Category Media

Aug 3 2011

Merchandise news

Masakazu Katsura’s One-shot in Young Jump

The issue of Young Jump with Tiger & Bunny’s character designer Masakazu Katsura’s 39 page one-shot is hitting the shelves now. You can see storyboard samples and grab a fancy official wallpaper here.

Wild Tiger and Barnaby Brooks Jr. Character Song CD

Executive producer Masayuki Ozaki just announced on Twitter the contents of the Wild Tiger & Barnaby character song CD. There will be one duet by the voice actors Hiroaki Hirata and Masakazu Morita, and they’ll both perform a solo song each. There will also be a talk track with “Old Man and Bunny” mini skit. The CD is coming out on August 24 and you can preorder it for example on CDJapan. (If you don’t know how the voice actors sound when singing, you can find some samples here.)

Also, the 2nd opening song single, Missing Link by NOVELS is out today! [Buy!]

Jul 31 2011

Episode 18 or you ain’t gonna get off the hook that easily

This episode sure lived up to its name. Barnaby’s been pretty happy for the past 10 months but now the truths are starting to surface and he probably wishes he didn’t know about them. I’m not quite sure where this all is going from here because we’ve got even more questions but no answers for them.

18. lgnorance is bliss.
-知らぬが仏-

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Jul 29 2011

Review: Official Books

The Official Hero Book and Hero TV Fan vol. 1 came out on Monday. Both books have pretty similar contents, but the presentation is different.

Tiger & Bunny Official Hero Book
Publisher: Ichijin-sha
ISBN: 978-4-7580-1233-1
Price: 980 JPY [Buy!]

Tiger & Bunny Hero TV Fan vol. 1
Publisher: Shufu-to-Seikatsu Sha
ISBN: 978-4-391-63215-6
Price: 980 JPY [Buy!]

I’ve listed the contents of each book here, and the lists are accurate. Continue reading here for more on what’s in them. (But first I have to apologize for being a really bad photographer with a really bad and outdated camera. No pretty photos but they should give you an idea of what the books look like.)

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