The official website of the anime adaptation of ONE and Yuusuke Murata’s One Punch-Man manga has announced on Friday that Rikiya Koyama (Detective Conan’s Kogorou Mouri) will voice Sea King and Toshiyuki Morikawa (One Piece‘s Enel and Hatchan) as Lord Boros. The character designs were also revealed.
Rikiya Koyama (Detective Conan’s Kogorou Mouri) as Sea King, king of the Seafolk who wants to conquer land and plans to turn humans into slaves
Toshiyuki Morikawa (One Piece‘s Enel and Hatchan) as Lord Boros, the leader of the Dark Matter Thieves who comes from outer space and wants to battle warriors
The main cast for the anime is as follows:
Makoto Furukawa (Banri Tada from Golden Time) will voice Saitama
Kaito Ishikawa (Tsumugu Kihara from Nagi no Asukara) is voicing as Genos
Yuuki Kaji (Eren Jaeger in Attack on Titan) will voice the Speed of Sound Sonic (Onsoku no Sonic), a villainous assassin
Aoi Yuuki (Madoka Kaname in Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica) will be voicing as Tornado of Terror (Senritsu no Tatsumaki), a S-class rank 2 esper hero
Yuuichi Nakamura (Kyousuke Kousaka in Oreimo) voices License-less Rider
Kazuhiro Yamaji (Jouji Saiga from Psycho-Pass) as Silver Fang
Hiroki Yasumoto (Germany from Hetalia) is voicing King
Masaya Onosaka (Takeshi Momoshiro in Prince of Tennis) joins the cast to voice Puri Puri Prisoner
Wataru Hatano (Gajeel Redfox from Fairy Tail) as Metal Bat
The main crew members of the anime’s staff were also unveiled and will consist of:
One Punch-Man is an action, comedy, parody manga written by ONE and illustrated by Yuusuke Murata. The series began in 2009 as a free online web comic written by ONE, before being picked up by Shueisha and being featured in their Young Jump magazine publication in mid 2012, with Murata illustrating. To date, a total of 7 compiled volumes have been released with the 8th volume releasing on April 3rd. The series has become a phenomenon in Japan, selling over 4.5 million copies as of November last year, doubling its sales in one year.
In this new action-comedy, everything about a young man named Saitama screams “AVERAGE,” from his lifeless expression, to his bald head, to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking fellow doesn’t have your average problem… He’s actually a superhero that’s looking for tough opponents! The problem is, every time he finds a promising candidate he beats the snot out of them in one punch. Can Saitama finally find an evil villain strong enough to challenge him? Follow Saitama through his hilarious romps as he searches for new bad guys to challenge!
The Digimon Adventure tri. theatrical anime series has been featured in the December 2015 issue of Animedia as a poster. This issue of Animedia can be purchased here and you can view the other posters that came in this issue here.
A new visual of the series has also been featured as a double page spread in the December 2015 issue of NewType as a poster. This issue of NewType can be purchased here.
In addition to this, two new poster visuals has been revealed in the November issue of Animedia and NewType for the upcomingDigimon Adventure tri. theatrical anime series. The first visual is from the November issue of NewType which can be purchased here.
While the second visual is from the November issue of Animedia which can be purchased here:
In addition to this, a new video has been streamed for the upcoming Digimon Adventure tri. anime film series. The new video is a preview of the anime’s Opening sequence, which uses the new rendition of the first season’s main theme, “Butter-fly” by Kouji Wada.
Digimon Adventure tri. will be a 6 part anime film series with the first episode, Saikai (Reunion), releasing in Japan on November 21st this year. The Blu-ray release of the first episode will be out in Japan on December 18.
In addition to this, a new visual of the series was featured September issue of Animedia for the upcomingDigimon Adventure tri. theatrical anime series as a poster. The new poster is promoting the first film, Reunion.
The magazine also featured a double page spread with information about the characters from the series.
Yagami Hikari – 2nd year in middle school. She’s popular with the boys in her brother’s soccer club due to her cute charm. She loves ice cream. Her Digimon partner is Tailmon.
Takaishi Takeru – 2nd year in middle school. He appears to be popular with the girls in school. While he lives separately from his brother due to their parents’ circumstances, they get along very well. His Digimon partner is Patamon.
Kido Jou- 3rd year in high school. He attends prep school to prepare for university exams and is engrossed with studying daily but worries because he isn’t getting the grades that he wants. His Digimon partner is Gomamon.
Tachikawa Mimi – 1st year in high school. She has a cheerful, expressive personality. Currently she is living away from Japan, in America. Her Digimon partner is Palmon.
Izumi Koushiro- 1st year in high school. He is skilled at computers and has both the ability to analyze and understand situations. Sometimes he gets so absorbed with what’s in front of him that he ignores everything else. His Digimon partner is Tentomon.
Ishida Yamato – 2nd year in high school. Even as a high school student, he continues to be in a band as bass and vocals, as he had in middle school. His Digimon partner is Gabumon.
Takenouchi Sora – 2nd year in high school. She acts as the “big sister” who organizes/settles the group of Chosen Children. She is classmates with Taichi. Her Digimon partner is Piyomon.
Yagami Taichi – 2nd year in high school. He is part of the soccer club in school and continues to fervently train for soccer every day, but lately has started to decide on his career path. His Digimon partner is Agumon.
Here’s the most recent visual for the upcomingDigimon Adventure Tri. anime series, it showcases two of the main Digimon that will appear in the anime, Omegamon and Alphamon as they clash.
The new visual features the two main Digi-destined, Taichi “Tai” Yagami and Yamato “Matt” Ishida, riding the fusion of their two Digimon, Omegamon (Omnimon) as it battles with Alphamon. In the other anime series, both are members of the Royal Knights, the guardians of the Digital World. The reason for the two to fight has yet to been revealed.
The first footage of Digimon Adventure tri. has been recently released which has revealed lots of new information about the upcoming series. It has revealed that the anime will be released in Japanese cinemas and will run for a total of 6 episodes. The first episode will be titled Saikai (Reunion). An event will be held on August 1st which will have a special screening of the anime’s first episode, before being released in Japanese cinemas on November 21st this year.
The cast members of the 8 Digi-destined have also been revealed. The voice actors and actresses from the previous anime will not return and will instead include a new cast:
Natsuki Hanae (Inaho Kaizuka from Aldnoah.Zero) will voice lead character Taichi “Tai” Yagami
Mao Ichimichi (Kazumi Schlierenzauer from Gokukoku no Brynhildr) will play Hikari Yagami
Recently the official website also revealed a new key visual for the series. In addition to this, it has also been revealed that the Kouji Wada will return to do the opening theme song “Butter-Fly” while Miyazaki Ayumi will return to perform “Brave Heart” for the insert song. The Digimon cast will remain the same.
The Spring 2015 anime will be set 6 years after the end of the original series, and 3 years after Digimon Adventure 02. The newly announced anime will be produced by Toei Animation (Sailor Moon Crystal, One Piece) and follow 17 year old Tai who is currently in high school with Agumon. Toei Animation released the first teaser video about the new series:
Digimon (Digital Monsters in Japan) is a large multimedia franchise that was based on Bandai’s Digivice products, which first released in 1997. The toys were based on Tamagotchis, which were also produced by Bandai. The toys were seen as more female orientated products, so Bandai created a new line of products for a male equivalent. The first anime adaptation, Digimon Adventure, was produced in 1999 by Toei Animation. A film and TV anime were released alongside each other in 1999, the movie being a 20 minute anime produced by Mamoru Hosoda (Wolf Children, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time). Since then there has been numerous anime series, toys, figures, manga, video games and trading card games in the franchise. And this year, will mark the 15th anniversary of Digimon Adventure.
Only time will tell whether if Davis or any of the other characters from Digimon Adventure 02 will appear in the upcoming anime. Digimon Adventure tri. will be a 6 part anime film series with the first episode releasing in Japan on November 21st this year. An advanced screening of the episode will be revealed at Digi-Festa on August 1st. Further information about the anime will be revealed soon.
With the recent announcement of a third season of Strike Witches in production earlier this year, Alter presents a 1/8th scale figure of Sanya and Eila. They’re both posing while wearing skimpy bikinis with low cut bottoms, enjoying their ice cream floats by a beach shower.
A new visual for Namori’s popular slice of life Yuru Yuri series has revealed in the December 2015 issue of NewType as a poster. This issue of NewType can be purchased here.
The third season of Yuru Yuri, titled Yuru Yuri San☆Hai!, preimiered on October 6. The main cast consists of the same from season 1:
Shiori Mikami (Krista Lenz in Attack on Titan) will return as Akari Akaza
Minami Tsuda (Megumi Yoshikawa in Wake UpGirls!) is voicing Yui Funami
Saki Fujita (Ao Nanami from Yozakura Quartet) as Ayano Sugiura
The staff from the recent OVA, Yuru Yuri: Nachuyachumi!, will be producing the anime replacing the staff from the previous TV anime seasons. The new staff includes:
The first promotional video for the anime was earlier revealed:
Yuru Yuri is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Namori. The series began serialization in Ichijinsha’s Comic Yuri Hime S magazine from June 12, 2008, before being moved over to Comic Yuri Hime in September 2010. An anime adaptation by Dogakobo aired in Japan between July and September 2011; a second season aired between July and September 2012. A third season is currently in production
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 for the upcoming third part of Durarara!! x2 sequel TV anime series has revealed a date and a key visual for Durarara!!x2 Ketsu. The third part is scheduled to premiere on MBS on January 10 at 1:58 a.m. and also on CBC at a later date.
It has also been revealed that FLOW will perform the opening theme song “Steppin’ Out” and PENGUIN RESEARCH will perform the ending theme song “Joker ni Yoroshiku” (Say Hello to Joker).
In addition to this, it was revealed at a screening on November 14th that a new Durarara!!x2 episode 13.5 OVA has been revealed. Titled “Journey of Love,” the episode will take place between episodes 13 and 14 of the currently on-goingDurarara!!x2 series. It will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 27, 2016. Toshiyuki Toyonaga’s “91cm” will be featured as the ending theme song.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x357tct
A new visual was also revealed:
Durarara!!x2 is part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the Durarara!! series, created and written by Ryohgo Narita featuring art from Suzuhito Yasuda. The light novel series began in 2004 published by ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki Bunko. The original light novels ended in January 2013 for a total of 13 volumes, but Narita has started a new series of light novels titled Durarara!! SH set two years after the original’s conclusion. The third issue released this year on January 10th. The light novels received an anime adaptation in 2010 from animation studio Brain’s Base with a second season airing throughout this year. In addition, two manga adaptations and a few visual novels were also released.
The official website of the anime adaptation of ONE and Yuusuke Murata’s One Punch-Man manga has revealed that the second limited-edition Blu-ray and DVD release of the series will include an OVA listed as “OVA #02.”
The OVA with the first volume is titled “Hanashibeta-sugiru Deishi” (The Pupil Who Is an Extremely Poor Talker) and is a 10 minute special of original story, written by ONE himself. The second volume will release on January 29 and will contain additional goodies aside from the OVA:
Episodes 3 and 4
A recording of the anime’s first episode pre-screening event
The third and fourth episodes of the spin-off anime One-Punch Man Hamidashi Gekijou (One-Punch Man Forced Out Theater)
“One-Punch Man All Stars” clear poster
A Character Song CD
A 12 page booklet
Cast commentary
In addition to this, two new visuals have been revealed for the anime adaptation of ONE and Yuusuke Murata’s One Punch-Man manga in the November 2015 issue of Animedia and NewType. The first new visual features both Saitama and Genos:
There will be a total of 12 episodes for the One Punch-Man TV anime series. A total of 6 Blu-ray and DVD volumes of the anime will be released with 2 episodes each. The first volume of the anime will also contain an OVA, and the 10th volume of the manga will be bundled with a separate OVA.
The OVA with the first volume is titled Shinobiyori Sugiru Kage (A Shadow That Snuck Up Too Close) and is a 10 minute special of original story, written by ONE himself. The volume will release on December 24 and will contain additional goodies aside from the OVA:
Episodes 1 and 2
The first promotional video
A recording of the anime’s first episode pre-screening event
The first two episodes of the spin-off anime One-Punch Man Hamidashi Gekijou (One-Punch Man Forced Out Theater)
Priority ticket applications to an upcoming event for the anime
A Character Song CD
A 12 page booklet
Cast commentary for the first episode
Two commercials were also released for the Blu-ray and DVD release:
In related news, the series has been featured as a poster in the October 2015 issue of Otomedia magazine. The new visual features Genos and Saitama, illustrated by key animator Hiromi Taniguchi.
In addition to this, a 30 and 15-second versions of the commercial for upcoming anime adaptation of ONE and Yuusuke Murata’s One Punch-Man manga featuring JAM Project’s theme “The Hero!! Set Fire to the Furious Fist.”
The third promotional video was recently revealed and announced that the ending theme song will be perfomed by Hiroko Moriguchi and titled “Hoshi yori Saki ni Mitsukete Ageru.”
In addition to this, the official website recently revealed a new visual:
Yuusuke Murata has also been busy posting new sketches on Twitter:
In addition to this, the second promotional video was recently streamed:
Anime visual:
The main cast for the anime is as follows:
Makoto Furukawa (Banri Tada from Golden Time) will voice Saitama
Kaito Ishikawa (Tsumugu Kihara from Nagi no Asukara) is voicing as Genos
Yuuki Kaji (Eren Jaeger in Attack on Titan) will voice the Speed of Sound Sonic (Onsoku no Sonic), a villainous assassin
Aoi Yuuki (Madoka Kaname in Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica) will be voicing as Tornado of Terror (Senritsu no Tatsumaki), a S-class rank 2 esper hero
Yuuichi Nakamura (Kyousuke Kousaka in Oreimo) voices License-less Rider
Kazuhiro Yamaji (Jouji Saiga from Psycho-Pass) as Silver Fang
Hiroki Yasumoto (Germany from Hetalia) is voicing King
Masaya Onosaka (Takeshi Momoshiro in Prince of Tennis) joins the cast to voice Puri Puri Prisoner
Wataru Hatano (Gajeel Redfox from Fairy Tail) as Metal Bat
The main crew members of the anime’s staff were also unveiled and will consist of:
One Punch-Man is an action, comedy, parody manga written by ONE and illustrated by Yuusuke Murata. The series began in 2009 as a free online web comic written by ONE, before being picked up by Shueisha and being featured in their Young Jump magazine publication in mid 2012, with Murata illustrating. To date, a total of 7 compiled volumes have been released with the 8th volume releasing on April 3rd. The series has become a phenomenon in Japan, selling over 4.5 million copies as of November last year, doubling its sales in one year.
In this new action-comedy, everything about a young man named Saitama screams “AVERAGE,” from his lifeless expression, to his bald head, to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking fellow doesn’t have your average problem… He’s actually a superhero that’s looking for tough opponents! The problem is, every time he finds a promising candidate he beats the snot out of them in one punch. Can Saitama finally find an evil villain strong enough to challenge him? Follow Saitama through his hilarious romps as he searches for new bad guys to challenge!
A new visual for the upcoming anime adaptation of Souichirou Shinno and Shirabi’s Musaigen no Phantom World (Myriad Colors Phantom World) novel has been revealed as a double page spread in the December 2015 issue of Animage. You can purchase this issue of Animage here.
In addition to this the first promotional video was recently revealed. The new video introduces the main characters of the upcoming anime and previews the quality of its animation. The Musaigen no Phantom World anime will air in January 2016 during the Winter 2016 anime season.
The main cast of the anime includes:
Hiro Shimono (Keima Katsuragi in The World God Only Knows) leading the cast to voice Ichijo Haruhiko
Musaigen no Phantom World (Myriad Colors Phantom World) is a supernatural and fantasy novel written by Souichirou Shinno with illustrations from Shirabi. The novel was published in December 2013 under Kyoto Animation’s imprint where it earned the award of Honourable Mention at the 2013 Kyoto Animation Awards.
The story takes place in the near future, in a world born of human imagination. What humans would call ghosts or monsters appear, and they come to be called “phantoms.” The main character, Haruhiko Ichijou, is a first year at Hosea Academy along with his upperclassman Mai Kawakami, who fights phantoms with the ability “Spirit of Five Elements,” Reina Izumi, who has the ability “Phantom Eater,” and Koito Minase, who fights phantoms in solitude. They experience the ups and downs of high school life before a certain incident leads them to the truth of this world.
A new visual of the upcoming anime adaptation of Sei Hatsuno’s HaruChika novel series has been featured as a double page spread in the December 2015 issue of Japanese magazine NewType. This issue can be purchased here.
The anime adaptation of HaruChika will be titled HaruChika: Haruta to Chika wa Seishun Suru and will begin its broadcast in January 2016, during the Winter 2015/2016 anime season.
The first members of anime’s main cast have been revealed. They include:
Soma Saito (Adlet Mayer from Rokka no Yuusha) voicing Haruta Kamijou
Sarah Emi Bridcutt (Asuka Kudou in Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo?) voices Chika Homura
The site has revealed additional members of the production staff, which now in total consists of:
Music Composer: Shiroh Hamaguchi (Shirobako, Girls und Panzer)
Animation Studio: P.A. Works (Charlotte, Shirobako, Angel Beats!)
HaruChika is a mystery novel series written by Sei Hatsuno that began in 2008 published by Kadokawa. To date the series has a total of 4 volumes released with the 5th volume scheduled to release in the upcoming months.
Anime visual:
Here is the series’ synopsis from Haruhichan:
The novels revolve around the title characters Haruta Kamijou and Chika Homura, who are members of their school’s concert band. Together, the two solve day-to-day mysteries by building on their childhood friendship.
The anime adaptation of HaruChika, HaruChika: Haruta to Chika wa Seishun Suru, will air in January next year during the Winter 2015/2016 anime season. Further information about the series will be revealed in the upcoming months.
Visual novel publisher Sekai Project has launched the official Steam store page for Clannad, revealing that the game will be out on the platform Worldwide on November 23 at 12:00pm PT.
Clannad is being translated and published by Sekai Project, who revealed that the game was coming to Steam back in August last year, and was successfully funded via Kickstarter. The game itself will be the Full Voice Edition, which contains voice acting for all characters from the same cast of the 2007 anime series from Kyoto Animation (Air, Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!). Clannad for Steam is also visually upgrade from the original version, featuring 1280×960 visuals. There are also additional features over the original release, which includes an in game encyclopedia and Steam Achievements.
Here is the game’s intro video:
The Steam page also has new screenshots for the game:
Clannad is a Visual Novel developed by Key. It is the third developed game that released in April 2004 for Windows. The game received high sales and critical acclaim in Japan, with the regular edition selling over 100,000 copies in 2004. The game has then received a light novel, and three manga adaptations. The game also received an animated film from Toei Animation, who also produced the animated films for Key’s other VNs (Kanon, Air). A TV anime was produced by Kyoto Animation that aired in 2007, and was followed up by a second season in 2008 titled Clannad ~After Story~. Clannad will also be releasing on the PlayStation Vita.
Here is a synopsis of the series from Haruhichan:
Okazaki Tomoya is a delinquent who finds life dull and believes he’ll never amount to anything. Along with his friend Sunohara, he skips school and plans to waste his high school days away.
One day while walking to school, Tomoya passes a young girl muttering quietly to herself. Without warning she exclaims “Anpan!” (a popular Japanese food) which catches Tomoya’s attention. He soon discovers the girl’s name is Furukawa Nagisa and that she exclaims things she likes in order to motivate herself. Nagisa claims they are now friends, but Tomoya walks away passing the encounter off as nothing.
However, Tomoya finds he is noticing Nagisa more and more around school. Eventually he concedes and befriends her. Tomoya learns Nagisa has been held back a year due to a severe illness and that her dream is to revive the school’s drama club. Claiming he has nothing better to do, he decides to help her achieve this goal along with the help of four other girls.
Clannad will be out on Steam on November 23rd at 12:00pm PT. There has been no price set for the game so far.
Sword Art Online: Lost Song, the newest game based on Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online, has just released in Europe for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. Bandai Namco Games Europe has released the launch trailer to celebrate its release and to hype fans up. Though, for North American fans you will have to wait a little longer since Sword Art Online: Lost Song won’t be out until November 17th.
Here is the previous trailer for the game, which introduces the original characters in Sword Art Online: Lost Song:
A recent issue of Kadokawa’s Dengeki PlayStation magazine also confirmed during November that Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment‘s Philia (voiced by Yui Ishikawa) will appear in the game. Philia first appeared in the Hollow Area of the earlier Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment game that shipped earlier last year. It will be set in the new Alfheim Online after a merge with Sword Art Online and will feature a new original story. Following the merging of both games, a new mysterious floating continent has appeared, Svart ALfheim. The game will be the first in the series to let you play multiple characters, where previous iterations only letting you play as series protagonist Kirito. One new big feature in the game is the introduction of full air combat and control.
Bandai Namco Games is localizing the game in English and Chinese for Asian markets. Bandai Namco Games’ Yosuke Futami stated that Sword Art Online: Lost Song‘s English translation will be better than Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment.
The first commercial was released early November:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQulOjHK_Jo
The first promotional video was released in October and previews the flying and combat system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYtJ7qAnOH0
Bandai Namco also revealed a limited edition for the PS Vita version of the game. For 9,980 yen ($92), it will include a special box, special Blu-ray disc, soundtrack CD, special booklet, and 12 clear posters. The standard edition of the game will cost 7,120 yen ($58.5) on PlayStation 3 and 6,170 yen ($50.7) on PS Vita.
Saitama and Genos from the anime adaptation of ONE and Yuusuke Murata’s One Punch-Man manga has been featured in the December 2015 issue of Animedia as a poster. This issue of Animedia can be purchased here and you can view the other posters that came in this issue here.
In addition to this, two new visuals have been revealed for the anime adaptation of ONE and Yuusuke Murata’s One Punch-Man manga in the November 2015 issue of Animedia and NewType. The first new visual features both Saitama and Genos:
There will be a total of 12 episodes for the One Punch-Man TV anime series. A total of 6 Blu-ray and DVD volumes of the anime will be released with 2 episodes each. The first volume of the anime will also contain an OVA, and the 10th volume of the manga will be bundled with a separate OVA.
The OVA with the first volume is titled Shinobiyori Sugiru Kage (A Shadow That Snuck Up Too Close) and is a 10 minute special of original story, written by ONE himself. The volume will release on December 24 and will contain additional goodies aside from the OVA:
Episodes 1 and 2
The first promotional video
A recording of the anime’s first episode pre-screening event
The first two episodes of the spin-off anime One-Punch Man Hamidashi Gekijou (One-Punch Man Forced Out Theater)
Priority ticket applications to an upcoming event for the anime
A Character Song CD
A 12 page booklet
Cast commentary for the first episode
Two commercials were also released for the Blu-ray and DVD release:
In related news, the series has been featured as a poster in the October 2015 issue of Otomedia magazine. The new visual features Genos and Saitama, illustrated by key animator Hiromi Taniguchi.
In addition to this, a 30 and 15-second versions of the commercial for upcoming anime adaptation of ONE and Yuusuke Murata’s One Punch-Man manga featuring JAM Project’s theme “The Hero!! Set Fire to the Furious Fist.”
The third promotional video was recently revealed and announced that the ending theme song will be perfomed by Hiroko Moriguchi and titled “Hoshi yori Saki ni Mitsukete Ageru.”
In addition to this, the official website recently revealed a new visual:
Yuusuke Murata has also been busy posting new sketches on Twitter:
In addition to this, the second promotional video was recently streamed:
Anime visual:
The main cast for the anime is as follows:
Makoto Furukawa (Banri Tada from Golden Time) will voice Saitama
Kaito Ishikawa (Tsumugu Kihara from Nagi no Asukara) is voicing as Genos
Yuuki Kaji (Eren Jaeger in Attack on Titan) will voice the Speed of Sound Sonic (Onsoku no Sonic), a villainous assassin
Aoi Yuuki (Madoka Kaname in Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica) will be voicing as Tornado of Terror (Senritsu no Tatsumaki), a S-class rank 2 esper hero
Yuuichi Nakamura (Kyousuke Kousaka in Oreimo) voices License-less Rider
Kazuhiro Yamaji (Jouji Saiga from Psycho-Pass) as Silver Fang
Hiroki Yasumoto (Germany from Hetalia) is voicing King
Masaya Onosaka (Takeshi Momoshiro in Prince of Tennis) joins the cast to voice Puri Puri Prisoner
Wataru Hatano (Gajeel Redfox from Fairy Tail) as Metal Bat
The main crew members of the anime’s staff were also unveiled and will consist of:
One Punch-Man is an action, comedy, parody manga written by ONE and illustrated by Yuusuke Murata. The series began in 2009 as a free online web comic written by ONE, before being picked up by Shueisha and being featured in their Young Jump magazine publication in mid 2012, with Murata illustrating. To date, a total of 7 compiled volumes have been released with the 8th volume releasing on April 3rd. The series has become a phenomenon in Japan, selling over 4.5 million copies as of November last year, doubling its sales in one year.
In this new action-comedy, everything about a young man named Saitama screams “AVERAGE,” from his lifeless expression, to his bald head, to his unimpressive physique. However, this average-looking fellow doesn’t have your average problem… He’s actually a superhero that’s looking for tough opponents! The problem is, every time he finds a promising candidate he beats the snot out of them in one punch. Can Saitama finally find an evil villain strong enough to challenge him? Follow Saitama through his hilarious romps as he searches for new bad guys to challenge!
The One Punch-Man anime will be airing this October during the Fall/Autumn 2015 anime season. Further information will be revealed in the upcoming weeks.
The official website for NisiOisin’s Owarimonogataribegan streaming a promotional video on Thursday for the “Shinobu Mail” story arc of the Owarimonogatari TV anime series. The arc will premiere on November 14.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dgmh0
Here’s the trailer for the Owarimonogatari series:
In addition to this, a double page spread of the series was featured in the October 2015 issue of the Japanese anime magazine NewType.
Anime visual:
The first episode of the Owarimonogatari anime aired on the midnight of Sunday, October 4th on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV and on GTV.
The site has also revealed some information about the anime’s format. The TV anime at the moment will currently cover the first two volumes in Owarimonogatari, which includes Ougi Formula, Sodachi Riddle, Sodachi Lost and Shinobu Mail. The final volume, which as Mayoi Hell, Hitagi Rendezvous and Ougi Dark, is already planned and scripted, but will not be produced into an anime until a later date. It has also announced that an anime of Koyomimonogatari is currently in planning.
The first light novel volume in Nisio Isin’s Mongatari Series: Final Season, Tsukimonogatari, was announced to be in-production in October 2014, and aired as a 4-episode New Year’s Eve TV Special that year. The short story collectionKoyomimonogatari is the second volume, Owarimonogatari spans volumes 3-5, and the final volumeZokuOwarimonogatari completes the series. Official announcements regarding the anime adaptations of Koyomimonogatari have yet to be made.
In 2012, Shaft announced it would be animating all of Nisio Isin’s Monogatari Series. At this time, the studio had already animated the 15-episode TV seriesBakemonogatari starting in Summer 2009 and the 11-episodeNisemonogatari in Winter 2012.
Since the announcement, the 4-episode New Year’s Eve special Nekomonogatari: Kuro, 26-episode Monogatari Series: Second Season, and 5-episode Summer specialHanamonogatari have also been broadcast.Kizumonogatari is the only skipped adaptation in volume-order, despite its initial announcement in 2010 and a subsequent movie premiere date for 2012. Kizumonogatari‘s anime adaptation is still in production, no given date as of yet.
The Monogatari series centers on Koyomi Araragi, a third year high school student who is almost human again after briefly becoming a vampire. One day, a classmate named Hitagi Senjōgahara, who infamously never talks to anyone, falls down the stairs into Koyomi’s arms. He discovers that Hitagi weighs next to nothing, in defiance of physics. Despite being threatened by her, Koyomi offers his help, and introduces her to Meme Oshino, a middle-aged homeless man who helped him stop being a vampire.
The Owarimonogatari anime will air every Sunday from October 4th at 12:00am JST on Tokyo MX, during the upcoming Fall/Autumn anime season. Further information about the series will be revealed soon.
Charapedia asked 10,000 anime fans the question: Which anime hairstyle is the most shocking? And from thousands of fans, most of the responses are from the male fans (54.8%), female fans (45.2%) and teens to their 20s (69.0%) while the other 31.0% are 30 and over.
Here are the results:
20) Noriaki Kakyoin – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
19) Yusei Fudo – Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s
18) Kimio Nagasawa – Chibi Maruko Chan
17) Masato Hijirikawa – UtaPri
16) Tetsurou Kuroo – Haikyuu!!
15) Sazae Fuguta – Sazae-san
14) Franky – One Piece
13) Saitama – One Punch Man
12) Levi – Attack on Titan
11) Kotori – Love Live!
10) Giorno Giovanna – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
9) Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo – Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
8) Namihei Isono – Sazae-san
7) Suneo Honekawa – Doraemon
6) Kenpachi Zaraki – Bleach
5) Gon Freecss – Hunter x Hunter
4) Jean Pierre Polnareff – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Shinoa Hiiragi, Mikaela Hyakuya and Yuuichirou Hyakuya from the anime adaptation of Takaya Kagami’s dark fantasy manga Owari no Seraph (Seraph of the End) has been featured in the December 2015 issue of Animedia. This issue of Animedia can be purchased here and you can view the other posters that came in this issue here.
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Owari no Seraph (Seraph of the End) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written by Takaya Kagami and illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto with storyboards by Daisuke Furuya. It is published by Shueisha on Jump Square and in English by Viz Media on Weekly Shonen Jump. Takaya Kagami and Yamato Yamamoto launched the dark fantasy series in Shueisha’s Jump Square magazine in fall 2012. Shueisha published the sixth volume on September 4, and new volumes have regularly ranked on Oricon’s top 50 chart. An anime adaption was announced on August 28, 2014.
One day, a mysterious virus appeared on Earth which killed every infected human over the age of 13. At the same time, vampires emerged from the world’s dark recesses and enslaved mankind. Enter Hyakuya Yuuichirou, a young boy, who along with the rest of the children from his orphanage, are treated as livestock by the vampires. Even in captivity, Yuuichirou dreams big. He dreams of killing vampires. He dreams of killing them all.
On Wednesday, November 11th, the official website of the voice actress group Aice⁵ announced that a member of their unit, Chiaki Takahashi (Azusa Miura from The iDOLM@STER), injured her foot during a dance rehearsal. A doctor’s examination determined that she snapped the Achilles’ tendon in her right foot. The voice actress said that it will take three to six months to heal, and in the meantime, she will be getting around in crutches. She still plans on attending her unit’s “Earphones vs Aice⁵ ~Sore ga Unit!~” event on November 22nd, despite not being able to dance.
Be sure to check out the group’s official website here.
Hyogo Prefectural Police have rearrested a 28-year-old male named Yasoumi Hirai for hiding inside a storm drain to snapshot upskirt pictures of female pedestrians in Kobe.
The man was also previously caught doing something similar on August 16th, at 7:50am, when he was alleged to have used a smartphone camera to film up the skirt of a 37-year-old beauty artist as she walked by the storm drain grating, until she saw hair poking through the slats, and made eye contact with the offender. She then proceeded to call the police, and they came, Hirai told the police he had been under the drain for five hours, the police searched the his phone, and found video and photographic evidence of similar offenses that he had committed. Hirai admitted to allegations, and has only been charged with causing a disturbance of the peace. And then another time, he was caught by the police in June of 2013, when he was arrested for filming up the skirt of a young woman near Konan Women’s University.
No updates yet on whether or not he will be added to a sex offender’s registry for this latest offense, but with luck he will only have to pay a fine and go free.
Japanese retailers have started accepting pre-orders for the Sekai Seifuku Sakusen (World Uniform Operation) brings to life the three main heroines of The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls! franchise. Uzuki Shimamura, Mio Honda, and a 1.1 version of Rin Shibuya are ready for school! These three make up the members of the unit “New Generations” in the series.
These series of figures was launched by Megahouse in September 2014 to focus on release popular anime girl figures in their school uniforms. The original Rin figure was released in August 2015 as the 18th product from the line and the Ver. 1.1 has a different pose and expression. Uzuki and Mio are priced at 7,992 Yen (about 65 USD) and are 1/10th scale. The new version of Rin is being sold for 7,560 Yen (about 61 USD). The three idol girls are scheduled for shipping March of 2016!
Idolm@ster is a long running popular idol series where Producer-san helps talented, cute young girls achieve their dreams of being on the stage. The Cinderella Project! is a new program by the successful company, 246 Production. Girls leading normal lives are chosen to be aspiring idols and see another world for the first time in this Cinderella story.
The official website for the anime adaptation of Yu Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana’s popular sci-fi action Terra Formars manga series has updated with a main visual for the upcoming second season of Terraformars, titled Terraformars Revenge. The series is expected to broadcast in April 2016.
The second season of the anime will have new staff members replacing the staff of the first season and OVAs. The new staff will have:
Director: Michio Fukuda (Hyakko, Nurarihyon no Mago: Sennen Makyou)
Series Composer: Naruhisa Arakawa (Kingdom, Maoyuu Maou Yuusha)
Anime Character Designer: Cagetzu Aizawa (Shingeki no Bahamut Genesis, Date A Live II Chief Animation Director) and Atsushi Ikariya (Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, Hataraku Maou-sama!)
Animation Studios: Liden Films (Miss Monochrome, Terra Formars) and TYO Animations
By comparison, here is the staff of the first season:
Series Composer: Shougo Yasukawa (Choujigen Game Neptune: The Animation, Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!?)
Anime Character Designers: Masanori Shino (Black Lagoon) and Satoshi Kimura (Buddy Complex)
Animation Studio: Liden Films (Miss Monochrome, Senyuu)
Here’s a trailer that looks back at the Terra Formars anime series which aired in 2014:
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Terra Formars is a Japanese manga series written by Yu Sasuga and illustrated by Kenichi Tachibana. It is serialized in Shueisha’s magazine Weekly Young Jump since 2011. Viz Media began publishing an English translation in 2014. Two original video animations (OVAs), abridging the Bugs 2 arc were released in 2014, and an animated television series, covering the Annex 1 arc was also shown in 2014; Also, a spin-off manga titled Terra For Police started on May 10, 2014 in Jump Kai. A live action film adaptation will be directed by Takashi Miike.
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.
The second season of the Terra Formars TV anime series, titled Terra Formars: Revenge, will air during April next year in the Spring 2016 anime season. Further information about the anime will be revelead in the near future.
The manga specializing doujin shop, Comic Toranoana, have recently opened up pre-orders for the 3D mousepad of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’s Jean Pierre Polnareff. The 3D mousepad was also offered at the 17th Golden Blood doujinshi event which was held on October 18, 2015.
The mousepad will sell for 4,000 ($32.5) yen with a January release.
Iona, Musashi and Yamato from the Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova series has been featured in the December 2015 issue of Animedia. This issue of Animedia can be purchased here and you can view the other posters that came in this issue here.
Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova is a Sci-Fi manga from Ark Performance. The series debuted in 2009 in Shonen Gahosha Young King Ours magazine. To date a total of 8 volumes have been compiled and released. The series received an anime adaptation in October last year. It was produced by SANZIGEN (Miss Monochrome: The Animation, Black Rock Shooter) with Seiji Kishi (Persona 4 The Animation, Angel Beats!) being the director. Makoto Uezu (School Days, Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?) handled the series composition and Masato Kouda (Mahou Sensou) was the anime’s Music composer.
By 2039, global warming had caused sea levels to rise and large amount of territory to be lost. As though in response, a mysterious group of warships clad in mist, “the Fleet of Mist,” appeared in every corner of the ocean, and began attacking human ships. In spite of humanity mustering all their strength, they were utterly defeated by the Mist’s overwhelming force. All of humanity’s trade routes were blockaded by the Fleet of Mist, their political economy was destroyed, and the human race was steadily beaten down. Seven years later, the Fleet of Mist’s submarine I-401 appears before cadet Gunzo Chihaya. The humanoid life form that pilots the sub, who should be their enemy, is instead offering her services to mankind.
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