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In this issue:

- "Kamen Teacher" Live-Action Film to Follow Up Drama in 2014
- "Magical Warfare" Anime Staff and Visual Summoned
- "Final Fantasy VII" on iOS and Android is Going to Take a Few Years
- "Anpanman" Creator Takashi Yanase Passes Away
- "Kingdom Hearts III" D23 Expo Trailer
- "Haruhi" Voice Actress Shows Off Her Bunny Suit Cosplay

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"Kamen Teacher" Live-Action Film to Follow Up Drama in 2014

The live-action take on Kamen Teacher—based on the manga by GTO's Tohru Fujisawa—isn't stopping with the now-concluded drama. A film was recently announced, and it's set to premiere in Japan on February 22, 2014.

The manga—which centers on a teacher who deals with his class's trouble students with the masked power of Kamen Teacher—ran in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump from 2006-2007, and was followed more recently by Kamen Teacher Black.

Kis-My-Ft2's Taisuke Fujigaya plays the titular Kamen Teacher, known out of costume as Gota Araki. Other cast members include Sexy Zone's Fuma Kikuchi (Future Diary), Mikie Hara (Cutie Honey), Takumi Saito (Miles Edgeworth in Takashi Miike's Ace Attorney), and Aya Omasa (Paradise Kiss).

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"Magical Warfare" Anime Staff and Visual Summoned

In July, Media Factory's @comic_alive announced that five light novel series from the MG Bunko J line, focusing mainly on harem comedies for young adult males, are newly slated to be adapted into anime series. From that wave of projects, we're now getting a look at the winter 2014 adaptation of Mahou Sensou (Magical Warfare).


Hisashi Suzuki's 2011 series, currently six volumes, features a hard working, pretty normal if a bit troubled guy, who runs into a girl surrounded by weird situations, who inducts him into the world of magic users.


Cast:
Miyano Mamoru (Rin from Free! and Mashima Taichi from Chihayafuru)
Touyama Nao (World God Only Knows' Kanon Nakagawa)
Seto Asami (Chihayafuru's Ayase Chihaya, Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne's Lan)
Suzumura Kenichi (Gintama's Okita Sougo)
Okamoto Nobuhiko (Bakuman's Eiji Niizuma)

Staff:
Director: Sato Yuzo (Kaiji)
Series Composition: Fudeyasu Kazuyuki (Milky Holmes, Muromi-San)
Character design and Chief Animation Director: Ebata Ryouma (Busou Shinki)
Art director: Kouno Jirou
Color setting: Hamaoka Koji
Director of Photography: Arahata Kazuya
Editing: Tsukatsune Mariko
Music: Kouda Masato
Music Production: Flying Dog
Sound Production: Dog on Beat, Ducks Production
Sound Director: Sugawara: Teruaki
Animation Produciton: Madhouse

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"Final Fantasy VII" on iOS and Android is Going to Take a Few Years

Last week we posted about Final Fantasy VI heading to smartphones, which had Square Enix director and producer Takashi Tokita saying Final Fantasy VII could follow if the rest of the Legacy series does well. Hopefully you didn't get your hopes too high, because that release is still likely years away.

The primary reason behind that wait? It all seems to come down to space, which Tokita, while talking to Shacknews, said remains a limitation.

While it's not impossible for them to develop Final Fantasy VII for mobile, Tokita said, "currently, space will be an issue. Phones won't be won't be able to contain the space it takes. It's over a gigabyte. People are probably going to have to wait a few years."

Apple currently has a 2GB limit on iOS games, and the PC release of FFVII was 3GB. Thus, Tokita reiterated, "It's definitely going to be years before we do the port."

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"Anpanman" Creator Takashi Yanase Passes Away

The creator of one of the most popular children's anime in Japan is no longer with us, as Takashi Yanase, the mind behind Anpanman, has passed away at the age of 94. His passing came early this past Sunday at a Tokyo hospital as a result of heart failure.

Yanase started his career in cartooning after working at the Kochi Shimbun newspaper and the Mitsukoshi department store's publicity department. He launched the Anpanman manga series for which he is most well known in 1973. It became even more popular when the anime Soreike! Anpanman (Let's Go! Anpanman) kicked off in 1988, after which it would go on to air well over a thousand episodes and counting.

In addition to Anpanman, Yanase also worked as a musician and lyricist, and even wrote the Anpanman theme song. He also won the Shukan Asahi manga award in 1967 for Mr. Bo, and received an award at the 1970 Mainichi Film Awards for his anime film Yasashii Raion (Kind Lion).

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"Kingdom Hearts III" D23 Expo Trailer

Earlier today, we shared some info regarding a new Kingdom Hearts III trailer that was shown behind closed doors at Disney's D23 Expo in Tokyo, Japan. Naturally, since it was behind closed doors, all we could do was talk about the trailer, but naturally, all of you being excited for Kingdom Hearts III asked "where's the trailer?"

Well, here it is, and it's pretty awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m2VV8kb15CQ

Having seen the trailer, what are your thoughts on the next-gen Kingdom Hearts?

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"Haruhi" Voice Actress Shows Off Her Bunny Suit Cosplay

Haruhi Suzumiya from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is always remembered as wearing a black bunny suit besides her school uniform and the voice actress for Haruhi, Aya Hirano put one on at her birthday live show for her fans and posted the hot images on her blog, appropriately titled Live Alive. This makes the second time she's worn a bunny girl cosplay since 2007 in the behind-the-scenes footage of her 6th single and MonStAR music video.

Aya had the fanclub-exclusive birthday live show to celebrate her 26th birthday on October 8th in Tokyo. After the show, she re-appeared on stage in the bunny suit cosplay for an encore and performed God Knows... and Lost My Music with the emcee as the Haruhi in between according to her blog.

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