The homepage for the Japanese Sengoku Paradise mobile game has announced that an anime television series based on the game will premiere next month. Sengoku Paradise Kiwami, a bishonen interpretation of Japan’s historical Sengoku warring states era will premiere on October 3.
Source: Anime News Network
The just-broadcast final episode of the Steins;Gate television series ended with a teaser announcement of a feature film. The adaptation of 5pb. and Nitroplus’ adventure game simulcast on Crunchyroll and has been licensed for domestic home video release by FUNimation.
Ho hum. I tried to like this show but just couldn’t succeed.
Source: Anime News Network
Nintendo’s president & CEO Satoru Iwata has announced that anime studios Production I.G, Studio 4°C and SHAFT are each developing a 3-minute long anime short to promote the spring 2012 release of the Kid Icarus: Uprising Nintendo 3DS game. The three anime shorts will be distributed worldwide for free through the Nintendo Video download serivce early next year.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for Hiro Mashima’s shonen fantasy manga series Fairy Tail has announced that the series’ 31st collected volume will be released next February in a limited edition that includes the series’ third OAD. Mashima himself will storyboard the original anime episode. The manga’s 26th and 27th collected volumes contained the series’ first and second OADs.
Source: Anime News Network
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I submit the opening of the 1983 Cat’s Eye TV series. The opening theme is “Cat’s Eye” performed by Anri.
I’m particularly fond of Anri’s 1997 updated version of the song recorded for the live-action movie.
Question:
Casual browsing indicates that Wikipedia seems to be on the way to becoming an alternative reference/information source for anime and manga in its own right, as compared to the encyclopedias over at Anime News Network – even if, so far as I see it right now, opinions may differ as to whether it is or might one day be, as comprehensive as ANN’s encyclopedias.
Does John have any particular opinion or point of view on that subject?
Art-house family film distributor GKIDS has acquired the theatrical and non-home video distribution rights to 13 Studio Ghibli films produced from 1984 to 2002. Walt Disney Pictures retains domestic home video rights to 12 of the 13 films. GKIDS’ acquisition of I Can Hear the Ocean is the first time the film has been licensed for American release. GKIDS will distribute the films in subtitled and dubbed versions beginning with a 10th anniversary and 25th anniversary screenings of Spirited Away & Laputa, respectively, at this month’s New York Film Festival before beginning limited nationwide theatrical roll-outs later this year.
The 13 films GKIDS acquired are: Nausicaa, Laputa, Totoro, Kiki, Only Yesterday, Porco Rosso, I Can Hear the Ocean, Pom Poko, Whisper of the Heart, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Spirited Away, and The Cat Returns.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for Production I.G’s upcoming Noitamina series Guilty Crown has added a selection of streaming trailers. The sci-fi action series will premiere on October 13.
Wow. Can’t predict how good the story will be, but the visual look of this show is spectacular.
Source: Moon Phase
The homepage for this fall’s C³ ~Cube x Cursed x Curious~ television series has added a second, longer trailer that provides a better sense of the show’s content & approach. The supernatural adventure comedy from studio Silver Link (BakaTest) will premiere on October 1.
Source: Anime News Network
Newtype Magazine has announced that the second year of the current Digimon Xros Wars television series will be an all-star sequel titled “Digimon Xros Wars: Toki o Kakeru Shonen Hunter-tachi” (Digimon Xros Wars: Hunter Boys that Leap Through Time). The series will include appearances by leading characters from previous Digimon anime series. While the first Digimon Xros Wars series was directed by Tetsuya Endo, Digimon Tamers director Yukio Kaizawa will take over directing the second series. Toki o Kakeru Shonen Hunter-tachi will premiere on October 2.
Worked for Pretty Cure, so why not?
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for 21-year-old independent animator Soubi Yamamoto’s sci-fi short film Kono Danshi, Uchuujin to Tatakaemasu (This Boy, Aliens & Fighting) has added a streaming trailer. Comix Wave will release the OVA on Japanese DVD in November.
Unquestionably a tremendous achievement, especially for a creator so young. But at the same time there’s no way to mistake that this is an independent semi-pro production.
Source: Anime News Network
Independent animator Keita Kurosaka has released a new, second trailer for his latest animated film, Midori-ko. Kurosaka spent ten years drawing the 55 minute film. The movie has already screened at several international film festivals. It will open in Tokyo movie theaters on the 24th.
Source: Anime News Network
The 45 minute long “Episode 0″ of BONES’ upcoming mystery anime series Un-Go will premiere exclusively in 12 Japanese movie theaters for a two-week engagement beginning November 19. The bonus theatrical episode will depict how series’ protagonists Shinjuro and Inga first meet. The regular Un-Go television series will premiere on October 13.
Source: Anime News Network
Twitch has published a rare English language review of Studio Ghibli’s current film “From Up On Poppy Hill” (Kokuriko-zaka Kara).
Publisher Kadokawa Shoten has canceled its planned publication of a ninth Dantalian no Shoka light novel next January, “due to various circumstances.” Series author Gakuto Mikumo has explained that he never intended the novel series to extend past seven volumes, but wrote an eighth novel at his editor’s request. Mikumo was asked to write a ninth volume, and Kadokawa Shoten even formally solicited it, but Mikumo has flatly refused to compose another book in the series.
The ninth novel was tentatively scheduled to be released in a limited edition that would include an OAD. Kadokawa Shoten & animation studio Gainax have not yet clarified if the bonus anime episode will still be produced for an alternate distribution method.
I say “Cheers” to Mikumo for standing up to pressure and respecting his artistic integrity over corporate demands. Do readers really want to end a beloved series with a book that the writer didn’t want to write?
Source: Anime News Network
