It's been roughly 5 months since I sat down with the director for the second Gurren Lagann movie, Hiroyuki Imaishi, and I finally got to see the film a few days ago at Viz Cinema in San Francisco’s Japantown. Was it worth the wait? Read more to find out!

Square Enix's beloved franchise is back and has landed on the Nintendo DS. The Kingdom Hearts series is a collaboration of characters from one of the biggest animation studios of all time, Disney, and one of the most popular RPG production companies, Square Enix. When these two companies combine, it's like magic. While Disney's games are pretty dismal, with the help of Square Enix, Disney characters can make an appearance in a deep RPG as well.

Sora no Otoshimono the etchi anime debuted in Fall 2009 and already a figure of the well endowed Ikaros from the series has surfaced. She will be manufactured by Grands, a relatively unknown company and be released sometime in 2010 for approximately 9000 yen. Currently only unpainted prototype photos are available taken from the 2009 Miyazawa Mokei Exhibition. Photos included inside.

The next major Dollfie event, Dolls Party 22, has been announced for December 6, 2009 at the Tokyo Big Site in Odaiba. The more exciting announcement, Volks will be releasing some new limited items including a Dollfie Dream doll of Mai Shiranui from the King of Fighters series and a doll of Mahiro Mito from Tayutama -Kiss on my Deity-. Mahiro Mito will also have an alternate clothing set available for 14,490 yen. Three older clothing sets will be rereleased including Rei and Asuka's school clothing from Evangelion, and Saber's normal clothes with a lion plush, and her casual outing wear from Fate/Hollow ataraxia.

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Japanese entertainment company Avex Network has released a ten minute trailer of Fumihiko Sori's To on their Youtube channel. The film is an adaption of Yukinobu Hoshino's 2001 Nights science fiction manga. Fans of the CG movie adaption of Appleseed and Vexille will instantly recognize the character designs as Fumihiko has previously worked on both. Interestingly, Aya Hirano is part of the voice cast. The movie will be released on December 18, 2009 in Japan. Video included inside.

Are you a BlazBlue fan? Will you be in Southern California on November 14th? Are you tired of v-13 players mashing on and breaking the D button? Then head out to Active Gamers LA's Triple Threat tournament, which will feature the new BlazBlue: Continuum Shift. Not only can you be amongst the first to try the game, but Aksys Games will be on site to hand out free schwag as well! Hit the jump for more.

(Update: John Nelson of Active Gamers LA has just informed us that there were some technical difficulties with the last build of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Aksys Games had; as a result, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is not 100% confirmed at Triple Threat, but both Aksys Games and Active Gamers LA will do their best to bring the game out for fans at Triple Threat.)

A preliminary list for the upcoming winter season of anime has been released. Gainax's Hanamaru Kindegarten adaptation announced eariler this year at Anime Expo will be debuting. We'll keep you updated as more series are announced.

The November lineup is out for the San Francisco theater, Viz Cinema, and local fans are rejoicing. The second Gurren Lagann movie, Lights in the Sky are Stars will be making its American debut on Tuesday November 17, and Wednesday November 18 at 7:30PM. The film originally was shown in Japanese theaters on April 25, 2009 and will not be released on DVD until January 27, 2010. Viz will also be showing the first film on the same nights at 5PM. Viz Cinema is located in Japantown at the recently opened NEW PEOPLE building.

Now if only Viz can get the rights to show the Rebuild of Evangelion movies...