Organic Hobby has announced two more figures that will be featured in the upcoming Revoltech line of poseable anime icons. Eva-02 of Neon Genesis Evangelion and King Gainer of Overman King Gainer.

For more pictures of these two check out the article here.

Figures already announced include:
Eva-00 of Neon Genesis Evangelion
Eva-01 of Neon Genesis Evangelion
Dante of Devil May Cry
Shin Getter Robo of Getter Robo
Dougram of Fang of the Sun Dougram

I have found a gallery of the already announced figures here at CollectionDX. The Shin Getter Robo looks to be the most impressive so far. The Eva figures will be hard pressed to top the previous and now classic Kaiyodo Eva series of figures.

Remy of Remys World has given us a glimpse of even more design art for MP03 Starscream.

   

Thuderous Iron Moose 3000! of the Allspark has shared some scanned in artwork with the community on the Allspark boards. The artwork is designs for Masterpiece Starscream.

 

This is a couple weeks old, but Viz Media has been named the master licensor for Shonen Jump’s Bleach. This means the popular series will be making an American debut in the not so far flung future.

See the press release after the jump.

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Everyone’s favorite japanese animation house has released a trailer for their next movie.
The Legend Of Earthsea
Its a film based on the fantasy series by Ursula K. Le Guin. Theres not a lick of english in the trailer, but you can at least watch it. Probably be another year before we see it in the states.

TNI has an article up talking about Kaiyodo (Japanese Toy Company) and their upcoming Revoltech action figure line. Revoltech is said to feature enhanced articulation using a new type of joint that actually consists of 3 joints allowing for more posability available than ever before. The series info focuses on the well-known Evangelion Unit 01 to display its potential. Just from the pictures of Unit 01 I can tell I’m going to have to buy at least a couple of these figures.

Figures will retail for 1995 yen and are about 12 cm tall.
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I guess the first one didn’t take.
If region coding wasn’t an issue, I’d have surely imported one of the ones stores are selling for under $200.

In what might be one of the strangest import deals ever, Craig McCracken’s anime inpired Cartoon Network his Powerpuff Girls is going become an actual anime.

PPG already runs (successfully) in Japan and this new show will start airing in July with a 52 episode run, according to Toon Zone. No plans for a US release yet, but a dub release of an anime based on a US show that is inspired by anime is surreal.

Someone has got some (kinda poor) early footage from the show, but you can get a good idea of what we might be in for with this.