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Month: August 2006

  • Acuo

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    Rather nice packaging and logo design for the new Acuo gum, done by Nendo. Link via Design BLOG.

  • FFIII

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    Looks like they’re already sold out of the DS version of Final Fantasy III at the Bic Camera in Yurakucho. It came out today.

  • My Beautiful Tokyo

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    Some beautiful cityscapes from Yuki. She shared a few more at PauseTalk this past Monday.

  • GITS: SSS Trailer

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    It’s really the day for previews and trailers: here’s one for the upcoming GHOST IN THE SHELL: SOLID STATE SOCIETY film, which is a follow-up to the 2 recent STAND ALONE COMPLEX series, not the Mamoru Oshii-directed films.

  • Freedom Preview

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    You can view a long-ish preview (low, medium, high) of Katsuhiro Otomo’s upcoming FREEDOM project — what you saw in those recent Cup Noodle commercials — which gets released in October (part 1 will be out October 27). From the look of this preview, I think this is going to make AKIRA fans very, very…

  • Private/Public

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    Shift Blog has info on an upcoming series of live performances by Masakatsu Takagi at the Laforet Museum in October.

  • Chevalier Online

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    WOWOW is offering a free stream of the first episode of their new LE CHEVALIER D’EON series.

  • Fansubbing Under Attack

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    Looks like Bandai is getting serious about preventing the fansubbing of the upcoming GHOST IN THE SHELL: SOLID STATE SOCIETY film: Several fansub sites have publicly announced plans to create and distribute illegal fansubs of Solid State Society following its release in Japan. However, Bandai Entertainment Inc. and Manga Entertainment have secured the exclusive right…