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Inuyasha: The Final Act to Debut in Asia on October 10

The television channel Animax has announced that it will premiere the 26-episode Inuyasha: The Final Act anime series across Asia on October 10 — one week after the Japanese premiere on October 3. Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and South Asia will premiere the anime on that day at 8:00 p.m., while WIB will start the anime at 7:00 p.m. Hong Kong will run the series at 7:30 p.m., and Taiwan will debut it at 11:30 p.m. Inuyasha: The Final Act continues beyond where the first anime series ended and adapts the story from the final 21 compiled book volumes of Rumiko Takahashi's original manga. (Takahashi had ended the manga in the Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine in June of 2008.) The original staff and cast will reunite for the new anime adaptation, and the musical acts Do as Infinity and AAA will perform the "Kimi ga Inai Mirai" ("A Future Without ...

Published by pmflood1 on September 15, 2009 [22 Comments]

Darker than BLACK 2 Commercial 2

Another Darker than BLACK 2 Commercial, it will be aired in October 2009.

Published by pmflood1 on August 30, 2009 [17 Comments]

Hatsune Miku Virtual Idol to ‘Perform’ in Live Concert

It was discovered recently that Hatsune Miku would be on the list for the popular anime concert, Animelo Summer Live 2009 RE:Bridge, and that she would be performing live. For the last few weeks, everyone has been wondering, how?! As of now Animelo is a little over half over, and one chap was kind enough to share Miku's perfomance, just yesterday. Stay tuned till the end of the video, where we see one of the first looks at the Black Rock Shooter anime. (Update: Aug 23)

Published by pmflood1 on August 23, 2009 [22 Comments]

Gundam Unicorn to Be 6 50-Minute OVAs

The Gundam Big Expo event in Tokyo and the official website for the anime adaptation of the Gundam Unicorn novels have confirmed on Friday that the anime will launch in the spring of 2010 in the form of six original video anime volumes of 50 minutes each. The anime will be presented on Blu-ray Disc and DVD, shown at events, distributed through unspecified means, and exhibited overseas. The original Gundam Unicorn novels are set in the same Universal Century (UC) timeline as Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise’s first Mobile Suit Gundam science-fiction television anime series and its sequels. Fukui finished serializing the novel version in the August issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s Monthly Shonen Ace magazine in June. The final two compiled book volumes, #9 and #10, will ship in Japan on Monday.

Published by pmflood1 on August 22, 2009 [25 Comments]

Gundam Unicorn Novelist Outlines 1st Anime Installment

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn novelist Harutoshi Fukui has revealed some details about this winter’s anime adaptation of his work in an interview for the Mainichi Shimbun paper’s Mantan Web site on Wednesday. Fukui says he has seen how the anime is developing up until the script and storyboard stages. According to the novelist, the first anime installment will last about one hour and will incorporate material from the first two novel volumes. Fukui says that the anime feels like a reconstruction due to the inclusion of ideas developed between himself and scriptwriter Yasuyuki Muto (Afro Samurai: Resurrection, Le Chevalier D’Eon, Persona -trinity soul-). Still, Fukui emphasizes that the anime is very faithful to his original Gundam Unicorn novels, compared to films adapted from his other works.

Published by pmflood1 on August 20, 2009 [12 Comments]

One Piece Movie 10- Strong World Trailer

What is known about the film is that it is an original story by Eiichiro Oda and is set between the Thriller Bark and Sabaody arcs as Brook is shown alongside the other Straw Hats, making this his first movie appearance. Sengoku, Garp, Shanks and Whitebeard are revealed to be in the film as well.

Published by pmflood1 on August 11, 2009 [32 Comments]

Fall 2009 Anime Preview

If you were disappointed in Summer anime line up get ready for the new anime season filled with your favorites! my favorites - Darker Than Black 2, Inuyasha, FAIRY TAIL!

Published by pmflood1 on July 29, 2009 [75 Comments]

Black Lagoon Season 3 Annoucement

Details of the long awaited continuation of pirate oppai anime Black Lagoon have been revealed. Rather than being another 13 episode TV anime, it appears the season will take the form of an OVA, for release in 2010.

Published by pmflood1 on July 18, 2009 [32 Comments]

Inuyasha’s Final Chapters Get TV Anime Green-Lit

This year’s 34th issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine will announce next Wednesday that an Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen (Inuyasha Final Chapter) television adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi’s manga has been green-lit. The anime will broadcast on Japan’s YTV this fall and cover the story in volumes 36 to 56 of the manga — the final 21 compiled book volumes. The original staff and cast will reunite for the new anime adaptation.

Published by pmflood1 on July 16, 2009 [68 Comments]

Macross Frontier Movie Scheduled for November 21

The theatrical film adaptation of the Macross Frontier television anime series will open in Japan on November 21 under the name Gekijō-ban Macross Frontier ~Itsuwari no Utahime~ (Macross Frontier the Movie: The False Songstress). The Kadokawa Cineplex and Shochiku Multiplex theaters’ websites both revealed the title and date, and the second issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s Macross Ace magazine will announce the details on Friday. The teaser trailer for the film will premiere in Japanese theaters on June 27, which is the same day that ticket pre-sales will begin.

Published by pmflood1 on June 24, 2009 [11 Comments]