The homepage for studio BONES’ latest work, Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto, has added a streaming trailer. The “school robot action” anime series will premiere next month.
Can’t say that it looks especially original, but it does look it may be interesting.
Source: Anime News Network
Kadokawa has released a two minute trailer for next month’s Sora no Otoshimono Forte television series sequel to last year’s first series. The second season of the adaptation of Suu Minazuki’s romantic comedy fantasy manga will premiere on October 1.
The homepage for the upcoming Steins;Gate anime television series has added a streaming teaser. Emphasis on teaser.
Anime production studio Group TAC (Night on the Galactic Railroad, Touch, Miami Guns) filed for bankruptcy on August 31. The company claimed about 650 million yen ($7.7 million USD) in debt as of the end of its August 2009 fiscal year. The studio presently has 9 employees and 10 million yen ($120,000 USD) in capital.
The studio was founded in March 1968. At the peak of its success, the studio earned 1.53 billion yen ($18.2 million USD) during the fiscal year ending in August 2007. However, only two years later and following the death of its founder and CEO in July 2009, the studio brought in only 596 million yen ($7.07 million USD).
The studio most recently animated last year’s Buddha Saitan: The Rebirth of Buddha anime feature film.
Source: Anime News Network
Independent animator Atsuya Aki has publicly announced his development of Cencoroll 2, a sequel to his highly regarded 2009 fantasy action short film, which he wrote, designed, animated, and directed himself.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of last year’s Seitokai no Ichizon TV series from 2006. The theme song is “Treasure” sung by the Hekiyou Gakuen Seitokai.
Question:
An issue arose over the comparison in character design between the manga One Piece and Bleach and their anime counterparts. Basically, some of the female characters have risqué outfits showing parts of naked breasts in the manga, while in the anime these characters have their costumes changed. Is this censorship, or the anime crew’s vision of these characters?
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Funimation has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the 2006 Disgaea anime television series formerly distributed domestically by Geneon. The 12 episode series will be re-released on domestic DVD early next year.
The Disgaea anime is an adaptation of Nippon Ichi Software’s 2003 SRPG game Makai Senki Disgaea.
Japanese multimedia developer CIRCUS has released the second trailer for the upcoming T.P. Sakura ~Time Paladin Sakura~ Jiku Boeisen game & anime spin-off from the D.C. ~Da Capo~ PC game franchise. The first of two games with bonus anime episodes will be released on November 25th.
I don’t want to be harsh, but this really looks like a low-rent Nanoha knock-off.
Source: Anime News Network
Next week’s issue of Weekly Young Magazine will formally announce the development of a TV anime adaptation of Tomonori Inoue’s sci-fi action manga series Coppelion. The military bishoujo adventure stars three teen girls ordered to investigate the ruins of Tokyo in 2036 after the city has been irradiated by nuclear contamination, abandoned, and quarantined.
In manga, of course, this all makes perfect sense.
Source: Anime News Network
Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten has announced the development of a new anime adaptation of Go Nagai’s 1973 horror adventure manga series Dororon Enma-kun. The manga was simultaneously serialized as a 25 episode 1973 television anime series. The 2006 OVA adaptation Kikoushi Enma (Demon Prince Enma) depicted the characters with more more mature bodies but actually wasn’t much darker or more risqué than the original ’73 anime was. The new television series will be titled “Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera.”
Source: Anime News Network
Following on the heels of the upcoming Beelzebub Shounen Jump Festa movie, Ryuhei Tamura’s supernatural comedy manga will also get a television series next January.
Beelzebub is the story of a high school delinquent who ends up serving as an unwilling surrogate father to the newborn son of the devil.
Source: Anime News Network
Prolific anime production assistance studio Asahi Production has announced its development of a multimedia franchise known as AGC38. The franchise will star 38 original anime girls who will appear in merchandise, TV appearances, online, and tentatively in original manga and anime. The female characters will be introduced to the public five at a time each week beginning October 1st.
You can call me narrow-minded, but I haven’t even seen this yet, and I already don’t like it.
Source: Anime News Network
Pink Lady, the legendary pop music duo of Mitsuyo “Mie” Nemoto and Keiko “Kei” Masuda that topped the Japanese charts from 1976 to 1981 and got immortalized in the 1978 biographical anime TV special Pink Lady Monogatari: Eiko no Tenshitachi, have announced a new comeback. The duo will release a new version of its debut hit single “Pepper Keibu” on September 29. They will release a double disc, 26-song “new vocal best album,” on December 1, and perform live in a concert event on March 31, 2011, the 30th anniversary of their breakup.
Source: Tokyograph
