The official site of the tenth One Piece movie, One Piece Film: Strong World, is now streaming its full length theatrical trailer. (The trailer was supposed to go online last week, but the official site was down when I previously checked in on it.) The movie will hit Japanese theaters on December 12th.
The trailer plays automatically on the site’s top page. Or select the third option from the left on the main page.
Sweet.
Bandai Visual has announced that the first Yu Yu Hakusho Blu-ray Box will include a new bonus “picture drama” featuring newly recorded dialogue from four members of the original cast. The short bonus feature will consist of still images with audio telling a story set after the final episode of the original TV series. The first Yu Yu Hakusho BD Box will go on sale in Japan on October 27.
Source: Anime News Network
IESB reports that director/producer Steven Spielberg is eager to acquire and produce a feature film adaptation of screenwriter Stuart Beattie’s script based on Eric Nylund’s novel Halo: The Fall of Reach. Spielberg and Creative Artists Agency are reported to be in negotiations to acquire the film production rights. This tentative film project is entirely separate from 20th Century Fox’s canceled plans for a Halo movie from producer Peter Jackson and director Neil Blomkamp, although it’s possible that one or both men may be asked to participate in the development of a Spielberg produced movie.
The homepage for Animedia Magazine has begun streaming a trailer promoting the upcoming Miracle Train Introduction Anime DVD. The promotional DVD, which will be distributed at next week’s Comic Market 76 convention in Tokyo, is the first anime adaptation of the Miracle Train multi-media franchise that launched last March. The original Miracle Train: Chuo-sen e Youkoso depicts five stops on Tokyo’s Chou commuter train line as handsome young men.
The Miracle Train: Oedo-sen e Yokoso (Miracle Train: Welcome to Oedo Line) spin-off that personifies five stations on Tokyo’s Oedo train line will premiere as an anime television series this October.
Source: Anime News Network
ICv2 has published interviews with Viz Vice President of Sales and Marketing Gonzalo Ferreyra and Director of Home Entertainment Sales Brian Ige regarding Viz’s plans for accelerated domestic releases of Naruto and One Piece.
Ige confirms that the Naruto Shippden TV series will initially be released on individual DVDs beginning in September with a first multi-disc collection coming early next year.
Nico Nico Douga is now streaming the first episode of its moe web anime series Ontama. Access to videos on NicoDou is free, but requires registration in Japanese. (If you don’t already have a NicoDou account and want one, there are numerous English langague visual guides on the web that will walk you through registration.)
Question:
Although 1980s “Golden Era” Shounen Jump titles are famous in Japan and Europe, none of the big properties have made it big in America except Dragonball. Cobra, Doctor Slump, Captain Tsubasa, Hokuto no Ken, Saint Seiya, Otokojuku, Cat’s Eye, City Hunter, Kochikame, Kimagure Orange Road, etc. Many haven’t even been licensed for American distribution and those that have over the past two decades have not experienced success. Could it really be only DB appeals to Americans? Hokuto no Ken failed despite multiple attempts, so what gives? Did the rest of them just pass their cosmic expiration dates for new audiences that have never experienced them before?
Digital Manga has scheduled a February 24, 2010 release for the first volume of Makoto Tateno’s boy-love manga series Yokan – Premonition. The title was acquired for English language publication by DramaQueen in 2006 but never released.
Digital Manga’s DokiDoki imprint will release author Yura Tamaki & illustrator Taishi Zaou’s boy-love novel Green Light on January 27, 2010. Author Narise Konohara’s boy-love novel Cold Light will premiere through the Juné label on February 10, 2010.
Source: Kuriousity
Yahoo Movies now hosts a 3:35 “Behind the Scenes” featurette for Ponyo. The movie hits American theaters on the 14th.
Meanwhile, ScreenCrave hosts an exclusive interview with directors Hayao Miyazaki and John Lasseter regarding Ponyo.
Article provided by Daniel Zelter
Doujin circle Popcan is now hosting the first 3:14 of its independently produced anime OVA Kowarekake no Orgol (Half-Broken Music Box). Popcan sold an extended trailer DVD with illustrated doujinshi at the December 2008 Comic Market 75 convention. The full length OVA, complete with voice acting, will be released at this month’s Comic Market 76 convention.
Update: Apparently the full length OVA isn’t finished yet, so Popcan will be releasing another music video sample at this month’s Comiket.
Source: Moon Phase
The web page for this month’s Sensou Douwa: Aoi Hitomi no Onna no Ko no Ohanashi (Wartime Fable: Story of the Little Girl With Blue Eyes) television movie has added a streaming trailer. The special will premiere on the 13th.
Source: Moon Phase
The advertising obi on new copies of the second volume of Hideki Ohwada’s bizarre “politics x mahjong action” comedy manga series Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku ~ The Legend of Koizumi reveals that the series will be getting an anime adaptation. The manga stars a dramatization of Junichiro Koizumi, prime minister of Japan from 2001-2006, who engages in “mahjong diplomacy” against global dignitaries including George Bush (Sr. and W.), Kim Jong-il, Vladimir Putin, Margaret Thatcher, and the Pope. The manga’s title, which means “Reform with no Wasted Draws” is a parody of Junichiro Koizumi’s slogan, “Reform with no Sanctuary.”
Manga creator Ohwada may be better known to English speakers as the creator of the Dai Mahou Touge and Kido Senshi Gundam-san gag manga.
Source: Anime News Network
Reportedly the September issue of Newtype Magazine, which officially goes on sale in Japan on Monday, contains a confirmation that the primary Studio Deen staff and cast of the 2005 Fate/stay night anime television series will reunite to create the Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works anime movie. The original anime movie will adapt the “Unlimited Blade Works” story arc from Type-Moon’s original 2004 PC visual novel game. The movie is scheduled to open in at least a dozen Japanese theaters on January 23, 2010.
The “Unlimited Blade Works” story is an alternate version of the Fate/stay night story that begins shortly after Saber’s first fight against Lancer. This storyline gives Archer a larger role, and develops a romance between Shiro and Rin in place of Shiro and Saber.
Source: Anime News Network
Not only has the Seoul High Court rejected an appeal from Korean music video producer Fantom Entertainment over a ruling that the company infringed upon the copyright of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children movie, the court has increased the fines levied against Fantom Entertainment for a second time. In March 2007 Fantom Entertainment released a music video for Korean singer IVY’s song “Temptation of Sonata.” Square Enix sued, and the lower Seoul Central District Court found that 80% of the video was copied from the storyline, setting, characters, costumes, and demeanors of the Advent Children movie. Fantom Entertainment was initially fined 10 million won ($10,900 USD), and Fathom CEO and the video’s director were given separate fines of 6 million won ($6,500 USD) each. The penalty totaled 300 million won ($244,000 USD) when the case was settled in March 2008. The Seoul High Court rejected an appeal, and raised Fathom’s fine to 400 million won ($326,000 USD) on July 3.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
