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Are there any more anime that have protagonists similar to Yagami Light (Death Note) or Lelouch Britannia (Code Geass)? Addition to that, I find your analysis of characterizations to be interesting. What are your thoughts on this type of character?
The homepage for the +Tic Neesan franchise is now streaming episode one and episode two of the web anime adaptation. Tsutomu Mizushima (Haré+Guu) directs the adaptation of Cha Kurii’s gag manga.
Source: Anime News Network
The advertising obi on new copies of the fourth volume of Eiji Nonaka and Maru Asakura’s moé school comedy manga Double-J reveals that anime shorts based on the manga will appear in future episodes of the current Yuruani? television series. The Yuruani? program currently includes short anime adaptations of manga including Shima Kosaku, Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan, and Honto ni Atta! Reibai-sensei.
Source: Anime News Network
This week’s new issue of Weekly Young Jump magazine will formally announce the development of a live-action TV series based on Masanori Morita’s juvenille delinquency/boxing manga series Rokudenashi Blues. The manga was serialized from 1988 to 1997 and has sold over 50 million books. Short anime film adaptations were produced in 1992 & 1993. Live-action film adaptations were released in 1996 & 1998.
Source: Anime News Network
In addition to the recently announced Futari H live-action feature film, Katsu Aki’s romance manga series will also get a live-action web video series. The feature film adaptation will star Yuri Morishita and Riki Miura as newlyweds Yura and Makoto while the web series will star Nana Nanaumi and Shinnosuke Fukushima as Yura and Makoto. Both adaptations will premiere later this summer.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit 1984′s Galactic Patrol Lensman TV series. The opening theme is “On The Wing,” sung by Eri Kojima.
Asahi Production has released a trailer for its AGC38 multimedia franchise of original anime girl characters. The AGC38 girls will appear in a variety of anime, merchandise, games, manga, audio dramas, and more.
Source: Moon Phase
FUNimation has announced its acquisition of home entertainment, broadcast, digital, and merchandising rights to the 2010 Kuragehime (Jellyfish Princess) television series. The eleven-episode series will be released on domestic DVD & BD next year. FUNimation simulcast the series last fall.
The live-action Hana Zakari no Kimi-tachi e: Ikemen Paradise television series is scheduled to premiere on the Fuji TV network in July. The show will star AKB48′s Atsuko Maeda in her first lead actor role, playing a teen girl who pretends to be a boy to attend an all-boys school. AKB48 will perform the series’ theme song.
Hisaya Nakajo’s “Hana-Kimi” shoujo manga was adapted into a live-action Taiwanese television series in 2006, and a live-action Japanese television series in 2007. A Korean live-action TV adaptation is also currently in development.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit 1984′s Yume Senshi Wingman TV series. The opening theme is “Ijigen Story,” performed by Popura.
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Why is the Gin Tama manga a harder sell in the U.S. than Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei? You would think it’d be the opposite, since you literally have to go through footnotes and endnotes to “get” most of the Japanese jokes in the latter series. Meanwhile, Gin Tama should appeal more to Westerners because it riffs on a number of themes found in popular shonen manga like Rurouni Kenshin. Plus, the art’s a lot more pleasing to the eye. So is it because of the sci-fi angle? Outside of mainstays such as HALO, Eva, and the Animatrix, that genre of anime admittedly don’t seem to be as popular here as well it was years ago. Is it “episodic comedy” angle, which seems to also afflict titles like Reborn and Hayate? Or is it just that the concept of people who can’t hold onto a full-time job or find steady work has less appeal in the current economy?
Former Go! Comi creative director Audry Taylor has warned the public that a supposed relaunch of the American manga publishing company is a scam. “Go! Media Entertainment, LLC,” a company unaffiliated with the now defunct Go! Comic publishing company has reopened the Go! Comi website to solicit donations, claiming, “Go! Comi is coming back!” Taylor warns:
The former gocomi.com website that I used to run has been turned into a scam by unidentified criminals unrelated to Go! Comi, a company which no longer exists. It is not real. Do not donate.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the Hai Step Jun TV series from 1985. The opening theme is “Binkan! Mechanic,” and the ending theme is “Rival 360-dou,” both sung by Akiko & Naoko Kobayashi.
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Why is it that fan-named “yuri shows” don’t really have any yuri in them? Ask any yuri fan what the staples of the genre are, and you get titles like Utena, Mai Hime, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Strike Witches, Lyrical Nanoha, Noir. Except none of those shows go anywhere near actual lesbian relationships besides some subtext, hinting, and a little close friendship. Am I just missing my “yuri goggles” in that I don’t see these relationships as obvious lesbian love relationships? Are yuri fans so starved of actual relationships that they see it all over when its really not there?
Bandai Namco Games has formally announced its development of Tekken: Blood Vengeance, a full CG 3D feature film. Youichi Mouri, director of the Tekken 5 & Tekken 6 game CG opening movies, is directing the picture from a script written by Dai Sato (Eureka Seven, Cowboy Bebop). The film will open theatrically later this summer.
Namco’s Tekken fighting game franchise was adapted into a two-episode anime OVA series in 1998 (edited into a single episode for US release), and a 2010 live-action feature film directed by Dwight Little (Hollween 4, Anacondas). Directors Corey Yuen & Wai-keung Lau’s 2001 sci-fi action film Avenging Fist was “inspired by” Namco’s Tekken 3 fighting game.
Finally! These game cut scenes have so much potential. Why not finally expand them into a feature film?
Source: Anime News Network
