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The official website of the Evangelion anime franchise has posted images from the first day of racing for Run'a Entertainment's "Evangelion RT-01 apr Corolla" team in the Super GT300-class grand touring championship series on Saturday.

The Evangelion anime franchise has announced on Thursday that it is co-sponsoring a car racing team in the Super GT300-class grand touring championship series. The "Evangelion RT-01 apr Corolla" will debut in round 3 at the Fuji Speedway during the May 1-2 weekend. The customized Toyota Corolla Axio (#31) will have a unique "Eva Racing" logo and colors inspired by the Evangelion EVA-01 unit of the anime's main character Shinji Ikari.

Run'a Entertainment and apr's racing team, headed by Hiroto Kaneso, has won the Super GT/JGTC championship series four times in the past. Teruo Nagai runs the team with drivers Koki Saga and Kosuke Matsuura. As with other teams, individuals can sponsor the team through the Eva Racing Supporters program and receive limited-edition goods.

Last month, the model company Tamiya released a Evangelion EVA-01 "Awake" Version of its Mini-4 Pro Avante Mk. III Azure model car kit, with coloring designed by Evangelion mechanical designer Ikuto Yamashita. The mobile content company Media Magic began offering two new bicycles in the Evangelion Bike Project, complete with official EVA01 Spandex Bicycle Shorts and other matching accessories.

Do fictional characters have human rights? Feminists working with the Japanese government apparently think so.

From a series of documents published on the Japanese cabinet’s Gender Equality Bureau, who may already be familiar:

"Media depictions of sexual violence against women constitute a violation of the human rights of women, and are a major obstacle to the creation of a gender-equal society."

"Where violent or sexual media depictions of women are concerned, we must promote public understanding of this as a “human rights violation,” and ensure media are subjected to voluntary restraints."

"Voluntary censorship of media depictions of sexual violence should be promoted, and laws including censorship of virtual sexual violence against women in DVDs, video and PC games should be considered.
Rarely has the concept of “human rights” been abused so egregiously as by the latest wave of feminist inspired moral panic over two dimensional media."

In fact even the most cursory consideration reveals censorship according to “virtual human rights” could easily threaten a complete elimination of freedom of expression – if fictional women and children have human rights, by extension even men may have them too, meaning any story dealing with nonconsensual violence against men (practically all fiction of any interest) involves massive human rights violations.

Indeed, any criticism of the brave defenders of the rights of non-existent people might as well be condemned as promoting human rights violations.

The fundamental irony of using the rubric of “human rights” to rob people of one of their most fundamental rights seems lost on the advocates of this new wave of moral hysteria – hardly surprising considering it appears they have simply decided to parrot a serious sounding UN buzzword in the hopes of giving their extremist writings an air of legal credibility, with no appreciation of the ridiculousness of what they are saying.

A wraparound jacket band has announced that a television anime adaptation of Chūgaku Akamatsu's Aria the Scarlet Ammo (Hidan no Aria) school detective action light novel series has been green-lit. Media Factory has been publishing the light novel volumes with illustrations by Kobuichi since 2008, and the sixth volume is shipping this month. Koyoka Yoshino has been drawing a manga adaptation in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive magazine since last year.

The story takes place in Tokyo Butei High School, a special school where armed detectives — "Butei" — are trained to use weapons. Kinji Tōyama is a second-year-student who has a special ability, but he keeps it a secret to maintain an ordinary, peaceful life. However, when he gets caught in a bombing on the way to school, he encounters H. Aria Kanzaki, the most powerful S-Rank Butei student in Assault Studies.

source: animenewsnetwork

Upper Deck has licensed the rights to produce a Hello Kitty collectible card game with an expected retail release in March 2010. Three product releases are planned for next year, which will feature the trading card game, collectible miniatures and stickers based on Sanrio's Hello Kitty.

“We are so excited to be adding such a global icon to our product portfolio,” said Margeaux Sullivan, Upper Deck’s Hello Kitty brand manager. “Hello Kitty has been charming girls of all ages around the world for more than three decades and we look forward to helping her celebrate her 35th anniversary."

Source: Anime News Network, Playthings

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