Rozen Maiden is a series known for its gorgeous, elegant art. Now, a collaboration with Noritake brings that elegance to the tea table—or your work desk, or wherever you want something pretty. The china company has released a pair of cup and saucer sets made in the image of Shinku and Suigintou. Shinku's cup and saucer is accented with gold, bearing a rose and thorn design. Suigintou's features feathers and red thorny vines. Both are decorated with a wind-up key on the front: Related: K-on! Anime Inspired Teacup Helps You Enjoy Your Own Afterschool Teatime The bottom of each teacup is marked with its respective doll's German name: Related: Pretty Cure 20th Anniversary Teacup Makes Teatime Magical The two cups and saucers are being sold together for 35,200 yen including tax (about US$230). Pre-orders are open until May 9. Source: Comic Natalie...
- 4/10/2024
- by Kara Dennison
- Crunchyroll
McM Expo/London Comic Con returns to ExCel London on 25th – 27th October. As well as hosting a galaxy of great sci-fi, movie, games, comics, anime and cosplay content, they’ve also got their usual huge line up of special guests – with more guests being added all the time! see www.mcmcomiccon.com for the latest London Comic Con news – but here’s a round-up of who’s been announced so far:
Red hot fantasy-noir show Lost Girl is coming to McM London Comic Com, with stars Ksenia Solo (Black Swan, Life Unexpected) and Rachel Skarsten (Transporter: The Series, Birds Of Prey) plus executive producer Jay Firestone (Andromeda, La Femme Nikita). Stars from hit sci-fi series Warehouse 13: Kelly Hu (Arrow, X-Men 2, The Vampire Diaries); Eddie McClintock (Bones, Desperate Housewives) and actor/director Saul Rubinek (Frasier, Curb Your Enthusiasm). The stars of new crime thriller By Any Means: Warren Brown (Luther,...
Red hot fantasy-noir show Lost Girl is coming to McM London Comic Com, with stars Ksenia Solo (Black Swan, Life Unexpected) and Rachel Skarsten (Transporter: The Series, Birds Of Prey) plus executive producer Jay Firestone (Andromeda, La Femme Nikita). Stars from hit sci-fi series Warehouse 13: Kelly Hu (Arrow, X-Men 2, The Vampire Diaries); Eddie McClintock (Bones, Desperate Housewives) and actor/director Saul Rubinek (Frasier, Curb Your Enthusiasm). The stars of new crime thriller By Any Means: Warren Brown (Luther,...
- 10/18/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Another week, another list of DVDs and Blu-rays out to buy from today.
The Lovers’ Guide 3D – Twenty years after the original The Lovers’ Guide exploded into the lives of the UK public, the ground-breaking guide is back with another no-holds-barred exploration of the pleasures of love-making. To mark the anniversary of the series that has brought adult sex advice firmly into the mainstream, the latest instalment has been created using cutting edge 3D technology as the next stop in the sexual revolution. Here the audience is engaged with a never-before-seen sense of intimacy and massively richer viewpoint. Now bigger, better and bolder than ever before, The Lovers’ Guide 3D – Igniting Desire features the voices of Gemma Bissix (Eastenders, Hollyoaks) and Jeremy Edwards (Hollyoaks, Holby City) and will take audiences to an altogether new level of love-making enlightenment. Review.
I Spit On Your Grave – A remake of the controversial 1979 cult classic,...
The Lovers’ Guide 3D – Twenty years after the original The Lovers’ Guide exploded into the lives of the UK public, the ground-breaking guide is back with another no-holds-barred exploration of the pleasures of love-making. To mark the anniversary of the series that has brought adult sex advice firmly into the mainstream, the latest instalment has been created using cutting edge 3D technology as the next stop in the sexual revolution. Here the audience is engaged with a never-before-seen sense of intimacy and massively richer viewpoint. Now bigger, better and bolder than ever before, The Lovers’ Guide 3D – Igniting Desire features the voices of Gemma Bissix (Eastenders, Hollyoaks) and Jeremy Edwards (Hollyoaks, Holby City) and will take audiences to an altogether new level of love-making enlightenment. Review.
I Spit On Your Grave – A remake of the controversial 1979 cult classic,...
- 2/7/2011
- by Kat
- Nerdly
In the world of giant mecha and space opera, it’s hard to find anything genuinely new. The genre is so defined, there are few trails left to blaze, and so a new series will most likely develop along one of two routes: it can either ride the coat tails an already established franchise, and present itself as a sequel/prequel/reversioning (the new — and Excellent — Evangelion titles are great example of this), or a show can strive to be a parody, preferably a really Good one, such as Galaxy Angel or Martian Successor Nadesico.
Vandread is in this latter category, and it doesn’t take long (approximately five seconds) to find out that this is space mecha action with a twist — forget aliens or angels, this is boys vs. girls! Men are from Mars, and Women are from Venus, but after decades in deep space, the two don’t...
Vandread is in this latter category, and it doesn’t take long (approximately five seconds) to find out that this is space mecha action with a twist — forget aliens or angels, this is boys vs. girls! Men are from Mars, and Women are from Venus, but after decades in deep space, the two don’t...
- 5/5/2010
- by E. Douglas
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Someone once remarked that the thing about J.R.R. Tolkien fans is that they don’t want to Read about Middle Earth — they want to Go there. It was a stunningly brilliant observation, and I’m borrowing it for a moment because I think the same observation holds true for anime fans. At least, I know it does for me.
At any given time, I’ll have two or three series I’m watching or reading that I’m really hooked on. For a while it was Inuyasha, Big O, and Cowboy Bebop. Then it was Evangelion. I went through a Love Hina phase, a Negima and then a Haruhi phase. Mahoromatic was in there, too. Most recently it’s been Rozen Maiden and When They Cry. The final arc of Higurashi may not have been all that great in the way of resolving loose plot ends — heck, it left me...
At any given time, I’ll have two or three series I’m watching or reading that I’m really hooked on. For a while it was Inuyasha, Big O, and Cowboy Bebop. Then it was Evangelion. I went through a Love Hina phase, a Negima and then a Haruhi phase. Mahoromatic was in there, too. Most recently it’s been Rozen Maiden and When They Cry. The final arc of Higurashi may not have been all that great in the way of resolving loose plot ends — heck, it left me...
- 8/27/2009
- by E. Douglas
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Summer is here, at least for another month or so, and as Yuko would tell us, hot weather makes the perfect setting for ghost stories! That’s not just an excuse to drink more sake, though (not that Yuko needs an excuse, anyway); summer is also the season for Obon, the festival to honor the dead. Tokyo has it’s bon festival around July 15, but for most of the country, bon odori happens around August 15, so to celebrate this spooky time, and look forward to Halloween (notice those fall decorations going up in stores yet?), this week’s AniMania features a horror series, When They Cry.
The title comes from the sounds of the cicada calls in late summer. Also known as Higurashi, this fiendishly clever show recounts a series of strange murders that took place in the small town of Hinamizawa. The story follows Keiichi, a young man who...
The title comes from the sounds of the cicada calls in late summer. Also known as Higurashi, this fiendishly clever show recounts a series of strange murders that took place in the small town of Hinamizawa. The story follows Keiichi, a young man who...
- 8/20/2009
- by E. Douglas
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fullmetal Alchemist Premium Ova Collection One of the best things about anime is the “omake”, or extras — also known as that stuff at the end of the tape. Long before DVD’s with their menu of special features, in the dark ages of VHS, anime fans were being treated to a smorgasbord of little goodies — from previews to music videos to something as simple as a visual catalog of a company’s other titles — pretty much anything the studio could find to throw on the last few minutes of a video tape. It was one of the things that made anime, well, anime. Lately we’re seeing fewer extras, as the industry and the economy as a whole have been forced to makes some painful cuts to stay alive. But if you’re longing for some of those good old days, not to worry. Funimation is about to release an entire collection of bonus material,...
- 7/30/2009
- by E. Douglas
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This week we have something different for our AniMania readers: a special report from last week’s event, NatsuCon! Taking its name from the Japanese word natsu, meaning summer, it is seeking to be the third contender in the St. Louis anime scene, alongside Archon in the fall, and Anime St. Louis in the spring.
While these two conventions are already well established, St. Louis anime fans appear to be hungry for more. Attendance at NatsuCon, which took place this past weekend at the St. Louis Best Western Airport Convention Plaza, surpassed the organizers’ expected headcount of 200, and while exact figures were still being tallied, it appears the final numbers may have blown the hotel imposed cap of 500. The hotel staff was a source of frustration for many fans, who complained of being driven from the lobby and halls and threatened with expulsion and arrest.
But in spite of the...
While these two conventions are already well established, St. Louis anime fans appear to be hungry for more. Attendance at NatsuCon, which took place this past weekend at the St. Louis Best Western Airport Convention Plaza, surpassed the organizers’ expected headcount of 200, and while exact figures were still being tallied, it appears the final numbers may have blown the hotel imposed cap of 500. The hotel staff was a source of frustration for many fans, who complained of being driven from the lobby and halls and threatened with expulsion and arrest.
But in spite of the...
- 7/23/2009
- by Edward Douglas
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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