During Nintendo’s presentation video “Nintendo 3DS Direct 3rd Party Publisher Games” released on July 11, it was announced that Square Enix’s Nintendo 3DS game *Final Fantasy Explorers* will be released this winter.
A new addition to Yamaha’s Vocaloid series of software, “Vocaloid 3 Library Galaco NEO,” will release in early August. The characteristic of this female vocal library is that it is based on the voice of actress Kou Shibasaki.
Booklista, a growing ebook service, announced on July 9 the results of the Booklista Half-Year Ranking 2014, which is comprised of the top selling ebooks available on Booklista’s ebook store.
MHz is a design company that produces apparel of anime depicting unique worlds, such as *Knights of Sidonia* and *Dorohedoro*. We asked them about their fixations on the designs that sublimate the worlds of such works into fashion apparel in Hz, a selection shop under MHz’s management.
A working 18-meter tall Mobile Suit Gundam may not be too far off. Work on the Gundam Global Challenge, which is burdened with making this dream a reality, has begun.
*Terra Formars* is a talked-about TV anime that will begin broadcasting this fall. This anime adaptation is based on a manga of the same name by Yū Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana that is currently serialized in *Weekly Young Jump* (Shueisha).
A TV anime is being made for the popular fantasy manga *Trinity Seven - 7-nin no Masho Tsukai*, which is currently serializing in *Monthly Dragon Age* (Kadokawa Fujimi Shobo).
A tie-in campaign is underway between *The Next Generation: Patlabor*, to which seven chapters will release sequentially, and the National Police Agency.
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