Pokemon Movie Franchise Reaches Cumulative 70 Million Admissions In Japan

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Pokemon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages has been a big success in Japan. Toho, who is the movie distributor for the Pokemon franchise in the country, says that the Pokemon movie series has now reached a cumulative of over 70 million in admissions. This puts the Pokemon series at fifth in cinema attendance record. Toho is hopeful that they will be able to gross ¥3 Billion with the movie. They didn’t manage it last time around as Pokemon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction made ¥2.91 billion.

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Nintendo Wins Patent Case Filed Against 3DS And Other Hand-Held Systems

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On July 17, 2015, Nintendo won a patent case in federal court in Oakland, California. Judge Saundra Armstrong found that eight of Nintendo’s popular hand-held systems, including the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance systems, do not infringe a patent asserted against those products by Quintal Research Group, Inc. Judge Armstrong therefore dismissed the case. Quintal is a patent-assertion company run by the named inventor of the asserted patent, who is also a patent lawyer.

“We are very pleased to have this case dismissed,” said Devon Pritchard, Nintendo of America’s General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Business Affairs. “The result in this case continues to prove that Nintendo will vigorously defend its innovations against patent lawsuits and will not pay to settle cases simply to avoid litigation. Nintendo continues to support patent reform efforts that reduce the unnecessary and inefficient burden cases like this…

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The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan: Episode 16 – “Fireworks”

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The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan is set in an alternate universe for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which sees Yuki as the president of the Literature Club. The other members of the club include Kyon and Asakura. In this universe, Yuki has a crush on Kyon.

Episode 16 sees Kyon trying to find ways to move past the awkwardness and tension that has developed since the other Yuki confessed her feelings to him. Since the normal Yuki has no idea that the other Yuki had done that, Kyon just can’t talk to her directly about it. For quite a bit of this episode, we see Kyon thinking that he needs to say things to her as the Literature Club is out doing activities, but he can’t seem to be able to do it.

But just as it seems that Kyon will never get the nerve to resolve the issue…

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Japan Gets This Awesome Yoshi’s Woolly World Nintendo 3DS Theme

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Those lucky gamers in Japan will soon be able to purchase a Yoshi’s Woolly World theme for their Nintendo 3DS consoles. The adorable theme will be available for purchase in August. We have yet to hear if the theme will be coming to Europe as the game was released last month. No doubt it will come to the United States once the game launches there on October 16th.

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