Japanese video streaming site Nico Nico Douga is now streaming the entire 16 episode Weiss Survive TV anime series that aired earlier this year as part of the live action Card Gakuen television program. The episodes have no English translation. Access to video on Nico Nico Douga is free, but does require registration.
The official Japanese homepage for the Detective Conan movie franchise has announced that the series’ 14th feature, Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky (Meitantei Conan: Tenku no Lost Ship), will hit Japanese theaters on April 17. The film’s story will revolve around the Kaito Kid threatening to steal a famous jewel on display aboard the world’s largest airship, which coincidentally gets hijacked while Kudo Shinichi and company happen to be aboard. This will be the fourth Detective Conan in which Kaito Kid appears, following movies 3, 8, and 10.
Source: Anime News Network
As part of the NTV television network’s new “Lupin Steal Japan” promotional campaign, manga master thief Lupin the 3rd has “stolen” the large “Moyai,” (“work together” in Niijima Island dialect) statue normally located at the northeast exit of the Shibuya train station in Tokyo. In it’s place is the message from Lupin, “I’ve stolen the Moyai.” Visitors to the “Steal Japan” website are now invited to suggest other Japanese icons for Lupin to “steal.”
The anime series’ 21st annual TV special will air next year.
Source: Shibuya246 & Mainichi Newspaper
Question:
Why are there no solid adaptions of Alice in Wonderland in anime? I noticed that there are several parodies, but most of them contain a cat girl or boy doing the cheshire cat or a bunny girl or boy doing the white rabbit and/or march hare. Would a serious attempt not be considered anime? It seems like the only reason the two cross paths is for the sake of fan service (I.E. Miyuki-chan in Wonderland).
Sentai Filmworks will release complete series DVD collections of the Skull Man and Maria Holic television anime series on February 2 and 23, respectively. The 2007 Skull Man anime series is a 13 episode action/horror loosely based on the late Shotaro Ishinomori’s predecessor to Kamen Rider. Maria Holic is a sitcom revolving around a lesbian girl with a algery to men whose room mate at an all-girls school is a cross-dressing boy. The 12 episode adaptation of Minari Endo’s manga aired in Japan earlier this year.
Switchblade Pictures will release the live action Kirenji Women’s College DVD collection on February 9 and the live action Ryuji the Yakuza collection on February 23.
Sentai Filmworks & Switchblade Pictures releases are distributed by Section23.
I’m surprised that it took so long for Skull Man to get licensed. Not surprised to see Maria Holic picked up so quickly.
God is coming for you!
Source: Anime News Network
A new, second trailer for next year’s Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn OVA series has hit the web. The six episode series will have its public premiere in Japan on February 20, prior to its international release on DVD & BD on March 12.
The official website for next month’s Sora no Woto (Sounds of the Sky) television series is now streaming a new 30 second TV spot. The series will premiere on January 4th.
I do think this show looks promising, but I hope its pedigree and its heavy advance promotion isn’t creating stratospheric expectations that the show won’t be able to meet.
Source: Anime News Network
Reportedly the January issue of Newtype magazine, which goes on sale in Japan this week, will formally announce that studio Bee Train (.Hack, Tsubasa Chronicle) will produce an anime adaptation of Manabu Kaminaga’s Psychic Detective Yakumo (Shinrei Tantei Yakumo) novel series. Tomoyuki Kurokawa (Murder Princess) will direct. Hiroyuki Kawasaki (Blade of the Immortal, Ryoko’s Case File) will write the screenplay. The ongoing novel series about a red-eyed detective who can see spirits premiered in 2004 and now has 9 books, a 2006 live action TV drama, and two manga adaptations.
Source: Anime News Network
Morning magazine has formally announced that Studio Deen (07-Ghost, Hetalia ~Axis Powers~) will produce a 26 episode TV anime adaptation of Masaya Tsunamoto and Tsujitomo’s soccer manga Giant Killing. Yuu Kou (Chrono Crusade, Loveless) will direct for an April 2010 premiere.
Source: Moon Phase Diary
Reportedly the January issue of Newtype magazine, which goes on sale in Japan this week, will formally announce that studio Madhouse is presently developing a TV anime based on Morimi Tomohiko’s novel Yojohan Shinwa Taikei (Compendium of the 4½ Tatami Mat Legend). Mind Game & Kaiba director Yuasa Masaaki is helming the production for broadcast in the Fuji TV network’s late night Noitamina time slot beginning next April. The 2005 novel is a reflection on the college life of an ordinary third-year student.
Since this is a Masaaki Yuasa directed production, it’ll probably be anything but ordinary.
Source: Anime News Network
Morning magazine, via a streaming video, has formally announced the development of an anime adaptation of Yasuhisa Kubo’s mystery comedy manga series Yondemasuyo, Azazel-san. The ongoing manga series, which debuted in 2007, revolves around human detective Akutaba and his female assistant Rinko Sakuma, who employ various demons to help solve cases.
Source: Moon Phase Diary
Morning magazine has formally announced that a live action TV series adaptation of Masayuki Ishikawa’s award winning manga series Moyashimon will air in the Fuji TV network’s late night Noitamina timeslot next year. An anime adaptation aired as a Noitamina program in 2007. Moyashimon is a humorous drama about an agricultural university student who has the unique ability to see and communicate with microbes.
Is it just me or is Moyashimon really not quite as interesting as its reputation suggests?
Source: Moon Phase Diary
Japanese television network TBS has announced that the Yume o Kanaeru Zo (Dream-Granting Elephant) anime series will return this winter. The adaptation of Keiya Mizuno’s best selling novel has spun off a live action TV series, 2 live action TV specials, and an anime TV series consisting of 6-10 minute episodes aired during the Kimi wa Break variety news program earlier this year. Nine episodes of the anime aired before the Kimi wa Break program was canceled. The TBS announcement doesn’t clarify if the return of the Yume o Kanaeru Zo anime will be a rebroadcast of the existing 9 episodes, an expanded rebroadcast, or an entirely new series.
Source: Anime News Network
The Japanese Code Geass homepage has added an announcement from Yoshitaka Kawaguchi, producer behind the two Code Geass TV series, confirming plans for development of multiple future Code Geass manga series, “visual works,” music, and other products.
So Sunrise is going to continue franchising its current hit title. Is this really surprising news to anyone?
Source: Anime News Network
Singapore based film production companies Infinite Frameworks and Zhao Wei Films reportedly have plans to fund a black & white Japanese language live action film adaptation of Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s acclaimed 2008 autobiographical manga A Drifting Life (Gekiga Hyouryuu). Published in Japan as two 400+ page volumes, the manga is available in English from Drawn and Quarterly as a single 840 page book.
Source: Icarus Publishing
