Archive for the ‘General Anime’ Category

  1. The current issue of Jump Square Magazine has revealed plans for a second Rosario + Vampire television series. The tentatively titled “Rosario + Vampire Capu2″ series is scheduled to debut in October.

  2. The official website for Disney Japan’s new CG anime television series Fireball now hosts a TV trailer and a complete short. Click the third button on the website’s navigation menu to reach the streaming trailers. The comedy series about the robot princess Drossel and her robot servants premiers on April 7th.

  3. The official site for the upcoming 12th Detective Conan motion picture, “Senritsu no Full Score” (”Full Score of Fear”) has added two brief TV commercials to its “Trailer” page. The movie opens theatrically on the 19th.

    Let’s hope that this one is better than last year’s film, which wasn’t one of the best Detective Conan movies, […]

  4. Anime News Network reports that this week’s Japanese issue of Shonen Jump has revealed that the title of the fifth Naruto motion picture is “Naruto Shippuden: Kizuna” (Naruto Shippuden: Bonds). As first revealed last January, the new movie will concentrate on the current complex relationship between the teen-age Naruto and Sasuke. The film is scheduled […]

  5. Anime News Network reports that the May issue of Japan’s Newtype Magazine will confirm that animation studio Bones will produce a Eureka 7 motion picture. Reportedly the film’s storytelling will differ from the way Bones’ produced the Rahxephon movie. The Eureka 7 movie will still star TV series protagonists Renton and Eureka, but will introduce […]

  6. The Japanese ToLOVEru Kousatsu blog has discovered that studio production model sheets for the current ToLOVEru anime television series clearly depict Lala’s nipples, fueling speculation that the Japanese DVD version episodes will be free of the Girls Bravo-style steam censoring used in the television broadcast.

    Source: Rakugakidou

  7. The Nihon Keizai (Nikkei) newspaper has reported that Takara-Tomy has plans to revive its 1999 Beyblade franchise. A new Beyblade anime series will debut this summer, along with a new line of Beyblade toys that will hit Japanese stores in August.

    Source: Anime News Network

  8. Starchild has opened its official website for the upcoming Slayers Revolution television series. The site confirms that Lina, Gourry, Zelgadis, and Amelia (along with their original Japanese voice actors) will return as main characters. The new TV series will reportedly be an entirely original story.

    Source: Moon Phase Comments