Question:
Why did Claymore have an ending that didn’t solve anything? Claire didn’t get revenge and none of the creatures of the abyss were killed. Will they make a real ending to it?
I know, we’re an anime blog, but I love pics of Japan, Tokyo especially, so when I come across some nice ones I like to share them with everyone. With much of the US in the icy grip of winter, don’t you wish you could be biking this right now?
The official homepage for the xxxHOLiC and Tsubasa OAD series is now streaming a trailer for the upcoming xxxHOLiC Rou anime episode. The xxxHOLiC Rou OAD will be packaged in limited edition copies of CLAMP’s xxxHOLiC manga volume 17 that goes on sale April 23.
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The homepage for this spring’s Working!! anime television series has released its latest 30 second character introduction trailer, this one featuring 17 year old waitress Mahiru Inami.
I do hope this show lives up to all of the promotion it’s getting. It does look like it’ll be fun.
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The LA Angeles Weekly newspaper reports that Adult Swim will begin broadcasting an English dub of the current Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood television series at midnight EST/PST on February 14. Most of the English dub cast from the first Fullmetal Alchemist series will reprise their roles for the second series. Maxey Whitehead will now portray Alphonse Elric in place of earlier actor Aaron Dismuke. And J. Michael Tatum, who played Scar in the dub of the Fullmetal Alchemist: Premium Collection OVAs will return.
A subtitled version of the series has been simulcast online by FUNimation since its Japanese premiere last April.
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Appleseed: Ex Machina producer Joseph Chou, during his audio interview with Anime News Network, confirmed that there will be future Appleseed anime movies. Specifically, when asked if there will be more Appleseed movies, Chou replied, “Yes.”
Development of the most recently announced Appleseed anime project, the Appleseed: Genesis television series, was canceled in September 2008 when Appleseed movies producer Micott & Basara reportedly ordered production stopped without explanation.
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The homepage for Masahiro Itosugi’s risqué incestual romance manga series Aki Sora has announced the development of an anime OVA adaptation. Animation studio Hoods Entertainment produced the Aki Sora OAD released last December. The studio and primary staff of the OAD will reteam for the upcoming OVA.
I liked Koikaze, and I’ve watched all of the Kiss x Sis anime so far, but I just couldn’t get into this one, for some reason.
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Kadokawa Shoten’s Monthly Newtype Magazine has announced that a preview of the Hana no Utame Gothicmade anime project will debut during the “All Night Newtype Show!” publicity event. The event will be held in Tokyo on March 20th to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Newtype Magazine. Five Star Stories creator Mamoru Nagano’s Gothicmade project premiered in April 2006 with rumors that it would generate an anime. While Nagano has previously worked on anime projects including Heavy Metal L-Gaim and Brain Powerd, Gothicmade will be his directorial debut.
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Ain’t It Cool News has published an advance review of the first issue of Devil, a full color sci-fi/action/horror manga mini-series from artist Torajiro Kishi and animation studio Madhouse, created for American publication by Dark Horse Comics. The first issue is scheduled for released on the 17th.
Ain’t It Cool News has published an advance review of Film Roman’s upcoming animated anthology film Dante’s Inferno. Anime directors Yasoumi Umetsu, working with Production I.G, and Shukou Murase, working with Manglobe, are among the six directors/five studios contributing to the production. The movie hits store shelves next Tuesday.
Halo Legends & Appleseed: Ex Machina producer Joseph Chou has told Anime News Network that development of the proposed American live action Evangelion motion picture is still “very active.” Chou explained that due to the crash of the American anime distribution industry, AD Vision CEO John Ledford was forced to sideline work on the project, which was first announced in 2003. Ledford is still involved in the project, but producer Chou has taken over primary responsibility for proposing the film to Hollywood. Chou said, “Right now we’re with a producer and a studio that really understands beyond the whole mecha impact… They’re really looking beyond that, and really looking at drama, human elements, even to those elements that appeal to otaku.”
I’ll believe it when I see it.
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Weekly Comic Bunch magazine has announced that a live action television series adaptation of Cocco Kashiwaya’s two volume comedy manga Divorce Living Together (Rikon Dokyo) will premiere on May 11 on the NHK television network. Sadao Abe (Maiko Haaaan!!!) & Eriko Satoh (Cutie Honey) will star as Ryuji and Harumi, a divorced couple forced by circumstances to continue living together.
Kashiwaya’s continuation of the original 2007-2008 manga, titled Divorce Living Together 2nd Season, will premiere in this year’s 13th issue of Weekly Comic Bunch magazine, which goes on sale in Japan on the 26th.
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Question:
I really like Ninku and have been interested in it ever since it was bundled together with the first Yu Yu Hakusho movie on [American] DVD. It’s one of the last really big shonen series to never really come to America and that’s always fascinated me. Plus I like old school shonen. However, there’s been very little fansubbing of it and not much viewership of said fansubs. Also, it seems like no anime companies have ever really tried licensing this series at all in any way. Why do you think anime fans and licensing companies have shown so little interest in the series?
Yen Press has announced its acquisition of four new Japanese print titles: Puyo’s The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan (Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yuutsu) manga, kakifly’s K-ON! manga, Fumi Yoshinaga’s Not Love But Delicious Foods (Ai ga Nakutemo Kutte Yukemasu) manga, and Mizuki Nomura’s first Literature Girl (Bungaku Shoujo) light novel.
Puyo’s super-deformed gag parody of the Suzumiya Haruhi novel series was adapted into a 2008 web anime series by Kyoto Animation. Kyoto Animation also produced last year’s anime TV series adaptation of kakifly’s bishoujo slice-of-life comedy K-On!
Fumi Yoshinaga’s 2005 manga guide book Not Love But Delicious Foods covers the author’s picks of gourmet foods and Japanese culinary destinations. Yoshinaga is best known in America as the creator of manga series including Antique Bakery, Gerard & Jacques, and Ooku.
Mizuki Nomura’s Literature Girl novel series about a mysterious high school girl who literally devours pages of literature and the teen author who satiates her hunger has been adapted into an anime OVA and an anime feature film that will open on May 1.
Yen Press also announced its acquisition of translation and publication rights to French artist Émile Bravo’s picture book Goldilocks and the Seven Squat Bears.
News surfaced last summer that the complete 200 episode Sailor Moon television series would be getting a revival via early 2010 TV broadcast in Italy. License! Global Magazine now quotes Toei Animation Europe director general Kanji Kazahaya who says, “We are certain that strategically Italy is the ideal country to initiate a global re-launch of the classic Japanese animated series such as ‘Sailormoon’.” However, Toei has not announced any plans to relaunch the Sailor Moon franchise in any other global markets. Meanwhile, Toei has licensed new broadcast contracts for Dragon Ball in Chilé and Digimon Frontier in Brazil, and a new DVD release of Digimon Adventure in Brazil. So Toei’s plans for global series relaunches may not necessarily include Sailor Moon.
The 1992 Sailor Moon TV series will begin airing on Italian television this fall.
