Aniplex USA has announced plans to release a domestic Blu-ray boxed set containing the complete R.O.D. anime franchise this winter. The bilingual five-disc set will contain the 3 episode OVA series from 2001 and the 26 episode sequel television series from 2003.
The OVA series was previously distributed on American DVD by Manga Entertainment. The TV series was previously distributed on American DVD by Geneon.
Source: Anime News Network
The second of two web anime shorts based on Yuki Hayashi’s school archery club comedy manga Kaichu is now online.
Source: Anime News Network
Japanese graphic design & mascot character marketing company PansonWorks has announced that its popular Robin With His 100 Friends (Robin-kun to 100 nin no Otomodachi) multimedia franchise will expand into a Flash anime series this fall. The franchise currently includes collectible toys, apparel, books, and other merchandise. The official site now hosts a streaming trailer for the upcoming anime.
100 friends and not one of them is Bruce Wayne?
Source: Anime News Network
The Bandai Channel multimedia streaming website has formally announced that a second series in the “Sanada Ten” franchise will premiere this October. The Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densetsu Sanada Jyuu Yuushi (New Legend of the Heroes of the Warring Nations: The Ten Sanada Brave Soldiers) historical action/drama anime premiered with a TV special in 2005 followed shortly by a twelve episode television series.
Source: Moon Phase Diary
One thing leads to another. If Predators primarily see with thermal vision, they’d be screwed during a zombie outbreak. Zombies are always the last to get picked when choosing teams because even though they always win in the end, they have no sense of humor.
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer a double feature of the first openings of the 2008 Toaru Majutsu no Index TV series and its 2009 side-story Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. The “Index” theme is Mami Kawada’s “PSI-missing.” The “Railgun” theme is “only my railgun” by fripSide. It’s neat to see how these two openings sequences compliment and complete each other.
Question:
Do you think the anime industry need the top three anime/manga series, One Piece, Naruto, Bleach to keep going for the next 5 years or even pass 2016.
Fullmetal Alchemist (2nd series) and Hayate no Gotoku episode director Hiroshi Ikehata and the animators at Toei have produced a three-minute anime short based on Minori Kagura’s new slice-of-life comedy web manga series Nogyo Musume! (Agricultural Girls!). The promotional “episode zero” will screen in bookstores and anime specialty stores, stream on the manga’s official website, and air on an October 7 TV special on the Animax satellite TV network. The anime has been produced to promote the August 12 release of the manga’s first compiled print volume. The Nogyo Musume! franchise is the first production from the “MG x TA Project” collaboration between publisher Mag Garden and Toei Animation.
Nogyo Musume is the whimsical story of Hikari and Hikaru Koshino, two sisters that farm the rice paddy left to them by their parents.
Source: Anime News Network
Mayu Watanabe, Yuki Kashiwagi, Rie Kitahara, and Rino Sashihara, members of the popular AKB48 pop group, will each create original manga stories for publication in Weekly Young Jump Magazine. The tentatively titled manga stories Mayuyu: Mangaka Debut Keikaku, Yukirin no THE Idol Quest, Kitarie no Mousou Bungaku Shoujodou, and Sasshi Bishoujo-ka Keikaku will rotate weekly beginning with this year’s 38th issue, which goes on sale August 19.
Source: Tokyograph
The Tokyo District Court has ordered publisher Kodansha to pay a 550,000 yen ($6,300 USD) fine to an individual who successfully sued the publisher for unauthorized use of his likeness. Specifically, an October 2009 chapter of manga artist Atsushi Kase’s ongoing comedy manga series Zero Sen included an “oraora-kei car gang” leader distinguished by sunglasses and a 1950′s “ducktail” hairstyle who was actually based on a photograph of a real life oraora-kei apparel company manager. The individual claimed to have been defamed by the unauthorized manga likeness and sued Kodansha for 4.4 million yen ($50,000 USD). The infringing character will be re-drawn in future re-publications of the relevant manga chapter.
The truth hurts?
Source: Anime News Network
Monthly Flowers Magazine has announced the production of a stage play adaptation of Yuu Watase’s long running shoujo romance manga series Fushigi Yuugi. The play will run in Tokyo’s Nakano The Pocket theater from October 20 to 24. Actress Mao Miyaji (live-action Attack No. 1) will star as Miyaka. Watase’s Fushigi Yuugi manga debuted in 1992. The prequel manga series Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden is presently ongoing.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the now somewhat forgotten Witch Hunter Robin television series from 2002. The theme song is “Half Pain,” sung by Bana.
The homepage for the Bakemonogatari anime television series has formally announced that original author NisiOisin’s Bakemonogatari prequel novel Kizumonogatari (Soiled Girl Story) will get an anime adaptation. Anime production studio SHAFT, which animated Bakemonogatari, will animate Kizumonogatari.
NisiOisin’s Katanagatari light novel series has a current anime television series animated by production studio White Fox.
Source: Anime News Network
Record label Lantis has released its third trailer for the upcoming debut single for the anime multimedia project Love Live. The “Bokura no Live Kimi to no Life” (“My Live & Your Life”) CD single with anime music video will go on sale August 25, with advance copies sold on August 13 at Comic Market 78.
Source: Moon Phase
Discotek has announced its acquisition of four additional titles: the Galaxy Express 999 and Adieu Galaxy Express 999 anime films, the first Project A-ko anime film, the 2001 live action Shurayuki Hime movie, and the 2007 live action Aquarian Age movie, based on the Broccoli CCG.
Viz released the two GE999 movies on American VHS, but neither film has ever been officially released on American DVD. Central Park Media previously distributed the Project A-ko anime franchise. ADV Films previously distributed the Shurayuki Hime ~Princess Blade~ movie on domestic DVD.
Source: Anime News Network
