Anime And Manga

Munpei Takagi stars in story by Warriors of Tao & R-16's Shinya Kuwahara

Kill Me Baby, Saiyuki anime; Utsubora, final Children of the Sea manga; Dissociation of Haruhi novel to ship

Well, AT-X is famous for broadcasting many series uncensored. Remember that light from Meruru´s bike in Ore no Im?to ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai episode 10? It is no more! The offensive pics are below… That blazing light is gone and We can see Meruru WITHOUT her costume. I wonder what people might think now about this episode? There might be a new light here.

Adam Gibbs, Clint Bickham lead tsuritama dub cast; Monica Rial, Greg Ayres lead 'Another' dub cast

Kuso Vinyl previously announced the DIY Minicel for SDCC, but they're adding two more to their exclusives line-up. The regular versions of Minicel and Minifah (the chibified Fahrenheit) shrink Rotobox's characters down to 4 inches high, but pack in a lot of their accessories (Fahrenheit's swords, Celsius' guns) along with a little articulation, to boot. These two will be at Kuso Vinyl's booth (#5642) for US$15 each. They're also a limited run of 500 pieces for each figure, so if you can't make it to SDCC and want one of these, you might want to find a friend who's going to pick one up. Read more...

GEN Manga has released the complete 156-page collected edition of Kosuke Kabaya’s mixture of charming and morose speculative romantic sci-fi manga Android Angels. The “doujin” manga depicts a future world in which consumers can easily rent android companions, but only for a three-year span, leading to questions about the morality of erasing the memories of artificial humans and what happens to human relationships abruptly broken off every three years. The book is available to subscribers or available to non-subscribers for $2.99 as a permanent download.

Canadian animation producer/distributor Nelvana has announced plans to sponsor the production of an additional two made-for-North-America Beyblade television series. The 13-episode “BeyRaiderz Shogun” will tentatively premiere next spring. “BeyWarriors Cyborg” will follow in fall 2014 with 26-episodes and two hour-long specials. Production of the new series will be supervised in Japan by d-rights. The new North American-exclusive series will follow the broadcast of “Beyblade Shogun Steel,” an English language adaptation of Japan’s 2013 series Metal Fight Beyblade Zero-G. Nelvana previously comissioned the production of the Japanese-animated North-American-broadcast 2012 television series BeyWheelz.

A film print of the nearly nine-minute-long color anime TV special Mogura no Aventure (Mole’s Adventure) was discovered last February in a warehouse in NTV’s Ikuta Studio in Kawasaki City. The short anime was originally broadcast on the NTV network on October 15, 1958. The first ever color anime feature film, Toei’s Hakujaden, also premiered in Japanese theaters that same month. The first regularly-scheduled ongoing weekly anime TV series, Otogi Manga Calendar, didn’t premiere until June 1962. Prior to this year’s discovery of the Mogura no Adventure print, Japanese historians knew of the TV special, but no remaining print was known to exist. The BS Animax satellite TV network will re-broadcast the special as part of the TV Anime 50-nen no Kinjito special on July 21. Source: Anime News Network

The advertising obi found on new copies of the seventh collected volume of Adachitoka’s supernatural romantic adventure manga Noragami reveals that the series will be getting an anime television series adaptation. The manga that premiered in 2011 revolves around a lowly, insignificant god who rescues a human high-school girl, thereby indebting her to become his assistant. Adachitoka previously illustrated the 2003 Alive: Saishu Shinka Teki Shounen manga written by Tadashi Kawashima. Source: Anime News Network

During last weekend’s “Love Live! μ’s 3rd Anniversary Love Live!” publicity event, a second season of the Love Live! television anime was announced for broadcast next spring. The 13-episode high-school-girl-idol-singers series aired from January to April of this year. Source: Anime News Network