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Major Baseball TV Anime’s 6th Season to Debut in April

2010’s combined 2nd/3rd issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine is announcing next Wednesday that the sixth season of the Major baseball television anime series will premiere on April 3, 2010. The anime is based on Takuya Mitsuda’s long-running manga about a young pitcher who aspires to follow in his father’s footsteps into the major leagues.

Published by pmflood1 on December 6, 2009 [14 Comments]

Video Game Marriage

On Sunday, a man named Sal9000 married the love of his life. Her name is Nene Anegasaki, and she lives inside of a Nintendo DS video game called Love Plus. The wedding took place during a Make: Japan meet-up held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In attendance were a live audience, an MC, the bride’s virtual video game girlfriend — who made a speech — and a real human priest. The event was livecast on Nico Nico Douga, a popular video sharing web site that I wrote about in Wired Magazine back in 2008. (Watch this clip of hot shot Wired folks making total fools of themselves on Nico Nico Douga.) Nico Nico Douga is home to thousands of video projects by anonymous users — mashups of original art, pop music, anime, and web memes that only an insider to Japanese web geek culture can completely decipher. Sal9000 is an active ...

Published by pmflood1 on December 3, 2009 [62 Comments]

Hunter X Hunter Manga to Reportedly Return on January 4

The next issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine will reportedly announce that Yoshihiro Togashi will restart his Hunter X Hunter shōnen action manga in next year’s combined 5th/6th issue on January 4. Togashi is well-known for halting and restarting his manga for months at a time. Togashi published his last run of the manga from October 6, 2008 to December, 2008. During that same period, Shueisha published the 26th compiled book volume of the manga.

Published by pmflood1 on November 11, 2009 [36 Comments]

Shutter Island’s Kalogridis to Pen Ghost in the Shell Film

If you're one of the people who saw the Wachowski brothers' Matrix movies and thought, "Hey! They're just ripping off Ghost in the Shell!", have we got news for you: DreamWorks is developing a new, 3-D live-action version of the story, best known as the 1995 anime movie that was based on Masamune Shirow's manga franchise. DreamWorks has tapped scribe Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the Japanese manga property "Ghost in the Shell." DreamWorks is making the futuristic police thriller as a 3D live-action film. Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul of Seaside Entertainment are attached to produce and originally brought the project to DreamWorks. Created by Masamune Shirow, "Ghost in the Shell" was first published in 1989. It went on to generate two more manga editions, three anime film adaptations and an anime TV series. The second anime film, "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence," was released in the U.S. by DreamWorks in ...

Published by pmflood1 on October 23, 2009 [24 Comments]

Astro Boy Trailer

Movie released today nationwide in theaters. The film is a computer-animated 3-D film based on the long-running Japanese franchise of the same name by Osamu Tezuka. The film also features the voices of Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, and Nicolas Cage (Backround information Astro Boy is Japanese manga series first published in 1952 and television program first broadcast in Japan in 1963. The story follows the adventures of a fictional robot named Astro Boy and a selection of other characters along the way.)

Published by pmflood1 on October 23, 2009 [23 Comments]

Inuyasha: The Final Act Trailer

Published by pmflood1 on September 30, 2009 [28 Comments]

Crayon Shin-chan Anime’s Continuation Moves Forward

Hiroshi Hayakawa, president of the TV Asahi network, said at a Tuesday press conference that his company is aiming to continue airing the Crayon Shin-chan anime after the death of the series creator, Yoshito Usui. Authorities determined last week that Usui died from injuries sustained from a fall at Arafune mountain on September 11. According to Hayakawa, TV Asahi has been discussing the possibility of future work with the Shinei Animation production company and Usui's family, and has asked for the family's input. Hayakawa cited Doraemon and Sazae-san as examples of anime that have continued after their creators passed away.

Published by pmflood1 on September 30, 2009 [22 Comments]

Fairy Tail Trailer

Lucy is a 17-year-old girl, who wants to be a full-fledged mage. One day when visiting Harujion Town, she meets Natsu, a young man who gets sick easily by any type of transportation. But Natsu isnt just any ordinary kid, he’s a member of one of the world’s most (in)famous mage guilds: Fairy Tail. Release: Oct 12, 2009

Published by pmflood1 on September 27, 2009 [50 Comments]

Shin-chan creator falls to death in mountains

Update: On Sunday, authorities have identified the body discovered at Arafune mountain as that of missing Crayon Shin-chan manga creator Yoshito Usui through dental records and other means. The body was discovered 120 meters below the mountain's Tomoiwa cliff and reported at about 10:25 a.m. on Saturday by a male climber. Usui's backpack, camera, and other items had fallen about 50 meters away. Inside Usui's backpack was his mobile phone, wallet, and clothes. A police helicopter from Gunma Prefecture airlifted the body on Sunday afternoon. Police from the nearby town of Shimonita concluded that the 51-year-old creator died from collapsed lungs and other injuries sustained across his entire body sometime in the afternoon of September 11. According to Usui's family, Usui had said that he was "going hiking for a day in Gunma Prefecture," as he often did, on the morning of September 11. His mobile phone was last detected in the vicinity ...

Published by pmflood1 on September 20, 2009 [94 Comments]

Yu-Gi-Oh! 10th Anniversary Anime to Be Film in 2010

The November issue of Shueisha's V Jump magazine is announcing on Saturday that the 10th Anniversary Yu-Gi-Oh! anime will be a film that will open in Japanese theaters in early 2010 with 3D graphics. Gekijō-ban Yu-Gi-Oh! ~Chō-Yūgō! Jikū o Koeta Kizuna~ will feature the main heroes of all three TV Tokyo anime series: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters' Yuugi Mutou, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monster GX's Judai Yuki, and the ongoing Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Yūsei Fudō. The story will bring together the three heroes to fight Paradox, a powerful new enemy that will appear for the first time in the film.

Published by pmflood1 on September 17, 2009 [40 Comments]