Age guessing (Updated with some confirmed ages)

NOTE: These are our guesses unless marked otherwise. Only Barnaby and Kaede have officially confirmed ages within the series.

Kotetsu: 34-36
We know his age is closest to Sky High’s VA Go Inoue’s, who is 33. Barnaby’s VA Masakazu Morita comments that he’s not that far off Kotetsu’s age himself (he’s 39), so I doubt Kotetsu would be younger than Inoue.

Barnaby: 24-25
Barnaby is confirmed 24 on 1st cour, 25 on 2nd. His birth date is NC 1953/10/31.

Antonio: 33-35
Antonio’s slightly younger than Kotetsu.

Keith: 27-29
We could be really off with this, but Keith seems older than Barnaby judging from his appearance. Definitely not over 30, though. (Insert mental images of 30 year-old virgin.)

Nathan: 30ish (?)
Nathan’s definitely not younger than Barnaby, but not as old as Kotetsu. We’re having really hard time guessing her age.

Ivan: 18-19
Seems to be confirmed to 18 on 1st cour, 19 on 2nd in some early production notes, which haven’t been included in the official books.

Karina: 16-17
Confirmed 16 on 1st cour, 17 on 2nd. The production notes with her age haven’t been included in any of the official books.

Pao-Lin: 13-14
Confirmed 13 on 1st cour, 14 on 2nd. The production notes with her age haven’t been included in any of the official books.

Yuri: 30-32
Yuri looks about 14-16 in episode 16. We don’t know how far in the past that flashback is, but it’s not further than 15 years.

Kaede: 9-10
The second character whose age we know for sure. She’s confirmed 9 years old on 1st cour, 10 on 2nd.

All the preorders we’ll fail to get

Our favourite Twitter personality Go Inoue‘s been tweeting photos of the upcoming Tiger & Bunny figures.

And from the official TnB Twitter:

Just thinking of trying to get preorders in makes me wail in despair. 。・゚・(ノД`)・゚・。 (We really really want those casual clothes versions of Kotetsu and Barnaby!!!!)

Rock Bison figure by S.H. Figuarts (updated)

S.H. Figuarts have added another figure to their Tiger & Bunny series. Next up will be Rock Bison. The street date and price are undecided at this time.

This figure will be on display this weekend on the Tamashii Festival 2011 with Wild Tiger and Barnaby Brooks Jr. figures.

(Actually I’m a bit surprised they decided to make Rock Bison next, I was expecting Sky High or even Origami Cyclone, though Bison is very popular in  Japan. Hope this means there’ll eventually be figures of all the heroes.)

Update: Tamashii website now lists release for December, and 5000 JPY for price. (Still subject to change.)

Release dates (updated October 26)

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July
22:
Bluray/DVD vol. 3
25:
Official Hero Book (Ichijinsha)
25: TIGER&BUNNY Official Mook HERO TV FAN Vol.1 (Shufutoseikatsusha)

August
03: NOVELS – MISSING LINK (2nd OP single)
24: Character Song CD: Wild Tiger & Barnaby Brooks Jr.
25: Comic Anthology (ID Comics/DNA Media)
26: Bluray/DVD vol. 4

September
07: Tamaki – Mind Game (2nd ED single)
10:
Mousepad
17:
Tiger & Barnaby Key Chains
22: Bluray/DVD vol. 5
23: Wild Tiger figure (S.H. Figuarts)
26: Hero TV Gossips (Kadokawa Shoten)
26: Tiger & Bunny anthologies vol 1-2 (Asuka Comics)
27: Tiger & Bunny Roman Album (Tokuma Shoten)
30: Tiger & Bunny GO! GO!! Anthology 1 (Movic)

October
19: Original Soundtrack
25: Comic Anthology 2 (ID Comics/DNA Media)
25: Tiger & Bunny 4-koma Kings (ID comics/DNA Media)
26: Bluray/DVD vol. 6
26:
Deformeister Petit figure set
28:
Katsura Masakazu Original Drawings Regular Edition
29:
Barnaby Brooks Jr. figure (S.H. Figuarts)
31: Tiger & Bunny GO! GO!! Anthology 2 (Movic)
31:
Stereo Headphones

November
05: 2012 Calendar
16:
Official Hero Book 2
16:
Hero TV Fan vol. 2
19:
Deformeister Petit Rubber Collection
25:
Bluray/DVD vol. 7
26: Tiger & Bunny anthology vol 3 (Asuka Comics)
30: Tiger & Bunny GO! GO!! Anthology 3 (Movic)

December
07: Tiger & Bunny Character Song Album
19:
Rock Bison figure (S.H. Figuarts)
22:
Bluray/DVD vol. 8

January (2012)
27: Bluray/DVD vol. 9
30: Blue Rose Chibi Arts

February (2012)
10: Masakazu Katsura Illustration book + Wild Tiger Figuarts original coloring version