Art of Avatar the Last Airbender -the Cartoon!

Finally arriving in store - next week.
The art of one of the best animated series ever, Avatar the last airbender.
While we haven't seen it yet, we trust that this will be a real keeper!

Cat Sh*# One Trailer

North American animation is reknowned for it's movies featuring talking antrophomorphic animals. Well Japan has also decided to take a stab at it in a much more unusual way. War films in Japan don't tend to seel well to Japanese audiences who are still very much living under the post war consequences and feelings of World War II. Instead Japanese filmmakers and animators usually use allegory and fantasy to tell people about war and current conflicts around the world. This is apparently the attempt behind the film Cat Sh*t One. A serious drama of war and conflict told using cute fuzzy animals. Sort of like Watership Down or even Maus... The animals may reflect their characters, in this case, the bunnies are puns on U.S.A. G.I.s or Usagis which is the Japanese word for rabbit. And the camels are obvious references to Middle Eastern enemies. Whether this seems good or ridiculous to you, it's certainly something that has to be seen to be believed!

So check out the trailer:



You can find a subtitled version here.

NEW ART BOOKS ..FINAL FANTASY XIII, TRINITY BLOOD..

Sorry we haven't gotten a chance to get images of all the books, but today we got in a bunch of art books in and figured is was worth mentioning.

back in stock/new from Japan. - Monster Hunter from Capcom, Final Fantasy xiii, Trinity Blood, Vampire Knight, Tsubassa illustration book #2 and a couple more anime artbooks whose titles we don't have in English. If we can, will try and post images next week. Or stop by in person and have a look.

also - just arrived from Heavy Metal - the New Luis Royo Dead Moon Epilogue book with DVD/Making of -behind the scenes with the artist.
and Elixer 2.





new Camilla D'errico 30 Postcards Set. You can't tell by the box, but if you like her work, you will love this set.

'TRON: Legacy' concept art and promo shots!

Some cool production images from Disney's upcoming 'TRON: Legacy' film are online. You can check them out here.

Imagi's Gatchaman Trailer

Here's a look at an early trailer that Imagi, the studio that made the recent 3-D animated Astroboy, were doing for Gatchaman. Astro Boy didn't do so well, and they are apparently looking for funding in order to finish this movie. So while there's currently no plans to finish or release this movie, you can take a look at what it could've turned out like...

Street Fighter Legacy - A Fan Film!

Fan films of this sort are rarely good. Even rarer when they are done by Hollywood talent! This fan film is made by Joey Ansah who is an actor, film maker and action choreographer. You may have seen him as the character 'Desh' in the Bourne Ultimatum. Fed up with the way Hollywood was treating adaptations of video games, he decided to make his own short film adapting Street Fighter. And he got together Top Gear director Owen Trevor, Anthony Wayne, who was the senior producer for the last eleven James Bond films, and VFX studio Prime Focus. Here's the result of their efforts:



You can visit Joey Ansah's official site for behind the scenes videos and other stuff. Fans of Street Fighter and Capcom can find a variety of artbooks and artist sketchbooks available at our store!

Another Century's Episode: R PV Trailer

Here's another one of those games that will not make it outside of Japan due to the fact that it features so many IPs from various anime that it would be incredibly hard to get licenses from the various North American anime companies to legally sell... But this sure is a pretty video! So enjoy it for it's mecha-goodness!



Anyone interested in Gundam, Macross, Full Metal Panic, Gurren Lagaan and other mecha anime can find plenty of related artbooks, manga and merchandise at our store!