A preliminary list for the upcoming winter season of anime has been released. Gainax's Hanamaru Kindegarten adaptation announced eariler this year at Anime Expo will be debuting. We'll keep you updated as more series are announced.
The November lineup is out for the San Francisco theater, Viz Cinema, and local fans are rejoicing. The second Gurren Lagann movie, Lights in the Sky are Stars will be making its American debut on Tuesday November 17, and Wednesday November 18 at 7:30PM. The film originally was shown in Japanese theaters on April 25, 2009 and will not be released on DVD until January 27, 2010. Viz will also be showing the first film on the same nights at 5PM. Viz Cinema is located in Japantown at the recently opened NEW PEOPLE building.
Now if only Viz can get the rights to show the Rebuild of Evangelion movies...
A new trailer for the Gundam 00 movie has appeared online. The trailer starts with the production staff working together, Seiji Mizushima (Director) and Yosuke Kuroda (Writer) both can be seen. Towards the middle, a first glimpse of the new Gundams are introduced: Raphael, Zabanya, Harute, and 00 Quan[T]. Video can viewed inside.
Announced a couple days ago, fans of the popular sci-fi manga Gantz can either rejoice or cringe in fear as a two part live action adaptation is on the way. Good news is that it's not being made by Hollywood. Ken'ichi Matsuyama (probably most well known for his acting work in live action adaptations as L in Death Note, Johannes Krauser II in Detroit Metal City, and Shinichi Okazaki in Nana) along with Kazunari Ninomiya will be starting in the film. Filming is reported to begin next month with an expected opening date between winter and spring 2011. The CG will be handled by Digital Frontier who has worked films such as both Appleseed movies, Evangelion: 1.0, Resident Evil: Degeneration, and Summer Wars.
ItaG Festival happened earlier over this weekend in Odaiba, filling up parking lots with itasha, anime themed decaled, vehicles. Some of you may recognize the parking lot as it is near the former 1/1 scale Odaiba Gundam and is visible from the monorail heading towards Tokyo Big Site. Links inside.
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