Dragon Odawara’s comedy manga Cherry Nights will be adapted into a live-action television series premiering on October 10. Comedians Ayumu Kato and Yu Sawabe will play a pair of male virgin room-mates. The younger idolizes the elder, who claims to be popular and experienced with women.
Source: Anime News Network
Freshly released screenshots of the upcoming independently produced Iron Vendetta (Koutetsu no Vendetta) Episode 0 look quite impressive, and appear to have come a long way from last year’s early footage.
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the Kingyou Chuiho TV series from 1991. The theme song is “Wapiko Genki Yohou” sung by Junko Uchida.
Question:
Why is fanservice getting blamed for the downfall of anime. All I hear these day is how ecchi fanservice/harem show is killing the industry, why is that. I’ve been a anime fan for 16 years and it frustrate me when I see people attack ecchi fanservice/harem show saying it the reason anime is dying say that that there too many of them and that there all trash. I’ve been keeping track for the past couple of years and on average by my count, only 12 to 15 of the 75+ new anime that comes out every year is ecchi fanservice, harem, or both. Wouldn’t it be more correct to say that what killing the industy is not too much ecchi fanservice/harem show, but the lack of good quality show that are on par with Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchmist, Princess Tutu, and Kaleido Star? And as Ken Akamatsu said a couple of week ago that male viewers havn’t been buy anime like they have in the past cause they can’t afford it. I feel the show like Code Geass and Gurren Lagaan, to name a few, have been poor attempt to imitate Gundam and Evangelion with complete lack of story and, as a guy, I can varify how hard it is to buy anime cause of how exspensive it is. So why do people keep saying that ecchi fanservice/harem show are killing anime and shouldn’t we be offended by this?
The homepage for studio BONES’ latest work, Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto, has added a streaming trailer. The “school robot action” anime series will premiere next month.
Can’t say that it looks especially original, but it does look it may be interesting.
Source: Anime News Network
Kadokawa has released a two minute trailer for next month’s Sora no Otoshimono Forte television series sequel to last year’s first series. The second season of the adaptation of Suu Minazuki’s romantic comedy fantasy manga will premiere on October 1.
The homepage for the upcoming Steins;Gate anime television series has added a streaming teaser. Emphasis on teaser.
Anime production studio Group TAC (Night on the Galactic Railroad, Touch, Miami Guns) filed for bankruptcy on August 31. The company claimed about 650 million yen ($7.7 million USD) in debt as of the end of its August 2009 fiscal year. The studio presently has 9 employees and 10 million yen ($120,000 USD) in capital.
The studio was founded in March 1968. At the peak of its success, the studio earned 1.53 billion yen ($18.2 million USD) during the fiscal year ending in August 2007. However, only two years later and following the death of its founder and CEO in July 2009, the studio brought in only 596 million yen ($7.07 million USD).
The studio most recently animated last year’s Buddha Saitan: The Rebirth of Buddha anime feature film.
Source: Anime News Network
Independent animator Atsuya Aki has publicly announced his development of Cencoroll 2, a sequel to his highly regarded 2009 fantasy action short film, which he wrote, designed, animated, and directed himself.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of last year’s Seitokai no Ichizon TV series from 2006. The theme song is “Treasure” sung by the Hekiyou Gakuen Seitokai.
Question:
An issue arose over the comparison in character design between the manga One Piece and Bleach and their anime counterparts. Basically, some of the female characters have risqué outfits showing parts of naked breasts in the manga, while in the anime these characters have their costumes changed. Is this censorship, or the anime crew’s vision of these characters?
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Funimation has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the 2006 Disgaea anime television series formerly distributed domestically by Geneon. The 12 episode series will be re-released on domestic DVD early next year.
The Disgaea anime is an adaptation of Nippon Ichi Software’s 2003 SRPG game Makai Senki Disgaea.
Japanese multimedia developer CIRCUS has released the second trailer for the upcoming T.P. Sakura ~Time Paladin Sakura~ Jiku Boeisen game & anime spin-off from the D.C. ~Da Capo~ PC game franchise. The first of two games with bonus anime episodes will be released on November 25th.
I don’t want to be harsh, but this really looks like a low-rent Nanoha knock-off.
Source: Anime News Network
Next week’s issue of Weekly Young Magazine will formally announce the development of a TV anime adaptation of Tomonori Inoue’s sci-fi action manga series Coppelion. The military bishoujo adventure stars three teen girls ordered to investigate the ruins of Tokyo in 2036 after the city has been irradiated by nuclear contamination, abandoned, and quarantined.
In manga, of course, this all makes perfect sense.
Source: Anime News Network
