Welcome to our small report on the 8th annual Tokyo International Anime Fair being held at the Tokyo Big Sight from March 18 to 22st. Sponsered by the city of Tokyo it was started to promote internationally the Japanese Anime Industory and it’s products.  Not much in toys but for those into anime it had a few interesting things.

All pictures were take on the first day. Not much in  the suprise announcement catagory but many of the animes that are scheduled to start airing in April were being highly pushed.

Of the many new anime’s series scheduled to start soon the second series of the “Fullmetal Alchemist” series  was expected to be featured  but there booth was not as empatically as was expected. Still with the Alphonse’s  big armor being shown it was hard to miss it.

In comparison to  Full Metal Alchemist the Gurren Lagann series which will be releasing the second of the movie series soon in Japan was being pushed highly.  As you can see in the picture a Yoko cosplayer was handing out plastic bags to everyone that had the Team Gurren logo printed on it.  The fully painted Bandai Ichiban Kuji Gurren Lagann Version items were probably being  shown for the first time.  They are scheduled to be released in June.

A new Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) anime movie was announced for a 2009 release by Tohoku Shinsya.

Satalight one of the major companies involved with Macross Frontier  had a large booth featuring both Macross fronntier and the new Kawamori produced anime “Basquash” that will feature characters playing basketball while riding mecha’s. Sponsered by Nike the swoosh can be seen everywhere in the series.  Some of the picture below may look like they were taken at a Foot Locker but the Nike sneakers  on display willl be the same type used by the characters were on display.

 As for the Macross Items on display most have been seen before. The Ichiban Kuji Macross Frontier item that are scheduled to be released at the end of the month were on display. The new items that were seen was a VF-1S White Leather Jacket and the 1/60 Itasya type decal set that was shown by Yamato for the first time.

For some reason Beagle who sometimes skips major hobby events always finds the time to get a booth  at the  Anime Fair. They were here again this year with a early sample of the 1/10 Fuke Ride Armor.  At the present it is scheduled for a a fall 09 release.

All the major power of the industory were of course there showing off their new shows or in some cases old shows. A short glimpes at some of what they had in store. 

Finally Good Smile Company made a appearance with some new figures that were revealed for the first time. The large 1/6 Yoko from Gurren Lagann were one of the figures that were seen for the first time. A Nendoroid Sebastian from Kurosituji was also being shown but no pictures were being allowed.