Category Tiger&Bunny

Sep 20 2011

Translated tidbits from the Newtype booklet

A kind anon on /a/ was translating snippets from the booklet that came with the October issue of Newtype magazine. (I’ve not had time to look at magazines – they’re still where I put them after I leafed through them the day they arrived.)

  • The hotblooded aspect of Kotetsu’s personality was created to complement and contrast Barnaby’s nature.
  • Hundred Power was created because of the idea that he would prefer a hands on approach.
  • Kotetsu loves fried rice, so that’s why he doesn’t bother learning to cook anything else.
  • Nishida’s favorite Kotetsu scene is when he “healed up” and hurried to Barnaby in ep13, while him searching for Kaede with super-hearing in ep17 is second.
Sep 19 2011

Sternbild Friend Rice Event Complete Gallery

A huge THANK YOU, and again THANK YOU!

ありがとう！そして、ありがとう！

We received photos from over 300 people from all around the world, and many people sent several. We’re so happy that Japanese fans sent photos too.

We would also like to thank everyone for the messages and thanks to us two. Reading about how much fun everyone had while cooking made us really happy, and it was all of you who turned this event into a great success!

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世界中のファンたちからいただいた写真の数は300枚を超えました。欧米のファンたちはもちろん、日本人の方からも写真をいただいたことは光栄だと感じております。

様々な方から「ありがとう」というメッセージをメールやツイッターでいただいたことも心の底から感謝しております。皆さんの料理の経験の話を読むたびに大変感動していきました。このイベントが大成功になったことは、参加してくださった皆さんのご協力と努力のおかげです。

Friend Rice Event Photo Gallery

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Sep 18 2011

Live Viewing event reports + Friend Rice reminder

I am having a massively busy day today (how I wish I could devote the entire Sunday for Tiger & Bunny), but I thought I’d toss some links up before the other stuff consumes my time.

The reports say that final episode had over 100,000 viewers. 77,000 on Ustream, 22,000 in theaters plus everyone who watched it on MBS. Tiger & Bunny was also trending on Twitter in Japan all through the night.

Event report in English
Hiroaki Hirata’s blog entry of the event (in Japanese)
Subculture blog event report (in Japanese)
Gigazine event report – with pictures! (in Japanese)

Translated event tidbits from Subculture blog, courtesy of /a/:

  • Hi! I’m Kotetsu, the member of T&B who gets all sleepy after 12 o’clock!
  • Hi! I’m Kotetsu, the member of T&B who has short eyelashes!
  • Hirata had a pink bunny plush with him the whole time.
  • During the work on T&B people within the company kept telling the staff to give it up.
  • Katsura had the most fun drawing Ivan.
  • A character song album will be released on December 7, details to follow.
  • The other considered titles of the show were “Seekers” and B.B. (Busty and Bunny).
  • Rock Bison got a bit more spotlight because of his unexpected popularity after the first episode aired.
  • Compared to the planning stage, Ivan’s development got slightly expanded (at first they were planning to jump into the Jake’s arc straightaway).
  • Katsura grumbled about how the anime version of Kotetsu looks too young.
  • Barnaby was at first meant to have teleportation powers (quick and nimble like a bunny) but these powers however seemed utterly broken, so at first they added the restriction that he can’t phase through iron plates.
  • The Lunatic vs. Barnaby fight in ep7 took ten months to complete.
  • Lots of flags for the second season from the VA’s.
  • At the end there was a small play between Kotetsu and Barnaby talking over the phone with somebody and solving the idiocy of Karina and Antonio.
    K: Huh? Karina’s throwing a fit in the supermarket because they don’t have cucumbers?
    B: And Rock Bison-san ate too much burned meat and now collapsed?
    K: Right. Anyway, you take care of Bison and I’m going to check on Karina.
    B: I am on it.

Future Plans

NEXT PROJECT (Japanese)
ANN article of NEXT PROJECT

2nd season didn’t get confirmed yet, but I’ve no doubt it’ll happen soon. Maybe at the event? The series is practically printing money, so there’ll be something. It might be S2, it might be a movie or an OVA series, but not making a continuation at this point would be financial insanity.

Friend Rice Reminder

Deadline for Sternbild Friend Rice Event submissions is 12:00 CET
(Central European Time) on Monday, September 19.

You can submit photos through email and on Twitter, check out detailed event info here. We’ve already received over 20 times the amount of photos we expected, keep them coming! Please remember that cosplay photos aren’t accepted. Check the instructions in the event post!