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Starlink To Charge Customers in “Limited-Capacity” Areas More

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Starlink To Charge Customers in “Limited-Capacity” Areas More

The Wall Street Journal reports that SpaceX’s satellite-based internet will soon raise its pricing structure for users in “limited-capacity” zones. Further coverage by Ars Technica reveals that in an e-mail sent out to affected customers, the company announced that Starlink subscriptions would increase to $120/ month:

“As a current customer in an area with limited capacity, your monthly service price will increase to $120/month beginning April 24th, 2023. For new customers in your area, the price increase is effective immediately. If you do not wish to continue service, you can cancel at any time on your account page.”

Previously, customers had already dealt with a jump in price from $99 to $110 last year. The additional $10 hike is set to go into effect on April 24th of this year. Due to sparse competition, this could leave customers in rural areas with very little choice. Even areas just north of large cities could be subject to this data drought.

However, if you’re in a zone with excess capacity, SpaceX is giving those customers a $20 break, bringing customer subscriptions down to $90. So, if you have better coverage, you pay less. If you have less coverage, you’re paying more.

Having lived in a city where the only option was a sketchy broadband company, I know it sucks to be in an ISP dead zone. But unfortunately, customers not only have to wait for service providers to build the infrastructure needed to bring fiber or copper to their area, but they also have to deal with local and state-imposed red tape.

If you’re in a rural area that doesn’t have an internet service provider through copper or fiber, check out the Starlink map to see if you’re covered by SpaceX’s satellite. Currently, the Eastern half of the US is on the waitlist, as is California. Most of Canada, Alaska, and Mexico are within the technologies coverage.

According to Starlink, the waitlist is deemed an “Area … currently at capacity. Order to reserve your place.”

The last time we heard about StarLink was when the Federal Government gave the company the green light to provide internet access to moving vehicles.

[Source: The Wall Street Journal] [Source: Ars Technica]

A New Ray-Tracing Mod Comes To The Original Half-Life!

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A New Ray-Tracing Mod Comes To The Original Half-Life!

I’ll break out Half-Life and its sequels every few years and give them a run-through. Even though today’s standards may date the textures and character models, the gameplay still holds up thanks to Valve’s excellent craftsmanship. Sometimes, it’s nice to put a new polish on an old classic. That’s just what we have here today with a new ray-tracing mod.

GitHub user sultim-t uploaded the Half-Life 1: Ray Traced mod yesterday. Thanks to Ars Technica for clueing us into this new add-on. The downloadable mod drastically improves the lighting throughout the game while retaining Half-Life’s iconic look and feel. Putting modern renderers on low-res textures may sound odd, but it works really well, just like it did with Quake II.

Installation is simple, and the ray-tracing renderers can be swapped in-game by pressing X. Keep in mind that there are known issues:

  • AMD GPUs might have some incompatibility issues
  • Part of the objects are culled by a server before sending packets to a client (and in HL1, even in singleplayer, a local server is created). So some objects might not have proper shadows / be reflected in mirrors / etc, until a server actually sends them
  • Classic renderer doesn’t support dynamic lightmaps (consequently, a flashlight)
  • Classic renderer doesn’t support sky visibility polygons, so some unintended objects might be observed in a skybox
  • Classic renderer’s decals don’t have lightmap lighting
  • Custom maps should work, but the lighting might be overly dark and unplayable; performance on them may be worse
  • Hazard Course is not supported yet

You will need relatively new PC hardware to get ray-tracing to run smoothly. I’d suggest a 3060 Ti and up, but a standard 3060 GPU will also work.

Some of this modder’s other ray-tracing efforts include the original DOOM and Quake. They make one hell of a difference.

[Source: sultim_t] [Source: GitHub] [Source: Ars Technica]

 

Zachary Levi Says Shazam Is The DCU ‘Family-Friendly’ Answer To Deadpool

Jacob Airey
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Zachary Levi Says Shazam Is The DCU ‘Family-Friendly’ Answer To Deadpool

The release date for ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ is fast approaching. The sequel to the 2019 superhero comedy DC Comics film sees ‘Chuck’ star Zachary Levi return to the cape to battle evil forces.

Questions about Shazam’s position in the DCU film franchise have been in question with the state of flux since ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ director James Gunn took over and a series of cancellations have happened.

Levi himself offered his own thoughts about his hero’s role in the DCU and how he will impact it by comparing it to the Marvel anti-hero Deadpool, portrayed by Ryan Reynolds.

“Quite frankly he’s one of the most interesting and entertaining characters in comicdom, because most heroes are adults and they’re mature and they’re brooding and all of these things,” he told SFX magazine in an interview.

He continued, “Very few of them get to balance that with the fact that they’re actually a kid and they’re still learning how to drive, let alone be a superhero. That paradox creates such a really fun, interesting, enjoyable sandbox to play in.”

“I love that we get to be the most subversive of all the DC characters, almost like the Deadpool of DC,” Levi said. “Deadpool gets to sit outside of it and comment on it all and have fun with it all – obviously in a more R-rated, mature way. We do the same thing, just a little more family-friendly!”

‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ is set to hit theaters on March 17, 2023. It is directed by David F. Sandberg and stars Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rachel Zegler, Adam Brody, Ross Butler, Meagan Good, Lucy Liu, Djimon Hounsou, and Helen Mirren.

The movie was originally slated to be released on April 1, 2022, but was pushed back to twice due to pandemic lockdown policies.

Oscars Promises A “Crisis Team” To Prevent More On-Stage Slaps

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Oscars Promises A “Crisis Team” To Prevent More On-Stage Slaps

While viewers would normally be talking about how CODA won “Best Picture” at the 2022 94th Academy Awards, talk of an on-stage incident drowned out a lot of the buzz. During his presentation, Chris Rock made a ‘GI Jane’ joke aimed at ‘The Matrix Reloaded’ star Jada Pinkett Smith and was promptly slapped by her husband, ‘King Richard’ star Will Smith.

The incident had a reverberating effect, leading the Oscars to ban Will Smith from the Academy Awards for ten years and strip him of his voting power, prompting Smith to resign.

Deadline reports that to prevent another event that some have called “Slapgate” or “The Slappening,” the Academy has formed a “crisis team” to help secure the event.

Movie Academy CEO Bill Kramer told Time magazine, “… we have a whole crisis team, something we’ve never had before, and many plans in place. We’ve run many scenarios. So it is our hope that we will be prepared for anything that we may not anticipate right now but that we’re planning for just in case it does happen.”

“Because of last year, we’ve opened our minds to the many things that can happen at the Oscars. But these crisis plans — the crisis communication teams and structures we have in place — allow us to say, ‘This is the group that we have to gather very quickly. This is how we all come together. This is the spokesperson. This will be the statement.’ And obviously, depending on the specifics of the crisis, and let’s hope something doesn’t happen and we never have to use these, but we already have frameworks in place that we can modify,” he continued.

Smith apologized for the incident the next day, but the fallout continues to affect him and his film career. Supporters rallied around Chris Rock who launched a stand-up comedy tour shortly afterward.

To Cut Costs, Google Asks Employees To Share Deskspace

Mike Phalin
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To Cut Costs, Google Asks Employees To Share Deskspace

Google, one of the biggest tech companies in the world, is now asking employees to share deskspace in an effort to cut costs.

According to an internal memo received by CNBC, the efficiency strategy only affects employees and partners working at Google Cloud’s Kirkland, Washington, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Sunnyvale (CA) locations. The way it sounds, the plan is to have the work areas alternate between employees rather than having two people sit at the same place every day.

CNBC did not link to or reveal the entire memo. So, we cannot comment on the document itself, only on what the news organization has chosen to show. The cost-cutting move is allegedly called Cloud Office Evolution. Considering the company recently cut around 12K jobs, I suspect workers are getting concerned, especially since Google Cloud workers account for over one-quarter of the company’s full-time employees.

This new desk-share system would work best if Googlers paired through a “matching process” were to come in on alternating days. An unnamed Google spokesperson elaborated on the new office dynamic, stating, “we’ve developed our new rotational model, combining the best of pre-pandemic collaboration with the flexibility and focus we’ve all come to appreciate from remote work, while also allowing us to use our spaces more efficiently.”

However, we all know about the best laid plans of mice and Google. Alphabet hasn’t exactly been on a winning streak this past decade. Stadia failed. YouTube’s nebulous rules and changes made channels of all sizes suffer.

Although, watching tech employees trying to work while constantly bumping into one another and annoying each other would be amusing. The entire fiasco reminds me of the desk scene in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.

Who doesn’t want to work in a dystopian workplace where you feel like an ant rather than an established and valued team member?

[Source: CNBC]

Beloved Manga Artist Leiji Matsumoto Passes Away At 85

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Beloved Manga Artist Leiji Matsumoto Passes Away At 85

Highly respected manga artist Leiji Matsumoto has passed away at 11:00 AM on February 13th. He was 85 years old. Matsumoto passed away due to acute heart failure at a Tokyo hospital. This is after a fairly recent scare just a few years ago when he was 81 years-old. On November 14 2019, Matsumoto arrived in Turin, Italy to take part of a 40th year anniversary celebration of his works. On November 15th, he was attending a theater in Turin which was having a special showing of Galaxy Express 999. While talking with people, Matsumoto became ill and needed to leave. But after returning to his hotel he was rushed to the hospital. Initial reports were that he had a stroke, but the hospital later refuted that by saying he had trouble breathing. Matsumoto had suffered severe respiratory problems and required a breathing tube until he was stabilized the very next day. He was able to go home to Japan in early December.

Leiji Matsumoto was born as Akira Matsumoto on January 25, 1938 in the city of Kurume Fukuoka, which is in the southern part of Japan. He was born as a middle child between six other brothers, coming from a poor family. As a child he was given a 35mm film projector which enabled him to watch American cartoons from Walt Disney and Max Fleischer during the Pacific War. He also read science fiction novels from authors such as Unno Juza (who Leiji would later pay tribute to as the character Captain Juzo Okita in Space Battleship Yamato) and H.G. Wells (who wrote The World of the Wars) as well as Osamu Tezuka’s works. By the age of six, Leiji would begin to draw, with manga drawing beginning three years later. At 18 years old, he set out to Tokyo to become a manga artist, with his one-way ticket and painting tools.

His first manga was created during high school under his real name Akira Matsumoto, in 1953 with the manga called Honeybee’s Adventure (Michibachi no Bōken). After moving to Tokyo, Leiji initially was a shojo manga creator under a pen name. It wasn’t until 1965 at the age of 27 when he began using his more well known pen name Leiji Matsumoto. In 1961, 23-year-old Matsumoto married fellow manga artist Miyaki Maki, who is best known for creating the famous Licca-chan dolls that became very popular in Japan.

Leiji Matsumoto is best known for Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy Express 999, and Space Pirate Captain Harlock as well as having anime adaptions of many of his works. In 2000, Leiji helped create an over hour-long anime music video compilation using Daft Punks’ album Discovery. Matsumoto works’ were the two-member French music groups’ childhood hero. So to create something with him was a dream come true for their 2003 animated feature film Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem.

Many have written heartfelt messages showing how much his works have meant to them and anyone who had ever seen or read his works. Here are a few of them:

Trigun creator Yasuhiro Nightow:
Mr. Matsumoto. I was drawn into the world of manga by the teacher’s work. I quietly believe that some of the star drops I received from my teacher are mixed in with what I draw, and that they are being passed down to the next generation. Tonight, I will read and remember Wadachi and Daijunjou-kun. good job for today. And thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Hirotoshi Sano, animator of such works including RahXephon and Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory tweeted a drawing he drew of some of Leiji’s more well-known characters which includes Captain Harlock, Tetsuro Hoshino, and Maetel:

Anime distributor Discotek Media tweeted:

Zack Davisson, Captain Harlock and Queen Emeralda manga translator tweeted the following Twitter thread, including a photo of him and his wife with one of their cats:

Patrick Macias, who used to work for Netflix and Crunchyrol, tweeted several pictures including this one of Leiji Matsumoto sitting between Daft Punk:

Here is a tweet from Toei Animation:

Leijisha, Matsumoto’s company Twitter account for his cats, Miikun and Miime, which he loved including into his stories also tweeted a message:
A message from Leijisha:
On February 13, 2023, the manga artist Leiji Matsumoto departed from a city hospital on a journey to the sea of stars.
We are grateful to all the fans who hav supported him.
Matsumoto always used to say: ”You can meet again at a place that connects to the distant ring of time.

Included in the above tweet is a letter from Leiji Matsumoto’s wife Miyaki Maki, who is also a representative of Leijisha. It translates to this:

On February 13, 2023, the manga artist Leiji Matsumoto departed from a city hospital on a journey to the sea of stars. He was 85 years old. His immediate family has already held a private service.

I believe that he lived a happy life, allowing his thoughts to run free through the stories he drew as a manga creator. Matsumoto always used to say: “You can meet again at a place that connects to the distant ring of time.” I believe in those words and look forward to that day.

To all the fans who supported him, the people involved in delivering his works to the world, the government and organization people who have helped him, the manga creators who honed their skills alongside him in his youth, and to all the hospital staff who aided him in his journey—I extend my deepest gratitude. Thank you so much.

I apologize, but I must refuse all condolence gifts, flowers, and telegrams. I plan to accept flower offerings and telegrams at a farewell gathering, which will be held on a later date. Also, I cannot say yet when I can provide details about the farewell gathering.

Do you have any fond memories of reading or watching any of Leiji Matsumoto’s works? Has his stories or artwork inspired you in any way? We would love to hear your thoughts!

God of War Ragnarök & Horizon Forbidden West LPs Are Here!

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God of War Ragnarök & Horizon Forbidden West LPs Are Here!

The soundtracks for two of Sony’s biggest games for the PlayStation 5 are getting limited vinyl record releases. LPs for God of War Ragnarök and Horizon Forbidden West will arrive in just a couple of months, thanks to Mondo!

Out of the three upcoming soundtracks, God of War’s is the only OST not to get an expanded release. The journey of Kratos and his son is captured on a three-record set, each vinyl sporting a unique color. Bear McCreary’s score consists of 28 tracks. The composer’s liner notes are included.

Horizon Forbidden West will come in two versions, the 2xLP Essential Collection (Mondo Exclusive), which is $45. Or, For $170, there’s the 6xLP Collector’s Vinyl Box Set. Regardless of your pick, both sets feature scores by Composers Joris De Man, Niels van der Leest, Oleksa Lozowchuk, and The Flight.

The Horizon soundtracks are expected to arrive in June, but God of War’s LPs will arrive in May. See below for the tracklists.

Photo Credit: Mondo

Horizon Forbidden West Essential Collection:

Composition 1 SIDE A

  1. Whatever Comes
  2. Aloy’s Theme – Forbidden West
  3. In the Flood
  4. The World on Her Shoulders
  5. Echo of You
  6. Unity

Composition 1 SIDE B

  1. No Footfalls to Follow
  2. These Stones Unturned
  3. Riddles in Ruins
  4. Wither and Ache
  5. The Chorus
  6. A Scattered Reflection

Composition 2 SIDE A

  1. Shelter from the Storm
  2. Restricted Access
  3. A Promise to Uphold
  4. The Sky Remade
  5. Edge of the Sundom

Composition 2 SIDE B

  1. Rusted Sands
  2. Machine Made
  3. Trinity
  4. The Wings of the Ten
  5. Resilience to Rise
  6. In the Flood (Lovisa’s Version)

Photo Credit: Mondo

Horizon Forbidden West Collector’s Vinyl Box Set:

Composition 1 SIDE A

  1. Whatever Comes
  2. Aloy’s Theme – Forbidden West
  3. In the Flood
  4. The World on Her Shoulders
  5. Echo of You
  6. Unity

Composition 1 SIDE B

  1. No Footfalls to Follow
  2. These Stones Unturned
  3. Riddles in Ruins
  4. Wither and Ache
  5. The Chorus
  6. A Scattered Reflection

Composition 2 SIDE A

  1. Shelter from the Storm
  2. Restricted Access
  3. A Promise to Uphold
  4. The Sky Remade
  5. Edge of the Sundom

Composition 2 SIDE B

  1. Rusted Sands
  2. Machine Made
  3. Trinity
  4. The Wings of the Ten
  5. Resilience to Rise
  6. In the Flood (Lovisa’s Version)

Composition 3 SIDE A

  1. All Fall Down
  2. The Long Road Back
  3. Savior of Meridian
  4. Valley’s Descent
  5. Clear the Way
  6. In All Its Splendor
  7. A Wager Over Barrels

Composition 3 SIDE B

  1. Commander’s Orders
  2. Storming the Gates
  3. Born in Blood
  4. Bloodied and Broken
  5. The Embers in Our Wake
  6. Dawn Eases Night
  7. Hollowed Out
  8. Solitude’s Shore

Composition 4 SIDE A

  1. As Verdant Limbs Wither
  2. Silhouettes
  3. As Before, We Are
  4. Sacred Decay
  5. Blood Shed on Stone
  6. Pride’s Fall

Composition 4 SIDE B

  1. Strike from the Sky
  2. All Will Be Run Red
  3. Delver’s Dream
  4. Showtime
  5. Night Life
  6. The Eye That Reveals
  7. Every Secret, a Maze
  8. The Corner of Your Eye
  9. The Way of the Desert

Composition 5 SIDE A

  1. Eternal Conceit
  2. A Whispered Plea
  3. Legacy’s Landfall
  4. Pride of the Expedition
  5. Entombed

Composition 5 SIDE B

  1. Look Deeper (Extended Version)
  2. All That Remains
  3. Singular Purpose
  4. Point of No Return
  5. This Place, This Moment (Extended Version)

Composition 6 SIDE A

  1. Storm on the Rise
  2. Coiled Strike
  3. In the Dust, to the Death
  4. Search and Destroy
  5. Sudden Surge
  6. Ride the Edge
  7. Primal Steel

Composition 6 SIDE B

  1. Claws in the Hollow
  2. Sharpened Instinct
  3. Imperator
  4. No Delve Without Danger
  5. Far From Rest
  6. Steel the Mind
  7. The Pride of the Arena

Photo Credit: Mondo

Photo Credit: Mondo

Photo Credit: Mondo

God of War Ragnarök:

Side A

  1. God of War Ragnarök
  2. A Son’s Path
  3. The Hand of Odin
  4. Giantess of Ironwood
  5. Huldra Brothers

Side B

  1. Holding On
  2. Svartalfheim
  3. Pull of the Light
  4. Alfheim
  5. Jotunheim

Side C

  1. Grýla
  2. Whispered Souls
  3. Vanaheim
  4. The Hidden Beast

Side D

  1. To Forgive or to Kill
  2. Asgard
  3. Muspelheim and Niflheim
  4. Midgard
  5. The Mermaid

Side E

  1. Remembering Faye
  2. Return to Helheim
  3. The Hammer of Thor
  4. The Mask
  5. Ragnarök

Side F

  1. The All-Father
  2. Raeb’s Lament
  3. Letting Go
  4. Blood Upon the Snow

[Source: Mondo]

Godzilla ’54 Will Launch Mezco’s New Kaiju Collective!

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Godzilla ’54 Will Launch Mezco’s New Kaiju Collective!

Mezco is starting a brand new line of Godzilla figures! The Kaiju Collective is here, and it looks like it will be providing fans of the radiated lizard a line of premium action figures!

The King of the Monsters kicks off the Kaiju Collective right by including accessories that are usually missing from other figures inspired by the Toho legend. This set has multiple interchangeable hands, ravaged buildings, and other iconic accessories to recreate Godzilla’s premiere on the silver screen.

One of the most exciting aspects of the new kaiju figure is that his body is seamless, with a skeleton underneath. This could mean many display possibilities if the armature has tight joints that won’t droop due to the skin’s weight. It’ll be interesting to see how it turns out when these start shipping sometime within the next three months.

The last large-scale Godzilla we saw from Mezco was Ultimate Godzilla. Thankfully Godzilla ’54 isn’t as expensive as that one, coming in at only $140.

Photo Credit: Mezco

Photo Credit: Mezco

Photo Credit: Mezco

Photo Credit: Mezco

Photo Credit: Mezco

Photo Credit: Mezco

Photo Credit: Mezco

Photo Credit: Mezco

Photo Credit: Mezco

Photo Credit: Mezco

“Introducing the Kaiju Collective – a new line from Mezco Toyz that is highly posable and captures the immense detail of pop culture’s most familiar monsters. The Kaiju Collective Godzilla (1954) features an all-new seamless body designed with an internal skeleton armature that is durable yet highly posable, a hinged jaw that opens and closes, and is approximately 12″ from teeth to tail!”

Gojira comes with the following interchangeable parts and accessories:

  • Six (6) interchangeable hands
  • One (1) pair of fists (L&R)
  • One (1) pair of posing hands (L&R)
  • One (1) pair of grabbing hands (L&R)
  • One (1) railway
  • One (1) jet plane
  • One (1) heat ray FX
  • Two (2) canons
  • Two (2) destroyed buildings
  • Three (3) military tanks

[Source: Mezco]

A New Captain Britain Rises In New Marvel Pull List

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A New Captain Britain Rises In New Marvel Pull List

Marvel Entertainment’s new comic book pull list has new revelations for heroes like The Punisher, the X-Men, Spider-Man, and the new Captain Britain, who takes on a huge role with her brother Captain Avalon.

“In Tini Howard and Vasco Georgiev’s BETSY BRADDOCK: CAPTAIN BRITAIN (2023) #1, Captain Britain has got a whole new mission,” Marvel said on their website. “With Otherworld settled, Braddock Manor restored, and her brother Captain Avalon at her side, you’d think things look pretty good for Betsy Braddock. Only it turns out, good ole Britain doesn’t want her back. No one wants a mutant menace carrying the shield of Captain Britain, and Betsy’s made more than a few enemies along her way. Quest-less and country-less, Betsy must define a role for herself.”

They released the list as follows:

New Comics

  • ALL-OUT AVENGERS (2022) #6
  • AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 129 FACSIMILE EDITION (2023) #1
  • BETSY BRADDOCK: CAPTAIN BRITAIN (2023) #1
  • CARNAGE (2022) #10
  • DEADLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN (2022) #5
  • DEADPOOL (2022) #4
  • DOCTOR STRANGE: FALL SUNRISE (2022) #4
  • IMMORAL X-MEN (2023) #1
  • PETER PARKER & MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MEN DOUBLE TROUBLE (2022) #4
  • PLANET HULK: WORLDBREAKER (2022) #4
  • PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL: BASE (2022) #1
  • SABRETOOTH & THE EXILES (2022) #4
  • SAVAGE AVENGERS (2022) #10
  • SHE-HULK (2022) #10
  • STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA (2020) #29
  • STAR WARS: YODA (2022) #4
  • STRANGE ACADEMY: FINALS (2022) #4
  • THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2022) #20
  • THOR (2020) #31
  • TIGER DIVISION (2022) #4

New Collections

  • A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY COMPANION TPB
  • A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY TPB
  • AVENGERS FOREVER VOL. 2: THE PILLARS TPB
  • HULK: GRAND DESIGN TREASURY EDITION TPB
  • MARAUDERS BY GERRY DUGGAN VOL. 2 TPB
  • MARVELS SNAPSHOTS TPB
  • NAMOR, THE SUB-MARINER EPIC COLLECTION: WHO STRIKES FOR ATLANTIS? TPB
  • SPIDER-VERSE/SPIDER-GEDDON OMNIBUS HC COIPEL COVER
  • TRIALS OF X VOL. 5 TPB

Marvel Unlimited

  • BLADE: VAMPIRE NATION #1
  • CAPTAIN AMERICA & THE WINTER SOLDIER SPECIAL #1
  • DEMON WARS: SHIELD OF JUSTICE #1
  • GAMBIT #5
  • GENIS-VELL: CAPTAIN MARVEL #5
  • GOLD GOBLIN #1
  • IMMORTAL X-MEN #8
  • IRON MAN #25
  • MURDERWORLD: AVENGERS #1
  • NAMOR THE SUB-MARINER: CONQUERED SHORES #2
  • SHANG-CHI AND THE TEN RINGS #5
  • SHE-HULK #8
  • STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA #26
  • STAR WARS: HAN SOLO & CHEWBACCA #7
  • STAR WARS: HIDDEN EMPIRE #1
  • THUNDERBOLTS #4
  • ULTRAMAN: THE MYSTERY OF ULTRASEVEN #4
  • WAKANDA #2

These titles became available for print and digital additions on February 22, 2023.

HiDive To Stream Entire Dark Fantasy Anime ‘Karakuri Circus’

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HiDive To Stream Entire Dark Fantasy Anime ‘Karakuri Circus’

After releasing season one, HiDive has announced they will also release the final two seasons of the dark fantasy ‘Karakuri Circus’ on their streaming service. It will feature the original Japanese audio with English subtitles.

“We’ve got great news for all you Karakuri Circus fans out there: we’re ready to announce the streaming schedule for BOTH seasons 2 and 3,” HiDive said on their website. They added that season two will be released on February 28th, 2023 with the final season being released on March 28th, 2023.

Based on the 1997 manga series by Kazuhiro Fujita, the television show follows Masaru who meets lifelike wooden puppets he inherits from his father. Directed by Satoshi Nishimura, the show ran for thirty-six and was produced by the Japanese animation company Studio VOLN.

You can watch the trailer below:

AniList describes the synopsis as follows,

“The protagonist, Masaru, has just inherited a big fortune after the death of his father. However, people are trying to get their hands on it by any means necessary, even if it means killing him. Narumi helped Masaru from being kidnapped after fighting some weird guys. He found out that they’re not humans but wooden puppets with amazing strength. After a hard fight, Narumi was forced to admit that he’s no opponent for them; and just when he started to think that Masaru would be captured, Shirogane, Masaru’s watcher arrives from France with a weapon, the puppet Arlequin. Here, begins the story of Karakuri Circus.”

The series ran from October 11, 2018, to June 27, 2019, and had its debut on the Tokyo MX network. The show was written by Toshiki Inoue and Kazuhiro Fujita.

Serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, the manga was published by the Tokyo-based Shogakukan and released in forty-three volumes from 1997 to 2006.

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