The official Japanese website commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime franchise has added a streaming teaser trailer for next year’s Gekijouban Yu-Gi-Oh! ~Chou Yugo! Jiku wo Koeta Kizuna~ motion picture. The film will feature the heroes of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s anime series teaming up to oppose the new villain Paradox.
Source: Anime News Network
About.com now hosts an exclusive interview with Hollywood, California based Meltdown Comics about its observation of trends in domestic manga sales and demand. Much of the interview deals very specifically with the circumstances particular to a retailer located in Hollywood, but the observations are still interesting.
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Question:
I’ve noticed the use of the word “monagatari” in quite a few anime in this year alone. Here is a list of the titles I am aware of: Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari OAV, Genji Monogatari Sennenki TV show, Gokyoudai Monogatari TV show, Umi Monogatari ~Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto~ TV show, Bakemonogatari TV show. Why so many? Why the need to use the word “monogatari”? Is it to set these titles apart from other anime? “Monogatari” just means “story,” right?
Kadokawa has formally released the first trailer for the upcoming Kobato TV anime. The Madhouse adaptation of CLAMP’s current manga will premiere on October 6th.
Source: Moon Phase
The official website for the upcoming Break Blade ~ Broken Blade anime television series has launched with 3 streaming teasers. None of them contain any anime footage. The alternate world mecha/war fantasy series is an adaptation of Yunosuke Yoshinaga’s manga. DC Comics affiliate Flex Comix publishes the manga in Japan. DC’s CMX label publishes the manga in English.
Source: Anime News Network
Yahoo is now streaming a full theatrical trailer for Dai Kaiju Battle ~ Ultra Ginga Densetsu The Movie (Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend the Movie). The trailer for the latest Ultraman series movie is also mirrored on YouTube, in lower quality. The flick opens on December 12th.
Source: Twitch
Crunchyroll has begun streaming the 2007 iyashikei (healing type) slice-of-life anime television series Sketchbook ~full color’S~. The show is accessible to viewers in the U.S., American Samoa, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and Canada.
AnimEigo will release a DVD set of first 4 “Tora-san” movies next month. Shochiku’s beloved film franchise had 48 movies released from 1969-1995, all staring Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajiro Kuruma (setting the Guiness world record for a single actor playing the same character in the most number of films). The typical “Tora-san” movie revolves around traveling salesman Torajiro visiting a town somewhere in Japan where he meets a beautiful young woman, and tells her that if she ever needs help, she should look him up in Tokyo. After returning home to his disapproving family, the damsel in distress shows up and Tora-san falls in love with her. However, his attempts to help her and win her heart invariably cause her to fall for someone else. The popular franchise has spun off a live action TV series and a 1998 anime TV special
Director Hideo Gosha’s award winning 1982 yakuza film Onimasa, referred to as “The Japanese Godfather,” will hit DVD in November.
Director Tadashi Imai’s award winning 1963 samurai drama Bushido: Cruel Code of the Samurai will follow on DVD in December.
Veteran voice actor Akira Kamiya, who has played Mouri Kogoro in the Detective Conan anime franchise since it started in 1996, has apologetically announced that unspecified personal reasons have forced him to leave the show. Kamiya made the announcement and apologized for his sudden, unexpected announcement to fans, Detective Conan creator Gosho Aoyama, and the anime staff & cast on his blog.
Kamiya has previously played major characters including City Hunter’s Ryo Saeba, Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken, Roy Focker in Macross, and Urusei Yatsura’s Mendou Shuutaro.
Source: Anime News Network
The official website for the Light Novel no Tanoshii Kakikata motion picture has revealed that the film will be shot in live action. The movie, initially announced earlier this month, is an adaptation of author Toru Honda’s light novel series about a strictly disciplined high school girl who secretly writes romance novels.
Source: Anime News Network
Fresh and talented German animator Moritz Mayerhofer has released a short trailer for his original ten-minute long animated film Urs. Mayerhofer spent three years working on the film as his final thesis project at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. The short is now touring international film festivals.
Many years Urs looked after his aging mother. But now he sets out for a dangerous journey: He carries her up a mountain to find a better place for both of them. But his mother doesn’t want to leave her home…
URS is a story about responsibility. How long can you bear an intolerable condition? Isn’t it good to try to change things? But what about others. Can you really decide what’s the best for someone else?
Source: The CGSociety
Question:
Tentacles, rape, bondage and similar fetishes seem to constitute the overwhelming majority of adult anime that reach Region 1 via legitinate distribution. Is there any indication from your viewpoint whether the Region 1 industry is showing any interest in marketing adult anime that doesn’t fall into that category?
For those that have been to Tokyo, or those just interested in the ‘land of anime’ culture, here’s some very cool video of Shibuya. Be sure to check out the poster’s other videos by following the link below as well.
Shibuya Final Bargain Sale from James T. Kirk on Vimeo.
Japanese multimedia website Livedoor is now streaming one three-minute chapter of the upcoming Flash anime OVA Kemono to Chat (Chat With Animals). The adaptation of Takayuki Mizushina’s 4-koma manga is the story of high school girl Chacha Kenomoto, who has the ability to understand and speak cat language. The full length OVA will hit Japanese DVD on October 23.
Source: Anime News Network
Japanese entertainment producer/distributor Avex has released a new 100 second trailer for Madhouse’s upcoming anime film Mai Mai Miracle (Mai Mai Shinko to Sennen no Maho). The film hits Japanese theaters on November 21st.
The more I see of this, the more anxious I am to watch it. I think I’m actually even more eager to see this film than Summer Wars and Cencoroll. Beautiful & charming anime like this don’t come along often enough.
Source: Nippon Cinema
