According to Gigazine’s website the “renewed” airing of The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suuzumiya anime series is 28 episodes long. Gigazine said that they had contacted the Teletama broadcasting station and a representative had reportedly told them that “we hear from the client that it is 28 episodes long.” J-Cast had also contacted Teletama upon hearing the news and they were told that the “renewed” airing will also include new material due to the planned 28 episode allotment. Interesting…
The official website for the anime adaptation of Guin Saga is streaming an English dubbed trailer. I can’t say much for the dubbing, but this series looks like its going to be great.
FUNimation is offering the new Fullmetal Alchemist anime on their website for streaming on April 9th at 12pm; four days after the Japanese airing.
With it becoming increasingly popular these days for companies to distribute anime on the web, Bandai Namco plans to join all the others by offering its Gundam franchise in ten different languages on the internet sometime this year.
It was announced that a manga spinoff of the popular Capcom video game Gyakuten Saiban (Ace Attorney) will be on the prosecution’s side and it is entitled Gyakuten Kenji. The manga will premiere in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine on April 13th.
A new manga adaptation of Tales Of The Abyss entitled Tales of the Abyss -Tsuioku no Jade- is scheduled to start April 24th in Kadokawa Shoten’s Asuka magazine.
A second promotional video is being streamed for Shangri-La on its official website.
It was announced at the end of the 25th episode of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season that a film was in the works and will open in Japanese theaters in 2010. So that should be plenty of time for me to catch up with both seasons.
The second promotional video for Sengoku Basara, a video game adaptation for the Playstation 2, is up for streaming at the official website. It premieres April 1st.
It was announced by GDH that the company will sell off its game development subsidiary Gonzo Rosso. The company plans to refocus itself on its animation business with Gonzo. I’ve never played any of their games, but I’m sure this is sad news indeed for somebody.
The manga series Twin Spica is getting a live-action TV drama on June 11th. The series will be broadcast on the NHK and actress Nanami Sakuraba is set to play the lead.
The next manga for Hellsing creator Kouta Hirano will be featured in the Shonengahosha’s Young King Ours magazine and its title is Drifters. I’m curious if this will include Hirano’s trademark craziness or not.
Gundam 00 artwork courtesy of makki on pixiv (account needed to access)
Summary:
When questioned about the whereabouts of Veda, Revive claims not to know, and he chuckles at the idea that Celestial Being is going to recapture it because Veda was originally created for the Innovators to use.
The current ED to Gundam 00 is a song that’s grown on me quite a bit since it started airing. My original reaction back when I first heard it in episode 15 was that I liked Prototype more, but after having listened to this quite a bit in the past several weeks, I think I now prefer trust you. I’ll admit that I’m a sucker for ballads, but Itou Yuna has a very powerful voice, and this song also reverberates some of the themes and relationships in Gundam 00 quite well (particularly Saji and Louise). That’s why I was quite excited to finally see the PV for it. The video has Itou Yuna looking very beautiful and singing the song in front of various backdrops, including a space one, and while it’s probably nothing that you’d watch more than a few times unless you really love Itou Yuna, it’s great to finally hear the full song. The single will be released in two weeks on March 4th, 2009.
Summary:
Fourteen years ago, during a losing battle, Sergei had issued the order to retreat to their final defense line so that they could protect all the people building the orbital elevator.
