A website has launched to reveal Production I.G’s development of an anime project titled “My Sweet Umadonna.” The anime about three teen equestrians is being produced in collaboration with The Japan Racing Association. The promotional anime will premiere on December 11.
Source: Anime News Network
The fourth Pretty Cure All Stars motion picture, Precure All Stars New Stage: Mirai no Tomodachi (Precure All Stars New Stage: Friends of the Future), will hit Japanese theaters on March 17, 2012. The movie will star the heroines of all of the Pretty Cure television series, this time battling the antagonist Fusion who returns from the 2009 first Pretty Cure All Stars movie.
Source: Anime News Network
Question:
Why is there much less variety in h-anime than in h-manga? Anyone familiar with h-manga knows there is a staggering amount of original material covering an incredible range of scenarios, fetishes, and character archetypes. Many h-manga are hilarious and find creative ways to be smutty. But when it comes to adult anime the industry just recycles a handful of basic setups – half of the time they just swap some names and alter the character designs slightly. What’s up with that? Wouldn’t they industry be better off it it tried to do something different once in a while?
Discotek has confirmed plans to re-release director Isao Takahata’s 1972 & 1973 Panda! Go Panda! short films. The two movies, conceptually created by Hayao Miyazaki, were previously distributed in America on a double-feature DVD by Pioneer/Geneon.
Will be nice to have these in circulation again, as the old Geneon DVDs are rather rare and pricey these days.
Source: Anime News Network
Seven Seas Entertainment has announced its acquisition of domestic publication rights to Kouichi Kusano’s romantic comedy manga series I Don’t Like You At All, Big Brother!! (Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne—!!) and Milk Morinaga’s yuri manga Girl Friends.
“OniiZenzen,” a risqué comedy about an adopted sister with a crush on her older brother, was adapted into an anime TV series earlier this year. The first domestic manga volume will reprint the first two Japanese volumes and retail at $16.99 next August.
The first of two 496-page compiled volumes of Milk Morinaga’s girl-with-girl romance manga Girl Friends will retail at $17.99 beginning in October 2012.
Digital Manga has opened its online cel art store. Anime Cel Art offers limited edition hand-painted reproduction animation cels from popular anime titles including Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece. While these cels are not one-of-a-kind production cels used in the making of their respective anime, they are authentic, hand painted collectables produced by Art Anime Studio in collaboration with FUNimation, Viz Media, Toei Animation, and Studio Pierrot. For a limited time, cels are available at $60 each with free shipping. Additional images are available for request.
Canada’s 2011 Waterloo Festival of Animated Cinema (WFAC) announced last week that an unspecified American distributor has licensed the distribution rights to creator/director Makoto Shinkai’s 2010 feature film Hoshi o Ou Kodomo ~ Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below. The acquisition confirmation led the WFAC to cancel its planned Sunday screening of the film. The new fantasy film from the creator of Voices of a Distant Star & 5 Centimeters Per Second opened in Japanese theaters on May 7. The film had its North American premiere last July at Otakon.
Source: Anime News Network
After getting OADs in 2009 and 2011, saxyun’s four-koma slice-of-life comedy manga Yurumates is now getting an anime television series. While the two OADs about the lives of slacker residents of a small apartment building were animated in Flash, the forthcoming television series will be animated with conventional animation.
Source: Anime News Network
This year’s touring Jump Festa 2012 publicity event will host the premiere screening of a new Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock short film on December 17 & 18. The short movie telling a side-story about Son Goku’s father is an adaptation of Naho Oishi’s three chapter manga story published last summer.
Source: Daizenshuu EX
Urda & Catblue: Dynamite creator/director Romanov Higa is now directing a web anime series titled “Buso Chugakusei Basket Army” (Armed Middle School Student Basket Army) adapted from a novel written by Kingdom Hearts & Final Fantasy 8 scenario writer Kazushige Nojima. The military school students adventure story is the first title from publisher Enterbrain’s XXolution multimedia project that will include novels, manga, anime, music, games, and more. The first three-minute long “Basket Army” anime short will stream online for free beginning December 22. Subsequent episodes will stream monthly beginning February 29.
Source: Anime News Network
Sho-Comi Magazine has announced the development of a live-action feature film based on Kanan Minami’s recently concluded shoujo romance manga Kyou, Koi o Hajimemasu (Today, Love Begins). The high-school romantic drama was adapted into to OADs released last year.
Source: Anime News Network
Manga artist Satoko Kiyuduki has announced plans to resume work on her 2009 fantasy manga story Shoulder-a-Coffin, Kuro. The series’ third collected volume will hit Japanese bookstores on January 27, nearly five years after the release of volume 2. And the story will resume serialization on February 9. The acclaimed heartwarming tragedy is available in English from Yen Press.
Even at only two volumes, this is one of the finest manga I’ve ever encountered.
Source: Anime News Network
Husband and wife creative team “Yamaaki Doton” have won numerous Japanese awards for their original manga yet remained unknown in the English speaking world until the recent publication of their first English language translation. One Peace Books has done a great service to English speaking manga readers by providing an accessible adaptation of Yamaaki Doton’s masterwork tragedy manga Breathe Deeply, as published in Japan in 2010 as “X-saibou ha Fukaku Iki wo Suru” (X Cells Breathe Deeply).
Question:
A little while back, you referred to Un-Go as a disappointing series so far. I am thoroughly enjoying this strange detective tale and I was curious as to what exactly you found at fault with it.
