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In this issue:

- Latest "K" Visual
- Voice Actor Tomoyuki Dan Passes Away
- "Kino Journey" Author Seems to be Trying to Go For a Record With Light Novel Title Length
- Vocaloid GUMI Reception Live at the ASEAN Dinner Party
- "Fruits Basket" Director Helms Next Anime Bancho Next Shorts Series

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Latest "K" Visual

GoHands' 2012 anime series K gets a movie follow-up in 2014 and its official site has been updated with the latest in a series of promo visuals.

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Voice Actor Tomoyuki Dan Passes Away

Seinenza has announced that actor Tomoyuki Dan passed away this week at age 50 of recurrent aortic divergence. Anime fans might know him for his work as Kisame Hoshigaki in Naruto. More recently, he appears as Iskikawa in Ghost in the Shell.


Dan also provided the Japanese voice of Batman in the Nolan movies.

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"Kino Journey" Author Seems to be Trying to Go For a Record With Light Novel Title Length

This season, we're seeing anime based on light novel series named My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering With My School Romantic Comedy and I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job. As risibility verbose as those are, as as much as making up light novel titles has become a net parlor game, Keiichi Sigsawa, author of the Kino's Journey might have it all beat with his new work.

He actually seems to be going for something meta more than he is trying to win a bet...

Coming November 1st is

"男子高校生で売れっ子ライトノベル作家をしているけれど、年下のクラスメイトで声優の女の子に首を絞められている。―Time to Play―"

Or

"Danshi Kōkōsei de Urekko Raito Noberu Sakka o Shi te Iru Keredo, Toshishita no Kurasumeito de Seiyū no Onnanoko ni Kubi o Shimerare te Iru. -Time to Play-"

or

"You're the Most Popular Light Novel Author at the All Boy's High School, but you're Being Strangled by your Junior who is also a Voice Actress? 。―Time to Play―"

The lead is novelist making his Dengeki Bunko debut who get into a dicey relationship with a rookie seiyuu.


Frequent collaborator Kouhaku Kuroboshi will be illustrating.

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Vocaloid GUMI Reception Live at the ASEAN Dinner Party

The ASEAN-Japan ministerial policy meeting on cybersecurity cooperation was held on Hotel Okura in Tokyo on September 12 and 13. The special feature of the international conference to discuss the cooperation between Japan and the ASEAN economies in the field of cybersecurity was Vocaloid character GUMI's mini live concert at the dinner party. Following the preview, a 20 minutes long official miulti-angle video of the concert was posted by INTERNET (Megpoid's publisher) on YouTube. GUMI on a dilad screen played her popular songs "Setsuna trip", "Miraculous Encounter", "Country Road", and "Maigo no boku ni" with the band. Check the live video below and enjoy!

The ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) member states are: Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isul0hXm_bw&feature=player_embedded

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"Fruits Basket" Director Helms Next Anime Bancho Next Shorts Series

CoMix Wave Film's (5 Centimeters Per Second) original content Anime Bancho youtube channel has posted a look at what's coming after their current series of Passionate Detective Agency shorts. This one has some particularly big names attached with Akitaro Daichi (Fruits Basket, Poyopoyo, DD Fist of the North Star, Jubei-Chan) and Suzuko Mimori and Akira Kamiya provided voices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IQUiTTMvOy4

"Hana-no-Zundamaru"
I, Zundamaru, am a second-rate ninja at Iga Ninja School!
To get the girls, I carry out dangerous missions with my partner Shakuremaru!
With a cute girl from Koga and tons of annoying enemies, it's a scribble of hyperactive comedy action animation!

Original Story: "Ninja Awate-maru" by Jiro Tsunoda

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