Question:
I almost feel like challenging Justin Sevakis to write Buried Treasure article not about a pathos anime and a Buried Trash not about a CPM title. He’s getting too predictable.
The advertising “obi” on the freshly released fourth volume of Suu Minazuki’s “heartful comedy” manga series Sora no Otoshimono (“Lost Property of the Sky”) has announced that the series will be adapted into an anime. The series relays the story of a middle school boy who encounters an attractive female angel that literally falls out of the sky.
Source: Anime News Network
The official homepage for the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi anime has announced that the Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yuutsu and Nyoron Churuya-san web anime series will premiere on YouTube on February 13. Subsequent episodes of the super deformed parody spin-off series will premiere online weekly, “subject to the whim of the SOS Brigade Leader.”
Source: Anime News Network
The official homepage for director Yoichi Sai’s live action film adaptation of Sanpei Shirato Kamui Gaiden manga now hosts a teaser trailer. The film is scheduled to open on September 19th.
Source: Twitch
Question:
I almost feel like challenging Justin Sevakis to write Buried Treasure article not about a pathos anime and a Buried Trash not about a CPM title. He’s getting too predictable.
The NHK television network has announced its April television premieres, which include a program titled Shuukan Tezuka Osamu (“Weekly Tezuka Osamu”). The program will broadcast new adaptations of 19 works from the late “god of manga” ranging from Tezuka’s earliest creations to works published posthumously. Despite the implication of the program’s name, the show will air three times a month beginning April 10th.
Osamu Tezuka is the well known creator of landmark manga titles including Astro Boy, Jungle Emperor, Princess Knight, Black Jack, and Phoenix.
Source: Anime News Network
The official homepage for AIC’s upcoming Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari has added its fifth trailer, this one including previously unreleased animation footage.
Source: Anime News Network
Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino has confirmed that Production I.G has produced an additional 7 minutes of footage to extend the “Origin of O-Ren” animated sequence from the first Kill Bill motion picture for a forthcoming DVD re-release of the film.
The Japanese version of 2003′s Kill Bill Volume 1 movie already includes several seconds of anime footage in the “Origin of O-Ren” sequence that have never been officially released in America.
Source: Quentin Tarantino Archives
Director Kunio Kato’s 12 minute long short anime film Tsumiki no Ie ~ La Maison en Petits Cubes (House of Small Cubes) has been nominated for an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Academy Award for best animated short film. The work is the only Japanese animation production to be nominated in the 81st Academy Awards selection. The Academy Awards winners will be announced on February 22.
Animation World Network hosts a 28 second sample of the short film.
Source: Anime News Network
Bandai Entertainment President Ken Iyadomi has confirmed that the American anime distribution company is planning to layoff an undetermined number of its 19 full-time employees in response to, “The downturn in the DVD market sell through.” The employees to be laid off will be retained as contracted consultants for the duration of their current development and production projects to ensure that Bandai’s product release schedule is not altered. Iyadomi has confirmed that Bandai Entertainment will continue to license and release “strong titles,” however, there “could be fewer titles” released in the future than the company has previously released.
Source: Anime News Network
A while back I found a poor quality copy of the forgotten 1992 OVA Apfelland Monogatari. Not long after I watched it, a “good” quality copy turned up in fan distribution channels. A little while later I watched a poor quality copy of the first episode of the 1987 Tsuideni Tonchinkan TV series. A good quality copy of that same episode just appeared in fan distribution last weekend. Last weekend I found low quality copies of the first 4 episodes of the 1992 Eien no Filena OVA series. The entire 6 episode series has just appeared in fan distribution. Is somebody spying on me, or is this just crazy coincidence?
I’ve recently watched or come across Karuizawa Syndrome (1985), Heart Cocktail (1986), Maryu Senki (1987), and Nana Toshi Monogatari ~Hokkyokukai Sensen~ (1994). Are good copies of those going to unexpected surface soon also?
The NHK television network has launched a website revelaing the development of a Japanese/Korean co-produced sci-fi educational anime television series Elementhunters. The series will air on the NHK Educational network and aim to entertain viewers while teaching them about chemical elements. The series will premiere in July.
The Elementhunters concept was created two years ago by .hack//SIGN and Ghost in the Shell movie screenwriter Kazunori Ito. Yoshiaki Okumura (Antique Bakery) and Han-Pyo Hong will direct.
Korean and Japanese anime co-productions are infrequent, but nothing new, as anime titles including Maple Story, Animal Yokocho, and Geisters prove.
Viewers that turn their nose at “educational” anime probably shouldn’t worry, as typical “educational” adventure anime like Omoikkiri Kagaku Adventure Sounanda and Gene Diver, and shows broadcast on the NHK Educational channel, such as Telepathy Shoujo Ran, aren’t didactic about their educational content.
Source: Anime News Network
Japanese publisher Tokuma Shoten now hosts last month’s Comic Market promotional trailer for the upcoming Taisho Yakyu Musume (Taisho Era Baseball Girls) anime television series. The anime, based on the novel series by Atsushi Kagurazaka, relates the story of young girls in 1925 Japan who decide to start a baseball team despite not known anything about how the game is played. Takashi Ikehata (Genshiken, Potemayo) will direct the production at anime studio J.C. Staff (Potemayo, Azumanga Daioh).
Source: Anime News Network
Zakka Films, a new specialty film distributor focused on obscure and vintage Japanese cinema, has announced its first DVD release, The Roots of Japanese Anime: Until the End of WWII. The $34.95 special edition DVD contains 8 early Japanese animation works dating from 1930 through 1942, including the 1942 military propaganda film Momotaro no Umiwashi (“Momotaro’s Sea Eagles”) that constitutes Japan’s first “feature length” animation.
Source: Anime News Network
