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Previously hinted at, the Neo Geo Mini is now official. It’s the latest retro hardware to get miniaturized.
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Tiger and Bunny Hollywood film has been announced! Earlier this year, there was word of a new animation project. Now, there is a live-action movie coming from Weed Road Pictures and Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment. The director is still TBA.
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Free!, the swimming anime with shirtless anime boys, is getting a new series this June. It’s called Free!-Dive to the Future- and, if the teaser art is any indication, it won’t disappoint in the shirtless department.
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Original Astro Boy sketches fetched €269,400 ($321,233) at a recent Paris auction Drawn in the late 1950s, the six-panel strip measures 13.7 inches by 9.8 inches and shows Astro Boy fighting a foe. “It’s a world record for this artist whose works are few in the market,” said Eric Leroy of auction house Artcurial.
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Looks like there is a new Digimon project in the works as its official Twitter just announced, “The adventure once again evolves. A new project begins!” There is no other info revealed yet.
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