Akira Toriyama, the famed creator of the immortal Dragonball franchise, is releasing a new manga mini-series!

Toriyama is BACK! …well, for now. It IS only a mini-series. He hasn’t released a full-fledged series since Dragonball, and that ended 14 years ago. But then again, who needs to release ANYTHING when you created the single most-successful manga/anime franchise in history. Then Hollywood and James Wong went and ruined it for everyone… EVERYONE! FUUUUUU-

Akira Toriyama has collaborated with DNA² creator, Masakazu Katsura, and created a new manga mini-series titled Jiya (if you haven’t read DNA², check it out, it’s very sexy) . It slated for release in 2010′s first issue of Weekly Young Jump magazine on December 10th. The story is said to be a “super science-fiction action” with an “alien of justice” as the protagonist:

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In keeping with the science-fiction genre, Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 released its latest promotional poster. It looks like mobile-suit heaven.. I made the mistake and watched the leaked bootleg footage of the film shown at the latest Comic-Con. After that, I was screaming like Kate in Paranormal Activity, because I wanted to watch the film so f***in’ badly! So for your sake, I won’t post the link of that god-forsaken video.

On a less frustrating note, notice the similarities with Iron Man and Jiya? They both have that cat teeth thing going on with their masks.

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Spoiler: Warmachine got shorter, slimmer and hustles less in Iron Man 2.

-phibz.

For the past two weeks or so, I’ve adopted a daily ritual. I’ve been somewhat traumatized by the horrors of Paranormal Activity as my threshold for ghost movies is not very high. And I watched it not once, but twice. So in order to ease the trauma and to have as much nightly rest as possible, my ritual involves watching the following to videos before I go to sleep:

And!!

SNSD, or So Nyeo Shi Dae (少女時代) means Girl’s Generation, which is another name they go by, is a 9 person girl band (but really there are only 8 members) from Korea. They have been my saviors. Thanks to them I don’t dream of creepy white chicks staring over me as a sleep, but rather I dream of 9 (minus 1) girls fulfilling all my wishes and fantasies of female manikins, pilots and sailors.

To the main point. One of the members of SNSD, Jessica, is set to act and sing in the leading role of the Korean Legally Blonde musical.

Jessica is the one in the middle. See how she is noticeably more eye-catching than the other two? And also how her hair is more orange than blonde? I don’t have a point here, just thought I’d point that out. Enjoy!

-phibz.