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Question:
So I was watching Evangelion with a friend in fact I think he asked a question as well anyways at the end of the series when everyone congratulates Shinji is everyone alive or is that like at the end of a video game where it’s like congrats you beat the game sort of thing for watching the anime? Oh and how do the last two episodes relate with the movie do they connect? Or is it like the End of Evangelion takes place during episode 25 and 26, and the congrats part is after everyone ones returned to human form from the LCL. Or is it a complete different out look on things an alternate ending could you explain it to me I’m confused?

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Japanese publisher Softbank Creative reports that Miyage Kasuga’s historical romantic comedy light novel series Oda Nobuna no Yabo (Oda Nobuna’s Ambition) will get a TV anime adaptation. The comedy revolves around a contemporary Japanese teen boy transported back to an alternate Japanese history in which the leading warlords are all cute girls. He’s taken in by a commander named “Oda Nobuna,” an alternate version of the male leader Oda Nobunaga. The Oda Nobuna no Yabo novel series premiered in 2009 and has sold over 400,000 volumes. The franchise’s seventh volume will hit Japanese bookstores on the 15th.

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Kadokawa Shoten has released a theatrical trailer for the Magic Tree House anime feature, based on American author Mary Pope Osborne’s series of internationally popular children’s books. The film will hit Japanese theaters on January 7, 2012.

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This is what we’ve been waiting ten years for? A new theatrical trailer for next year’s Berserk Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler motion picture has hit the web. The first film of a planned trilogy based on Kentaro Miura’s dark fantasy manga will open theatrically on February 4.

The CG is so terrible that it frequently looks like mediocre amateur rendering. The 2D animation looks nice and sometimes moves very fluidly, but Guts’ head turn at 1:06 is terrible, and the one at 1:15 isn’t much better. At least scenes like Guts’ sword swing at 1:32 to 1:34 is very fluid, as is the hand motion at 1:38. I still vividly get the impression that a lot of this footage is left-over test footage that 4°C produced several years ago and decided to use instead of re-animating.

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Kadokawa Shoten has released a new 17-second ad revealing that creator, writer, and animator Mamoru Nagano’s original sci-fi short film Hana no Utame Gothicmade will get a Japanese wide theatrical release next spring. The Five Star Stories creator first revealed his Gothicmade project in 2006. A five-minute preview of the film premiered in Japan in March 2010.

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Toei has announced that One Piece will be getting another exclusive 3D short movie. The 12 minute long One Piece 3D Gekiso! Trap Coaster stereoscopic 3D anime film will screen at Aichi Prefecture’s Lagunasia theme park, Nagasaki Prefecture’s Huis Ten Bosch theme park, Kanagawa Prefecture’s Yokohama Landmark Tower, and Hiroshima Prefecture’s NTT CRED Hall beginning December 1. The first cel shaded 3D One Piece short film, “Mugiwara Chase,” was released theatrically in Japan last March.

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(In)famous guro manga artist Waita Uziga has formally announced that his current horror manga Ame-Agari no Kimi (Kari) will be adapted into a live-action feature film. The manga revolves around a couple trying to survive a zombie apocalypse. The man discovers that he can safely venture outside during rain storms because the rain conceals his scent from zombies. Uziga has been well known internationally for many years as one of Japan’s foremost creators of grotesque, gory horror and erotica manga. Uziga will serve as an executive producer for the “Rain For the Dead” motion picture while Bishop Koyama will write and direct the feature.

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Question:
For a while I’ve been interested in seeing Tatakau Shisho – The Book of Bantorra. Have you heard anything on a domestic release for that series?

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