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[PHILLYgundamnFAN]

ROBOT APOCALYPSE NEWS ALERT

Robots will serve you your McNuggets in the future. Due to increasing wages for employees and tech progress University of Oxford researchers estimated that there is a 92% chance that fast-food preparation and serving will be automated in the coming decades.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/22/technol ... ?hpt=hp_t2

[Vent Noir]

ROBOT APOCALYPSE NEWS!!!

What should robot cars' ethical rules be?

[Rodimus76]

***Sir Bay News Alert!!!***
Promo art for TMNT gives us a better look at what the Turtles will look like in the movie:

http://geektyrant.com/news/promo-art-fo ... tles-movie

[Dollow]

AX2014 Welcomes Video Game Producer/Illustrator, Keiji Inafune, as Guest of Honor!

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We are excited to welcome Keiji Inafune to Anime Expo 2014 as a Guest of Honor! He is most well-known for his work on Mega Man and most recently, his Might No. 9 project. At AX 2014, Keiji Inafune will have a Q&A panel as well as autograph sessions.

Keiji Inafune is considered by many to be one of the world’s leading authorities on video game concept development and design. He has been named one of the top 10 game creators in the world by Gametrailers.com and has authored several books. Inafune was employed at CAPCOM for 23 years where he was the former Global Head of Production and Head of Research & Development and Head of the Online Development Division. Inafune’s games generated large sales for CAPCOM over the years and included such blockbuster hit series as Mega Man, Resident Evil, Onimusha, Street Fighter, Lost Planet and Dead Rising. Inafune was directly involved in creating over 60 game titles in his career at CAPCOM and was in charge of over 900 employees. Inafune, after leaving CAPCOM, founded comcept Inc., a company dedicated to designing creative concepts. Inafune and comcept Inc. have an extensive network of the industry’s top game designers, developers, artists, engineers and producers to collaborate with. Last year his company successfully completed the Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter campaign, gathering over $4 million in funding.

[wielder]

Gundam's Advance of Zeta Spinoff Manga Cancelled Due to Artist's Health

The July issue of Kadokawa's Dengeki Daioh magazine announced on Tuesday that Yū Akiba's serialization of the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam spinoff manga Advance of Zeta: Toki ni Aragaishi Mono has been canceled.

The manga went on hiatus in the magazine's November 2013 issue due to the author's health, and since the illness has become a long-lasting one, the staff decided to cancel the manga. The staff of the magazine apologized to the fans of Sunrise, the author of the original novels, and the manga. Akiba began serializing the manga in November 2012, and Kadokawa shipped the first compiled volume of the manga last September.

Source:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... lth/.74941

[zero_the_masked_knight]

ROBOT APOCALYPSE NEWS ALERT! !

R2D2 the most beloved robot in the Galaxy

Why R2 is so popular, and how the machines plan to infiltrate our society.

MARTIN: Good. So it's not that C-3PO, the other taller droid, was off-putting, per se, but R2 really captured people's hearts, right?
THOMPSON: Absolutely. In fact, even the actors who were on set would often report sort of kind of going goopy with affection for the robot. You know, they would kind of lose themselves. And these are people who even knew that it was just a tin can with some motors inside.
MARTIN: I mean, R2-D2 didn't even talk. C-3PO speaks English. R2 just made these cute little sounds. But you write that that actually plays into why we found him so endearing.
THOMPSON: Absolutely. There's this theory in robotics known as the uncanny valley theory. And what it basically states is that the more realistic a robot gets, the cooler and the more attracted we are to it, until it gets so close to being human that it looks very humanlike, it's very android-like. And then suddenly, our affection for it plunges down into a valley. 

[Rodimus76]

***Sir Bay News Alert!!!***
Sir Bay would like to direct a live action Evangelion movie

http://www.critiques4geeks.com/2014/05/ ... vangelion/

[Mu La Flaga]

Madman Entertainment launches AnimeLab Streaming Service(in Beta version)
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/05/madman ... ch-period/

[Vent Noir]

!!! SIR BAY NEWS ALERT !!!

Mark Wahlberg says Transformers: Age of Extinction of All Childhoods is "More Realistic"

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Ghost in the Shell intro recreated in haunting still life (NSFW)

The 1995 anime film Ghost in the Shell is still widely heralded as a modern sci-fi classic, helping define the look, feel and themes of the cyberpunk movement. But few fans are as devoted as the group of artists behind Project 2501, a 4K, live-action recreation of still 39 frames from Ghost in the Shell's title sequence that was released this week.

The resulting series of still images took over a year to produce and involved the talents of over 30 artists, according to the creator of the project, Hollywood graphic designer Ash Thorp (The Amazing Spiderman 2, X-Men: First Class, Person of Interest). "It was really tricky to find an indoor heated pool that would allow photography and nudity," Thorp tells us.

Thorp and his colleagues also released a short film that tracks some of the effort involved in their labor of love, but stress the still images are the main focus of the project. "I originally wanted this to be just a fun side project to create with some friends on my free time over a time span of a month, if that," he says. "But as we opened up the opportunities it got bigger and more complicated as the team grew." The designer says he's not involved in the upcoming Dreamworks remake of Ghost in the Shell that was first reported on earlier this year, but if that film is anything like Project 2501, it should be worth watching.

[faizdanyal]

Anime News Alert!

Today,I bring to you a double dose of Anime goodies, one of which is for all the Mecha fans!

1. Kill La Kill English Dub Cast Revealed

This is an update on the Kill La Kill English Dub. It appears that the English Dub cast was revealed by Aniplex USA for the dub. Erica Mendez plays the main character, Ryuuko Matoi while Carrie Keranen plays Satsuki Kiryuin. Aniplex USA will release Kill La Kill in 3 versions: Standard DVD, Blu-Ray and Limited Edition DVD Blu-Ray Combo Pack and it'll be released in 5 volumes. The 1st Volume will be released July 15th. Also, Aniplex USA put up a trailer for the Kill La Kill. That and other voice cast are available in these links:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... dub/.75002

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... usa/.75006

2. Majestic Prince Dub CONFIRMED!

Sentai Filmworks have just post a sneak peek into the English dub version of Majestic Prince. And they only put up the trailer. That's it. No English dub cast is announced yet.

Link: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... med/.75003

[Vent Noir]

Poll ranks most over-used cliches in J-Pop lyrics

[eanetdude]

First 90-Second Promo for GUNDAM: THE ORIGIN

Source: Anime News Network

[Wingnut]

Robot Apocalypse News

You Can't Outrun This Robot Velociraptor

In the history of bad ideas, creating a robotic velociraptor seems like it would rank near the top, yet that is exactly what scientists in Korea have done.

OK, so it doesn't have teeth or claws or the ability to devour a whole cow in seconds (yet). But it can run extremely fast.

The only thing stopping it is the power cord.
Youtube video in link.

[eanetdude]

SIR BAY NEWS ALERT
The Upcoming Classic In the Transformers Film Series Will ONLY be 2 Hours 30 minutes Long
Michael Bay's Twitter confirmed that our dreams of an epic 6-hour pyro oasis have been crushed.

Source: Twitter

[wielder]

New 2-Part Buddy Complex Sequel Anime to Air This Fall

The official website for Sunrise's Buddy Complex anime announced on Sunday that a brand-new Buddy Complex project, the two-part Buddy Complex Kanketsu-hen -Ano Sora ni Kaeru Mirai de- (Buddy Complex Finale: In the Future When We Return to Those Skies), will air this fall. The project will depict the story after the earlier television series.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... all/.75100

[eanetdude]

Tara Platt (Marida Cruz) Adorably Narrates a 100-second Gundam Unicorn Digest of Episodes 1-6

Source: Gundam UC English Site
YouTube Link

[Silver_August]

Which 13 year old kid's closest did these Japanese businessmen raid to scramble together this fan fiction of a Transformers x Evangelion story?

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ges/30375/

[Rodimus76]

***Sir Bay News Alert***
New images of Splinter and Shredder from the TMNT movie

http://nukethefridge.com/2014/06/03/new ... a-turtles/

[PHILLYgundamnFAN]

Gundam 35th Anniversary News Alert

Tamaki Nami, singer of various Opening and Ending themes for Seed and Destiny, has recorded an album featuring covers of various Gundam themes that will be released in celebration of Gundam's 35th anniversary.

http://gundamguy.blogspot.com/2014/06/t ... album.html