I guess the school girl theme has already been worn out to the limit, so our Japanese gore friends decided to pick another fetish nice for their next project as you can see in this English subtitled trailer for Go Ohara’s (Geisha vs. Ninjas) Gothic & Lolita Psycho.
Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, The Ancient Dogoo Girl, RoboGeisha, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl etc.) will take care of the thriftless use of fake blood spraying from all kind of open wounds…

Synopsis via Nippon Cinema:

Yuki (Gravure Idol Rina Akiyama) is a girl who lives at home in peace, until one day a unit of assassins breaks in and slaughters her mother.

In order to reveal the truth behind the seemingly senseless murder, Yuki transforms herself into a demon of vengeance by donning gothic lolita clothing, wielding a parasol as a deadly weapon, and executing the guilty in the name of God.

[via Nippon Cinema]

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FUNimation announced in the comment section of their official blog that they will edit the episodes of Dance in the Vampire Bund for the US market. This includes the already streaming episodes and will also apply to further home video releases:

FUNimation Entertainment is known for releasing the titles we license in their original, uncut form, as their creators intended. However, after viewing the unedited as well as the Japanese broadcast edit of the series Dance in the Vampire Bund, we have determined the series contains controversial elements which, when taken out of context, could be objectionable to some audiences.

With this in mind and with approval of the licensor, we will edit select scenes from the series in streaming and home entertainment release. These are scenes which are inappropriate for U.S. viewing and are not essential to the storyline.

Dance in the Vampire Bund is a complex and dark drama cited by press and fans as one of the best anime series out of Japan this season. Its strong story is what brought the series to our attention and why we are bringing it to the U.S.

While I’m no fan of underage lolita-vampires (let alone lolitas) and didn’t know much about the series other than the cover artwork I contributed to the Asian Blu-ray Guide, I don’t quite get FUNimation’s decision.
Shouldn’t you get some background information on the series you’re going to release (probably to jump on the vampire bandwagon Twilight started) as one of (if not the) biggest distributor for Anime in the US? A look at the cover artworks for the original manga that’s being released in the US since 2008 should be enough to get an idea about the series.
And we shouldn’t forget that in the past FUNimation, was the label that started a “Babes, Blades, Blood & Beauty” campaign for certain series and used to plaster huge Uncut & Uncensored!!! marks on their releases if the series contained some adult scenes or some bigger flesh wounds…
[via ANN & FUNimation Blog]

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Damn, why can’t it be April already?

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Hell yeah! A schoolgirl uniform-wearing super heroine with a pottymouth who kills off bad guys like they are flies…only in Japan! eeh, wait a minute…

Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic series Kick-Ass is supposed to open in April 2010 in most parts of this world.

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Nippon Cinema reports that Third Window Films will release its first Blu-ray Disc in February 2010 and that the British independent label has chosen Tetsuya Nakashima’s 2004 GothiklolitaBikergirlComedyDramaThingy Kamikaze Girls starring Kyoko Fukada and Anna Tsuchiya as the first high definition title.
Planned release date is February 8, 2010, the Blu-ray Disc will include the original Japanese audio and English subtitles. Features are tba, but I guess TWF has lots of extra material since Kamikaze Girls will be released as a two disc special edition on the same day. According to Kevin, the BD will be Region B locked.

btw, a representative of Third Window Films has left a statement regard a Blu-ray Disc release of Sion Sono’s Love Exposure in the Twitch comment section stating that they acquired the Blu-ray discs rights but are worried if such a release will pay off because of the market situation…
However, Love Exposure will be released on DVD in the UK on January 11, 2010.

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