It's loli-business as usual here at Animekon as we return from our week-long road trip, with eyes wide feasted on all the blossoming girlies we stalked stumbled upon in select locations around the country. Shikashi... all this "real life" has taken its toll on our sedentary selves, so let's return to the good old virtual world, briefly recapping what went on in our absence.

- The OP and ED songs for the upcoming anime Slayers Revolution will be sung by singer / voice actress Megumi Hayashibara, who will also return as the main lead Lina.

- The Three Kingdoms anime jointly produced in China and Japan (by Beijing Glorious Animation and Future Planet, respectively) will begin airing in June, and will run for 52 episodes, adapting the classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel. Like many other animes / games have done before...

- A 43-year-old otaku from South Carolina was rejected from a manga club meeting at his local library. He was not amused. In fact, he's thinking about suing the library for age discrimination. (I hope we won't become such retards 10-15 years from now)

- Neko Rahmen will be getting a live-action movie called Neko Rahmen Taishou (General Neko Rahmen). The original comedy manga about a cat running a ramen shop was already adapted into an anime - freely available online on Vuze.

- A new Blue Dragon manga will be serialized in the V Jump magazine (starting from May 21), based on the recently started Blue Dragon: Tenkai no Shichi Ryuu anime. By the way, we've just added a trailer for the second anime.

- The Lucky Star manga has sold 1.8 million copies so far, according to the latest report issued by Kadokawa. Even so, the publisher's net losses approached $25 million in the previous fiscal year. Blame the Suzumiya Haruhi / Lucky Star anime pirates. Or Canada.

- Aria the Animation was licensed by Right Stuf and its Nozomi Entertainment production arm, who will release the first DVD box set (13 episodes) on September 30, with Japanese audio and English subtitles. Later on, they also plan to release Aria the Natural, Aria the OVA: Arietta, and finally Aria the Origination.

- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo, or simply TokiKake) will be screened in American theatres, from June to early September. So far Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle are the cities carrying solid screening dates, but "other theatrical dates will be announced soon".