Media Blasters has revealed its acquisition of “Squid Girl” (Shinryaku! Ika Musume). The first half of the 2010 comedy TV series will be released on September 27 in a bilingual six-episode DVD retailing at $24.99.
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FUNimation has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the current Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai television series. FUNimation will distribute the series domestically under the English langauge title “We Without Wings – Under the Innocent Sky.” The adaptation of Navel’s adult PC game is currently simulcasting on Crunchyroll.
FUNimation has announced its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to director Takeshi Miike’s 2010 live-action sci-fi/action/comedy movie Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City and director Benny Chan’s 2010 sci-fi/action film City Under Siege. Media Blasters currently distributes the first Zebraman film from 2004.
Digital Manga Inc. has announced its development of a new publishing imprint titled “Project-H,” that will concentrate on publishing English translated erotic manga. The line’s first three titles will be Shocking Pink! by Riosuke Yasui, Three P by Hiroshi Itaba, and Embrace & Bloom by Michiyoshi Kuon.
Sunrise and Bandai have formally announced the next Mobile Suit Gundam television series. Keroro Gunso movies director Susumu Yamaguchi will direct Kido Senshi Gundam AGE with Inazuma Eleven Go & Danboru Senki screenwriter Akihiro Hino supervising the story and Inazuma Eleven Go character designer Takuzo Nagano providing original character designs. The alternate continuity story will cover three generations – 100 years – in the A.G. (Advanced Generation) timeline. The story will initially revolve around a young boy who must rebuild and pilot the ancient Gundam mobile suit to defend his space colony from attacks by an alien force.
Gundam AGE will premiere in October.
This is certainly an unexpected new direction following the stylistic consistency of Gundam Seed, Gundam OO, and Gundam UC. Gundam AGE seems to be taking cues from V-Gundam and Turn A Gundam, along with Gunpla Builders.
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The homepage for the upcoming Kamisama no Memo-cho television series has added a streaming trailer. The adaptation of Hikaru Sugii’s mystery novel series about a NEET teenage detective will premiere with an hour-long episode on July 2.
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The homepage for Madhouse’s upcoming Blade TV series, based on the Marvel comic book character, has added a second streaming teaser. Sadly, this one no more convincing than the first. The TV series will premiere on July 1.
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Keiko Kitagawa (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift) will star in a live-action TV special based on Fumiyo Kono’s award-winning historical drama manga Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni (In a Corner of This World). The 2007-2009 manga revolves around a newlywed woman who struggles to get by in a suburb of Hiroshima during WWII. Kono’s earlier WWII manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni) is distributed in English by Last Gasp Publishing. The TV special will air on August 5.
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To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the appropriately gothic opening of the Rozen Maiden TV series from 2004. The opening theme is “Kinjirareta Asobi” performed by Ali Project.
Question:
I’m sure you’ve heard that Viz now holds licensing rights to Hatsune Miku in America. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think Miku can go mainstream here in America or will it remain an otaku niche?
Kyoto Animation’s latest promotional TV commerical is now airing on Japanese television. Shoko Ikeda created the “Ajisai-hen” (Hydrangea story) commercial’s storyboards & character designs, and directed the ad based on the themes of “energetic,” “fun” and “dreams.” The TV spot is Kyoto Animation’s third promotional TV spot. Its first TV ad, broadcast in June 2010, was used as both an ad for the Kyoto Animation studio and an ad promoting the Soka Gakkai Buddhist organization.
KyoAni’s 2010 TV spots are embedded after the break.
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The homepage for Production I.G’s anime TV series adaptation of Yumi Unita’s Usagi Drop manga has added a streaming trailer. The story about a 30 year-old bachelor who unofficially adopts his late grandfather’s illigitimate 6 year-old daughter will premiere in the Fuji TV network’s Noitamina timeslot on July 7.
A live-action Usagi Drop motion picture from acclaimed director Sabu is scheduled to open in Japan on August 20.
Trailer looks great. I suppose I really should get around to reading the first volume of the manga that I bought a few weeks ago.
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The homepage for the upcoming C³ ~Cube x Cursed x Curious~ television series has released its first teaser trailer. The supernatural adventure comedy based on Hazuki Minase’s light novel series will premiere this fall.
If nothing else, this trailer continues to demonstrate that studio Silver Link is establishing itself as a top tier producer of exceptional animation quality. There’s some very fluid and dynamic movement featured in this trailer.
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The homepage for next month’s Yuruyuri television series has released its first teaser trailer. The adaptation of Namori’s school comedy manga revolves around four schoolgirls who take over their school’s tea ceremony club, turning it into an after-school club focused on amusing them. The show will premiere on July 4.
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Kadokawa has released a new, full trailer for next month’s Itsuka Tenma no Kuro-Usagi television series. The adaptation of the popular light novel series from DenYuDen creator Takaya Kagami will premiere on July 8.
This is getting very heavy advance promotion, but I don’t see anything particularly interesting about it, especially since it’s coming right on the heels of Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? which seems to have a similar concept and execution. Hopefully the show will prove me wrong.
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