During the Comic Con, Marvel Entertainment in partnership with Madhouse released teasers for anime series for the Japanese market. One of which is for Iron Man and it looks like it came out of the comic panels. There will also be one for Wolverine. The Anime Iron Man DVD will be released on 2010.
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Here’s how you can try to win hearts and minds – use media that’s familiar to them.

In the case of the US, last year’s campaigns saw the importance of the Internet in pushing forward advocacies. Now, it seems like Japan’s politician are also making the Internet a potential political battleground.

This anime political ad is sponsored by Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Ever since the LDP posted this video online on Friday, it has had well over 219,000 hits.

The ad features a man (who happen to look like Democratic Party of Japan’s Yukio Hatoyama) proposing to girl in a restaurant. It is an attempt to question the DPJ’s proposals.

Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso of the LDP has been quite unpopular with the opposition and even with fellow party members and has called for parliamentary elections. The latest polls show that the DPJ is edging the LDP.

Here are (hastily-drafted :p ) transcript of the dialog:

Man: I am the one who will make you happy. Fill your life with roses. Ill take care of you, your maternity expenses, the expenses of your children, living expenses, and retirement expenses. We’ll speed into the highway of life as fast as you like.
Woman: But the money?
Man: We dont have to worry about anything once we get married.
Woman: What?

Groundless self-confidence or foundation?
Liberal Party Group

Otaku-wankers beware! A new bill is out to get the sicker ones of your rank and send them to jail. Here’s a press release regarding a bill in the House of Representatives that seeks to penalize “the offenders who sell, offer, advertise, and promote child pornography. It also covers those found to possess, download, purchase, reproduce, or make available child pornography materials with the intent of selling or distributing them.”

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Yippee. And the crap just doesn’t seem to let up. This year is really going to be an un-sugoi year for live action versions of popular manga and anime. Dragonball was crap. Chun Li was crap.

Now news has it that they’re making a live action version of Full Metal Panic!. Reports say that Mandalay Pictures acquired the theatrical rights series. For those not familiar with FMP!, it’s basically about a sergeant who goes undercover as a high schooler to protect a girl.

And guess who’s rumored to be in the project?

Zac Efron.

F*ck.

Via: Tokyograph

Bandai Namco’s upcoming simulation RPG for the PSP Queen’s Blade: Sprial Chaos is due for a winter release in Japan. I’m sure hot-blooded Otaku-wankers are just waiting to get hold of this new installment especially if it promises this level of suggestive imagery:

Might as well be the new poster for a Got Milk ad. Then again, what more can we expect from a Queen’s Blade title, right?

Via: Kotaku

Here it is, folks. Perhaps one of the greatest travesties of anime adaptations to live action film – Keanu Reeves will play Spike Spiegel for the live-action Cowboy Beebop. Tandandan…

Okay, granted that he was cool as Neo but come on! Spike’s one of the coolest guys in the anime universe. He’s funny and witty and he can’t be played by Ted Theodore Logan! I can’t imagine Keanu sporting that trademark shock of hair that is Spike’s either.

Hmm. But wait. Maybe everything will be forgiven if they pick a really good Faye Valentine. Oh please let it be someone who’s really hot with a touch of class.

For those of you who missed out on Cowboy Beebop, it’s a great noir tale about bounty hunters in space ca. 2071.

Well, this is just our take. How about yours? Vote in our poll after the cut!

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AFA 2008 Pictures part two! When you go to conventions, there are shops. And the shops for this kind of convention will mean anime merchandise. And most of the time, anime merchandise includes toys and figures!

This time, we give you a peek of a lot of toy displays seen throughout the whole show.

Warning: Image heavy.

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For the first time ever in South East Asia, Singapore will celebrate the diversity of Japanese Pop Culture.

Taking place on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2008 (Saturday and Sunday) at the Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Center, Anime Festival Asia 2008 (AFA08) will showcase a wide array of Japanese Pop Culture related content, spanning over 5,000 sqm of space with 6 experience zones: Akiba Town, Anime Live, Anime Blockbusters, Industry, Mangaka and Planet Mech, where visitors will gain access to exclusive content, merchandise and live acts straight from Japan.

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