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The homepage for next month’s Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai! anime television series has added three short TV spots. The show will premiere on October 3.

Source: Moon Phase

Producer Masafumi Fukui (Kiddy Grade, Scrapped Princess, Full Metal Panic!) has revealed word that Natsuko Shimamori’s humor manga series Shokupan Mimi (White Bread Mimi) is getting an anime TV series adaptation. The ongoing manga series stars Mimi, a slice of white bread, and her friends Bata-chan (Butter-chan), Hammy, Petit-Toma-chan (cherry tomato), Pansam-kun (croissant), and Torebi Aan (tres bien). The Shokupan Mimi TV anime will premiere on October 4.

This isn’t the first anime starring anthropomorphized bread. The Kogepan (burnt bread) anime television series aired in 2001.

Source: Anime News Network

After an interval of 25 years, Hojo Tsukasa’s popular Cat’s Eye crime adventure manga will return in a redesigned remake from MIQ artist Asai Shingo in the October 25 first issue of Comic Gekkan Zenon magazine. Now titled “Cat’s Ai” (Cat’s Love), the new manga serialization will feature a redesigned Rui, Hitomi and Ai Kisugi sisters, owners of a café by day and art thieves by night, trying to recover the scattered paintings of their late father. Reportedly Tsukasa will provide input on the new manga series.

The original Cat’s Eye manga was adapted into a 73 episode anime TV series in 1983 and a 1997 live action feature film.

Source: Mantan Web

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In a brief interview with Collider, actor Keanu Reeves said about 20th Century Fox’s tentative live action Cowboy Bebop motion picture, “I haven’t heard anything back. They turned in the script and it was very expensive. I don’t know if they’re going to… it would cost, like, half a billion dollars to make that script. So, I don’t know where it’s at right now.”

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Movie news website JoBlo has secured three production pitch concept images for Atlas Entertainment’s tentative Voltron motion picture. The on-again-off-again production has been in development hell for years. But these images suggest that the project may now be one step closer to reality.

Maybe it’s just me, but Voltron doesn’t really look like Voltron when he’s designed like a Bayformer. And don’t these images just highlight the nonsense of designing robots in the form of giant, combining lions?

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Earlier this week Shogun Gamer revealed 39 seconds of a supposed test screening of a live action Pokemon motion picture. In the ensuing hours and days the online community has universally dismissed this as an unofficial fan film. But the fact that this (probably) isn’t studio produced doesn’t make it any less interesting. Or weird.

To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the uniquely stylistic second opening of the 2005 Zettai Shounen television series. The theme song is “Hikari no Silhouette” sung by CooRie.

Question:
I fail to understand why so many people are such rabid fans of the anime Azumanga Daioh. I mean to me it just looks like a cheap clone of Lucky Star. So why all the popularity?

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Crunchyroll has revealed the first selections of fall season anime series that will simulcast on the website. Crunchyroll’s fall season titles will include:

Fortune Arterial
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Sora no Otoshimono Forte
Squid Girl (Shinryaku! Ika Musume)
Super Robot Wars OG: The Inspector
Tegami Bachi Reverse
The World God Only Knows

An additional 13 “back catalog” titles from Kadokawa Pictures will also premiere on Crunchyroll next month.

4Kids has licensed domestic distribution rights to this past January’s Gekijouban Yu-Gi-Oh! ~Chou-Yugo! Jiku o Koeta Kizuna~ (Yu-Gi-Oh movie: Bonds Beyond Time) feature film. The stereoscopic 3D film commemorated the 10th anniversary of the franchise’s second TV anime series by starring characters Yuugi Mutou, Judai Yuki, and Yusei Fudo, the heroes of the four Yu-Gi-Oh television series. The film will receive a limited American theatrical release early next year followed by domestic TV broadcast and DVD release.

Source: ICv2

The homepage for next month’s Psychic Detective Yakumo (Shinrei Tantei Yakumo) television series has added a streaming teaser. The supernatural mystery show based on Manabu Kaminaga’s novel series will premiere on October 3.

Source: Anime News Network

Broadcaster TV Tokyo’s homepage for the Bleach anime franchise has added a 30 second streaming teaser for this winter’s Bleach: Hell Chapter motion picture. The movie will open on December 4.

Source: Anime News Network

Video game distributor D3 Publisher has announced that its dating simulation game for female players Vitamin X is getting an OVA adaptation. The “reverse harem” story revolves around a female teacher assigned to a notorious class of high school seniors. The original PS2 game from developer HuneX was released in 2007. Since then, the game has spun off five ports and sequels.

Source: Anime News Network

Capcom & Sony Pictures Entertainment have revealed word that production has begun on Biohazard: Damnation, a 3D CG anime sequel to the 2008 CG film Biohazard: Degeneration. The sequel will premiere in 2012.

Oh Lord, why? I like ResEvil, but “Degeneration” was awful.

Source: Anime News Network

Reportedly actor Lee Min-Ho will star in a new Korean live action TV series adaptation of Hojo Tsukasa’s 1985-1991 manga series City Hunter. The new incarnation will change the setting from mid 80s Tokyo to present day Seoul, Republic of Korea.

America’s Fox Television Studios did announce plans to co-produce a Korean-Japanese live action City Hunter television series in 2008, but that project never developed and appears to be unrelated to this latest announcement.

Source: Anime News Network