It was a while ago that our online otaku famed Danny Choo posted excellent photos of the unveiling of Tetsujin 28 statue back in October last year… Just like the picture taken above when the official unveiling of it 18-foot giant to the public was taken place.

As if its mighty tower-sized spectacle wasn’t that great enough to get everybody’s attention, here’s another great news fact for you to digest.

Ghost in the Shell’s director made an official  announcements of having movie plans for  1100-pound of metallic steel robot this year.

This is going to be incredibly exciting, considering that he’s already done the stage-version of the robot manga earlier last year.

Now, having him moving on to working this project at such scale for man who love to bring elements of very complex, sometimes out-of-this-world plot, you wouldn’t think this could be a bad idea for classic series, would you?^^.

What do you think?

Source: DannyChoo.com, ANN.com

Reading my news feed here, TV-adapted movie, Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, was announced the award winner of the 15th Asian Film Festival (AFF) in the best animation category in Lyon, France. Knowing that I was there in France on a long holiday, I’m familiar with the fact that sout-eastern parts of France are well-known for many film festival activities, be it cult or independent-related films.  Cannes is a good example for its Cannes Film Festival. I never had the chance to travel down there while I was holidaying around the French Riveria. Our tour group were scheduled to stay there for two short days only.

Pity that…

Nevertheless, it was a great experience. I’m sure Lyon would be a great city to travel as well.

While browsing about it online, I found the festival video link that featured all Asian films and amongst one of them is a TV clip from the early episodes of the Evangelion.

Parfait!! (excellent in French)

Source: MyAnimeList.net, FestivalFocus.org