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The british anime distributor Beez Entertainment has announced at it's Amecon panel on Saturday that it licensed The Girl Who Leapt Through Space ( Sora no Kakeru Shoujo ), Sora no Woto, Lucky Star, Outlaw Star television anime series.

Beez Entertainment intends to release Lucky Star in two half season sets with the original video anime (OVA) spinoff also include, and Outlaw Star will be released with the Anime Legends line.

Keyword: Beez Entertainment, Sora Kake, Sora no Woto, Lucky Star, Outlaw Star

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Lim Dal-Young and Kim Kwang-Hyun's Freezing manga has begun steraming it's first promotional video on Monday. The Production company Media Factory ran the same videoat it's booth at Comic in Tokyo this past weekend.

The Story revolves around Kazuya, a boy who lost his sister in humankind's fight against beings from another dimension. He enrolls in Genetics, a military academy for combat training againts the dimension beings. There, a group of girls known as " Pandora " prepare to fight the unknown enemy. The enemy will premiere in Japan next spring.

Keyword: Freezing, TV, Manga, Anime, Stream

The official Twitter account of Bandai Namco's Collectors devision has confirmed on Sunday that a music video (music clip) collection for the Macross Frontier anime franchise will ship in Japan on December 15. The announcement was made at Girasama Carnival, the summer Macross Frontier event which ran at the Pacifico Yokohama on Sunday. The music videos will feature new footage in addition to animation from the Macross Frontier television and film projects.

The Girasama Carnival event also revealed that the second Macross Frotier film (Macross Frontier ~Sayonara no Tsubasa~, will open in Japan on February 26, 2011. A two-night Macross Frontier event will run on December 22 at Tokyo's Nippon Bdoukan, and on December 24 in Kobe's Port Island Hall. Macross Frontier composer Yoko Kanno is presenting the event, and more details will be revealed on September 9 at 9.00 p.m Bandai will release the trasformable DX Chougokin toy version of the VB-6 Kounig Monster bomber and transformable SD infinty toy version of the VF-25 Messiah Valkyrie Fighter in September.

Keyword: Macross Frontire, Music, Video, Anime, Toy, Carnival, Event

Kun Gao, CEO of the Cruchyroll media distribution website, has announced on this week's  ANNCast podcast episode that his company licensed the North American DVD rights to Mokoto Shinkai's 5 Centimeters Per Second film. This will be the first DVD release by Crunchyroll. Cruchyroll  hopes to ship the new DVD with Bang Zoom! Entertainment's recent English dub in late September or early October.

Byousoku 5 Centimeter - a chain of short stories about their distance. is the second full lenght film from the auteur director and writer Makoto Shinkai ( Voices of a Distant Star, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, She and Her Cat. The film is split into three individual segments, and it premiered in Japan in 2007. Shinkai is already working on his next anime feature film with most of his 5 Centimeters Per Second staff, and he posted initial imageboard art from the upcoming project in December.

Crunchyroll is handling the production, promotion, and financing og the new DVD release for 5 centimeters Per Second, While Bandai Entertainment helping to manufacture, package, and distribute the DVD. The Viz Cinema theater in San Francisco's " New People culture entertainment center will screen the film on September 14. Crunchyroll had Streamed the film along with other Shinkai works to mark Global Shinkai Days on February 28 last year and this year. ADV Films had licensed the film and released a DVD with the Company's own dub in 2008. 

Keyword: Crunchyroll, 5 Centimeters per Second, DVD

The offical website of the Freezing franchise has coonfirmed that a television anime of Lim Dal-Young and Kim Kwang-Hyun's manga will premiere in Japan in Spring of 2011. The production company Media Factory also made the announcement at it's Comic Market 78 booth at the Tokyo Big Sight event center on Friday. The story revolves around Kazuya, a boy who lost his sister in humankind's fight against being from another dimension. He enrolls in Genetics, a military academy for combat training against the Dimension beings, There, a group aof girl known as "Pandora" prepare to fight the unknown enemy.

Keyword: Manga, Comic, Spring, Anime

Keyword: Gatchan, CM's Corp, Toy

Japanese cosplay retailer COSPATIO is currently selling limited-edition licensed costumes based on the plugsuits worn by character Asuka Langley and Rei Ayanami in the TV Neon Genesin Evangelion. The Costumes are made to order and cost 553,350 yen within a standard realm of measurements. Costumers outside of these measurements may have to pay higher price.

To order the Costume, costumers must fill out a form and either bring it to one of COPATIO's six participating store location, or mail the form in and pay for the costume to be delivered. However, the retailer warns that the costumes are tight and recommends that costumers have the costume fitted.

Keyword: Costume-Fitted, Evangelion,

A popular " Gundam Videographer " who goes by the name darwinfish105 has posted video footage of the full-scale gundam statue in Shizuoka on the YouTube website over the past mont. The high definition footage features the statue time-lapsed day into night, when the statue lights up and moves its head.

The " Life size " Gundam statue was first announced in march of 2009 as part of the Gundam 30th anniversary celebration. The statue was complated and unveiled in Jully of that year on Odaiba, and artifacial island in Tokyo Bay. The exhibit closed in September 2009 after its closing ceremony cancelled due to an approaching typhoon. In December 2009 its was announced that the statue would be relocated to Shizuoka, where it was expected to bring in 40 billion yen (approximately US $ 463 million). The statue was unveiled in its new home on July 24, 2010, and will stand until January 10, 2011.

Keyword: Shizuoka, Gundam, Statue,

TBS Holding, the parent company of the Japanese television station TBS, revealed in it's financial results for the first quarter of the 2011 fiscal year that it earned 1.8 Billion yen in sales of K-On! anime t-shirt and other tie-in character goods. Home video sales and licensing rights for the anime itself are not counted towards that 1.8 Billion yen total. The financial results cover the three-month period from April 1 to June 30. 

K-on!, The second television anime series based on kakifly's four-panel comedy manga about high school girls who form a rock band, premiered on April 6. Bandi Entertainment announced at Anime Expo in July that it licensed the first K-On! television series, and Yen Press licensed the original manga.

Keyword: K-On!, TBS

Geneon Universal Entertainment began streaming two commercials that combine the America live-action medical television series House and Osamu Tezuka's classic medical manga/anime Black Jack on Wednesday. The titular doctors House (Played by British actor Hugh Laurie) and Black Jack appear together in the commercial, which are the first collaborative afforts between an overseas live-action television series and a Tezuka anime.

The fist 30-second commercial is the one that is actually running on the CS satellite television system's Fox channel in Japan. The second 73-second commercial is the extended web version. The Premise of the commercial has Black Jack flying to America ( with his young companion Pinoko in tow ) as Dr. House's potential new team member.

Geneon Universal Entertainment is the DVD distributor of House in Japan, Where it is known as Dr. House. Wednesday happens to be the DVD release date for the fourth season of House in Japan.

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