The homepage for the upcoming Yozakura Quartet: Hoshi no Umi OAD has released a streaming trailer. The anime will be released on October 8 with limited edition copies of the 9th collected volume of Suzuhito Yasuda’s manga.
I’m not feeling this. I prefer the TV series character designs. And this trailer feels like it’s too indebted to K-On.
Source: Moon Phase
Record label Lantis has released a 16 second trailer for the upcoming Love Live! original anime music video. The CD single and music video that will launch the Love Live! multimedia franchise go on sale nationwide in Japan on August 25.
Source: Moon Phase
Yahoo Japan Movies is now streaming an amusingly English narrated trailer for Madhouse & director Takeshi Koike’s sci-fi racing movie Redline. The two-minute trailer is almost entirely previously unreleased footage. The movie is currently playing international film festivals and will have its Japanese theatrical wide release on October 9.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for next year’s 31st Doraemon motion picture, Doraemon: Shin Nobita to Tetsujin Heidan ~Habatake Tenshi-tachi~ (Doraemon: New Nobita and the Platoon of Iron Men ~People With Angel Wings~) has added a streaming trailer. Click on the animated blue button on the site’s main page to access the trailer. The movie is a remake of the 7th Doraemon movie from 1986. (The 2006, 2007, and 2009 Doraemon movies were also remakes.) The movie will hit Japanese theaters in March 2011.
Source: Anime News Network
The G-Taste Best Selection manga, a “best of” selection culled from Hiroki Yagami’s erotic leg fetish manga series, will hit Japanese stores on November 22. The book will include a bonus 25 minute OAD featuring all new animation from studio AIC PLUS+. Katsuhiko Nishijima (AIKa, Graduation) directs.
Five of the seven G-Taste OVAs released in Japan from 1999 through 2003 have been released on American DVD by SoftCel Pictures and re-released by Critical Mass.
The trailer for the new OAD is provocative but safely censored.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for the new Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road Victory card battle game for the Wii is now streaming the game’s 2:25 opening animation sequence in small and large resolutions.
The opening animation sequence will also screen, in stereoscopic 3D, in 43 Japanese theaters from July 17 to 30 before screenings of Toy Story 3.
Source: Anime News Network
Cambridge, Massachusetts based Sasuga Japanese Bookstore announced last week that it has ceased operations as a result of “the current economic climate” and “changes in the international bookselling market” (presumably including consumers increasingly importing Japanese books and similar goods directly from retailers based in Japan instead of relying on American import companies). Sasuga was founded in 1993 and was a well known presence at major nationwide anime conventions.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit to you the opening (and ending) of the Yoshinaga-san’chi no Gargoyle television series from 2006. The theme song is “Ohayou” (“Good Morning”) sung by Chiwa Saito, Yuuna Inamura, and Nana Mizuki.
Streaming from NicoDou for non-credit and higher quality than YouTube.
Evidently Japan’s Toho Pictures has just announced that next month’s first Metal Fight Beyblade movie, “Metal Fight Beyblade VS Taiyo Shakunetsu no Shinryakusha” (Metal Fight Beyblade vs the Sun: Sol Blaze, the Scorching Hot Invader), will be a double feature with the third Duel Masters feature film, “Duel Masters: Hono no Kizuna XX” (Duel Masters: Scars of Flame Double X). The double-bill will hit Japanese theaters on August 21. The homepages for both movies (linked above) include streaming trailers.
Am I alone in my surprise and amazement that the Duel Masters anime franchise is still ongoing?
Source: Anime News Network
Next week’s issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine will formally reveal that the recently announced forthcoming To Love-Ru anime will be a second TV series titled “Motto To Love-Ru -Trouble-” (“More Trouble”). XEBEC, which animated the 2008 To Love-Ru TV series and 2009 OVA series, will also animate the new series.
Source: Anime News Network
Japanese broadcaster TV Tokyo has announced that the fourth Bleach motion picture will premiere on December 4th. Bleach creator Tite Kubo is personally supervising the development of Gekijouban Bleach: Jigoku-hen (Bleach Movie: Hell Chapter).
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for the current Heroman television series has added a 2:29 trailer for the “Second Mystery” story arc that will develop through the second half of the show.
Source: Moon Phase
The executive committee for the Harvey Awards, America’s most prestigious recognition within the comic book industry, has announced its nominations for its 2009 awards. The category of “Best American Edition of Foreign Material” includes four Japanese titles and one French work. The nominees are:
The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, published in English by Abrams ComicArts
Manga Kamishibai, published in English by Abrams ComicArts
Pluto: Urasawa X Tezuka, published in English by Viz Media
20th Century Boys, published in English by Viz Media
The Photographer, published in English by First Second
The 2009 Harvey Award winners will be announced in a ceremony at the Baltimore Comic-Con on August, 28, 2010.
Source: ICv2
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit to you the spoiler free first opening of the Working!! television series from last April. The theme song is “SOMEONE ELSE” sung by Kana Asumi, Saki Fujita and Eri Kitamura.
Observant viewers will notice that the animation quality in this sequence is especially good. Look at Inami shaking Takanashi at :59, or how fluidly Kozue moves at 1:05, for example. Furthermore, little details like the follow-throughs on Inami’s punch at :30 and Kyoko’s kick at 1:25 didn’t have to be included but are. Really nice work on this OP.
Question:
For me animation has created some very memorable moments inside comedy, year after year companies keep outdoing themselves. But lately I end up missing comedies with over exaggerated expressions combined with adult themes (I’m not talking about porn). Comedies like “Ping Pong Club” and “Golden Boy”. I was wondering if you could recommend some that resemble them.
