All Points Bulletin: The Flaming C is a God of a Modern Mythology

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Hisui’s picks:

Narutaki’s picks:

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The inevitable showdown:

Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup: Saber – The Origin

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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.

  • A Date Which Will Live Infamy
    Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya will premiere on TV on July 12. So drops the magical Illyasviel bomb. We shall see how it goes.
  • How Rin Tohsaka Has Fallen
    The 2nd Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya is out and it has much more magical girl action than slice of life meandering.
  • The Summer that was Recalled Out on TV
    Kara no Kyoukai is getting an edited TV run this summer. It will only be material from the first four and seventh movie. Oblivion Recorder was always easy to drop and Paradox Spiral is just so very long. But overall I am glad to see the series get more exposure.
  • I Wonder How Many Otaku Have 3-D TVs
    If you did not already spend an obscene amount of money of the regular The Garden of Sinners Blu-Ray Box set you can go out and get the new one with 3-D. Or you can buy them both if your Scrooge McDuck Money Bin just has too much gold in it.
  • The True Advent of Ayaka Sajyou
    Fate/Prototype is being novelized much like the recent Fate/Apocrypha series. It will be written by Sakurai Hikaru from Liar Soft, and the illustrations will by Nakahara. The chapters will be running in Comptiq magazine. It is really only a matter of time before we get a Red Saber TV series. (Not that I mind. At all.)
  • She’s Actual Size, but She Seems Much Bigger to Me
    Cu-poche Saber is preparing to use Invisible Air to open up a can of the Bounded Field of the Wind King on you in this cute little figure from Kotobukiya.
  • Unearthed Arcana
    Some distinctly obscure Type-Moon stuff comes out with a translation of the Sora no Soto manga bu Nasu.
  • Dramatic CD Irony
    A few more details on the Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya game for the 3DS including what will be bundled with the special edition version.

AnimeNEXT 2013: Guests

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It is so nice to be able to have a whole section on guests for AnimeNEXT again. I missed being able to see people like Kenji Kamiyama or Harold Sakuishi and not have to go several states over and spend lots of money I don’t have. This year Sayo Yamamoto and Hiroshi Shimizu were a special treat. Sayo Yamamoto’s two major directorial credits are Michiko to Hatchin and Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine which are both extremely nice bullet points to have on your CV. She has also storyboarded some extremely visually inventive animation like both openings to Arakawa Under the Bridge and the Attack on Titan ending. Hiroshi Shimizu on the other hand has been a key animator on more anime than some fans have ever seen in their lives.

At the same time on the American front I am sure several people I know were super sad that they were not able to attend a convention where Mike Toole was a guest. Lets put it this way: As people are getting their panels rejected left and right for Otakon more often than a case of Near Beer at Oktoberfest it seems that Mike Toole had his panels auto-accepted as soon as they were submitted. I think that fairly well sums up his status as a respected commentator on anime.

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