Today will be a quick runthrough of news.

1- The Microsoft Xbox is doing a lot worse in Japan than I imagined. Bandai's Wonderswan Color actually sold better than the Xbox last week, according to the latest report by Bloomberg and Media Create Co. Number of sales for last week goes as follows: PS2- 55000, GBA- 31000, GC- 10000, PS- 3000, WSC- 2000, XB- 1800. Maybe they should slash the price a bit like in Europe.- it'll guarantee higher sales. Hopefully something big is planned for announcement at the E3.

2- A 90 second trailer to Playmore's Nakoruru OVA "Ano hito kara no okurimono" is available in its official site's section [ Here ]. The official site itself went through a major update around the 12th, so check it out as well if you're interested.

3- Nintendo's official site lists a number of unheard titles. Full detail at Gamespot. [ Article ]

4- Warner Brothers is doing a remake on the sci-fi anime Akira. This news is from the 12th so it's a bit old, but I missed on covering it. Check out Hollywood Reporter's full article [ Here ] if you're interested.

5- Vanilla Coke is for real. How sweet. [ Article ]

6- Virtual child porn ruling gets Overturned in US court. [ Article ] This can be bad considering the number of weirdos out there, but keeping in mind that lots of people consider Japanese manga/anime as child porn since they all look young, that'll be a rest of ease for Japanese pop culture fans for sure.

7- American comic style Kanon and To heart fan-art, here and here. Funky. Special thanks to Namae no nai heya for the info. - Henry A. Moriarty