Yup, it’s that time of year once again, when I decamp to Scotland for another round of anime movie screenings. It’s Glasgow this weekend, which promises a mixture of things you’ve probably seen, things you probably should have seen, and things you almost certainly haven’t.

Likely highlights of the weekend are Patema Inverted although I’ve still not got around to watching Time of Eve and the mysterious Mystery Film, which I’m trying not to get my hopes up for too much. I mean, most of the hints suggest it might be this (in an still-incomplete edit), but that’d probably be too neat, and last time I went to one of these mystery screenings, I was right about what it was supposed to be, but the materials didn’t arrive from Japan in time… so, yeah, I’m trying not to get too enthusiastic in the off-chance it’s something really weird that I’ve never so much as heard of.

(-edit- Actually, the mystery screen is possibly even more likely this thing, which would also be interesting)

Which would certainly be interesting in it’s own right, I guess.
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Not that this isn’t something that should be entirely obvious.

I’ve posted about it previously, pre-release, but to recap, iM@S Channel is the new PS3 application that came out on Wednesday of this week, and is a central repository for forthcoming PS3 iDOLM@STER game content. Omo already posted most of the pertinent details that I hadn’t discussed earlier, so go read that – though I will say that I’m actually finding the timing a bit easier, rather than harder, in ShinyTV than I did for Shiny Festa. I’m pretty sure that Omo played Festa predominantly on iOS, whereas I mostly played it on PSP (well, PS Vita), so that may factor in the difference in impression in regards to that.
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Because that’s when the newly released iM@S movie PV reveals the movie is released.
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…Because someone obviously decided that, for some bizarre reason, holding TGS the same weekend as a major iM@S event was a sensible idea (and, yes, I did deliberately phrase that in such a fashion to suggest that iM@S is more important than the rest of the Japanese gaming industry).

I guess the news about iM@S Channel, the new PS3 application (read “storefront”) that will liberate P-sans from the pain of dealing with the main PSN store, has been out there for a few days now. They did, at least, post a PV detailing what the heck the thing actually is to the official iM@S Channel site today, which is helpful.
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By which I mean the Index movie – I mean, what better way to display the upgraded theatrical production budget than to throw in such an obvious improvement in Touma’s living space?
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