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Tokyo Anime Fair Sets Record Attendance

Attendance at the Tokyo Intl. Anime Fair rose 18% over last year, setting a record with 126,622 visitors. Public attendance rose 22%, while attendance by foreign business visitors rose 12%.

Cartoon Network Confirms "One Piece" Will Not Return to Schedule

A representative of Cartoon Network confirmed for Toon Zone News that the anime series One Piece will not be returning to their schedule at this time. The representative stated that all their new episodes of One Piece have been aired already, and the series will not be repeated. The network will be replacing it in their programming lineup.FUNimation Entertainment had not responded to a request for comment as of press time.

NY Times On The Cartoon Violence By The RoP

I doubt the Times meant to highlight exactly how violent the RoP actually is, but, they did! Editors must have been drunk due to Obama’s rapidly declining poll numbers. The Times gives a good time-line, and exposes the violence inherent in the RoP, particularly against the men who drew the cartoons.

Several men were arrested for plotting to kill Kurt Westergaard. There are bounties on the heads of Westergaard and his editor, Fleming Rose. Westergaard has to constantly move to avoid the RoP disciples.

In Egypt the speaker of the Parliament claimed Danes had violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which seemed a little rich coming just a few weeks after the European Parliament, which itself complained about the cartoons’ re-publication, condemned Egypt for the sorry state of its human rights.

Muslims threatened an art showing. A Berlin opera had to be cancelled. And we all know the violence, including arson and murder, that occurred at the time. But, this was 2005! Geez, move on.

“It was not about mocking a minority but a religious figure, the Prophet, so it was blasphemy, not racism,” Mr. Rose said of the cartoons. “The idea of challenging religious authority led to liberal democracy, whereas the singling out of minorities, as minorities, led to Nazism and the persecution of the bourgeoisie in Russia. So this distinction is crucial to understand.”

And in Islam, blasphemy is punishable by death. No appeals, no lengthy trials, just death.

Meanwhile, per Rusty at The Jawa Report, we find that the newest Osama tape includes a rant about, you got it! the cartoons

About 2 minutes in bin Laden claims:

that despite your publishing of the insulting drawings, you haven’t seen any reaction from the one and a half billion Muslims

Except for the violent demonstrations, the killing, the harming, the arson, the attempted murder.

What’s funny is that he rails against the U.S. for intentionally killing women and children, which he “testifies” that he has seen, and then compares that with the Mohammad cartoons. Which is worse? The Mo cartoons, of course!

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KidsCo Channel Signs Asian Carriage Deals

Children's channel KidsCo will launch in South Korea, Singapore, Palau, and the Philippines on March 20, World Screen reports. The network, a joint ventures of NBC Universal, DIC Entertainment and Nelvana Enterprises, is planning to expand into forty territories in Europe and Latin America over the next 18 months. KidsCo airs live-action and cartoon series from the DIC and Nelvana libraries.

"How to Train Your Dragon" Names Cast List

Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse have joined the cast of DreamWorks' upcoming CG-animated feature How to Train Your Dragon, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The film, about the son of a Viking chief who must train a dragon, is based on a novel by Cressida Cowell. Peter Hastings is directing; the film is scheduled to be released in March 2010.

Manga Entertainment Lineup Available on iTunes

Starz Media announced that content from Starz and subsidiary Manga Entertainment will be available on Apple's iTunes Store starting today. Titles available now include Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Noein, Tokko, and Tactics. Manga Entertainment joins FUNimation, Central Park Media. and Anime Works in providing anime content on iTunes. Single episodes are $1.99 each, with full-seasons available at costs dependent on the number of episodes in the season.

Lost Disney Art Returning to Magic Kingdom

Two hundred and fifty pieces of original animation art will be returned to the Walt Disney Company from Japan after being locked away for several decades in a janitor's closet, The New York Times reports.The cels, backgrounds, paintings and storyboard sketches were handpicked by Walt Disney for a touring exhibition sent to Japan in 1960. The collection—which contains mostly art from Sleeping Beauty but also elements from "Flowers and Trees," "Three Little Pigs," and Fantasia—was then donated to the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. That museum, however, transferred them to the engineering college Chiba University, which locked them away in a janitorial room until their rediscovery four years ago.The collection has since been restored and sent on a tour of Japan, but Chiba has decided to return them to Disney in exchange for high-resolution digital copies and one million dollars in scholarship money.