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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Yup! It has been decided! (by who? me of course!) that this will be the BEST FREAKING SEASON of anime this year. I have countless monkeys making the calculations to back this up with empirical evidence of some sort....probably a collection of soon-to-come nendroids...(more after the break!)

Hey chumps! The early fall shows are all drawing to a close and its time to take a peek of whats coming next! With any luck I will get more short blogs/review roundups out this season--school and life permitting. Link after the break!

We're smack in the middle of another season of animation brewed in the seediest of Nihon maid cafes! I have to admit, when I first looked at the lineup for this season I felt considerably less optimistic compared to the previous two (or three). Last season we had the INCREDIBLE Madoka Magica and the goodness that was Fractale (not to mention a good number of harem ecchi shows that might rank among my favs). There's nothing QUITE on that epic level this time around, but thats not from lack of trying. This season, however, the slice-of-life shows are totally bringing their A game! If you're not into that sort of thing...well...I'm sorry your parents never hugged you enough o3o

Another year, another slew of animation being loaded into panty shaped bullets and fired into our collective G-spots. Before this season kicked off I was slightly underwhelmed when I looked at the lineup. I sighed and figured at least something might have some panties in it, but no amazing shows. I was SO wrong (but yes, there are panties).

So I realize that a review on the current anime season is...premature, but hey, I'm a dude and we tend to do things that way--know what I'm sayin, ladies? (cries on the inside). Please don't read on if you expect to be entertained or educated in any way. English Nazis will probably burst a few blood vessels too. You've been warned!

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.

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