"Death Note 2016" Live-Action Film's Official Title, Teaser Poster Revealed
After the countdown ended, the official website for the upcoming live-action film Death Note 2016 today updated with a teaser poster visual featuring its three main characters, also revealing its official title Death Note Light up the NEW world.
The visual introduces Masahiro Higashide as Tsukuru Mishima (investigator at the Death Note Countermeasures Headquarters Special Unit), Sousuke Ikematsu as Ryuzaki (L's righteous successor) and Masaki Suda as Yuuki Shien (cyber-terrorist) in the center, along with a silhouette of Ryuk (voiced by Shidou Nakamura again) and photos of Tatsuya Fujiwara as Light Yagami and Kenichi Matsuyama as L from the previous films.
The sequel film is set 10 years after the first two live-action films, focusing on a battle for the new six different death notes fall to the human world. Shinsuke Sato (GANTZ, Library Wars) is attached to
direct on the screenplay by Katsunari Mano (Aibou TV drama series). Warner Brothers Japan will distribute it from October 29, 2016.
Here is the poster in full view:
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This Summer's "Pokémon The Movie XY & Z - Volcanion and the Ingenious Magearna" Featured In First Trailer and Promos
Pokémon Co. has posted a trailer and promos for the 19th Pocket Monster movie, Pokémon The Movie XY & Z - Volcanion and the Ingenious Magearna. Opening
in Japan on July 16th, the feature has Ash and his party going with
Volcanion as it tries to rescue Magearna from a corrupt minister.
Source: Crunchyroll
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"Monster Hunter X" Becomes "Monster Hunter Generations" for West
Part of yesterday's Nintendo Direct presentation included a look at the latest from Capcom with Monster Hunter Generations, which originally debuted in Japan as Monster Hunter X. A fitting tribute to a decade of Monster Hunter games, Monster Hunter Generations is coming to Nintendo 3DS in the west this summer.
Source: CrunchyRoll
Announcement trailer:
Monster Hunter Generations will also collaborate with Fire Emblem on some costume sets.
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Terra Formars Gets Asimov Spinoff Manga by Sun-Ken Rock's Boichi
This year's 47th issue of Shueisha's Young Jump magazine is revealing on Thursday that manga artist Boichi (Wallman, Sun-Ken Rock, Trigun: Multiple Bullets) will launch a spinoff manga of Yū Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana's Terra Formars manga titled Terra Formars Asimov (Terra Formars Gaiden Asimov).
Boichi will launch the manga in the 23rd issue of Shueisha's Grand Jump magazine, which will ship on November 4. Sasuga and Tachibana are credited with the original story, Terra Formars The Outer Mission novel series writer Kenichi Fujiwara is credited with story cooperation, and Boichi is drawing the manga.
The manga will focus on the character Sylvester Asimov before departing for Mars, and will tell a story not told in the main manga. The magazine teases, "before he departs for Mars, the mission he's entrusted with is...". Siblings Elena and Ivan will also appear in the series.
The original Terra Formars manga has inspired a two-episode original video anime series, a 13-episode television anime series, a Nintendo 3DS game, multiple manga spinoffs, and several novel series. The manga is also inspiring a live-action film by director Takashi Miike that will open next year.
Crunchyroll streamed the television anime series as it aired. Viz Media is publishing the manga in English, and it will release the ninth volume in November. Tachibana and Sasuga launched the original manga in 2011, and Shueisha will publish the 15th volume on November 19.
Boichi ended his Wallman manga on January 21. Crunchyroll is publishing his Sun-Ken Rock manga digitally in English, and Dark Horse Comics published the Trigun: Multiple Bullets manga in North America, which featured work by Boichi.
Source: ANN/Young Jump
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Sankaku Head Announces "Himouto! Umaru-chan" Spin-off Manga
Sankaku Head, the author of the manga and TV anime Himouto! Umaru-chan, has announced the publication of a spin-off manga starring Umaru's shy friend, Nana Ebina. The new series, entitled Akita Imouto! Ebina-chan, will begin serialization on Nico Nico Seiga at the end of November in 2015.
新連載告知です！11月末より「秋田妹！えびなちゃん」をニコニコ静画さま他で連載します～！海老名ちゃんの可愛さを最大限に生かした漫画にしたいと思います！ pic.twitter.com/Q9bqAgjwDh
— サンカクヘッド (@sankakuhead) October 19, 2015
Source: CrunchyRoll/My Game News Flash
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Shirow Miwa to Create "RWBY" Manga Adaptation
With Rooster Teeth's CG RWBY getting a limited Japanese theatrical run Novamber 14th, then a home video release on December 9th, Dogs: Bullets & Carnage manga artist Shirow Miwa is on board to comicalize the series for seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump.
Miwa will be expanding the story to explore some of its mysteries in the adaptation supervised by Rooster Teeth, debuting in the magazine's December issue, out November 19th. Miwa previously contributed to a RWBY tribute book, presented at last December's Comiket.
11/19(木)発売の「ウルトラジャンプ」より、三輪士郎さんによる #RWBY の"MANGA"がスタートします！Rooster Teeth監修、本編未登場のエピソードが登場します！ http://t.co/DNYu5GjlhD pic.twitter.com/aEEp1DD7rm
— RWBY 日本公式 (@RWBY_JAPAN) October 19, 2015
Source: CrunchyRoll
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Bakuon!! High School Motorcycle TV Anime Slated for 2016
The December issue of Akita Shoten's Young Champion Retsu magazine is revealing on Wednesday that the previously announced anime adaptation of Mimana Orimoto's Bakuon!! manga will be a television anime premiering in 2016. In addition, an original anime DVD (OAD) bundled with the manga's seventh compiled book volume is slated for release on March 18, ahead of the TV anime's premiere. The limited-edition set will retail for 3,880 yen (about US$32), and the deadline to pre-order is January 21.
The anime project will also launch a website and Twitter account on Wednesday. The website will gradually reveal character visuals for the television anime.
The story revolves
around high school girls who discover the appeal of motorcycles. Sakura
Hane is a high school student who looks a little bit like an airhead.
On the way to her all-female high school one day, she is worn-out
climbing a hilly road with a bicycle, but she sees a girl named Onsa
Amano who is riding a motorcycle. Sakura immediately becomes interested
in motorcycles, and she and Onsa join the motorcycle club at the school.
Then, Sakura sets out to get her license.
Orimoto (Mahou Shoujo Neko X, Maid in Japan) launched the series in Akita Shoten's Young Champion Retsu magazine in February 2011. Akita Shoten published the manga's sixth compiled book volume on May 20.Source: ANN/Young Champion Retsu
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Sekirei's Gokurakuin to Launch Brave Star Romantics Manga
This year's 21st issue of Square Enix's Young Gangan announced on Friday that Sakurako Gokurakuin (Sekirei) will launch a new romance action manga titled Brave Star ☆ Romantics in the next issue on November 6. The magazine describes the series as "a romance-action story with shortcut superpowers."
The magazine will also debut the four-panel manga Akai-san wa Kyō mo Tsunderu. by writer Junichi Odaka (Isoshime! Nioka-sensei) and artist Daisuke Noda. The manga about a female shogi player was first published as a one-shot in August.
Gokurakuin ended her Sekirei manga in August. She began the series in 2004 and the series inspired two anime adaptations in 2008 and 2010. Funimation has released both anime in North America. Yen Press announced in July that it will release the Sekirei manga digitally.
Gokurakuin launched the manga series Kaisei no Caricature in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan in September. She is credited with the original idea, setting, and storyboarding, while Hiromu Mogi is writing the story and Sora Gōto is providing the art.
Source: ANN/Young Gangan
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Main Visual for 3rd "Initial D" Anime Film Posted
The official website for the trilogy anime film project based on Shuichi Shigeno's street car racing manga Initial D today posted a main visual for the upcoming third chapter titled Shin Gekijo-ban Initial D: Legend 3 -Mugen-, featuring the protagonist Takumi Fujiwara and his opponent in this chapter, Ryosuke Takahashi. The visual also includes Shigeno's original manga arts for the first time. The tagline is written as "Challenging to the Ultimate Limit."
Following the first chapter in August 2014 and the second in May 2015, the third and final chapter is scheduled to be released in Japan on February 6, 2016. Advance tickets with an Akagi Red Suns sticker (10cm x 33.5cm size) will go on sale at Japanese theaters on October 31.
Source: CrunchyRoll/"Shin Gekijo-ban Initial D" official website
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Karneval's Touya Mikanagi Ends ROOT∞REXX Manga
Ishijinsha's Zero-Sum Online website published the the seventh and final chapter of Karneval manga creator Touya Mikanagi's ROOT∞REXX Honey Melody manga on Friday. Mikanagi designed the characters for the manga, while Idea Factory/Design Factory's
Otomate brand provided the story. All of the manga's chapters are
available to read for free on the website, but chapters 2-7 will only be
available until December 10.
The manga adapts Idea Factory's ROOT∞REXX romance adventure game for female players. The game shipped for the PlayStation Vita in Japan in January.
The story centers on the rock band REXX whose debut single became an
explosive hit. The all-male group gains popularity by word of mouth and
begins to gather attention around the world. But without putting out a
second single, suddenly the band announces that it is going on
indefinite hiatus. Before long, the band started to be called as a
legend.
Kazune Mochizuki, a transfer student obsessed with
REXX's sound, finds a demo CD one year after the group disappears from
the spotlight. Could this be REXX's unpublished music?
The ROOT∞REXX project is a collaboration between Otomate, Zero-Sum, Lantis, Bandai Visual's Kiramune music label, and Kadokawa's Dengeki Girl's Style magazine.
Mikanagi launched her fantasy action series Karneval in 2008, and Ichijinsha will release the 16th compiled book volume in Japan on October 24. Yen Press is publishing the manga in English, and it will release the third compiled volume in November. The series inspired a television anime in 2013, and Funimation released the complete series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in North America in June 2014.
Source: ANN/ Ishijinsha
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Viz Media Posts "Tokyo Ghoul" Manga Trailer
Between its presentation at last weekend's New York Comic Con and Tokyo Ghoul volume 3 coming October 20th, Viz Media has posted a trailer for the manga seires.
We unveiled a new Tokyo Ghoul trailer at #NYCC! Get your pre-order on for vol 3 http://t.co/XHX5E5Do1M
https://t.co/tSHjJNLpCS
— VIZ Media (@VIZMedia) October 15, 2015
Source: CrunchyRoll/VizMedia
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"Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki" Anime 4th Season Confirmed
The official website and Twitter for the fourth season of Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki from the 23-year-old Tenchi Muyo! anime franchise opened yesterday, October 16, announcing to hold a "Fan Thanks Event" at Takahashi-city, Okayama Prefecture, where the story of the most recent series Ai Tenchi Muyo! in 2014 took place, on November 28.
A press conference to reveal the details on the new season will be also held in the event. Two original voice cast from the Ryo-Ohki series: Masami Kikuchi (Tenchi Masaki) and Ai Orikasa (Ryoko) with three from Ai Tenchi Muyo!: Haruhi Nanao (Aeka), Rui Tanabe (Rui Aoi) and Azusa Sato (Yuki Fuka), are scheduled to join, alongside producer Hiroaki Inoue.
Source: CrunchyRoll
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Kingdom Anime Season 1 Gets DVD Release With English Dub
FUNimation Entertainment began listing a DVD release of all 38 episodes of the first Kingdom anime series with an English dub. The set is slated for January 26, 2016.
Funimation confirmed with ANN that, while the release will have an English dub, the default setting on the DVDs will be Japanese with English subtitles. Funimation currently has no plans for a Blu-ray release.
The first anime series based on Yasuhisa Hara's historical manga premiered in June 2012 and Funimation streamed the series as it aired in Japan.
The second anime series ran for 39 episodes from 2013-2014.
Funimation describes the story:
When low-born servant boys, Piao and Xin, set out to become the world's greatest war generals they quickly find themselves caught up in a violent struggle between two noblemen plotting to overthrow the King. After Piao is killed protecting the rightful ruler of the Kingdom of Qin, Xin sets out on a campaign for revenge that leads him straight into the fire of war. Now, with a target on his back and an army of enemies standing in his way, it will be up to a boy with no name and a young king without a throne to return order to their war-torn country in this historical action-drama based on the Tezuka Award-winning manga.
Source: ANN/FUNimation
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Guillermo Del Toro Offers Update On Status of "Monster" Adaptation
Guillermo Del Toro, the prolific writer and director of movies such as Pacific Rim and Hellboy took to offering a slight update on the status of the long-awaited live-action adaptation of the psychological horror/thriller manga authored by Naoki Urasawa while giving an interview to Latino-Review regarding the gothic romance film Crimson Peak, which opens today in theaters. However, the update may not come as much of a surprise to long-time observers, as it's been rumored for months that HBO had passed on the adaptation, which Del Toro confirmed at the end of the interview:
It's still at HBO?
Guillermo del Toro: No, it's out of HBO, and now we're going to take it to other places but it's not active active until we pitch it. We are going to other companies to pitch it and see if anyone wants to do it. We finished writing a couple of the episodes, and so we have a sampler. We're going to go and see what happens with that, but very likely that will happen somewhere next year.
The Monster live-action adaptation had originally been plannned since 2013 for a future premiere on the premium cable channel, and New Line Cinema had also previously purchased the film rights to the story in 2008 for a 2009 release, with that adaptation also lingering in development hell since then. It's anyone's guess where the Del Toro live-action adaptation could end up at this point, but that also assumes that someone will still be interested in Del Toro's treatment.
Source: CrunchyRoll/Latino-Review
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TV Anime to Adapt "Hai to Gensou no Grimgal" Fantasy Light Novel Series
Publisher Overlap has announced plans for a winter 2016 adaptation of Ao Jyumonji and Eiri Shinrai's trapped in a fantasy RPG-like environment light novel series Hai to Gensou no Grimgal. Aiura's Ryosuke Nakamura will write and direct the A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online) production, reuniting with character designer Mieko Hosoi.
Baka Updates describes the premise:
Before Haruhito had realized what happened, he was surrounded by darkness. Why was he here?
Where was here? Even now, he still didn’t know. Those around him were the same as him, no one remembered anything other than their own names. And when they emerged from the darkness, the world that awaited them seemed like something out of a videogame.
In order to survive, Haruhito forms a party with the others, learns fighting skills, and as a soldier in the reserve force, takes his first steps into the world of Grimgal. What awaits him there, he doesn’t know…
This the story of an adventure born from the ashes.
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