A full theatrical trailer for next year’s .Hack//The Movie: Sekai no Mukou ni (Dot Hack The Movie: The Other Side of The World) has appeared. The feature will hit Japanese theaters on January 21.
Doesn’t look, to me, like it reaches the level of the excellent .hack//Quantum, but we’ll just have to wait and see.
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The first teaser trailer has appeared for next year’s Pocket Monster Best Wishes Movie: Kyurem VS Seikenshi. The “Kyurem vs. the Sacred Sword Masters” movie will be the 15th Pocket Monster theatrical film. Veteran Pokemon movie director Kunihiko Yuyama helms this latest picture.
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Yammie, the creator of the popular series of “Yappo Island” children’s picture books, will write & direct a stop-motion animation series titled Fushigi no Yappo Shima ~ Pukipuki to Poi (Mysterious Yappo Island ~ Pukipuki & Poi) for broadcast on the NHK Educational network from Monday through Friday from January 9 until February 10. The series of five-minute episodes will depict the adventures of young girl Pukipuki and Poi, a monkey with a rainbow-colored face, on the odd, relaxed little island Yappo.
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Question:
Are remakes of anime good business for studios or is there a reason why we see no true sequels to really popular anime? Taking Rurouni Kenshin and Evangelion for example. Both series left off at stages where a sequel was open to continue the story lines, yet now we’re seeing either a retelling or remake of these series yet being starved from seeing true sequels. Is this a good direction or is this an attempt by anime studios to cash in on the popularity of a series.
NIS America has announced a domestic DVD release of the 2010 historical drama anime series House of Five Leaves (Sairaya Goyo). The 12 episode adaptation of Natsume Ono’s manga will be released in a double disc DVD set with hardcover illustration book on March 6, 2012. Funimation simulcast when it aired on the Fuji TV network’s Noitamina block.
Nice to see this wonderful show getting a high end domestic home video release respectful of its stature. Now if we’d just get Ristorante Paradiso to match.
Super Dash & Go! magazine has revealed that an anime TV series adaptation of Jo Taketsuki’s action fantasy light novel series Campione! is now in development. The “battle fantasy” revolves around an ordinary high schooler who unintentionally kills a god, absorbs its powers, and becomes a “campione,” a “god killer.” The novel has had ten volumes published since 2008.
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Shogakukan Creative has announced the development of an anime TV series based on “Lance K. Kuroi’s” (Ransuke Kuroi) action fantasy cel phone novel Savanna Game. The novel revolves around three young men that participate in a government sponsored survival game in which players fight to the death against foes throughout the space/time continuum, from historical figures to dragons. Shogakukan published Savanna Game in traditional print form last month.
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The January issue of Manga Time Kirara magazine will formally announce the development of a TV anime based on Ishiki’s four-koma school slice-of-life comedy manga Acchi Kocchi (Place to Place).
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The first 15 second teaser trailer for next year’s Ano Natsu de Matteru TV series has surfaced. The romantic comedy was created by Onegai Teacher/Twins writer & character designer Yousuke Kuroda & Taraku Uon. The series will premiere on January 9.
If nothing else, it looks pretty nice.
Source: Anime News Network
Game developer Chunsoft has released the two-minute anime opening sequence for its forthcoming suspense strategy game Kyokugen Dasshutsu ADV: Zennin Shibo Desu (Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die). The animation footage was produced by Gonzo. The game for the Nintendo 3DS and Playstation Vita will be released on February 16.
Nice looking, but somewhat budget animation.
Source: Anime News Network
A new two-minute trailer for Satelight’s Moretsu Uchuu Kaizoku ~ Bodacious Space Pirates anime television series has surfaced. The long-in-development adaptation of Yuichi Sasamoto’s Mini-Skir Uchu Kaizoku (Mini-skirt Space Pirate) light novel series was first announced in 2009. Tetsuo Sato (Nadesico, Stellvia) is directing for a January 7 premiere.
Not convinced. But at least this longer trailer suggests that the show could eventually become moderately intersting. Furthermore, since I clearly remember the 1980s, I simply can’t take any use of the adjective “bodacious” seriously anymore.
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A live-action feature film based on Tomohiro Koizumi’s surreal 2007 zombie drama manga Life Is Dead will premiere next spring. The film follows a teen boy who finds himself aimless and unemployable after turning into a zombie. Kosuke Hishinuma (Kunoichi Ninpocho) is writing and directing the film.
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A live-action film adaptation of Koh Akizuki’s yaoi novel series Fujimi Block No. 2 Symphony Orchestra will premiere next spring. The film about a romance developing between a gay amateur orchestra conductor and a straight amateur orchestra conductor will be based primarily on the 1994 novel Fujimi Block No. 2 Symphony Orchestra: Kanreizensen Conductor.
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Question:
Am I the only person who isn’t even remotely interested in this Redline film? The synopsis makes it sound like a cousin to the Fast and the Furious films and that kind of thing seems more for American comic book fans. What’s the deal with the pockets of fandom hyping this thing? It certainly ended up being a colossal flop in its homeland.
Aniplex of America has announced plans for a simultaneous Japanese & American Blu-ray release of the current Fate/Zero television series. The first 13 episode boxed set will be released on March 7. Japanese retail price is 39,900 yen ($512 USD). American list price is $498.98. The 7 disc set will contain 5 Blu-ray discs with optional English subtitles, the first series soundtrack CD, an original drama CD, and a booklet. The American release will include a second booklet of English translations of the Japanese booklet.
This really isn’t an “American release” as much as just an officially sanctioned opportunity for Americans to purchase the Japanese release at Japanese price.
