We are just having fun reviewing and discussing comic books, graphic novels, manga, anime/animation, music and movies that we have recently read, listened to or watched.
The video “Tell Your World” featuring vocaloid Hatsune Miku was released, by Toy’s Factory music label, for streaming. The song is written and composed by livetune and the album Tell Your World EP is available today for purchase for all you J-Pop fans. Thanks to Toy’s Factory and AnimeNews Network for the following video:
Additional information on the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. Let all of your library’s J-Pop fans know about these two events that they will probably want to attend. Misia and Sara Bareilles will be performing at the opening ceremonies of the Festival on March 25 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Then on March 27, AKB48 will have two performances at the Lincoln Theatre. AKB48’s first performance will be at 4:00 p.m. and the second performance will be at 7:30 p.m. Everyone enjoy the music.
Join Richard, Matt, and Chris as we review and discuss Bad Island by Doug TenNapel and, something different this time, the Skylanders video game by Activision.
This year during the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery will be hosting a Ghibli film marathon. The event will be held April 15 from 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. and is a free event. If you happen to be in the area or your library is in the area let your patrons know about the marathon. Movies that will be shown are: Ponyo; Porco Rosso; Princess Mononoke; and Spirited Away.
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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
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.