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.”