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Issue #3

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Japan to Offer Free Airfare to 10,000 Foreigners

After the large earthquake that rocked japan recently its tourism has fallen extremely low. In response to this the Japanese government tourism division has announced that starting next year they will be giving away 10,000 free round trip air fares for foreigners to come to Japan. The aim of this project is to show that world that japan still has a lot to offer in tourism and is safe despite the earthquake. Applications for the tickets will be taken online in the form of a questionnaire where you are able to write out your travel plans. If you are selected then you get a free ticket! I know im applying for this. :)


New Fullmetal Alchemist movie to be screened in 100 American cinemas

The studio producing Fullmetal Alchemist - The Sacred Star or Milos has recently announced that the movie is to be screened in 100 north american cinemas. Fans who want to see the movie in a cinema can "request" for their city to be one of the 100 on Eleven Arts website. Directed by Kazuya Murata, the Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos film premiered in Japan on July 2. Murata appeared at Otakon 2011 in July for the North American premiere of the film. Funimation announced its license of the film in May, and it plans to release the film on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in spring 2012.


TokyoPop to release an Otaku newsletter for western countries

Tokyopop announced that it will launch a new editorial newsletter "about all things otaku and Asian pop-culture" powered by GeekChicDaily on Tuesday. Tokyopop noted this announcement does not mean it will resume manga publication. The company stated that its former titles reverted to their original owners and are "amazingly difficult to get back." Further details regarding the newsletter have not yet been officially announced.

After major restructuring in 2008, Tokyopop closed its Los Angleles-based North American publishing operations on May 31. The company's film and European operations remain unaffected by this closure, and its office in Hamburg, Germany continues to handle global rights sales for the company.

Tokyopop founder Stuart Levy gauged interest in a limited publishing of the third manga volume of Hetalia in September.

Mangaka Kei Anoyama passes away aged 32

he television station TBS is reporting that manga creator Kei Aoyama was found dead, hung from his neck, in the bathroom of his Tokyo apartment on October 9. He was 32.

There were no visible signs of wounds or a struggle in the bathroom, and the last posts on Aoyama's Twitter account, dated October 6, discussed mortality, including a final post that said:

Well, I have much left to do and much I dreamed of doing, but I hardly have any "regrets." I am content with the 32 years I have lived.

The police are investigating Aoyama's death as a possible suicide. The police had received an emergency call around 9:00 p.m. on October 9 from a person at the Japanese publisher Kodansha, who said, "We haven't been able to contact Mr. Aoyama." The police rushed to Aoyama's apartment, where they discovered him in the bathroom.

Aoyama was serializing the manga Yoiko no Mokushiroku in Kodansha's Evening magazine from last year to the time of his passing. He also created or drew the manga SWWEEET in Shogakukan's Monthly Ikki magazine, China Girl, and Strobe Light. According to the police investigation, Kodansha was not able to contact Aoyama since October 6.

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• Kanade has released his own list of recommendations in a thread but he appears to be missing a few and vampire knight is in there. Check out the list here: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=1822562
  


• Theref and Evolution have got up the new and improved theme for Theref's latest project, Sentou Gakuen. Check it out here: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=1790751
  
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  Cromartie High School
  
  
  
  Genres: Comedy, School, Shounen
  
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  Folks, meet Takashi Kamiyama. Enrolled at Cromartie High, where everybody is a delinquent, Kamiyama is apparently the only non-delinquent in the school. Logically, therefore, he must be the toughest in his class - by the rather twisted logic that only a really tough rabbit would lie down with lions. Thus begins a story that parodies every cliché of tough-guy anime that you've ever heard of, and some you haven't. Oh, and Freddie Mercury is in it, too.
  
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[oneechan]

Would be nice to win a ticket to Japan. XD Though, it's sad to see a mangaka die, possibly from suicide. Kinda wonder what brought him to that point. =/

[Tasemu]

Mangaka have it pretty hard man. Maybe the pressure got to him.

[oneechan]

Mangaka have it pretty hard man. Maybe the pressure got to him.

That's sad. And at just 32 years old. He still had a long life ahead of him. :( Only hope is that he's in a happier place.

[[animeFAN!] Shana]

The tickets sound interesting although lacking the ability to communicate is what's preventing me.

FMA movie in cinemas with subs? If not then meh.

It's sad to see a mangaka suicide. Always a shame to lose another creative person.

[Ui Hirasawa]

Another great news edition, the FMA movie in cinemas sounds cool.

[Tasemu]

Yer but it will be dubbed and the voice actor for Ed really pisses me off. :/

[SavageBoys]

Too bad theref didn't actually add any new screenshots yet.

Its an "OK" theme until your back on full time, most likely the layout needs a complete recode as everything is in outdated tables with all kind of bugs.

I might start playing around and recoding the basic framework of the design but ill keep that to myself unless needed.

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at least it no longer looks like mafiawars *w*

[Douchebag # 145]

I am not attempting to bash you, but there were several grammar/punctuation errors.

[SavageBoys]

I am not attempting to bash you, but there were several grammar/punctuation errors.

Tasemu's a visualizer not a novelist ^_^

[Douchebag # 145]

Tasemu's a visualizer not a novelist ^_^

Even if he was, he did a very good job. :]

[SavageBoys]

Even if he was, he did a very good job. :]

Indeed.

This is something to actually look forward to in this section.

[Tasemu]

Cheers, yer i am not the best speller, hungover when i forced myself to write this issue didn't help either. ^^

[rxki]

I lol'd when I saw the thing about Kanade's recommendation thread and it said It's got vampire knight in there.

[Happeh]

I love this weeks edition. ^^ Still going strong and looking good.