With Comiket just a few days away (August 11th) and E3 2007 basically canceled, it certainly is an interesting time for otaku of all shapes and sizes. That being said, ikimashou is contemplating some changes as well. I am keeping them secret for now, but I will be thinking about things and working on them and all that good stuff. Expect to know what I decided as we pull closer to 500 posts, which I currently stand a 445, so it is a ways off, but not too far. We’ll see where I am at that point. Yes we will. On with the rollup, be it ever so spartan.

Anime/Manga/Games

• Well for starters, E3 is off the map as a mega-convention. What does this mean? Well, it means I won’t be going most likely. Damn it all.
• That Flash-director’s animated series had it’s site opened and there’s already a trailer online. It will start airing in August
• The new Mai Otome OVA, Mai Otome Zwei, is set to air this fall, with promo posters popping up around August, be sure to steal them if you see them.
• A new Lupin special is set to air in September. The travesty will be called Lupin the 3rd: 70s Rhapsody. Whoopity doo.
• Black Blood Brothers, a vampire action anime, has a trailer up… it’s in English… The trailer is a minute and 57 seconds long and doesn’t give me much hope for the future of humanity. How are the voice actors in Japan so bad? Why is this PV in English? Some of the sentences are even Engrish. It’s… so bad.
• And in Paprika news, the movie is due out here in March of next year, giving my October 2007 assumption a lot of credence. Feel free to link me from your high traffic websites.

Figures

• We’re starting to see the emergence of TsuyoKiss figures. Now, how come you didn’t see more of these before the anime started? Did the ladies just start being attractive? What’s the deal people?! This one is of Konoe, and it’s due out in December for 4,500 yen. The part I like about this is that it’s part of HobbyStock’s tsundere collection. Haha. I like that kind of collection.
• I almost get sick of writing about this because I a.) don’t care about Dead or Alive and b.) realize that Kasumi is maybe the least attractive girl in the entire game. But, that being said, hey! Here’s another 15,500 yen Kasumi figure! It’s 15,540 to be precise and it will be out in September. I can hardly contain my excitement.
• Lastly we’ve got thoe FMA brothers, Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric in all their posable glory. I normally don’t post these types of things, but Alphonse looks like a badass, so I felt a need to do it. Plus this is the last of the figure news. Haha. Ed is 14,700 yen and Alphonse will be 18,900 yen, so they don’t come cheap. Both
  will be out in November.

Sorry about the slow rollup, blame the industry. It’s not my fault. Plus I was busy all day. Kiss my ass. I ate McDonalds for lunch and it was bad. I am so sick of McDonalds. Someone open a Yoshinoya here. Have I said that before? I’m rambling to fill space for no valid reason! YAY!