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Kara no kyoukai chapter 5 will be 2 hours long
1100 cuts, and current length is 1 hour 56 minutes and might still increase. I love you ufotable.

Gamers is giving out free English maps in Akihabara
Colour coded between comics/figures, games, cafes, and maid cafes. It should be useful for foreign visitors new to the area.

Maid wo nerae! officially cancelled
No official announcement regarding the fate of “He is my master” yet. I wonder if they can at least get the current chapters out on tankoubon.

Hyoutan shoten compares their Shoujo Material sales with other books
Popular mainstream manga Tsukihime vol 6, Full Metal Alchemist vol. 19, and Negima vol. 22 were released between March and April, and in only 3 to 4 days Shoujo Material has already equalled their total sales in 3 to 4 months. This is just a report on sales in only that one particular bookstore of course.

Bones has posted up an official statement by representative director Minami Masahiko regarding the leak of their animator ranking list, saying that no such document exists inside their office, and that the data and comments about the animators in the document are not from bones.

They claim that the document was made by an unknown 3rd party and was a deliberate action of libel against the company. They are currently trying to determine who it was that made and uploaded the document and will take appropriate action.

However, Mnemosyne director Ueda Shigeru was one of the people that on the list and he has written on his online diary that he received a fax yesterday from an unnamed company apologizing for the leakage of his personal data. He checked the list on the net and his phone number and address on the list is apparently also real. The document lists him as rank C.

Also the official statement by bones says nothing about going to the police or taking any legal action.

A leaked list of animators from Bones revealed that Full Metal Alchemist 2 is in planning with Irie Yasuhiro as the director, and also that they’re working on Darker than black 2. But man, when will they stop leaking these private documents out. The phone numbers and home address of their animators are on the list…

Haruhi from Sneaker August issue

Touhou Reimu and Marisa dolls to be sold at Comiket

School Days cellphone mahjong lets you do Fatal Finish attacks

Deleted videos on Nico douga will show the copyright holder’s name
Starts on the 5th of July, this should help people to know which companies to avoid when making derivative works.

Kara no kyoukai DVD 2 is #1 on Oricon DVD rankings
L change the WorLd which got released on the same day is #2.

Shoujo Material’s sales is in the same class as Yotsubato
Via Hyoutan shoten. I wish Naruko would ditch the normal manga stuff and come back to doing only eromanga, but at the same time I want to see that new serialization that is being done with Kurata Hideyuki…

Mangagamer.com is a newly opened online shopping site that will allow users to buy and download English localized “Dating simulation games”. The site has just opened today and users “will be able to purchase their High Quality Game as from July 10th 2008.”

I’m surprised that they’ve got Da Capo and Suika, and they’ve got a pretty good line up, releasing 7 games on the 10th of July.

Site sure looks completely Engrish though. I have a bad feeling about how the actual contents of the game will turn out…

Via 2ch via Wired vision via Akihabara Channel

CNET Japan reports that Nico Nico Douga has come to an agreement with The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA), Japan Video Software Association (JVA), and Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPA) to remove vids that are in violation of copyright belonging to members of these organizations.

This includes all fan made videos that violate the copyrights of members of these organizations. They will start deleting all existing videos that are in violation and will monitor all newly uploaded videos for violations.

AJA is made up of 34 full members and 22 associate members comprising of anime studios such as Gonzo, Sunrise, and Studio Ghibli. JVA has 35 members including Walt Disney Japan, Kadokawa Shoten, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and MPPA is made up of 4 members consisting of Shochiku, Toho, Toei, and Kadokawa Eiga.

I guess that means Nico douga is only going to be left with Touhou, Idolmaster, Vocaloid, people dancing and singing, and game vids.

Naruko Hanaharu’s first eromanga tankoubon Shoujo Material was released on the 30th of June and it was sold out in 2 hours and 30 minutes in K-Books radio kaikan according to Akibablog, making it the highest selling eromanga that they’ve had in a single day.

Other stores in Akihabara have had huge stacks of Shoujo Material on display in the stores, and many reports of long queues for the book. Senakablog also reports that stores in Nipponbashi have been doing similarly promoting Shoujo Material with their displays, with Toranoana filling 6 bookshelfs with only Shoujo Material.