Awesome demo video of power exoskeleton concept from Land of Rising Sun.
More here.
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Wednesday, July 10
Sunday, July 7
Psycho Pass Season 2 is Confirmed
Charting a reasonable sales on BD, Production I.G decided to give Psycho Pass another go at Anime Expo on 6th July 2013, confirmed by the CEO of Production I.G, Ishikawa. Right now, script development and production is underway as this entry is written.
Sales chart average for Psycho Pass is moderate, about 5000 copies sold for each volume so far.
To put things in benchmark perspective, popular mainstream anime series like Sword Art Online average is around 24,000 - 25,000 copies each volume. Each BD volume is priced around 6000-7000 yen each. (MYR 180-210)
For Japanese domestic market, anime series must pass the magical barrier of 3000 units on average to have a chance for sequel.
Ironically the director, Katsuyuki Motohiro is actually squeamish on the violence level in the series, he will never allow his kids to watch this one. However he wanted to work with Gen Urobochi very badly after he watched Magica Magi Puella Madoka (2011) and Fate Zero (2011-2012) so he go ahead with the script. He encouraged the voice actors to add in quirks into the characters themselves.
So far no news if Urobuchi is back but the chances is high that he will. I think the main villain will be the system itself, Sybill. And what is going to happen to Yayoi's lesbian relationship or the unresolved sexual tension between Akane and Kogami? Questions abound.
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Saturday, July 6
Something I completely agree with Miyazaki Sensei.
In this article, the famous animator expressed how frustrated he was with voice acting in Japan, too many try to sell themselves instead of making the characters work. And his particular pet peeve which I agree completely is the ear piercing cutesy voice tendencies in current anime scenes.
His latest work, Kaze Tachinu is coming soon to theaters at Japan on 20th July 2013.
Read this for full detail.
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A New Poster Magica Puella Magi Madoka Movie 3 plus the Release Date.
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Thursday, July 4
Why am I interested about Free?
No, no, I am not going to watch this swimming anime. But the real reason I am interested is....
The bottomline is always Blu Rays because this will make or break a studio. The ex-director of Haruhi was completely broken after his series, Fractale completely bombed at the sales (Vol 1 only sold like 900 plus units in 1st week).
For benchmark, most series will get sequels if the 1st volume release breach 4000 units in 1st week.
This is why I looking at the sales of this series with great interest. First time Kyoto Animation is aiming specifically at female audiences with series of this nature. Can they reverse the failure that they suffered for Nichijou?
Time will tell.
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