004

peace maker kurogane!!
yes i bough a manga called "peace maker kurogane" made by ADV manga. i just found out ADV is steping into the manga room (and so is bandei), witch is good, but most ADV anime are manga made by other comptey's. after seeing peace maker, i was disaponted. every thing was good, besides the main thing that makes a manga. THE ART!! yes, the art was every sloppy. i am glad that nanae chrono is upgrading the art in vol.2, but i like to ask, will all ADV manga have sloppy art work like peace maker vol.1?
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saturday sreens
can you guess theis anime.





more 2 come later
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