Bento Box: Street Fighter, Gatchaman and Naruto, Oh My!
Plus a Ghost in the Shell-themed Porsche!
Kicking
it on the Street – Street
Fighter: Legacy creator
Joey Ansah has begun a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for an upcoming live-action series titled Street
Fighter: Assassin’s Fist. Hoping to raise nearly one million dollars to cover production costs, the campaign is set to run through May 3rd. The series will take place in Japan and delve deeper into
the stories of such beloved characters as Ken, Ryu and Gotetsu.
If all goes according to plan (and your wallets open wide enough),
the team hopes for a winter 2013 release. We can hadouken hardly wait.
Crowd
Around – Thirty-eight years ago, Science
Ninja Team Gatchaman
left Japanese airwaves and the man-bird sized hole in the hearts and viewing schedules of many otaku. Well, thirty-eight years later…look who’s
back. Kenji
Nakamura
will be rebooting the series under the name Gatchaman
Crowds in
anticipation of the live-action adaptation due out in the fall. While
details are sparse, a
few images
have made their way onto the web and first reaction has definitely
been positive to say the least. This summer, prepare to relive the
childhood you never had.
There
Goes our Social Lives – In
news
that should both delight and make people seriously consider their
life choices, game developer Tencent
has
announced that on April 18th the company will finally release the full details of the upcoming and
highly anticipated Naruto
Online
game. We’ll do a full report once the goods are out there, but
just knowing that very soon we can live in the world of
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura is making the workweek all the more
better. So get excited, stock
up on some ramen
and clear out your schedule because this is going to be bigger than a Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.
Ghost
in the Porsche – To
celebrate the upcoming theatrical release of Ghost
in the Shell: Arise, the Pacific Racing Team has
redecorated their prize vehicle with Ghost
in the Shell art
and customizations. The newly styled racing car is officially titled
“Nac
Kokaku Kidotai Arise DR Porsche”
(easy for them to say) and will be competing in its first race in
Okayama over the weekend. No word on if the car is powered by a
sentient cyborg…but we bet it still goes pretty fast.
