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Otakon Hosts Welcome to the Space Show Premiere, Staff

This is anime news 2010.Otakon has announced on Wednesday that Koji Masunari, character designer Masashi Ishihama, and producer Tomonori Ochikoshi will present the American premiere of their Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW anime film during the July 30–August 1 event in Baltimore. The science-fiction family film begins during the summer vacation of fifth grader Natsuki Oyama, who just moved into the countryside. She and four of her schoolmates embark on an space-spanning adventure that takes them beyond the fields they call home. The first 22 minutes of the film are streaming online with English subtitles.

For this film, Masunari, Ishihama, and writer Hideyuki Kurata joined forces at A-1 Pictures Inc. after working together on the R.O.D. Read or Die and Kamichu! anime. Susan Boyle, the 49-year-old Scottish woman who became globally famous after performing on the televised competition Britain’s Got Talent, is contributing her “Who I Was Born to Be” song as the theme of the film. The film opened in Japan last month, after a February screening (without the theme song) at the Berlin International Film Festival and June screenings at the Sydney Film Festival.

Otakon is also hosting Michael Sinterniklaas, the prolific voice actor and dubbing director behind Gundam UC, Slayers, and many other titles.

Image © A-1 Pictures/Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW Production Committee

Source: Anime news network

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Sentai Filmworks Adds Highschool of the Dead Anime

This is anime news 2010. Sentai Filmworks has issued a press release announcing its acquisition of the DVD rights to MADHOUSE’s Highschool of the Dead, the television anime adaptation of Daisuke Sato’s manga. In the release, Sentai also announced its intention to dub the series into English.

The Anime Network then announced that they will simulcast the series starting July 5 at 12:00 a.m. CDT (10:00 p.m. PDT/1:0 a.m. EDT), with subsequent episodes added every Sunday at 10:00 p.m. CDT (8:00 p.m. PT/11:00 p.m. EDT). The first episode will be available to registered users; it is unclear at this time whether subsequent episodes will be available for free or for paid users only.

Source: Anime news Network

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Get Crossover Manga in Japan, Kodocha, Honey Bitter

This is Anime news 2010.Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: Shueisha’s Cookie magazine will mark the 20th anniversary of manga creator Miho Obana’s debut by launching a two-part crossover manga between Obana’s Kodomo no Omocha and Honey Bitter sh?jo manga series on July 26. In the Deep Clear manga’s story, the actress
(and Kodomo no Omocha’s main character) Sana Kurata asks the Office S detective agency (from Honey Bitter) to take on a strange case. The first half of the 100-page story will run in Cookie’s September issue next month.

Kodomo no Omocha (Kodocha) ran in Shueisha’s Ribon magazine from 1994 to 1998, and the manga inspired a television anime series that aired in Japan from 1996 to 1998. Both versions followed the slice-of-life school life of the child actress Sana and her polar-opposite classmate Akito. In 2004, Obana launched Honey Bitter, her current suspense manga about a girl who sees premonitions and works at her aunt’s detective agency. Tokyopop published the Kodomo no Omocha manga in North America, and Funimation released the anime version.

In the same September issue, Koi Ikeno (Nurse Angel Ririka SOS) will launch her new if no Frame series (pictured at left), and Yukie Sat will launch her Hanamizuki manga.

Source: Comic Natalie and anime news network

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Voltron Producer Peter Keefe Passes Away

This is Anime news 2010. American producer Peter Keefe passed away due to throat cancer in Rochester, New York on Thursday. He was 57. Keefe is best known for producing Voltron, the 1984 redubbed and edited adaptation of two different Toei anime series — Hyakujuu Ou Golion and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV. According to The Hollywood Reporter trade newspaper, Voltron was the top nationally ranked series in kids syndication during the 1984 and 1985 broadcast seasons in the United States.

After Voltron, Keefe adapted Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs from the Studio Pierrot robot anime series Seijuushi Bismarck (Star Musketeer Bismarck). He then worked on the American-French animated series Denver, the Last Dinosaur. Keefe, business partner Brian Lacey, and the British company Central Independent Television formed Zodiac Entertainment in 1989. The production company released Widget, The Mr. Bogus Show, and Twinkle.

Before he passed away, Keefe was working with Earthworks Entertainment on the creation of Z~Force, a kids entertainment property that centers on 12 young heroes based on the Chinese Zodiac.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter  and Anime news network

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Susan Boyle Sings Welcome to the Space Show Theme

This is anime news 2010. Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: Susan Boyle, the 49-year-old Scottish woman who became globally famous after performing on the televised competition Britain’s Got Talent, is contributing her “Who I Was Born to Be” song as the theme of the June anime film Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW.

The anime is the first feature-length film from the R.O.D. Read or Die anime franchise’s core team of director Koji Masunari, writer Hideyuki Kurata, and character designer Masashi Ishihama at A-1 Pictures Inc. The three later worked together on the Kamichu! anime series.

The science-fiction family film begins during the summer vacation of fifth grader Natsuki Oyama, who just moved into the countryside. She and four of her schoolmates embark on an space-spanning adventure that takes them beyond the fields they call home.

Boyle already contributed her cover of Les Misérables stage musical’s “I Dreamed a Dream” song for the theme song of FROGMAN’s Himitsu Kessha Taka no Tsume The Movie 3 ~http://takanotsume.jp wa Eien ni~ gag comedy anime film. However, “Who I Was Born to Be” will be the first original song from Boyle that will be used for a movie’s theme song.

Masunari told Eiga.com that he made the film for everyone in the world to see. While he was looking for the appropriate theme song, he came across “Who I Was Born to Be” on Boyle’s debut album, I Dreamed a Dream. Boyle agreed to the film team’s offer to collaborate.

The film will open in Japan on June 26, after a February screening (without the theme song) at the Berlin International Film Festival and June screenings at the Sydney Film Festival.

Source: Eiga.com and anime news network

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Studio 4°C Makes Anime Short of Shirow’s Orion Manga

This is anime news 2010. Studio 4°C (Tekkonkinkreet, The Animatrix, Genius Party) has produced a 150-second animated film short of Masamune Shirow’s Orion science-fiction fantasy manga, and the Short Shorts Film Festival will premiere the short on June 11 in Tokyo. Director Yasuhiro Aoki (Batman: Gotham Knight, Tweeny Witches) adapted the manga with 3D animation. Dark Horse Comics published the original manga in North America.

The festival will also show A Summer Night’s Dream, Yoshiya Okoyama’s 11-minute film about “a young boy and ‘Tokori,’ [his] friendly ghost.”

Source: Catsuka and anime news network

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Screened in Singapore, Live-Action Gantz Film

This is Anime news 2010. The Sports Hochi newspaper reports on Friday that the decision has already been made to screen the live-action film versions of Hiroya Oku’s Gantz manga in Singapore — despite the fact that the two films have not been previewed or even completed. Over 45 companies from 13 countries and regions have also made inquiries about acquiring the distribution rights.

The newspaper attributes the worldwide interest in the films to the original science-fiction action manga’s popularity in America, France, and other Western countries. The films’ two stars, Kazunari Ninomiya (Tekkonkinkreet, Letters from Iwo Jima) of the Arashi musical group and award-winning actor Ken’ichi Matsuyama (Death Note, Detroit Metal City, NANA, The Legend of Kamui), have also found some success overseas. Shinsuke Sato (The Princess Blade, Suna-dokei, Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror) is directing the films. The first film will open in Japan in the beginning of 2011, and the second film will open in the spring.

The production company NTV is showing 4 minutes of the films’ promotional footage at this week’s Film Market in Cannes, France. (The city is also hosting the Cannes Film Festival competition at the same time.)

In addition to Ninomiya and Matsuyama, Takayuki Yamada (Train Man, Crows Zero, H2: Kimi to Ita Hibi) is also starring in the films as “the mysterious man Shigeta.” The two main stars each have 10 of the 500,000-yen (about US$5,400) rubber “Gantz Suits,” which they wear when fighting in the films’ story.

The story follows a young Tokyo college student who is reanimated after a deadly subway accident. Kei Kurono (Ninomiya) and his friend Masaru Kato (Matsuyama) go on violent, seemingly endless missions at the behest of an unseen host.

Dark Horse Comics will publish the 10th volume of the original manga in North America next month. ADV Films released Gonzo’s television anime adaptation of the manga.

Sources: Sports Hochi, NTV News 24 and Anime news network

Image © 2001 Gantz Film Partners

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This is anime news 2010. The North American anime distributor Funimation has confirmed with ANN on Tuesday that it has licensed the Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations and Tsubasa: Thunder Spring Chronicles (Tsubasa: Shunraiki) original video anime series. Vic Mignogna (Fay D. Flourite), alongside fellow voice actor Chris Sabat (Kurogane), had actually made the announcement at the Anime Milwaukee convention in Wisconsin in March.
Kodansha released the Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations video series on three DVDs that were bundled with volumes 21, 22, and 23 of CLAMP’s original Tsubasa, RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE manga in Japan. Although this 2007-2008 anime series was not the first anime to be bundled on DVD with manga, it popularized the term “original animation DVD” (OAD) to describe these kinds of tie-ins.
The success of Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations spurred a new two-volume video series called Tsubasa: Shunraiki last year. The Tsubasa: Shunraiki DVDs shipped with volumes 26 and 27 of the Tsubasa manga in Japan.
The 2003-2009 Tsubasa manga tells a parallel-world fantasy adventure with alternate versions of characters from many of CLAMP’s other creations. The manga is known in particular for its crossovers with another recent CLAMP manga, xxxHOLiC. (The Tsubasa manga ended last October, but the xxxHOLiC manga is still running.)
Tsubasa has already been adapted into Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE The Movie: Princess of the Birdcage Kingdom and the Tsubasa, RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE television series. Del Rey will ship the last two Tsubasa manga volumes (#27 and #28) in North America in July and November, and Funimation already released the Tsubasa anime movie and television series.
Source: Anime news network
Images © CLAMP/Kodansha

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