Looks like the Nodame Cantabile anime franchise is going down up in a blaze of glory. Despite the fact that the first two seasons have scored mad ratings on Japanese television (during Fuji TV’s popular late-night Noitamina timeslot), the series will not be “milked” for countless seasons and fade into obscurity. Instead, the upcoming third season will mark its grand finale, they say, and it will be aptly titled Nodame Cantabile: Finale.
35 years have passed since the beginning of the once-thriving space saga known as Space Battleship Yamato, or Space Cruiser Yamato, or even Star Blazers, if the original Japanese title Uchuu Senkan Yamato sounds too alien. But out of those many years, the last 26 have gone without any new anime addition to the series – albeit with several failed attempts to revive it.
Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen to air on Japan’s YTV this fall
This year’s 34th issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine will announce next Wednesday that an Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen (Inuyasha Final Chapter) television adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi’s manga has been green-lit. The anime will broadcast on Japan’s YTV this fall and cover the story in volumes 36 to 56 of the manga — the final 21 compiled book volumes. The original staff and cast will reunite for the new anime adaptation.
Shonen Sunday had promised earlier this month that it will be including a special news announcement about Inuyasha in issue #34. Takahashi had ended the Inuyasha manga in the same magazine last June. She has been serializing a new manga called RIN-NE (Kyōkai no Rinne) in the magazine as well as on TheRumicWorld.com website for North America readers since April 22. Viz Media has been releasing the Inuyasha manga in North America, and it has also released the original 2000-2004 television anime adaptation.
source: animeavenue
Following up on yesterday’s announcement of Marvel’s anime projects at Comic Con International, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed via their exclusive trailer that Lions Gate/Marvel Entertainment will handle animation production on the feature slated for release in 2010, not Studio Madhouse as has been reported by the rest of the media.
The confusion stems from the announcements of the Wolverine and Iron Man projects being announced at the same time as Planet Hulk.
source: animebiznews
The first footage of an as yet unannounced iPhone port of Resident Evil 4/Biohazard 4 has appeared on YouTube courtesy of AppBank (Japanese). The video demonstrates gameplay adjustments and the difference in graphics from the Nintendo Gamecube and Playstation 2 versions. The game was apparently leaked on the Japanese App Store before being pulled by Capcom with no explanation given.
source: animebiznews
Jul 30
Akira Following up on the apparent death reports of the live-action Akira project, executive producer Andrew Lazar confirmed that Warner Bros. has made the adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s epic dystopian saga a priority when speaking to if Magazine during Comic-Con International this past weekend. He also confirmed that the studio was working on a script, but wasn’t aiming for a release before 2011, which makes sense given the prior timeframes that were previously reported were much too accelerated for such a large scale production.
source: animenewsbiz
Akira (アキラ?) is a 1988 anime film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his hit manga. The film is set in a futuristic and post-war city, Neo-Tokyo, in 2019. While most of the character designs and basic settings were adapted from the original 2,182-page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the manga.
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