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In this issue:

- Naruto Birthday Messages From Junko Takeuchi and Maile Flanagan
- Kuroneko From "Oreimo" Wins 2013 International Saimoe League Championship
- "Lucky Star" 10th Anniversary Art Book Coming Next Spring
- Latest Previews for 2014 TV Anime "Tonari no Seki-kun"
- "Kingdom Hearts III" Information Due Sometime this Month

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Naruto Birthday Messages From Junko Takeuchi and Maile Flanagan

Continuing the 10.10 festivities, Viz has posted special birthday messages from Naruto voice actresses Maile Flanagan and Junko Takeuchi, also promoting the series availability on Neon Alley and Viz's site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EIytlnVErs&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGfLZO6EBJY&feature=player_embedded

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Kuroneko From "Oreimo" Wins 2013 International Saimoe League Championship

Love it or hate it, a lot of pixels get devoted to crowning anime's most moe lady. The International Saimoe League Championship, a primarily English, but avowedly global spin-off of Japanese 2ch's moe tournament, has given its 2013 heavenly tiara to Gokō "Kuroneko" Ruri from Oreimo after an undefeated season that included a final round default of defending champion Tachibana Kanade.

The new and upcoming faces making a strong showing included Kurousagi and Tokisaki Kurumi, who won the Diadems of the Winter and Spring anime seasons.


The Summer and Fall seasonal tournaments will be held later this year during our Exhibition Bonus tournament, which will also feature male characters.


The tournament started last January and consisted of nine rounds: the nomination period, the preliminaries, the aquamarine round, amethyst round, ruby round, emerald round, topaz round, the 1st elimination round and the final stage.

Details about the rounds: http://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire2/9ecd9c20df1d91f6f62b90979ae8090a1381502836_full.jpg

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"Lucky Star" 10th Anniversary Art Book Coming Next Spring

We're less than a month away from the long awaited 10th volume of Lucky Star manga. But, there's more reason to celebrate the otaku comedy. Publisher Kadokawa has begun taking preorders for a Lucky Star 10th anniversary! Everyone Together! art book, set to be released March 26, 2014.

The 200-page book will feature a complete history of the series, as well as plenty of illustrations including previously unpublished works and collaborations.

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Latest Previews for 2014 TV Anime "Tonari no Seki-kun"

Following the three live-action previews last month, Media Factory finally posted two anime PVs for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Takuma Morishige's school comedy manga Tonari no Seki-kun on its official YouTube channel. The TV anime is produced by Shin-Ei Animation (Doraemon, Crayon Shin-chan) and directed by Yuji Mutoh (the Crayon Shin-chan anime series including the 13th to 15th feature films). The title character Toshinari Seki is voiced by Hiro Shimono (Ayato Kamina in RahXephon, Syo Kurusu in Uta no Prince-sama). And Rumi Yokoi, Seki's schoolmate who sits next to him, is played by Kana Hanazawa (Kuroneko in Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai). However, you can't check their voices in these videos yet. The TV anime is schedule to premiere in Japan in January 2014.

"Tonari no Seki-kun" 30-second PV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ufd8z0F0Uk&feature=player_embedded

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"Kingdom Hearts III" Information Due Sometime this Month

Okay, so we all know that Kingdom Hearts III is a ways off, so it makes sense that Square Enix just hasn't given up many details about the upcoming sequel.

You shouldn't have to wait too much longer for fresh details on Sora and company's world-hopping adventures, though--Tetsuya Nomura plans to discuss Kingdom Hearts III in a video on Sony's Play Community site, which should be up sometime this month.

While we already know that Nomura wants to include Star Wars in KHIII, what guest stars would you like to see? What kind of info do you think Nomura will give up?

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