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Queen's Blade's 2nd Season Green-Lit

Queen's Blade: Gyokuza no Tsugumono (literally, Queen's Blade: Inheritor of the Throne, or Queen's Blade and the evil eye), the second season of the Queen's Blade television anime series, was announced after the final episode of the first season ran on the AT-X channel in Japan today.

Anime Maker Odan Sendenman Blog reports that production on a DVD Volume 0 is being planned. Although the industry blogger cannot discuss the contents of the DVD yet, the blog indicates that the DVD may be released by this summer's Comic Market in August.

Eden of the East Gets Two Movies Green-Lit

The final episode of the Eden of The East television anime series has confirmed on Thursday night that a theatrical adaptation has been green-lit — as two films. The first film, Eden of The East the Movie I: The King of Eden, will open throughout Japan on November 28. According to the official blog of the animation staff, the second film, Eden of The East the Movie II: Paradise Lost, will open in January of 2010.

My Sisters Caring Bridge for Cancer Patients.

This message has nothing to do with gaming or anime. This is a personal message about my sister.

On April 8,2009 we found out she has DSRCT (desmoplastic small round cell tumor).

It's a type of sarcoma cancer, for more info click here. Taylor is only 17 years old as of January 31st, 2009.

Please if can take time out of your day, take time to visit Taylor's Caring Bridge and sign her guestbook. She'd really appreciate it and she reads them every time she gets online, the link is found at the end of this post. My mom is always updating the page with news about Taylor, more pictures, etc.

Some of you may know my sister online as Subtle.Edge, SayaBloodPlus18, or EvilAngel18.


http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/taylorhargrove

Beyblade: Metal Fusion to Debut in U.S. Fall 2010

The North American production company Nelvana Enterprises has announced at the Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas on Tuesday that Beyblade: Metal Fusion, the newest anime series based on the Beyblade spinning top game and manga franchise, will premiere in North America in Fall 2010. The 51-episode series, which already premiered in Japan in April under the name Metal Fight Beyblade, will tie into the relaunch of the toy line. According to Nelvana, the anime's story follows a new cast of "characters competing for dominance with their Beyblade tops, battling with an evil organization, Dark Nebula." The "Metal" in the new anime and toy line's name is a reference to the use of metal in the new tops, instead of just plastic as in the earlier incarnations.

Nelvana is co-producing the anime with Japan's d-rights. In fact, Martin Kucaj, the composer of the music in the English versions of the previous Beyblade projects and Medabots, already wrote the opening theme song for Japanese version. Takara Tomy is producing the toys which Hasbro will sell worldwide except in the Middle East and Asia. Nelvana, d-rights, Takara Tomy, and Hasbro had partnered on all the previous Beyblade incarnations. The Beyblade Battle Association is planning new tournaments in North America.

The Nihon Keizai (Nikkei) Shimbun newspaper reported in April of 2008 that Takara Tomy is reviving the franchise after four years. Takara Tomy launched the original game franchise in 1999, and sponsored three anime series between 2001 and 2003: Bakuten Shoot Beyblade, Bakuten Shoot Beyblade 2002 (Beyblade V-Force), and Bakuten Shoot Beyblade G-Revolution. New Beyblade episodes have not aired in the United States since 2005. Viz Media released Takao Aoki's original Beyblade manga, and Takafumi Adachi launched his new Metal Fight Beyblade manga in Shogakukan's Coro-Coro Comic magazine last September.

Funimation Acquires Spice and Wolf

The North American anime distributor Funimation is announcing on Saturday at Anime Boston that it has acquired the license for the first season of the Spice and Wolf anime series. The anime adapts Isuna Hasekura and Jū Ayakura's acclaimed light novel series that avoids the usual sword-and-sorcery trappings of fantasy stories and focuses on how business (and religion) gets done in a medieval world — with a wolf girl. Jun Fukuyama and Ami Koshimizu play the peddler Lawrence and the wolf girl Holo, two unlikely companions who embark on a journey together. IMAGIN produced the animation, and Kadokawa Pictures USA handled the distribution arrangements.

A second anime season, Spice and Wolf II, will premiere in Japan this July. Yen Press acquired the original light novels and Keito Koume's manga adaptation for English translation.

Gundam Unicorn Planned for Simultaneous World Release

The animeanime.jp news website reports on Monday that the Japanese studio Sunrise is planning to release its Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn anime around the world simultaneously. Sunrise had already announced last week that its adaptation of Harutoshi Fukui's light novels was green-lit for release in the winter of 2009. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun paper had reported earlier this month that Sunrise's parent company Bandai NAMCO Holdings is planning to distribute its Gundam franchise in 10 languages — Japanese, English, German, French, and others — within this year.

Sunrise has yet to announce the release format of the new Gundam Unicorn anime project.

Last December, Bandai began streaming anime episodes of its Tamagotchi virtual pet franchise on the YouTube video-sharing site for free in seven languages. In February, the North American anime distributor Bandai Entertainment announced that it is streaming the Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion and Mobile Suit Gundam 00 anime series on YouTube as well. Sunrise animated both titles. In January, Kurokami The Animation premiered on television in Japan, South Korea, and the United States within 24 hours of each other. The American release was handled by Bandai Entertainment.

Gundam Unicorn Anime Officially Announced

The June issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Gundam Ace magazine will officially announce on April 25 that an anime adaptation of Harutoshi Fukui's Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn space robot novels has been green-lit for this winter. Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Le Chevalier D'Eon, Rurouni Kenshin, Zipang) will direct off a script written by Yasuyuki Muto (Afro Samurai: Resurrection, Le Chevalier D'Eon, Persona -trinity soul-).

Kumiko Takahashi (Card Captor Sakura, Ouran High School Host Club, Witch Hunter Robin) will adapt the original character designs that Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (first Mobile Suit Gundam, Venus Wars, Arion) created for the original novels. Hajime Katoki (Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, Gundam Wing Endless Waltz Special Edition), Yoshinori Sayama (Birdy the Mighty Decode, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack), Junya Ishigaki (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Macross Frontier), and Nobuhiko Genba (Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa animator) will design the robotic mecha loosely inspired by Kunio Okawara's work on the first Mobile Suit Gundam series. Shinya Ogura (Eureka Seven , Gundam Evolve, Planetes) will advise on the world setting of the story, as he has on other Sunrise anime projects.

The Gundam Unicorn story is mainly set in the year of Universal Century 0096 — three years after Char's Counterattack, the last anime to feature the protagonist Amuro and antagonist Char of the first Gundam anime series. Before penning Gundam Unicorn, Fukui wrote the stories of the C-blossom - case729 and Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 manga.

Today in Class 5-2 Manga Gets Original Anime DVD

The Japanese publisher Kodansha launched a new website this month to announce that an original animation DVD adaptation of Coharu Sakuraba's Kyo no Gononi (Kyō no 5 no 2 or Today in Class 5-2) manga has been green-lit for release this fall. The "light ecchi" story centers around fifth grader Ryōta Satō, his childhood friend Chika Koizumi, and the rest of their school's Class 5-2. The new anime will ship with limited initial editions of the manga.

The anime will share much of the same cast and staff as last year's television anime adaptation, such as character voices Yu Kobayashi and Asami Shimoda as Ryōta and Chika, respectively. Satomi Akesaka (Yūki), Mako (Kazumi), Kana Asumi (Natsumi), Youko Honda (Megumi), Megumi Yamato (Kōji), and Ayahi Takagaki (Tsubasa) also reprise their respective roles. Television series director Tsuyoshi Nagasawa, animation producer Takashi Noto, scriptwriter Takamitsu Kouno, character designer Nao Chikaoka, music composer Kei Haneoka, and the XEBEC animation studio are returning for the DVD project.

According to a blog entry by Akesaka, the project was announced at a recent Starchild Festival event. The theme song will be a new track called "Kitakaze."

Source: ANN

Viz to Stream Dubbed Naruto Episodes on Joost, Hulu

The North American anime distributor Viz Media has announced on Monday that the Joost and Hulu video websites will stream English-dubbed, uncut episodes of the original Naruto anime series for free. The first five episodes of this 2002-2007 television adaptation of Masashi Kishimoto's ninja manga series will go live on April 15. A new episode will be added every Wednesday. Joost is available in the United States and Canada, while Hulu is available in the United States. Each episode will remain on the site for about five weeks.

Joost and Hulu have already been streaming English-subtitled episodes of Naruto since last September. Joost, Hulu, Viz's own Naruto.com site, and the Crunchyroll site have also been streaming subtitled episodes of the Naruto Shippūden television sequel since the beginning of the year.

Another North American anime distributor, 4Kids Entertainment, announced earlier this month that the YouTube video site is now streaming its Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes "everywhere except Asia (sorry Asia)." 4Kids began posting episodes with Japanese dubbing (but without English subtitles) and with English dubbing last month, but the episodes were initially available only to viewers with American Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

Dragonball Evolution Opens at #8 with US$4.8 Million

Dragonball: Evolution, James Wong and 20th Century Fox's live-action film adaptation of Akira Toriyama's fighting manga, opened in the United States this weekend with an estimated US$4,650,000 on 2,181 screens. The April 10-12 box office estimate from the studio places Dragonball: Evolution at #8 below two other new films: #1's Hannah Montana The Movie with US$34,000,000 and #4's Observe and Report with US$11,140,000. As of this weekend, Dragonball: Evolution has earned an estimated US$25,315,346 worldwide after opening in eight Asian markets last month.

The Wachowski Brothers and Warner Brothers' live-action film remake of the Speed Racer car-racing anime opened last May at #3 with US$18,561,337.

Source: Box Office Mojo, and ANN