Fandom Lounge's Journal - Day

1:28AM - cencoroll (or, how is it more people aren't freaking out about this already?)

Gots me an e-mail in my inbox this morning titled ‘homework’. Someone had loaded up a couple trailers onto the Twitch Video Player and Todd and I were so impressed by what we saw that he sent me on the task to find out what we were looking at. Here’s the story near as I have found out. Japanese artist Atsuya Uki originally published a one-shot manga called Amon Game in 2005 for a really prestige manga competition called the Shiki Grand Prize and won. He brought his idea to Anime Innovation Tokyo in 2007, where they funded him and his independent project, Cencoroll, until Aniplex picked it up. It is now 2009 and a new trailer came up the other week.

A huge monster suddenly appears on the top of a building in an ordinary provincial town. The local Defense Forces go into action, and the people of the town are in uproar. A young girl Yuki, happens to know the secret is that Tetsu keeps a strange creature called Cenco. Yuki, being brave-hearted and naturally inquisitive, becomes fascinated by Tetsu and his unusual pet, Cenco.
A mysterious boy – who has control over the huge monster threatening the town – then appears and an unexpected battle begins. Who do they fight for? Who are they? By getting involved with a battle, how is Yuki’s fate going to be?

Not only do the trailers hugely impress with amazing character design and amazing detail but according to sources, Uki wrote, designed, directed, and animated the project singlehandedly. Okay. I call the animation bar officially raised. Both trailers are after the break. Prepare to be amazed!

Info taken from and trailers at Twitch.

Go watch the trailers first. This post isn't going anywhere.








You back? Now go back and reread the last part of that writeup there - "according to sources, Uki wrote, designed, directed, and animated the project singlehandedly". That part. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Holy shit. Are you excited? I am.

2:56PM - Stephanie Meyer sued!...?

.Hollywood, CA (Associated Press) Production on the hit sequel to the popular vampire series Twilight have been halted among allegations of plagiarism by young author, Stephenie Meyer.

According to sources, Meyer has been accused of stealing the idea for her popular Twilight series of novels for young adults and teenagers from her college roommate, Heidi Stanton. Stanton, 36, of Salt Lake City, Utah, attended Brigham Young University during the early 1990's and was for a time during their sophmore year roommates at a campus dormitory with the alleged author, Meyer. The Twilight novels have sold over 42 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 37 languages across the globe. Meyer who claims the premise for her popular vampire series came to her in a dream in June of 2003. Just three short months later she had completed the entire novel with very little to no previous writing experience.

Allegations by Stanton, who is a stay at home mother to 4 children in Utah arose after she viewed the movie Twilight for the first time last week, shortly after it was released to DVD format. Stanton claims that she had heard about the novels, but with four small children at home has very little time to read for pleasure or go to the theaters to watch movies.

"Quite frankly, I was shocked when I began watching the movie with my husband last week. I immediately told him that she got that idea from me! I wrote a fictional short story with the same ideas when we were in college together," stated Stanton.

Lawyers for both sides were remaining tight lipped Tuesday when papers were filed in Utah for claims of idea infringement. However amongst the claims, production was halted on a Studio City California production lot where New Moon is finishing post production. New Moon was slated to be released later in 2009. At this time, that has been "put on hold" stated studio heads Tuesday evening when reached by phone. Mrs. Stanton's claims have some credence to them as she has documented proof that a short story with very similar idea was written by her in 1993 while she was a sophomore at BYU. English department chairperson Dr. Peter Benton was at the time a second year professor of writing and distinctly remembers Ms. Stanton's prolific writing style and the vampire story in particular.

"The story stood out in my mind, at the time, because it was more advanced than most sophmore students usually presented, also the vampire story stood out because I had recently taught a series of lectures on Bram Stoker's Dracula." claims Dr. Benton. "I felt at the time that Heidi had brought a very current and up to date look at a classic subject."

No word on when or if production will resume for New Moon. Requests for interviews with Ms. Meyer or her representatives went unanswered Tuesday evening.

Source: http://www.max-dan-wiz.com/forum/topics/twilight-author-sued-the
ONTD + reactions: http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/34308934.html

I haven't found wank yet so I didn't post it at F_Wank, but this makes my heart ~*~sparkle~*~ with glee. If it's true. 

8:56PM

Not sure if it's been linked here before, but I just found The Joker's YouTube blog. And I'm in love.

The actor isn't really into it yet in the first two videos, but once he gets to part 3 and part 4 he gets very entertaining. And apparently he's been doing this for a while already.

The whole thing manages to be very respectful towards Heath Ledger. One of the most awesome fan series I've seen on the internet, ever.

11:35PM - Is... is this real?

Trailer for a film the plot of which is easy to sum up but not easy to believe unless seen for oneself.

[NSFW language and some imagery, be warned.]

If this is for real, I... I think I'd watch it.