Japanese publisher Takeshobo has released a two-minute trailer for the upcoming Morita-san wa Mukuchi OAD. The slice-of-life comedy revolving around an especially quiet high school girl will ship with limited edition copies of the third collected volume of Tae Sano’s four-koma manga on February 26.
Source: Anime News Network
Reportedly the new issue of Young Magazine that hits stores in Japan next week will formally announce an April 5th premiere of a second Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji (Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji) anime television series. Madhouse animated the 2007 anime adaptation of Nobuyuki Fukumoto’s manga and will again animate the second TV series.
Really, I don’t understand why Kaiji is so popular when Fukumoto’s Akagi series is so much more interesting.
Source: Anime News Network
X Japan has signed a three-year manufacturing and distribution contract with EMI Music. EMI will distribute “Jade” as the group’s first American single release on March 15. The band is in studio now working on an album now tentatively scheduled for release this summer. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with X Japan. They have cultivated a strong following in the U.S. and we look forward to working with them, helping to reach even more fans,” said EMI Music Services North America Executive Vice President Dominic Pandiscia. X Japan band leader Yoshiki explained, “X Japan’s music is everything from fast, super-heavy rock to ballads with classical piano – all of those elements are what makes X Japan’s music. We don’t play just one kind of music – we want to take people on a journey.”
Half of the songs on the forthcoming album will be culled from the band’s Gold and Platinum Japanese singles; the other half are brand-new songs, and an estimated 95% of the lyrics are being sung in English. “Some of the songs on this new album were originally written with Japanese lyrics,” Yoshiki explained, “So translating them into English has been challenging. For some reason, English needs more words, so I ended up re-writing many of the lyrics but kept the same message.”
Vertical has formally announced its acquisition of translation & distribution rights to Osamu Tezuka’s Ribon no Kishi (“Ribon Knight,” better known as “Princess Knight”) and Tadashi Agi & Shu Okimoto’s Kami no Shizuku (“Drops of God”) manga series. Vertical has also confirmed its acquisition of Usamaru Furuya’s Ningen Shikkaku (“No Longer Human”) manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s novel, after retracting an initial acquisition announcement last October.
Princess Knight will be released in two volumes retailing at $13.95 each. The first volume will go on sale October 4.
Each domestic volume of Drops of God will contain the equivilant of two Japanese volumes and retail at $14.95.
The first of three volumes of No Longer Human will hit stores on September 27 and retail at $10.95.
Source: Anime News Network
MTV has published an interview with Warner Bros. Animation producer Ethan Spaulding on Warner’s forthcoming revival of the 80′s Thundercats franchise, this time with Japanese studio 4°C animating.
This short animation created by students at the Communication University of China last year is a lot of fun, and there’s a brief moment about half-way through that reveals a very knowing sense of humor.
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After more than 130 unique or interesting overlooked, little known, or forgotten anime opening sequences, I’m starting to run out of candidates. Any suggestions? So far every opening I’ve posted has been from a series that I’ve actually watched, but that doesn’t have to be a requirement. I’m only seeking suggestions for opening animation sequences that have some interesting, unusual, or unique aspect and aren’t from common, well-known, currently widely available shows.
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the 1994 shoujo comedy TV series Chou Kuseninarisou. The opening theme is “3rd. Love” sung by Inoue Junko.
Question:
I just got done watching The Legend of the Legendary Heroes. And I love it, but it ends weird, and I can’t find any info about a 2nd season. So are they going to do a 2nd season?
The homepage for the upcoming Lotte no Omocha television series has added a streaming trailer. The adaptation of Yui Haga’s 2007 and ongoing romantic comedy manga series is the story of a human boy transported to another world to become an alien princess’ “toy.”
Could this possibly be any more cute? Not that I’m complaining.
Source: Moon Phase
Kodansha has released a trailer for the upcoming Seitokai Yakuindomo OAD that will be included in limited edition copies of the fifth collected volume of Tozen Ujiie’s manga. The manga & OAD will go on sale in Japan on April 15. Seitokai Yakuindomo had a 13 episode television series last year.
New characters!?
Source: Anime News Network
This week’s new issue of Morning Magazine will formally announce the development of a “somewhat unusual” anime adaptation of Kenshi Hirokane’s “Shima Kosaku” drama manga series. The manga launched in 1983 as Kacho Shima Kosaku (Section Chief Kosaku Shima). As its protagonist has been promoted up the corporate ladder, the series has undergone several title changes. It currently runs as a sequel, Shacho Shima Kosaku (President Kosaku Shima) and prequel Kakaricho Shima Kosaku (Chief Clerk Shima Kosaku).
Source: Anime News Network
Viz Media will begin streaming the 2007 supernatural mystery shounen anime television series Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro (Demonic Detective Nogami Neuro) on VizAnime.com on February 18.
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Deadline reports that Disney will release Studio Ghibli’s Karigurashi no Arrietty in American theaters on February 17, 2012.
Warner Bros. has officially released the first high resolution image of Studio 4°C’s new take on the classic ’80′s Thundercats franchise. Warner’s Japanese produced Thundercats anime will premiere later this year.
Source: Ain’t It Cool News
