The Yahoo! Movies website began streaming a 36-second clip from the American English dub of The Secret World of Arrietty anime film. The full theatrical trailer debuted in the United States last October.
Image from "The Secret World of Arrietty" anime
The movie originally opened in Japanese theaters in July 2010 with supervision by Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. The film also received a different English dub in the United Kingdom, and the film already ran in theaters there in August.
Eiko Ishioka (石岡瑛子）, an Oscar-winning designer recently recognized for creating the costumes for Broadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” has died.
The original Eiko Ishioka "absinthe" gown
Her studio manager said that the 73-year-old designer died in Tokyo. The cause was pancreatic cancer.
Ishioka, a native of Japan who also worked in advertising and other graphic arts, won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the film “Bram Stoker’s `Dracula.’
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She won a Grammy Award in 1986 for her cover design of Miles Davis’ album “Tutu.” She was also the director of costume design for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Image from 2008 Beijing Olympics is courtesy of theexaltation.com and copyright of the International Olympic Committee
Other Broadway stage work included the sets and costumes for David Henry Hwang’s 1988 Tony Award-winning drama “M. Butterfly.”
The producers of “Spider-Man” called Ishioka “a great woman and a great artist.”
The character brand company Sanrio began streaming a 53-second short version of the music video for the song "Stay the same."
Sanrio's caharactes
Sanrio is known for its popular mascot characters such as Hello Kitty, Cinnaroll, Badtzmaru, and Chococat.
Mai Kuraki
The song is part of the "Uta no Kotoba" (Words of Songs) collaborative project between Sanrio's Wish me mell characters and Japanese pop singer Mai Kuraki （倉木麻衣）.
In the collaborative project, Kuraki becomes a female puppy named Maimai who sings this song of encouragement.
Sanrio's Wish me mell characters
The Wish me mell characters debuted in December of 2010, and they are aimed towards women between the ages of 15-20.
How do you like these characters?
倉木麻衣とサンリオのキャラクター“Wish me mell (ウイッシュミーメル)”とのタイアップＰＶ。
メルシーヒルズにやってきたイヌの女の子マイマイは、歌にのせて気持ちを伝えることができる、日本で活躍中の歌姫。
この歌声を聴いて、誰だか予想してね☆...と、メルたちの新しい仲間、マイマイが登場する。
マイマイが歌う「Stay the same」は、倉木の10thアルバム『OVER THE RAINBOW』に収録の楽曲。
"Wish me mell"は10代後半から20代の女性がターゲット。立命館大学と共同でプロモーションが行われる、サンリオ初の産学協同プロジェクトだ。
The new live-action Doraemon CM starring AKB48 idol group member Atsuko Maeda (前田敦子） has been airing in Japan.
Image from Toyota Motor Corporation's Ad
Like the previous CM from Toyota Motor Corporation, the fourth CM depicts the characters of the classic children's manga in live-action, two decades after they grow up.
Image from Toyota Motor Corporation's Ad
The new "Nobita's What-If World" CM begins with Doraemon's owner Nobita giving up on getting a driver's license and saying that he would rather go online. (He wanted a license to take his old crush Shizuka on a car date.)
Image from Toyota Motor Corporation's Ad
Doraemon is munching on his favorite snack, dorayaki (sweet bean-filled cake), when he hears this and brings out his Moshimo Box ("What-If Box," a well-known device of his from the original manga). With the box, Doraemon shows Nobita the "what-if world" where he did earn the license.
A compact hybrid car appears before Nobia in the "what-if world," but so does a mysterious woman. Nobita does not realize until the very end who the woman is ― Jaiko (played by Maeda), his former childhood friend who might have been his wife, had Doraemon not intervened.
A building has opened as a new landmark in Akihabara, housing specialty shops selling "Akiba culture" goods.
The six-story "Akiba Culture Zone," which used to be a Laox Co. computer shop until it closed in 2007 due to poor business, now has tenants offering items such as comics, animation character figures and pop idol goods.
The shops include K-Books on the first and second floors with about 140,000 comics and books and some 300,000 recycled items such as games, figures and coterie magazines.
Trio, a shop selling secondhand idol goods, is also on the third floor.
Hobby items can be seen at Astop on the fourth floor, which runs a business renting showcases for people to exhibit and sell their products.
Shop attendants dressed like robot characters, wearing maid outfits, give fashion advice to customers at a casual wear shop "Akiba Asobi Kan: Jam Gakuen" on the fourth floor.
"Good Smile and Karaoke no Tetsujin Cafe" on the fifth floor is decorated with figures and illustrations from popular animations.
The "Akihabara Backstage Pass" cafe on the sixth floor was designed by musician and music producer Tsunku. Girls who want to be pop idols work at the cafe.
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