20Feb/100
Battle Angel Alita – James Cameron
Now that Avatar is in theatres, it's time for legendary filmmaker James Cameron to set his sights on his next big project. Time and time again, we've been hearing that it'll be Battle Angel Alita, but things are a lot more solid now that Cameron's partner in crime, Jon Landau, is talking about how it definitely will happen.
After Avatar 2, of course.
Speaking with MTV's Splash Page, Landau talks about how invested Cameron is in the project, along with some of the developments they've had with the script. Talking about Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis working together on the script:
We were familiar with the anime that had been produced, we were familiar with one of the main books. But she opened us up to the other nine books that exist, and how rich that world is.
So, there will be a greater focus on the manga as opposed to the original intention of drawing mostly from the anime. An expanded world, more intensity, and a new name. According to Landau, Cameron only does T&A-titled movies. We might see Alita: Battle Angel across the marquee a few years down the road.
2Feb/100
Halo Legends – Anime
Halo Legends Promo Artwork
Halo Legends is a collection of seven animated short films set in the Halo science-fiction universe. Financed by Halo franchise overseer 343 Industries, the stories were created by five Japanese production houses: Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio 4°C, and Toei Animation. Shinji Aramaki, creator and director of Appleseed and Appleseed Ex Machina, serves as the project's creative director.
The idea for an anime compilation existed for years before there was momentum for the project. 343 Creative director Frank O'Connor produced story outlines or finished scripts that the production houses animated in a variety of styles. Warner Bros. will release Legends on DVD and Blu-ray on February 16, 2010. Six of the stories are officially part of the Halo canon, and the seventh, made by Toei, is intended to be a parody of the universe.
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24Jan/100
Gigantor Statue – Tetsujin 28-go
Gigantor Statue in Japan aka Tetsujin 28-go
The statue was built in an area of Kobe that was badly damaged during the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. The statue is being seen as a sign of the area’s recovery.
In the three months since the statue went up, about a million people have come to see it. Most of them are too young to have actually seen the original anime series, but they are nonetheless drawn to the cool-looking giant robot.
This has been a great boost to the shopping arcade immediately adjacent to the park containing the statue, and many shopkeepers are capitalizing on the statue’s popularty by selling Gigantor-themed products. There is even a taxi company that has decked out two cabs with Gigantor decals, full sets of the Tetsujin 28-go manga, and faux remote controls for the giant robot.
Things are not so great, however, for the shops that are not close to the statue. They have noticed any boost in business since the statue went up and the streets in front of their shops are very quiet. There is a plan to erect statues of famous figures from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which will hopefully draw a few of the Gigantor tourists.
24Jan/100
BECK Live Action Movie?! HELL YEAH!
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say this again. BECK is awesome; The anime is, and so is the manga. The music rocks, despite the Engrish.
It seems like the actors will be undergoing intensive training for the instruments that their characters play, and I’m really looking forward to seeing that. At least we won’t be getting any Fuwa-Fuwa Time nonsensical craptastic PV. Also, a song list of 30 original songs will be written for this movie. 30 songs?! That’s a quite a lot compared to the NANA or DMC movies.
18Jan/100
ROFLCOPTER
I'm pretty sure that if you where to turn Hitler into a anime character this is how he would look.
28Dec/090
11 Pirate Uploaders Arrested In Japan
10 guys and 1 chick make up the latest batch of poor bastards caught by Japan's long hand of the law, over charges of illegal uploading of copyrighted content on the Internet - most notably anime, games, movies and music. Some of the pirated anime titles include the ancient Ranma 1/2, Fresh Precure!, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gundam 00, Dragon Ball Kai and Lucky Star, and the pseudo-victims' age ranges from 23- to 57-years old.
The arrests are likely to become more numerous starting from next year, because Japan's Copyright Law (which currently targets uploaders alone) will be toughened to also outlaw downloaders of pirated goodies, as of January 1, 2010. At least if they knowingly download such counterfeit content for the first time.
Not sure if that's the actual phrasing used in the soon-to-be-enforced amendment, or just some confusion mixed up in translation along the way. But it sure sounds easy to dodge and non-threatening. Especially since illegal downloading is nothing more than a technical term at this point, with no actual punishment legislated by said amendment, and no apparent regulation regarding streaming content.
Looks like their lawmakers are pretty far behind their time... Not unlike Japan's conservative anime publishing industry, which stubbornly clings on to selling expensive discs (or at least trying to), despite the cotinuing rise of - and demand for - digital distribution.
23Nov/090
Kurozuka Opening HD
Kurozuka (黒塚 Kurotsuka?) is a novel and Japanese manga series written by Baku Yumemakura and illustrated by Takashi Noguchi. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Super Jump starting in 2003 by Shueisha and ended in December 2006. An anime adaptation by Madhouse was announced by Japanese anime television network Animax in May 2008[1] and ran between October and December 2008, spanning a total of 12 episodes.
16Nov/090
soul eater – trailer
Soul Eater (ソウルイーター Sōru Ītā?) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Atsushi Okubo. The manga is published by Square Enix and was first released as three separate one-shots serialized in two Gangan Powered special editions and one Gangan Wing issue between June 24 and November 26, 2003. The manga started regular serialization in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan manga magazine on May 12, 2004. The first bound volume was released by Square Enix under their Gangan Comics imprint on June 22, 2004 in Japan, and as of September 2009, fifteen volumes have been released. The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Yen Press. The English translated version of Soul Eater is serialized in Yen Press' Yen Plus manga anthology magazine starting on July 29, 2008, and the first manga volume will be released on October 31, 2009.
Soul Eater Opening Credits
16Nov/090
steamboy – trailer
Steamboy (スチームボーイ, Suchīmubōi?) is a 2004 Japanese animated film, produced by Sunrise, and directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release, following Akira. The film was released in Japan on July 17, 2004. With an initial production cost of US$26,000,000, Steamboy is the most expensive full length Japanese animated movie made to date.[1] Additionally, the film was in production for ten years and utilized more than 180,000 drawings and 440 CG cuts.
16Nov/090
Evangelion 1.01 first 8 minutes
Rebuild of Evangelion is a four-part theatrical remake of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series from 1996. The first anime film, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone premiered in September 2007, and the second film, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance followed in June 2009. Created by the same production team as the TV series, Evangelion 1.0 is a futuristic tale which tells the story of schoolboy Shinji Ikari as he is summoned by his estranged father to the vast city of Tokyo-3. The tearful reunion he was hoping for does not materialize as his father has a far more nefarious reason for wanting his son by his side again. Led down into the underground labyrinth of NERV headquarters, he learns that he is one of only a few children that can pilot one of the enormous Evangelion robots against a terrifying enemy. Tokyo-3 is under attack from the terrifying Angels, creatures of an unknown origin bent on laying waste to anything they find. However, there are greater forces at work behind the scenes, and is the true enemy the angels, NERV, the mysterious SEELE, or the demons held within the hearts of the people involved?
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