75 year old Space Battleship Yamato co-creator and producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki drowned to death on Sunday, November 7 after falling off the deck of the research boat Yamato, which was anchored 250 meters off shore of the Ogasawara Islands to allow Nishizaki and several of the boat’s nine passengers to go swimming.
Nishizaki produced last year’s Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection motion picture and is credited as a creator behind next month’s live action Space Battleship Yamato movie.
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of 2008′s Kurozuka television series. The opening theme song is “SYSTEMATIC PEOPLE” performed by WAGDUG FUTURISTIC UNITY featuring Maximum the Hormone.
We love Makoto Shinkai’s previous works for their story and beautiful visuals, here’s the latest on the upcoming Hoshi o Ou Kodomo (Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below, due out May 2011).
Senior Editor of Shonen Jump (USA version) magazine Joel Enos has confirmed that the periodical will begin serializing Toshiaki Iwashiro’s sci-fi adventure Psyren and the manga adaptation of Yu-Gi-Oh 5D’s in January.
The Ramen Para Dos fan blog reports that a TMS Entertainment spokesman at the recent XVI Salón del Manga de Barcelona convention confirmed that next February’s second St. Seiya: The Lost Canvas anime series will not be broadcast on television prior to its DVD & BD release the way the first series was. The decision not to broadcast the second series is based on perception that the television broadcast of the first series was not successful, and, according to TMS European representative Cinzia Mariani, it is now difficult to convince Japanese television networks used to 26 episode series to allot space for 13 episode series.
Just because I’ve been a rabid Bloom County fan since the late 1980s I’m pointing out that Ain’t It Cool News has published a new, lengthy interview with Berkeley Breathed on the subject of his most beloved creation.
“It’s a weird feeling. But a good one. Like sex with cows.”
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of 1987′s City Hunter television series. The opening theme song is “City Hunter ~ Ai yo Kienaide” sung by Kahoru Kohiruimaki.
Question:
As a fan of the first Darker than Black series, I was really excited that a second season went into production given that it didnt seem like Japan’s run of the mill marketing dream series. I thought the second season was one of the best animated of the 2009 season but, well, there were only 12 episodes with no resolution whatsoever. I know this has happened before (Tokko and Berserk immediately spring to mind), but it seems that having put up the money for a beautiful first half, the production studio might as well finish the job. Why you think this particular series was not continued and what similar but less known other examples were stopped and then picked up? (Black lagoon comes to mind.)
FUNimation has acquired distribution rights to the Bubblegum Crisis 2040, Excel Saga, and Noir television series formerly distributed domestically by ADV Films. All three titles will be re-released in America next year.
Anime News Network (ANN) reports that it will resume simulcasting the current Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai and Togainu no Chi anime series next week. ANN began simulcasting the “OreImo” television series last month but inadvertently allowed a hacker to gain early access to the series’ second episode and distribute the episode publicly. As a result of the security breech, ANN’s right to stream the series was temporarily withheld, and streaming of the Togainu no Chi anime series was temporarily delayed.
Korea based animation studio Daewon Media has revealed the first footage of its upcoming full CG animation series based on Masashi Tanaka’s acclaimed manga series Gon.
A teaser trailer for the live action Paradise Kiss movie is now available. The movie is an adaptation of Ai Yazawa’s acclaimed manga, which was also adapted into an anime television series in 2005. The movie will open in Japan next May.
Screen Daily reports that Anthony LaMolinara will direct the live action Bubblegum Crisis movie, an adaptation of ARTMIC’s popular 1987-1991 OVA series. The film is a co-production between Australia’s Arclight Films, Canada’s Wizzfilms, Infotainment China Media Company, and UK based Latec International. The film will shoot in stereoscopic 3D at China’s Hengdian World Studios beginning next May. LaMolinara was the visual effects animation director on 2002′s Spider-Man and its 2004 sequel. He also worked as an animator on 1995′s Toy Story and as lead animator for 1999′s Stuart Little.
A trademark for the title “Suite Precure” was filed with the Japanese Patent Office on October 12 and revealed publicly on November 4. According to Japanese anime fan site Moon Phase, the Suite Precure television series will premiere next February.
Interesting. The logo and title suggest a musical theme, which is different from the current Heartcatch Precure’s flower theme. This logo suggests an entirely new series with a new cast. I’d be somewhat surprised if the Heartcatch girls don’t get a second series considering how successful the current series seems to be.
