The homepage for next month’s Ikoku Meiro no Croisée television series has released its second promotional video. The historical drama based on Hinata Takeda’s manga will premiere on July 4th.
Source: Anime News Network
Although no details about it have been revealed yet, an official website for the October 2011 Noitamina anime series UN-GO has launched.
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This week’s issue of Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine announced that the 14th collected volume of Tamiki Wakaki’s Kami no Mizo Shiru Sekai (The World God Only Knows) manga will be released on September 16 in a limited edition that includes a bonus OAD. The series’ 10th collected manga included the series’ first OAD. Two television series adaptations aired last year and earlier this year.
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Reportedly Toho and Production I.G have completed the production of an anime short promoting Hiroshi Fukuda’s historical action manga Jouju Senjin!! Mushibugyo. The three volume manga was originally serialized from 2009-2010. A retelling of the series re-started earlier this year. The manga is set in 1700s Edo and revolves around a team of fighting girls charged by the shogun to protect the peace.
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Talent agency Production baobab revealed last friday that 41 year-old voice actress Tomoko Kawakami passed away on June 9 at 4:45 pm following a lengthy illness. The Sankei Newspaper reports that Kawakami was suffering from ovarian cancer. Kawakami played leading roles including Utena Tenjou in Revolutionary Girl Utena, Fuyuki Hinata in Keroro Gunso, Hikaru Shindou in Hikaru no Go, Sugar in Little Snow Fairy Sugar, and Misuzu Kamio in Air.
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Viz Media has been named exclusive U.S. product licensing rights master for Crypton Future Media’s character Hatsune Miku. Miku is the visual persona of Crypton Future Media’s Vocaloid digital singing synthisiser software. Viz will initially promote the character and solicit sub-licenses at the Licensing International Expo in in Las Vegas on June 14-16.
Source: Viz Media
Honestly, the first opening of 1996′s Kido Shin Seiki Gundam X isn’t exceptional, but featuring it allows me to put a spotlight on Romantic Mode’s fantastic opening theme song “Dreams.”
Question:
Why hasn’t Saki been licensed yet? I’m surprised that Saki hasn’t been licensed for R1 DVD release by now. Wasn’t it being streamed by Crunchy Roll when it first came out? Seems like anything Gonzo would have been released on DVD in America.
Section 23 has announced plans to release the 2008 sci-fi action anime series Crystal Blaze on domestic DVD through its Maiden Japan label. The series will be released subtitled under the title “Glass Maiden.” Crunchyroll streamed the series in 2009.
Yawn.
The homepage for the Heart no Kuni no Alice ~Wonderful Wonder World~ motion picture has added a streaming trailer. The movie based on developer QuinRose’s bishonen PC game will open theatrically on July 30.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for the Mardock Scramble movie franchise has added a streaming trailer for the Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion feature that will open theatrically on September 3.
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The homepage for next month’s Blood-C television series has added a new streaming teaser. The latest instalment in Production I.G’s Blood: The Last Vampire franchise will premiere on July 7.
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According to Japan’s Newtype Magazine, Death Note & High School of the Dead director Araki Tetsuro will lead the animators of Production I.G on the development of the sci-fi adventure anime series Guilty Crown. The series revolves around a young man with the psychic ability to extract weapons or tools from human bodies who decides to join a guerrilla resistance opposed to the private company that governs Japan in 2039, ten years after a devestating virus decimated the country. The series will tentatively premiere this October in the Fuji TV network’s Noitamina late-night time slot.
Source: Moon Phase Diary
Takara Tomy has formally confirmed that a new Bedaman anime will premiere in Japan this fall. The 52 episode B-Densetsu Battle Bedaman anime television series, based on Tomy’s toy franchise, aired in 2004. Takara Tomy relaunched the Bedaman toy franchise under the name “Cross Fight B-Daman” in 2010.
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The July issue of Young Ace Magazine formally confirmed the development of an anime TV series based on Yuki Kodama’s supernatural comedy manga series Blood Lad. The manga revolves around a vampire who falls in love with a human girl. When the girl is killed, the vampire searches for a way to revive her.
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