Sep 8 2011

Magazine spoilers for the finale (Updated)

Cover of Otomedia with T&B feature.

I don’t usually post stuff I can’t confirm first hand, but since these are from October’s magazines I figured it’ll be all right.

Tiger & Bunny’s finale is featured in several magazines; Newtype has a 32 page booklet, Otomedia has a poster and a 16 page feature, Animage has also a poster and a feature with staff interviews, Animedia has an article, and PASH! Deeep!!! has a 9 page feature.

Click the cut for the stuff I’ve managed to find so far (mostly from Yaraon and /a/). I’ll keep updating with more stuff as it turns up.

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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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