TV Tokyo’s official website for this month’s new Fairy Tail anime television series now offers a streaming trailer. The adaptation of Hiro Mashima’s shounen adventure manga will premiere next Monday on Japanese television and on the Crunchyroll site for international viewers.
Source: Anime News Network
The official webpage for the anime adaptation of Yunosuke Yoshinaga’s fantasy/mecha manga series Break Blade, known as “Broken Blade” in America, has announced that the anime adaptation will take to form of six theatrical features. The first will hit Japanese theaters next year.
Source: Anime News Network
The official webpage for Madhouse’s Trigun motion picture has opened, revealing a planned spring 2010 theatrical release. The site confirms that voice actors Masaya Onosaka, Sho Hayami, Hiromi Tsuru, and Satsuki Yukino will reprise their roles as Vash the Stampede, Nicolas D. Wolfwood, Meryl Stryfe, and Milly Thompson, respectively.
Source: Anime News Network
Amazon’s Japanese description for the upcoming Motto Isshoni Training Hinako no Hon (More Training with Hinako Book) illustration book states that a second Isshoni Training anime DVD will be released next February. The cult hit exercise instruction anime was the brainchild of Muneshige Nakagawa, who came up with the concept of 16 year-old Japanese girl Hinako who gets sucked into her television set, becomes an anime character, then leads viewers in fitness exercises.
Source: Anime News Network
In its musing over the possibility of this year’s large number of animated films triggering a maximum number of Best Animated Film Oscar nominees from 3 to 5, the LA Times cites Ponyo, along with Up, and Coraline as the “generally agreed-upon front-runners so far.” The article also briefly mentions that a “barely noticed one-show-daily” screening for Evangelion 1.0 in Encino, California qualifies that film for submission for a Best Animated Film academy award nomination.
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Question:
Why do anime shows tend to ignore that other countries exist in the world? Most anime shows tend to rarely make any mention of another country unless it’s America or China, and I was wondering why this is. If the show is a school comedy, they’ll usually have a foreign exchange student with blonde hair from America, but I was wondering why they tend to concentrate mostly on themselves? They often portray America and China as far away places, and as if these are the only other two countries in the world. They never make a mention of places like Europe, Africa, South America or even other Pacific asian countries, and I was wondering if they’re trying not to offend any other countries. Often times they’ll have characters who are implied to be from foreign countries, like L from Death Note, or Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop, but they almost always try to avoid mentioning where these people are from, and I was wondering why this is?
The official site for this month’s new Kuchu Buranko anime television series has added a streaming trailer. The latest installment in Fuji TV’s late-night Noitamina timeslot is a Toei Animation production directed by Kenji Nakamura (Mononoke) with Takashi Hashimoto (Mononoke) providing character design & animation direction. Yuji Mitsuya and Romi Paku will provide the voice of psychiatrist Ichiro Irabu’s varied incarnations. Celebrity Yumi Sugimoto will play Irabu’s sexy nurse assistant. The show will premiere on the 15th.
Bizarre. Bizarre. Bizarre. In a good way.
Source: Anime News Network
The 28th and final episode of this year’s expanded re-broadcast of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya television series concluded with the announcement that a Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoshitsu) motion picture will hit Japanese theaters next spring. The movie will adapt the primary story from author Nagaru Tanigawa’s fourth Suzumiya Haruhi light novel in which Kyon comes to school to discover reality has altered to deny that Haruhi Suzumiya ever existed. Kyon then has to travel back through time to find Haruhi and correct the oddity.
Since the “Endless Eight” chapter from novel 5 got literally adapted into 8 anime episodes, wouldn’t it be ironically apt if the “Disappearance” movie never actually got made?
Source: Anime News Network
During this week’s 49th All Japan Plamodel Hobby Show, Bandai Entertainment has announced the development of a BB Senshi Sangokuden anime television series based on the popular line of “SD Gundam BB Senshi” plastic model kits. Specifically, the “Sangokuden” line envisions living super deformed Gundam robots as as characters from the classic Chinese Sangokushi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) novel. A short SD Gundam Sangokushi anime adaptation first appeared as a segment in the 53 minute Kido Senshi SD Gundam Matsuri promotional movie screened at the 1993 Gundam Big Expo.
Source: Anime News Network
Viz Media is now accepting submissions and pitches for original comics. So get to it!
Source: Icarus Publishing
Numerous Japanese sources including an official website from Young Jump Magazine reveal that Princess Blade director Shinsuke Sato will direct Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters from Iwo Jima) and Ken’ichi Matsuyama (Death Note, Kamui Gaiden) in two live action feature films based on Hiroya Oku’s sci-fi action manga Gantz. Ninomiya will star as protagonist Kei Kurono. Matsuyama will co-star as supporting character Masaru Kato. Yusuke Watanabe (20th Century Boys trilogy, Kami no Shizuku) is composing the screenplays. Takahiro Sato (Death Note, 20th Century Boys) will produce. Ninomiya & Matsuyama have already begun physical training for the film’s action sequences. Principal photography will begin next month for 2011 theatrical release.
The Sponichi Annex reports that the Gantz films will be targeted at mainstream audiences, suggesting that some of the graphic violence of the original manga may be toned down for the movies. Furthermore, the movies will tell a complete story with an original ending.
Oku’s popular sci-fi/horror manga premiered in July 2000 and has since sold over 10 million volumes. The ongoing series has amassed 26 collected volumes so far, although the series is touted as being in its “final phase” now. Dark Horse Comics distributes the manga in English.
I’m surprised to see dismay & disbelief over this proposition. Gantz is a charater-centric story set in modern day Tokyo with a relatively minimal amount of outlandish visual effects. This should be quite easy to adapt into live action – certainly easier than VFX heavy live action films like Goemon, Casshern, Dororo, and the Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro movies. If Death Note and 20th Century Boys can be successful enough to support 3 live action features each, Gantz is certainly viable for two pictures.
Source: Anime News Network & Tokyograph
Bandai Visual’s homepage for the DVD release of the current Tegami Bachi ~ Letter Bee anime television series has announced that the DVDs will include bonus short “Tegami Bachi Gakuen” (Letter Bee Academy) episodes. The first of seven Tegami Bachi TV series DVDs, due out on January 27th, will include two 3-minute long Tegami Bachi Gakuen bonus episodes.
Source: Anime News Network
Question:
I have seen an anime titled called Gall Force: The Revolution on the Internet and I was wondering, has this title be exported to the US?
Marvelous Entertainment has selected Crunchyroll to handle online distribution of the current Shin Koihime Muso anime television series for territories outside of Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and French-speaking Europe. The “New” Koihime Muso anime series is this year’s sequel to last year’s first Koihime Muso TV series, which Crunchyroll is now offering in its entirity. Episodes will be available for free on Crunchyroll one week after Japanese broadcast. Subscribers will have early access to weekly episodes.
