Question:
Why is “blue” such a common word in anime titles? Just a brief selection: Perfect Blue, Blue Exorcist, True Blue, Aoi Hana, Blue Dragon, Blue Gender, Blue Seed, La Blue Girl, Daphne in the Brilliant Blue, Catblue Dynamite, Blue Sub No.6, Triangle Blue, Innocent Blue.
The characters of Gainax & Subaru’s Houkago no Pleiades web anime miniseries will star in short pre-show “manner movies,” as in mind-your-manners, screened before films shown at United Cinemas from June 4 until July 1. The shorts will remind patrons to turn off cell phones, avoid talking during movies, and so forth. An official trailer announcing the shorts has been added to YouTube.
Source: Moon Phase & Anime News Network
The official homepage for the Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) anime franchise has added a 3-minute trailer for the Kuroshitsuji II OVAs. The series’ third OVA is included on the series’ 9th DVD, which was just released on the 25th.
Source: Moon Phase
Reportedly the Japanese release of the eighth of ten planned Hellsing OVAs, known in America as “Hellsing Ultimate,” has been delayed from June 22 until July 27 partially due to complications resultant from the March 2011 Kanto earthquake. Anime studios studios Graphinica and Kelmadick are taking over production of the series’ final three episodes after Madhouse & Satelight animated the prior episodes.
Source: Anime News Network
Rokuhana Chiyo’s award-winning manga “IS ~Otoko Demo Onna Demo Nai Sei~” (Intersexual ~Neither Man Nor Woman~) is being developed as a live-action television series. Actress Fukuda Saki will star as Hoshino Haru, an “intersexual” person having biological male and female characteristics, who was registered as a girl at birth but raised as a boy. The IS drama will air on the TV Tokyo network beginning in July.
Source: Tokyograph
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the first opening of the 1984 Juusenki L-Gaim TV series. The opening theme is “Time For L-Gaim” performed by MIO.
The series’ first opening animation sequence is much more dynamic and interesting than its second.
Question:
In regards to Suite Precure — I think one of the things that made this show seem “inferior” was the fact we just had one amazing season with HeartCatch Precure!, which set a standard for storytelling excellence I haven’t seen since Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star several years ago. Of course, HeartCatch Precure! started with an almost literal “bang” with the first episode, which promptly erased all the notions that the season was going to be a “dumbed down” Pretty Cure season.
As for Suite Precure, it’s the general consensus that the series started to “click” with episode 5, “Dotabota! The TV Reporter Challange–nya!” I felt that the character development really took off since then, and I think it’s going to get better over the next few months.
During this past weekend’s Anime Central convention, FUNimation announced its acquisition of the “Is This A Zombie??” (Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?) television series and forthcoming Fullmetal Alchemist: The Star of Milos (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Milos no Sei-Naru Hoshi) motion picture.
Source: Anime News Network
During this past weekend’s Anime Central convention, Sentai Filmworks formally announced its acquisition of the MM! and Amagami SS television series. Sentai also confirmed that its domestic release of the Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls television series will be uncensored and will include the Japanese home video bonus shorts. However, Sentai does not presently have distribution rights to the Japanese home video exclusive episode of the High School of the Dead television series.
According to representative David Williams, Sentai has no plans to acquire & release more of the 2005 Glass Mask TV series due to poor sales of the show’s first season. But Sentai does intend to acquire and release further episodes of the Golgo 13 television series.
Source: Anime News Network
This week’s issue of Shonen Jump magazine reports that anime production studio Gathering (30-sai no Hoken Taiiku, Tono to Issho) is at work on a Flash anime adaptation of Koji Oishi’s kindergarten comedy manga Inumarudashi. The manga has been ongoing since 2008.
Source: Anime News Network
Film distributor Shochiku has released a nearly three-minute long web exclusive trailer for Capcom & Production I.G’s upcoming theatrical feature Sengoku Basara -The Last Party-. The movie will open in Japanese theaters on June 4.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for the Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai anime franchise has added a streaming teaser trailer for the upcoming episode 15. The episode will be exclusively streamed online from May 31 until June 14.
Source: Moon Phase
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the attractive opening of the 2006 Simoun TV series. The opening theme is “Utsukushi Kereba Sore de Ii” performed by Chiaki Ishikawa.
The homepage for the upcoming Maji de Watashi ni Koishinasai! television series has released a streaming trailer. The adaptation of MinatoSoft’s 2009 adult PC game revolves around a boy student attending a school full of female martial artists.
Source: Moon Phase
