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In this issue:

- "Kingdom Hearts III" Info Unveiled at Disney's D23 Expo
- "Newtype" Readers Pick Favorite Anime from the Last Year
- Second "Seitokai Yakuindomo" TV Anime Scheduled for Winter 2014
- Live-Action "Pokémon X/Y" Launch Trailer is Worth Catching
- "Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX" Announced for 2014 Release
- "God Eater 2" Opening Animation

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"Kingdom Hearts III" Info Unveiled at Disney's D23 Expo

Well damn, that was quick! Late last week, Tetsuya Nomura assured Kingdom Hearts fans that some fresh information was on the way, and Square Enix delivered earlier today at Disney's D23 Expo! Held at the Tokyo Disney Resort, the expo had a special "Kingdom Hearts Limited Stage" event, which showed off a new trailer for Kingdom Hearts III.

FF-Reunion shared some info about the trailer, which reportedly shows off quite a bit of action, including Sora's Keyblade transforming mid-battle to launch multiple Fire spells at Heartless that are invading Traverse Town. Other action scenes include Sora, Donald, and Goofy fighting enemies while on a swaying theme-park-like pirate ship ride, and taking on Hercules' Rock Titan while on the Big Thunder Mountain train.

Another on-site report by Gamer.ne.jp shares word from Tetsuya Nomura about the return of Riku, who will bring his hilariously huge (for his age) muscles back to Kingdom Hearts III. Sora and Riku will also be sporting new outfits for the game.

Now, the original report from late last week promised a video from Tetsuya Nomura on Sony's Play Community, and that's still coming--hopefully with the trailer they showed at the D23 event! This is all super-early information for a game that's still a ways away, but it's cool to hear nonetheless. What are you hoping for from Kingdom Hearts III?

CrunchyRoll

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"Newtype" Readers Pick Favorite Anime from the Last Year

This weekend, Tokushima's Machi Asobi 11 event hosted the ceremony for the winners of Newtype's third annual anime awards. Prizes recognized the best in anime over the last year, as selected by the magazine's readers. Unsurprisingly, Attack on Titan cleaned up, but Majestic Prince did quite well too.

Direction
1. Attack on Titan's Tetsuro Araki
2. Majestic Prince's Keitaro Motonaga
3. Girls und Panzer's Tsutomu Mizushima
3. Psycho-Pass's Naoyoshi Shiotani
5. Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning's Yoshitomo Yonetani

Tokushima Prefectural Governor Kamon Iizumi presenting award to Tetsuro Araki

Screenplay
1. Attack on Titan's Yasuko Kobayashi
2. Majestic Prince's Reiko Yoshida
3. Psycho-Pass's Gen Urobuchi

Character Design
1. Love Live!'s Asako Nishida and Yuhei Murota
2. Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning's Kenji Hayama and Tokuhiro Itagaki
3. MJP's Hisashi Hirai

Mech Design
1. Majestic Prince
2. Valvrave
3. Gargantia

Soundtrack
1. Attack on Titan
2. Girls und Panzer
3. Love Live!

Commercial
1. Monogatari Series Second Season
2. Attack on Titan
3. The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls

Original Song
1. Attack on Titan's "Guren no Yumiya
2. Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning's "Linear Blue wo Kikinagara"
3. Love Live!'s "Bokura wa Ima no Naka de"

Motion Picture
1. Steins;Gate Fuka Ryoiki no Déjà vu
2. Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning
3. anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
4. Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
5. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Parts 1 and 2

Game Animation
1. The IDOLM@STER Shiny Festa
2. Fate/stay night - Realta Nua
3. Tales of Xillia 2

Voice Actress
1. Miyuki Sawashiro
2. Asami Imai
3. Kana Hanazawa
4. Rie Kugimiya
5. Ai Kayano
6. Marina Inoue
7. Yuka Iguchi
8. Chiwa Saito
9. Nana Mizuki
10. Yoko Hikasa

Voice Actor
1. Tomokazu Sugita
2. Hiroshi Kamiya
3. Mamoru Miyano
4. Hiroki Aiba
5. Hiroaki Hirata
6. Yuuki Kaji
7. Ryota Ohsaka
8. Tomokazu Seki
9. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
10. Akio Ohtsuka

Mascot Character
1. Gargantia's Chamber
2. Danganropa's Monokuma
3. Madoka Magica's Kyubey

Female Character
1. Attack on Titan's Mikasa Ackerman
2. Steins Gate's Kurisu Makise
3. Psycho-Pass's Akane Tsunemori
4. Madoka Magica's Homura Akemi
5. Railgun S' Misaka Mikoto
6. Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! The Movie - Rikka Takanashi Revision's Rikka Takanashi
7. Sword Art Online's Asuna
8. Yamato 2199's Yuki Mori
9. Monogatari's Hitagi Senjyogahara
10. Oreimo's Kirino Kosaka

Male Character
1. Steins;Gate's Rintaro Okabe
2. Monogatari's Koyomi Araragi
3. Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning's Kotetsu T. Kaburagi
4. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's Joseph Joestar
5. Attack on Titan's Levi
6. Psycho-Pass's Shinya Kogami
7. SAO's Kirito
8. Attack on Titan's Eren Jaegar
9. Majestic Prince's Izuru Hitachi
10. Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya's Gintoki Sakata

Studio
1. Wit Studio
2. Dogakobo × Orange
3. ufotable

TV Anime
1. Attack on Titan
2. Majestic Prince
3. Girls und Panzer
4. Psycho-Pass
5. Love Live!
6. Free!
7. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
8. Gargantia
9. The Devil is a Part-Timer!
10. Sword Art Online

CrunchyRoll

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Second "Seitokai Yakuindomo" TV Anime Scheduled for Winter 2014

Time to put in another school comedy for the winter anime schedule. After a three-and-a-half-year break, a second TV anime adaptation of Tozen Ujiie's Seitokai Yakuindomo has been confirmed for January 2014.

The Weekly Shōnen Magazine comedy follows a newly co-ed school in which the girls still greatly outnumber the boys.

CrunchyRoll

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Live-Action "Pokémon X/Y" Launch Trailer is Worth Catching

How many of you picked up Pokémon X and/or Pokémon Y this past weekend? It may have coincided with the launch a couple days ago, but it's still worth catching the live-action trailer Nintendo used to promote the Nintendo 3DS release if you missed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKu-XW209U0&feature=player_embedded

Now that we've all imagined being a trainer in real life, let us know how your experience with Pokémon X/Y is going so far. I'm thinking about downloading it today...

CrunchyRoll

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"Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX" Announced for 2014 Release

It was only a matter of time, but Square Enix formally announced Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX at Japan's D23 Expo. This time around, in addition to Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix, the collection will include Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Final Mix and cutscenes from Kingdom Hearts Re: Coded. Peep the debut trailer below.

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

Kingdom Hearts HD II.5 ReMIX is set for release on PlayStation 3 in North America, Europe, and Japan next year.

CrunchyRoll

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"God Eater 2" Opening Animation

In time for the Machi✩Asobi, held in anime studio ufotable's backyard of Tokushima City, Namco Bandai has posted their opening animation for God Eater 2. Takayuki Hirao (Kara no Kyokai) directs the sequence for the game hitting PS Vita and PSP in Japan on November 14th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1_3QmUbOZE&feature=player_embedded

CrunchyRoll

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