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Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup: Lucky Lancer

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This Saturday post is the weekly Type-Moon news in addition to the regular APB post on Sunday. If you have any suggestions for what to highlight on the Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup drop me a line via email or Twitter.

  • King Arthur has Returned from Avalon
    Viz is putting releasing the Fate/Stay Night manga for digital distribution. I’m sure the new anime being released this year played no small part in the decision to license rescue this title. No matter what the reason it is nice to see more Type-Moon products available for legitimate release in English.
  • The Hidden Forbidden Taiga Fujimura Path
    Speaking of the new anime we are getting a whole slew of promo material for the upcoming project.

    • A New Hope: A new trailer means more speculation
    • Bad Luck vs. Worst Luck: If you were curious what the animation will look like in the new anime (outside of trailer shots) here is the first long look at some animation.
  • The Other Avenger
    I’m not talking about Tony Stark or Emma Peel. I’m talking about Angra Mainyu. You can get a Nendoroid Petite of him on November 27th as a bonus with Fate/Hollow Ataraxia for the Vita.
  • The Tiger Dojo Knows how to PARTY!
    The Tokushima Prefecture had some Fate/Stay Night posters to celebrate the Machi✩Asobi anime event.
  • Who is Sir Bedivere?
    I found this well done Encyclopedia of Type-Moon just in case anyone had not seen it before.
  • Cause Every Girl is Crazy ’bout a Sharp Dressed Servant
    So says Kate.
  • Not Everyone Can Live in the Spotlight
    The lesser ladies of Type-Moon.

Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup: The Academy for Forklift Ladies

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This Saturday post is the weekly Type-Moon news in addition to the regular APB post on Sunday. If you have any suggestions for what to highlight on the Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup drop me a line via email or Twitter.

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya OVA & Specials: Miyu’s Electric Boogaloo

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hisui_icon_4040 Don’t worry! I know everyone is worried that I would not do an episode review for the Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya OVA and specials. I have been inundated with emails, tweets, instant messages, hand written letters, telegraphs, candy-grams, and sky writing campaigns to cover these vital and game changing pieces of the Type-Moon universe by my legions of adoring fans. As a magnanimous hero of the hoi polloi I will answer your fickle demands with grace and wisdom.

(No one has even remotely commented on this fact. In fact the only reason I remember these existed was I was randomly looking for the Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya opening and saw someone uploaded one of the specials to YouTube. Then the existence of all these extra animated episodes came back to me. I then figured I should talk about them before 2wei! starts airing. Also I am fairly certain I don’t have anything even remotely approaching an adoring fan.)

These episodes were all pack-ins with various Fate/kaleid items. The specials were BD disc extras and the OVA was bundled with the manga. Sadly none of them have been picked up by Crunchyroll yet so I sort of forgot about them. If anything that clearly shows the power of Crunchyroll’s excellent anti-piracy model. In the old days I would have carefully monitored torrent sites for the release of the specials. Now I am so used to the ease that Crunchyroll provides I don’t ever look on torrent sites for anything but a very small niche of anime. Good job Crunchyroll. That is the way to do it.

Now pick up Pretty Cure so I never have to regularly look at a torrent site again.

But on to the far less wholesome magical girl show.
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