Naruto Shippuden 6th movie trailers!

The movie, titled Naruto Shippuden: Road to Ninja, will premiere on Japanese theaters on July 28, the story and character designs were personally conceived by the creator himself, Masashi Kishimoto. The premise is around Madara's plan to entrap the world in a massive genjutsu and only Naruto can stop him.

By the way, the 5th Naruto movie, 'Blood Prison', comes out on DVD/BD on April 25.

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Naruto Shippuden anime April 2012 schedule

We have plenty of canon material as the war against Kabutomaru's Edo Tensei resurrects and Madara approaches! The issue is that Naruto must NOT know anything about it or Madara will get him! Sasuke is bent on destroying Konoha at all costs!

Update April 13th: no, this is not quite the canon material month :( We are getting retro Naruto fillers which are not bad since they serve as recap and show how much the characters have evolved.

Episode 257 "Meeting" (出会い) April 5, 2012
Episode 258 "Rivals" (ライバル) April 12, 2012
Episode 259 "Cracks" (亀裂) April 19, 2012
Episode 260 "Schism" (離別) April 26, 2012

Zetman trailers, premieres tomorrow April 2

Directed by D.Grayman's anime Osamu Nabeshima, this series premieres on April 2. The official website began streaming 4 15-second television commercials on Friday. The first video highlights the opening theme song by Hitoto and Mummy-D, while the other three features the characters Zet and Alphas, as well as the Evol group.

From the manga by Masakazu Katsura, the story centers around Jin, a homeless boy whose true form is the new superhuman lifeform "ZET," and an industrial magnate's heir named Kōga with his own secret.

Source: ANN

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Information and preview of Noitamina anime series 2012!

We are for a great treat this year! Fuji TV posted the information and trailers this week on its official site. You can always subscribe to Noitamina Official Youtube channel

Psycho-pass: I'm really intrigued by this one. It will premiere in October and Fuji TV refuses to give information. This is a teaser trailer:



Robotics;Notes: if you loved Steins;Gate like me, this is our year! From the same developer .5pb/Nitroplus, the quality not only looks impressive but it can mark a significant comeback of truly epic mecha anime. It is produced by Production I.G, whereas Steins;Gate was produced by White Fox.

Based on the console game, it will premiere also in October, and the story follows the "scientific adventure" format, set in a future world with realistic augmented reality technology. It follows a robotics club in danger of being disbanded. The console game will be released on June 28.



Natsuyuki Rendezvous: an adaptation of Haruka Kawachi's Natsuyuki Rendezvous manga, this series will premiere in July.

The romantic josei drama, collected in four volumes, tells the story of a love triangle between Hazuki, a young man who works part time at a flower store, Rokka, the widow who owns the store, and the ghost of Shimao, Rokka's deceased husband.



Moyashimon Returns: another series that premieres in July, it is based on the manga by Masayuki Ishikawa, published by Kodansha. The story revolves around Tadayasu Sawaki, a young man with a very strange ability: he can talk with bacteria/microscopic beings. He enrolls at Tokyo Agriculture College, where people seem to be just as abnormal as he is. This is the sequel.



Tsuritama: I'm amazed with each trailer that comes out. Directed by Kenji Nakamura and animated by A-1 Pictures, the story takes place in Enoshima, where Yuki is a high school student who's never been good at making real friends thanks to his abnormally poor communication skills. Haru is the self-styled alien who decides to teach Yuki to fish. Natsuki is an irritable born-and-raised local. Akira is the mysterious Indian who watches them all from a distance. These four meet, fish, and find big adventures on their little island.

It will have 11 episodes and it will premiere on April 12.



And last but not least:

Kids on the Slope (Sakamichi no Apollon): 

Summer, 1966. Kaoru Nishimi has moved to live with relatives in Kyushu. He's been an aloof honor student his whole life, but that starts changing when he meets Sentarou Kawabuchi, the school's notorious bad boy. Through him, he learns the appeal of jazz and forms his first real friendships.

Set for 12 episodes, it will premiere on April 12 too.



Already loving the slash between the protagonists and the sorta rockabilly aesthetics  ^_^ *in cloud 9*

Hopefully this series will liven up this year that started with cancellations of series like Bleach, Gintama and Beelzebub.

Screenwriter Dan Mazeau on Bleach live action movie: we want to avoid the failure of Dragon Ball movie

Dan Mazeau is known as the screenwriter for the Wrath of the Titans movie and is currently working on the live action adaptation of Bleach.

Mazeau explained that both getting the rights and the scriptwriting itself were a long process for Bleach: "But early on we set down with Tite Kubo the creator and the publisher of the series, and we had a long meeting, making sure we're respectful to the property. Nobody wants to, well… Let's just say that if you enjoyed [the live-action] Dragon Ball Z movie, that's great, but I thought it was a noble effort that ultimately didn't succeed. That's what we're trying to avoid. We want to make sure this movie lives up to what the manga is."

He added, "I'm currently working on Bleach and the idea is to set it in Japan and really be respectful to the source material. It's an amazing story. I've been shorthanding it as an 'action-adventure Sixth Sense,' but obviously on a bigger canvas than that. So I'm incredibly excited about that. It's a good one.”

Akira's creator Katsuhiro Otomo is working on a new manga

Acclaimed manga creator and anime director Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, Domu) revealed that he is preparing a new manga series for "a certain shōnen magazine." According to the interview published in the April issue of Shinchosha's art magazine Geijutsu Shincho on Saturday, this will be Otomo's first shōnen work — and his first long series since Akira.

Otomo began his career as a manga creator on such works as Domu, Kibun wa mō Sensō, and his most famous title internationally, Akira. He then branched into animation by directing part of the Robot Carnival omnibus and a feature film adaptation of his own Akira story.

Intriguing to say the least.

source: ANN, Comic Natalie

4th Saint Seiya Omega trailer

This trailer shows us the first shots of Athena:



The anime will premiere on April 1 at 6:30 a.m. after a March 31 premiere event that will be simulcast in both Japan as well as in Taiwan, Brazil, and France. This is the first Saint Seiya television anime in 23 years.

Gintama anime to end on March 26, (tomorrow!)

Oh, God. The end of Gintamonday.

The last issue of Weekly Shonen Jump reported that the Gintama television anime series is drawing to a close on TV Tokyo after five years.

The original TV series adaptation of Hideaki Sorachi sci-fi historical comedy premiered on April 4, 2006 and aired until March 25, 2010.

The 252nd episode is titled "Gomen Nasai" (We're Sorry), although the previous week's next-episode preview listed the title as "Mitei" ("To Be Determined").

Starting on April 2, the animated television series Gon will air on TV Tokyo at 6:00 p.m. on Mondays — Gintamas current timeslot.

Rurouni Kenshin live action movie 2nd trailer

I love this! Sanosuke looks awesome, badass and funny. The movie will premiere on Japan on August 25.

Here's a more complete trailer:



Keishi Ōtomo is directing this samurai film with 22-year-old actor Takeru Satoh (Kamen Rider Den-O, Rookies, Beck, Ryōmaden) as the titular character.

17-year-old actress Emi Takei plays the heroine Kaoru Kamiya. Yuu Aoi (Hana and Alice, Honey and Clover) plays Megumi Takani, Munetaka Aoki (The Last Message Umizaru, live-action The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) plays Sanosuke Sagara, and Taketo Tanaka plays Yahiko Myōjin.

Kouji Kikkawa (Let's Dance With Papa) as Jine Udō, Yosuke Eguchi (Shonan Bakusozoku, Tokyo Love Story) as Hajime Saitō, and Teruyuki Kagawa (From Up On Poppy Hill, 20th Century Boys) as Kanryū Takeda round out the cast.

Hunter x Hunter will have a movie!

movieNot everything is bad news despite the manga going on hiatus again.

A source linked to the Hunter X Hunter franchise told the Mainchi Shimbun paper's Mantan Web site that production on the first anime film based on Yoshihiro Togashi's manga has been green-lit.

Even though there have been two television anime series, including one ongoing one, there have not been a theatrical anime in the 14 years of the manga's serialization. According to Mainichi's source, the story of the film be an entirely original one.

Source: ANN

Beelzebub anime will end on March 25!

But the manga by Ryuhei Tamura will continue.

The last episode of the anime is titled 'We don't say farewell'. Since Crunchyroll is streaming it, it will air on late March 24 because of the difference in hours.

My theory on what killed the anime is those weird fillers, low quality and low ratings, and Super Croquette time.

But I'm Sad :(, first Bleach now this.  Well, we can always hope for OVAs. 

Hunter X Hunter manga on hiatus again!!

oh dear o.o crazy!

This year's 16th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday that Yoshihiro Togashi is putting his Hunter X Hunter adventure manga on hiatus in the next issue. He had been serializing the manga again since last August. At 30 installments, the most recent run is the longest uninterrupted run of Hunter X Hunter.

The next compiled book volume of the manga, #30, will ship next month. Viz Media published the 27th volume in North America this month.

source:ANN

Saint Seiya Omega trailer

Wow, I'm so gladly surprised. This new series is old-school style!! It premieres on April 1 and is the first Saint Seiya TV Show to air in 25 years (Lost Canvas doesn't count since it went straight to DVD)

Kamisama no Memochou anime review

This was a 2011 series that started out great with the quality, but that had an anticlimatic finale. It is also known as 'Heaven's Memo Pad', or 'God's Notebook'.

An adaptation of the light novels by Hikaru Sugii, the story revolves around Alice, a NEET freelance detective who solves complicated and unussual cases in the Tokyo underground. Her age is unknown but she is way more mature than what she looks.

She is drawn very moe, but her intelligence and deduction capacity is similar to L from Death Note.

She meets Narumi through his classmate Ayaka, and Min, the attendant and owner of a ramen shop called Hanamaru, left by her father. Narumi is a 16 year old high school student who has become isolated and introverted because of the constant school transfers. Ayaka is his only friend through the gardening club.

When he meets Alice, he is skeptic and somehow despective of NEETs. He also meets her team of NEET Detectives in the back of the ramen store's alley: Shosa, a military otaku; Tetsu, an ex-boxer with connections to the police and Hiro, a bishonen gigolo/pimp character who has a net's worth of connections for research.

But the message is clear: you don't have to be an 'active, officially working' member of society to make a significant contribution to humanity. It's the small things that matter. In that sense, Alice is a memorable character to make a statement for NEET.

NEET is a way of life.

Tsuritama fishing anime 2nd promo streamed

Another great series I'm looking forward to. It will premiere on April 12, on Fuji TV's Noitamina slot.

This is the link to their official site where you can see the spot (opens in new window):
http://www.tsuritama.com/special/spot02.html

Finally there's more detail on the premise: this seishun/adolescent fishing story is set on the island of Enoshima in the Shōnan area south of Tokyo, and it follows four idiosyncratic youths: the one-quarter French, uncommunicative high school student Yuki (Ryota Ohsaka), the fishing enthusiast and self-proclaimed alien Haru (Miyu Irino), the island native Natsuki (Kouki Uchiyama), and the mysterious Indian Akira (Tomokazu Sugita) with his constant duck companion Tapioca.

Library War: Wings of Revolution trailer, opens on June 16

Kadokawa's official website for the anime film adaptation of Hiro Arikawa's Library Wars light novels began streaming a 107-second trailer on Friday. The video reveals that Library War: The Wings of Revolution will open in Japan on June 16 with the "Hatsukoi" (First Love) theme song by the Japanese rock band Base Ball Bear (Gintama, Big Windup!).



Like the television series and two manga series before it, the film adapts Hiro Arikawa's Library War (Toshokan Sensō) light novels about a future version of Japan. A law threatens to clamp down on freedom of expression in 2019, and Iku Kasahara joins the Library Defense Force, a military unit dedicated to protecting books from being confiscated. However, she finds that the job of her childhood dreams is harder than she bargained for.

Source: ANN

Naruto Shippuden anime March 2012 schedule

The fight between Madara and Konan settles once and for all! She won't let him get the Rinnegan no matter what!

Yep, this month is full canon.

Episode 253 "The Bridge to Peace"
(平和への懸け橋) March 8, 2012 
Episode 254 "Super S Rank Top Secret Mission"
 (ドS級極秘任務) March 15, 2012
Episode 255 "The Artist Returns"
(芸術家再び) March 22, 2012 
Episode 256 "Amass! Shinobi Allied Forces!"
(集結! 忍連合軍!) March 29, 2012 

Bleach anime March 2012 schedule (FINAL)

So these are the 4 final episodes of the anime. It's been quite the run. There's the remaining final arc of the manga, we still have to see whether it will be made into an OVA or a movie.


Episode 363 "Fierce Fight! Shinigami vs. XCUTION!" (激闘！死神vs XCUTION)  March 6, 2012 


Episode 364 "Desperate Struggle!? Byakuya's Troubled Memories" (絶体絶命!?記憶を挟まれた白哉) March 13, 2012 


Episode 365 "Ichigo vs. Ginjō! Secret of the Substitute Badge" (護VS 銀城！代行証の秘密) March 20, 2012 


Episode 366 "Changing History, Unchanging Heart" (変わりゆく歴史、変わらぬ心) March 27, 2012

Bleach anime is listed to end on March 27, replaced by Rock Lee Spinoff

Yes, this is to be expected.

I had a feeling when I started reading the first page of the last arc in the manga, and I figured that this is pretty much it, folks. The manga is going to end sooner than we all thought.

And it's highly likely that the last arc is going to be made into a movie?

A recent television program listing in Japan reports that the Bleach television anime series will end its run in TV Tokyo's 6:00 p.m. Tuesday timeslot on March 27. When a Twitter follower of Bleach animation director Hiroki Takagi sent him an image of the listings, Takagi responded by saying, "So quick. I was going to paste it… /(^o^)\"

Shueisha had already announced that the weekly Naruto SD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden anime will premiere on TV Tokyo on Tuesday, April 3 at 6:00 p.m.

Bleach live action adaptation is already in motion by Warner Bros studios

OH DEAR GOD NO!!!!! O_O

"The Variety entertainment trade news source is reporting on Wednesday that American film studio Warner Brothers licensed the live-action feature rights to Tite Kubo's supernatural action manga and anime Bleach. Warner is now developing the project and has assigned Dan Mazeau (Wrath of the Titans remake) to write a script. Peter Segal (Get Smart remake, The Longest Yard remake, Anger Management) is attached as a producer with a possibility of being the director as well.

The other producers include Segal's Callahan Filmworks partner Michael Ewing, actor Masi Oka (Heroes, Get Smart), and Jason Hoffs (The Terminal) at Viz Productions (a subsidiary of Bleach's North American publisher Viz Media). Branon Coluccio will be an executive producer.

Segal told Variety, "I've always been a huge fan of Bleach and have great respect for its creator Kubo-sensei and the truly original and amazing world he has created in this manga."

Oka, who acted in Heroes and Segal's Get Smart film, is a well-known manga fan. He drew inspiration from Dragon Ball for his Heroes character Hiro Nakamura, and he describes himself as a Naoki Urasawa and Shonen Jump "geek." He brought the project to Callahan Filmworks.

The Hollywood Reporter newspaper's Heat Vision blog reported in 2010 that Warner Brothers was "in the process of securing the movie rights to" Bleach. Heat Vision had reported then that Segal was lining himself up to produce, but not direct. "