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The One Piece Symphony is heading back to Paris. It would be way cool to get some concert dates in North America. The symphony will play music from the anime in front of footage, also from the anime. If you are going to be in Paris on April 5, 2014, you might want to see if you can get some tickets to the performance. It will be at the Grand Rex for two performances, one at 2:00 p.m. and the other at 8:00 p.m. Check out the trailer below from “Le Fee Sauvage” on YouTube:
This is one you will definitely want for your anime collection. Once Piece: Strong World film be available, on Blu-ray and DVD on November 19. Thanks to the “FUNimation” Channel on YouTube for the trailer:
If you are in Japan and are a One Piece fan you might want to stop by a Kentucky Fried Chicken. For a limited time when you purchase certain combo meals you can receive a One Piece ice cream maker. The ice cream makers have images of: Luffy; Chopper; and the Straw Hat Crew. I still love how companies in Japan have fun with their popular culture figures.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-07-27/one-piece-ice-cream-maker-offered-at-kfc-japan
If you are planning a trip to Japan or live there you will want to check out you local planetariums. The Konica Minolta Planetarium Company is sponsoring a Summer One Piece Planetarium event. The planetariums that are participating will have One Piece characters during their sessions. Nami will navigate visitors around constellations, meteors, and auroras while Luffy, Usopp, Zoro, Sanji, and Franky will make interruptions. There will also be anime scenes interspersed during the show, which will last 35 minutes.
Two of the Planetariums will be Manten Planetarium in Ikebukuro’s Sunshine City shopping center July 13 – September 8 and at Tenku Planetarium July 20 – September 1. As mentioned earlier it will be at other planetariums so be sure to check them out and have some fun.
One Piece will be airing again on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block. The show will pick up with episode 207 on Sunday (May 19) morning at 1:00 a.m. Thanks to AnimeNews Network for the heads up. Thanks to “Toonami Swim” on YouTube for the following trailer:
Namco has released information about the new J-Park Tokyo indoor theme park. The theme park will be on the 3rd floor of the Sunshine City World Import Mart Building in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro ward. There will be five main attractions: 2 – One Piece; 1 – Naruto and 2 – Dragon Ball.
The above is concept art of the Dragon Ball interactive attraction.
The J-Park will have a Heroes Arena that will have mini attractions from Gintama, Kochira Katsushiki-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo, Toriko, Bleach and Hunter X Hunter. It will also have a J-World Kitchen with menus themed around Shonen Jump’s manga series and characters.
J-Park is scheduled to open July 11 so if you happen to be in the area, be sure to stop by and have some fun! Thanks to AnimeNews Network for the heads up on this and you can go to their site link here for more concept art.
The European branch of Namco Bandai Games has released the English One Piece trailer on YouTube. One Piece: Pirates Warriors 2 is one you might want to purchase for your collection especially if you already have the other One Piece video games. The release dates are: Japan, March 20; and the European and American market will be this summer.
Haven’t had any fun stories like this in a while. The Japanese tofu maker Otokome Tofu has released “Chopper Tofu”. This is a 200 gram block of tofu that has the image of the One Piece character Chopper molded in it (see above). It comes with brown sugar syrup and toasted soybean flour as toppings.
Here is one title your library might want to consider picking up for you video game collection. One Piece Pirate Warriors will be available for the PS3 platform in Europe, September 21 and in North America, September 25. One Piece is just one of those titles that everyone is still enjoying. Thanks to AnimeNews Network, NamcoBandaiGames EU through YouTube for the following trailer:
Yes that’s right Nami’s prized Mikan oranges will be sold in stores (straight out of One Piece), just not in the U.S. Starting in October Japanese supermarkets and department stores will begin selling Nami’s Mikan ~Premium~ oranges. They are prized for their “sweetness” You can see an add for them above and there will be different size boxes that customers can choose from with different artwork on each size. Just plain fun!