The official website of for Takashi Imanishi and Sunrise’s Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: Jūryoku Sensen, has posted a promotional video for the second OVA series in the franchise. The series continues the earlier Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO projects’ effort to recreate the original One Year War of the Gundam franchise in fully rendered CG. Go check out the trailer that has been posted on Youtube it looks pretty amazing.
According to the Moonphase Website a new Fullmetal Alchemist series has been confirmed. As some of you may recall there was some news leaked about this about three month ago which caused a huge uproar in the online anime community. Which also caused Studio Bones to scramble to find the leak and take the appropriate legal action against them. But back then it was simply just seen as a rumor an nothing else. A formal announcement will be made regarding the details of the second season in the 20th issue of manga tomorrow. The new series is reported to be a remake that will follow closely to the original manga. Broadcast is rumored to begin in April of 2009.
Good news for fans of the Birdy Mighty series, according to Moonphase Diary, a second season of Birdy the Mighty Decode is scheduled for release in January 2009. The original announcement was made on the staff’s blog last weekend. Now I just need to find a fansub group that is still subbing the first series as the sub group I went with (Chroma) seems to have “died”.
I usually only do one first impressions/mini review on the first episode of a new anime series, but on rare occasions I will go back and do one of another episode that impressed me. In this case the second episode of Xam’d Lost Memories, which by the way really left a serious impression on me after I finished watching it last night. And might I just add I think Studio BONES managed to produce a title that in my opinion might be even better than Eureka Seven, although it still might be a bit early to state something so boldly.
This is the prequel of My-Otome, which predates the events before the My-Otome Series. In this series, it focuses upon the origins of Lena Sayers, the mother of Arika Yumemiya and former bearer of Lofty Crimson Jade / Blue Sky Sapphire GEM, and Sifr Fran, the biological mother of Nina Wáng and the former queen of Windbloom Kingdom, as well as the origins of Schwartz, Aswad, and the Garderobe Academy and its Five Columns. The kidnapping of Sifr and the powerful revelation of Lena’s GEM will soon fatefully determine the outcome of the future for themselves and the others around them.
Genius Party Beyond is an anthology of short animated films from Studio 4°C which will be released on the 11th of October, 2008, and includes most of the films which were finished but not included in the original Genius Party short movies. The anthology includes:
Three of the five parts of this anthology simply looks mind blowing, although I have no idea what each of the story lines are about. But judging from the animation sequences by studios like: Moondrive, Cannabis Works, and Beyond, it is going to be a must watch I hope this hits our shores soon. As I am really looking forward to watching this.
What to expect in season 2 of Mobile Suit Gundam 00. An army from a mysterious world will invade. An industrial complex will explode. Maids will be assaulted. Cats will dance. There will be cute pandas. Don’t you believe me then check out the trailer for Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 2. Be warned though it gets a bit disturbing at times. LOL!
Well that did not take long at all, seems the trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine that was shown at Comic Con 2008 has been leaked onto youtube. Personally I cant wait for this, I now have 3 movies I am looking forward to in 2009: Watchmen, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Terminator 4: Salvation. Check out the trailer.
The Official Macross Frontier site has just launched a series of short flash animations titled Macross Fufonfia. Featuring SD versions of the popular Macross Frontier series, each flash animation is about two minutes in length. It shows the characters of Macross Frontier working as office workers in Tokyo for a company called Frontier Software.
While not exactly standard anime, more a sort of paper cut-out animation, these ONA (Original Net Animation) shorts are a fun spoof of the original. I did like the fact that the VF-25 has been reduced to a coffee maker. LOL! Not to mention the fact that Klan actually looks hittable in this version of the anime, which is a bit disturbing to say the least..
Akiyuki, the main character of the animated series, lives on Sentan Island, a land that has preserved its status as a free and peaceful island in a world consumed by fighting between the Northern and Southern Governments. All of this changes when Akiyuki boards a bus along with a mysterious white-haired girl who transforms his arm with the lost memories and power of Xam’d.
As Xam’d, Akiyuki goes on a rampage and is saved when a foreign girl with red hair named “Nakiami calms him down, taking him back to her postal vessel. Akiyuki now must gain control of his powers and use them against the Northern Government’s latest weapons, known as “Humanforms”. Traveling the world on a postal vessel, Akiyuki hopes to return home one day, but until then he befriends other passengers on the boat.
IFMagazine’s entertainment website reports that film producer Erwin Stoff who’s claim to fame were movies like: The Matrix and A Scanner Darkly is developing a live-action adaptation of Sunrise’s cult classic Cowboy Bebop for Fox movies. Stoff told the website that the project is “in the really early stages” since the parties “just signed it the other day.” Stoff promised “a real degree of faithfulness,” and also had the following to say about his plans for the Cowboy Bebop movie:
- Erwin Stoff - “When I met with them in Japan, one of the first things that I brought up was the experience that we had on A Scanner Darkly, and how hard we worked to remain faithful to Philip K. Dick, and that was our big concern here.”
Cowboy Bebop follows the crazy antics of two bounty hunters named Spike Spiegel and Jet Black. Throughout the anime they come across many odd faces of bounties and even some friends. By the middle of the series the Bebop, the ship Jet owns is filled not only with Jet and Spike, but Faye, a beautifully dangerous bounty hunter, and Ed, a crazy 9-year-old tomboy master hacker. The Bebop crew go through many bounties and crazy adventures just to scrounge around for some type of income to keep them alive, till there next bounty.
Tsutomu Senkawa is an average high school kid who is busy studying for his senior entrance exams. Tsutomu goes out for some fresh air, after a hard day’s work studying for a big test, when he runs into a guy fleeing from a pretty young lady. The pursued man is actually an interplanetary criminal on the run from a Federation agent called Birdy Cephon Altera. Caught in the midst of this chase, Tsutomu gets thrown by the man at Birdy, which kills Tsutomu. Fortunately for Tsutomu, there is a way to keep him alive, although it comes at the price of discarding his body. He ends up merged into Birdy’s body.
So Tsutomu is stuck sharing a body with a rather attractive, yet very strong but impulsive, space police agent, while trying to keep his apathetic family and more importantly, his girlfriend, from finding out about his woman problems. In the meantime, to make matters worse, Birdy still has to do her job. Together, they take on a rather secretive group of evil aliens planning to perform maniacal experiments on the unsuspecting inhabitants of Tokyo.
It is a world of fantasy, where magic reigns and monsters lurk, then there’s Lina Inverse! A cute, fireball-throwing sorceress who steals from the wicked and gives to herself! Along with Gourry, a handsome but not-so-smart swordsman, Lina faces the uncanny as she seeks fame and fortune. This is the fourth anime television series in the Slayers fantasy comedy franchise, and is slated for a 26 episode run.
This series totally sneaked up on me, to be honest I did not even know they where planning a fourth series in the franchise, not that I am complaining since I am a big Slayers fan since the first series back in 1995. So before I start, take note if you aren’t a Slayers fan give this a pass as the humor and animation style is a acquired taste. If you willing to give this a try I suggest you go find yourself the original series and movies before watching the new series.
World Destruction focuses on Kirie Irunisu a young man who secretly possesses the power to destroy the world. He is forced to join a party that aims not to save the world, but to eradicate it and start anew. The show also features a young heroine named Morute Ashera, who also plays a big role in the series next to Kirie Irunisu. Based off Sega’s recently announced sword & sorcery fantasy RPG called: “World Destruction” for the Nintendo DS, which will be released mid July. The Anime adaptation is directed by Shunsuke Tada, who recently directed Production IG’s Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations OVA series amongst others.
I have been following the development of the series for some time now, and yesterday I managed to download and watch the first episode. Since it was produced my Production I.G I was expecting something serious and epic in nature. But I was totally caught off guard by World Destruction, as it was the complete opposite of what I was expecting. Not that it is a bad thing mind you, but I am very unaccustomed to I.G producing which seems to be a light hearted fantasy action show.
Personally looking forward to the following shows: Shikabane Hime, Michiko to Hatchin, Tales of the Abyss, Jigoku Shoujo 3 and Bonen no Xamdou. Click on the image below to see a small synopsis of each show and a air date, also included is a link to each shows website enjoy.
[Side Note] Thanks goes to Moetron for the information.
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