The Flash animation studio DLE (Eagle Talon) has announced that its latest TV series, Chara Uta (Character Song), will premiere on May 22. The series’ first storyline will be “Gohan Kaiju Pap” (Rice Monster Pap).
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for the upcoming Kamisama Dolls television series has released a “side story” trailer that reveals the darker, bloodier aspect of the series’ narrative, opposed to the cute and comical components of the story. The adaptation of Hajime Yamamura’s manga will premiere on July 5.
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The homepage for the upcoming Fullmetal Alchemist: Milos no Sei-Naru Hoshi movie has added a 90 second full theatrical trailer. The film will hit Japanese theaters on July 2.
Hopefully this trailer is just holding back because the more footage we see, the less interesting this film appears to be.
Next week’s issue of Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine will formally announce that a live-action Detective Conan television series will premiere at midnight on July 7. The primary staff and cast of last April’s live-action TV special will reunite for the TV series.
Gosho Aoyama’s Detective Conan manga series was also adapted into live-action TV specials in 2006 & 2007. Those specials starred Shun Oguri as protagonist Shinichi Kudo while the 2011 special starred Junpei Mizobata.
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To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the second opening of the 1995 Tobe! Isami TV series. The opening theme is “Makerumonka!” performed by BUKABUKA.
Question:
What would it take for the West to make their own serious animation? I ask this because I’m so fed up with people saying, “Why hasn’t there been more anime like Cowboy Bebop?” and “Redline is going to revitalize anime fandom in the West.” I’m not bemoaning anime such as these but I feel like 1) people need to look around more because there’s been quite a bit of serious anime and still, in fact, is being made, 2) accept the fact that type of anime isn’t as big in Japan as in the West and finally 3) rather than waiting for Japan to make another show like Cowboy Bebop, instead gather the talent to create animation such as that here in the West.
The homepage for Production I.G’s upcoming Blood-C television series has added a streaming teaser trailer. The new installment in the Blood: The Last Vampire franchise will premiere on Japanese television in July.
And as short as this teaser is, it already looks more promising than the Blood+ television series.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for the Ghost in the Shell: SAC 3D motion picture reports that director Kenji Kamiyama and the Production I.G animation studio have produced a 3D anime based on Shotaro Ishinomori’s Cyborg 009 that will serve as an advertisement for Pepsi Nex. The Cyborg 009 Pepsi Nex ad will screen in 41 Japanese theaters beginning this Friday.
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The July issue of LaLa Magazine that goes on sale in Japan next Tuesday will formally announce the development of a live-action television series based on Bisco Hatori’s shoujo manga series Ouran High School Host Club. The series will premiere on the TBS network in July. Haruna Kawaguchi (Yankee-kun to Megane-chan, Moshidora) will star as Haruhi Fujioka. Yusuke Yamamoto (Kamen Rider Kabuto, Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e) will co-star as host club president Tamaki Suo. The bestselling 2003-2010 manga series about a middle-class girl who pretends to be a boy working in her elite high school’s all-male host club was adapted into an anime television series in 2006.
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To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the opening of the 1998 Alice SOS educational anime TV series. The opening theme is “SOS,” sung by Megumi Toyoguchi, Motoko Kumai, Ayako Shiraishi, and Kyousei Tsukui. This unique opening animation sequences was directed by Mamoru Hosoda (Superflat Monogram, Summer Wars).
Question:
Do you think that anime movies have a greater chance of success here in the U.S. than anime shows? Ponyo was a pretty successful movie, granted it was from Miyazaki and had a few famous American actors to do the voices, but I wonder if it was strictly Miyazaki or Tina Fey’s names that led to the success of the movie. These things probably made it more of a safe bet for marketing and budgeting, but my thought is just that anime on television is such a rare thing, and the lack of advertising these things get, that maybe just putting movies in a limited release for theaters is a better way to promote anime.
The official website for author Yomi Hirasaka’s romantic comedy light novel series Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (I Have Few Friends) has announced the development of a TV anime adaptation. The novel series that premiered in 2009 revolves around a high-school club for students who are ostracized or avoided by their classmates.
Source: Anime News Network
Toei Animation has announced its development of a 12 minute long Precure All-Stars 3D Theater short movie that will begin screening in stereoscopic 3D theatrically and at publicity events in late July. The full movie will be a dance sequence starring all of the Pretty Cure girls from all eight TV series.
The ending animation sequences of the Pretty Cure television series since 2009′s Fresh Precure have been CG rendered dance sequences. The ending of 2010 Pretty Cure All Stars DX2 movie was also an extended CG dance sequence.
Entertainment news website JoBlo reports that Warner Bros. has shut down the previsualization department devoted to development of an American live-action Akira movie franchise and laid off most of employees that were working on the pre-development of the picture. However, Warner reports that the film franchise, “Is still very much in the development stage,” and tentative production of the film franchise has not been formally canceled.
In a reportedly separate development, actor Keanu Reeves has formally confirmed that he was offered the leading role in Warner’s Akira movie and turned down the offer.
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the second opening of the 1998 Princess Nine – Kisaragi Joshikou Yakyuubu TV series. The opening theme is “Princess Nine,” sung by Miki Nagasawa and Mami Kingetsu.
The difference in animation between the first and second openings is just the initial cast profile shot.
