Puella Magi Madoka Magica won 2011 Media Art Festival Award

Updated: Looks like I mis-translated something, very sorry. Madoka won the Grand Prize.

Akiyuki Shinbo’s Puella Magi Madoka Magica is nominated awarded the 2011 animation of the year for the 2011 Media Art Festival Award. This is decided today on the 15th of December.

The award ceremony will be held on the 21st of February 2012.

Other winning titles are,

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Tokyo Gov removes Doraemon Train…

The Tokyo Government recently got anal strict on Odakyu Electric Railway, forcing them to remove the Doraemon Itasha train that recently just got commissioned in August.

Why? Because it’s found to be in violation of the outdoor advertising act, banning any large advertisement without a permit, since it’s technically promoting a Doraemon Museum.

The railway company readily admit the mistake, saying “We hadn’t charged any advertising fee to paint the train, and so didn’t think of it as advertising.”

And will be removing the train from service and replacing it will a generic one.

Bye bye train… …

Source: ANN | Mainichi

Teaser: Animax Simucast – too easy…

Animax as pointed out by Ooga of SGcafe have release a new video on their youtube channel, a teaser, teasing a same day telecast of an anime in October.

I try to decode, and reveal which one. But you have to decide.

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