Sentai Filmworks has secured the domestic distribution rights to the currently airing sci-fi TV series No. 6. Crunchyroll currently simulcasts the series. Sentai Filmworks will offer digital distribution “soon” and a home video release next year.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for creator & director Hiroyuki Okiura’s upcoming anime film Momo e no Tegami (A Letter to Momo) has added a streaming teaser. Since directing the 2000 film Jin-roh, Okiura spent seven years planning, writing, storyboarding, and now directing Momo e no Tegami, a story about a young girl who moves to rural Japan following the death of her father, where she begins to see strange things while wondering what her father wanted to tell her in his last, unfinished letter to her. The movie is being animated by a talented team of experienced animators at Production I.G. The movie will have its world premiere screening at the Toronto International Film Festival before opening theatrically in Japan during next spring’s Golden Week holiday.
With a bit of luck, this should be excellent. American productions usually suffer with “too many cooks in the kitchen,” but anime productions with all-star crew usually turn out exceptional.
Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki has revealed word that director Hayao Miyazaki’s next animation project will be an autobiography, although Suzuki didn’t specify if the story would be about Miyazaki’s own life or someone else’s.
Source: Anime News Network
The live-action Hotaru no Hikari drama, based on Satoru Hiura’s romance manga, is getting a feature film. TV series director Hiroshi Yoshino will begin shooting in Rome this month for a 2012 release. The cast of the TV series will reprise their roles for the feature film. The manga about a female office worker who ends up living with her boss was serialized from 2004 to 2009. The second season of the live-action TV series aired during summer 2010.
Source: Tokyograph
The 2010 Yamikin Ushijima-kun (Ushijima the Loan Shark) drama, based on Shohei Manabe’s manga, will get a live-action feature film next year. TV series star Takayuki Yamada will reprise his leading role from the fall 2010 TV series.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the opening of the 1987 Dirty Pair OVA series. The opening theme is “By Yourself” sung by Miho Morikawa.
Question:
I’ve always wondered why there are well-known anime that have yet to be rescue licensed. Are there reasons why many anime have been rescue licensed (Haibane Renmei and Serial Experiments Lain), and others haven’t been rescue licensed in years (Patlabor: The TV Series)?
Bandai has announced its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to the current Nichijou and recently concluded Gosick anime TV series along with the Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya (Code Geass: Renya of the Darkness) manga series.
Kyoto Animation is currently producing Nichijou, an adaptation of Keiichi Arawi’s off-kilter slice-of-life gag comedy. Crunchyroll has been streaming the series since its Japanese premiere last April.
The Gosick historical mystery series from studio BONES aired in Japan from January to June. Crunchyroll streamed the series for international viewers.
The Code Geass: Shikkoku no Renya is an official prequel to the Code Geass anime, set in Japan’s historical Edo era. The ongoing manga series is written by Code Geass co-creator and anime director Goro Taniguchi and drawn by Tomomasa Takuma.
Source: Anime News Network
FUNimation has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to the new Sora no Otoshimono: Tokei-jikake no Angeloid (Heaven’s Lost Property the Movie: The Angeloid of Clockwork) motion picture. The film is a spin-off of the popular Sora no Otoshimono anime series that had two television series broadcast in 2009 & 2010. The film opened in Japanese theaters on June 25. FUNimation holds the domestic distribution rights to the Sora no Otoshimono & Sora no Otoshimono Forte TV series.
Source: Anime News Network
Reportedly Dentsu Entertainment USA plans to distribute OLM’s current Danboru Senki anime series in North, Central and South America under the title “Little Battlers Experience.” The anime is based on Level-5′s model building battle simulation RPG. The ongoing TV series premiered last March. Evidently Dentsu does not yet have an American distributor for the title but has “received numerous inquiries and are working to formalize relationships.”
Hopefully this will work out more successfully than Dentsu’s plans to distribute the Deltora Quest anime in America. And the folks that automatically criticize this as a children’s toy cash-in really should try watching some of it before blindly criticizing.
Source: Animation Magazine
The recently aired Astalotte no Omocha! anime TV series has released a trailer for its OVA prequel episode. The trailer includes a prominent spoiler for viewers that are entirely unfamiliar with the series’ story. The Astalotte no Omocha! EX episode will hit Japanese home video on September 7.
Source: Anime News Network
Reportedly Mayoi Neko Overrun! author Tomohiro Matsu’s ongoing series of Papa no Iu Koto o Kikinasai! (Listen to me, girls. I am your father!) light novels will be getting an anime adaptation. The novel series stars a a 19-year-old male college freshman who’s forced to care for his sister’s three daughters in his tiny appartment. The novel series has had seven books published since 2009.
Source: Anime News Network
The NTV broadcast network has announced that this fall’s new Hunter x Hunter television series will be a new adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi’s manga starting from the beginning. The new show will be animated by Madhouse under director Hiroshi Koujina (Rainbow, Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro) and star an all new voice cast. The previous 92 episodes were animated by Nippon Animation.
While this decision may seem odd, long-time fans should remember that the previous Hunter x Hunter TV series and three follow-up OVA series were current from 1999-2004. So there’s been seven years for a new generation of Japanese viewers to grow up without any Hunter x Hunter anime.
Source: Anime News Network
More than two weeks after its July 16 Japanese theatrical opening, a full trailer for Studio Ghibli’s current film, Kokuriko-zaka Kara, has finally surfaced. The adaptation of Tetsuro Sayama and Chizuru Takahashi’s 1980 historical drama shoujo manga is set in Yokohama in 1963. The film is the second movie directed by Goro Miyazaki following the 2006 box office hit Ged Senki.
Source: Twitch
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the opening of the 2005 Sugar Sugar Rune TV series. The opening theme is “Chocolate ni Muchuu” sung by Karia Nomoto.
