In an interesting twist, DWANGO has announced that the largest anime themed concert, Animelo Summer Live will be going overseas to Shanghai China in late November. The yearly event held at the Saitama Super Arena will still be held on August 28 and 29 titled Animelo Summer Live 2010 -evolution-. May'n, Nana Mizuki, Halko Momoi, and JAM Project have all been announced to return.
Last year in August, shoppers of Japan's otaku shopping district, Akihabara, reported that actress Kirsten Dunst, probably best recognized for her role as Mary Jane in recent Spiderman films, was spotted wearing a magical girl sailor outfit. It was later revealed that she was working on a music video titled Akihabara Majokko Princess with director McG who worked on 2009's Terminator Salvation. Almost half a year later, the video has finally been released online. The four minute video portraits various locations in Japan and Dunst's apparent love for the otaku culture, "...I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so."
Update: Got reports from some users the video is missing from the original site. Included the video inside. Let us know if it stops working.
FanimeCon, California's second largest anime convention, has announced on Sunday that "New Century Electro Rock" LM.C will be performing at MusicFest this year. The duo composing of maya on vocals, and Aiji on guitar, has done theme song performances for the anime titles Katekyo Hitman Reborn! and for Red Garden. FanimeCon 2010 will be hosted at the San Jose Convention Center from May 28th to the 30th.
Bringing her international acclaim with Kill Bill Vol. 1, Chiaki Kuriyama is once again making her debut as a singer with her single, Ryusei No Namida. The song was chosen as the theme song for Bandai's latest Gundam project, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. Kuriyama had earlier attended a screening of there series with director Kazuhiro Furuhashi and writer Harutoshi Fukui at The Grand Cinema in Hong Kong on February 6, 2010.
Sony Music has also announced that the single will be making a future American release soon, so stay tuned.
Like the previous post in an effort to promote the coming release of the Animelo Summer Live 2009 DVD and Blu-ray release, here's teaser shots of our main m.o.v.e photo folder. We have also included some of the images full sized that were previously approved for publication by their management and record label. Enjoy!
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