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Tekken Revolution's New Eliza Character

The official Tekken Channel began streaming a video showcasing

Tekken's Revolution new Character Eliza on Wednesday.

The sleepy vampire characters joins a roster of 26 playable charac-

ters. When the game launched in June the game offered eight

playable characters.

The game is available for download on PlayStation 3 via PLAYSTATION Network.

GARNiDELiA Duo to Perform Kill La Kill Anime's New Opening.

GARNiDELiA, the duo formed by female vocalist Maria and composer Toku, is contributing their song "ambiguous" as the new opening theme song for the Kill la Kill television anime. The song will be released early next year as the duo's debut under a major label, Sony Music Entertainment's DefSTAR.

Maria gained fame (and two million views) through her vocal and dance work on video-sharing sites, and she served as a guest vocalist at live concerts for Jin (Shizen no Teki-P) and other artists. Toku is known for his arrangement and sound producing work for such artists as LiSA, Angel Aki, and Antic Cafe. His song "Spica" garnered over 1 million hits alone and his song catalogue collectively drew 10 million hits.

The two met in 2010 and collaborated on the Freezing anime's theme song "Color" before they formed GARNiDELiA. (The name is an anagram of the phrase Le Palais Garnier de Maria or "Maria's Opera," and Cordelia, a moon of Uranus that was discovered in the same year that Toku was born.) They already performed overseas in 2012.

The battle action anime Kill la Kill reunites several production staff members from Gurren Lagann: director of Hiroyuki Imashi, series script supervisor/writer Kazuki nakashima, character designer Sushio (key animator/animation director on Gureen Lagann), and the animation Studio Trigger (co-founded by several former Gurren lagann staffers).

The story is set in Honnoji Academy, a high school where the student council president Satsuki Kiryuin (voiced by Ryoka Yuzuki) rules by force. Wielding a giant Basami scissors sword, the wandering transfer student Ryuko Matoi (Ami Koshimizu) brings about upheaval on the campus. Ryuko searches for the mysterious figure who caused her father's death.

Aniplex of America licensed the series for release on home video, and the company is streaming the series on the Aniplex Channel, Crunchyroll, Daisuki, and Hulu hours after it airs in Japan.

(c) SOURCE OF ANIME NEWS: Anime News Network

Ghibli Adapts Joan G. Robinson's When Marnie Was There Novel Into Anime

Arrietty's Hiromasa Yonebayashi directs next summer's film based on English children's classic

Film distributor TOHO announced its 2014 lineup on Thursday, and revealed that Studio Ghibli's next film will be an adaptation of Joan G. Robinson's English children's novel classic When Marnie Was There (Omoide no Marnie) next summer. Hiromasa Yonebayashi is returning to direct his second film after 2010's The Secret World of Arrietty.

Amazon posted a publisher's description of the novel:

Anna hasn't a friend in the world - until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn't all she seems...An atmospheric ghost story with truths to tell about friendship, families and loneliness. Anna lives with foster parents, a misfit with no friends, always on the outside of things. Then she is sent to Norfolk to stay with old Mr and Mrs Pegg, where she runs wild on the sand dunes and around the water. There is a house, the Marsh House, which she

feels she recognises - and she soon meets a strange little girl called Marnie, who becomes Anna's first ever friend. Then one day, Marnie vanishes. A new family, the Lindsays, move into the Marsh House. Having learnt so much from Marnie about friendship, Anna makes firm friends with the Lindsays - and learns some strange truths about Marnie, who was not all she seemed...

The novel is one of the 50 books that Ghibli co-founderHayao Miyazaki recommended in a list he created for children. In September, Miyazaki announced his retirement from feature films after his 11th film, The Wind Rises.

The film's website has the tagline, "There is a magical circle invisible to the naked eye in this world."

Keiko Niwa (Ocean Waves, From Up On Poppy Hill, The Secret World of Arrietty), Masashi Ando(character designer on Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Paprika), and Yonebayashi co-wrote the screenplay, and Takatsugu Muramatsu (Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri) is scoring the soundtrack.

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2 Game's Battle Video Posted

Compile Heart began streaming a battle video for Chō Jijigen Game Neptune Re;Birth 2 Sisters Geenration (Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2 Sisters Generation), the PlayStation Vita remakeof the Chōjigen Game Neptune mk2 (Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2) PS3 game, on Wednesday. The video shows the game's cast battling against antagonist CFW Magic.

The game will ship in Japan on March 20, 2014.

Compile Heart released a PS Vita remake of its 2010 Hyperdimension Neptunia PlayStation 3 video game on October 31 titled Chōjigen Game Neptune Re;Birth 1. The game features the "unit turn" battle system. In battle, players can move characters around the battlefield during a turn. Depending on weapons and skills, attack range will vary making a character's position important for battle success.

NIS America released the Hyperdimension Neptunia and Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 games in North America, and it released Kami Jigen Game Neptune V as Hyperdimension Neptunia Victoryin March. The first game anthropomorphizes the game console wars as female role-playing game characters.

The Hyperdimension Neptunia television anime premiered in Japan on July 12 as an adaptation of the Hyperdimension Neptunia game series. Funimation streamed the series as it aired.

Miyazaki's The Wind Rises Wins San Diego Film Critics Society Award

Film previously won critic prizes in Boston, New York

The San Diego Film Critics Society announced on Wednesday that The Wind Rises, the 11th and finalfeature film from Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, won the honor of Best Animated Feature for 2013. The film beat out Despicable Me 2, Frozen, Get A Horse, and The Croods

The film has already won awards for the best animated feature from The National Board of Review, The New York Film Critics Circle, and The Boston Society of Film Critics. The New York Film Critics Circle gave Miyazaki's Spirited Away andHowl's Moving Castle the Best Animated Film Awards in 2002 and 2005. The film was also the runner-up in The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards' Best Animation category for 2013 last weekend.

The Wind Rises centers on Jirō Horikoshi (played by Evangelion director Hideaki Anno), the designer of Japan's famed Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane of World War II. Miyazaki incorporated story elements inspired by Tatsuo Hori, the author of an earlier novel titled Kaze Tachinu.

Disney will release the film in North America, and Studio Ghibli International produced the English-language dub with producer Frank Marshall (From Up On Poppy Hill, The Secret World of Arrietty, Ponyo). The film played in New York and Los Angeles last month, and it will open across the United States in February.

The film was submitted for the Animated Feature Film category for the 86th Academy Awards, has made the shortlist for the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 71st Golden Globe Awards, and is nominated for the 18th Annual Satellite Awards and 41st Annual Annie Awards.

Tales of Zestiria Game Announced for PS3

Ai Kayano, Ryohei Kimura star & ufotable to once again provide animation footage

Namco Bandai Games announced on Thursday that it will release the next Tales of role-playing game, Tales of Zestiria, on PlayStation 3. The story is set on the land of Greenwood, and the main characters in the franchise's 20th anniversary title are Aleesha and Slay, played by Ai Kayano and Ryohei Kimura, respectively.

Namco Bandai Studio's Daigo Okumura designed Aleesha, while Kousuke Fujishima designed Slay. Mutsumi Inomatais also returning to contribute character designs along with Minoru Iwamoto. The anime studioufotable is once again contributing animation footage for the game under studio founder and producer Hikaru Kondo.

2nd Seitokai Yakuindomo Season's 1st Promo Video Posted

Seitokai Yakuindomo＊ school comedy to premiere on January 4

The official website for Seitokai Yakuindomo＊, the second anime season inspired by Tozen Ujiie's school comedy manga, began streaming the first promotional video on Thursday.

The tongue-in-cheek video begins with seemingly unrelated English footage — leading the narrator to wonder if the videocassette recorder taped the wrong show. Eventually, the narrator spots students in the familiar Ōsai Academy uniforms. "Seitokai Yakuindomo … what is that punctuation mark? I can't pronounce that!"

Seitokai Yakuindomo＊ will premiere on the Tokyo MX TV station on January 4. Advance screenings of the second season's first episode, as well as the entire first season, will run at Osaka's TOHO Cinemas Nanba theater on December 21 and at Tokyo's TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills on December 22.

Voice actress Satomi Satou is performing the ending theme song "Mirai Night" as her debut single. The idol trio Triple Booking is returning to perform the opening theme "Hanasaku Saikyō Legend Days."

Horror Manga Creator Kazuo Umezu Helms 1st Feature Film

Kabuki actor Ainosuke Kataoka plays Umezu & Kimie Shingyōji plays his Mother

77-year-old horror manga creator Kazuo Umezu(Drifting Classroom, Makoto-chan) makes his feature directorial debut in Mother, a film opening on September 27, 2014. 41-year-old Kabuki actor Ainosuke Kataoka dons Umezu's signature red-and-white striped shirt to play the creator himself. Kimie Shingyōji plays Ichie, Umezu's mother who holds the key to the story.

Umezu wrote the script for this autobiographical story that will "reveal the secrets of the 'Umezu World' that have captivated readers in various works." Kataoka acknowledged that when he heard about the role, he worried whether he would be for right for it since "I look nothing like him." He added that his generation have read Makoto-chan and other Umezu works all the time, but he never thought he would get to meet Umezu himself.

Between his Kabuki performances, Kataoka worked on the film, which was shot entirely on location.

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