The current, highly rated Japanese anime television series Kaidan Restaurant will get its first theatrical film this August. Masayuki Ochiai (Parasite Eve) will direct the film, which will be a combination of anime and live action.
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The official Japanese homepage for the Pocket Monster movie franchise now hosts a Flash trailer for this summer’s 13th Pokemon theatrical film, along with two teaser trailers. Pocket Monster Diamond & Pearl: Genei no Hasha Zoroark (The Phantom Champion Zoroark) will hit Japanese theaters on July 10.
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The homepage for the Trigun: Badlands Rumble motion picture is now streaming a new trailer. The movie will shoot into Japanese theaters on April 24.
I’ve been wary of the previously released trailers, but there’s something about the composition and pacing of this trailer that feels more substantial and less like it’s [...]
Tokyopop has announced that the entire 51 episode “Rave Master” (Groove Adventure Rave) anime television series is now available as an English dubbed DVD-on-demand collection retailing at $39.99 from Amazon’s CreateSpace DVD-R retail service. Tokyopop released three DVD volumes of the 2001 television series in 2003.
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FUNimation has announced its acquisition of digital, broadcast, and home video distribution rights, and merchandise rights to the current Baka to Test to Shokanju and Dance in the Vampire Bund anime television series. The English subtitled first two episodes of “Baka and Test – Summon the Beasts” and the first four [...]
Record Of Lodoss Wars is one of the most popular fantasy imports of recent memory, and it’s no wonder–over the course of the original 13 OVAs, we get to know a band of characters very well, and their exploits are not only exciting but occasionally thought-provoking and (dare I say it?) touching. There’s now a [...]
Have you ever once seen the power of music destroy an enemy civilization in American media? I can’t think of any shows that have done so, but anime has a huge catalog of titles that involve music being the driving force behind a culture’s power. Although you’d be hard pressed to track the phenomenon back [...]
Creativity is a hard thing to come by, and few shows have it. Plenty are action-packed, entertaining, exciting, and all together predictable. Then there are the DOA packages, where somebody tries something new but utterly fails because their ideas are just too far out there to understand. Sometimes, a mix of the familiar and the [...]
When you don’t absolutely love the next great thing in anime, sometimes it can be disappointing…even when the show is pretty good. That’s the case for me and Le Chevalier D’Eon, the latest offering from ADV Films. High levels of anticipation have surrounded the show, in no small part due to the involvement of Production [...]
Spooky noises, haunted houses, possessions…all are part and parcel of the horror genre. One could argue that the field of horror films has never had much promise, and that the only original one in the 1990s was Scream, which simply took the premise and added a postmodern veneer. The Japanese never saw the advent of [...]
