Japanese site Moon Phase reports that Kadokawa’s Asuka Ciel Magazine homepage briefly reported, then removed an announcement of a planned anime adaptation of Shungiku Nakamura’s yaoi manga series Junjo Romantica.
NEXT, Inc. and Tyndale House Publishers have scheduled the release of a Manga Bible and a five volume series of manga adaptations of Biblical stories.
The “Manga Bible” will be a complete New Living Translation text highlighted by 96 pages of manga. The Manga Bible will be released in November.
“Manga Messiah,” written by Hidenori Kumai, and illustrated by Kozumi Shinozawa & Atsuko Ogawa, will be the first of a five volume series of Japanese created manga adapting Biblical stories. The book will be released in September.
Source: Manga Jouhou & Anime News Network
Beginning October 1st, ADV Films will handle all marketing and wholesale distribution of Geneon anime products. Geneon will continune to independantly handle acquisitions, localization, and production. Consumers are unlikely to notice any changes in the characteristics or availability of Geneon anime products.
As a result of this partnership, Geneon has reportedly laid off employees in its now unnecessary sales, marketing, and distribution departments.
Source: ICv2
Japanese entertainment news site Innolife has reported that a production partnership between Japan’s Kadokawa and South Korea’s SIDUS FHN film production companies have offered Korean actor Jung Woo Sung the job of playing protagonist Ryo Saeba in a live action City Hunter television series, based on Hojo Tsukasa’s popular manga.
Source: Ultimatum
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The official One Piece Movie homepage has posted two new trailers for the upcoming ninth One Piece movie. The movie appears to retell Tony Tony Chopper’s introduction from the TV series.
Source: Moonphase
Animate.tv is hosting the 2004 Air movie for free online viewing in untranslated Japanese. The film is presented in three parts available for streaming viewing with a current Windows Media Player.
Source: Anime News Network
A trailer for ToHeart 2 OVA series episode 3 is now available for viewing at the official website.
Source: Moonphase
Manga publisher Go! Comi is hosting a doujinshi (fan-created manga) contest based on Tomo Maeda’s Black Sun, Silver Moon. Entry details are available at Go! Comi’s site.
Moyoco Anno’s Hataraki Man manga is being adapted by NTV into a live-action TV drama series. The show will premiere this October and was previously an anime series last year.
Source: Anime News Network & Ultimatum
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When do you think the Lucky Star blitz might happen in the U.S.?
AnimateTV Channel now hosts new trailers for the upcoming Koharu Biyori OVA and ef - a tale of memories prologue DVD.
Source: Moonphase
The new in Japan fourth My Otome Zwei OVA includes an announcement of a fourth My Hime anime series, titled “My Otome S.ifl”. The new story appears to be a prequel to the My Otome television series, starring Arika’s mother.
Source: Rakuga Kidou
Publishers Weekly has published an interview with Satoru Kannagi, the boys-love manga creator of the Only the Ring Finger Knows and Rin!
Source: Anime News Network
