| 8:10pm | Gokikura 21 - Gocky Club Winter 2007: Kiddy Grade 2 PV genga | | | | The Gocky Club site has been updated with more information on the 21st doujin to be released at Comiket 73 on the 29th of December - it is going to be a collection of K-G.2 genga (presumably similar to issue 13 which did the same for the original Kiddy Grade PV). |
| 3:45pm | Gocky Club: Winter Comiket | | | | The Gocky Club site has been updated. There's no real content as yet, but there is confirmation that the circle will return at Comiket 73 in December. Here's hoping for some Kiddy Grade 2 art and some more non-kamichu'd Gigantic Formula art. | | |
| 9:07pm | Kiddy Grade reproduction douga for sale | | | | If I read the news correctly, they are now selling numbered, limited edition reproduction douga (I believe I have the correct term..) taken from each of the three movies. They are sized 288mm×379mm and will go on sale in January, February and March of next year. The catch is that they cost ¥12,600... |
| 12:51pm | Kiddy Grade Truth Dawn DVD update | | | | Information has been added to the official site regarding the Truth Dawn DVD due out on the 21st of December.Basic details are a run time of 93 minutes and 20 mins of extras, the usual linear PCM audio and 4:3 ratio. Price is ¥6000 (¥6300 including tax).The booklet this time has actually now doubled... |
| 5:45pm | Kiddy Grade site update - Savage Genius album info | | | | A page has been added to the Official site detailing the Savage Genius album "Sora no Kotoba", which features the new ending themes for Maelstrom and Truth Dawn, "Mou nido to" and "Anata no you desu". As mentioned previously, the release date is the 7th of November and there is a Limited Edition release... |
| 3:00am | Gocky Club site | | | | I've just noticed a link on gotokei.com to a new Gocky Club site that is apparently "coming soon". Whether it is a replacement for the old site or another fan site like gotokei.com itself I'm not sure, but Kano certainly seems to be involved since the banner on her site has artwork that is not on the... |
| 3:30pm | Kiddy Grade Truth Dawn DVD release date | | | | The final Kiddy Grade movie DVD is now listed on Amazon, with a release date set for the 21st of December. Not up on CDJapan or Yes Asia yet, I'll add the links when I have them. Includes the usual 8-page booklet and Kadonosono-illustrated mouse pad cover sticker thingy, no mention of any on-disc extras... |
| 2:44am | Kiddy Grade Maelstrom | | | | The DVD is still in the post so no scans, but I've had a look at a "preview" copy of the movie.Basically, not much to say really. It covers episodes 12-18, from the purge order until the 'new' eclair and Lumiere reveal their identitied. There's only one short new scene, presented in a few parts, which... |
| 3:51pm | Kiddy Grade on Gaia | | | | FUNimation, in it's continuing promotional relationship with Gaia Online that started with Tsubasa, has released the first two episodes of Kiddy Grade to Gaia Cinemas. Obviously you need a Gaia account, but if you do you can watch the episode in all their postage-stamp glory with other fans from around... |
| 12:39pm | Kiddy Grade movie site update | | | | The official site has been updated since yesterday.They now have some screenshots (apart from the title logo there is only one that I specifically do not recognise) and information on the Maelstrom DVD (cannot see anything that we didn't already know).new links:Kiddy Grade Director's Cut I: Ignition... |
| 10:38am | Kiddy GradeTruth Dawn ending theme | | | | I've found out from Kano's site that there is to be a new ED theme for the third movie Truth Dawn by Savage Genius (Uta Kata OP/ED and a number of other anime since). The title is 「あなたのようです。 」 which, being in Hiragana I can transcibe easily enough ("Anata no Yō desu"), but with... |
| 8:27pm | Kiddy Grade movie rescreenings | | | | If I understand the update correctly, the first two movies (Ignition and Maelstrom) will be each be shown once again at "Theatre Dia" in Ikebukuro at 21:10 on the 7th and 14th of September respectively. Which is useless news to anyone oustide Japan of course.In other news, the Truth Dawn trailer went... |
| 1:00am | Kiddy Grade Truth Dawn | | | | The main movie page on the Kiddy Grade site has been updated to reflect the fact that the Maelstrom run is over and Truth Dawn is on it's way (Premieres in Theatre Shinjuku on the 1st of September).There are as usual three versions of the ticket with Eclair, Lumiere or the pair (this time in Epilogue... |
| 8:38pm | Kiddy Grade Ignition | | | | The DVD won't reach me for a week or so and I'm still in the process of obtaining a 'backup copy' but here are my thoughts so far (this will be a work in progress for a bit).The movie begins a year or two before where the original series started, with a new scene showing Lumiere rescuing Eclair followed... |
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