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Character designer and animator Nobuteru Yuki reported on Wednesday that veteran Bandai Visual anime producer Minoru Takanashi passed away.

Takanashi developed content at Bandai Visual for nearly three decades. He served on most Macross projects, including Macross II, Macross Plus, Macross 7, Macross Zero, and the proposed but unproduced live-action Macross movie. He was also Bandai Visual's producer or project planner behind such popular anime as Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Gunbuster, Giant Robo, The Vision of Escaflowne television anime and Escaflowne anime movie, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade, Wolf's Rain, and Arjuna. As such, he was a frequent industry guest of Anime Expo and other overseas conventions.

According to Yuki, Escaflowne would not have been made without Takanashi's "project-planning powers." More recently, Takanashi worked on the Concrete Revolutio anime and product development for Space Battleship Yamato 2199.

Before he joined the anime industry, Takanashi and fellow anime fan Masahiro Chiba were part of Macross Attack Team, a group that created the influential set of Sky Angels dōjinshi (self-published works). Similar to how several Gundam dōjinshi creators eventually became the main staff of the first Macross or how several dōjin filmmakers eventually formed the anime studio Gainax, Takanashi and the other M.A.T. members would eventually parlay their fan efforts into official anime projects.

The Korea Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday that actress Han Hyo-joo received an offer to play the female lead role in Inrang, Kim Jee-woon's live-action film of Hiroyuki Okiura and Production I.G's Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade anime film. Han's agency BH Entertainment said that the actress has not yet decided to accept the offer, but is "considering it in a positive light."

The Korea Herald also revealed that actors Gang Dong-won and Jung Woo-sung were also offered lead roles in the film. Gang has accepted, while Jung has not yet accepted.

While the report did not specify the role offered to Han, the original anime film's female lead is the sister of a deceased suicide bomber who died in front of protagonist Kazuki Fuse. Fuse falls in love with the girl, which complicates his position as a member of the Capital Police. The Korea Herald describes the Korean project's story: "It tells the story of a special task force's attempt to create a unified government for the two Koreas."

Peek is now properly guarded against fleas and ticks for eight months, his Seresto collar came close to an hour ago and now it's on him. My aunt and I truly do spoil that pup.

You've probably never used a seresto collar, then. Everything: Fleas, ticks, flea and tick eggs, flea larvae, all dead within 12 hours of contacting his skin, and the collars are good for eight months. In other words, KILLING IT WITH FIRE.

R.I.P Charlie Murphy.