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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of The Sky has been green-lit as an anime adaptation. It will premiere April 12th on the Pokémon Sunday variety program.
The Fanroad anime magazine ended it’s 29 year old run this Saturday with it’s April issue. The magazine was a spinoff of Big Comic magazine and it specialized in reader-submitted art and manga.
Toy maker Yamato posted in their blog a multimedia project called Enka Ōdō Dai Shōgun. The project will include an anime adaptation by Studio Anima, illustrations, figures, novels, manga, drama CDs, and 3D computer graphics.
The live-action Dragonball film opened as the #1 film in five of the eight Asian markets. The film opens in the United Kingdom on April 3rd and the United States on April 8th. I imagine this film turning out to be so bad that it’s good. Anybody else agree?
Anon Pictures plans to exhibit the slapstick comedy Inuwari-san at the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF). Keiko Yamamoto will play the canine police officer who loves law, order, and tea.
Shirow Miwa debut manga Dogs will get an anime adaptation this summer with the fourth volume of the manga Dogs: Bullets & Carnage. The official website has launched with a promotional video.
The adult-adventure game Princess Lover! will be getting an anime. Hiromitsu Kanazawa will be helming the project as director with Makoto Nakamura doing the scripting. The official website promises an update March 18th.
The Kampfer light novel series has an anime adaptation in the works. Toshihiko Tsukiji also wrote the Maburaho light novels and the Umi Monogatari ~Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto~ pachinko games.
Lucent Pictures Entertainment and Studio 4°C are launching a new animation studio called Lucent 4°C (LFC). The first joint project will be announced sometime at the end of the year.
The Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden manga will not resume until spring of 2010. Manga-ka Yuu Watase announced through her website that the delay is due to her physical condition and her commitment to her other titles.
4Kids Entertainment announced yesterday net losses of US $19.6 million in the last three months of 2008. Net revenues dropped to $14.3 million and contributed to the increase of total losses of the year as a whole. Doesn’t look so good for 4Kids. Hopefully 4Kids sees this as a sign that it’s time to stop focusing so much time selling toys to kids and spending a bit more time on the original material.
Takashi Ikeda’s Sasameki Koto yuri manga was green-lit for an anime.
Manga-ka Rumiko Takahashi’s latest work starts in the 16th issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine on April 22nd. The issue also marks Shonen Sunday’s 50th anniversary in which a special 30-page one-shot by Takahashi and Mitsuru Adachi will be published called My Sweet Sunday.
According to Yahoo! research, Wikipedia is the third most credible source of information media in Japan. It fell behind newspapers and radio, but surprisingly it beat out television.
Crunchyroll has announced that it will stream a worldwide simulcast of the Katekyo Hitman Reborn! anime. The episodes will be available for it’s Anime Subscribers within an hour they premiere on Japan’s TV Tokyo station every Saturday at 10:30 AM (Friday at 9:30 PM EDT).
At the Tokyo International Anime Fair Studio Bones announced an original series entitled Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 this July. The series is about the 70% or higher possibility that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake will happen in Tokyo sometime in the next 30 years. The anime will follow a what-if scenario if an 8.0 earthquake took place. I really enjoyed Xam’d Lost Memories so I think this will be a series I’ll watch.
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WelcoMER at 12:41 am on March 18th, 2009
Alright man, nice to see you already started with the Daily Dose, hope to see more from you man :]
Syaoran Li at 12:46 am on March 18th, 2009
I bet the Dragon ball Evolution movie will be crap… still I’ll watch it.
Neo_NMO at 12:53 am on March 18th, 2009
The reviews I’ve read of Dragon Ball: Evolution and the comments I’ve heard from people that have managed to see it already say it’s so bad it’s funny. I’m planning on going to see it in theaters when it comes out… I’m not paying for it, of course. I still know someone that works for a theater, so i can get in for free.
purelyshin at 1:03 am on March 18th, 2009
I thought that Fushigi Yuugi was dead. I was wrong. Bring on the reverse harem.
L3g0la5 at 1:05 am on March 18th, 2009
U’re right bout Dragonball: Evolution though… i’ve seen it and its so bad that i found it funny.
Willy at 1:11 am on March 18th, 2009
you can watch he dbz movie here http://www.watch-movies-links.net/movies/dragonball_evolution/
its watchable but not epic
yanipheonu at 1:34 am on March 18th, 2009
A month when 4Kids loses money is a GOOD MONTH.
Hopefully someone picks up Pokemon after them. XD Nothing like some good old fashioned Pokemon.
Miri at 1:38 am on March 18th, 2009
Thank you for the Daily Dose. I hope to read more of the Dose soon.
Sadifn at 2:04 am on March 18th, 2009
Why did they use a white guy for Goku…makes no sense at all…
Chicle at 2:14 am on March 18th, 2009
Huzzah, more adventures of the Mystery Dungeon.
Also WOO HOO GO WIKIPEDIA.
Unknown-Man at 2:26 am on March 18th, 2009
@ yaniheou
Totally Agree with you when 4kids lose money. They havent done any good to the anime they licenced (I guess Yu-gi-oh! 5d is decent for voice cast but the scripts are still bad)
And I never thought that Pokemon is going to make another series. It goes to show how strong it is in Japan. But I still think that the first was the best.
Xrtear at 2:52 am on March 18th, 2009
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 sounds interesting when it comes out I’ll check it out. Thanks for the Dose, ARCADE.
:) at 3:08 am on March 18th, 2009
omg i laughed so much watching the dbz movie (not the good kind of laughing either).
On another note, YES dosages are back!
Jezreel at 3:35 am on March 18th, 2009
pues espero pronto nuevos reviews de nuevas series, espero que tomen en cuenta un anime que se llama VALKYRIA CHRONICLES & S.S. LOST CANVAS
Nota: desde hace 4 años que sigo visitando la web desde la serie de Suzuka
saludos a los del Staff (OMNI, JAALIN & ARCADE)
99lives at 4:00 am on March 18th, 2009
ok among all the news updated here the most shocking one is got to be this one:
” The adult-adventure game Princess Lover! will be getting an anime. Hiromitsu Kanazawa will be helming the project as director with Makoto Nakamura doing the scripting. The official website promises an update March 18th. ”
I’m a big fan of Princess Lover! game and i certainly didn’t expect to see it to be animated coming so soon. Princess Lover was Ricotta very first offcial game that was released last year June and its not even a year yet. I really hope they do a good job animating it~ the promo looks good~ thansk for website
for those who are interested in the game here is the
official site : http://www.ricotta-soft.jp/products/prilover/index.html
another good news for me is kampfer is getting animated~
Jimmy at 4:24 am on March 18th, 2009
My take on the Dragonball movie is this: The only reason anyone would want to watch a a DBZ movie is to watch Goku go super saiyan in real live motion. But I don’t think that’s going to happen, especially since the villain in this story is piccolo. Even if they don’t follow the manga and/or anime and actually show him going SS, I would be very happy. But that’s just me being optimistic. All that’s left now is hoping Bulma and Chi Chi are hot.
mutio at 4:57 am on March 18th, 2009
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 sounds interesting. Their last series, Bounen no Xamdou, was an ubber fail to me though. Big plot holes, lacking character development, fucked up ending.. nothing you could compare with Eureka Seven, which has similarities (animation style) but is on a different level.
So anyways, big thanks for this! Looking forward to more of your posts
aeriolewinters at 5:10 am on March 18th, 2009
I thought that Pokemon is now being handled by Pokemon USA?
Maximilian at 5:36 am on March 18th, 2009
“Takashi Ikeda’s Sasameki Koto yuri manga was green-lit for an anime.”
Yuri!!! After I saw this, I went and read the manga and loved it. Really, from being one-shot to serialized and now getting an anime, it sure is a success
bk201 at 6:16 am on March 18th, 2009
yay for another BONES anime ^^!