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by ANN Staff,SHOPRO ⏎ New Shows On Display: ⏎ Crossgame (airs 04-05) – A sports romance-drama based on the popular long-running manga series. ⏎ Gokujo!! Mecha Mote Iinchou (airs 04-05) – A new series for girls that follows the lifestyle of a teenage girl, Mimi Kitagami, who wants to be the coolest student class president ever; the show focuses closely on modern fashion. ⏎ Impressions: ⏎ Shopro's booth was largely dominated by the giant inflatable Pikachu that hovered overhead, and a mountain of character goods from both Pokemon and Doraemon lined the walls inside. A handful of items from the animated Clone Wars series (which is new to Japan) could be found, as well as a ton of merchandise from Shopro's various shojo series. ⏎ The latest show they had to offer was Crossgame, a baseball romance drama, but no footage of the show was anywhere to be found. Mecha Mote Iinshou, a shojo series the Shopro representative told us was aimed ‘squarely at teenage girls’, follows an energetic high school girl dealing with fashion and boys (and a hamster, according to the show's promotional images) and all the things high school girls deal with. Also represented was the second season of Hayate the Combat Butler, which is currently still airing on TV, and Penguin no Mondai, also in its second year, a gag anime about the trials of a penguin that has found a large crossover audience, originally aimed at young boys but now enjoys popularity among all age groups. ⏎ BANDAI VISUAL ⏎ New Shows On Display: ⏎ Eureka...