Black Lagoon Season 3 Annoucement

Posted by: jerseyse410 on: July 17th, 2009

Details of the long awaited continuation of pirate oppai anime Black Lagoon have been revealed.

Rather than being another 13 episode TV anime, it appears the season will take the form of an OVA, for release in 2010.

The choice of an OVA is slightly unexpected, but seems to be increasingly common, and seems especially suited to titles with sexual or violent content likely to be problematic where at times TV stations are concerned.

Thus we might think the distinctly toned down TV series might move closer to the manga…

(Source: New Akiba)

Inuyasha’s Final Chapters Get TV Anime Green-Lit

Posted by: jerseyse410 on: July 16th, 2009

This year’s 34th issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine will announce next Wednesday that an Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen (Inuyasha Final Chapter) television adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi’s manga has been green-lit. The anime will broadcast on Japan’s YTV this fall and cover the story in volumes 36 to 56 of the manga — the final 21 compiled book volumes. The original staff and cast will reunite for the new anime adaptation.

Shonen Sunday had promised earlier this month that it will be including a special news announcement about Inuyasha in issue #34. Takahashi had ended the Inuyasha manga in the same magazine last June. She has been serializing a new manga called RIN-NE (Ky?kai no Rinne) in the magazine as well as on TheRumicWorld.com website for North America readers since April 22. Viz Media has been releasing the Inuyasha manga in North America, and it has also released the original 2000-2004 television anime adaptation.

Shizukanaru Don Manga Gets 2nd Live-Action Film

Posted by: blizzarddog5 on: July 15th, 2009

A new live-action film based on Tatsuo Nitta’s Shizukanaru Don - Yakuza Side Story crime manga will open in Japan on September 5. In Shizukanaru Don: Shinsh? (The Quiet Don: A New Chapter), Shizuya Kond? is the only son of a yakuza boss who walks away from the family business to become an underwear designer. When his father is assassinated, Kond? agrees to take over the yakuza organization on one condition: he keeps his day job. That means he must conceal his criminal activities from his co-workers, including a fellow designer who is also his love interest. Yoshihiko Hakamada, the actor who voiced the Baron character in Studio Ghibli’s The Cat Returns film, is playing the main lead in this new film which Hideo J?j? is directing.

The original manga has been running in Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha’s Manga Sunday magazine since 1989, and 91 compiled book volumes have been published. The manga reached its 1,000th-installment milestone in February. Teruyuki Kagawa (Tales from Earthsea, Rampo) and K?tar? Takeshita played the “don” in a series of original video projects from 1991 to 2001 and in a 2000 film. Director Hajime Kamegaki and Tokyo Movie Shinsha also created a 1991 anime video. Hideyuki Nakayama (Soreike! Anpanman: Ningyo Hime no Namida) played the main lead in the 1994-1995 television series adaptation.

From : ANN

Production I.G’s Oblivion Island Film Trailers Streamed

Posted by: jerseyse410 on: July 14th, 2009

The Production I.G anime studio has begun streaming the second teaser trailer and the full trailer for its Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror (Hottarake no Shima - Haruka to Mah? no Kagami) fantasy film.

The computer-animated feature will follow a girl named Haruka as she discovers where all of our childhood keepsakes and memorabilia go. Creatures from a different dimension gather these trinkets and forgotten treasures as their owners grow up. With their booty, the creatures have built their own city called Oblivion Island.

Hirotaka Adachi, the author better known under the pen name Otsuichi for writing the novel inspirations of the Goth live-action film and the Calling you manga, is co-writing the screenplay with director Shinsuke Sato (The Princess Blade). Production I.G is producing this project with Fuji Television Network to mark Fuji’s 50th anniversary. The distribution company TOHO will release the film in Japan on August 22.

(Source: Twitch)

Spice and Wolf 2 Aired today

Posted by: blizzarddog5 on: July 9th, 2009

Return of the wolf Deity and you can watch it here!