Well, well, well. Quite a weekend. We've got everything from trailers to anime announcements to aging pop stars falling off stairwells and dying. That's my kind of pop. Good ol' memorial day have me a much needed extended weekend. So the rollup comes now. BWAHAHAHA! Prepare yourselves. Also, I have no officially watched 124 episodes of One Piece. I'm considering a switch to the manga. Basically, Bad Dad and the Desert Dudes (if you've watched the Alabasta Arc you know what I mean) Anime-Only arc drove me nearly insane. Look, Scorpion, I don't care about family togetherness and your acid gun, ever how cool that is, won't change my mind. On with the rolls.

Anime/Manga/Games

• I plan to do a thing about this on Dasaku, but it looks like Seven Seas is holding off publishing Kodomo no Jikan (which, for some idiot reason, they renamed Nymphet.) because it doesn't give up-tight assholes the warm and fuzzies. Here's two tips for you invalids. First, drawn kids AREN'T REAL. The worlds in which they exist, similarly, DO NOT EXIST. Please note this in your religious book of choosing. Second, if you ever have a face-to-face conversation with me, it's in your best interests not to tell me you approve of the banning or editing of ANY BOOK, SHOW, MOVIE, OR GAME EVER. I'm just saying, I play violent video games. You never know what I might do.
• Looks like Sakuraba Koharu (Coharu? Get the fuck out of here with that, crazy jap.) is doing well for himself. The Kyou no Go no Ni creator has another SEXEH manga being turned into an anime. This time the fun comes in the form of Minami-ke. DelRey isn't really making good use of that Kodansha cross-publishing thing, leaving both of these untranslated. SCANSLATION FTW!
• Trailer: Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina has a site online… AND A FURASHU TOOREIRAAAAAAA. Hits theaters on October 20th.
• Looks like Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar is getting animed… oh, and it's getting a live action movie as well. The anime MIGHT be good, the movie will be woefully underfunded and boring.
• Moonlight Mile is getting second season. It gonna be cawld TOUCH DOWN! hehehe. futbawl. I'm taking lunch after I finish this. Just saying.
• The artist on Comic Party is starting up a new superhero parody manga called Ratman. It will not be good. Unless it has boobies. That might save it.
• Oh yes, and to all my good friends in Singapore… I will miss you all when you flood the prisons for copyright violations. And people who say this makes the Kodomo no Jikan thing look silly, I'd say no, in fact, it more makes Singapore look like desperate nation that mistreats its citizens in favor of protecting those fabled Intellectual Property Rights.
• And in honor of my Singaporean pirate friends, I've posted a TOTALLY COPYRIGHTED AND NOT FREE ACCESS trailer for Piano no Mori. You can grab the "official" streams here in Quicktime and Windows Media formats.

Figures

• Danny Choo is an ASSHOLE. Yes, I say that entirely out of jealousy.
• Not enough 1/4 Haruhi ladies in your life? Well, FREEing has heard the cries of the populace and is bringing a 1/4 Tsuruya to the market! TELL YOUR FRIENDS! She's out in August for 11,800 yen.
• Got a couple of things that will offend those with strict morals regarding fictional characters. From the Purei*Stationary (Play, if you like) line, we have some eroero (but work safe) lolis performing much needed desktops tasks. Firstly, Kurara-chan will be handling all pen holding duties. I imagine a Wacom stylus would fit nicely there also. She's out in August for 1,980 yen.
• And secondly, Harara-chan will make measuring things… you know… complicated. Very, very complicated. But, hey! You can forgive her, right? Right! Same price this August.
• I skipped this 1/7 scale crap-suck Gosurori Kan-U recoloring. It's getting a bit tired, now. Let's put her to bed.

And that's it! We're done. I have a chunk of manga to buy tonight… and a need to firm up my resolve to learn Japanese so I can rail against manga censoring without actually being affected by it. And without having to read it on my PC. Damn it all. We need disc based brains so I can just install the language.