Man, I'm just not having good days lately. You know? I totally walked out of the office to go to the bathroom and as soon as the door clicked shut I was like "Shit!" I mean, who locked their keys in an office? It's embarrassing. I was planning to get the weekend rollup done right after that. But at least I'm doing it now! Next week will be different! Anyway, on to the rolley polley uppey… duppey? Yeah, I hate it when I do that too.

Anime/Manga

• In somewhat depressing first news, Animate Group bought up Biblos' yaoi stuff. So it will still make its way to the market. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
• They're just trying to depress me to death, I swear. Hip hop idiot Kanye "Big Retarded Douche" West has gotten it in his mind to capitalize on the popularity of that Black Panthers cartoon show on Adult Swim and make a manga-style attrition. He will be offending your senses with the help of strung-out loser for life Bill Plympton. Hey, I liked The Tune as much as the next guy, but leave it at that, you know?
• Idoru, a book by the guy who wrote the short story on which Johnny Mnemonic was based, is being turned into a *sigh* "Japanese anime film." The story also names a writer that doesn't sound terribly Japanese, but names no production company, so chances are pretty good that this will be another American farce passing itself off something else. American fans are expected to file into the theaters in an orderly fashion and make idiotic fangirl/boy comments throughout the course.
• Sorry about that. It's just… it's a downward spiral we're in right now. I need to move.
• There's a new Windows Media-only Death Note movie Teaser Trailer.
• An official Tekkon Kinkurito trailer is online. The official site hosts narrow and broadband trailers. I'll link to this broadband one.
• Famitsu is letting people know, via an interview, that there will be a Super Robot Wars anime TV series.
• You've got to feel good if you're Ghibli, they just got voted number one in the Business to Consumer category in Brand Japan 2006[PDF].
• Shonen Sunday announced that Gosho Aoyama will be on vacation. That means no Detective Conan for you for two weeks.

Figures

• A bunch of Resin Kits (rereleases and such) got announced this weekend. Let's get to some!
• From Muv Luv we have both the Ken-mote Koumichibikishi Otome for a meager (avert your eyes) 20,790 yen and the
• Yoshino Sakura for a more reasonable 5,040 yen. Both of these are from Volk and in late May.
• Griffin's Estelle Blanche resin kit from the Trinity Blood. We had some news about that in the US recently, I seem to recall. She'll also be outi n late May for 9,975 yen. God resin kits hurt the wallet.
• And lastly among those is the Mai-HiME resin kit featuring Natsuki and Shizuru. Also due out in late May and will run 10,290 yen.
• Due out in July from Kotobukiya is this Kattsu PVC. It will run you a scant 2,940 yen, stands 15cm tall and promises not to pop out of her dress at any important social functions.
• Nina Williams, you know, that lady from Tekken and the oft maligned Death by Degrees, has a PVC coming out in July for only 3,360 yen.
• I swear, Kotobukiya is going for the biggest poliferation award, because here's some more figures. This time from Pia Carrot he Youkoso G.O. First is Kugahara Mimori (my favorite). Second is Yaegashi Kanae. Both are due out in late August and will run you 4,410 yen.
• Ok, there's more than this, but this is the last one I will do for today. Yes, it's yet another Kotobukiya figure. This time it's Fiina Fam Aashlight from Youake Mae Yori Ruri-iro na. She's due out in August and also runs 4,410.
• Now on sale
• Sexy, sexy Max Factory 1/8 scale Aishia from D.C.S.S. She will run you 4,500 yen.
• Got some Kotobukiya next. Mmmm. More like KotoBOOTYkiya.
• The first one is this 1/8 scale Sonora PVC from Summon Night 3. I need more money. You guys send me some money. I only need 3,990 yen. C'mon.
• And lastly, is this Kotobukiya set of trading figures. When will To Heart 2's reign of figure-based terror end? Hopefully never. These are some expertly carved trading figures. I mean, you know. Nice stuff. They will run you 6,300 yen for the set.

Bam! Done! That took forever and there is still more. I mean, feel free to browse on over to HobbyNet and look at all the stuff they have listed, but posting a Weekend Rollup at 23:15 is cutting it a bit close anyway. Anyway, I will maybe post some more figure bits tomorrow to catch a bit of that up and have more complete news, but I am a teribly busy man. I barely have time for the lot of you. I'm just kidding! Don't leave! I still love you!

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