Question:
I’ve been looking around and noticed there is a Galaxy Angel, Galaxy Angel A, Galaxy Angel AA, and Galaxy Angel Z. I’ve noticed that they just seem to be named for certain seasons, but I have no idea what Galaxy Angel Z is. Are they specials?
As the spearhead of a new line, or possibly two new lines, of translated manga, Central Park Media has acquired the translation rights to a number of “yaoi” (male homosexual themed) manga serials.
Kizuna volumes 1-3, created by Kazuma Kodaka
Kunshu-sama no Koi no Oaite, Kunshu-sama no Koi Katte, created by Naduki Koujima
Kin no Cain, created by Asagiri Yu (creator of Midnight Panther)
Tentatively, CPM will create a line of yaoi manga targeted at readers aged 14 to 18, and a second line of releases for adults only. No release dates for these manga titles have been determined yet.
Source: Anime Tourist
Geneon has published an official statement announcing not only the Anime Network broadcast of Chobits (announced last week), but also that MTV will be airing the Heat Guy J anime TV series in the relatively immediate future.
Source: Anime on DVD
According to Moon Phase, “Comic Party Revolution volume 1: Ko no Hon, Urete Hoshii Desuno” will be released in December. The second and final episode of the new OAV series will be released in March 2004.
Dengeki Ani-Maga Magazine hints that Tanaka Kunihiko’s manga serial Ichigeki Sacchuu!! Hoihoi-san will be adapted into anime. The story about an 11.5 inch tall robot girl that exterminates insects and bugs has already been turned into a Playstation 2 action game.
Source: Natsume Goushin Ryu Dojo
Galaxy Anime has updated with new streaming Real Audio interviews with Brandon Niven, Production Coordinator for Shonen Jump USA Magazine, and Andy Jones, director of The Animatrix’s Flight of the Osiris.
Manga Entertainment has announced a pair of American DVD premiers for release on November 25th.
The New Dominion Tank Police DVD will include all 6 episodes of the second Tokusou Senshatai Dominion OAV series from 1994. The DVD will feature all-new Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and include a bonus poster.
Fist of the North Star DVD volume 5 will be the final Hokuto no Ken TV series DVD from Manga Entertainment, concluding the “Kenshiro vs. Shin” storyline with 8 never-before-released-in-America episodes. The DVD will include character bios, a photo gallery, and an all-new drum-and-bass musical score by Reinforced Records on the English version.
The SciFi-JapanMedia fan site is now hosting several video clips from current live-action Japanese hero shows including Pretty Guardian Sailormoon, Kamen Rider 555, Chou Seishin Gransazer, and Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger. The video clips are in AVI format, so they will not play properly without the proper video codecs installed.
Source: Kung Fu Cinema
Award-winning US animation producers Wild Brain have agreed to co-produce the latest Corsham Entertainment show “Natural Born Kittens” a 26 half hour teenage comedy anime series about four ancient Egyptian Cat Goddesses posing as teenage schoolgirls. Thrown into a modern world whose inhabitants are even weirder than they are, the kittens react with a combination of bad language and globe-threatening violence. Stylistically, Natural Born Kittens allows the epic, futuristic feel of traditional anime to explode the conventions of the classic sitcom. Sailor Moon meets The Young Ones, anyone?
WILD BRAIN INC. is an award-winning American animation studio whose client list includes Universal, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Oxygen. The company’s original series include Poochini, a European co-production that is airing globally and debuted in U.S. syndication in fall 2002, and the upcoming Vanilla Pudding, developed initially with Fox and Egmont Imagination. Television Business International’s independent poll [July 2002] of children’s programming executives placed Wild Brain among the world’s top 10 creative studios producing TV animation today.
Corsham Entertainment was recently set up by Oscar-winning Gary Kurtz, whose long list of producer credits includes Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, British animator Richard Bazley (Hercules, Pocahontas) and writer/producer Alastair Swinnerton, who co-created Lego’s multi-platform hit, Bionicle. Corsham is also shopping the Xmas special Jack Frost, being exec produced by Snowman veteran John Coates, and Terranoids, a boys action toon being co-produced with French studio TEVA and Spin Entertainment of Canada. Other projects on Corsham’s slate include Atomic Monsters, with Canada’s Context Pictures, and Bollywood Road, with Indian studio UTV Toons.
Question:
I’ve been watching a lot of new series this season and I’ve noticed a number of them have been hentai games. Like Popotan, Da Capo, and Kimi no Nozomu Eien. Anyway, the question I have is what H-game started it all? Which H-game was turned into a non-hentai anime series first? I’ve attempted to look back, but all I’ve got is To Heart, Comic Party, and Pia Carrot 2 DX as being the oldest.
Yomiuri Online has published a short report on statements made by the president of Marvelous Entertainment regarding the influence of foreign investors on Japanese animation. In terms of business, foreign sponsorships are taking the traditional control and marketing of anime out of the hands of traditional sponsors including TV networks, toy companies and ad agencies, and putting greater control of the distribution and marketing of anime in the hands of anime producers themselves.
The article also states that the 13 episode Gunslinger Girl anime TV series has a budget of 13 million yen per episode (nearly $120,000 per episode), half of which has already been contributed by European and North American licenses. Common speculation within the fan community is that AD Vision has licensed the show for American release since AD Vision has already announced the acquisition of the manga translation rights.
Source: Natsume Goushin Ryu Dojo
The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Downtown Austin, Texas has announced that it will host the southern theatrical premier of Satoshi Kon’s award winning anime film Millennium Actress. The film will be screened in 35mm and the night’s menu will feature a Japanese theme.
This month in Japan, Banpresto will release the Gameboy Advance strategy RPG “Legend of Dynamic: Goushouden – Houkai no Rondo.” The game is essentially a version of Super Robot Wars using only characters from Go Nagai’s Dynamic Planning Studio. The game will feature more than 130 heroes from over 20 anime series including Cutie Honey, Devil Man, Getter Robo, Kekko Kamen, Mazinger Z, Maou Dante, and Violence Jack.
Source: The Magic Box
Question:
Is there a Guilty Gear anime? I saw a Japanese dub of some scenes on G4 TV, and I can’t find it in the game.
Continuing its strategy of co-opting the Initial D franchise, TOKYOPOP has announced that development is already underway on an American Initial D racing game for personal computers. The game is being developed by THQ Inc. subsidiary studio ValuSoft for release next year.
Source: Anime on DVD
According to C21 Media News, 4Kids Entertainment is in final negotiations to acquire the English language translation and distribution rights to the wildly successful Ojamajo Doremi shoujo anime TV series. “4Kids’ CEO Al Khan told C21 that he is bringing the toon to Fox Box in an attempt to expand the gender demographic of the block… ‘The designs are pretty so they appeal to girls, but the characters are very sexy so boys like them,’ he said. ‘We’re hoping to mix and match the block’s gender appeal.’”
Ojamajo Doremi (Useless Witch Doremi) debuted on Japanese television on February 7, 1999, and proceeded through 201 TV episodes in 4 series and 2 theatrical movies.
Source: Toon Zone
