Galaxy Anime has updated with an audio interview with Harmony Gold Creative Lead Tommy Yune and Operations Coordinator Kevin McKeever discussing Robtech: Shadow Chronicles, and an audio interview with Konami spokesman Wilsen Cheng promoting Konami’s latest products.
Anime News Network has reported that Manga Entertainment will distribute the Tokko anime television series in North America.
Manga Entertainment is listed as a co-producer in the show’s credits, but co-production does not necessarily guarantee North American distribution. AD Vision was a co-producer on the 2005 Guyver TV series and FUNimation’s Gen Fukunaga was a co-producer for the 2005 Mato Kaidan Pandalian anime series. Neither series has been formally announced for North American release.
Kids’ WB has announced its broadcast schedule for the 2006-2007 season. The programming mix includes no anime titles. Kids’ WB currently airs the Viewtiful Joe, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh anime series.
Source: ICv2
Movie news & rumors site Dark Horizons has reported that Christophe (Silent Hill) Gans’ next feature film will be an adaptation of Capcom’s action game series Onimusha.
Anime Festival Orlando (AFO) has announced that Aaron Dismuke, the American voice for Alphonse Elric on Fullmetal Alchemist, will attend the 7th annual AFO convention scheduled for July 28-30.
Question:
When I’m in search of a new anime series to view/buy, I often find it difficult to judge appropriate titles because their names often seem somewhat obscure/irrelevent to the content of the show. Sometimes, the names are only a vague reference at best. Titles like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Fate/Stay Night, X, Bleach, Full Metal Panic, Mai HiME, .Hack// and Appleseed allude to very little about the content/premise of each show. Is there a reason why so many anime seem to possess titles that reveal next to nothing about the shows plot/content?
Question:
What makes anime studios decide if the anime will follow the manga (like Naruto) or if it will gain it’s own path by “separating” from the manga’s storyline (like Fullmetal Alchemist, Black cat, etc.)? I think that if FMA & Black Cat were following the manga we could have seen much batter results because the storyline in the manga is better. If a studio decides to make an anime adaption, than why not to make life easier for themselves and for us, the viewers, and go by the manga?
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Source: Anime on DVD
Los Angeles, California based film financing company BenderSpink has announced plans to finance a live action Starblazers movie, loosely based on the anime series Space Battleship Yamato and its American incarnation that aired on American television in the early 1980s.
Source: Anime News Network
Famitsu Magazine has published an interview (the full length interview is password protected and only accessible to readers who purchase a printed copy of Famitsu Magazine that includes the password) with Banpresto producer Takanobu Terada discussing the upcoming Super Robot Taisen OG Original Generations Playstation 2 game, in which Terada reveals that a Super Robot Taisen Original Generation anime TV series produced by Studio OLM will debut this fall.
Source: Moon Phase
Author Ursula K. Le Guin has posted an English translation of Studio Ghibli’s synopsis for its movie Gedo Senki, which is based on Le Guin’s Tales From Earthsea: The Farthest Shore novel.
Source: Nausicaa.net
The Tekkon Kinkurito movie homepage now hosts an official version of the movie’s trailer in streaming Windows Media format for narrowband and broadband. The movie is scheduled for Japanese theatrical release on December 23rd.
Source: Catsuka
The official site for the first live action Death Note movie, based on Takeshi Obata’s manga, now hosts a new streaming Windows Media teaser trailer.
Source: Twitch
Ain’t It Cool News has published a first hand report of details about the American live action Transformers movie revealed by the film’s director Michael Bay. The report may contain minor spoilers for readers who don’t wish to know anything about the movie in advance.
Question:
What do you think about having Rizelmine coming to US?
