The homepage for next month’s Ikoku Meiro no Croisée anime television series has added a second streaming trailer. This adorable looking adaptation of Hinata Takeda’s light novel series about a Japanese girl in 19th century Paris will premiere in July.
Crunchyroll has announced plans to simulcast the Deadman Wonderland, Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi, Lotte no Omocha!, Nichijou, Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai, Sket Dance, and Tono to Issho: Gantai no Yabo television series beginning next month.
Deadman Wonderland will be available to premium subscribers 30 minutes after its initial Japanese broadcast on April 17.
“Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi – A Bridge to the Starry Skies” will be available to premium subscribers 30 minutes after its initial Japanese broadcast on April 13.
Lotte no Omocha!, under the American title “Astarotte’s Toy,” will be available to premium site members at 9am on Sunday, April 10.
Nichijou, under the American title “My Ordinary Life,” will be available to premium subscribers 30 minutes after its initial Japanese broadcast on April 2.
“Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai ~ Without Wings – Under the Innocent Sky” will be available to premium subscribers 30 minutes after its initial Japanese broadcast on April 4.
Sket Dance will be available to premium subscribers 30 minutes after its initial Japanese broadcast on April 7.
Tono to Issho: Gantai no Yabo (With the Feudal Lord: Ambition of the Eyepatch) will be available to premium subscribers 45 minutes after its initial Japanese broadcast on April 4.
The TV Tokyo network has retracted 4Kids Entertainment’s distribution rights to the Yu-Gi-Oh anime franchise and filed a lawsuit, in partnership with Nihon Ad Systems (NAS), against 4Kids alledging “underpayments, wrongful deductions, and unmet obligations.” The lawsuit asserts that 4Kids owes TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems $4,792,460.36.
According to the lawsuit, 4Kids was required to pay TV Tokyo and NAS 50% of all revenue generated by 4Kids’ handling of the Yu-Gi-Oh license. However, 4Kids deliberately obfuscated earnings and failed to appropriately and accurately report deals in order to maximize earnings while minimizing royalty payments. 4Kids is accused of hiding income earned from deals with companies including FUNimation, the Cartoon Network, and Majesco. 4Kids is also accused of consciously miscalculating taxes, production expenses, dubbing costs, and other fees to benefit itself. The plaintiffs assert that 4Kids “conspired with Funimation to fraudulently hide… more than 45% of the total income Funimation paid to 4Kids.” 4Kids also reportedly sub-licensed anime titles which it did not have authority to sub-license.
Allegedly 4Kids legitimately negotiated a home video distribution agreement with FUNimation under which FUNimation would pay 4Kids 20% of income generated by FUNimation’s home video distribution. Allegedly 4Kids and FUNimation also negotiated a “secret” advance of $1.3 million dollars and a “service fee” for each unit sale. 4Kids received $3.934 million in “service fees” and advances from FUNimation but did not classify this revenue as income and did not pay any percentage of it in royalties to TV Tokyo or NAS. Furthermore, 4Kids allegedly received a $366,667 advance payment from video game developer Majesco for the development rights to Yu-Gi-Oh games for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance but classified this income as “service fee” rather than “income” and did not pay any percentage in royalties to TV Tokyo and NAS. From 2001 to 2009, 4Kids reportedly earned over $152 million from the Yu-Gi-Oh brand.
FUNimation is not targeted as a defendant in the lawsuit.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter & Anime News Network
Kodansha has announced plans for English language publications of Napthalene Mizushima and Kinomin’s Shugo Chara! Chan! and Sanami Matoh’s @Full Moon manga series, along with new American releases of Reiko Yoshida and Mia Ikumi’s Tokyo Mew Mew and Ken Akamatsu’s Love Hina manga series.
Shugo Chara! Chan! is an ongoing SD 4-koma gag manga based on Peach Pit’s popular shoujo manga Shugo Chara!
@Full Moon is the presently ongoing sequel to Sanami Matoh’s supernatural romance manga Until the Full Moon.
Kodansha will release new omnibus editions of the Tokyo Mew Mew and Love Hina manga series beginning in September. Tokyo Mew Mew was previously distributed in English by Del Rey. Love Hina was previously published in America by Tokyopop.
Source: Anime News Network
Digital Manga has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to Nase Yamato’s single-volume yaoi manga Mr. Convenience (Benriya-san). The book will be released through DMP’s Juné label at a future date.
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the moderately odd third opening of the 2005 Paniponi Dash! television series. The opening theme is “Shoujo Q,” performed by the Momotsuki Gakuen Ichinen C Gumi.
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I’m really surprised Disney’s not bringing over these co-productions here. You’d figure we’d at least see the Stitch shorts by now.
Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of the cult hit 2010 anime television series Angel Beats! The satire of typical school-based dating simulation computer games will be released on bilingual DVD and Blu-ray at at unspecified future date.
While certainly massively popular in the hardcore otaku community, it remains to be seen if and how much Angel Beats! can secure and sustain the attention of average American anime viewers. Typical American viewers unfamiliar with the nuances and conventions of “galge” anime may find Angel Beats! a bit inaccessible.
Crunchyroll has announced plans to simulcast next month’s Gintama’ anime television series, the third anime TV series (following Gintama and Yorinuke Gintama-san) based on Hideaki Sorachi’s popular shonen comedy manga series. Gintama’ will premiere on April 4. Crunchyroll subscribers in the Americas, Africa, Europe (excluding Andorra, Italy, Vatican City, Portugal, Spain, and San Marino), Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East (excluding Afghanistan and Iran) will have access to the series’ first episode 30 minutes after its Japanese TV broadcast. The episode will be available for free viewing one week later.
Crunchyroll will also simulcast studio P.A. Works’ 10th anniversary project, Hanasaku Iroha, starting April 3. The slice of life drama will be available to paying viewers in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Brazil, and Portugal 90 minutes after its Japanese broadcast premiere. Episodes will be available for free viewing one week later.
Hasbro has announced plans to produce an original animated series based on Studio Hibari’s Duel Masters shonen anime franchise, which is itself based on Takara Tomy’s Duel Masters collectible card game. Duel Masters has had seven television series and two theatrical films in Japan. Hasbro has confirmed that “Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters,” will air later this year on Hub, the television network co-owned by Hasbro and Discovery Communications. Hasbro has not clarified it “Kaijudo” will be an entirely American created production or if it will be animated by a Japanese studio.
I really don’t understand the appeal because even compared to other similar hobby anime like Cardfight Vanguard, Battle Spirits, Live On Cardliver, and Yu-Gi-Oh, Duel Masters is pretty weak. Its various series are on par with Treasure Gaust, which didn’t last long at all.
Source: Anime News Network
Sony Pictures Japan has released a full-length theatrical trailer for Studio Pierrot’s upcoming feature film Onigamiden. The historical fantasy adventure movie is an adaptation of Takafumi Takada’s two-volume novel from 2004. The movie will hit Japanese theaters on April 29.
This full trailer is so much better than the earlier teaser trailer. While the teaser had me suspicious and fearful, the full-length trailer has me anxious to watch the film.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for the upcoming Baby Princess 3D Paradise 0 OVA has added a streaming teaser. The 3D harem anime short will debut publicly at a presently untitled publicity event screening in May.
Source: Moon Phase
The homepage for this summers’s Fullmetal Alchemist: Sacred Stars of Milos (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Milos no Seinaru Hoshi) motion picture has added streaming 60 second and 30 second trailers. The film will hit Japanese theaters on July 2.
Source: Anime News Network
An official website has launched to announce the development of a TV anime series based on Namori’s school comedy manga series Yuruyuri. The ongoing manga depicts the lives of four schoolgirls who form a formal school club oriented toward amusing themselves. Minami-ke screenwriter and director Takashi Aoshima and Masahiko Ohta will reteam to create the Yuruyuri anime.
Source: Anime News Network
The official page for the upcoming Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai R computer game, an all-ages edit of NAVEL’s 2009 adult PC game, will include a bonus OVA titled “Hadairo Ritsu Kyuwari Zo!?” (“90% More Nudity!?”). The OreTsuba R game will be released in Japan on May 27. An Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai anime television series is scheduled to premiere next week, on April 3.
Source: Anime News Network
