Crunchyroll has announced six of the anime titles it will stream this spring.
Gosick will premiere this Friday at 10am PST.
Dragon Crisis! will premiere on Saturday at 11am PST.
Beelzebub will premiere on Saturday at 4pm PST
Mitsudomoe 2 will premiere on Saturday at 11:30am PST.
Cardfight! Vanguard will premiere on Monday at 4:30pm PST.
Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas will start streaming in February.
The February issue of Newtype magazine will reportedly reveal that Studio 4°C’s upcoming Berserk anime will be a 2011 feature film. Furthermore, the movie will be the first installment in an adaptation series that will cover the entirity of Kentarou Miura’s manga story.
Source: Anime News Network
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Monsters writer & director Gareth Edwards is in final negotiations with Legendary Pictures to direct Legendary’s forthcoming American Godzilla movie. Monsters is Edwards’ only major film credit, but the excellent low budget 2009 film won three British Independent Film Awards for best director, best achievement in production, and best technical achievement. Legendary Pictures executives were impressed by the picture and approached Edwards with the offer to helm Godzilla.
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the cute opening of the 2002 Pitaten TV series. The opening theme is “Wake Up Angel ~Negaimashite ha Mugen Nari~” sung by Funta.
Question:
I am a big fan of mecha anime and have a huge respect for shows that pioneer and evolve the genre. Mazinger Z, Mobile Suit Gundam, and the Evangelion TV series defined the mecha animes of the 70′s, 80′s, and 90′s, respectively. However, I couldn’t think of a mecha anime that was anything revolutionary in the past decade. In fact, most of the mecha anime I’ve seen from 2000 to 2009 were either remakes of past mecha anime like Gaiking or homage of the same like Gurren Lagann. Was there a mecha anime I did not notice that redefined the genre in the last decade or there really wasn’t one?
Crunchyroll has announced plans to simulcast the upcoming Beelzebub and Rio RainbowGate anime television series. The shounen adventure comedy series Beelzebub will premiere on Japan’s Yomiuri TV network at 7am on the 9th. The first episode will launch on Crunchyroll two hours later. The Rio: RainbowGate television series will premiere on Crunchyroll tomorrow.
The homepage for the upcoming Dororon Enma-kun Meeramera television series has added a streaming trailer. The remake of the 1973 Dororon Enma-kun horror adventure series will premiere later this year.
Considering how successful the 2007 Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro series was and the fact that this appears to be a literal update of the ’73 series, I anticipate that this may become one of Japan’s big hits of 2011.
Source: Anime News Network
Japanese toy retailer Takarajima Create Group has revealed the development of an anime adaptation of Rino Mizuho’s shoujo manga Happy Kappy. The manga, which has been ongoing since 2007, stars nine-year-old girl Suguri Kinoshita who one day picks up a pretty rock only to discover that the stone is actually a living creature named Kappy, prince of Kapimeshia.
Rino Mizuho is also the creator of the Chocola no Maho shoujo horror manga, which also has an anime adaptation currently in development.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the stylish opening of the 2008 Bus Gamer TV mini-series. The opening theme is “No Name” performed by Team AAA.
Question:
Is anime obsessed with lesbians? I mean I can name Sailors Neptune and Uranus (Sailor Moon), Tomoyo and Sonomi Daidouji (Cardcaptor Sakura), Kaorin from Azumanga Daioh, Haruhi Suzumiya herself said she’s bi-sexual, the Major from GITS is bisexual, and at least one of the girls from Lucky Star, according to creator Kagami Yoshimizu, is lesbian, and so is Chizuru Honsho (Bleach). That’s just the confirmed ones that I can name off the top of my head. And that’s not getting into yuri series like Kashimashi, Candy Boy, and Aoi Hana, nor is it mentioning characters like Yomiko Readman and Nenene Sumiregawa (R.O.D The TV) who may or may not be.
