To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit to you the opening of the 2006 Inukami! television series. The theme song is “Hikari” sung by Yui Horie.
Streaming from NicoDou because the versions on YouTube are terrible quality.
Question:
Naruto’s kind of gotten stale for me. I want a new ninja anime, something with action and humor (but not overly-goofy like Ninja Nonsense). Could you recommend any good ninja animes for fans?
Disney has released its American trailer for next month’s American theatrical release of Studio Ghibli’s 2006 film Tales From Earthsea. The trailer is available on the film’s official site and on the Quicktime movie trailers page. The film hits American theaters on August 13.
Source: Anime News Network
The official website for the upcoming Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai (The World God Only Knows) anime television series opened yesterday with a streaming teaser trailer. (The trailer didn’t play for me yesterday and won’t play for me today.) The adaptation of Tamiki Wakaki’s popular romantic comedy manga is the story of a high school boy expert at playing dating simulation games who’s forced, via a contract with the devil, to apply his romantic charms to real girls in order to capture the runaway spirits that reside in their hearts.
Source: Moon Phase
The webmaster for Bandai Namco Games has announced that a 26 episode 3D Pac-Man anime television series will premiere in 2012.
Source: Moon Phase
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit to you the groovy Tondemo Senshi Muteking television series opening from 1980. The theme song is “Roller Hero Muteking” performed by Mizuki Ichirou & Feeling Free.
Question:
I just watched Minky Momo episodes 8-9. I noticed the animators inserted a sexy bikini model poster in Momo’s room (so Momo is a 10-year-old lesbian?) and later drew Lupin, Fujiko, and Jigen as background characters in episode 8. Back in the 90s, I recall magical girl otaku regarding Minky Momo as the holy grail of 80′s magical girl anime, but now that I’m watching it I’m not exactly understanding why. Perhaps I lack the knowledge of other magical girl programs of the late 70′s and early 80′s to compare it to. Or maybe I’m too demanding that anime have internal logic. Minky Momo does seem to have an eccentric and increasing irreverent visual style. The plots are tending to have Momo transform into some kind of job professional to solve a simple problem, but she soon gets mistaken for a real professional and is needed to solve a much bigger problem. It’s kind of like a variation on Doraemon’s inventions always backfiring on Nobita. Or maybe Minky Momo’s claim to fame is that she’s the first transforming magical girl made for girls?
Crunchyroll has announced plans to begin online subtitled streaming distribution of this month’s new Strike Witches 2 television series. Weekly episodes will be available to Crunchyroll subscribers in the United States, Canada, and the rest of the Americas, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the Middle East and Africa the same day the episodes air in Japan. Episodes will be available for free viewing one week later.
Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine has announced that limited edition copies of the 78th and final collected volume of Takuya Mitsuda’s baseball manga series Major will include an exclusive OAD. The manga and bonus anime DVD will be released in December.
Source: Anime News Network
Warner Bros. has revealed that the anime feature film adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha manga series, first announced in early 2009, will be three feature films. Tezuka Osamu no Buddha -Akai Sabaku yo! Utsukushiku- (Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha -The Red Desert! It’s Beautiful-), the first film of the trilogy, will be animated by Toei and Tezuka Productions with a one billion yen ($11 million USD) production budget. The movie will premiere on May 28, 2011.
Source: Anime News Network
44-year-old actress Kyoko Koizumi and her ex-husband 43-year-old Masatoshi Nagase will star in a live action feature film based on four volumes of Rieko Saibara’s autobiographical domestic comedy manga series Mainichi Kaasan (Everyday Mother). Weekly installments of the humorous manga story about Saibara’s daily life raising her two children have been published in the Mainichi Newspaper since 2002. The manga’s 6 compiled books have sold over 1.5 million copies. And an ongoing anime television series adaptation premiered in April 2009.
The movie will start filming next month for an early 2011 theatrical opening. The Shochiku production studio claims that the movie will mark the first time a real-life divorced couple co-star in a movie as a married couple. Kyoko Koizumi & Masatoshi Nagase married in 1995 and divorced in 2004. Koizumi & Nagase did both appear in the 2006 film Sakuran but did not share any scenes.
Source: Tokyograph
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit to you the opening of the 2006 Renkin 3 Kyuu Magical Pokaan television series. The opening theme is “Senketsu no Chikai” sung by Yousei Teikoku.
The homepage for Mamoru Nagano upcoming anime short film Gothicmade has added a 45 second trailer.
The animation is a little bit stilted, but the visual design and color design in this footage is like no other anime I’ve ever seen. This really looks like it could be very interesting.
The homepage for the upcoming anime film You Are Umasou (Omae Umasou Dana, “You Look Delicious”) has added a streaming trailer. Click the site’s middle navigation button to access the trailer. The movie is an adaptation of Tatsuya Miyanishi’s best selling children’s picture book about a Tyrannosaurus Rex that inadvertently becomes a surrogate parent to a baby dinosaur rather than eating it. The movie hits Japanese theaters on October 16.
Source: Twitch
The homepage for Sunrise’s upcoming feature film Colorful has added a full theatrical trailer. The adaptation of Eto Mori’s award winning 1999 novel about a spirit sent back to earth to share a body with a suicidal 14 year-old boy will hit Japanese theaters on August 21.
Source: Anime News Network
