Archive for the ‘Anime’ Category
Microsoft has announced Master Chief and the rest of the crew from the Halo video game franchise are getting the anime treatment in a new movie.
“Halo Legends,” which will officially debut at a panel presentation today at Comic-Con International in San Diego, is being produced by Microsoft’s 343 Industries and features creative direction from anime pioneer Shinji Aramaki, director of the critically acclaimed “Appleseed” and “Appleseed EX Machina” anime features, and Mamoru Oshii, director of the landmark “Ghost in the Shell” movies, with additional production from Joseph Chou of J-Spec Pictures. The compilation will include a series of short stories that explore different times, themes and characters from the “Halo” universe and will be distributed globally by Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. company. Influential studios that are part of the project include the creators behind some of the most popular and celebrated anime to come from Japan, such as “The Animatrix,” “Cowboy Bebop,” “Fullmetal Alchemist,” “Ghost in the Shell,” “Dragon Ball” and more.
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Marvel Entertainment Inc., has partnered with renowned Japanese animation studio Madhouse (Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers) to create four all new anime versions of classic Marvel Super Heroes. Get an exciting first glimpse of two of the planned four series at this year’s Comic-Con International, the country’s leading comics and popular arts convention. The Marvel Animation Panel will be held on Friday, July 24, and will include an exclusive first look at official teaser trailers for two of these new series, hosted by writer and multiple-Eagle Award winner Warren Ellis, who will appear to discuss writing the all new adventures of these re-imagined Super Heroes.
New images from the upcoming live action adapation of Blood: The Last Vampire have it the Intardwebz, and they look pretty good. Not sure how well the movie is going to capture the anime source material, but if it is even close to that feature, then we’re going to see something pretty awesome play out on the big screen.
“Blood:The Last Vampire,” stars Gianna Jun as Saya, as a 400-year-old, half-vampire assassin on a covert mission in Vietnam-era Japan. Tasked with infiltrating a military school to discover the identity of a hidden demon, Saya has to find out which one of her classmates is the deadly creature preying on humans.
The film opens July 10, 2009.
Kotobukiya has sent Major Spoilers a rundown of its statues, busts, and model kits arriving in the Fall.
Mandalay Pictures announced it has snatched the big screen movie rights to the Japanese manga series Full Metal Panic.
The property derives from writer Shoji Gatoh’s series about a teenage anti-terrorist commando named Sousuke Sagara who is given the mission to protect a high-school girl with mystical powers.
Word being passed around is that Zac Efron may play the lead role, meaning the movie could very easily be a live action adaptation instead of animated flick.
Check out this unofficial Doctor Who Anime project OtaKing 77077 is working on.
WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY is my advice to your ears. As you might know, I’m animating a Doctor Who anime short. It’s taking me bloody ages. Here’s some progress footage from it, including the penciling and inking process.
It’s odd seeing an anime version of the good Doctor, but if this turned into something official it could be something to fill the holes left by the television series, books, audio dramas…
Get your Cowboy Bebop DVD cued up and watch along with the Major Spoilers Crew as they provide audio commentary for the episode, Stray Dog Strut.
Stray Dog Strut
Spike and Jet’s next target is a serial pet thief who has stolen an apparently worthless dog from a research facility..
TRIVIA: This movie makes several references to Bruce Lee’s Game of Death. Abdul Hakim appearance and name being modeled after NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabar.
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Get your Cowboy Bebop DVD cued up and watch along with the Major Spoilers Crew as they provide audio commentary for the episode, Asteroid Blues.
Asteroid Blues (4/23/98)
Fellow bounty hunters Spike Spiegel and Jet Black tracks down Asimov Solensan and his girlfriend, both of whom are looking for buyers for the “Red Eye drug”.
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Yes, Leonardo DiCaprio is making Akira, but thankfully it will look nothing like this.
This week, we offer up another series of After Show Discussion shows. These are conversations the Major Spoilers Crew have outside of the normal show, and range from sex in comics to our favorite animated features.
In this installment (recorded November 18, 2008), Stephen and Rodrigo run down their three favorite anime works of all time, plus one they don’t care for.
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Music from this episode comes from Ookla the Mok. You can visit them on the web at www.ooklathemok.com and purchase their music at the iTunes Music Store.
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No strangers to writing sci-fi, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have been announced as the writers adapting Robotech for the big screen.
A sprawling sci-fi epic, “Robotech” takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off an alien invasion, with the fate of the human race ending up in the hands of two young pilots.
Gough and Millar are probably familiar to Smallville fans where they spent time as the show runners for the series. They also worked on Spider-Man 2, and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
There’s no word on release date.
FUNimation is set to adapt Sgt. Frog for American audiences, but needs your input.
Sgt. Frog Needs You! We are beginning work on Sgt. Frog, and we need your input. Watch the test episode and add your comments. Let us know what you think!
Check out all 11 minutes of frog goodness.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ5mQPVQmZ8[/youtube]
The last time Leonardo DiCaprio’s name was mentioned in connection with Japanese anime was when his Appian Way production company picked up the rights to adapt Akira. Leo must like the anime, as he’s snatched up another classic – Ninja Scroll.
Ranking alongside “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell” as one of the most popular animes outside of Japan, “Ninja” is set in feudal Japan and follows a ninja who must fight eight demonic warriors in order to save Japan. The hard-R movie, released in 1993 in Japan, featured a villain with stone skin, a hunchback with a wasp nest as his hump and a woman whose snake tattoos come to life.
If everyone involved can make an adaptation that is true to the original (a hard R rating), then I’ll probably go see this one, otherwise, it’s the comfort of the home theater and the DVD I’ll be sticking with.
FUNimation Entertainment sent Major Spoilers a quick note to let everyone know that the first episode of the Witchblade – The Anime Series can be viewed for free from iTunes. The series, based on the Top Cow property is the first U.S. comic to be made into an anime series, and takes the bearer of the Witchblade into the future.
Masane Amaha is a woman on the fringe of society, bouncing rootless from town to town with no memory of the past and no clue as to what the future holds. Upon her return to Tokyo, chance and circumstance conspire to unleash the fury of the Witchblade.
A new bearer of the Witchblade has been chosen.
You can download the episode for free from the iTunes store.
Totally haven’t had Toonami on my RADAR, and now that the 20th has passed, I no longer need to worry about it.
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