The Escape Artist på TV4

TV4 kommer börja visa den nya brittiska miniserien The Escape Artist imorgon, tisdag, kl. 21:00.
Andra och tredje delen går på onsdag respektive torsdag samma tid.

"Serien är skapad och skriven av David Wolstencroft (Spooks, Shooting dogs) och regisserad av Brian Welsh (Black mirror, In our name, Mayday)." Med detta plus David Tennant i huvudrollen är jag väldigt hoppfull. Jag kommer definitivt sitta klistrad vid rutan (eller skärm är det kanske snarare nu för tiden).

Om du inte sett Broadchurch redan så är den ett annat hett tips.

Lightning Returns 2 week free jap-audio DLC

We have been asking for the option for years and SQEX is finally giving it to us.

The option of original Japanese audio for Lightning Returns!

During the two weeks following the release of the game the Japanese audio and lip-sync will be available as a free DLC. After that it will cost.

First dual audio for Tales of Symphonia and now Lightning Returns!

The FF dubs aren't bad and if feels a bit strange switching in the middle of a series but I'll do it anyway. I'll always opt for original Japanese audio and I definitely want to support future releases like this.

The game will reach Europe on February 14, 2014. Japan already has the game so be watchful of spoilers. I'm looking at you tumblr!

Source: ANN

Mushishi Anime Special in 2014

Urushibara Yuki is retuning with two new chapters of Mushishi that will be released in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine on November 25th and December 25th.

The old anime team is coming back together for the one-hour special, Mushishi Tokubetsu-hen: Hihamukage (Mushishi Special: Sun-Eating Shade) that will air on January 4th in Japan.

I am immensely happy to see more of this series!
For everyone who has yet to experience Mushishi, I will only say - You have something truly wondrous ahead of you.

Source: ANN

Day of The Doctor premier in Malmö

Vill du se Doctor Who: Day of The Doctor på stora duken i 3D? SF-bokhandeln fixar visning på Spegeln i Malmö kl 21:00 den 23 nov.
Biljettsläpp nu på fredag (15 nov. kl.10:00) och de flesta biljetterna finns hos SF-bokhandeln.
Kolla eventet för mer detaljer.

https://www.facebook.com/events/723410401022255/


SF-bokhandeln in Malmö is selling tickets to Docktor Who: Day of The Doctor which will be shown at Spegeln, 21:00, 23 November.

Tickets are released Friday 15th November at 10:00 when the shop opens. Spegeln will also have some tickets for sale.

It will be en 3D and 150 kr per ticket. You can buy a maximum of four tickets per person. You can also call them (after 10:00) and book tickets if you do not have the time to queue but then you have to go and pick up your tickets before 18:30 on November 19th.

Edit:
Första Doctor Who föreställningen är slutsåld! MEN! de har satt in en extra visning kl 22:30. 

The first show has sold out but there is now an extra screening at 22:30.

Richard II med Tennant på Kino ikväll!

Nån som har turen att se David Tennant på Kino ikväll?

Kino visar Shakespeares Rickard II på Kino ikväll, 20:00, livesänt från Stratford-upon-Avon.

Det finns fortfarande biljetter för de som har tid att ta sig dit :D

http://kino.nu/richard-ii

Thank you for a great KodachiKun!

We hope you all had a good time at this year's KodachiKun!

Thank you all for coming and making it a wonderful day <3





We got a bunch of new requests for the karaoke, 45 to add to the previous 254. Yes, the list is quite long but the MoonCat Karaoke-team is expanding a little so we'll do out best for the next convention. Two have already been filled so so far it's looking good.

Nintendo 2DS

You're kidding right? No? OK then...

It won't bend... Had it come with the screen size of the 3DS XL and been, you know, closable, I would have jumped at this. It's cheaper and I don't really care all that much about the 3D anyway but em.. no. None of the above.

Set for release in the US in October, same day as the new Pokemon games, and apparently it's set for Europe as well. But not Japan. Yet anyway.

Naruto Parody Movie Trailer

Haha XD this is great!





Now this is a bit older but if you haven't seen it give it a go. The fighting is pretty impressive.
Naruto VS. Lee

Sailor Moon coming this winter

I'm just gonna quote ANN, spreading the news:

"The female idol group Momoiro Clover Z confirmed during the Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary Event #2 on Sunday that the new Sailor Moon anime will stream worldwide simultaneously this winter. In addition, the idol group will sing both the opening and the ending theme songs for the new anime. The anime will stream on Niconico."

So go get yourselves a niconico account if you don't already have one!

 Source: ANN

Hatsune Miku -Project Diva- F

Hatsune Miku -Project Diva- F for PS3 coming our way!

You can download the demo at the PSN for free. It's a rhythm game and the demo comes with a few songs for you to try out. I love rhythm games so I though it was fun, a bit difficult but fun!

Kuro Shitsuji Movie Trailer

First Trailer for the upcoming Kuro Shitsuji movie is out.

At first I thought they were having a girl play Ciel, and she does look like him so why not? But apparently this is supposed to be a descendant or something of the like. So we get a girl pretending to be a boy in 2020 to keep control over Phantomhive with Sebastian as the butler.

I...'m not sure I love the idea but I'll definitely give it a watch.

Building Cloud's Buster Sword

Ever seen MAN AT ARMS? No? He is the man that will make all your sword dreams come true :D

He's made Sora's Keyblade (and sharp at that!), Finns golden sword and lodes more.

Building Cloud's Buster Sword (Final Fantasy VII) - MAN AT ARMS

E3 Game Trailers

This years E3 has started and what a start it is for J-RPG fans!

SQEX announces Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Fantasy XV (previously called versus XIII) for the PS4.

I don't think I've ever seen a new console with such a strong line up. They are both highly anticipated games from major franchises. Seriously, fans have been waiting for almost 7 years for both of these games.

The graphics look incredible. We don't get a lot footage but I'm happy with just the announcement in itself.




The rumours were true. Versus XIII became XV. I think the first announcement about Versus came in 2006 and I remember a really nice trailer from 2008. It's still looking nice I must say. Personally, I'm more exited about this one than KH3.




English Trailer for Lightning Returns that will be out on February 14 in Europe.
Still not getting rid of Snow I see... But at least he doesn't look as silly now. I still would like nothing better than to throw him off a really tall cliff. It looks like this game will offer opportunities to fight him though so I'm looking forward to that. I don't really want to fight Noel though, I like him.




Along with some game play.




Also the English trailer for Tales of Xillia that will be out 9th August in Europe.
The voice actors are not terrible. OK some of them sound pretty bad but I was pleasantly surprised by the male lead. Mainly because I don't like his voice in Japanese and see the English one is a better fit. Still not FF standard but not as bad as it used to be.




Although this came out before the E3 I think it deserves to be mentioned again.
Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, coming to Europe for the 3DS.

Guren no Yumiya video

I really want to make one! Come on, join me!

During the Mangakai Lund barbecue next Wednesday? At NärCon? Genki? all of the above?

DuckTales Remastered

DuckTales Remastered is coming to PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U - downloadable for about $15.

This summer!
Check to source link for more info.

I never played the original but I hear it's a loved game so I'm definitely going to give this a try!

Don't miss E3 Next week! I'm awaiting many goody gaming news :3



Source: capcom

Kvarglömt

Kvarglömt, a set on Flickr.

Kvarglömda saker från konvent!

Maila oss (mangakailund@gmail.com) om något tillhör er och kom och hämta era saker på något av våra onsdagsmöten (kl.18-21) på Norra Fäladens fritidsgård i Lund.

OBS! Om ni inte hämtar era saker innan året är slut kommer sakerna att slängas.
Vissa saker kräver vi att ni kan beskriva för att få hämta ut dem!

Vissa bilder visar inte föremålet i sig. Där vill vi ha en beskrivning av föremålet för att veta att det verkligen tillhör dig.
Tryck på en bild för att få fram beskrivning och eventuella beskrivningskrav.

Tales of Symphonia: Unisonant Pack

Now this was unexpected news to me. Unexpected, but happy!

I guess after SQEX's running about, throwing out HD remasters of Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy X, Namco wanted in on the action.

They bring us Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World, bundled for the PS3!
When I first started reading I thought "this is probably going to be for the wii..." (I have neither a cube nor a wii and thought that I was going to be suffed of these titles once again (I do have the ps2 version of ToS tough)).

Japan will be getting the games the 10th of October and it's headed to the US and Europe at the beginning of next year. No date set yet.

I know it's stupid to be hopeful but I really want them to include the original Japanese voice track for both games. Please, surprise us for once! A re-translation and dumping of silly censorship would be nice too but since the translation goes through the US... yeah, that's not going to happen. The incompetent thieves will forever be doomed to drink "lemonade". OK to be fair ToP was censured too when released in Europe, Arche's dream was less obvious and they made it an all-you-can-EAT instead of an all-yo-can-DRINK. So yeah, probably not getting an accurate translation no matter what country does it (they even butchered their names for no apparent reason!)... The dub was horrible too... Not even the US Tales dubs are that bad... I wish they would invest as much in voice actors for Tales as they do for FF. Sure, they're a little better than when they did ToE but that's not enough in my book. Even Yuna and Tidus' laughing scene is better than the Tales dubs. (Fine the laughing scene is horrible in Japanese too, although probably meant to be horrible and thus the English dub was spot on)
I feel like I've gotten off topic here...

Looking forward to the HD PS3 release!

There will be new outfits and probably more goodies to be announced later on :D

Thank you Baba for bringing us this happy piece of news <3


Source: abyssalchronicles

The day has come!

Are you guys ready?

KodachiCon is back and bigger than ever.

The wristbands are waiting for you...

...and they have been well guarded.

Hope to see you all this weekend!

Kyoto Animation - Free!

Remember that short promotional video Kyoto Animation released in March? (very nice animation but a bit over the top soda-commercial if you ask me) I never thought that they would actually make an entire anime series out of it but here we are.
With one additional character that wasn't in the original PV and now titled Free! it's set for release this July.

I've never seen KyoAni make an all boys-anime before so I'm curies of how this will turn out. I liked their previous Tamako Market so I'm hoping for good settings, characters and since it's KyoAni, very nice animations!







Source: ANN

Street Fighter x Mega Man

Street Fighter x Mega Man, a fan-made game with an official, free release. It was released last December and is available for download at the capcom-unity homepage.
Check out some game play at Kotaku.

 

Source: Kotaku, capcom

New Sailor Moon delayed

The rumours have been flying around this past week that the new Sailor Moon anime will be delayed and unfortunately it has now been confirmed to be true.

It was confirmed by Osano Fumio, the Sailor Moon manga's editor at Kodansha, on his twitter account. 

Osano is known as Osabu on twitter and actually replies to quite a lot of comments and questions in English.

When asked "Sailor Moon is broadcast in winter 2014?" he replies "not 2014.perhaps.". I like to interpret this as that we might get it this fall but we'll just have to wait and see. I'm sad about the delay but as long as they make something really good I can stand to wait a bit longer.


Source: ANN, twitter

Possible HBO "Monster" by del Toro

Have you read or seen Urasawa Naoki' s Monster?
Would you like to see it as a HBO series directed by Guillermo del Toro and pilot episode co-written with Steven Thompson (Doctor Who, Sherlock)? Yes?
Sound too good to be true? Maybe not :D

The two of them seem to be working on it and I truly hope we'll get something truly great.

If you haven't experienced Monster yet, you should, his Pluto is also a master piece.


Source: ANN

Captain Harlock get's 3D movie

Do you know the 70's manga/anime Captain Harlock? Well it's getting a 3D animated movie and it is looking AWESOME!



Source:  ANN

New figurine on the way

キタ━━━(゜∀゜)━━━!!!!!

Kitaaa~!

I've been waiting for this :D A new Sailor Moon figurine!

Sure, it's the old design but I'm glad to know that Bandai is on the move.

And it is looking pretty good.

SEERA MUUN!

Tsuki ni kawatte, oshioki yo!

MUUN HIIRINGUU ESUKAREESHON!

I'm very much looking forward to more preview pictures!

Source: Bandai, ANN

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 2

Now this got me really exited :3

The legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 2! 

A sequel! Same world. New story. New puzzles. New graphics.

I get this tingly nostalgic feeling all over :D

Check out some gameplay footage at Nintendo Direct. Jump to 35:35 for Link to the Past 2.

This

is going to be

AWESOME!!

Source: ANN

Mizuki Nana x T.M.Revolution

New spring anime Valvrave the Liberator has a pretty grand line up of theme song singers. Not only is the opening a duet by Mizuki Nana and T.M.Revolution but the ending is done by angela. All big names when it comes to anime songs. This alone makes me want to watch the series.

Crunchyroll has announced that they will be streaming the anime.

I haven't watched the anime yet but it sounds interesting so I hope it lives up to these great singers.

 

Mizuki Nana and T.M.Revolution

PSY - GENTLEMAN

Okey, so how do you like it?
Psy goes on breaking more youtube records with his new song (most hits in its first day). I guess it has a pretty good party beat but without the video I find it boring. I like some bits of the video but a lot of just annoys me and I hate those pants, on anyone.
My Korean skills are limited to about 5 words so I guess I should check the song translation. I do wish he would just add the translation to the video.

ONE OK ROCK

For those who don't already know them I'd like to introduce:

ONE OK ROCK

I'll just let their music sing for itself .

「Keep it Real」 is one of their first songs before their official debut in 2007.

「The Beginning」, their hit song that's used as the theme song for the Rurouni Kenshin movie.

Check out their official youtube channel for more videos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ONEOKROCKchannel

You can even buy their songs on iTunes.

Or if you're like me and prefer to have your music in physical form, I can recommend cdjapan.co.jp.

Bonus song!

Simple Plan - SUMMER PARADISE feat. Taka from ONE OK ROCK

Mewtwo is back!

Mewtwo will make a comeback in the upcoming Pokémon movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeFEAA4JvaM

It premiers in Japan this summer so we'll have to wait a while before we can get our hands on some more new Mewtwo action.
Maybe the DVD will be out by Christmas?

http://www.pokemon-movie.jp/

New membership card!

So, we requested of our members to draw the illustration for this years membership card and we got a few contributions. In the end the chosen one is:

by Kajsa Nilsson

Thank you to those who applied and if we do this again we hope to see more of your lovely illustrations next year.

New things happening at SQEX

SQUARE ENIX what are you up to?

http://www.jp.square-enix.com/ff_atb/

The character sort of looks like it came from FFVI doesn't it? And that is definitely a FFVI Behemoth!

What will it be? For what console? Mobile? PSP? 3DS?

Personally I'd like to see a full PS3 remake, but that's me.

Documentary about Fukushima

Världens Säkraste Kärnkraft (The Worlds Safest Nuclear Power) is a new Swedish documentary about the Fukushima nuclear power plant and the security and safety of our own plants here in Sweden. It opens at KINO on the 11th of Januari.
It appears to be with English subtitles.

Get more info and watch the trailer at KINO's homepage.

And they are still screening Uppe på Vallmokullen so don't miss out!

Oh yeah,

Happy New Year everyone!