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Australian anime and manga distrubitor Man Screening Room. All titles will be released sometime in 2012.

Sadly, another famous figure in the anime industry was lost last week with the ing of animation director and character designer The Ultraman.

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US presidential candidate Herman Cain officially suspended his campaign on Saturday, and while doing so Pokémon film. The line “Life can be a challenge... but you and I can make a difference. There's a mission just for you and me," was paraphrased from “The Power of Love", a song by Donna Summers used in Pokémon 2000.

Finally, a Oricon poll revealed that Japanese audiences are frequently dissatisfied with live-action adaptations of anime and manga, with 65% of respondents saying they were not satisfied. About 17% of respondents, which consisted of 1000 respondents evenly spread between genders and age groups, said they were ‘completely unhappy’ with live-action adaptations, while about 49% percent were ‘somewhat unhappy’. Only around 4% were ‘completely happy’ and the remaining percentage were ‘fairly happy’. Oricon also asked respondents what they sought from live-action adaptations. The most common answer was for casts to match the original characters, with follow-up responses including remaining true to the original work, consultation with the original creators, and the inclusion of famous scenes and trademark items. The survey comes as several live action adaptations including circulate for the the American live-action remake of Akira.