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The June issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine is revealing on Monday that the Gainax anime studio's new work is titled Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Dead Leaves) is directing the project with assistant director Masahiko Otsuka (FLCL, Gurren Lagann, Pom Poko.) As revealed at the Gurren Lagann Parallel Works 2 event on Tuesday, Atsushi Nishigori (Gurren Lagann) is the main character designer of the new anime, and another Gurren Lagann veteran, Yoh Yoshinari, is drawing the concept art. Designer Shigeto Koyama (Eureka Seven, Gunbuster 2, Gurren Lagann) is acting as a "coordinator."

The story centers around a teen-celebrity-like blond-haired girl named Panty and a black-haired Goth Loli girl named Stocking. The two are angels sent from the heavens to battle the "Ghosts" on Earth.

A 57-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly forging documents to marry his former wife’s teenage daughter, who apparently had not agreed to the marriage and could not legally marry him, police said Friday.

The man, a tax accountant in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, brought papers to the Akashi city office in April to file for marriage with the 16-year-old high school student the day after he divorced his wife, police said.

The man, suspected of forging a parental consent document required in the event of a marriage involving a minor as well as another document, has admitted to the allegation and said he did it because he liked the girl, police said.

The girl found out about the marriage filing after receiving a notice from the city office and has since sought to nullify it at a family court. Once the court recognizes the marriage as invalid, her registration will be restored to its original state.

Under the Civil Code, a person cannot marry the child of a former spouse.

The government is aiming for 55% of women to continue working after having their first baby by 2020, up from 38% in 2005, sources familiar with the matter said Monday. Under its employment policy to be included in its growth strategy, the government will also aim to improve employment conditions for women and reinforce growth amid the declining birthrate and the aging of society.

The government will also seek to raise the ratio of fathers taking childcare leave to 13% from 1.23% in 2008 and to increase the rate of annual paid holidays taken by employees to 70% from 47.4% in 2008, the sources said.

The government will aim to reduce the number of part-time workers to 1.24 million, about 40% lower than in 2003, when it hit a peak of 2.17 million, the sources said.

The goals were agreed Monday at a working group meeting of government officials, experts, and labor and management representatives. The working group will work out the details of how to achieve the numerical targets.

The Asahi Shimbun paper reports that author Manabu Miyazaki is suing the Fukuoka police for allegedly asking convenience stores to remove yakuza-related literature from their shelves.

According to Miyazaki, 73 manga volumes and three magazines had been removed from convenience store shelves in late December, with other stores soon following suit. Included in the list of removed material was a manga based on Miyazaki's own yakuza-themed memoirs. (Kotan published one of Miyazaki's books, Toppamono: Outlaw, Radical, Suspect, My Life In Japan's Underworld, in English.) Miyazaki, who said that these actions suppressed free speech, is demanding 5.5 million yen (about US$59,000) in damages. The Fukuoka police say that they were enforcing an ordinance meant to curtail the influence of the yakuza.


source: animenewsnetwork

Production IG has announced that the second of the two conclusive films for their highly popular Eden of the East (Higashi no Eden) anime series will be delayed from its premiere date of January 9, 2010 to some time in March 2010.

However, this comes along with news that will excite many fans of the series: both films, the first premiering November 28, 2009, have been extended from 60 minutes each to 82 minutes and 90 minutes, respectively.

Undoubtedly, this will only prove to heighten the expectations held by fans for the films.


Source: Sankaku Complex

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