Anime/Manga Newsreel

[Hidden Ninja]

This is to keep people who are interested in other Anime/Manga up to date with current and upcoming releases.

Just for some ideas as to what can be posted is upcoming seasonal anime, new projects being taken on, etc. Also you can announce the ending and starting of fillers in this thread.

Brief discussion can be given as to what upcoming animes you want to be released.

[Hidden Ninja]

Some updates:

~Possible undertaking by BONES to do a second season of FMA and Darker than Black
~Second Season of Ef - A Tale Of Memories has been announced. It will be called Ef - A Tale of Melodies.
~Second Season of Vampire Knight airs in October

[Nick]

New Street fighter IV anime in the works...not sure it's going to be a series though. Check out the trailer! (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35813.html)

[Valleyman]

Well this is a link to summer 2008 animes if anyone wants to check it out(assuming you haven't seen it).

http://www.designchronicle.com/memento/archives/summer_2008_anime.html

[Hidden Ninja]

yeah i havent even looked at the summer animes, there aren't that many that interest me tho. third season of zero no, sekerei, and blade of the immortal. tho i can spend my time catching up on all the series that i missed since my comp has been gone.

the spring season had a way better selection than the summer.

[Hidden Ninja]

A new season of Black Lagoon is to be made.

also a new anime series is in the works: Umineko No Naku Koro Ni

it is supposed to be like Higurashi but it is not related to it. Supposedly the manga is very good.

[Valleyman]

Where did you find out about Black Lagoon? I'm looking forward to a new season. And when is it? In the fall?

[Hidden Ninja]

Where did you find out about Black Lagoon? I'm looking forward to a new season. And when is it? In the fall?

the third season was announced. according to the advertisement it was only said that they have decided to do a third season. the airing schedule has not bee released yet.

[Hidden Ninja]

~Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann: Guren-hen (The Movie) is set to hit the theatres in Japan September 6. i would post the link to the trailer but i was having a tough time finding the link to watch the trailer. It is on this page (http://www.gurren-lagann-movie.net/special/index.html). I see the trailer at the bottom, I just can't find the actual stream/dl.

~Tengen Toppa Gurren TV Series will be airing in the U.S. on July 28th on the Sci-Fi channel.

[Hidden Ninja]

~Live Action Movie for Cowboy Bebop
-Erwin Stoff, film producer of The Matrix & A Scanner Darkly, is developing a live-action version of the popular anime series Cowboy Bebop. In an interview Stoff stated “I’m really excited to be working on it, and it’s in the really early stages. We just signed it the other day.” . He also promised "A real degree of faithfulness" and added, “When I met with them in Japan, one of the first things that I brought up was the experience that we had on A Scanner Darkly, and how hard we worked to remain faithful to Philip K. Dick, and that was our big concern here.” The film is being developed for Fox.

~Shugo Chara! is said to get a second year.
~A new My-Hime Project is said to begin starring a character by the name of Mao

not really news for an anime but ....

Research Team names Protein after Pokemon's Pikachu.
- Researchers led by Takahisa Furukawa, M.D. & Ph.D. of Japan's Osaka Bioscience Institute have named a protein that they discovered after the Pikachu character from Nintendo's Pokémon game and anime franchise. The "Pikachurin" protein plays a role in the efficient transmission of kinetic vision information from the eyes to the brain, so the researchers named the protein after the Pokémon character known for its fast moves. The researchers expect that the discovery will help advance the treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, a major hereditary cause of blindness. Source: ANN/Daily Yomiuri

[Hidden Ninja]

~Asu(Ashita) no Yoichi! is going to have an anime adaption.
~Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is going to have a movie

[Hidden Ninja]

~According to Weekly Shounen Jump (Volume 36), the authors of Death Note, Ken Obata and Tsugumi Ohba will start a new series Bakuman from the next issue. Bakuman literally means "an explosive manga" and it is about two boys revealing the potential power of manga.

[Hidden Ninja]

~According to the official site, a popular anime song musician Eri Kawai passed away on Aug 4. Her masterpieces are given below.
Madoromi no Rinne (Utawarerumono ED)
Undine (ARIA The Animation OP)
Euphoria (ARIA The Natural OP)
Spirale (ARIA The Origination OP)
Tanpopo Suisha (Sketch Book -full colors- OP)
Bamboo Beat (Bamboo Blade OP)
Star Rise (Bamboo Blade OP)

[DonEmu]

~According to Weekly Shounen Jump (Volume 36), the authors of Death Note, Ken Obata and Tsugumi Ohba will start a new series Bakuman from the next issue. Bakuman literally means "an explosive manga" and it is about two boys revealing the potential power of manga.

The first release of the manga is now out and the scans can be found on the net.
58 page release.
Can be found at onemanga.

[Hidden Ninja]

The first release of the manga is now out and the scans can be found on the net.
58 page release.
Can be found at onemanga.

i really enjoyed it for a first chapter. i actually laughed out loud for a couple parts.

~Today (8/9/08) at Bandai Entertainment's Panel at Otakon, Bandai announced that Code Geass R2 (season 2) will start airing on Adultswim in October, a week after the last episode of Season 1. Meaning there will be no wait to watch season 2. They also mentioned that Gundam 00 will start airing on Sci-Fi channel this fall.

[Hidden Ninja]

~Gundam 00 will start airing on November 17th on Sci-Fi's Ani-Monday. It will air between 11pm and Midnight. It will replace Gurren Lagan when it's finished.

[Hidden Ninja]

Monochrome Factor, Nabari no Ou, Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn were just licensed by Funimation and sent out a letter to the fansub groups saying that they needed to stop subbing those series.

So for those who were watching it seems that we will not be able to see the complete series in english for quite some time. unless of course, which i hope, another group picks it up.

EDIT: so was Bamboo Blade and El Cazador de la Bruja but those were already completed fansubbed series so it doesn't really matter.

[Hidden Ninja]

~following up on rkappiyo's post.

An official announcement of the new anime series of Fullmetal Alchemist was made on the cover notes of the original manga volume 20. MOONPHASE's anonymous source says it'll be one-year series aired from April 2009. The script will be based on the manga.

Source: MOONPHASE
Source: a picutre of FMA manga vol.20 cover notes


http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/6818/318320ll7.th.jpg (http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?image=318320ll7.jpg)



"New FMA anime project has been initiated."

for discussion go here (http://forum.narutochaos.com/showthread.php?t=17726)


edit:
~Junjou Romantica Second Season will air in October
~Clannad After Story is said to Premiere in October as well. Source ANN and Alafista

[Narusukashi]

I havn't kept up to date with FMA, but is the manga/new anime based AFTER what happens in the last movie? Or is it completely different?

[i_feel_tiredsleepy]

I havn't kept up to date with FMA, but is the manga/new anime based AFTER what happens in the last movie? Or is it completely different?

The manga and anime diverged at the Greed arc when the anime caught up to the manga. So, everything that happened from Greed to the movie didn't happen in the manga.

If they are basing it off the manga I don't know how they'll be working it out. I'm guessing they'll bring in some of the manga characters that never appeared in the anime. Or, they could start over ignoring the plot from the anime lol.

[Drunken_Master_Rock_Lee]

Anyone know or ever heard if it was projected that there would someday be a Fairy Tail anime?

[Hidden Ninja]

ill take a look around, but i have seen no hints towards one. i still think its early to have one considering that we are only reading the 100th chapter.

edit: im sure there will be one, but maybe after another 50 or so releases.

[Drunken_Master_Rock_Lee]

ill take a look around, but i have seen no hints towards one. i still think its early to have one considering that we are only reading the 100th chapter.

Well considering Soul Eater has one and it is only at chapter 52 in the manga, a 100 chapters for Fairy tail doesn't seem so bad. But yeah, I agree, I don't wanna see too much fillers out of it so it might be better to wait a bit more....

[Hidden Ninja]

true but imo soul eater isn't as fast paced as fairy tail. everything in fairy tail is bang bang bang and bam its done. also it doesnt hurt for a manga to have a good pace ahead of the anime so there is no stress on the author.

[Drunken_Master_Rock_Lee]

true but imo soul eater isn't as fast paced as fairy tail. everything in fairy tail is bang bang bang and bam its done. also it doesnt hurt for a manga to have a good pace ahead of the anime so there is no stress on the author.

Truth, i just hope there will be a Fairy Tail Anime, the action in it is so good, having it animated would be great.

[Hidden Ninja]

no argument there, just like there should be a 666 satan anime. both of them are incredibly excellent and deserve their time in the animation world.

[Drunken_Master_Rock_Lee]

no argument there, just like there should be a 666 satan anime. both of them are incredibly excellent and deserve their time in the animation world.

Somehow I didn't catch on 666 Satan, I dunno, it just didn't appeal me or something....

[rkappiyo]

Soul Eater having an anime after 52 chapters is different because Soul Eater's a monthly manga, and as such, has upwards of 50 pages per chapter. So while chapters have been released, there are actually more pages of Soul Eater released currently then there are pages of Fairy Tail. Anyways, I agree with Hidden that there is most likely going to be an anime of this series considering the popularity of the manga in Japan and elsewhere.

[Drunken_Master_Rock_Lee]

Soul Eater having an anime after 52 chapters is different because Soul Eater's a monthly manga, and as such, has upwards of 50 pages per chapter. So while chapters have been released, there are actually more pages of Soul Eater released currently then there are pages of Fairy Tail. Anyways, I agree with Hidden that there is most likely going to be an anime of this series considering the popularity of the manga in Japan and elsewhere.

Yeah well, there are more pages overall, but one 50 pages chapter per month is less than 4 18 pages chapters a month, so the anime wouldn't catch up that easily....

[Hidden Ninja]

~Fall 2008 Anime Schedule (http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2544/fall2008v7lastupdateforhw2.jpg)

there are several sequels/seasons airing like Vampire Knight, Rosario + Vampire, Gundam OO, ef: A tale of melodies.

there are some that look pretty good as well so it seems my anime list is going up once again.

[i_feel_tiredsleepy]

Nothing there really excites me too much, although I did like the Kurozuka manga, maybe the anime will be alright.

[LuCas]

I don't know where to post this but:
What day of the week does each manga chapter of bleach and one piece come out in? I barely got into this manga stuff so I don't know anything about the release dates and stuff.
Like.. bleach chapters come out every saturday or what? I need info on RAW releases, and if possible try to average translated releases.

Was gonna create a thread on this but its just a question

[Valleyman]

I don't know where to post this but:
What day of the week does each manga chapter of bleach and one piece come out in? I barely got into this manga stuff so I don't know anything about the release dates and stuff.
Like.. bleach chapters come out every saturday or what? I need info on RAW releases, and if possible try to average translated releases.

Was gonna create a thread on this but its just a question


Friday mornings/afternoons EST(Florida, USA for me).

[Hidden Ninja]

if i remember correctly, it usually comes out on a tuesday in japan. by the time raws hit the net, its a day or two later and then by thurs night ny est it is up on onemanga.

[LuCas]

Alright thanks. Guess that means early friday mornings in PST.

[Hidden Ninja]

~Marvel Comics has formally announced a partnership with Tokyo based anime production studio Madhouse to develop four 12 episode anime television series featuring Marvel super hero characters. The first series, which will feature Iron Man and Wolverine, among other characters, will premier on the Animax network in early 2010.

Marvel International president Simon Philips has explained that Marvel intends for these super heroes to be redesigned to become “part of the fabric of [Japanese] society.” While Madhouse president Jungo Maruta agrees, “Marvel today is so open-minded. Marvel gives creators freedom to fly.” Madhouse chief operating officer Alex Yeh says of Marvel, “Although they say, ‘I want Japanese anime,’ it’s not what they actually want. They want a hybrid between Japanese and Western animation.”

The Marvel/Madhouse productions will also be developed into Japanese manga while the anime will be distributed via multiple outlets including cellphones.

Source: NY Times

[Hidden Ninja]

According to REUTERS News, GDH, the mother company of GONZO, will gain 1.9 billion yen ($17.5 million) by the allocation of new shares to a third party Iwakaze Capital. As a result, the GDH president Ishikawa Shin-ichiro will resign taking the responsibility of the failed management and Karasawa Tetsuo will take over the position as COO from October 1st. Iwakaze will hold 82% of the stocks of GDH.

The amount of debt of GDH is in excess of their total asset. So it has been in one-year grace period before the removal from the list of MOTHERS stock market. This increase of capital saves GDH from being in a financial crisis, but the new managers sent from Iwakaze Capital will greatly affect the policy on GDH anime business.

Ishikawa Shin-ichiro will reportedly remain as an inside director of GDH. It's not announced whether he will stay in the CEO position.

Sources:
REUTERS news
Press Release from Iwakaze Capital (pdf)
Anime! Anime!


this is good newsbc gonzo actually had a couple of series that i am watching and want to watch when they are released. hopefully the new management will bring about good results.

[Hidden Ninja]

haven't announced anything for a while so here goes.

~PS2 Game "Devil Kings" is going to be animated.
According to Animage Magazine, a PlayStation2 game "Devil Kings" (known as "Sengoku BASARA" in Japan) will be animated by Production I.G. Devil King is a Samurai action game released in 2005 by Capcom and particularly popular among female players.

The casting of the voice actors of the main characters is the same as that of the game.
Sanada Yukimura: Hoshi Souichiro
Date Masamune: Nakai Kazuya
Oda Nobunaga: Wakamoto Norio

Source: Animage Magazine

~Funimation and Viz Media give free anime through Hulu (Mousie posted a thread on this)
on the site hulu.com several animes are already offered.
-naruto
-Death Note
-Mushishi
-Ikkitousen
-Bleach
-Basilisk
-Black Blood Brothers
-Kiddy Grade
-Tsukuyomi
-Peach Girl
-School Rumble

~on Joost.com, p2p stream sharing site, Viz Media will is allowing
-Naruto
-Death Note
-Bleach
the ones on Joost are said to be the original aired versions, not the ones edited for the US.

[Hidden Ninja]

~Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0 is said to be Premiered in Summer 2009.
the first one was so successful that they are doing a second one.

~Spice and Wolf II confirmed. (this would be the second season.)
It will be done by Brains Base which has a very good reputation.

~Macross Frontier movie announced. It is unknown whether it will be a recap of the season or an alternative ending.

[Hidden Ninja]

~According to Ohta Ai's (the script writer of "Inu Yasha", "Blassreiter") blog, a new TV anime "Vipers Creed" was announced. It will be aired from January 2009.
Director
　Aramaki Shinji ("Appleseed (2004)", "Appleseed Saga Ex Machina")
Scenario writers
　Akahoshi Masanao ("To Aru Majutsu no Index")
　Tanizaki Akira ("Soukou no Strain")
　Hasegawa Keiichi ("Gegege no Kitarou")
　Ohta Ai

The story is about members of a private military company (PMC) working in the polluted world after a war. The characters are involved in the confliction between the official army and their PMC and the conspiracy behind the curtain.

Sources: Ohta Ai's blog and MOONPHASE

seems like a pretty good team will be doing it.


~Funimation acquired Shikabane Hime Aka (those bastards...) so it seems fansub groups have dropped it....
~Toradora will be made into a PSP game to be released in 2009. it will differ from the anime and novel. :D
~Detective Conan will be releasing its 13th movie (holy crap) in theatres April 2009.
~Warner Brothers are going to be producing a live action move of Ninja Scroll. seems that hollywood are making a couple of live action movies from animes.
~There will be a new manga series of Prince of Tennis. It will start to be release in Jump on March 4th 2009.

[Hidden Ninja]

~According to Nikkei News, Tezuka Production will provide all the Tezuka Osamu's works published before 2000 for free within the next three years. About 700 titles of manga and 100 titles of anime will be available online on the web site " TezukaOsamu.net". Currently, the first one or two episodes of manga and the first 8 - 15min of the anime episodes are provided. They will make English and Korean web sites in the near future.

In this December, Tezuka Production will provide all of Tezuka Osamu's characters and movies to "Niconi-Commons", a licensed material database for the secondary creation. Users of "Niconico Douga" are allowed to create MAD/AMV using these materials.

Source: Nikkei News + Niconico news

here is a bio and truncated list of stuff he has done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tezuka_Osamu

[i_feel_tiredsleepy]

Tezuka's Buddha is a really great manga. His other stuff is pretty much the root of all shonen.

[Hidden Ninja]

~a New Tenchi Muyo! series has been revealed. the production company will be AIC spirits. no airing schedule has been released yet.

source MoonPhase

~KyoAni's Munto is said to be made into an anime, with the naming "Sora wo Miageru Shoujo ni Utsuru Sekai". said to air early spring 2009.

[i_feel_tiredsleepy]

Haha I guess that means I can get an updated version of my tenchi muyo avatar :p

[Hidden Ninja]

Part 1

~According to Monthly G Fantasy magazine December issue, Mochizuki Jun's manga "Pandora Hearts" will be animated.

Director: Kato Takao ("Busou Renkin", "To-LOVE-Ru")
Series Organizer: Sekijima Mayori ("Natsume Yuujinchou", "Skip Beat!")
Character Designer: Kojima Chizuru ("Kyou no Go no Ni"), Yamaoka Shin-ichi ("The Third - Aoi Hitomi no Shoujo", "Heroic Age")
Production Company: XEBEC

The airing schedule was not given.

Source: Scan of G Fantasy magazine

~According to Enterbrain's Charaberrys magazine web page, a manga "07-Ghost" will be animated. It will start airing from April 2009.

Source: Enterbrain

07-Ghost manga is published on Comic ZERO-SUM magazine and its Tankoubon were published up to volume 6.

i enjoy this manga, has alot of detail and alot of action.

~In 2007, Viz Media released volumes 16 through 27 of Naruto all within four months of each other in North America in a campaign they dubbed "Naruto Nation". According to the release listings of Simon & Schuster, a Viz distributor, they'll be doing it again, but this time all in three months. Volume 33 of Naruto will release normally on December 3rd, but after that, the next 11 volumes are being released a few at a time.

The release dates are as follows:
Volumes 34 through 37: February 3rd
Volumes 38 through 41: March 3rd
Volumes 42 through 44: April 7th

Source: ANN

~According to Dengeki news, SEGA's PlayStation 3 RPG game "Senjyou no Valkyria" will be animated. The production company is A-1 Pictures ("Kannagi", "Ookiku Furikabutte"). It will be aired from the spring 2009.

"Senjyou no Valkyria" is a simulation RPG game and was released on April 24, 2008 exclusively for PlayStation 3. The English title is "Valkyria Chronicles".

havnt played this one yet, but the previous ones were awesome.

[Hidden Ninja]

Part 2

~According to the TV ad, a PlayStation 2 game based on TV anime "Hyakko" was announced. The title is "Hyakko Yorozuya Jikenbo" and will be released on February 26th, 2009. The production company is 5pb ("Memories Off", "Kanokon SE").

5pb and ChaoS HEAd production committee started to sell potato chips of ChäoS;HEAd, "Nanami Chips". Nanami says "I confirmed you're alive!" on the package. It's 700 yen ($7) for 60 grams of chips (fish burger taste). The potato chips will also be available at the 75th Comic Market in December 2008.

for anyoen that does imports.

~According to Weekly Shounen Sunday magazine vol.50, an OVA of "Hayate the Combat Butler" will be released as the episode 0 of the second season. The detail of the OVA will be announced soon.

~According to the press release, Dentsu, the parent company of Geneon Entertainment, will transfer 80.1% of the stock of Geneon Entertainment to Universal Pictures International Entertainment (one of the sections of US NBC Universal Inc.), and Geneon and Universal Pictures Japan will be merged into a new company in February 2009.

~Newly acquired Geneon titles.

ef - a tale of melodies
Kemeko DX
To Aru Majutsu no Index
Casshern Sins
Zettai Karen Children

[Hidden Ninja]

Part 3

~According to the statement of accounts of Takara Tomy, a new TV anime series of "Bakuten Shoot Beyblade" was announced. It will start airing from April 2009.

Source: TakaraTomy statement of accounts

Three series of Beyblade TV anime has been aired from 2001 to 2003.

In the same statement, it was announced that "Yatterman 2008" will end in March 2009. The length of the series was shortened by two month.

~Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha The MOVIE 1st was announced in the latest Megami issue.
The movie will be based on first season of Nanoha in alternate universe and will be available in cinemas in Japan this winter.

Sources: Alafista.com & 2nn

~According to Weekly Shounen Jump released on Nov 17th, the publication of D.Gray-man will be withheld for a significant period of time due to the physical condition of the author Hoshino Katsura.

Source: Scan of Weekly Shounen Jump

This is the third long break of D. Gray-man publication.

[Hidden Ninja]

~CLAMP's Manga Kobato will be animated. will be 24 episodes long and will air Fall 2009.

~a Third Season of Nodame Cantabile has been announced. will air Fall 2009.

~Two live action movies of Nodame Cantabile will be made. The first will come out at the beginning of 2010 and the second will follow in the Spring.

~Kawamori Shoji's the director of "Macross" series, according to NewType Magazine, will be directing the new anime "BASQUASH!". Plan to air in 2009. Kawamori described it as "Basketball by Giant Robots + alpha" anime.

~Hayate the Combat Butler OVA will be released as episode 0 of the second season. So if you didn't know before, that means that there is going to be a second season to this very long first season.

~Manga DOGS will be animated sometime in 2009 (i think). the manga looks really good and i've been meaning to get around to reading it.