Reed Exhibitions Acquires Singapore Toys, Games and Comic Convention

EXHIBITIONS ACQUIRES
SINGAPORE TOY,GAMES & COMIC CONVENTION
Leading Event Organizer Extends Pop Culture Influence;
Seeks Fans in World Communities

Norwalk, CT, April 13, 2010: Reed Exhibitions, the world’s leading organizer of trade and consumer events, has today announced that it has acquired the Singapore Toy, Games & Comic Convention (STGCC). Launched in 2008 and owned and operated by local event planner PI Events, STGCC is a strategic fit for Reed Exhibitions, which has an existing office in Singapore, and which has consolidated a team of professionals in its North American office to work exclusively on pop culture events. The new pop culture team will work closely with the Reed Exhibitions Singapore staff as well as maintain a strategic partnership with PI Events to stage a preeminent event in the Asian market which fits with other events in the Reed pop culture portfolio, including New York Comic Con (NYCC) and the soon to be launched Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2). The last STGCC took place in August, 2009. The next STGCC will take place from December 10-12, 2010 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre (www.suntecsingapore.com).

Cast of Kick-Ass To Appear At C2E2!!

CAST MEMBERS OF KICK-ASS
TO APPEAR AT C2E2 ON
FRIDAY, APRIL 16!!

Norwalk, CT, April 12, 2010: C2E2, Lionsgate, and IGN will jointly present the Chicago premiere of Kick-Ass on Thursday, April 15. This red carpet event will feature appearances by and a Q&A with Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass), Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl), and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Red Mist).

Garden State Equals Next YuGiOh TCG Championship April 24-25, 2010

KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, INC CHOOSES THE GARDEN STATE AS THE SITE OF ITS MILESTONE MARKING THE 75TH Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME SHONEN JUMP CHAMPIONSHIP
Thousands of players from around the world to attend premier
Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME event

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – April 12 2010 – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (KDE) will bring its Guinness World Record best-selling Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME (TCG) to the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center on April 24-25 for its next SHONEN JUMP Championship. The event in New Jersey will mark the 75th SHONEN JUMP Championship since the arrival of the global phenomenon Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG in the U.S. in 2002. Almost 35,000 competitors have experienced the friendship and competition at the SHONEN JUMP Championships over the years.

Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG The Shining Darkness

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s TRADING CARD GAME STEPS INTO
THE SHINING DARKNESS
Collect Powerful New Monsters, Spells, and Traps

El Segundo, CA (April 7, 2010) – The Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s TRADING CARD GAME (TCG) is kicking it up a notch on May 11, as The Shining Darkness booster packs make a ton of powerful new cards available to Duelists everywhere.

New York Anime Festival 2009 Masquerade

The New York Anime Festival 2009 Yume Cosplay Masquerade was held on Saturday, September 26, 2009, started after 6:30pm and ended close to 11:00pm. The big cosplay event was held in the ANA Theater, which were rooms 1A08-12, and the overflow rooms 1A24 and 1A23. The ANA Theater had the stage and live performance, while the overflow rooms had a screen displaying a live feed of the stage performances. Because of the excitement, many waited eagerly for the doors to open. The waiting area was too small for a continuous straight line, but that did not stop the event from happening. The line was probably longer than a python, and it curved and swung around like a snake. Convention attendees wanted to see the cosplayers and what the performers had in store for them.

New Manga Publisher on the Block, Fantagraphics.

Actually, the company has been in America for more than 20 years. In 1976, Fantagraphics was born by publishing a trade magazine titled, The Comics Journal. According to the publisher's website, the company "has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature" and "advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn’t know existed or wouldn’t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists." In another words, underground comics. Now the company is expanding to include manga. Beginning in September 2010, it will publish a collection of short stories titled A Drunken Dream by Moto Hagio. Then in December 2010, a transgendered-centric manga, Wandering Son, by Shimura Takako will become available to all manga-lovers. To learn more about the company and the launch of the new manga line, check out the links below!

FUNimation Entertainment Acquires Chobits

FUNimation Entertainment Acquires Chobits

Flower Mound, TX (April 3, 2010) – FUNimation® Entertainment today announced that it has acquired the home entertainment, broadcast, digital and merchandise rights to the anime comedy “Chobits” from Kodansha.

The 26-episode series is directed by Morio Asaka (“Cardcaptor Sakura,” “Gunslinger Girl,” and “CLAMP in Wonderland”) and based on the CLAMP manga series of the same name about computers known as Persocoms that can be designed to look like toy figures, animals, even people!

FUNimation Entertainment will release the series on DVD and Blu-ray in 2011.

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FUNimation Entertainment Press Release

FUNimation Entertainment Acquires Eden of the East Movies

FUNimation Entertainment Acquires
Eden of the East Movies from Fuji Creative

Flower Mound, TX (April 3, 2010) – FUNimation® Entertainment today announced that it has acquired the home entertainment, broadcast, digital and merchandise rights to three anime movies which continue the story of the series “Eden of the East” (known in Japan as “Higashi no Eden”) from Fuji Creative Corporation.