TV Tokyo has announced that the second Yu-Gi-Oh movie, never before released in Japan, will air on Japanese television at 8 AM on Sunday, January 2nd. TV Tokyo’s announcement does not state whether the film will air with its original English language dialogue or if it will have a Japanese language dub.
Source: Moon Phase
Pioneer’s latest retailer solicitation confirms that the domestic DVD releases of Air Master and Slam Dunk will go on sale March 15, 2005. The previously reported February 8, 2005 release date is actually the retail order cut-off date, not street date.
ICv2 News has reported that the DVD retail prices will be $29.98 each. Anime on DVD has reported that DVDs will retail at $24.95 each. The official Geneon solicitation reports that the DVDs will retail at $24.98 each.
Trinet Entertainment has opened its official website for the upcoming Izumo anime TV series, based on an adults-only PC game and anime series. The Izumo TV series will premier in April 2005.
Trinet Entertainment has also opened its official website for the upcoming anime TV series Koi Koi 7, also scheduled to debut in April 2005.
The official series site for the Magical Canan anime TV series, which is also based on an adult PC game and anime series, is now open.
And Toei has opened its series site for the upcoming Xenosaga the Animation anime TV series. The Xenosaga anime will premier on January 5, 2005.
Source: Moon Phase
DVD Vision Japan has published its two page long “Visions of 2004” article detailing its picks for best of the anime industry in 2004.
Japanese television network NHK has reported that new TV specials for Planetes and Mujin Wakusei Survive (Uninhabited Planet Survive) will air respectively on December 31, 2004 and January 2, 2005. The regular Planetes and Survive television series both concluded earlier this year.
Source: Rakuga Kidou
Famitsu Magazine reports that Konami will release a Gantz action game for the Japanese Playstation 2 next March.
Source: Rakuga Kidou
Question:
Is ‘Mindgame’ really as good as it gets in terms of anime? Would you consider it even, dare I say, revolutionary?
TV Tokyo now hosts streaming Real Media trailers for the upcoming anime TV series Maho Sensei Negima, Starship Operators, and A-kuei to Gachinpo Tenkomori.
Source: Moon Phase
Media Blasters president John Sirabella announced the acquisition of translation rights to the Blame! anime on the Anime on DVD Forum. The 6 mini-episode long Blame! anime based on the manga by Tsutomu Nihei was originally broadcast online, then released on very limited edition Japanese DVD.
Sirabella also seemingly clarified that the Media Blasters acquisition of the Iczer-One anime will be the original individual OAVs rather than the combined, slightly extended movie version.
(Article updated December 29, 2005)
The official American Appleseed movie website has revealed that the film will be screened theatrically in California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania. The list of exact theaters that will screen the film is available one the official site in the “Theaters” section.
Source: Jagged Team
The official Japanese Pretty Cure website has updated with the first image of the new character to be introduced in Pretty Cure Max Heart, the second Futari wa Precure television series.
Source: Moon Phase
Although there’s presently not much on it, Go Fish Pictures has opened its official American website for the live action Casshern movie.
Source: Jagged Team
Question:
I was wondering if you knew when Pita-Ten the anime will come out in America or if it ever will come out here. If not, could you please explain why it wouldn’t come out here in the States.
Media Blasters has announced that the 3 episode Iczer-One OAV series will be released on a single $19.95 DVD on April 12, 2005 under the American title “Iczer.” It’s not clear if the Media Blasters DVD will contain the original 3 separate OAV episodes or the extended combined movie edition. The Iczer-One OAV series was previously released on American VHS by US Renditions.
Source: Anime News Network
AD Vision has announced that its first domestic DVD volume of Divergence Eve will be released on March 1, 2005. The DVD will contain 5 episodes and retail at $29.98.
Source: Anime on DVD
