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KAOS, Crunchyroll Announce ANIME MOVIE NIGHT For Theatergoers

KAOS, Crunchyroll Announce ANIME MOVIE NIGHT For Theatergoers

An announcement like this is just the thing folks like myself have been waiting for. Indeed, anime has its grip on the fandom abroad and now otakus will have the chance to experience it all on a quarterly basis thanks to KAOS Connect and hit anime streaming service, Crunchyroll, through Anime Movie Night. A trailer announcement is even picking up steam so check it out below along with the following press release, and hit the official website for extra details! New York, N.Y., January 31, 2017 – Screenvision Media, a national cinema advertising leader, in association with KAOS Connect, renowned event cinema creators, today announced an exclusive alliance with Crunchyroll, the world’s leader in anime, to deliver quarterly anime event cinema programs in 2017. “Anime Movie Night,” presented by Crunchyroll, will feature some of the most popular anime titles, both new and classic.  Each theatrical event will feature select anime […]

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ATTACK ON TITAN: Season Two Spawns Hope For A Spring 2017 Opening

Say what you will of last year’s feature film adaptations but the popularity of the manga and subsequent 2013 anime series launch of WIT Studio’s Attack On Titan have all but maintained fan fervor in the hopes of a second season. Thus, reason talk of a delay dimmed hopes quite a bit for a 2016 opening, but a fan event on Sunday managed to boost fan morale with brand new artwork announcing the show’s Spring 2017 return. Based on Hajime Isayama’s award-winning manga series, Attack On Titan takes you into a post-apocalyptic version of Earth with what’s left of mankind fighting back against hordes of human-eating giants, and with survivor Eren Jaeger who unknowingly bares the remarkable ability to turn into one himself to take the Titans head-on. For that, you also get a story that delves further into the human psyche and casts a daunting spotlight with questions on […]

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VIZ Media To Adapt Its Catalog To Live-Action With UTA

Just a small confession guys: I missed out on a TON of anime in the past decade or so, and this year I’ve actually been taking an initiative in catching up on as many as I can which is why it’s been so quiet on the blog. One of those happens to be Death Note as of sometime this week, which happens to be one of the properties now up for possible live action development in a new deal being announced this week between UTA and North American anime staple and manga staple, Viz Media. Keep this in mind as you read the announcement below with mention of even Toriyama Akira’s Dragonball Z, which could definitely use better treatment than that atrocity of yesteryear from Fox. Other titles include One Punch Man which recently streamed on Funimation, and Naruto, but check out the announcent below! SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2016 […]

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Funimation Announces MY HERO ACADEMIA Streaming This April

I’ve actually been rebounding a bit on anime for the past several weeks and so it comes with great pleasure to be able to share this latest bit from Funimation. It’s for the new animated series My Hero Academia and they’ve just released a trailer to accomodate its announcement for the show’s April premiere. Check it all out below along with a batch of promotional images. I love my homework! FLOWER MOUND, Texas, March 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Funimation Entertainment is proud to announce its acquisition of “My Hero Academia”—the most highly-anticipated, new anime series of 2016. Funimation has secured the exclusive international rights to home entertainment, video on demand, merchandise, and broadcast distribution of the series as part of its agreement with Toho Co. Ltd. Episode 1 of the series will premiere in April on Funimation’s streaming service, FunimationNow, in the U.S., Canada, UK, and Ireland. “We’re extremely pleased […]

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ONE PUNCH MAN Is Streaming On Viz Media

One Punch Man is looking to be the next big anime of the season and rightfully so! What started as a silly and poorly drawn webcomic back in 2009 that got 10 million views, Young Jump Next picked up the series, and had Yusuke Murata of Eyeshield 21 fame to redraw the series with the original mangaka ONE to continue the story. The story of One Punch Man is a relatively simple but goes far deeper that questions even the typical Japanese hero tropes of old. The story revolves around Saitama, a seemingly boring looking hero who happens to be the strongest hero of all reality. Yes, reality. He is so strong that he can finish every battle with a single punch; but this also causes his frustration. No longer does he feel the thrill of a fight if every fight is nothing to him. So, this poses the question: what […]

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THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS Gets A Full Trailer Ahead Of Its Netflix Premiere

With Netflix as the dominating force for nearly all things entertaining as of late, the new trailer is now online for the new animated series, The Seven Deadly Sins. The show comes following its established roots in Kodansha manga lore courtesy of author Suzuki Nabaka, here and now from producers at Japanese animation studio A-1 Pictures Inc. When a kingdom is taken over by tyrants, the deposed princess begins a quest to find a disbanded group of evil knights to help take back her realm. Having sold 15 million copies of its literary prints is a pretty awesome achievement in and of itself next to its animated run overseas last year, and judging by the footage, it’s easy to see why. The series is one of three animated properties being taken under by Netflix in its momentum, and will also air on November 1. Watch the trailer right now!

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Watch The New Blu-Ray Re-Release Trailer For VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST

Author Hideyuki Kikuchi’s select bibliography of written work serves a great example of creativity that stands the test of time. Even moreso is the feature length 1985 animated movie, Vampire Hunter D, which proceeded to audience acclaim prior to its upworthy sequel hit in 2000, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. For this, we now have a new Blu-Ray trailer for the latter making the rounds courtesy of North American anime outlet, Discotek Media, following their announcement back in February. The Blu-Ray arrives on shelves on September 8, 2015. SYNOPSIS: Baron Meier Link is of a dying race, but the vampire doesn’t intend to remain lonely much longer. Abducting women in the night is common for his kind, so what’s one more? But Charlotte’s father has plenty of money, and there’s no price he won’t pay to get his daughter back. That’s why he hires D. D is a Dunpeal, a breed […]

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BORUTO: NARUTO THE MOVIE Gets An Extended Trailer!

While we’re far from Lionsgate’s forthcoming live-action adaptation of the longstanding manga/anime hit, Naruto, the animated series and film slate are still going strong as of late with the fanfare still burning ahead of the upcoming feature, Boruto: Naruto The Movie. Road To Ninja: Naruto The Movie and Naruto Shippuden helmer Yamashita Hiroyuki directs from a script by Kishimoto Masashi for this, the eleventh film in line following up the epic saga about a boy on an incredible journey to ninja greatness, so those who’ve been keeping up may definitely seek interest in this one. SYNOPSIS: With Naruto as the Seventh Hokage, Hidden Leaf Village is planning to host the Chunin Exams to train new shinobi from the village and from five of their allied villages. Among the entrants are Sasuke’s daughter, Sarada, who adores Naruto, Mitsuki, an exceptionally talented yet mysterious shinobi… And Boruto, Naruto’s son who shows great […]

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CONtv Launches, Fans Rejoice!

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BLOODLINE: THE ANIMATED SERIES Returns With New Kickstarter Campaign Push!

Last October saw the initial launch of a new Kickstarter campaign for the dazzling new animated project, Bloodline: The Animated Series, from New York-based company, Visionary Outlook, LLC and its CEO, Alphonso Devon Blackwood. Since then, Blackwood and the company evidently cancelled promoting the fundraiser to re-evaluate and analyze their platform a bit more, and they’ve now made the few necessary changes to re-launch a fresh new effort in funding their ambitious new series, with some amazing perks to boot. There are quite a few layers and different pieces and details to this epic saga, although in my own summation, here’s the skinny: Hopeskin, a distant planet falls in upheaval as its King lay ill, ensuing a forbidden ritual by His majesty’s inner circle to scan the galaxy in search of his true heir, forcing an unwitting young 16-year old boy into an epic battle against dark intergalactic forces as […]

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Get Your Tickets Right Now For THE LAST: NARUTO THE MOVIE!

Author Kishimoto Masashi’s popular Shueisha manga publication, Naruto, has seen some incredible successes since its release in 1997. Its continued successes on the big and small screen with two animated TV iterations from director Date Hayato, along with nine feature films and Kodada Akiko’s forthcoming live-stage Spring musical in Japan certainly serve as good highlights, and as of last month, director Kobayashi Tsuneo has since added to the legacy with the tenth film titled The Last: Naruto The Movie, which will finally open its doors for select U.S. audiences on February 20, 2015., courtesy of Viz Media and Eleven Arts. SYNOPSIS: The moon is approaching dangerously close to Earth! Unless something is done, the moon will disintegrate, showering the earth with gigantic meteorites. As the clock ticks towards the end of the world, can Naruto save the Earth from this crisis? An official theater listing can be found at the Eleven […]

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PSYCHO PASS Releases In Japan With US Date Pending

Following its serial run since 2012, director Shiotani Naoyoshi‘s latest feature-length installment of Production I.G.’s action packed sci-fi anime, Psycho Pass is making its theatrical run as of January 9 courtesy of Toho. Funimation currently has the rights while North American audiences await a release date, but those familiar with the franchise may enjoy what the film has to offer from Urobuchi Gem’s screenplay with Fukami Makoto. SYNOPSIS: The year is 2112. Rookie inspector Akane Tsunemori and enforcer Shinya Kogami cross paths with one man. That man, Shogo Makishima, turns out to be the mastermind of a past case and Kogami’s target for revenge.  When Makishima goes on to shake the foundations of a peacekeeping system, he poses the question about where justice exists. In time, Kogami takes justice into his own hands against Makishima before he goes into hiding…  In the year 2116, the government of Japan begins exporting […]

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GHOST IN THE SHELL: NEW MOVIE EDITION Prequel Reinvigorates Fans With A New Promo For A Summer Release

Those of you still balking at the prospects of Hollywood’s current efforts at a live-action rendition of Shirow Masumune’s Ghost In The Shell can at least rest on the knowledge that its original auteurs will always be the ones who got it right first. That said, a new thirty second promo has gone viral for the domestic upcoming return to its animated roots in the new feature film release, Ghost In The Shell: New Movie Edition. The official website for the new film states that the voice over cast, along with much of the team from the 2013-2014 OVA series, Ghost In The Shell: Arise will work on the new film, which will center on the origins of Kusanagi Motoko, the cybernetically enhanced squad leader of Public Security Section 9. Actress and voice talent Sakamoto Maaya will voice over as the lead from a script by GitS: Arise scribe Ubukata […]

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Hosoda Mamoru Returns With Anime Action Adventure, THE BOY AND THE BEAST. Watch The Teaser!

Anime director and former Studio Ghibli cohort, Hosoda Mamoru (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children) has a new teaser out for the current production of his latest animated feature from his Studio Chizu banner titled, The Boy And The Beast. The teaser, courtesy of Twitchfilm, comes on the heels of a press conference in Japan where Hosoda discussed details about the film and the production overall, billing it as an action adventure. via ANN: The story is set in the human realm (Tokyo’s Shibuya ward) and the bakemono realm (“Jūtengai”). In these two worlds which must not intersect, there lives a lonely boy and a lonely bakemono. One day, the boy gets lost in the bakemono world, becomes the disciple of the bakemono Kumatetsu, and is renamed Kyūta. The teaser is pretty short and not much is there, although the imagery should leave much to anticipate for those familiar […]

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Watch The New Trailer For DRAGON BALL Z: FUKKATSU NO F

Those who enjoyed the 2013 release of Hosoda Masahiro’s Dragon Ball Z: Battle Of The Gods will surely find themselves back in the throes of fans once more with the upcoming release of helmer Yamamuro Tadayoshi‘s follow-up, Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no F. The film is the latest in a long and enduring franchise – the brainchild of manga author and creator Toriyama Akira who wrote the screenplay for the new film as well as its 2013 predecessor, and from the looks of things, it’s gearing up to be a pretty big event. via ComicBook.com: Remnants of Frieza’s army Sorbet and Tagoma (from the Japanese word for ‘egg’) arrive on the planet. Their goal is to revive Frieza with the dragon balls. Their dastardly wish is granted, and the revenge against the Saiyans is revived. The film is releasing next year in Japan on April 18, 2015 as indicated on […]

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Watanabe Speaks Out On The Live-Action COWBOY BEBOP Movie That Still Isn't

Much like Akira and Ghost In The Shell at the time, earlier efforts seemed almost boundless for 20th Century Fox’s hopes for a feature-length live-action adaptation of Watanabe Shinichiro’s 1998 animated series, Cowboy Bebop, based on the preceding manga publication from Kadokawa and Tokyopop a year earlier from author Cain Kuga. However, it has been over six years since veteran producer Erwin Stoff made it publicly known he was working to help make this possible, and even with the attachment of Watanabe as one of the film’s associate producers close to the original material along with animation company, Sunrise Inc., it appears progress has been nothing short of languishing. By May of last year, things felt a little more optimistic for the film, for which John Wick star, actor Keanu Reeves was reportedly tacked on to play the lead, late 21st century Mars-born intergalactic bounty hunter Spike Spiegel and his […]

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Help Fund The Brand New Kickstarter Push For BLOODLINE: THE ANIMATED SERIES

The amazing thing about cult animation fanfare is that unlike most things live-action and Hollywood these days, there is always something genuine and original to look forward to. For another in many examples as of late can be seen in the latest efforts stemming from New York-based company, Visionary Outlook, LLC. The company is represented by CEO, Alphonso Devon Blackwood who is now at the frontlines for a new Kickstarter campaign for a spectacular new animated series that appears to hone in on all the strengths of what will embody another hopeful classic mark in sci-fi/fantasy storytelling history. The name of the series is called Bloodline, and it goes a little something like this: On a planet named Hopeskin, the king is dying due to a disease that only a rare element that was said to no longer be in existent can cause.  The royal bloodline which controls the planet […]

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Help Fund The New Animated Action Sci-Fi Thriller, UNDER THE DOG

It’s high time these days for film producer Yura Hiroaki, founder of Tokyo-based Creative Intelligence Arts, Inc., who is currently underway with a team to help fund their newest ambitious animated action sci-fi venture, Under The Dog. The project has been seventeen years in the making for Ishii Jiro (428: In A Blockaded Shibuya [pre-Canaan], Nine Hours – Nine Persons – Nine Doors), the conceived the original story in its heyday. And this year, Ishii is looking to make headway with fellow anime veteran and director Ando Masahiro (Full Metal Alchemist, Canaan, key animator on Ghost In The Shell and Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex) to help bring the original concept to life, be it in the form of half-hour episode or several, or a feature-length movie if they can help it. The year is 2025 in the city of Tokyo Bayside Special District, five years following the […]

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Find Out Where DRAGON BALL Z: BATTLE OF THE GODS Is Playing In Your Area!

Director Masahiro Hosoda‘s upcoming North American release of Dragon Ball Z: Battle Of The Gods is only getting a five-day engagement between August 5 through 9 in select theaters around North America. Thankfully, the kind folks over at FUNimation have posted a theater locator for fans to find out where and when they can see the film. SYNOPSIS: Prepare for the Dragon Ball Z experience of a lifetime as Earth’s greatest heroes hit the big screen in Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods! Stunning animation and epic new villains highlight this first new Dragon Ball feature film in over seventeen years!  Following the events from the Dragon Ball Z television series, after the defeat of Majin Buu, a new power awakens and threatens humanity. Beerus, an ancient and powerful God of Destruction, searches for Goku after hearing rumors of the Saiyan warrior who defeated Frieza. Realizing the threat Beerus poses […]

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Watch The New Trailer Reveal For APPLESEED ALPHA

Following a batch of announcements within the past several months regarding the release of a new Appleseed movie, the latest trailer reveal has arrived for director Shinji Aramaki‘s new CG-animated action adventure thriller, Appleseed Alpha, courtesy of IGN. Produced by Halo: Legends helmer Joseph Chou, the film is the latest cinematic contribution to the franchise based on author Masamune Shirow’s 1985 cyberpunk manga publication, and will also serve as a prequel to the 2004 film, Appleseed, rebooting the story of female soldier Deunan, and her cyborg partner Briareos as they search for the city of Olympus. The film will receive a DVD/Blu-Ray release on July 22, with a digital release planned for July 15, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. H/T: Keith Hayward

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