Archive for the 'Anime TV news' Category

“What if” anime movie posters

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Check out these cool-looking (but unfortunately, fake) movie posters made by fans imagining what the movie posters would look like for their favorite as yet unmade anime series.
Above is my favorite of the bunch, based on the Evangelion anime TV series. It’s so good you’d have to look twice to find out it isn’t legit.
There [...]

Voltron flick a “go”… again

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

You see, you just can’t keep a good universe-saving, interlocking, lion themed giant flying robot with badass laser-powered sword down.
After being dumped by Fox-based film production outfit New Regency Pictures, the live- action adaptation of the beloved anime series was recently picked up by Relativity Media.
The new outfit will rely on a smaller budget, but [...]

Top Ten anime on TV

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Well, here are the latest top ten anime TV series rankings, care of the good people from animebb.org:
10. Shugo Chara!
9. Oha Colosseum
8. Blue Dragon Tenkai no Shichiryu
7. Soreike! Anpanman
6. Keroro Gunso
5. Naruto Shippu-den
4. Pokemon Diamond
3. Doraemon
2. Crayon Shin-chan
1. Death Note

Toei + Disney = RoboDz

Friday, August 8th, 2008

It’s no secret that Disney has been heavily influenced by Japanese animation and vice versa. So it’s utterly fascinating to see the the results of a more obvious kind of mutual influence: the joint animation project.
Case in point: RoboDz, a computer-animated story of three robots defending the Earth from alien invasion (apparently joint projects do [...]

Naruto, Bleach, Death Note anime now available on iTunes

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

The good folks at Viz Media have seen fit to finally make some money off the countless multitudes of anime downloaders on iTunes, and have made Naruto, Bleach and Death Note available on Apple’s iTunes service.
English dubbed versions of the first 25 uncut eps of Naruto, the first 41 Bleach episodes, and the complete run [...]

Gundam 00 english promo up

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

The English dub for the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is set to premiere on the Sci Fi Channel on November 17, and the distributor, Bandai Entertainment, has launched the official website and promotional video.
English dub actors for four of the Gundam pilots were also revealed:
Setsuna F. Seiei: Brad Swaile
Lockon Stratos: Alex Zahara
Allelujah Haptism: [...]

GON, beloved manga with no dialogue, to become anime

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Gon is a scrappy little dinosaur living in a prehistoric world with no humans around, and where none of the animals speak. The manga, created by Tanaka Masashi, came out in the early ’90s and established itself as a modern-day classic.
And while talk of anime adaptations tarted early it was only recently that Daewon Media [...]