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.
The cable TV network WAKUWAKU JAPAN launched in Indonesia in February of this year and in Myanmar in June. The network broadcasts a variety of entertainment shows created in Japan.
A TV anime adaptation has been greenlit for the popular manga *Akatsuki no Yona* by Mizuho Kusanagi that is currently serializing in the shoujo manga magazine *Hana to Yume* (Hakusensha).
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