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BREAKING: Seishiro Kato to Star in New Golgo 13 Film Series

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TOKYO, JAPAN—Toei Company, Ltd. announced today that a new film series based on the long-running Golgo 13 manga is in pre-production, with the first movie scheduled to hit theaters in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Toei released a press statement on their website explaining the search for a director is underway, but the eponymous role of amoral womanizer and assassin Duke Togo, aka Golgo 13, has been given to child actor Seishiro Kato, pictured right.

The announcement, hot on the heels of reports Jun Matsumoto will star in a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure movie, is believed to be a  case of strategic one-upmanship, with Toei competitively trying to outdo the horrible casting decisions of other Japanese movie studios.

Blog of the North Star could not reach Kato for comment. As his agent explained, he was put to bed early by his parents for not finishing his dinner.

All The REDLINE Giveaway Contests In One Place! (2 remaining)

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Next Tuesday North Americans will finally be able to buy the pulse-pounding anime masterpiece REDLINE. If you have no money or like free things, you should know multiple websites are giving away free copies of it. Here’s a rundown of all the contests of which I’m aware:

I’ll add any new ones I run across to the list.

BREAKING: Leonardo DiCaprio Passes Bowel Movement Resembling Akira Movie

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HOLLYWOOD, C.A.—Insiders are reporting human waste found near a portable toilet bears a striking resemblance to the hit 1988 science fiction anime film Akira.

An anonymous source shared with Blog of the North Star that the ongoing police investigation currently attributes the mystery stinkpickle to Leonardo DiCaprio, a movie star long attached to the live action remake of Akira. Other named suspects include Stephen Norrington, Albert Hughes and Jaume Collet-Serra.

Moments ago metropolitan police released a statement explaining the incident to be a crime of soulless corporate passion. There’s no immediate danger, but the public should make efforts to avoid contact with the booty cake if at all possible.

Japan, stop reminding me of things I don’t have (and how far you’ve fallen).

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First Japan released an Ashita no Joe live action movie in February, then they started working on a Tiger Mask one. Does this officially count as a trend?

These are two archetypal sports manga that debuted in 1968, with anime adaptations that followed soon after. Neither has been licensed in the United States in any form (save for an Ashita no Joe compilation DVD Tai Seng released in 2009, which is definitely worth buying).

Casting pretty boy actors to play these roles makes good marketing sense, since it opens up the demographic outside of the fifty year old men who watched the cartoons growing up. But Eiji Wentz playing Tiger Mask is going too far. He’s supposed to be a professional wrestler, for chrissakes. It seems like an unintentional joke at this point. How are they going to top themselves next?

Uh, forget I said anything.