On September 30, the November issue of Mag Garden’s Monthly Comic Blade magazine will launch Mortal Metal, a “new-generation robot” manga series from creator/supervisor Junichi Sato (Pretear, Tamayura, Kaleido Star) and mechanical designer Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Armored Core, Cyber Formula). Ryūichi Sadamatsu is drawing the actual manga, and Kawamori’s anime studio Satelight is collaborating on [...]
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The Deadline website reported on Monday that actor Josh Brolin (True Grit, W., No Country for Old Men) will star in Spike Lee’s remake of Park Chan-Wook’s live-action film Oldboy, which in turn was inspired by the manga Old Boy. Brolin just finished working on Men in Black 3, and he is slated to act [...]
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“Sekiranun Graffiti”/”Fallin’ Fallin’ Fallin’,” the new single from supercell composer Ryo and musician Dixie Flatline with vocals by virtual idol Hatsune Miku, will go on sale on the same day (August 31) in Japan, the United States, and Asia. The same single will be sold digitally in the United States, Taiwan, Korea, and Hong Kong; [...]
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As a joke, Ichijinsha’s Comic Yuri Hime magazine editor-in-chief Naritarō Nakamura posted on his Twitter account on Sunday that the magazine’s November issue would bundle a filled-out marriage registration form for the characters Sakurako and Himawari from Namori’s Yuruyuri manga. Sakurako and Himawari are a popular yuri couple from this manga, which follows several fun-loving [...]
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The entertainment news source Oricon reported on Tuesday that a “major” American production company is currently in negotiations after expressing interest in remaking the live-action Nintama Rantarō (Ninja Kids!) film. Takashi Miike’s film is itself an adaptation of Soubee Amako’s popular ninja comedy manga and anime. The original Rakudai Ninja Rantarō manga, the Nintama Rantaro [...]
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The Japanese company JapanManga Inc. is currently offering an application for Apple’s iPod Touch and iPhone devices titled “JapanManga.” The app itself allows both professional and amateur manga creators to have their manga or doujinshi translated into other languages and distributed digitally worldwide. Currently, the app provides manga titles in Japanese, English, and Chinese, but [...]
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In the above image, an unidentified cosplayer portrays Rozalin, a character from the 2006 PlayStation 2 videogame Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories. In the game, Rozalin is the pampered daughter of Overlord Zenon who is summoned by mistake in the place of her father and linked to the game’s protagonist, Adell. The two must travel together [...]
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The “0th” limited-edition volume of Hiro Kiyohara’s manga adaptation of Yukito Ayatsuji’s horror novel Another will ship next May with “episode 0″ of the anime version. The bundled anime episode will not be aired and is not part of the television anime series that will premiere this January. It also depicts a part of the [...]
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In an interview in the Tuesday morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun paper, Puella Magi Madoka Magica writer Gen Urobuchi compared the plot of the Madoka Magica anime to the real-life terrorist network Al-Qaeda. The interview in the newspaper’s Culture section begins with the following two questions, which contain spoilers for the anime series. Spoiler [...]
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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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