Dance in the Vampire Bund‘s author Nozomu Tamaki has created a wonderful illustration in celebration of Christmas which features the characters in Christmas-themed outfits.
Dance in the Vampire Bund is a supernatural romance manga written and illustrated by Nozomu Tamaki. The manga series is serialized in Media Factory’s seinen manga magazine Comic Flapper and is licensed for an English-language release by Seven Seas Entertainment. A 12-episode anime has been produced by Shaft.
Dance in the Vampire Bund synopsis from MAL:
After millennia in hiding, Mina Tepes, the Princess of the ancient covenant and ruler of all vampires, wants change. Using the vast wealth of the Tepes line, she has paid off the entire gross national debt of Japan and in so doing, gained the authority to create a “special district” off the coast of Japan that is to become the future haven to vampires the world over!
Now, on the eve of the landmark press conference announcing the existence of vampires to the world, terrorists and rival factions are plotting to assassinate Mina Tepes before she has a chance to make her world-changing announcement.
The official website for the Attack on Titan Wings of Counterattack Onlinebrowser game will be running a special event through December 25th (Levi’s birthday!). The special event is called New Squad Levi Carol and will include seasonal items, santa suit gacha and a visual of Eren and Mikasa less than thrilled with their plushie gifts.
A video has been posted online by Famitsu which previews the gameplay of the upcoming new two-dimensional fighting game Nitroplus Blasters: Heroines Infinite Duel by Nitroplus and Examu. With this new title you’ll be able to play characters such as Saber, Super Sonico and other Nitroplus characters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyXl3jetGQI
The game will be using a point-character-and-assists system, just like Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax. The game is being developed by Examu, who are responsible for the Arcana Heart and Aquapazza games. The video also gives us a preview of some of the mechanics of the game that feature double jumps, air dashes, and air blocking.
So far the characters that have been revealed are:
Yuru Yuri‘s author Namori has tweeted a sketch of Kyoko Toshino in a cute Christmas outfit. She did this sketch back in summer but has dug it back up for the Christmas season!
Yuru Yuri, is a manga series created by Namori that released in June 2008 and is still running. The manga has a total of 11 volumes thus far and has sold over 1 million copies as of December 2011. Namori has also created two more manga series alongside the original: Yuru Yuri Reset!, which is currently on hiatus, and Yuru Yuri Ohmuroke a web manga that started in July 2012. The series also received an anime adaptation in July 2011 by animation studio Dogakobo. The second season of the anime titled Yuru Yuri♪♪ aired in 2012, also in July.
Right after starting middle school, Akari Akaza joins the Amusement Club which is composed solely by her two childhood friends, Kyouko Toshinou and Yui Funami. Chinatsu Yoshikawa, Akaza’s classmate, becomes a member after finding out about the dissolution of the Tea Club.
The Amusement Club, situated at the tea room facility since the Tea Club disbanded, has no clear purpose, being free for the girls to do whatever they want.
The official website has revealed the first visual for the upcoming third season of Karino Takatsu’s Working!!. Working!! 3 will begin airing from June 2015 during the Summer 2015 anime season.
The main cast for Working!! 3 will be returning from the previous seasons of the anime, which include:
Jun Fukuyama (Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch) returning to voice Souta Takanashi
Kana Asumi (Yuno from Hidamari Sketch) will reprise her role as Popura Taneshima
Saki Fujita (Ao Nanami from Yozakura Quartet) will be back to voice Mahiru Inami
Eri Kitamura (Yui from Angel Beats!) will voice Yachiyo Todoroki
Kumiko Watanabe (Keroro from Keroro Gunsou) as Kyouko Shirafuji
Daisuke Ono (Sebastian Michaelis in Black Butler) voicing as Jun Satou
Hiroshi Kamiya (Levi in Attack on Titan) will be back as Hiroomi Souma
Ryou Hirohashi (Kyou Fujibayashi in Clannad) will voice Aoi Yamada
The staff were also revealed, which includes a director change whilst the remainder of the staff returns from the previous seasons:
Director: Yumi Kamakura (Working!! and Inazuma Eleven Episode Director)
Working!! is a manga series by the original creator Karino Takatsu. The manga series has a total of 13 volumes and has received two anime adaptations, with the third on its way titled Working!! 3. The first season aired during spring 2010 anime season from April 4 to June 27. The second season titled Working’!! aired during the fall 2011 anime season from October 1 to December 24.
Working!! synopsis from MAL:
Set in a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16-year-old high school student Souta Takanashi works part-time along with his strange co-workers: Popura Taneshima, a high school girl who’s a year older than Souta, yet easily mistaken for an elementary/middle schooler, and Kyoko Shirafuji, the 28-year-old store manager who doesn’t bother to do any work at all.
With Bandai Namco’s 3DS fighting game One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X already out in Japan, Nintendo have announced something unique. You are now able to use your amiibo character figurines to give the Straw Hat Pirates costumes based on the amiibo you use.
By placing a amiibo figurine on your 3DS with One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X on, you are able to unlock the following costumes:
Monkey D. Luffy as Mario or Luigi:
Roronoa Zoro as Link:
Nami as Wii Fit:
Usopp as Yoshi:
Sanji as Fox McCloud:
Chopper as Kirby:
Nico Robin as Samus Aran:
Franky as Donkey Kong:
Brook as Marth:
In addition to this, the 3rd promotional video was recently streamed and shows us Sabo in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G5tYBfIhMU
The 2nd promotional video was streamed last November and displays some gameplay along with the mechanics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccw77KvySTk
The 1st promotional video was streamed back in August:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KqRQ5OQzXU
One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X is a Nintendo 3DS game published by Bandai and developed by Ganbarion, and it’s the sequel to the Grand Battle! and Gigant Battle series. It is focused on the New World and more than 85 of its characters. The game features 4 player battles on a 2D plane, where each player chooses 2 playable characters to use in a Tag Team style combat system, referencing the Pirate Alliance theme.
Christmas is really just around the corner, and for most of the anime and manga fans, they wish to celebrate the holidays with their husband (most favorite male character) or wife (most favorite female character). Otamart, a free Japanese mobile application for anime, manga and gaming fans, asked four different questionst that asks which character and celebrity would they, the fans, would want to date on Christmas, who would they like to spend it, how do they plan to spend it and what is their most anticipated anime for the next season. The survey was only up for 24 hours but it had received a total of 1,752 respondents (85.9% women, 14.1% men).
First Poll: Who would you like to spend Christmas with? (Anime Character or Voice Actor/Singer)
Female Voters’ Results:
1. Yasutomo Arakita (Yowamushi Pedal)
2. Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Voice Actor)
3. Shou Kurusu (Uta no Prince-Sama)
4. Makoto Tachibana (Free!)
5. Ai Mikaze (Uta no Prince-Sama)
6. Kei Tsukishima (Haikyuu!!)
7. Yuuki Kaji (Voice Actor)
8. Hiro Shimono (Voice Actor)
9. Levi (Shingeki no Kyojin)
10. Shouta Aoi (Voice Actor)
Male Voters’ Results:
1. Rin Hoshizora (Love Live! School Idol Project)
2. Kotori Minami (Love Live! School Idol Project)
3. Asuna Yuuki (Sword Art Online)
4. Maki Nishikino (Love Live! School Idol Project)
5. Honoka Kousaka (Love Live! School Idol Project)
6. Hanayo Koizumi (Love Live! School Idol Project)
7. Hatsune Miku (VOCALOID)
8. Nico Yazawa (Love Live! School Idol Project)
9. Nozomi Toujou (Love Live! School Idol Project)
10. Azusa Nakano (K-on!)
All Characters: (2D edition; recurring the first eight characters)
1. Yasutomo Arakita (Yowamushi Pedal)
2. Shou Kurusu (Uta no Prince-Sama)
3. Makoto Tachibana (Free!)
4. Ai Mikaze (Uta no Prince-Sama)
5. Kei Tsukishima (Haikyuu!!)
6. Levi (Shingeki no Kyojin)
7. Kotori Minami (Love Live! School Idol Project)
8. Rin Hoshizora (Love Live! School Idol Project)
9. Koushi Sugawara (Haikyuu!!)
10. Rin Matsuoka (Free!) and Tetsuya Kuroko (Kuroko no Basuke)
Voice Actor / Singer: (3D Edition; recurring the first four voice actors)
1. Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Makoto Tachibana from Free!)
2. Yuki Kaji (Eren Yaeger from Shingeki no Kyojin)
3. Hiro Shimono (Keima Katsuragi from Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai)
4. Shouta Aoi (Ai Mikaze from Uta no Prince-sama)
5. Mamoru Miyano (Kida Masaomi from Durarara!!)
6. Hiroshi Kamiya (Koyomi Araragi from Bakemonogatari)
7. Kishou Taniyama (Ikki from Amnesia)
8. Kouji Yusa (Akira Midousuji from Yowamushi Pedal) and Daisuke Ono (Seishuu Handa from Barakamon)
9. Tetsuya Kakihara (Natsu Dragneel from Fairy Tail)
10. Takahiro Sakurai (Kazuya Miyuki from Diamond no Ace)
Second Poll: Who do you plan to spend Christmas with?
Family (44.6%)
Friends (24.3%)
Alone (11.3%)
Lover/Spouse (9.6%)
Roommate (4.4%)
Friends with similar interests (1.7%)
Pet (1.0%)
Others (3.1%)
Third Poll: How do you plan to spend Christmas with?
As you previously might have read, Idea Factory had applied for both Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth, and Idea Factory‘s president, Yoshiteru Sato, had announced that the English version of the series is to be launched on Steam in Japan’s Dengeki PlayStation magazine.
Sato said, “We have already decided to release the Neptunia series on PC and in English through Steam next year”.
“Nowadays, the demand for moe is quite high overseas, so we must release the main titles quickly”, Idea Factory‘s business development manager Damien Urvois further added, “We also plan to release Fairy Fencer F on Steam next year”.
Sato also briefed about his dreams of expanding mobile games overseas and said, “Idea Factory is currently working on releasing them in China as well as other parts of South-East Asia”.
If things in the smartphone expansion realm go easy, Urvois said that they might release a Hakouki game for smartphones in English as well. It would be higher resolution as compared with the PSP and will be fully voiced as well; and so, it will take about 2 GB of storage space.
On December 22nd, 2014, Kadokawa began streaming the first promotional trailer for the upcoming Kantai Collection anime’s Blu-Ray and DVD release. The trailer features the opening theme from the anime, Miiro, by AKINO from bless4 (Amagi Brilliant Park). The Blu-Ray and sets will ship on March 27, 2015, for 7,600 yen and the DVD ones for 6,600 yen. A standard DVD edition will also be availabe for 5,600 yen. They will include an exclusively recorded voice for disk navigation, a “classified blueprints” information collection, a reproduction of the storyboards, a three-sided box decorated with an original illustration, a digipack, a Weiβ Schwarz PR card, an original illustration card, a no credit opening, and an application for a special event.
First Promo for Kantai Collection Blu-Ray and DVD Release:
There will be an advanced screening of the first episode of the anime on December 27 at the Shinjuku Piccadilly theatre in Tokyo; the screening will be taking reservations for the first Blu-ray and DVD volume of the Kantai Collection: Kan Colle anime that will release on March 27th, 2015. There will also be a draw for attendees for a B2 Poster prize that commemorate you being at the screening. There will be limited quantites of the poster in the lottery. Here is a preview of the poster:
The first and second PVs for the Kantai Collection anime itself were previously released as well:
Kantai Collection is an anime adaptation of the popular online, card browser game Kantai Collection. The game launched in April last year and currently has more than 1.7 million players. The game centers around naval card battles, where naval ships are represented by “Fleet Girls”. The battles are automated for the most part, where the main meat of the game being the strategy, card collecting and grinding. The game is very popular, with a slew of merchandising being released after the game’s release; from table top games to manga, and light novels to this anime adaptation. A PlayStation Vita title is currently in production.
The three leading cast members that were previously revealed include:
Sumire Uesaka as Kuchikukan Fubuki (Sanae Dekomori in Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!)
Saki Fujita as Kuubo Akagi (Ao Nanami from Yozakura Quartet)
Yuka Iguchi as Kuubo Kaga (Mako Reizei in Girls und Panzer)
The anime’s production staff was also revealed:
Planning: Takeshi Yasuda (Steins;Gate: Fuka Ryōiki no Déjà vu, Tokyo ESP)
Story concept: Kensuke Tanaka
Producer: Shinichiro Inoue (Another)
Character Design: Naomi Ide (Akuma no Riddle, Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo?)
Chief Animation Director: Mayuko Matsumoto (Arakawa Under the Bridge, Astarotte no Omocha!, Senhime Zesshou Symphogear)
Art Director: Maho Takahashi (Amagami SS, Nobunagun, Seto no Hanayome)
Color Design: Shuji Kameimura
CG Director: Eiji Inomoto (Accel World, Black Lagoon, Infinite Stratos)
CG Modeling Director: Hideki Kawabata
CG Production: Orange
Director of Photography: Yasuyuki Itou (Black Rock Shooter (TV), NouCome, Akuma no Riddle)
Editing: Yuuji Oka (Campione!, Fairy Tail, Grenadier)
Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama (Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko, Kokoro Connect)
Sound Production: Glovision (Another,Blood-C, Date A Live)
Music: Kameoka Natsumi (Inazuma Eleven Go vs Danball Senki W, Inazuma Eleven Go: Chrono Stone)
Music Production: Flying Dog (Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha, Date A Live, Space Dandy)
The anime’s Opening theme and Ending theme were also revealed. The OP will be “Miiro” performed by AKINO from the band bless4 (Amagi Brilliant Park) and the anime’s ED will be “Fubuki” by Shiena Nishizawa.
Kantai Collection synopsis from Haruhichan:
TV adaptation of the online browser card battle game.
Kantai Collection: Kan Colle will begin airing on January 7th, 2015, on Tokyo MX during the Winter 2014/2015 anime season. Additional information about the series will be revealed in the upcoming weeks.
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san, is a Japanese light novel series written by Manta Aisora and illustrated by Koin. It was inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. The series’ twelve volumes were published by Soft Bank Creative under their GA Bunko imprint between April 2009 and March 2014. A flash-animated original video animation (OVA) by DLE titled Haiyoru! Nyaruani was published in between October 2009 and March 2010, followed by a television series, Haiyoru! Nyaruani: Remember My Mr. Lovecraft, which aired in Japan between December 2010 and February 2011. An anime television series by Xebec aired in Japan between April and June 2012 and a second season aired between April and June 2013. Two manga adaptations have been produced. A video game adaptation, developed by 5pb. for PlayStation Vita was released in Japan on May 30, 2013.
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san synopsis from Haruhichan:
“I’m Nyarlathotep, the creeping chaos always smiling beside you.” But you can call her Nyaruko for short. One by one, the Great Ones from the Cthulhu mythos are coming to earth to target Nyaruko and her human friend Mahiro. He’s utterly clueless about the true nature of his cosmic conflict and just wants to live in peace.
The official website for Yusei Matsui’s Shonen Jump hit Assassination Classroom (Ansatsu Kyoushitsu) has revealed the long version of the first promotional video. The anime will begin airing on January 9th 2015 at 25:20 (effectively the 10th at 1:20am) during the Winter 2014/2015 anime season.
Assassination Classroom (Ansatsu Kyoushitsu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yusei Matsui. It follows the daily lives of an extremely powerful octopus-like teacher and his students dedicated to the task of assassinating him to prevent Earth from being destroyed.
Individual chapters have been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 2012, and are collected into tankoubon volumes published by Shueisha. As of July 2014, ten volumes will have been released in Japan with a circulation of ten million copies. An event anime adaptation of Assassination Classroom was screened on the Jump Super Anime Tour from October 6, 2013 to November 24, 2013. The manga has been licensed by Viz Media for an English language North American release, who will release the first volume in December 2014 in both digital and print formats.
A live action film has been announced and an anime series based on the manga is scheduled to premiere on Fuji TV in January 2015. The anime has been licensed by Funimation, who will stream the anime as it airs in Japan on their website.
The students of class 3-E have a mission: kill their teacher before graduation. He has already destroyed the moon, and has promised to destroy the Earth if he can not be killed within a year. But how can this class of misfits kill a tentacled monster, capable of reaching Mach 20 speed, who may be the best teacher any of them have ever had?
Normally, most surveys ask their participants, which anime or manga protagonists would they rather like to be; doing the opposite, however, MyNavi Student asked their readers, “Which anime would you not want to be the hero of?”
The readers’ justifications varied from, “I wouldn’t want to be bullied everyday”, to “the hero is probably suffering everyday of his life”, to “I don’t want to be traumatized”.
The Top 10 List is:
10. A Little Princess Sara and Chibi Maruko-chan (8 votes, 2.1%)
9. Attack on Titan (8 votes, 2.1%)
8. Crayon Shin-chan (9 votes, 2.4%)
7. One Piece (12 votes, 3.2%)
6. Detective Conan (15 votes, 4.0%)
5. 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (16 votes, 4.3%)
4. Neon Genesis Evangelion (18 votes, 4.8%)
3. A Dog of Flanders (23 votes, 6.1%)
2. Dragon Ball (26 votes, 6.9%)
1. Doraemon (36 votes, 9.8%)
So, which anime you would rather not be the hero of? Post in the comments!
The official website for the Seiken Tsukai no World Break anime has released a new promotional video for the upcoming Winter 2015 anime. The anime adaptation of Akamitsu Awamura’s light novel / manga series will be airing from January 2015 next year under the Winter 2015 anime season.
In addition to this, the cast were revealed earlier and are:
Ishikawa Kaito (Tsumugu Kihara from Nagi no Asukara) as Haimura Moroha, the dual powered hero of the series.
Taketatsu Ayana (Tsugumi from Guilty Crown) as Ranjou Satsuki, the past life sister princess of the main character.
Yuuki Aoi (Kaname Madoka from Puella Magi Madoka Magica) as Urushiba Shizuno, the past life witch companion of the main character’s other past life.
Ogura Yui (Tsutsukakushi Tsukiko from Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko) as Shimon Maya, the prodigy campus safety and security girl.
Uchida Maya (Takanashi Rikka from Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai) as Momochi Haruka, the fastest female warrior on the schools elite unit.
The staff was also revealed and is as follows:
Original: Awamura Akamitsu (published by GA Bunko/SB Creative)
Original Character Design: refeia
Director: Inagaki Takayuki (Koharu Biyori, Rosario to Vampire)
Seiken Tsukai no World Break is a Japanese light novel series written by Akamitsu Awamura and illustrated by Refeia. SB Creative has published six volumes since November 2012 under their GA Bunko imprint. An anime television series adaptation by Diomedea is scheduled to air from January 2015. A manga adaptation will be serialized in Kadokawa Shoten’s Comp Ace magazine.
Written by Akamitsu Awamura, the series takes place in a private high school involving the concept of “saviors.” They are known as people who possess awakened memories of their past lives. The story tells of a young boy named Moroha Haimura who comes to this private school.
At the school, there are two types of people: Saviors, who fight enemies with weapons and techniques gleaned from the Puraana powers from their own bodies, and Kuroma, who wipe out enemies with magic to manipulate the Maana powers that surpass physics. Moroha Haimura is the first person with past lives of both Shirogane and Kuroma.
The official website for Nisekoi has released the first character visual for Haru Onodera who will be appearing in the Nisekoi Second Season. Ayane Sakura (Yozora Mikazuki from Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai) will voice Haru Onodera who is the younger sister of Kosaki Onodera.
The second season is slated to air from April next year.
Second season visual:
Nisekoi is a manga series that originally started off as a one shot from Naoshi Komi that released in January 2011. Komi then released the manga as a full series later on in the year, when it appeared in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump. Since 2011, 12 volumes have been released for the romantic comedy. Additionally a voiced comic has also been published and a light novel series. Viz Manga has also picked up the series late 2013 for English localisation, announcing that the chapters would be translated and released in Viz’s Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha. A anime adaptation of the manga aired from January this year and ended in May. The anime is produced by studio Shaft (Bakemonogatari, Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica).
“Raku Ichijou is an average high school student. He also happens to be the sole heir to the head of a Yakuza Family called the Shuei-gumi. Ten years ago, Raku made a promise… a secret promise with a girl he met. They promised one another that they will “get married when they reunite.” Since then, Raku never let go of the pendant the girl gave him.
Then one day, a beautiful girl named Chitoge Kirisaki transfers into Raku’s class. Their chemistry was more than off. There was not a moment where they were not fighting. But by a weird turn of events, Raku and Chitoge agree to become fake lovers. Although his heart is really interested in his classmate Kosaki Onodera, Raku must continue pretending to be Chitoge’s boyfriend.”
The first promotional video has been released online by Visual Arts for Angel Beats!-1st Beat-, which was earlier revealed at the Aniplex X Key Presents The New Project conference. The video gives a preview of the upcoming first volume of the visual novel series as well as revealing the release date. The VN’s opening theme song will be Heartily Song sung by Lia, who performed the Opening theme of the original anime. The game will feature the return of the anime’s voice cast and will cover three character arcs: Iwasawa, Matsushita and Yui. The first volume reportedly reaches up to the 10th episode of the anime.
Angel Beats!-1st Beat- will be releasing on PC in Japan on May 29th.
Japanese composer and writer Jun Maeda appeared on stage at the Aniplex X Key Presents The New Project conference in Tokyo, and revealed the new anime project Charlotte. It will be an original anime series that will air in 2015. The anime’s official website is now live and revealed the first visual:
Jun Maeda will write the screenplay and compose the music of the anime, which will be produced by P.A. Works (Angel Beats!, Nagi no Asukara) . It will also feature character designs from Na-Ga, a popular artist who works with Key on many of their famous visual novels and also the character designs of the Angel Beats! light novel, anime and visual novel.
Here is the website’s visual with the date:
Here is the announcement video for Charlotte:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2d49by
ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki G’s Magazine will help in the anime’s production and marketing.
Not a lot of information about Charlotte has been revealed. The first official anime visual will be released in the upcoming issue of Dengeki G’s Magazine on December 27.
At today’s Aniplex X Key Presents The New Project conference in Tokyo, Japan, Aniplex and Visual Art’s Key revealed that a Blu-ray boxset of the Angel Beats! anime will be released on June 24 bundling a new brand OVA. The event also revealed that the Angel Beats! visual novel will be releasing on PC on May 29th.
First up is the Blu-ray boxset announcement. The boxset will contain all 13 episodes of the original anime and the OVA. In addition, the boxset will contain a brand new OVA titled Hell’s Kitchen. The boxset will cost ¥26,800 (~ $268.00 USD).
The first volume of the visual novel Angel Beats! -1st Beat- will be releasing on PC in 2015. This news comes after various delays of the first volume throughout the year. It will cover three character arcs and reportedly reaches up to the 10th episode of the anime. The three characters that will be focused on in -1st Beat- are Iwasawa’s, Matsushita’s and Yui’s routes. In the Angel Beats! VN you will play as Yuzuru Otonashi, the main character from the anime. The event also revealed that the visual novel will feature the retain of the same voice actors and voice actresses from the anime.
Here are the character bio’s for the three characters:
The event also revealed the main theme of the visual novel, which will be Heartily Song sung by Lia, who performed the Opening theme of the original anime. The song will also be written and composed by Jun Maeda. It will be sold in the GilDeMo album Million Star which will release on January 30.
Additionally, it was revealed recently that a rebroadcast of the original Angel Beats! anime will start from January 8th on TV Tokyo.
Angel Beats! is a series created by Jun Maeda, which started off as a light novel series in 2009 that ran for half a year in ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki G’s Magazine. A 4-koma manga series was also created by Maeda that ran in the same magazine in the same year. In 2010, an anime adaptation was created by P.A. Works (Hanasaku Iroha, Another), which was also written by Maeda himself and directed by. The series received high praise and gained popularity, but was criticised for the lack of character development for many stories. A manga was adapted in 2010 titled Angel Beats! Heaven’s Door, which is an adaptation of the prequel light novel Angel Beats! Track Zero. Jun Maeda and Key, who are known for producing acclaimed and popular visual novels, announced that they were producing a visual novel on Angel Beats!, expanding many of the character’s backstory. Angel Beats! -1st Beat- and its subsequent releases, will be written by Jun Maeda. A mobile game based on the series was also produced.
Here is a synopsis of the series from Haruhichan:
Otonashi awakens only to learn he is dead. A rifle-toting girl named Yuri explains that they are in the afterlife, and Otonashi realizes the only thing he can remember about himself is his name. Yuri tells him that she leads the Shinda Sekai Sensen (Afterlife Battlefront) and wages war against a girl named Tenshi. Unable to believe Yuri’s claims that Tenshi is evil, Otonashi attempts to speak with her, but the encounter doesn’t go as he intended.
Otonashi decides to join the SSS and battle Tenshi, but he finds himself oddly drawn to her. While trying to regain his memories and understand Tenshi, he gradually unravels the mysteries of the afterlife.
The Angel Beats! OVA, Hell’s Kitchen, will be released in Japan on June 24 next year and will cost ¥26,800 (~ $268.00 USD). The first entry in the visual novel series, Angel Beats! -1st Beat- will finally release on the PC on May 29.
Hideaki Sorachi’s Historical, Sci-fi, Comedy Gintama series launched a series of illustrations on December 8th, 2013. Each volume which would display a special image once placed together, which is now complete. This is all in order to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the magazine.
This week at Jump Festa, Bandai-Namco announced a series of games planned for the future – one of them being the popular fighting game J-Stars Victory VS+! For those who do not know, J-Stars Victory VS was released in Japan in March of this year. While no word on localization had followed, it has finally been confirmed and is slated to release the summer of 2015. The localized name comes with a “+” in the title, referring to additional features (namely an “Arcade Mode”). Below we have a sneak peak at the localized version.
The game features characters from several famous anime series’ including the likes of Naruto from Naruto, Goku from Dragonball Z, Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach, Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece, and other similar shonen stars. Even characters like Gintoki Sakata from Gintama or Jonathan Joestar from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure are featured, while supporting characters even include the likes of Tetsuya Kuroko from Kuroko no Basuke or Chitoge Kirisaki from Nisekoi.
What is perhaps most exciting for avid fans of anime in this trailer however, is the confirmation that while the game is being localized, Japanese voices will still be featured. Perhaps there will be the option to switch the language to English but the fact that it won’t be dubbed completely while trashing Japanese vocals is certainly a pleasant relief.
The game is confirmed to release on the Playstation 3, Playstation 4 and Playstation Vita, and will be out as soon as next year. Certainly a game to look forward to! Reviews for the Japanese version are predominantly positive. Those who hadn’t imported the game from Japan will have their patience rewarded!
I personally don’t know if I’d get the game on the Vita or the PS3 but I definitely want to get it! Will you be picking this up? If so, on which system? Any thoughts? Let us know in the comments section below!
During the Jump Festa 2015 event, Shueisha began streaming a trailer for TV anime adaptation of Yu Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana’s manga Terra Formars. The video looks back at the anime series, which aired the final episode on Friday with a total of 13 episodes.
The trailer also gives us a look at the 1st Blu-ray volume limited edition set:
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Terra Formars is an original manga written by Yu Sasuga and illustrated by Kenichi Tachibana. The series was first published in 2011 in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump magazine. To date the series has 8 volumes published with the 9th volume releasing on May 19th. The manga ranked 1st in Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Male Readers guidebook, with over 6 million copies in print. A TV anime and OVA were announced in February this year. The OVA will handle the first arc in the series, the Bugs 2 Arc, and the anime series will continue with the Annex 1 arc.
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost-effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold.
It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
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