Saturday, 28 February 2015

Nōnai Poison Berry Manga Ends in March

Published : February 28, 2015
"Accidental love" story launched in 2009, is inspiring live-action film this year
The official website for Shueisha's Cocohana magazine is listing that Setona Mizushiro's Nōnai Poison Berry (Poison Berry in My Brain) will end in the magazine's May issue, which will ship in Japan on March 28. The announcement also mentions that the issue will revealmore information on the live-action film adapting the series.
The story centers on Ichiko Sakurai, a 30-something-year-old woman who falls in love with a younger man named Saotome, who she meets at a drinking party. Her inner thoughts are portrayed as a meeting of five people, including a girl in gothic lolita clothes and an old man.
Mizushiro launched the series in Shueisha's Choruswomen's magazine in 2009, and continued the series when the magazine relaunched as Cocohana. The series was ranked among the top 20 manga for female readers by Takarajimasha Inc.'s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2013 guidebook, and it won a jury selection prize at the 17th Japan Media Arts FestivalAwards in 2013. The fourth compiled volume shipped in September.
Tokyopop released Mizushiro's X-Day manga in 2003, Go! Comi finished releasing herAfter School Nightmare manga in 2009, JManga published part of her Dousei Aimanga, and Viz Media is releasing her Black Rose Alice manga. Mizushiro's series Un chocolatier de l'amour perdu (Shitsuren Chocolatier), which ended last year with a total of nine volumes, received a live-action TV drama adaptation. 

The live-action Nōnai Poison Berry film (key visual seen above) will premiere in Japanese theaters on May 9, and will star actress Yōko Maki as the lead.
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2nd Gundam the Origin Volume's Title, Fall Release Revealed

Published : February 28, 2015
"Kanashimi no Artesia" to center around Casval & Artesia's separation, MS development
The first volume of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Originopened in a limited two-week engagement in Japanese theaters on Saturday, and it ended with a teaser of the second volume, "Kanashimi no Artesia" (Sorrowful Artesia). The second volume will play in Japanese theaters this fall.
The teaser notes that story moves three years ahead to U.C. 0071. The story will follow the tearful separation of the siblings Casval and Artesia (before they became known as Char and Sayla). It will also feature more of the development of the mobile suits, particularly on the Zeon side.
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Blood Blockade Battlefront Gets New Character, Bump of Chicken Song

Published : February 28, 2015
Rie Kugimiya revealed as voice actress of mystery girl White for April TV anime
The April issue of Shueisha's Jump Square magazine is announcing on Wednesday that the Blood Blockade Battlefront anime will include an original character named White.
Rie Kugimiya (Fairy Tail, Gintama, Fullmetal Alchemist) will voice the character, who is a mysterious and beautiful girl that appears before Leo. The magazine had announced in October that Kugimiya was a cast member last October, but her role was not revealed.
The magazine's upcoming issue is also announcing that rock band BUMP OF CHICKEN (Tales of the Abyss,One Piece: Dead End) will perform the opening themesong "Hello, world!"
TOHO Animation will offer information about the anime at its AnimeJapan 2015 booth. Visitors to the booth can receive a free Sonic clip while supplies last. AnimeJapan 2015 will be held at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center from March 20 to March 22.
The anime's voice cast will include:
Daisuke Sakaguchi as Leonardo Watch
Rikiya Koyama as Klaus Von Reinherz
Kazuya Nakai as Zapp Renfro
Yu Kobayashi as Chain Sumeragi
Mitsuru Miyamoto as Steven A. Starphase
Ai Orikasa as K.K.
Banjou Ginga as Gilbert F. Altstein
Yūma Uchida as Sonic Speed Monkey
Akira Ishida as Femt, the King of Depravity
Akio Ohtsuka as Blitz T. Abrams
Unshou Ishizuka as Patrick
Mamoru Miyano as Dog Hummer
Keiji Fujiwara as Deldro Brody
Hikaru Midorikawa as Zed O'Brien
Nana Mizuki as Leonardo's littler sister Michella Watch
Miyuki Sawashiro as Vivian, a girl working at a diner, and Riki Kagami as Master, the head of the diner.
Dark Horse Comics, the manga's North American publisher, 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.
Rie Matsumoto (Kyousogiga, Heartcatch Precure! Hana no Miyako de Fashion Show…Desu ka!?) is directing the anime at the studio BONES. Kazunao Furuya (live-actionLiar 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.
Koji Sugiura (Hajime no Ippo, Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Last Blitz of Zeon,Gunsmith Cats) is handling creature designs, while Noriyuki Jinguji (Trigun, Hellsing Ultimate, Accel World) is in charge of prop design. Takashi Hashimoto (Magi - The Labyrinth of Magic, Assassination Classroom, One Piece Film Z) is serving 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.
The anime will premiere in Japan on April 4.
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 Square in 2010. Shueisha will publish the 10th compiled book volume in March.
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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Shishō 2chan Novels Get TV Anime, Live-Action Film, TV Drama

Published : February 28, 2015
Kamen Rider Gaim actor Mahiro Takasugi plays main character in adaptations of series that began in 2003
The Shishō (Master Teacher) series, a series of supernatural novels posted on the internet forum2channel (2chan) by author Uni is inspiring a live-action film, live-action drama, and TV anime series in 2016 as part of a larger project. The live-action film will be a hybrid of both live-action and anime.
18-year old actor Mahiro Takasugi (Kamen Rider Gaim) will serve as the project's image character. The actor commented on his role in the project, saying, “I'm very happy I can be this project'simage character, since it combines both anime and live-action."
The project was announced with a promotional video:
Atsushi Shimizu (Nana to Kaoru live-action film) will serve as director on the project, and Chiaki Konaka (Serial Experiments Lain, Magic User's Club) will provide the scripts. Kinji Yoshimoto will serve as animation director at animation Studio Pierrot Plus. Naoyuki Asano is designing the characters, and Studio Easter is providing the backgrounds. Shintaro Nozaki is credited as animation production producer, and Yuzo Hayashi will compose the music.
The story of the original novels revolves around a protagonist (played by Takasugi in the project) who experiences various spiritual encounters due to his upperclassman at his college's club, the "master teacher" in the series title that has spiritual sensitivity. Uni began posting chapters of the story in 2003, and over one hundred chapters have been posted as of press time. The story has been adapted into a manga series titledShisho Series (seen left), and the series has been running inShonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine in 2013 with art by Shū Katayama.
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Amagi Brilliant Park's 7th Blu-ray/DVD to Include Unaired Episode

Published : February 28, 2015
Kyoto Animation TV anime's final volume to ship on June 26
The seventh Blu-ray Disc and DVD release of Kyoto Animation's Amagi Brilliant Park anime will include a special unaired episode. The release will also include the 13th and final episode that aired on television. The television series' seventh Blu-ray Disc and DVD release is slated to ship in Japan on June 26.
The release will also include the "Waku Waku Mini Theater Rakugaki Backstage Sono 7" video, specially illustrated cases, special guide, stickers, and cast and staff commentaries. The limited-edition Blu-ray Disc release will cost 6,975 yen (about US$58), while the limited-edition DVD will cost 5,975 yen (US$50).
The "Amagi Brilliant Park Kaien 30 Shūnen Kinen Premium Event" (Amagi Brilliant Park Opening 30th Anniversary Commemorative Premium Event) will be held in Tokyo's Kadokawa Cinema Shinjuku on April 26 at 7:00 p.m. The anime's main voice cast members will attend the event, and tickets will cost 3,800 yen (US$32).
The television series directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto (Full Metal Panic!, Lucky Star,Hyōka) premiered in Japan in October. The anime's third Blu-ray Disc and DVD release shipped in Japan on Friday.
The "slapstick drama" begins with Seiya Kanie, a high school boy who is invited on a date in an amusement park by a mysterious beautiful transfer student named Isuzu Sento. He is introduced to Latifah, a "real" princess and the park's manager, and is asked to be the acting manager of this "disappointing amusement park in the Tokyo suburbs."
Shoji Gatoh (Full Metal Panic!) launched the original light novel series withillustrations by Yuka Nakajima (Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!/Papa Kiki!) in 2013. Fantasia Bunko published the fifth compiled volume last October.
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Maaya Sakamoto to Perform Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture's Opening Theme

Published : February 28, 2015
Cornelius, Shintaro Sakamoto contribute to song for anime's TV broadcast
The official website for the Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture television anime announced on Friday that Maaya Sakamoto (The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Code Geass: Akito the Exiled) will perform the series' opening theme song. Composer Cornelius(Appleseed: Ex Machina) will compose and arrange the song "Anata wo Tamotsu Mono" (The Thing That Sustains You). Yura Yura Teikoku rock band member Shintaro Sakamoto will provide the lyrics.
Maaya Sakamoto is also reprising her leading role as Motoko Kusanagi in the anime.Cornelius composed music for the original Ghost in the Shell Arise video anime series and is providing music for Ghost in the Shell: New Movie, a related film slated to premiere in Japan this summer. Shintaro Sakamoto provided lyrics for the Ghost in the Shell Arise anime's first two ending theme songs.
The Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture television anime was announcedearlier this month, and it will premiere on April 5. The broadcast will recompile the four existing episodes of Ghost in the Shell Arise and include two new episodes.
Ghost in the Shell Arise was originally a four-part anime series, helmed by Kazuchika Kise at Production I.G and written by Tow Ubukata, that premiered in Japan from July 2013 to September 2014. Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell manga inspired the video anime. Funimation released the series' first two episodes in North America in a Blu-ray Disc/DVD combo last October.
Series writer Tow Ubukata commented on the new television broadcast, saying Shirow's original Ghost in the Shell manga was "not a classic sleeping in a museum, but a modern work that begged to be adapted for the screen." He stated that the television broadcast will take into account the "peculiarities of the TV medium," and will answer "why the Section 9 members were brought together." Concerning the upcoming film, Ubukata said that it will "deal even more with the past and inner personality of Motoko." He also hopes that "with Ghost in the Shell Arise - Alternative Architecture, I've created a new Ghost in the Shell work that can touch new people, as well as something that old fans of the manga, movies, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex can enjoy."
Ghost in the Shell Arise: Alternative Architecture will premiere on Tokyo MX on April 5 and then run on BS11 and other channels.
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Sunday, 8 February 2015

Million Doll Idol Manga Gets TV Anime

Published : February 08, 2015
Open voice actress auditions, events planned for July series animated by Asahi Production
The March issue of Kadokawa's Kadokawa's MonthlyNewtype magazine is announcing on Tuesday that a TV anime adaptation of Ai's Million Doll manga has been green-lit. Asahi Production will animate the series, and it will premiere in Japan in July. Plans for the anime include public voice actress auditions that those notsigned to agencies can apply for, as well as events for the anime between April and September.
The original manga revolves around Sūko, an idol-loving hikikomori (shut-in) who has one ability: To make any idol popular through the power of blogging. She puts her sights on the Fukuoka idol Itorio and tries to make her sell more, but she is impeded by the charismatic idol Ryūsan and the underground idol Mariko. The author of the manga is an idol otaku herself.
The manga serializes at Comic Smart free manga website Ganma, and its first chapter was published in December 2013.
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The Heroic Legend of Arslan Anime's New TV Spot Previews Cast

Published : February 08, 2015
Yūsuke Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Hosoya star as leads in April 5 anime
The official website for The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Arslan Senki) television anime began streaming a new commercial on Sunday.
Arslan: Our soldiers are getting killed!
Daryun: Your highness, please wait there. I, Daryun, shall protect you.
Narrator: The Heroic Legend of Arslan.
Arslan: Daryun!!
The cast stars:
The staff includes:
Iwashiro composed the theme song "The Arslan," which he will debut at his April 4 concert atTokyo Opera City's Concert Hall.
The anime will premiere on Sunday, April 5 at 5:00 p.m. in Japan.
Kodansha published the second volume in Japan in May, andKodansha USA published the second volume in North America in November. Crunchyroll is also releasing the manga as it appears in Japan. Central Park Media released the earlier 1991-93 original video anime adaptation of the novel.
Kodansha USA describes the manga's story:
In the prosperous kingdom of Pars lies the Royal Capital of Ecbatana, a city of splendor and wonder, ruled by the undefeated and fearsome King Andragoras. Arslan is the young and curious prince of Pars who, despite his best efforts, doesn't seem to have what it takes to be a proper king like his father.
At the age of 14, Arslan goes to his first battle and loses everything as the blood-soaked mist of war gives way to scorching flames, bringing him to face the demise of his once glorious kingdom. However, it is Arslan's destiny to be a ruler, and despite the trials that face him, he must now embark on a journey to reclaim his fallen kingdom.
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