The current Japanese TV commercial for the March issue of Monthly Sh?nen Ace magazine reports that the issue will include a major announcement regarding the Sora no Otoshimono anime franchise. Apparantly, a high-resolution zoom-in of the magazine’s cover reveals that the announcement will be a confirmation of a third season for the popular anime series that’s had two TV series and a feature film so far.
Source: Anime News Network
FUNimation has acquired the domestic home video, broadcast, merchandising, mobile, and streaming rights to the current anime TV series High School DxD. FUNi will begin streaming the series domestically on January 23 with a home video release to follow. The risqué supernatural comedy series premiered in Japan on the 6th.
Can’t say that I’m either surprised or filled with respect for this acquisition.
Anime studio Frontier Works has released a teaser trailer for its upcoming OVA Moe Can Change! The anime adaptation of the simulation game from studio Ambition will be released on April 26. The teaser trailer does not include any actual animation footage.
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Toei has released a conventional full trailer for its upcoming Precure All Stars New Stage: Mirai no Tomodachi (Precure All Stars New Stage: Friends of the Future) motion picture, the fourth of the Pretty Cure All-Stars movies that feature all of the Pretty Cure heroine characters. The fourth film, which resurrects Fusion, the antagonist of the 2009 first Precure All Stars movie, will open theatrically on March 17.
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Mobile content developer MTI has announced its development of an original anime based on J-pop group KAT-TUN. The series of five 50-second “Ai wa KAT-TUN” (Love is KAT-TUN) anime shorts will be released for Japanese mobile phones this Friday. Each episode will star one of the group’s members.
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Namco Bandai Games has released the original opening anime sequence for its upcoming cross-over PSP RPG game Heroes Phantasia. The game allows players to utilize characters from the Blood+, Darker than Black, Keroro Gunso, My-HiME, R.O.D., Rune Soldier, Scryed, Slayers, and Sorcerous Stabber Orphen franchises. The game will be officially released on the 19th.
While it’s nice to see these characters animated again, albeit briefly, what’s the point of the cross-over if none of them from different franchises interact with each other within the anime sequence? Seems like wasted opportunity.
Source: Siliconera
A lengthy trailer for the extended Director’s Cut edition of the 2009 Space Battleship Yamato: Revival Chapter motion picture has now appeared online. The Director’s Cut will add at least 30 minutes of new footage and feature an alternate ending, re-cut scenes, and select newly recorded dialogue. The director’s cut will play in two theaters in Tokyo and Osaka from January 28 to February 3. The trailer includes footage from one new scene from the Director’s Cut.
Hopefully this extended re-cut may salvage some of the really bad 2009 theatrical cut including elements like the awful abrupt treatment of Yuki Kodai.
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Kodansha has released a trailer for the first Kimi no Iru Machi: A town where you live OAD. The two-episode anime adaptation of Kouji Seo’s ongoing romance manga will be released as a bonus with limited edition copies of the 17th and 18th collected volumes of the manga, available on March 16 and June 15. Hiroshi Kobayashi (Yozakura Quartet) is directing the anime at Tatsunoko with Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Eve no Jikan) serving as executive director.
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Toei Animation is now streaming its teaser trailer for the upcoming 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 open theatrically on March 17. The film will star all 28 Cure warriors from the nine Pretty Cure television series.
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Toei has released a teaser promoting its upcoming Smile Precure! television series. The ninth Pretty Cure magical girl television anime series will premiere on Feburary 5, taking over the time slot of the current Suite Precure series.
May not be fair to judge based on a 15 second teaser, but this looks exactly like a remake of Yes! Precure 5 with slightly younger characters.
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Question:
For a while now you’ve been posting interesting and unique opening animation sequences which tend to have good animation coupled with solid music. However, there are certainly some very obnoxious opening themes which sound like nails on a chalk board (Denpa Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko, blargh), or the visuals are blander than those found in the show (Bakuman opening 1. Lame). So, which openings do you think are either disastrous, or utterly mediocre and do the show zero justice?
NIS America has acquired the domestic home video distribution rights to this month’s historical action anime TV series Brave 10. Specifics of the release have not been determined yet. Crunchyroll will simulcast the series beginning on Tuesday, Janaruy 10.
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Amateur anime studio Manpuku Jinja has released the teaser trailer for its Genso Mangekyou ~The Memories of Phantasm~: Tsuki ni Murakumo Hana ni Kaze (Fantasy Kaleidoscope ~The Memories of Phantasm~: Moon in the Clouds, Flower in the Wind) short anime based on Team Shanghai Alice’s doujin PC shooting game franchise Touhou Project. This is Manpuku Jinja’s second “Genso Mangekyou” short anime, the first released last year.
Hard to say if this one looks better than the first one. At the least, it’s on par.
Source: Anime News Network
Viz Media has announced plans to stream next month’s bishoujo robot anime series Lagrange ~ The Flower of Rin-ne. The 24 episode series from creators Production I.G & car company Nissan is being animated by I.G subsidiary Xebec with Tatsuo Sato (Nadesico) directing. The series will premiere in Japan on January 8.
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Crunchyroll has announced plans to simulcast next month’s Moretsu Pirates sci-fi anime series. Furthermore, Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series for online and home video release. Sentai will begin its own streaming distribution of the show in February, followed by a DVD & Blu-ray release.
