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“The Ring” Sequel Novel in the Works

Posted by animesempai on 8 days ago

After more than a decade, critically acclaimed horror novelist Koji Suzuki will write a new Ring novel based on his famed lead character, Sadako entitled, "S". This was revealed in a talk in Moscow.

Koji Suzuki

According to Suzuki, the story goes somewhat like "what if Sadako were to emerge from computer screens, what would happen?"

The new novel is set in 2014, after the events of Suzuki’s first Ring novel and its sequel Rasen (Spiral). In the new novel, her curse spreads through cloud computing on the Internet to far-flung locations. Previously, the malevolent spirit Sadako traveled from one victim to another via videotape.

The release date of the new Ring novel is still unknown as of the moment.

The Asahi Shimbun paper is streaming a short video of Suzuki speaking at Moscow.

Source:
AnimeNewsNetwork

Elfen Lied's Lynn Okamoto Launches New Manga Series

posted on 2011-12-14 12:15 EST

Kiwaguro no Brynhildr "dark fantasy of pure love" runs in Young Jump magazine

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2012's third issue of Shueisha's Young Jump magazine is announcing on Thursday that manga creator Lynn Okamoto (Elfen Lied, Nononono) is launching a new series titled Kiwaguro no Brynhildr in the ninth issue on January 26. The tagline for the manga reads, "'I killed my girlfriend…!' A dark fantasy of pure love!!"

Okamoto also created the story behind a one-shot manga named "Kimi wa Midara na Boku no Joō" (You Are the Queen for Indecent Me).Mengo Yokoyari (Haruwaka) is drawing this one-shot for the eighth issue on January 19.

The Elfen Lied manga inspired a television anime series that ADV Filmsreleased in North America.

[Via Manga News]

Watch the 1/1-scale Gundam RX-78-2 come back to life by Kristina Pino, 12/14/2011 live comments!

Ultra cool "Gundam Videographer" has been chronicling  the reconstruction of the 1/1-scale Gundam  RX-78-2 that originally stood at Odaiba in 2009  and is now back at Tokyo (apparently with no souvenirs for Hiroko, but nonetheless). I don't have much to say on the matter because the videos (plural) really speak for themselves. You could find them after the jump if you so desire!  I've got some major props for this guy that took all the video footage. The Gundam itself is an awesome sight, though. It's nice that it's back in Tokyo so more folks could go visit. I saw it back on its opening day in Odaiba and was seriously blown away.  I think I would have run away screaming if its leg or arm had begun to move, though. I mean, isn't that a scary thought? Japan building Gundams? It's cool, but damn. I don't know if the world is ready for huge robots. Then again, would the world really ever be ready for huge robots? [via ANN]