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Thursday, September 02, 2010

The Crunchyroll media-distribution website has announced on Friday that it will simulcast the television anime adaptation of Masaya Tsunamoto and Tsujitomo's Giant Killing soccer manga, starting on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. PDT. The simulcast will be available to Premium Subscription members in high definition one hour after each episode's first airing in Japan, and for free in standard definition one week later. Giant Killing will be available in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Udon Entertainment has confirmed with ANN that it will publish Mami Itoh's Darkstalkers / Red Earth: Maleficarum video game manga in October. The manga will showcase stories from two Capcom video game franchises: Darkstalkers and Red Earth.

Itoh provided the art for Tow Ubukata's Pilgrim Jäger fantasy adventure manga, and Eiji Ohtsuka's Japan science-fiction manga. Media Blasters released the first three volumes of Pilgrim Jäger in 2004-2005.

The North American anime and manga distributor Viz Media released a four-episode original video animation adaptation of the Darkstalkers' franchise titled Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge in 1998.

The British anime distributor Manga Entertainment has indicated on its Twitter account this week that it plans to release Hideaki Anno's Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Ha) film and Kenji Kamiyama's three Eden of The East films in the United Kingdom. Evangelion: 2.0 is the second film in Khara's four-part theatrical remake of Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion series. The first Eden of The East film (Higashi no Eden Sōshū-hen Air Communication) condenses the Eden of The East television series, while the last two films (The King of Eden and Paradise Lost) gives the franchise its story finale.

Model and actress Yu Yamada (Akihabara @ DEEP, Paradise Kiss) will star in a live-action television adaptation of the autobiographical essay Kono Yo de Ichiban Daiji na "Kane" no Hanashi by Mainichi Kaasan creator Rieko Saibara. The Gakeppuchi no Erii ~ Kono Yo de Ichiban Daiji na "Kane" no Hanashi television series, which will premiere this July, will be the first such work in which Yamada is starring. Muga Tsukaji (Shibatora), Kōtarō Koizumi, Yoji Tanaka (Summer Wars), Ren Osugi (Uzumaki), Takanori Jinnai (Detective Conan), and Eri Watanabe (Twilight of the Cockroaches) will also appear in the television series.

The Dragon Ball Z Kai anime series will premiere on the American television channel Nicktoons on Monday at 8:00 p.m. EDT. The television series condenses the 1989-1996 Dragon Ball Z anime series to more closely follow Akira Toriyama's original Dragon Ball manga. In addition to a digital high-definition remastering and a re-recorded soundtrack, Dragon Ball Kai also updates selected scenes with new effects or re-animated footage. The series premiered under the name Dragon Ball Kai in Japan last year, and it has consistently ranked among the top 10 anime in viewer ratings every week since.

Funimation already released the first part of Dragon Ball Z Kai on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on May 18. The series will also run on 4Kids Entertainment's renamed Toonzai television programming block on The CW network during the 2010-2011 television broadcast season.

Detroit Metal City manga creator Kiminori Wakasugi and Namakemono ga Miteta manga creator Takashi Murakami will be the next guests at the live drawing event hosted by Kaasan - Mom's Life creator Rieko Saibara on Sunday. The next "Saibara Rieko no Jinsei Garyoku Taiketsu" ("Rieko Saibara's Drawing Showdown") will be streamed live on Ustream and on Nico Nico Douga at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday Japan Time (5:30 a.m. Sunday EDT).

The Anime Network video-on-demand service has posted a list of episodes that it began streaming during the week of May 10 on its website, including a new series, Neo Angelique Abyss:

The long running and hugely successful manga Fullmetal Alchemist has been confirmed as ending in the upcoming July issue of Shonen Gangan, prompting fans to wonder what future awaits both Gangan and the latest manga in its absence.

Both anime and manga were previously said to be sharing a simultaneous ending, so depending on its character this probably marks the end of the franchise.

The American anime distributor Funimation and the anime licensing company 4Kids Entertainment have announced that the Dragon Ball Z Kai action anime series will air on Saturdays during the 2010-2011 television broadcast season on TheCW4Kids programming block. Before the regular season premiere, TheCW4Kids will run "sneak peeks" of the anime during the summer, and the program will also be streaming from the www.4kids.tv and www.4kidstv.com websites.

The June issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine is revealing on Monday that the Gainax anime studio's new work is titled Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Dead Leaves) is directing the project with assistant director Masahiko Otsuka (FLCL, Gurren Lagann, Pom Poko.) As revealed at the Gurren Lagann Parallel Works 2 event on Tuesday, Atsushi Nishigori (Gurren Lagann) is the main character designer of the new anime, and another Gurren Lagann veteran, Yoh Yoshinari, is drawing the concept art. Designer Shigeto Koyama (Eureka Seven, Gunbuster 2, Gurren Lagann) is acting as a "coordinator."

The story centers around a teen-celebrity-like blond-haired girl named Panty and a black-haired Goth Loli girl named Stocking. The two are angels sent from the heavens to battle the "Ghosts" on Earth.

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