Month: March 2012

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Star Wars coming to Kansas

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Coming May 26, 2012 Star Wars will be at the Exploration Place in Wichita, Kansas.  “Star Wars Where Science Meets” Imagination exhibit will feature Star Wars costumes and prop models along side actual science in today’s world.  If you have a Star Wars fan this will be right up their alley.  The exhibit will be at the Exploration Place until September 3, 2012, so make your plans to visit.  Below is a link to the exhibits webpage to get more information.  Thank you to Exploration Place and LucasFilm for providing imagery.

http://exploration.org/star_wars_exhibit.php

 

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John Carter Trailer

For fans of old science fiction/fantasy John Carter opens this weekend.  This is of course an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars.  If your library has any of this series you could do a display to spotlight them.  Thanks to YahooMovies for the trailer:

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Silent House Trailer

Here is one movie for your horror fans that is coming out this weekend.  Silent House looks to be an intense ride.  Thanks to YahooMovies for the trailer:

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Disney Debut of Marvel Universe

On April first Disney XD will be debuting it’s Marvel Universe block.  The core show will be Ultimate Spider-Man along with other shows and segments from Marvel Entertainment.  For those that have the XD channel in their packets have fun watching.  For those that don’t most libraries will probably pick up the shows when they become available for their animation section.  Thanks to ICv2 and Marvel.com for the trailer/commercial below:

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ZIP! Gets Rurouni Trailer

ZIP! a Japanese morning television showed a trailer for the upcoming Rurouni Kenshin live action movie.  This is one movie librarians will want to keep an ear to the ground on because it should eventually make it’s way to North American markets.  Kenshin might be an older manga series, but it is still one of the most loved series and when new readers come into the format this is one of the series that is suggested to them to read and the manga and anime should be on must library shelves.  Thanks to AnimeNews Network and YouTuber MrZoom91 for the trailer below. You will have to set through a little of ZIP! before the trailer starts, which is approximately 45 seconds in:

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Today is Mass Effect Day

Today is the day that Mass Effect 3 hits store shelves.  So if you haven’t picked up your copy yet, hopefully there will still be some copies left at the store.  Thanks to ICv2 and YouTuber “biowaremasseffect” for the following trailer.

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Here’s a Unique View for Teachers

Here’s something librarians can pass on to their teachers within the community or use it within the library itself.  Akitoshi Maekawa, a 46 year old teacher in Japan, is using Chopper, from Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece, to demonstrate civil rights.  Chopper is a character that was isolated from any interaction from the world when Luffy and his crew first encountered him.  People made fun of him, they were scarred of him, and bullied him because of this, but Luffy and the crew befriend him and he becomes part of the pirate crew.

Maekawa’s class related the Chopper character to several issues including: racial discrimination; people forced into a homeless lifestlye; handicapped people; and bullying.  Follow the link below for the complete article.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-03-05/one-piece-anime-helps-teach-human-rights-in-high-school

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NISA Licenses Anime for a N. A. Release

NIS America (NISA) has announced that it has licensed Otome Yokai Zakuro, a Japanese alternate history horror anime.  It’s scheduled release is for June 12 and it will be a subtitled edition only.  So you might want to mention this to your library’s purchasing agent if you are interest in picking it up to add to your anime collection.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-05/nis-america-licenses-otome-yokai-zakuro-tv-anime

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CAPCOM releasing Steel this June

This June gamers will be able to pick up CAPCOM’s Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor for the XBox 360 Kinect.  The release schedule is planned for June 19 in North America, June 21 in Japan, and June 22 in Europe.  Thanks to AnimeNews Network and YouTuber CapcomUnityVideos for the trailer.

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Episode 13 Shownotes

 

Daemon, Daniel Suarez, 2009, Dutton Adult.  ISBN: 0525951113, 26.95.

K-ON! Vol. 1, Kakifly, Nov. 2010, Yen Press.  ISBN: 978-0316119337, 11.99.

Intro and Outro: “Train of Thought, by Andrew Lubman – linked below

http://www.musicalley.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=a0b7f6596422c80c407910fbc5f717e7

Other things mentioned in this episode: Dick Tracy; Tarzan; Marmaduke; Baby Blues; Saturday Night Live; Glades; Claymore; Fruits Basket; Peach Girl; Revenge of the Nerds; Terminator: Salvation; World of Warcraft; Peanuts; Watchmen; “That’s Just Pat”; Ray Bradbury; Thomas Jefferson; SkyNet; Darth Vader; Net Stumbler; Force Lightning; & Wal-Mart