The December issue of Manga Time Kirara Carat magazine that goes on sale in Japan this week will formally announce the development of an anime TV series based on bb Kuroda’s four-panel comedy manga A Channel. The slice-of-life comedy stars four cute high school girls.
Source: Anime News Network
Reportedly Shohei Manabe’s 2000 crime manga Smuggler will be getting a feature film adaptation. Whether the film will be animated or live action hasn’t been revealed. The manga tells the story of a young man who pays his debts by working for the mob, transporting and disposing of the corpses of victims of mafia violence.
Shohei Manabe’s later crime manga Ushijima the Loan Shark has a current live action television series adaptation.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of 1989′s Idol Densetsu Eriko TV series. The theme song is “Namida no Hanbun,” sung by Eriko Tamura, the basis for the anime’s main character.
Question:
Movies based on American comic book characters (Spider-Man, X-Men, Iron Man, Hulk, Batman) have made many billions. But lots of money was invested into making them. They weren’t made on cheap budgets. Do you think we’ll ever see Japan/Hollywood figure out how to translate anime/manga characters into such enormous movie adaptation franchises? So far with whining like, “well, it’d cost too much money to make an awesome Cowboy Bebop movie,” it sounds like they’re afraid to invest much and take any chances because no anime/manga based live-action movie has ever made much money, thus creating an endless cycle of lackluster DB Evolution budget-limiting approaches and a fear of being willing to risk money developing something truly amazing like the rejected Cowboy Bebop movie script is said to be.
The homepage for the Aki Sora ~Yume no Naka~ OVA series has added a second, two minute long trailer for its upcoming second and concluding episode. The OVA is scheduled for release on November 17. The trailer contains graphic nudity & sex and is suitable for adult viewers only.
Source: Moon Phase
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of 2006′s Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z TV series. The theme song is Nana Kitade’s “Kibou no Kakera.”
Question:
With the uproar on 4chan and MyAnimeList over the hacking and the premature release of ANN’s simulcast of Oreimo, and the loss (at least for now) of the rights to continue simulcasting it and another series, and the unending “fansubbers are evil” slamfest it spawned on ANN’s own forums, I find it a bit surprising this anime news has not made it here on AnimeNation. What are your thoughts on the hacking of ANN’s contracted servers, the illegal upload of Oreimo, the fallout from this, and the different reactions it has spawned on 4chan, MyAnimeList, and on ANN’s forums?
Sentai Filmworks has revealed its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to the Koihime Muso, 11eyes, and Kämpfer television series.
The 13 episode first season of Koihime Muso will be released in $49.98 subtitled DVD collection on January 4, 2011.
The 13 episode 11eyes television series will be released in $49.98 subtitled DVD collection on January 11, 2011.
The 13 episode Kämpfer television series will be released in $49.98 subtitled DVD collection on January 18, 2011.
Crunchyroll has previously streamed Koihime Muso and 11eyes with English subtitles. The Kämpfer anime series has never previously been officially distributed in North America.
The advertising obi found on new printings of Hajime Asano’s school romantic comedy light novel series Mayo Chiki! reveals that the franchise will be getting an anime adaptation. The novel series, which presently has five volumes, stars Subaru Konoe, a “boy” who serves as a classmate’s butler. Subaru is actually a cross-dressing girl.
The format of the planned anime adaptation has not been revealed.
Source: Anime News Network
Advertising for the seventh volume of Minari Endo’s Maria Holic manga has revealed the development of a second TV anime series. Director Akiyuki Shinbo and the Shaft animation studio that produced the 2009 TV series will also produce the second series.
This is certainly unexpected but welcome news.
Source: Anime News Network
Blood: The Last Vampire & Roujin Z director Hiroyuki Kitakubo will lead the animators at Gonzo in the production of Satria: The Warriors of the 7 Elements, a 26 episode animated adventure television series for 9-14 year old Malaysian boys. The series will be created in collaboration with Malaysian animation studio Funcel and the Malaysian National Film Development Corporation. The series will revolve around Malaysian folk hero Hang Tuah.
Kitakubo publicly created a rough sketch of Hang Tuah, seen below.
Source: Anime News Network
Media Factory has announced a one month delay on the release of the final two episodes of the current Queen’s Blade: Utsukushiki Toshi-tachi (Queen’s Blade: Beautiful Warriors) OVA series due to “production issues.” The fifth OVA will now street on January 26, 2011. The sixth and final episode will be released on February 23, 2011.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the 1998 Jikuu Tantei Genshi-kun TV series. The theme song is “Power na Kimochi” sung by Yukari Asakura.
Question:
I’ve been watching the Panty & Stocking series, and I am loving it so far. What do you think the chances are of it being picked up in America, if any?
Next week’s issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine will formally announce the development of a TV anime adaptation of Kenta Shinohara’s popular comedy manga serial Sket Dance. The manga stars two boys and a girl who form their high school’s maligned “campus support group” that solves student body problems. The manga premiered in 2007 and won the 55th annual Shogakukan Manga Award for best shounen manga in 2009. The TV anime will premiere next spring.
Source: Anime News Network
