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It may have to be removed due to what I found, or at least see if there's something else like it.

Yeah I know, I'm going to disable the popup thing for now until I can remedy that.

The official website of Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age magazine has revealed that an anime adaptation of Hiromitsu Takeda's Maken-Ki! manga is in the works. The romantic comedy centers around Takeru Ōyama, a boy enrolled in an elite school where the girls (and boys) fight with mysterious powers called Maken. The student body includes the enigmatic girl Kodama, a girl named Inaho who calls herself Takeru's fiancée, and his childhood friend Haruko. The manga launched in Dragon Age Pure magazine in 2007, but it has been running in Monthly Dragon Age since last year. The fifth compiled book volume shipped in October. Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-12-01/maken-ki-manga-has-anime-project-in-the-works

The official website of Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age magazine has revealed that a television anime adaptation of Hinata Takeda's Ikoku Meiro no Croisée (La croisée dans un labyrinthe étranger) manga has been green-lit. The story follows a girl named Yune who ends up alone in the lower-class neighborhoods of Paris in the last half of the 19th century. She ends up working at a shopping district with a boy named Claude. The manga launched in Dragon Age Pure magazine, but it has been running in Monthly Dragon Age since last year. The second compiled book volume shipped in June of last year. Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-12-01/ikoku-meiro-no-croisee-manga-gets-tv-anime

The 23rd volume of Akita Shoten's Champion RED Ichigo magazine is announcing on Saturday that a television anime adaptation of FLIPFLOPs' Nekogami Yaoyorozu manga has been green-lit. The "neighborhood deity comedy" centers around Mayu-sama, a cat goddess (nekogami) who lives at Yaoyorozu-dō, an antique shop owned by Yuzu Komiya. Unexpected visitors in the form of other goddesses stop by the antique shop. The manga has been running in Champion RED Ichigo since 2007, and the third compiled book volume shipped in April. There have also been two standalone drama CDs and two more drama CDs that were bundled witht the magazine; Rie Kugimiya (Mayu) and Mai Nakahara (Yuzu Komiya) starred in the drama CDs. Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-12-01/nekogami-yaoyorozu-manga-gets-tv-anime

The 53rd issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday that the Gintama television anime is resuming. The anime had ended in March, but Shinji Takamatsu, one of the main directors of the anime, had said at an event later that month that "Gintama is absolutely not over. It hasn't even begun yet! It will definitely return." Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-12-01/gintama-tv-anime-to-resume

The limited first edition Blu-ray Disc of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st sold 58,000 copies to rank #1 on the overall Blu-ray Disc chart for the November 22-28 week. The DVD version ranked #2 on its respective chart with 22,758 copies. The film had taken in 380 million yen (about US$4.4 million) at the box office this year. The second film, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 2nd A's, will open in Japan in 2012. Update: The Mainichi Shimbun paper's Mantan Web site reports that the Blu-ray Complete Box of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was #2 with 31,000 copies. Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-30/1st-nanoha-film-tops-weekly-bd-chart-with-58000

The market survey firm Oricon Communications is reporting on Wednesday that the five newest book volumes of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece pirate manga took all five top spots in this year's comic sales ranking chart in Japan. Those five volumes sold 12.5 million copies, and the overall series sold 32.34 million copies in 2010 — more than double the copies sold in 2009 (14.721 million). Here are the top five best-selling comics in Japan of 2010: Rank Volume Copies Sold 1 One Piece #59 2.594 million 2 One Piece #57 2.579 million 3 One Piece #58 2.557 million 4 One Piece #60 2.492 million 5 One Piece #56 2.480 million Oricon's year-end book sales ranking chart for 2010 tabulates data from November 23, 2009 to November 21, 2010. 17 volumes from One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, Nodame Cantabile, Naruto, and other series each sold over 1 million copies this year. There were only 11 volumes in 2008 and 12 volumes in 2009 that accomplished that feat. Since the manga series launched in 1997, One Piece now has 200 million copies in print. The newest volume, #60, holds a record for having 3.4 million copies published in its first print run. It is the first book, since Oricon began reporting its book ranking charts in April of 2008, to sell over 2 million copies in its first week of sales — in just four days. Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-30/one-piece-takes-top-5-spots-in-2010-comic-rankings

The official website for the Sōkyū no Fafner: Dead Aggressor: Heaven and Earth film has begun streaming a trailer . The film will open in Japan on December 25. Hisashi Hirai, the character designer of the original Fafner television series, is returning to work on the new anime along with the animators at Xebec. Tow Ubukata is credited with the scriptwriting, and the Starchild musical group Angela will perform the theme song. steam: http://fafner.jp/h-and-e/top.html Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-30/fafner/heaven-and-earth-film-trailer-posted

I'm confused with this part. Are you saying have the earth as in viewed from space with a road moving away/toward it, or a picture representing earth with an image of a long stretch of road of Ibiza?

TDUCk will be taking that spot. ;)

The design is for those using resolutions more than 1024x768. According to our visitor stats only 3% of our visitors use that resolution and below and to be honest it limits you to what you can create. We're a community dedicated to a game, so it makes sense to use the most popular gaming resolution for our look. I've also dumped IE6 so if anyone is using that then you will have some issues show up, however if you're using a browser within the last 10 years then we should be good. It's funny, while I was planning 'four' FC changed to it's current look and I was like hmmm. The thinking behind this is '24 hours on an island'. Starts with the night sky (top), the sun rises (banner), the day is the main part (skyblue and light fresh main content) and then it goes back to night with (footer) with some of the sunset being shown in the buttons and links in said footer. I'm still considering adding something to the footer and have been playing around with ideas but nothing jumps out at me yet. :D I debated hard about losing the tarmac background as that is somewhat our trademark type thing, however with that background I was limited to certain schemes, however I may try and incorporate it somehow if the demand for it's return is their. I'll add this to the list, it's not a major thing but looks like you're not alone in this thinking. Thanks! That's a tough one as I could add more to the left side but at the end of the day if the thread content is long you will still end up with whitespace one way or the other. I could have it scroll down with you but I always hated those things personally. Yep I know but again change is a good thing and a lot of time people hate it but after a while they get used to it. Well I hope so anyway. :cheeky: Baldy flagged this upto me last night, it's one of the first things I'll be fixing. Yep all I have to do is upload the Speshul sparkle, that's an easy fix. It's annoying that Firefox doesn't show bad images as this is how these things get missed! :mad: All in all, thanks for the feedback, good or bad, I know things aren't complete with this and with the feedback you guys are giving it's making it easy to note down what needs sorted and then I can hopefully get around to sorting it.

Thanks for the feedback all. I have a list I've been composing from what I have seen myself and from what you guys have mentioned. It's still being worked on even though it's here but you will see some things change as the days go on.

Sorry I missed this. :( Happy Birthday mate, have a good one!!

Hey all, if you haven't noticed already - not entirely sure how that's possible - you will see that we are now sporting a new style, our fourth in fact which we have aptly named ....wait for it; 'four' As you can see it's a lighter version that the deathly black we have been known for and had in the past so yes it's a break from the usual but hey a random change of pants/underwear is always good! :bunny: Anyway there's still a few things we've got to sort and they will be taken care of in the next few days but if you do see something post it here and we'll get onto it and add it to the list. Also it would be good to get your feedback on what you guys and girls think so that we can cry in a corner after so much hard work. Cheers!

The Japanese company Kadokawa Shoten began streaming 101 seconds of early promotional footage from the Gosick anime on the YouTube website on Tuesday. The anime adapts Kazuki Sakuraba's Gosick mystery novel series, in which Kazuya Kujo studies abroad at the Saint Marguerite Academy in a small European country in 1924. Kazuya joins forces with Victorique, a girl with deductive powers that rival Sherlock Holmes', to solve mysteries. The anime will premiere in Japan on January 7, 2011. [smg id=110 type=av] Gosick, Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?, Love Live! Promos Streamed posted on 2010-11-30 10:50 EST Gosick, Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? in January; Love Live's 2nd single next month The Japanese company Kadokawa Shoten began streaming 101 seconds of early promotional footage from the Gosick anime on the YouTube website on Tuesday. The anime adapts Kazuki Sakuraba's Gosick mystery novel series, in which Kazuya Kujo studies abroad at the Saint Marguerite Academy in a small European country in 1924. Kazuya joins forces with Victorique, a girl with deductive powers that rival Sherlock Holmes', to solve mysteries. The anime will premiere in Japan on January 7, 2011. Kadokawa Shoten's website for the Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? television anime series has also begun streaming 107 seconds of the earliest public footage off its YouTube channel. The anime will premiere in Japan on January 10. In Shinichi Kimura's original light novel series, a lazy high school boy named Ayumu Aikawa gets killed during a spate of mysterious serial killings. However, Ayumu is resurrected as a zombie by a necromancer girl named "Yū" (Eucliwood Hellscythe), who Ayumu had just met before dying. Ayumu reawakens in a world surrounded by "masō shōjo" (magically equipped girls) and vampire ninja. Ayumu is assigned the duties of a masō shōjo by a magical warrior girl named Haruna. [smg id=111 type=av] Bandai Visual's Lantis label and the publisher ASCII Media Works began streaming a 110-second "short" promotional video for the Love Live! project's second song, "Snow halation," on its YouTube channel. The school idol project comes from the anime studio Sunrise, Lantis, and ASCII Media Works' Dengeki G's Magazine. The song's CD single will ship in Japan on December 22 with the full music video animated by Sunrise Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-30/gosick-kore-wa-zombie-desu-ka-love-live-promos-streamed [smg id=112 type=av]

Shueisha's Super Jump magazine is publishing a spinoff issue called Girls Jump ("G-Jum") with an all-female creator lineup on December 15. Super Jump magazine is aimed primarily at a seinen (young men) audience. The 22 creators who will take part in the issue include Kumiko Suekane (Afterschool Charisma, Blood+ Adagio), Kazumi Yamashita (Tensai Yanagisawa Kyōju no Seikatsu, Fushigi na Shonen), Yōko Nemu (Gozen 3-ji no Muhō Chitai, Gozen 3-ji no Kiken Chitai), Ching Nakamura (Gunjō, Avare Senki), Peco Watanabe (Roundabout, Ani Imōto), Natsuo Motomachi (Ane Oto, Fuwari!), Haruko Kashiwagi (Inu, Onimushi), Yukizō Saku (Hakuba no Ōji-sama, Self), Kozueko Morimoto (Gokusen, Deka Wanko), Machiko Kyō (Mikako-san, Sennen Gahō), and Yumiko Shirai (Tenken). The artists are each drawing a new one-shot story for the issue. Shueisha is shipping Aoharu, a separate spinoff issue from Weekly Young Jump magazine, with 25 creators such as Cencoroll auteur Atsuya Uki, Kyō, Shirai, and Suekane on Tuesday. Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-29/girls-jump-issue-drawn-by-all-female-lineup-next-month

The January issue of Gakken's Megami Magazine is announcing on Tuesday that its readers can submit designs for the panties of Asuka and the other characters in the Ore-tachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai television anime series. The magazine has just revealed that NAVEL's Ore-tachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai—under the innocent sky visual novel software will spawn a television anime next April. The winning entries will be used in the actual anime, and the designers will be listed as part of the staff in ending credits. The winners will also receive prizes. The original software follows the lives of young people in the big city of Yanagihara, and it features scenario writer "Ō Jackson" (Shuffle! contributor), character designer Aoi Nishimata (Final Approach, Lovedol ~Lovely Idol~, Shuffle!), and musical composer Acchorike (Shuffle!). Shinji Ushiro (Blessing of the Campanella, Omamori Himari, Strait Jacket) is directing the anime at the studio Nomad. Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-11-29/ore-tachi-ni-tsubasa-wa-nai-panties-design-contest-held

The wraparound jacket band on the third volume of Rino Mizuho's The Magic of Chocolate (Shokora no Mahō) shōjo horror manga series is announcing this month that an anime adaptation has been green-lit. More details will be provided in Shogakukan's Ciao magazine. The "bittersweet, mysterious story" revolves around Chocolat Aikawa, a chocolatière who runs a shop called Chocolat Noir. She can grant wishes to the troubled people who visit her shop — if they give her something precious in exchange. Mizuho has been drawing the manga in Ciao and Ciao DX on an irregular schedule, and the first compiled volume shipped in July of 2009. The second volume, The Magic of Chocolate ~bittersweet~, shipped this past March, and the third volume, The Magic of Chocolate ~creamy sugar~, is shipping this month. Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-29/the-magic-of-chocolate-shojo-horror-manga-gets-anime

Washimiya, the Kuki City neighborhood that is home to the "Lucky Star shrine," hosted its first otaku matchmaking event on Sunday. According to the organizers of the "Ota-Konkatsu Washimiya Deai-Hen ~San-jigen no Kimi ni Todoke~" (Otaku Matchmaking: Washimiya Dating ~Reaching You in 3D~) event, seven couples were formed out of the 20 male and 20 female participants. A representative of the local chamber of commerce and industry's youth division acknowledged the high 35% success rate and added that the organizers want to run the event again — then mused aloud about how many times they can run the event in a year. The event began at 2:00 p.m. with the male and female participants going into separate rooms. The members of each room then introduced themselves to the other room via microphones and speakers. An hour later, the two sides met face-to-face and discussed various things such as their favorite characters. Everyone joined together to make soba noodles by hand before dining. At 7:00 p.m., each participant could choose up two candidates for their ideal mate and write those candidates' numbers down. (Each participant had the option of listing no candidates.) If two participants chose each other, they were declared a couple and received presents. The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper's Mantan Web site reports that many of those who did not "win" ended up asking each other out to go drinking. Washimiya is the home of Washinomiya Shrine, which was used as the basis for a location in Kyoto Animation's 2007 television adaptation of Kagami Yoshimizu's manga Lucky Star. It has since become a popular destination for anime fans, who make "pilgrimages" to the shrine. The concept for the dating event originated in 2009, when many visiting fans who filled out surveys said that they were interested in marriage. 386 males applied for 20 spots — or 19.3 applicants for every spot. 115 females applied for 20 spots, or 5.75 applicants for every spot. 42 people actually received the invitation emails, although only 40 actually took part in the event since two did not show up. The male entrants had to be between the ages of 18 and 40, be otaku, and pay 8,000 yen (about US$100). The female entrants had to be between the ages of 18 and 40 "be tolerant of otaku or better yet, be otaku or be sympathetic to otaku"; and pay 1,000 yen (about US$12). Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-11-29/lucky-star-town-matchmaking-event-pairs-7-couples

Manga creators Osamu Akimoto (Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo), Fujiko Fujio A (Doraemon, Kaibutsu-kun), Leiji Matsumoto (Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express 999), Tetsuya Chiba (Ashita no Joe), Souichi Moto (Dakkan, Megumi), and Juzo Yamasaki (Mukoujou, Tsuri Baka Nisshi) are holding a press conference to voice their opposition to the new proposed amendment to Tokyo's Youth Healthy Development Ordinance on Monday. The Nico Nico Douga website began streaming the press conference shortly after 4:30 p.m. on Monday in Japan (2:30 a.m. EST). Nico Nico Douga will also stream a separate special program about the bill at 9:00 p.m. in Japan (7:00 a.m. EST). Media journalist Daisuke Tsuda will host a panel with manga creator Ken Akamatsu (Love Hina, Negima! Magister Negi Magi), scholars and critics Hiroki Azuma (Fractale) and Kaoru Nagayama, self-described "otaku lawyer" and manga creators' rights advocate Takashi Yamaguchi, and members of the Japan Magazine Publishers Association. Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-29/manga-creators-panels-on-new-youth-ordinance-bill-streamed Watch the video: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv33227605

AV Watch’s coverage of the upcoming Japanese DVD & BD release of the Kowarekake no Orgel movie edit includes four screenshots culled from the additional footage and new 8 minute bonus short exclusive to the movie. The short movie will hit Japanese home video on December 24. Source:http://www.animenation.net/blog/2010/11/26/first-look-at-extended-kowarekake-footage/

The official website for Kodansha's Morning seinen magazine and its manga titles announced on Thursday that the web team plans to open an English version in the near future. The announcement came as part of a revamp (pictured at right) of the entire site. The English version will be the first step in Kodansha's plans to make the site available in multiple languages, and it aims to have simultaneous releases worldwide. The site revamp launched a number of new series and an application for the Apple iPhone and Android smartphones, and it also introduced a new official mascot character, a bear called "Morninguma." Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-28/morning-manga-plans-english-site-worldwide-releases

The Japan PEN Club and the Tokyo Bar Association both announced on Thursday that they opposed the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's new attempt to amend the Youth Healthy Development Ordinance. In addition, the general affairs division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is meeting with manga creators on Monday on the matter. The current ordinance already prevents the sale and renting of "harmful publications" — materials that are "sexually stimulating, encourages cruelty, and/or may compel suicide or criminal behavior." The proposed Bill 156 would require the industry to also self-regulate the sale and renting of "manga, anime, and other images (except for real-life photography)" that "unjustifiably glorify or exaggerate" certain sexual or pseudo sexual acts. The revised bill will specifically target depictions of "sexual or pseudo sexual acts that would be illegal in real life, or sexual or pseudo sexual acts between close relatives whose marriage would be illegal" and therefore be "detrimental toward the healthy development of youth." Another section of the revised bill would allow the government to directly restrict the sale and renting of the above images if the depicted acts are also "considered to be excessively disrupting of social order" such as rape. Under the name of their president Takashi Atōda, the literary writers in the Japan PEN Club said that the proposed bill would "warp the freedoms of speech and expression" and allow the government to have the authority to enter into areas of people's privacy. The organization had also opposed the earlier version of the bill in March, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly rejected that version in June. Under the name of their president Kazuo Wakatabi, the lawyers of the Tokyo Bar Association noted that the revised bill removes the controversially vague term "nonexistent youth," which was used to define which characters' images should be restricted. However, the association said that the revised bill now uses the vague term "exaggerated" to define the restricted materials, and the association added that manga, anime, and other media are "exaggerated" almost by nature. The association concluded that there is concern that the restrictions would violate the freedom of expression. Yukie Nogami, a second-term DPJ legislator in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, reported on her Twitter account that her party's general affairs division will meet with Tetsuya Chiba (Ashita no Joe) and other manga creators on Monday regarding the revised bill. The division plans to also hear from four publishing associations on that day. DPJ is currently the largest party of the assembly; it opposed the earlier bill. Chiba has expressed his opposition to the revised bill and predicted how it would affect creativity in the manga industry in a November 26 blog entry. Chiba had joined other manga creators in opposing the earlier bill. Translator Dan Kanemitsu noted on Wednesday that the revised bill, just like the earlier version, covers several other areas such as Internet filtering on phones used by minors under the age of 18. The revised bill also calls for the industry to deal with a publisher who release six or more "harmful publications" within a one-year period. If the publisher releases another "harmful publication" within the next six months, Tokyo's governor can identify the publisher in public with supporting documentation . Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-27/writers-lawyers-oppose-revised-youth-ordinance-bill

The official website for the Rio - Rainbow Gate! television anime series began streaming a 100-second promotional video on Saturday. The anime features a casino dealer named Rio Rollins (Marina Inoue) who has starred in several pachi-slo (pachinko parlor-style slot machine) games from Net and Temco. The anime will premiere in Japan on January 4, 2011. In the story, Rio is a popular casino dealer at the Howard Resort, an entertainment resort hotel where people from all over the world gather. She competes for the greatest honor among dealers — "Most Valuable Casino Dealer" (MVCD) — by collecting 13 legendary cards known as "Gates." "The Goddess of Winning" first appeared in 2003 in the Super Black Jack game franchise from the pachi-slo company Net, thanks to Net's collaboration with Tecmo (Dead or Alive) to create female characters. Rio's popularity led to several more games, including 2005's Rio Carnival, 2007's Rio Paradise, and 2009's Rio 2 -Cruising Vanadis-. Source:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-27/rio-rainbow-gate-tv-anime-promo-video-streamed [smg id=109 type=av]