Cosplay For A Cause In South Aust Escapist Magazine. And more info here at the excellent blog Screen Play and at Kotaku

Cosplay activism in SA, Aust.

iPhone going manga with Rebuild of Evangelion (Pocket Gamer – London,UK)

Lookout Kids!

This week’s show will be once again packed full of ‘gun boy’ action and juicy content. We’ll as always have a plethora of news to chat about and more reports from Aicon 2009. Also keep your ears peeled for our interview with Anime News Network Australia Editor in Chief Jon Hayward. And maybe if you’re lucky James will make an appearance!

Other news includes:
Matt Thorn Returns to Translation in Publishers Weekly
Lone wolf and cub toys from ICv2

Music:
Evangelion – by Sharp Shooter
Dragonball – Keneter
tonari no totoro – oriental space

The creators of the Ghost in Shell anime feature are using the creation of a Blu-ray edition as an excuse to upgrade the movie’s computer graphics that were created with the much cruder techniques available some 15 years ago:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/14282.html

BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT TO RELEASE GUNDAM 00 MANGA

Akihabara geeks help swell nation’s blood supplies The Daily Yomiuri – Osaka,Japan

Bandai feels left out. Starts laying off staff like everyone else [via Japanator]

Bandai Visual Launches Free Magazine Website in Japan [via ANN]

Q&A: Samuel L. Jackson [via Metromix]

Live-Action Blood: The Last Vampire Gets U.K. Date [via ANN]

Anime, Manga Vie for Spotlight at Japan Media-Arts Exhibition (Bloomberg – USA)

Japan manga man revives story-telling with modern twist (AFP)

Man Faces 20 Years in Prison for…Manga? (GotGame News – San Francisco,California,USA)

Comics Publishers Enter the Kitchen (Publishers Weekly – New York,NY,USA)

Music:
Tetsuwan Atomu by Shonen Knife
Fushigina Melumo by Cibo Matto
Space Giants Theme by Toki Sora