akarazuka University plans virtual idol concert during September 18-19 campus festival The organizers of Takarazuka University’s annual Hōshō-Sai campus festival announced on July 30 that they willhost a live concert by the virtual idol Hatsune Miku during the September 18-19 event. The “Prima Project” organizers have not announced the artist lineup, but the concert’s website gives special thanks to Hatsune Miku’s developer [...]
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Noitamina anime from I.G & Death Note/Highschool of the Dead director Tetsuro Araki The official website for Tetsuro Araki and Production I.G‘s Guilty Crowntelevision anime series began streaminga new 30-second commercial on Wednesday. The commercial will be presented at this week’s Comic Market 80 event in Tokyo. Araki directed Death Note and Highschool of the Dead before this Aniplex project, which will air onFuji TV‘s late-night Noitaminaprogramming block this October. (The website is still streaming the [...]
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The official website for Maya Miyazaki‘sHoly Knight ”dramatic school (romantic) fantasy” original video anime beganstreaming the anime’s 136-second opening movie on Wednesday. The story of the Cammot animation project’s first release centers around a timid orphan named Mizumura who goes to a missionary school in Tokyo. His seemingly normal life changes when a beautiful half-human Romanian girl named [...]
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Walt Disney Pictures has hired Reno 911 co-creator Robert Ben Garant to write “Tux,” a screenplay based on Tokihiko Matsuura’s romantic comedy manga Tuxedo Gin. The 1997-2000 manga series stars “a young street fighter who falls into a coma and learns that he has lived his life so selfishly that he only has enough karma [...]
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Reportedly Madhouse has quietly placed continued production of late director/creator Satoshi Kon’s final film, The Dreaming Machine (Yume-Miru Kikai), on hiatus due to insufficient funds. Character designer Yoshimi Itazu took over as director after Kon passed away in November 2010. Madhouse CEO Masao Maruyama recently confirmed that only 600 of 1,500 planned shots are finished, [...]
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Naruto (NARUTO—ナルト—?, romanized as NARUTO) is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in his village who is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all. The series is based on a one-shot comic by Kishimoto that was [...]
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InuYasha (犬夜叉?), also known as InuYasha, a Feudal Fairy Tale (戦国御伽草子 犬夜叉 Sengoku Otogizōshi InuYasha?), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday on November 13, 1996 and concluded on June 18, 2008. The series follows Kagome Higurashi, a teenager from Tokyo, who is transported to Sengoku period where she meets the half demon InuYasha when a [...]
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Bleach (ブリーチ Burīchi?, romanized as BLEACH in Japan) is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Noriaki “Tite” Kubo. Bleachfollows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper (死神 Shinigami?, literally, “Death God”) —a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki. His newfound powers force him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to [...]
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The members of the Japanese rock band The Bawdies will be animated in 1960s American comic book-style for the music video for their song “Yeah.” The band’s first fully animated music video will be included in the Keep on Movie music video collection DVD that is shipping on September 14. The Bawdies, originally an independent band, formed [...]
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Battle and Romance, the first album from the now smaller female idol group Momoiro Clover Z, sold 24,000 copies to debut at #3 on Oricon’s weekly album sales chart. The July 27 album’s #3 ranking matched the best ranking that the group achieved with its major debut single (“Ikuze! Kaitō Shōjo“) and its third major single (“Mirai Bowl”) [...]
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