Heres the trailer for the hot new game Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. Enjoy!
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Anime News
Monday March 31, 2008
FUNimation Discusses the Anime Industry
Variety Magazine now hosts an interview with FUNimation CEO Gen Fukunaga in which Fukunaga reveals that FUNimation examines the popularity of unlicensed fansubs when considering which potential anime title acquisitions appeal to American fans.
The interview also reveals that Fukunaga expects web distribution of anime to become increasingly profitable; and also reveals the rarely released sales figures that Trinity Blood sold 18,000 copies on release while Dragon Ball Z season 1 sold 55,000 copies in its first five months of release.
Seirei no Moribito to Hit Cartoon Network
Media Blasters CEO John Sirabella has revealed that the Cartoon Network has independently secured broadcast rights to Production IG’s 2007 fantasy anime television series Seirei no Moribito.
Life of Guskou Budori Anime Film Announced
The Group TAC anime production studio (Miami Guns, Gensomaden Saiyuki) has announced plans to develop an anime feature film adaptation of Kenji Miyazawa’s 1932 children’s novel The Life of Guskou Budori (Guskou Budori no Denki). The anime film will be written by Sadayuki Murai (Kino’s Journey, Millennium Actress) and directed by Gisaburo Sugii, who also directed the 1985 anime film Night on the Galactic Railroad, also based on a Miyazawa novel.
Life of Guskou Budori is a fantasy biography of a scientist studying the effects of volcanos on the earth’s atmosphere. Like the previous Kenji Miyazawa based anime Night on the Galactic Railroad and Kenji’s Spring, the anime version of Life of Guskou Budori will again portray human characters as anthropomorphic cats. The film is scheduled for Japanese release next spring.
Additional Negima OVAs Announced
Shaft, the anime studio that produced the Negima!? Spring and Summer OVAs and the second Maho Sensei Negima television series will animate a series of three new Negima OVAs.
The first OVA will be released on July 17th, bundled with the limited edition version of Negima manga volume 23, and will adapt manga chapters 176 & 177.
The second OVA will be released with the limited edition volume 24 manga on October 17th and adapt manga chapters 178 to 180.
The third and final OVA will be released with the limited edition volume 25 manga on January 17, 2009 and will adapt manga chapters 182 & 183.
Noramimi, Hayate no Gotoku, and Kojika to Get Second Series
The official Hayate no Gotoku ~ Hayate the Combat Butler anime series homepage has announced that the popular TV show will get a second series.
The official Noramimi anime series homepage has announced that the show will get a second series.
The official Kodomo no Jikan anime series has announced development of a second television series. The confirmation of a second season comes despite several Japanese television networks refusing to broadcast the first season, and the first season being broadcast on Japanese television and internet only in a heavily censored format.
Tuesday April 1, 2008
New Anime Trailers Online
The official homepage for the upcoming Monochrome Factor bishonen supernatural action television series now hosts a new streaming trailer. The series is scheduled to premier on the 7th.
The official homepage for Production IG’s upcoming sci-fi television series RD Senno Chosashitsu now hosts a new streaming trailer. The series is scheduled to premier on the 8th.
The official Sekirei homepage now links to a streaming trailer available in 500kbs and 1mbs speeds. The Sekirei television series is scheduled to premier this summer.
Gonzo Announces Open Pricing for Anime Downloads
Gonzo has formally announced plans to institute a trial “open-pricing model” through the Crunchyroll website for the distribution of its Tower of Druaga -The Aegis of URUK- and BLASSREITER anime television series. Tower of Druaga and BLASSREITER will be released internationally online via YouTube, Bost TV, and Crunchyroll on the same day episodes are broadcast on Japanese television. Crunchyroll will offer downloadable high video quality episodes, and downloaders will be urged to pay whatever amount they consider fair in exchange for the downloads. “By allowing the users to determine the value of the product and make their voices be heard, GDH derives valuable feedback directly from consumers.”
“Crunchyroll aims to offer to its community a legal alternative to illegal file-sharing and downloading,” despite the fact that the site continues to support illegal file-sharing.
The Tower of Druaga will premier on April 4th. BLASSREITER is scheduled to premier on April 5th.
Wensday April 2, 2008
New Anime Series Websites Opened
The official Japanese website devoted to the upcoming Negima! Shiroi Tsubasa ~ Ala Alba OVA series is now open.
The official Japanese website for the upcoming Space Adventure Cobra OVA series, titled “Cobra: The Animation,” is now online.
Mission-E Trailer Online
The official homepage for the upcoming Mission-E television series, the sequel to the July 2007 television series Code-E, now hosts a streaming trailer. The Mission-E anime is scheduled to premier in July.
Kyoran Kazoku Nikki Trailer Online
The official homepage for the upcoming Kyoran Kazoku Nikki (Frenzied Family Diary) television series now hosts a 4 minute long streaming trailer in 500kbs and 1mbs bandwidth streams. The sci-fi comedy series will debut on April 12.
Ani Kuri Season Three Online
Japanese television network NHK has now uploaded the third season of its Ani Kuri (”Anime Creator”) series of minute long short films by 15 of Japan’s most talented animators. The third season includes shorts directed by Satoshi Kon, Makoto Shinkai, Michael Arias, Mahiro Maeda, and Shoji Kawamori.
All 15 Ani Kuri films are now available on NHK’s Ani Kuri homepage. French animation fan site Catsuka also mirrors the third season films with Romanized labels identifying their creators.
Thursday April 3, 2008
X Japan Announces First American Performance
The newly reunited X Japan rock band has announced plans for its first American concert performance, to be held at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City on September 13.
AnimEigo Solicits Yawara
AnimEigo is now accepting pre-orders for its summer release of its first subtitled Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl DVD boxed set. The set will contain the first 40 episodes of the 124 episode television series from 1989, plus supplemental features. The DVD release is tentatively planned to be available exclusively from publisher AnimEigo.
Toradora! Anime Announced
Japanese publisher MediaWorks has revealed that Yuyuko Takemiya’s award winning romantic comedy novel series “Toradora!” will be adapted into anime. The series about two “outsider” high school students whose similar social status creates an antagonistic love between them has seven novels so far, and an ongoing manga adaptation.
Library War Trailers Online
The official Toshokan Sensou (”Library War”) anime television series homepage now hosts a streaming 15 second TV commercial and a 2:43 trailer. The series will premier on the 10th.
Friday April 4, 2008
Viz Acquires Zelda Manga
GoNintendo reports that Viz has announced an October 7th release for its first English translated Legend of Zelda manga. The series is apparently one of the numerous Legend of Zelda manga series created by the artist duo “Akira Himekawa.” Precisely which Zelda manga series Viz will release has not been revealed yet.
Mushrambo Movies Announced
Toei Animation has revealed plans to revive the Mushrambo sci-fi action anime television series originally broadcast in 2000. The series was broadcast on American television in 2001 under the title “Shinzo.” The original TV series will be “renewed” under the direction of Kenji Nakamura (director of the Mononoke TV series) and released as two 90 minute feature films later this year.
Second RosaVam Series Announced
The current issue of Jump Square Magazine has revealed plans for a second Rosario + Vampire television series. The tentatively titled “Rosario + Vampire Capu2″ series is scheduled to debut in October.
Posted By: Nightroad
FUNimation Discusses the Anime Industry
Variety Magazine now hosts an interview with FUNimation CEO Gen Fukunaga in which Fukunaga reveals that FUNimation examines the popularity of unlicensed fansubs when considering which potential anime title acquisitions appeal to American fans.
The interview also reveals that Fukunaga expects web distribution of anime to become increasingly profitable; and also reveals the rarely released sales figures that Trinity Blood sold 18,000 copies on release while Dragon Ball Z season 1 sold 55,000 copies in its first five months of release.
Seirei no Moribito to Hit Cartoon Network
Media Blasters CEO John Sirabella has revealed that the Cartoon Network has independently secured broadcast rights to Production IG’s 2007 fantasy anime television series Seirei no Moribito.
Life of Guskou Budori Anime Film Announced
The Group TAC anime production studio (Miami Guns, Gensomaden Saiyuki) has announced plans to develop an anime feature film adaptation of Kenji Miyazawa’s 1932 children’s novel The Life of Guskou Budori (Guskou Budori no Denki). The anime film will be written by Sadayuki Murai (Kino’s Journey, Millennium Actress) and directed by Gisaburo Sugii, who also directed the 1985 anime film Night on the Galactic Railroad, also based on a Miyazawa novel.
Life of Guskou Budori is a fantasy biography of a scientist studying the effects of volcanos on the earth’s atmosphere. Like the previous Kenji Miyazawa based anime Night on the Galactic Railroad and Kenji’s Spring, the anime version of Life of Guskou Budori will again portray human characters as anthropomorphic cats. The film is scheduled for Japanese release next spring.
Additional Negima OVAs Announced
Shaft, the anime studio that produced the Negima!? Spring and Summer OVAs and the second Maho Sensei Negima television series will animate a series of three new Negima OVAs.
The first OVA will be released on July 17th, bundled with the limited edition version of Negima manga volume 23, and will adapt manga chapters 176 & 177.
The second OVA will be released with the limited edition volume 24 manga on October 17th and adapt manga chapters 178 to 180.
The third and final OVA will be released with the limited edition volume 25 manga on January 17, 2009 and will adapt manga chapters 182 & 183.
Noramimi, Hayate no Gotoku, and Kojika to Get Second Series
The official Hayate no Gotoku ~ Hayate the Combat Butler anime series homepage has announced that the popular TV show will get a second series.
The official Noramimi anime series homepage has announced that the show will get a second series.
The official Kodomo no Jikan anime series has announced development of a second television series. The confirmation of a second season comes despite several Japanese television networks refusing to broadcast the first season, and the first season being broadcast on Japanese television and internet only in a heavily censored format.
Tuesday April 1, 2008
New Anime Trailers Online
The official homepage for the upcoming Monochrome Factor bishonen supernatural action television series now hosts a new streaming trailer. The series is scheduled to premier on the 7th.
The official homepage for Production IG’s upcoming sci-fi television series RD Senno Chosashitsu now hosts a new streaming trailer. The series is scheduled to premier on the 8th.
The official Sekirei homepage now links to a streaming trailer available in 500kbs and 1mbs speeds. The Sekirei television series is scheduled to premier this summer.
Gonzo Announces Open Pricing for Anime Downloads
Gonzo has formally announced plans to institute a trial “open-pricing model” through the Crunchyroll website for the distribution of its Tower of Druaga -The Aegis of URUK- and BLASSREITER anime television series. Tower of Druaga and BLASSREITER will be released internationally online via YouTube, Bost TV, and Crunchyroll on the same day episodes are broadcast on Japanese television. Crunchyroll will offer downloadable high video quality episodes, and downloaders will be urged to pay whatever amount they consider fair in exchange for the downloads. “By allowing the users to determine the value of the product and make their voices be heard, GDH derives valuable feedback directly from consumers.”
“Crunchyroll aims to offer to its community a legal alternative to illegal file-sharing and downloading,” despite the fact that the site continues to support illegal file-sharing.
The Tower of Druaga will premier on April 4th. BLASSREITER is scheduled to premier on April 5th.
Wensday April 2, 2008
New Anime Series Websites Opened
The official Japanese website devoted to the upcoming Negima! Shiroi Tsubasa ~ Ala Alba OVA series is now open.
The official Japanese website for the upcoming Space Adventure Cobra OVA series, titled “Cobra: The Animation,” is now online.
Mission-E Trailer Online
The official homepage for the upcoming Mission-E television series, the sequel to the July 2007 television series Code-E, now hosts a streaming trailer. The Mission-E anime is scheduled to premier in July.
Kyoran Kazoku Nikki Trailer Online
The official homepage for the upcoming Kyoran Kazoku Nikki (Frenzied Family Diary) television series now hosts a 4 minute long streaming trailer in 500kbs and 1mbs bandwidth streams. The sci-fi comedy series will debut on April 12.
Ani Kuri Season Three Online
Japanese television network NHK has now uploaded the third season of its Ani Kuri (”Anime Creator”) series of minute long short films by 15 of Japan’s most talented animators. The third season includes shorts directed by Satoshi Kon, Makoto Shinkai, Michael Arias, Mahiro Maeda, and Shoji Kawamori.
All 15 Ani Kuri films are now available on NHK’s Ani Kuri homepage. French animation fan site Catsuka also mirrors the third season films with Romanized labels identifying their creators.
Thursday April 3, 2008
X Japan Announces First American Performance
The newly reunited X Japan rock band has announced plans for its first American concert performance, to be held at the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City on September 13.
AnimEigo Solicits Yawara
AnimEigo is now accepting pre-orders for its summer release of its first subtitled Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl DVD boxed set. The set will contain the first 40 episodes of the 124 episode television series from 1989, plus supplemental features. The DVD release is tentatively planned to be available exclusively from publisher AnimEigo.
Toradora! Anime Announced
Japanese publisher MediaWorks has revealed that Yuyuko Takemiya’s award winning romantic comedy novel series “Toradora!” will be adapted into anime. The series about two “outsider” high school students whose similar social status creates an antagonistic love between them has seven novels so far, and an ongoing manga adaptation.
Library War Trailers Online
The official Toshokan Sensou (”Library War”) anime television series homepage now hosts a streaming 15 second TV commercial and a 2:43 trailer. The series will premier on the 10th.
Friday April 4, 2008
Viz Acquires Zelda Manga
GoNintendo reports that Viz has announced an October 7th release for its first English translated Legend of Zelda manga. The series is apparently one of the numerous Legend of Zelda manga series created by the artist duo “Akira Himekawa.” Precisely which Zelda manga series Viz will release has not been revealed yet.
Mushrambo Movies Announced
Toei Animation has revealed plans to revive the Mushrambo sci-fi action anime television series originally broadcast in 2000. The series was broadcast on American television in 2001 under the title “Shinzo.” The original TV series will be “renewed” under the direction of Kenji Nakamura (director of the Mononoke TV series) and released as two 90 minute feature films later this year.
Second RosaVam Series Announced
The current issue of Jump Square Magazine has revealed plans for a second Rosario + Vampire television series. The tentatively titled “Rosario + Vampire Capu2″ series is scheduled to debut in October.
Posted By: Nightroad
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