The official Japanese website for the Amaenaideyo!! anime TV series now hosts a streaming trailer. “Promotion trailer A” is available in the “Story” section of the website. The Amaenaideyo!! TV series will premier on July 1st.
Source: Moon Phase
Love Hina creator Ken Akamatsu has announced on his Japanese homepage that his 1998 short story “Itsudatte My Santa” (”Always My Santa”) will be adapted into a two episode OAV series. The announcement includes rough character design sketches for the upcoming anime.
Source: Moon Phase
FUNimation has officially announced that a Burst Angel OVA will premier at this summer’s Anime Expo. The official Japanese Bakuretsu Tenshi website mentions an “anime new project” titled “Bakuretsu Tenshi: Tenshi Sairin.”
Source: Anime News Network
Pop Japan Travel has announced the “Endless Summer Tour” of Japan. The tour will include admission to the Tokyo Game Show, an exclusive tour of the Production I.G. studios, and visits to Kyoto and Osaka in addition to Tokyo.
Japanese distribution company Ken Media has filed suit against American video distribution company NuTech Digital alleging that NuTech has not paid proper, full licensing fees and royalties on adult anime titles owned by Ken Media, and has arranged commercial streaming web distribution of adult anime without prior consent from Ken Media. Ken Media has requested a restraining order against NuTech, presumably to stop commercial distribution of NuTech manufactured anime DVDs, and seeks payment of unpaid royalties and fees.
The full press release containing precise details of the lawsuit is available from Anime on DVD.
Question:
I’am an anime fan who likes Pokemon. You just don’t know how bad it is being a Pokemon fan in this day and age. Especially since I’m 15 year old. If you tell anyone in the anime community that you like it, and you’re above the age of 10, you will either be criticized or made fun of. Anime fans will just assume you don’t know anything about anime because you like the series. The reason I like anime is because I watched Pokemon on that cold Monday morning in 1999 when I was 9 years old. I’ve loved it ever since. So what I ask is how can I continue to love this series if so many people hate it and say it’s for children?
The AnimeNation offices and retail store will be closed on Monday, May 30th in observation of the Memorial Day holiday.
New York City’s Museum of Modern Art will host a 13 film retrospective on the works of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata from June 3-30. The Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata: Masters of Animation exhibition will also host the American premier of Howl’s Moving Castle on June 6th.
The New York Museum of Modern Art will also host a two month long comprehensive overview of Japanese animation titled “Anime!!” open from July 10 through September 12. Information on the “Anime!!” exhibition will be forthcoming.
Nausicaa.net has published its second enlightening interview with Cindy and Don Hewitt, the screenwriters for most of the English dubs of Studio Ghibli films released in America by Disney.
Source: Jagged Team
Anime Crash has informed Anime on DVD that the release of forthcoming Geisters DVDs has been delayed indefinitely while “they sort out something behind the scenes with the series.”
Onna!, a three-day festival of women’s roles in animation and comics taking place October 8-10, 2005 in Newark, NJ, will host “Project Manga.” Based on the hit television show, “Project Runway,” Project Manga will give aspiring young artists a chance to pitch manga-style story and art to a panel of publishing professionals. Participants will get guidance and advice from leaders in the manga and comic industries. The winner has the possibility of being published by an American manga company.
Publisher Seven Seas has released a theme song for the American manga style webcomic Aoi House. The song “Itsumo Futaride,” performed by the J Brothers, is available for free download in a “gal version” with vocals by Tin Tin and a “guy version” featuring vocals by the song’s lyricist Jay Jimenez.
Question:
There’s something I’ve noticed repeated in the magical girl shows I’ve seen- after the main group is introduced, they introduce one (or 2, in the case of Sailor Moon) new character who is colder, more aloof, older and usually more powerful than the main heroine and her friends. Here are the examples I can think of: Sailor Moon’s Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, then later the Sailor Starlights fill this role, Tokyo Mew Mew’s Zakuro, and Wedding Peach’s Angel Salvia.
Since I have only heard of it, I’m not sure whether Ojamajo Doremi has a character like this, though Onpu might count. Does this cliche have a plot purpose? Why is this character usually introduced later on in the story and not as part as the main group (Zakuro is somewhat an exception to this though even she is last)? This is just a cliche that intrigues me.
The anime television series Playball will debut this July. Seemingly according to the Nikkan Sports newspaper, the anime series is a sequel to a popular 70’s live action television series called “Captain.”
Source: Moon Phase
Comic Gum Magazine has announced that the Amaenaideyo!! anime television series will premier on July 1st. The site now hosts several new screenshots of the upcoming show.
Source: Moon Phase
