New York based film distributor GKids has acquired domestic theatrical distribution rights to Production I.G & creator/director Hiroyuki Okiura’s latest feature film A Letter to Momo (Momo e no Tegami). The multi-award winning film hit Japanese theatrical wide release last week and will premiere in American theaters this winter.
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The first teaser trailer for the Fuse ~ Teppo Musume no Torimonocho (Fuse: A Gun Girl’s Detective Story) [pronounced "Fuu-say"] feature film has hit the web. The adaptation of Kazuki Sakuraba’s 2010 novel Fuse Gansaku: Satomi Hakkenden, inspired by the classic 19th century novel series by Kyokutei Bakin, depicts a teen girl named Hamaji who hunts dog-human hybrids known as Fuse. Bounen no Xamd director Masayuki Miyaji is helming the production for an October theatrical release.
Wow. This looks really neat!
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The advertising obi found on new copies of the ninth volume of Touya Mikanagi’s action/fantasy/comedy manga Karneval reveal that an anime adaptation of the story has been greenlit. The ongoing manga premiered in 2007.
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Mobile game company G-mode (Keitai Shoujo, Sengoku Paradise Kiwami) has announced its development of a multimedia project titled “Katayoku no Khronos Gear.” The sci-fi action story pits the teenage decendents of global heroes including Napoleon, Joan of Arc, Musashi Miyamoto, and Ryoma Sakamoto in a battle against invading aliens. The franchise will include a game and manga produced by G-mode and an anime produced by studio AIC. Tenchi Muyo & El Hazard director Hiroki Hayashi will helm the anime.
G-mode’s cel phone games Keitai Shoujo & Sengoku Paradise Kiwami have both previously had anime adaptations.
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The homepage for this July’s Hagure Yuusha no Estetica anime TV series has released a streaming teaser. The adaptation of Tetsuto Uesu’s light novel series depicts an international training organization that protects teens that return to earth after being transported to other worlds. The protagonist of the series is a teen boy who returns to Earth with a magic sword and a daughter of a demon king in tow. Studio ARMS (Himawari, Queen’s Blade) is producing with Rion Kujo (Asu no Yoichi) directing.
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The first teaser trailer for One Piece Z, the eleventh feature length One Piece motion picture, has hit the web. One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda personally created “Zeto,” the strongest opponent yet that will fact the Straw Hat Pirates. One Piece movie 8 director Tatsuya Nagamine is directing the film with Eiichiro Oda executive producing. The movie will hit Japanese theaters on December 15.
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Film distributor Sochiku has released a new web exclusive trailer for Production I.G’s upcoming feature film Blood-C: The Last Dark. The sequel to last year’s Blood-C television series begins one year after the events of the TV series. The movie will open in Japanese theaters on June 2.
Once again this trailer immediately makes me think that this is what the TV series should have been from the outset.
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The upcoming Accel World: Ginyoku no Kakusei video game will be released in a limited edition that includes a bonus OVA. The Playstation 3 version of the game will include the OVA on Blu-ray while the PSP version of the game will include a DVD. The game will be released in Japan on September 13. The anime TV series adaptation of Reki Kawahara’s sci-fi/action/romance light novel series premiered on April 6.
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Anime studio Kyoto Animation premiered its latest self-promotion TV ad last week. The studio has produced five original anime TV commercials promoting itself since 2010, although the first TV spot from June 2010 was also broadcast with an alternate text ending promoting the Soka Gakkai Buddhist organization.
Although very different stylistically from the earlier spots, this one is just as nice as its predecessors.
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Avalon & Ghost in the Shell movie director Mamoru Oshii is now in Poland shooting footage for a trailer for From Software’s upcoming Xbox 360 mecha simulation game Jyutekki, known in English as “Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor.” The game is scheduled for American release on June 19. It will hit Japanese store shelves two days later. Oshii filmed his 2001 CG enhanced live-action action film Avalon in Poland.
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IKUZONE (Baba Ikuzo), the 46 year-old bassist and co-founding member of Japanese rock band Dragon Ash died of acute heart failure on the night of April 21st. Dragon Ash’s first single, “Rainy Day and Day,” was used as the opening theme of the 1997 Virus -Virus Buster Serge- anime television series. The band has canceled its scheduled April 28th performance at the Okuma Beach Fest 2012.
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Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to the current Dusk Maiden of Amnesia (Tasogare Otome×Amnesia) and Tsuritama anime television series. Both titles will be released digitally “soon” with a home video release to follow. Crunchyroll is presently streaming both series as weekly episodes air on Japanese TV.
American-born music industry veteran and filmmaker Rashad Haughton now lives in Japan and is working with studios 4°C and Shirogumi on the production of Love Like Aliens, a six-minute short anime inspired by the illustrations of “Gynoid” creator Sorayama Hajime. The CG animation is not motion-captured. After filming sequences with live actors as reference models, Haughton directed the animators to illustrate the motions in animation “by eye.”
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Check out the trailer for the 24th Soreike! Anpanman motion picture. The Soreike! Anpanman: Yomigaere Bananajima (Fly! Anpanman: Revive Banana Island) movie with bonus Soreike! Anpanman: Rhythm de Te-Asobi: Anpanman to Fushigi na Parasol” (Playtime Set to Rhythm: Anapanman and the Mysterious Parasols) short film will hit Japanese theaters on July 7.
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To little surprise, the hit Senran Kagura video game franchise now has a TV anime adaptation in development. Marvelous Entertainment’s original side-scrolling busty female ninja action game hit the Japanese Nintendo DS on September 22, 2011. Its sequel, Senran Kagura Burst, will hit the 3DS in August.
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