To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the first opening of the 1995 Virtua Fighter television series. The opening theme is “Wild Vision,” sung by Kouji Hayashi.
Question:
Your last question and answer about the death of magical girls series in the West bears another look. Do you think “Puella Magi Madoka Magica” has the pull to make it over here. I haven’t had this much interest in an anime series for a long time. Each week the wait is frustratingly long. Looking at the never ending Magica threads on 4-Chan and a full scale wiki dedicated to “Puella Magi Madoka Magica” makes one wonder just how popular this series is in the West. So just how popular is “Puella Magi Madoka Magica” in the West and do you think it is popular enough to make the jump over the Pacific? I know I am buying the Japanese BDs as they come out.
The official website for the Appleseed XIII anime series has announced its multi-platform debut. Appleseed XIII ~Yuigon~, the first of two planned compilation movies that condense the whole 13 episode series, will open in Tokyo and Osaka theaters on June 13, and in Nagoya on June 27. Theaters that screen the “Yuigon” movie will also sell exclusive Blu-ray copies of the movie. The first “regular” DVD and Blu-ray volume of Appleseed XIII will contain the series’ first three unedited episodes and go on sale July 6. The full 13 episode series will also stream online. The Appleseed XIII ~Yogen~ compilation film that condenses the second half of the series will open theatrically in Tokyo on October 24 and in Nagoya on November 7.
Jinni’s Animation Studios (Fireball) will animate the new adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s manga with Production I.G assisting and Takayuki Hamana (Kemono Souja Erin, Toshokan Senso) directing. Maaya Sakamoto (Hitomi in Escaflowne, Shiki in Kara no Kyoukai) will voice Deunan Knute. Kouichi Yamadera, who played Briareos in the Appleseed: Ex Machina movie will reprise his role.
Source: Anime News Network
Next week’s issue of Big Comic Spirits Magazine will formally announce that anime studio ufotable (Kara no Kyoukai) will produce an anime adaptation of Junji Ito’s horror manga Gyo. The two-volume 2002 manga series is set in Okinawa when a wave of aggressive, bio-organic fish invade land and begin horribly maiming and consuming humans.
Viz distributes both volumes of the manga domestically.
Oh neat! This was a very creepy and disturbing horror story that should be very interesting to see in motion.
Source: Anime News Network
Limited edition copies of the 11th collected volume of Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou’s manga series Deadman Wonderland will include an unaired bonus episode of the upcoming Deadman Wonderland anime television series. The TV series adaptation of the speculative fiction action/thriller will premiere on April 16. The manga with DVD will go on sale in October.
Source: Anime News Network
New York City’s Carnegie Hall will screen the Hayao Miyazaki directed 2006 short anime films Yado-Sagashi (House Hunting) and Mizugumo Monmon (Mon Mon the Water Spider) in a special one-day only screening at 6:30 and 8:30pm on March 26th. The two short films have previously only been screened seasonally at the Studio Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. The 12 minute long “House Hunting” and 14 minute long “Mon Mon the Water Spider” are both unique in the respect that neither film includes any spoken dialogue. Both film illustrate their stories entirely with imagery. The exclusive screening will be part of the JapanNYC festival that runs from March 14 through April 9.
The $15 ticket price may seem steep, but it’s a lot less than a plane ticket to Tokyo.
Source: Ain’t It Cool News
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the stylish opening of the 2007 Juusou Kikou Dancouga Nova television series. The opening theme is “Tori no Uta,” sung by Senri Manaka.
In case you haven’t seen this, here’s the Cartoon Network’s first teaser for the Warner Bros. produced, Studio 4°C animated Thundercats revival.
I’m not saying that this looks bad, but I do think that a sizeable chunk of this footage does look and feel a little bit lifeless and bland.
Source: Twitch
A super-deformed Flash anime adaptation of Kenta Shinohara’s school comedy manga Sket Dance will premiere on the franchise’s official homepage next week. A Sket Dance television anime series is scheduled to premiere on April 7. The Sket Dance story revolves around two boys and a girl who form their high school’s maligned “campus support group” that solves student body problems.
Source: Anime News Network
An anime TV special in which the cast of One Piece will encounter the cast of Toriko will air on April 3. The One Piece anime television series has been ongoing since 1999. The anime television series adaptation of Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro’s shounen adventure manga series Toriko will premiere this April.
Source: Anime News Network
Speaking at the Game Developer Conference earlier today, Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki said of the long unproduced third game in the series, “Of course I want to make it… Sega, I think, is going to let me make it… I think it is just up to the budget.” While Sega has reported that the original 2000 Dreamcast RPG cost $70 million to produce, Suzuki asserted that the original game had cost “only” $47 million to make.
Source: Gamespot
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To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit director Rintaro’s opening of the 2004 Tenjho Tenge television series. The opening theme is “Bomb A Head! V,” sung by m.c.A.T.
