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For any self respecting gamer, they should know that it's E3 week. Interestingly, Sony has announced that BONES studio is offering their new anime Xam'd: Lost Memories that is currently only available on their online store for download.
Video after the jump.
Been hectic since it's convention season. Still recovering and working on articles from FanimeCon and Anime Expo. Onwards to figures.
Kotobukiya has announced they will be releasing a 5,800 yen 1/7 scale 'castoffable' beach Haruhi Suzumiya figure . You can remove her top this November.
Fans from the west probably haven't heard about this series, but Kotobukiya will also be releasing a 1/8 scale Index figure from an up and coming title To Aru Majutsu no Index, that will also be recieving an anime adaptation soon.
Probably more exciting news is Kotobukiya's 1/5 scale Chizuru Minamoto from Kanonkon releasing under the new "4-Leaves" risque figure line. She will also be releasing in a limited edition version where she is in her kitsune form (blonde, tailed, and earred.) She will be released this October for 12,800 yen.
Alter will be releasing a 1/8 scale Haruhi Suzumiya and a 1/8 scale Asa Shigure from Shuffle both releasing this November for 5,800 yen and 6,800 yen respectively. Unfortunately I am not a personal fan of Asa's facial design or her pudgy leg sculpt.
More pictures after the jump. Who's your favorite Shuffle character?
The trailer looks great, but that's not much of a surprise. What really knocked us off our collective rockers was Square-Enix's announcement that Final Fantasy XIII is also headed to the Xbox 360 as well as the PS3. Yes, read it again: Final Fantasy XIII on XBOX 360.
Video after the jump.
Figure maker Alpha Omega will be releasing a 1/8 scale Klan Klan figure from the series Macross Frontier. She will retail for 5,775 yen.
More pictures over at Moeyo .
Best in Show and Best in Comedy
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Anime Expo 08 Day 4 Briefs- Jyukai/Astro Boy Movie
Written by Theodore MakWe interviewed Takehito Harada, full transcription will be available soon.
Our newest staff member Alice Yan interviewed AX's musical Guest of Honor, Jyukai. Jyukai also left a special message for all their American fans, we will have that video as well as the interview transcription up later this week.
The Masquerade was very short. Originally scheduled from 8PM to 12AM, all the skits from the Masquerade finished at 9:30. Regardless, t-ono.net was backstage taking pictures of each of the contestants.
Lastly, Imagi Animation Studios at Anime Expo was playing a motage of their new Astro Boy movie set to release Fall 2009.
Anime Expo 08 Day 2 Briefs-Concerts/Industry Panels
Written by Theodore MakGreetings from Anime Expo 2008! Starting oddly on Thursday this year, Friday had a decent attendee turnout. Definitely tomorrow (Saturday) it will be packed and we hope to bring you tons of photos of more cosplayers, and events. (Today we took around 500 photos.)
We were able to attend Jyukai and Yoko Ishida's joint concert. At first, there appeared to be some mix up, but eventually we were notifed that press were allowed to take photos of the band. We'll have those up later after the convention.
Quite a few panels we visited today including Dark Horse, Bandai, and ADV. In Bandai's corner, they pretty much listed each new title they would be releasing in the future with a short clip of each. (more details on that later) In ADV's case, mostly answered what happened to the company in their few months of withdrawl from the anime world.
For tomorrow, we've scheduled ourselves to visit David Hayter's (voice actor of the American version of Solid Snake from the video game series Metal Gear Solid) press panel. We will also be attending Shoko Nakagawa's concert, and will be bringing you pictures and video coverage if Anime Expo allows for it.
We'll also be taking pictures of the Masquerade, again if allowed to do so by Anime Expo. The rules and regulations this year at Anime Expo have changed a bit and a lot of confusion has ensued especially for the industry and press.
Regardless, don't forget we will have our one on one interview with character designer Takehito Harada tomorrow!
The staff is pretty much pooped, and we'll have a few full length reports ready in the next few days.
If you haven't already guessed, yes we will be in fact covering Anime Expo 2008! Currently planned, we will be hitting various industry and press panels. We try to provide as much live updates as possible so for the fans at home can also enjoy the experience. Our associate at Anime Expo will be directing AXBackstage, so you might see us on cam if you look hard enough. We will also be bringing you a one on one interview with Nippon Ichi Software's character designer, Takehito Harada which has been currently rescheduled to Saturday due to his late flight arrival. Our camera crew will be walking around the convention filming various gathers, events, and panels; while our photography team has over 12GB worth of memory space for pictures on hand.
So stay tuned!
Well, that didn't take long. Square-Enix has just decided to make it official: The DS is getting an updated Chrono Trigger port! Coming to North America this holiday season, Chrono Trigger DS will take advantage of the system's dual screen and touch screen functionality. Square-Enix will also include a brand new dungeon and multiplayer battles. Here's hoping that the DS version will include the anime styled cutscenes from the Final Fantasy Chronicles edition of the game. 
There is a rumor floating around that there will be a Chrono Trigger release (in the form of a port, remake, sequel, who knows?) for the DS, and earlier today Kotaku posted a scan from the newest issue of Jump Magazine that almost nudges this rumor towards a full-blown confirmation - but let's not get ahead of ourselves...until now. There's now a countdown clock active on Square-Enix's official Japanese website. But that's not all - check out the website url: More...
Kaiyodo is busy keeping little Yotsuba company with the youngest Ayase family sibling, Ena (from the manga Yotsuba&!, of course), making her PVC debut. Ena is a cast-off figure, allowing you to trade her regular clothes and teddy bear (Jularlmin, as Yotsuba would call it) for a bikini and towel. Standing 135mm tall (that's approx. 5 inches, for the lazy), this figure will see release on September 01, 2008 with the price point of 2,940 yen. Check out more pics over at Ami Ami, where you can also see pics of Kaiyodo's new Ayase Fuka Swimsuit version . 
- 2nd Ichigo Mashimaro series announced .
- Creator of Witchblade and Comics icon Michael Turner passes at 37 .
- Revoltech Gurren Lagann "Fulldrillized" version . Yes, "Fulldrillized" is now a word.
- Rock Band 2 announced . What new instruments could we expect? Full debut at this year's E3.
