A new anime movie that we should look forward to. I miss Miyazaki, but then let’s try the new animator for this film, Hiroma Yonebayashi.

Miyazaki is not directing the next film. 36-year-old animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi is making his directorial debut with this project. The film will open in the summer of 2010.

The original, Carnegie Medal-winning 1952 novel revolves around the “little people” — 10 centimeters (about 4 inches) tall — who live underneath the floorboards of an English country house. (The Japanese title literally means “the little people under the floor.”) 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items “borrowed” from the house’s human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty. Ghibli’s adaptation will transport the setting from 1950s England to the Tokyo neighborhood of Koganei in 2010. (Koganei in western Tokyo is the home of a number of Japanese animation studios, including Ghibli itself.) – ANN

It can be either in a pose, action or in a scene.

Artworks should be in size of 11X17, mounted on a 1/4 black illustration board.

Fan Artworks of GI JOE can be in colored, pencils, inked and digitally colored.

One entry per individual.

Bring your entry on June 13, 2009 at Megatrade Hall 2-3, SM Megamall

Include a label below your artwork containing:
Character name:
Artists name:
School/Org/Company:
website:

and submit a printed form containing the ff:

Character name:
Artists name:
School/org/ company:
website:

contact number:
email address:

for questions and inquiries of the contest, you can email us at azrael@toyconph.com

Today is the annual Comiket 75 or Comic Market 75 in Japan, and its the biggest convention and the mother breeding group for manga artist, previews and release of anime figures, merchandise, games and videos.

I have a friend who has a booth there and I haven’t got a chat with him for this year, and I also forgot to pick up my Hobby magazine that I requested from him last year. He offered this anime pantsu ( or panty) but I told him that I’m not interested on hentai stuff ahahhaha.

Read more below to see some interesting anime figures that was displayed at their 3 day convention.

there are more coverages and figure previews at

Nekomagic.com : Part 1: Max Factory, Good Smile Company, Gift, and Native

Nekomagic.com : Part 2: Kotobukiya, Yujin, Toranoana, Volks, and more!

photos are courtesy of http://blog.hobbystock.jp/report/2008/12/tp0089.html

top photo of Comiket 75 poster is courtesy of http://theakiba.com/tag/comiket-75/