Bento Box: Blue Exorcist’s Spin-Off, Naruto’s MMORPG and Kooky Kigurumi
Plus your chance to become an animator on Attack on Titan!
Audition on Titan –
On Monday, Kyoji Asano, lead character designer and animation director of the
recently debuted Attack
on Titan
anime adaptation, tweeted an ad intended to recruit
amateur animators to join the staff of
the critically acclaimed series. This isn’t the first
time the anime/manga world has taken to social media: Sion Sono
recently used
YouTube auditions to cast his newest film. And here you thought that spending all your time staring at your phone was a waste of time!
MMORPGenius – In a double dose of
awesomeness, the first in-depth trailers for both
Monster
Hunter Online
and Naruto
Online
went live via their respective websites, delighting fans and worrying
non-fan significant others the world over. Though the Bandai/Tencent Naruto
game has been teased and much anticipated for a long time, the Monster
Hunter MMORPG was only
announced a few days prior to the trailer’s release. Both games promise
traditional genre game play while offering fully fleshed out universes
that fans of the series will want to spend a lot of time in, Like a lot of time. We’re hoping these games take off so that other anime
and manga series take the online plunge. One
Piece, anyone? (We
just want to be pirates.)
Get Some Exorcise – It only took four years! Popular shonen manga Blue
Exorcist
received its first
spin-off story in the form of the Salaryman
Exorcist: The Sorrow of Yukio Okumura one-shot published in Jump
SQ magazine. The
comedic tale is penned by Minoru Sasaki under the tutelage of Blue
Excorcist mangaka
Kazue
Kato.
The story follows the titular Yukio on a day in his life through his
misadventures trying to keep his twin brother Rin in check. The
issue also comes packaged with a poster drawn by Kato herself, so it’s a devilishly good deal.
Bowling Lanevangelion – Japan’s Round
1
bowling centers have either jumped the shark big time with their newest promotion or they’re the greatest humans of all time. Sure, most bowling alleys provide smelly
shoes for their patrons, but all 111 Round
1 locations are taking
it one step further and are offering Evangelion-themed “bowling pin”
kigirumi to happy bowlers across the country. Because throwing a ten pound ball into the gutter wasn’t embarassing enough, now you can do it dressed like your target!