Category Tiger&Bunny

Sep 6 2011

Contents of Hero Gossips book

Tiger & Bunny Official Guide Book
HERO GOSSIPS
Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten
ISBN: 9784048547123
Size: A4 / 112 full color pages
Price: 1050 JPY
Buy: [CDJapan] [Hobby Search] [Amazon.jp]

Features:

  • Two-sided poster.
  • 100 questions to the eight Heroes and answers to them – everything from first crushes to sleep wear and current interests (written by Masafumi Nishida).
  • 48 hours with the Heroes – private lives of the Heroes for two days (written by Masafumi Nishida).
  • Staff & Cast interviews:
    • Staff: Keiichi Satou (director), Masafumi Nishida (screenwriter), Masayuki Ozaki (executive producer), Kazuhiko Tamura & Chinatsu Matsui (producers).
    • Cast: Hiroaki Hirata (Kotetsu) & Masakazu Morita (Barnaby) Hero partner talk, round table discussion with the other six Heroes’ voice actors.
    • Photos of the eight main cast members taken for this publication.
  • Scenes of choice for all Heroes.
  • Guide to all 25 episodes of the series with pictures and commentary.

The publisher is also running a campaign where buyers within Japan may also opt in for a lottery for 500 commemorative pins and 100 Apollon Media business cards.

(Source: Yaraon)

Sep 5 2011

Morita & Yusa interview from the first Hero TV Fan book

Hi guys, it’s Aki, the member of Sternbild who has some huge Internet-related problems right now! New translation entries might be late because of that.

Anyway, today I have for you a very funny and adorable interview with Morita Masakazu and Yusa Kouji (Barnaby and Lunatic). You can find it in the first Hero TV Fan book.

Disclaimer: not a professional translator, doing this for fun, etc. Standard fantranslation rules apply.

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Sep 3 2011

Meet the Sponsors

An advertisement in a newspaper in November 2010, seeking sponsors for the heroes.

I was at a loss over what to spend today’s time killing post on, but then I got a suggestion from the guys on #sternbild chat to talk about the companies sponsoring the heroes. For placement of the advertisements on the hero suits, please refer to the official site.

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Sep 1 2011

Sales numbers for official anime guide books

Tiger & Bunny may not be able to beat Madoka Magica in numbers of sold Blu-rays (which may be due to print amounts), but it’s a clear winner in number of sold official anime guide books.

These numbers include only the Official Hero Book, I didn’t find information on how well Hero TV Fan vol. 1 has been selling.

  1. Tiger & Bunny Official Hero Book ………………….. (980 JPY) …. 26,212 copies
  2. Puella Magi Madoka Magica Official Guide Book … (2,000 JPY) ….. 18,827 copies
  3. Bakemonogatari Anime Complete Guide Book …… (3,150 JPY) ….. 15,096 copies
  4. To Aru Kagaku no Railgun Official Visual Book …… (1,890 JPY) …. 14,271 copies
  5. K-on! TV Anime Official Guide Book …………………. (1,679 JPY) ….. 7,874 copies

Source: Yaraon.

More Official Books

2nd volumes of Official Hero Book and Hero TV fan that cover episodes 14-25 are coming out in late October. There are also two complete series guide books coming out in late September, Hero TV Gossips from Kadokawa Shoten and Tiger & Bunny Roman Album from Tokuma Shoten. They’re available for preorder for example at CDJapan.

(I’m not quite sure why they’re making so many guide books but… I’m still going to buy them all, despite overlapping content.)