Saturday, 29 November 2014

The Last: Naruto The Movie Trailer English-Subtitled

Published : November 29, 2014
Madman Ent. to open film in cinemas in Australia & New Zealand on January 17
Australian distributor Madman Entertainment began streaming the full trailer for The Last: NarutoThe Movie with English subtitles on Saturday. The trailer, which debuted in Japan in October 31,features the theme song "Hoshi no Utsuwa" (Vessel of a Star) by Sukima Switch.
Madman Entertainment will open the film in cinemas in Australia and New Zealand on January 17, 2015.
Weekly Shonen Jump and Jump J Books describe the story of the movie and its novelization:
The moon has begun moving closer to Earth! As it is, the moon will crumble and meteorites will rain down on Earth's surface. As the last days of Earth approach, Hanabi Hyūga is abducted by a mysterious man in Konoha, and Naruto, Sakura, Sai, Shikamaru, and Hinata set off on a rescue mission! Can Naruto and the others overcome this crisis?
The Last -Naruto the Movie- will open in Japanese theaters on December 6, and it will be the first Naruto film in two years. The film is also part of the larger "Naruto Shin Jidai Kaimaku Project" (Naruto's New Era Opening Project) marking the 15th anniversary of the original manga.
Manga creator Masashi Kishimoto is credited with the original story, character designs, and chief story supervisor of the film. In particular, he is drawing new designs for the title character in the movie, as well as for other characters. Tsuneo Kobayashi(The Twelve Kingdoms, Emma: A Victorian Romance,Kurokami The Animation) is directing the film, and Sukima Switch is contributing the main theme song as well as voice-acting ninja.
The first 1.5 million filmgoers who see The Last -Naruto the Movie- in theaters will receive a bonus Official Movie BookNaruto Hiden Retsu no Sho. The book is a spinoff of theNaruto: The Official Character Data Book series. The limited-edition official fan book in theaters will include a manga drawn exclusively for the movie by original Naruto manga creator Masashi Kishimoto. Weekly Shonen Jump teases that the back of the book will feature a mysterious illustration. The first 1.5 million filmgoers will also receive one of three original stickers of Naruto, Kakashi, or Sasuke.
The Naruto manga by Masashi Kishimoto ended in Shonen Jump on November 10 after 15 years of serialization. A new mini-series by Kishimoto with "a newly budding Konoha story" will launch next spring.
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Blood Blockade Battlefront Casts Yūma Uchida, Sets April Debut

Published : November 29, 2014
4 voice roles, more staff announced for TV anime of Yasuhiro Nightow's manga
The January 2015 issue of Shueisha's Jump Square magazine is announcing on Thursday that Yūma Uchida (Gundam Build Fighters Try, Terraformars) is joining the Blood Blockade Battlefront television anime's cast as Sonic. The magazine also listed roles for three previously revealed cast members andannounced that the series is slated to premiere in April 2015.
The announced roles are:
The magazine plans to announce more cast information every month. Jump Square's booth at the Jump Festa 2015 event will feature the anime on December 20-21 at Chiba's Makuhari Messe center.
The magazine is also announcing additional staff members. Koji Sugiura (Hajime no Ippo, Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Last Blitz of Zeon, Gunsmith Cats) will handle creature design, whileNoriyuki Jinguji (Trigun, Hellsing Ultimate, Accel World) will be in charge of prop design. Takashi Hashimoto (Magi - The Labyrinth of Magic, Assassination Classroom, One Piece Film Z) will serve as the effects animation director. Taisei Iwasaki ("Kyoshinhei Tokyo ni Arawaru" short, Kanojo wa Uso o Ai Shisugiteru live-action film) is composing the music.
Rie Matsumoto (Kyousogiga, Heartcatch Precure! Hana no Miyako de Fashion Show…Desu ka!?) is directing the anime at the studio BONES. Kazunao Furuya (live-action Liar Game, Galileo, S -Saigo no Keikan-) is the scriptwriter, and Toshihiro Kawamoto (Cowboy Bebop, Wolf's Rain, Golden Boy,Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory) is designing the characters. Shinji Kimura (Project A-Ko, Steamboy, Tekkonkinkreet) is the art director.
Dark Horse Comics publishes the manga in North America, and describes the story:
A breach between Earth and the netherworlds has opened up over the city of New York, trapping New Yorkers and creatures from other dimensions in an impenetrable bubble. They've lived together for years, in a world of crazy crime sci-fi sensibilities. Now someone is threatening to sever the bubble, and a group of stylish superhumans is working to keep it from happening.
After he finished Trigun Maximum in 2007, Yasuhiro Nightow launched Bloodline Battlefront as a one-shot manga story in Shueisha's Jump Square magazine in May of 2008. He then turned it into a three-part mini-series called Kekkai Sensen -Mafūgai Kessha- in the same magazine in 2009. He has since continued the story as a regular series in Jump SQ.19 in 2010. Shueisha published the ninth compiled book volume in June.
Nightow's Trigun and Trigun Maximum manga series inspired a television anime and an anime film, and he also co-created the Gungrave game and television anime.
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Chinatsu Akasaki, Ayaka Fukuhara Join Trinity Seven Anime Cast

Published : November 29, 2014
Ilia, Lugh
The official website for the anime adaptation of Kenji Saito and Akinari Nao's Trinity Seven manga announcedtwo new anime cast members on Friday. The new characters will appear in the next anime episode on Tuesday.
Chinatsu Akasaki (Selector Spread Wixoss' Akira Aoi, Love Lab's Natsuo Maki) as Ilia, a legendary grimoire who takes the form of a young girl.


Ayaka Fukuhara (The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls' Rin Shibuya) as Lugh, a light magic user.
Hiroshi Nishikiori (Azumanga Daioh, A Certain Magical Index) is directing the series, and Hiroyuki Yoshino(Magi, Vividred Operation) is in charge of series composition. Shinpei Tomooka (Sekirei, Day Break Illusion) is serving as both character designer and chief animation director. Kyoko Kotani is also serving as chief animation director. TECHNOBOYS PULCRAFT GREEN-FUND is composing the music and Seven Arcs Pictures (Mushibugyō) is handling animation production.
In the "romantic comedy but sometime serious magical school story," life as Arata Kasuga knows it is wiped out by a bizarre incident known as "Collapse Phenomenon," which causes worldwide destruction and takes his cousin Hijiri Kasuga to the next world. To resolve the "Collapse Phenomenon" and bring back Hijiri, Arata enrolls in the Royal Biblia Academy. Waiting in the school are seven beautiful female magic users — the TrinitySeven.
Seven Arcs premiered the anime on October 7, and Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs.
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Friday, 21 November 2014

Gundam: The Origin Casts Mayumi Tanaka as Casval/Young Char

Published : November 21, 2014
Megumi Han, Shuuichi Ikeda, Jin Urayama also star in February 28 screenings
The official website for the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin anime announced the main cast on Friday:

Mayumi Tanaka as Casval Rem Deikun  (Young Char Aznable)

Megumi Han as Artesia Som Deikun (Young Sayla Mass)

Jin Urayama as Degwin Sodo Zabi , Banjou Ginga as Gihren Zabi, Shinshū Fuji as Sasuro Zabi

Kenta Miyake as Dozle Zabi, Akeno Watanabe as Kycillia Zabi

Eizou Tsuda as Zeon Zum Deikun 

Ayumi Tsunematsu as Astraia Tor Deikun

Shigeo Kiyama as Ramba Ral

Miyuki Sawashiro as Crowley Hamon

Chafurin as Jimba Ral

Shuuichi Ikeda as Char Aznable 
 
The website also announced that the first installment, Aoi Hitomi no Casval (Blue-eyed Casval), will play for two weeks in 13 Japanese theaters, starting on February 28. Those theaters will offer advance sales of the installment on Blu-ray Disc.
Advance tickets will go on sale on November 29 with a bundled Zeon and Munzo Defense Unit Pin Set at participating theaters. LAWSON's Loppi service will offer its own advance ticket bundle with a Making-of Blu-ray Disc (including an interview with character designer/manga artist Yoshikazu Yasuhiko) on pre-order from December 1 to February 3.
The second 90-second trailer will debut on Saturday on the free Gundam Channel app for iOS/Android devices. A new visual also debuted:
 
The story will be told in four parts. The first part, Aoi Hitomi no Casval, will tell the story of Casval Rem Deikun and Artesia Som Deikun (Char and Sayla, before Char became known as the Red Comet) before the One-Year War in UC.0068. The first promotional video debuted in May:
Takashi Imanishi (Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Last Blitz of Zeon, Violinist of Hamelin) will direct the anime off scripts byKatsuyuki Sumisawa (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Dragon Ball Z) at Sunrise. Manga artist Yasuhiko is credited as a general manager and as a character designer along with Tsukasa Kotobuki (Saber Marionette J). Kunio Okawara (Gundam Build Fighters) is heading original mechanical design and Takayuki Hattori (Code:Breaker) is composing the music. The rest of the staff is as follows:
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin manga series is itself a re-imagining ofYoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise's first Gundam anime. Yasuhiko launched the manga in Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Gundam Ace inaugural issue in 2001 and ended the series in 2011. Viz Mediapublished part of the manga in North America before stopping. Vertical picked up the license and is currently releasing the series.
Images © Sotsu, Sunrise
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Battle of the Planets/Gatchaman Gets Reboot by Beyblade Team

Published : November 21, 2014
Corus to launch action remake in Fall 2017 with Japanese, global partners
Canadian media company Corus Entertainment announced on Thursday that it isremaking Gatchaman, the classic science-fiction hero anime franchise known in English as Battle of the Planets, with the Beyblade team. It plans to launch the reboot in Fall of 2017. Colin Bohm, Vice President and Head of Corus Kids, outlined the plans in the company's boys' action slate during its Annual Investor Day presentation:
We're developing a reboot of a classic anime property from my youth, called Battle of the Planets. We're putting the Beyblade team back together for this one, and working with our Japanese Beyblade partners on a fresh take on this iconic anime property. We feel this property has tremendous potential.
Why? Well, three simple reasons. First, it is a rare anime property that has a superb legacy both in the East as well as in the West. Broadcasters, licensees, and retailers know and affectionately remember this brand. Second, the brand's DNA, […] as you will see in the clips shortly, lends itself perfectly to a full line of merchandisable figurines, vehicles, and role-play toys. Finally, with the winning Beyblade team behind it, including key global toy partners, all the right partners are lined up and ready to go well in advance of the anticipated 2017 launch date.
Bohm then played a clip with the following transcript:
In the beginning, there was an iconic Japanese anime series that took the world by storm: Battle of the Planets, also known as G-Force andGatchaman. Different titles, all featuring the Phoenix Ninjas. Now reimagined for audiences today. Battle of the Planets, launching Fall 2017.
Tatsunoko Production's first Science Ninja Team Gatchamananime premiered in October of 1972 and earned an average rating of 21%. It was only planned for two quarters (kūru orcours) of a year, but was extended to two full years and 105 episodes. It has since spawned anime films as well as later television and video series. The first anime projects in theGatchaman franchise were adapted, with varying degrees of faithfulness, into English under the names Battle of the Planets, G-Force, and Eagle Riders.
In Japan, the franchise inspired a spinoff series calledGatchaman Crowds last year. The franchise alsoinspired a live-action film starring Tori Matsuzaka, Gō Ayano, Ayame Gōriki, Tatsuomi Hamada, and Ryōhei Suzuki last year. NTV ran Ohayō Ninja-Tai Gatchaman, an anime series of one-minute flash short in 2011. The second Gatchaman Crowds season, tentatively titledGatchaman Crowds insight, is planned for next year with returning characters.
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Final Fantasy Type-0's New English Trailer Debuts, Before It Plays in Theaters

Published : November 21, 2014
"We Have Arrived" trailer to play in U.S. before "the season's biggest blockbuster films"
Square Enix began streaming a new "We Have Arrived" extended cinema trailer for the upcomingFinal Fantasy Type-0 HD PlayStation 4 and Xbox One game on Friday. (The game's director Hajime Tabata debuted the trailer earlier on a Square Enix Presents episode.) A shorter version of this English-dubbed trailer will play in American theaters before "the season's biggest blockbuster films."
Square Enix describes Final Fantasy Type-0 HD:
Step into the fray as Class Zero, a group of fourteen students from an elite military academy whose country is attacked by an aggressive neighboring Empire. Using the powerful abilities and magic of all fourteen characters in fast-paced action RPG combat, players must face the brutality and injustices of war to uncover the secrets of its genesis.
The game will arrive in North America on March 17, in Japan on March 19, and in Europe on March 20. The game will cost 6,800 yen (US$63) and bundle the Final Fantasy XV demo in Japan, while the North American release will include a voucher for the demo.
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Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Manga to End Next Summer

Published : November 21, 2014
Osamu Takahashi to end adaptation of game in 18th volume
The 17th volume of Osamu Takahashi's Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project (Shin Seiki Evangelion: Ikari Shinji Ikusei Keikaku) manga isannouncing on Saturday that the series will end in the next volume next summer.
The original Shin Seiki Evangelion: Ikari Shinji Ikusei Keikaku game has the player "raising" Shinji Ikari, the main character of the Evangelion science-fictionfranchise, and determining what path his life will take. (Before Evangelion, Gainaxdeveloped the Princess Maker franchise in which the player raises a girl to adulthood.) The manga version adapts the game storyline, particularly its school sequences.
The manga has been running in Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine — the same magazine that serialized Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's main Evangelion manga — since June of 2005. Dark Horse Comics will publish the 15th volume in North America in December.
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Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle Smartphone Game Previewed in Trailer

Published : November 21, 2014
Smartphone fighting game is slated for this winter
Bandai Namco Games began streaming a trailer for the upcoming Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battlesmartphone fighting game.
The game lets players fight against many iconic Dragon Ball Z characters while traversing a world map. Those who pre-register for the game will obtain Trunks as a playable character.
The game is slated for release this winter.
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Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Anime Short English-Dubbed

Published : November 21, 2014
Pokémon undergo Mega Evolution, Primal Reversion in Hoenn region from November 21 games
The Pokemon Company streamed the English dub of the "Mega Special Animation" shortinspired by the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire games on Thursday. The short features Pokémon undergoing the newly discovered Mega Evolution and Primal Reversion in the Hoenn region.
Daiki Tomiyasu (episodes of Pocket Monsters XY, Pocket Monsters: The Origin, Inazuma Eleven) directed the short at OLM Team Kato, and Tsutsumi Mai designed the characters. The short first ran with the Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys movie on BS Japan on Sunday.Shoko Nakagawa ("Shokotan") introduced the games and demonstrated Primal Reversion and Mega Evolution as the broadcast's guest navigator.
Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire are remakes of the 2003 Game Boy Advance games Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire — the same generation ofPokémon games that inspired the Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys movie. The games will ship on November 21 in Japan, North America, and Australia, and then on November 28 in Europe.
In the Japanese dub of the anime short, Nobuhiko Okamoto plays the male protagonist, while Kana Hanazawa plays the female protagonist. The other cast members include Akira Ishida as Daigo, Eri Kitamura as Tsutsuji, and Megumi Han as Tanpan-kozō. Kiyotaka Furushima, Kensuke Satou, Yūichi Karasuma, Takahiro Fujiwara, Michiko Kaiden, Miyuki Kobori play Pokémon, and Toshiyuki Morikawa narrates.
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