
Disney has bought Lucasfilm and pledged to release a new Star Wars trilogy and then “release a new Star Wars feature film every two to three years” forever after.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 16, 2012 07:20 JST
- Tags: Chiba, Disney, Events, Law, Marriage, Politics, Relationships, Tokyo, Yuri

Tokyo Disneyland has had a rare brush with controversy, after it decided it will allow gay marriage ceremonies, delighting Japan’s typically quiet gay rights advocates and mildly annoying the less tolerant masses.
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The tragic devastation suffered by a bus carrying nearly 50 people to Tokyo Disneyland as it was sheared in two by a collision with an ill-placed concrete wall has aroused astonishment that as few as 7 people died.
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The overpowering cuteness of Disney’s new anime-styled ad for its Tokyo Disney Resort – as well as the rather artful romance it manages to compact into a 30 second spot – have been inspiring much appreciation online in Japan and beyond.
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Doujin fans are quaking at the wrath of Disney, which has just shut down a free doujin game for daring to include a likeness of Mickey Mouse, demanding ¥6,000,000 in compensation for good measure.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime Figures, H, News
- Date: Oct 1, 2011 08:34 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Disney, Figma, Image Gallery, Otaku, Parody, Revoltech, VIP Quality

Disney and Pixar may well be regretting their decision to loose Toy Story’s Sheriff Woody on the Japanese figure market, given the sort of figures he ended up rubbing shoulders with, to say nothing of the perverted minds of his many owners…
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Urban explorers have descended upon the abandoned ruins of Nara Dreamland, revealing in some detail the spectacle of a celebrated amusement park descending into ruin.
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Moeblob fans have been shocked to find that K-ON! has been picked up by Japan’s Disney Channel.
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Japanese asked what popular girly character goods they think it permissible for a male to possess reveal a surprising degree of tolerance – for non-otaku goods at least…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 24, 2009 01:53 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Disney, DLC, Internet, Kingdom Hearts, PSP, RPG, Sony, Square Enix

Disney has apparently ruled out online distribution of its upcoming Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep on “copyright grounds,” a decision which certainly comes as a blow to Sony’s ill-received PSP Go…
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A Chinese film company has released its answer to Dreamworks’ animated feature, “Kung Fu Panda”. “Wong Fei Hong vs. Kung Fu Panda” is a Chinese-produced unofficial sequel (to put it politely).
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This image purportedly comes from a European event of some description, and as you can see it attempts to pick up the different portrayals of Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland, starting with a classic depiction and moving on the now iconic Disney portrayal, and then on to the Japanese depiction.
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