The nominees of the 38th Japan Academy Prize, an award ceremony for honoring the excellent films of 2014 and the staff who made them, were announced on Jan. 14. This year, five works were nominated for Animation of the Year.

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It has been announced that pre-orders for Part 2 of a series of collaboration PC glasses between *Kuroko’s Basketball* and Jins PC called “Kuroko’s Basketball x Bandai x Jins PC” (5,292 yen, tax included, shipping & handling separate) will begin on Bandai’s official shopping site, Premium Bandai, on Monday, Jan. 19 at 11:00 a.m. (JST).

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Limited Time Promotion Marks The Milestone With 4 FREE Digital Issues Featuring The Best Manga Including DEATH NOTE Creator Takeshi Obata’s Brand New Series And More!

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The seventh and most recent chapter in *The Next Generation - Patlabor* series of live-action shorts, started showing in theaters on Jan. 10. Meanwhile, anticipation builds for the nationwide release on May 1 of the full-length feature film, *The Next Generation - Patlabor: Shuto Kessen* (Final Battle in the Capital).

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The release date of the Hollywood movie *Ghost in the Shell* based on Masamune Shirow’s sci-fi manga of the same name has been confirmed.

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The Pullip fashion doll collaborative series with *Sailor Moon*, the new second season of which has started on Niconico, was only lacking Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter of the Inner Sailor Guardians.

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Pre-orders have begun for collaboration pumps and booties between Clamp’s popular comic *Cardcaptor Sakura* and shoe brand Tyake Tyoke. Pre-orders will be taken until Sunday, Feb. 1.

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An anime adaptation has been confirmed for *Sore ga Seiyu!*, a tag team effort between an active voice actress and a popular manga artist. The broadcast will begin this summer.

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In the road race anime *Yowamushi Pedal: Grande Road* the interhigh is half over and the fight is getting more and more intense in the mountains of Hakone. Various collaborations are currently underway and tons of items are being released, among them the long-awaited “Keychain Plushies”!

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Staring at a cold computer screen banging the keyboard with a “kata kata kata” all day long… Now a product is here to give a bit of relief from this daily grind. That product is super-cute *Bonobono* keyboard stickers.

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*My Love Story!!*––a shoujo manga with a main character who is 2 meters tall, 120 kilograms, and has a rough, stern face––is getting a TV anime adaptation. The confirmation of the anime came in November 2014, and now at last the staff and cast on this attention-grabbing series have been revealed.

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*Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid*, the newest sequel to the popular anime series *Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha* was announced in August 2014. As the series has many enthusiastic fans, the news was greeted with great applause.

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The movie *Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova DC* will release on Jan. 31 at Shinjuku Wald 9 and other theaters across Japan. Along with this release, various events are set to begin in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

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Japan Expo in Thailand 2015 is coming to Bangkok, Thailand from Feb. 6-8 with Jeducation, a company that supports students in Thailand in studying abroad in Japan, as the main sponsor.

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Model and figure maker Kotobukiya will release in May 2015 the plastic model “Eva Unit-13 Pseudo-Evolution No. 3+ Phase (Estimated).” This Eva appeared in *Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo*, and grabbed the spotlight.

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ALA 2015 took place at the LAX Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles from January 9-11.

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The long-awaited *Psycho-Pass: The Movie* finally released nationwide in Japan on Jan. 9. The movie is an entirely new entry in the series, which began as a TV anime in 2012 and returned for its second season in fall 2014.

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Known for *Hidamari Sketch*, *Madoka Magica*, and other series, popular illustrator and manga artist Ume Aoki’s first solo exhibit, titled “Aoki Ume Exhibit,” has been confirmed.

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In the Ichiban Kuji coming to convenience stores and Animate locations throughout Japan in mid-February 2015, titled “Ayakashi General Store ‘New Spring Items Have Arrived,’” is a lineup of items in new spring patterns themed after Nyanko-sensei.

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A wide-scale release has finally been confirmed for Axent Wear, cat ear headphones equipped with external speakers that became massively popular through raising funds on overseas crowdfunding services.

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