After helping lead the trendy delinquent schoolgirl subgenre in film and TV in the key cast for the live-action Sukeban Deka franchise, it was in 1989 when actress and recording artist Yui Asaka became the face of another hit IP.
The word is out as of Thursday with a teaser and casting announcement for Scott Pilgrim The Anime, a new animated series that takes from Universal’s 2010 live-action adaptation of the hit graphic novel, Scott Pilgrim VS The World.
Kids in Japan will soon have brand new adventures with the popular Chibi Godzilla and friends! Coming to TV Tokyo’s children’s anime block, CHIBI GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN is launching April 1st, 2023, as a series of almost three minute animations.
It was back in 2016 when I decided to fill a void I never knew needed filling dating back to boyhood. Invariably, my anime fix was hardcore going forward, with one of the most memorable being Gintama, which ended its series run with an animated feature from director Chizuru Miyawaki a few years ago.
As a Resident Evil apologist, I always get excited for new official films and shows. While the results have been hit and miss, to put it lightly, there’s something fun about playing in the sandbox that the brilliant Shinji Mikami and Tokuro Fujiwara created in the original Biohazard. The sequel to the Resident Evil: Vendetta film, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released a trailer for the next film in the R.E. Universe, RESIDENT EVIL: DEATH ISLAND. The trailer features familiar protagonists, stunning visuals, and plenty of Bio-Organic Weapons to tear apart with a little heroic gunplay!
The world of classic Kaiju films has more than one big G, and one of them is stomping in to streaming! Gamera -Rebirth – project, first announced in 2022, will be a six episode anime series, exclusive to Netflix worldwide. Five kaiju, plus Gamera, will appear and he’ll have his hands full with taking them down in this new series.
It was last fall GKIDS acquired Unicorn Wars, the second animated feature from Goya Award-Winning director Alberto Vázquez. That now brings us to the brand new trailer ahead of the film’s digital and select-theatrical release on March 10. You can check out the trailer just beneath the plot description along with a small batch of stills from the distributor.
Toonami Faithful and Adult Swim era millennials will remember Tite Kubo’s smash hit shonen manga, Bleach. It was stylish, with larger than life characters and stories that maintain a strong following years after it’s end in 2016. Shockingly, however, the anime abruptly ended in 2012, years before it would come close to catching up to the manga. With nothing except the live action film in between, Bleach fans will finally see Strawberry and friends return to their screens. Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War is finally set to hit the airwaves in just a couple of weeks, and a new trailer is here to sate fans craving a look.
Izuku “Deku” Midoriya will one day be the world’s greatest Hero, but first, he must hone his superpower (“Quirk”) and survive a high school experience unlike any other. My Hero Academia, the Worldwide Smash hit manga and anime by Kohei Horikoshi, is entering it’s sixth season on the air, and once again Deku and his classmates will be tested by an oncoming war, and the looming threat of an old enemy who covets his Quirk.
It may not be a strictly action anime film, but the pedigree behind the adaption of Monthly Afternoon magazine’s seinen manga Bokura no Yoake boasts an impressive resume of action anime hits! Break Of Dawn is heading to Japanese theatres in October, and it’s sure to be an astronomical story. The story begins on a future Earth, where it has been discovered that the Earth is on an unavoidable collision course with a comet. When a boy named Yuma, a boy obsessed with space, robotics and the comet, has an encounter with an alien life form, how will his life change?
In an alternate version of our Earth, creatures called Devils are born from the fears of human beings. Dangerous beings that come from Hell, their powers grow based on the strength of the fear, and 13 years ago, the Gun Devil caused the biggest massacre in human history. Now, in 1997, a young man named Denji works as a Devil Hunter for the yakuza, aided by his dog-like Chainsaw Devil, Pochita, to attempt to pay off his father’s debt to them. When they betray and kill him, Pochita offers to make a contract with him and revive him, under the pretense that he shows Pochita his dreams. When he agrees, they merge into a Human-Devil hybrid, and become Chainsaw Man! The award winning, ultra-violent manga Chainsaw Man is now an exciting new anime by MAPPA, and it’s coming to your screen soon!
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the film, Toei Animation and Fathom Events have announced a special collaboration for screenings of One Piece Film: Gold. First screened in the US in 2017, it will screen as a limited, two night engagement. On July 24, the film will be shown in English, while the Japanese language with English subtitles version will screen on July 26th. Both will include an exclusive, pre-show interview with the director of ONE PIECE FILM RED, Goro Taniguchi.
Nearly 25 years after the original Trigun anime aired, the legendary story returns to the screen with a new, 3d anime by Studio Orange (Beastars, Land of the Lustrous) called TRIGUN STAMPEDE. As a bonus, people outside Japan won’t have to wait long to enjoy this new take on a classic as Crunchyroll has confirmed that they will air the series on their platform next year. Further details are expected at a panel at Anime Expo 2022, where series creator Yasuhiro Nightow will be in attendance along with staffers from Orange and Toho.
“Some search for meaning in life. Climbing is the only way I feel alive.”
Creating a live-action film of anything, whether it be a beloved Disney cartoon or an anime with a cult following, can be risky. Fans get very attached to characters and styles and are not always open to changes that may need to be made in order to make the project happen. Or maybe that’s just me. I have to admit that I scrunched my nose when I heard that Netflix was turning the anime Cowboy Bebop into a live-action film. All I could think of was the mess that was Ghost in the Shell. Shudder. But, Netflix has surprised me and has actually made me smile with their release of the “Lost Session” teaser.
Marvel Entertainment’s posterity continues to span across platforms and labels with Hulu since adding animated series adventure, Hit-Monkey. The trailer is up and running now and now that I think about it, I almost wish this was a live-action feature film instead. Alas, I digress – I’ll take this too. It streams on Hulu from November 17 so subs need apply!
It’s no secret that Star Wars creator George Lucas was influenced heavily by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and his film, The Hidden Fortress (1958). But the Star Wars universe is about to come full circle in that connection with the new animated series, Star Wars: Visions.
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