To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, and especially since Heartcatch Precure is the otaku community’s topic de jour since last week’s debut appearance of Cure Sunshine, check out the opening of the current Heartcatch Precure television series. The theme song is “Alright! Heartcatch Precure!” sung by Aya Ikeda.
Question:
What is netorare (NTR), and what is its appeal? Are there any examples of anime NTR?
Young Jump magazine is now streaming the first four-minute long half of an anime adaptation of Yuki Hayashi’s high-school archery club manga Kaichu! The anime is based on Hayashi’s original 2006 one-shot manga story. Hayashi launched a new continuity ongoing Kaichu manga series in 2009. The concluding second half of the Kaichu! web anime will premiere on July 30.
Source: Anime News Network
Hong Kong based Imagi Studios has released a new 64 second teaser trailer for its supposedly still-in-development CG Gatchaman motion picture. Imagi International Holdings Ltd. announced last February that the Imagi animation studio would be closed and liquidated. According to former Imagi creative & art director Felix Ip, this trailer was produced before the February mass lay-off and the announcement of the studio liquidation. Felix Ip has removed mention of this new trailer from his blog.
Not that I’m complaining, but this sure looks more like Gatchaman via Alex Ross than via Tatsuo Yoshida and Tatsunoko Pro.
Source: Twitch
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit to you a little weekend treat, the opening animation of the 1983 Daicon IV sci-fi convention animated by the fans that would later form Gainax, and Gonzo’s homage to the Daicon IV animation (and Galaxy Express 999), the opening sequence of the 2005 Densha Otoko live action drama. The theme song for both is ELO’s “Twilight.”
Question:
Casual observation suggests that among a portion of what may be called the “anime blogging” community, the initial opinion towards “Ladies Versus Butlers,” which was for the most part, negative, underwent an almost complete turnaround as the series progressed. To loosely borrow comments from one such blogger, the change in opinion towards that programme was possibly in no small part due to the presence of what some labelled a “likeable harem lead.”
Notwithstanding whether you have followed “L. vs B.” to any degree, what might you consider to constitute a “likeable harem lead,” and do any particular examples – past or present – come to mind?
Bandai’s homepage for the Mobile Suit Gundam plastic model franchise is now streaming a two-minute trailer for the upcoming Mokei Senshi Gunpla Builders Beginning G anime. The first of three chapters of the “Beginning G” anime will premiere on August 10 at the at the Gundam Super Expo event, screen on the BS11 satellite TV network on August 15, and stream online beginning August 20.
Source: Moon Phase
Monthly Sunday GX magazine has announced that Hajime Yamamura’s supernatural action manga series Kamisama Dolls (God Dolls) will be adapted into anime. The ongoing manga premiered in 2006 and has seven compiled volumes so far. The story stars Kyohei, a college student who moves from a rural village to Tokyo, only to find that his village’s tradition of worshiping robot-esque “kukuri” has followed him.
Hajime Yamamura may be most familiar to English speaking readers as the creator of the Kamunagara: Rebirth of the Demonslayer manga published in English by Media Blasters.
Source: Anime News Network
Collectible game developer/publisher Bushiroad has announced that its upcoming trading card game Cardfight!! Vanguard will also get a TV anime series and a manga serialization. The card game will officially debut next year.
Source: Anime News Network
Apparantly the Seikon no Qwaser: Jyotei no Shouzou (Qwaser of Stigmata: Portrait of the Empress) anime production announced last month will be an OAD bundled with limited edition copies of the tenth volume of Hiroyuki Yoshino & Kenetsu Sato’s Seikon no Qwaser manga.
Source: Moon Phase Diary
Japanese publisher Futabasha has revealed that “Shin Crayon Shin-chan” (New Crayon Shin-chan), a new Crayon Shin-chan manga serial, will premiere in the September issue of Monthly Manga Town magazine that goes on sale August 5th. The original Crayon Shin-chan manga series ended last year after creator Yoshito Usui died in a mountain hiking accident. Usui’s “UY Studio” artists will relaunch the new manga series, crediting the work to “Yoshito Usui & UY Studio.”
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit to you the really nice looking opening of 1987′s Kiko Senki Dragonar television series. The theme song is “Yumeiro Chaser” sung by Mami Ayukawa.
Question:
Is an OAV a good sign for a second season? I’m specifically talking about Kure-nai. In 2008 it had a TV season and in 2010 it had an OAV produced that was distributed with the manga. Do you think that the OAV is a good sign the series is still popular enough to warrant animation being produced and a second season is possible or is it more like the series isn’t popular enough to get a season, so all we’ll get is 30 minute chunks once every blue moon?
Reportedly next week’s issue of WAaI! boys in skirts magazine (that’s “waai!” as in “yipee!” not as in “why!?”) will formally announce the development of a cross-dressing boys anime titled “Mayoelle Otokonoko.” Keiichiro Kawaguchi (Moetan, Kowarekake no Orgel) will direct. POP (Moetan, Kowarekake no Orgel) will provide original character designs which Kikuko Sadakata (Shikabane Hime) will adapt for animation. The animation will be produced by Actas (Moetan, Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch).
Strictly speaking, cross-dressing boy anime has been done before in shows including Stop! Hibari-kun (1983) and Princess Princess (2006).
Source: Anime News Network
The new homepage for the upcoming Air Gear OAD has released a minute long trailer. The Original Anime DVD will come packaged with limited edition copies of Oh! Great’s Air Gear manga volume 30 on November 17.
Source: Moon Phase
