Week in Review: Doraemon Snowboards and Evangelion Exhibits
Plus, more Soul Eater and new Tohru Fujisawa manga!
Planet
of the Great Teachers – GTO
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Tohru
Fujisawa
is a busy man(gaka) with current writing duties on Kamen
Teacher Black, Ino Head Gargoyle, Tokko Zero and
more. He’s about to get a whole lot busier with the announcement of
a new manga series, Red
Data Planet, set
to make its December debut in Kodansha magazine. Details are sparse,
but if we know Fujisawa, someone’s gonna be creepy.
Best
Field Trip Ever! – The
place: Ginza, Tokyo. The time: so right now. The awesome: a
brand new Evangelion
exhibition
with
over 1,300 production materials for fans to peruse and fawn over. The
exhibition, which runs through the end of August, features original
art pieces, character models, storyboards and over 2,000 pieces of
merchandise. Where do we sign up to chaperone?
Not Quite Done Yet – Soul
Eater fans
rejoice (and there’s quite a lot of you out there)! Though the final
chapter of the manga was published in September, Atsushi Ohkubo has
announced that spin-off series Soul
Eater Not
will resume publication in Shonen
Gangan Magazine starting
in November. Dry those eyes little demon hunter and get ready to
reap some more souls!
Dude-raemon – Just when you though that Jean
Reno in a series of car commercials was
the height of Doraemon-related awesomeness, Vermont-based snowboard company Burton has
announced they will be releasing a series of custom Doraemon
snowboards to celebrate the 80th
birthday of creator Fujiko F. Fujio. The boards aren’t cheap,
but they are pretty damn cool, so if you’re a snowbunny (or
snow-cybernetic alien cat) you’ll want to jump on this.