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At the moment I’m working my way (slowly) through various manga that have been recommended to me:

• Phoenix - Osamu Tezuka
• Lady Snowblood - Kazuo Koike
• Ode to Kirihito - Osamu Tezuka
• Abandon the old in Tokyo - Yoshihiro Tatsumi

I’m planning on writing up some reviews of these over the next while, so watch this space.

Check it out.

Chinese production Warrior, which took four years and 15 million yuan, opens in China on July 6th: Official site, view trailer here.

The short film Shin SOS Dai Tokyo Tankentai, featuring character designs by Katsuhiro Otomo, opens in Japan this month: Official site with trailers.

Highlander: The Search For Vengence-Watch five clips here.

There is now a second trailer for Vexille up on the official site. There is also a section on there called Infobadge, where bloggers can get a Java script code to embed on their page, featuring footage from the film and a soundtrack sample. Twitchfilm.net’s review here.

After much fiddling, the problems with umai and the radio are now fixed!

For some reason we’re starting to get serious problems with umai, I can’t tell what exactly the problem is yet, but it looks like a possible DoS attack, so I’m taking them down until I can figure out what’s going on.