[Rakshasa]

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Issue #33

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Hello Kitty Owner Sanrio Thwarted Kitty Shrine

A shopping district in Kofu City was made to remove the stone Hello Kitty statue from its "Kitty-chan Shrine" on Tuesday, just two days after it was installed. The district had not received permission to use the character from Hello Kitty's rights-holder, Sanrio, resulting in the untimely downfall of cat worshiping.

According to the district's association, it installed the statue at the "Kofu Ginza Street" entrance in the city's Chūō ward to bring in more young customers, since Kofu is the birthplace of Sanrio's president Shintarō Tsuji. It also built a shrine out of cypress for the statue, and about 100 people attended the unveiling ceremony on Sunday. However, Sanrio learned about the statue from media reports of the unveiling and lodged a protest and a request for its removal.

The association's head, Yoshio Nagasaka, apologized to Sanrio as well as to people who had come to see the shrine. Whether or not the statue can be brought back again in the future is uncertain.

Hyouka's Model Town Releases Themed Tourism Maps

The official website for Hida-Takayama, Gifu, Japan revealed their collaborative tour guide map with the Hyouka anime series. The map, which is also available on the website for download, shows the user many locations that were shown in the Hyouka anime, including the high school Oreki, Eru, and the others attend. Not only is the map digital, but 10,000 physical copies have been published for distribution.

Full Map
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Hida-Takayama, the setting of Hyouka's story, has been collaborating with Hyouka since last year. Aside from the maps, they have also produced Hyouka postcards, Hyouka Rice, and Hyouka coasters. The goods are being sold at various stores around the Hida-Takayama area, and have increased tourism to the city to due otaku “pilgrimages” due to Hyouka.

Toaru Majutsu no Index: Endymion no Kiseki Full Trailer Released

The Toaru Majutsu no Index franchise's official website began streaming the full trailer and two television commercials for the Toaru Majutsu no Index: Endymion no Kiseki film on Thursday. This full trailer is different from the promotional videos that debuted last August and October.

Trailer


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All three of the new videos feature the image song "Shining Star -Love Letter" by Yuka Iguchi, the voice of the title character Index. The third batch of advance tickets are now on sale with limited-edition A3-sized clear posters with replica autographs of the main cast.

The full trailer outlines the movie's all-new story, in which the main characters Touma Kamijo and Index encounter a level 0 girl named Arisa just before the completion of the Academy City space elevator "Endymion." The Magicians are after Arisa, and they attack Academy City. A female leader named Shattoaura leads a unit from Academy City against the attack. Touma and Index learn from Stiyl that Arisa is key to a brewing war between the sides of Magic and Science.

Hiroshi Nishikiori returns to direct the film at the studio J.C. Staff, with CG produced by Sanzigen. Hiroyuki Yoshino scripted the film based on the original novels' author Kazuma Kamachi's new story, and Maiko Iuchi also returns to compose the soundtrack.

Novel illustrator Kiyotaka Haimura drew several new characters for the film. Kamachi also wrote several dozen pages that flesh out new details of Academy City and the Magic side, sample text for characters and scenes, and story details just for the film.

The film will open in Japan on February 23.

CLAMP's xxxHOLiC Café Unveiled in Tokyo

On Monday, Kodansha's Young Magazine posted images of the brand new xxxHOLiC cafe that celebrates the upcoming live-action television series.

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(Left to right, top to bottom) nerikiri (bean paste sweet) & "snow bunny," strawberry chiffon cake, xxxHOLiC honey toast, coasters, fondant chocolat, banana pancakes


People who order from the special menu will receive one of six limited original coasters


xxxHOLiC honey toast


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The cafe menu will be served from January 21 to March 3 at the Pasela Resorts café in Tokyo's Shibuya ward. The live-action television adaptation of CLAMP's xxxHOLiC manga series will premiere on Japan's premium television network WOWOW on February 24.

Kodansha also posted photographs of the xxxHOLiC corner at the nearby Shibuya Tsutaya shop. In addition to offering a sneak preview of the live-action series, the display has a costume that actress Anne wore as Yūko Ichihara.

KFC's Mascot Colonel Sanders Cosplays Son Goku

To celebrate the collaboration between the upcoming Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (Dragon Ball Z: Kami to Kami) movie and KFC Japan, seven restaurants in major Japanese cities will start cosplaying their Colonel Sanders statues as the anime's Son Goku on February 15. Each of the statues will also hold one of the seven star-studded Dragon Balls. The cosplaying statues will be at:

• Sapporo, Hokkaido
  


• Sendai, Miyagi
  


• Ebisu, Tokyo
  


• Sakae, Nagoya, Aichi
  


• Osaka
  


• Hakata, Fukuoka
  


• Okinawa
  

All KFC restaurants in Japan will begin offering meal sets with "Light Up! Dragon Bottles" and five kinds of packs on February 28. Some of the items offered include a "Dream Dragon Radar detector."

Akira Toriyama has been deeply involved in the film's story and designs from the early screenwriting stages. Masahiro Hosoda (Previous Dragon Ball Z episode director) is directing at Toei off a script by Yūsuke Watanabe. The J-Pop band Flow will cover Hironobu Kageyama's "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" song, which was used as the original opening theme song for the Dragon Ball Z television anime series, as the film's theme song.

The film will open in Japan on March 30. The Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 game will also arrive that month with a code for Dragon Ball's Son Goku costume for Naruto.

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• Two new drawings by Prox! Check them out here;
  https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3214806
  https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3224815
  


• Tasemu made his first piano cover, over Clannad'S famous Dango song. Feel free to bump the thread and recommend for his next one ^^ : https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3216411
  


• AAWP #30 is out, get your votes in now before it's too late: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3226398
  


• Steins;Gate movie Fuka Ryōiki no Déjà vu has been announced for release on April 20th. Read more here: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3224027
  


• Dark is head of a MEP studio? Well deserved too, check their latest work here: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3231369
  


• A couple of reviews have been coming out this week, mainly courtesy of Eminent. Check them out below;
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  Eminent
  Another
  Steins;Gate
  Immortal Regis (manga)
  ef - A Tale of Memories
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  Chubaca
  Sword Art Online
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  twp
  Tegami Bachi
  

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Gankutsuou



Genres: Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Synopsis
Gankutsuou is an anime loosely based on the novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. It tells the story of Albert Morcerf, a young aristocrat who happens to befriend a wealthy nobleman, The Count of Monte Cristo, through a series of bizarre events. Fascinated by the Count's charm, Albert invites him to meet his friends and family, all of whom happen to be part of the upper class society of Paris, France. Unfortunately, little does Albert realize that the Count has ulterior motives in mind.

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Staff:

• Tasemu (No submission)
  


• Happeh (No submission)
  


• Rakshasa
  

Yes, boring news this week.

[Happeh]

Very boring news this week indeed. Couldn't find anything worth talking about.

[Selist]

I laughed about the statue otherwise there's nothing but boring news.

[Black Hole]

Good issue again. I see lots of places I need to visit :3

Who's up for a Japanese road trip to collect all the dragon balls?

[KinGxKeV]

Good issue again. I see lots of places I need to visit :3

Who's up for a Japanese road trip to collect all the dragon balls?

Only if you pay for both ways and everything I want.

[juniiflow]

Juniiflow x Rukushu hentai lovers 4ever.

[venusuar]

Written well but no news apparently. Hopefully next week will be super exciting with anime news coming out of everywhere.

[Ice Queen]

Nobody used my nice cupcakes comment yet /bliss.

nice cupcakes! =D

[G Dragon]

Honestly. whole community hf to japan it would be really wonderful, hope one day trip all together as his little gay is just fantastic ♥

[Alexchaos]

Hyouka's Model Town Releases Themed Tourism Maps

The official website for Hida-Takayama, Gifu, Japan revealed their collaborative tour guide map with the Hyouka anime series. The map, which is also available on the website for download, shows the user many locations that were shown in the Hyouka anime, including the high school Oreki, Eru, and the others attend. Not only is the map digital, but 10,000 physical copies have been published for distribution.

Full Map
Image #1 || Image #2

Hida-Takayama, the setting of Hyouka's story, has been collaborating with Hyouka since last year. Aside from the maps, they have also produced Hyouka postcards, Hyouka Rice, and Hyouka coasters. The goods are being sold at various stores around the Hida-Takayama area, and have increased tourism to the city to due otaku “pilgrimages” due to Hyouka.

Ehh! I would like to visit that place! 😅 If it's similar to the anime it must be really beautiful. 🙂

Honestly. whole community hf to japan it would be really wonderful, hope one day trip all together as his little gay is just fantastic ♥

I would definitely come! :D

[KinGxKeV]

Honestly. whole community hf to japan it would be really wonderful, hope one day trip all together as his little gay is just fantastic ♥

All of us can go to Sebs place and watch some Yaoi all day.

[Alexchaos]

All of us can go to Sebs place and watch some Yaoi all day.

I hope his appartement is not too small. xD

[KinGxKeV]

I hope his appartement is not too small. xD

We would have to move all of his Boku no Pico special edition stuff.

[Gavel]

Wasn't all that exiting. But still well written. Thanks!

[Ice Queen]

We would have to move all of his Boku no Pico special edition stuff.

I'm applying to hold those items if they need moving then. 😉