Zannen.ca has posted YTV’s new line-up for this Fall including the North American premiere of the Death Note anime.
Archive for August, 2007
FollowThe September 2007 issue of the North American, Viz-run comic anthology, Shoujo Beat will have a picture of the charcter Night from the running series, Absolute Boyfriend featured on it. It will be a never before published image that the artist, Yuu Watase, did specifically for this issue.
Source: ActiveAnime
Furthering showcasing the growing popularity in manga, William Paterson University in New Jersey has a book done in manga style designed to help students study for a portion of their SATs. No surprise many of the students using these specially made books are reading ahead of their classes.
Source: Sacbee.com
The upcoming Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles OVA, Tokyo Revelations (the second Tsubasa OVA to date) has been announced as completed. The preview screening for critics, contest winners and other so priveledged is planned for October 21st.
Source: CLAMP Now
A new season of XXXHolic has been announced as being in the works. A few cast changes were noted but no specifics. To fans of CLAMP’s supernatural partner to the less than well recieved Tsubasa anime, this is good news indeed.
Source: GiaPet.net
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Author: Satosumi Takaguchi
Manga-ka: Yukine Honami
Publisher: DMP/June
Rating: Young Adults (16+)
Released: August 2007
Synopsis: “Yuuhi-kun planned to build a soccer field on the piece of mountain land that was his inheritance, but when his brother’s elite Shuuiku Academy needed a new campus, Yuuhi was forced to reconsider. Now he finds himself both the landlord, and a student at the school! Needless to say, the other students are none too happy about being shipped out to the boonies, so Yuuhi – AKA “chicken-head” – has become the object of their collective ire. But there’s something about the country bumpkin that has many students eyeing Yuuhi in a different way…a way that makes him very uncomfortable. Seems there’s a lot more than “book-learnin’” going on at this school, and Yuuhi’s about to get a whole ‘nuther kind of education!”
This schoolboy love story begins with Yuuhi, a young boy from the country who dreams of one day having a soccer field built where the mountain he’s inherited now stands. A problem with this arrives in the form of plans to have a school built there instead, but only with his permission. Two students, speaking for a party who don’t want to have their school dropped out in the middle of nowhere, approach Yuuhi in attempts to persuade him to refuse the deal. Unfortunately their choice to insult where he lives and their resulting vengeance for Yuuhi’s reaction, garners the opposite effect and the land is rented to the school.
Viz Media’s website has updated with the complete Press Release of its newly acquired titles for 2007, including a variety of previously licensed works being moved to paperback format or magazine-serialization. Announcements include the acquiring of licenses for the Honey & Clover and NANA anime series’ and various mangas, including the debut of Kaori Yuki’s new work, Fairy Cube.
All the details can be read here.
In a continued slew of media releases leading up to the highly awaited PS3 game, Heavenly Sword, the first of a series of anime-styled videos has been unveiled to the public. It acts as a prelude to the game, explaining the history behind the Heavenly Sword and its coming into the hands of mortals.
The video can be watched in high-definition here.
In light of the recent box-office success of the Transformers movie, 20th Century Fox has announced plans to boost production of their Voltron live-action movie and franchise. Fox is hoping that Voltron will appeal to the same masses with equal success. Like Transformers, Voltron was an anime series from the 80s which sparked a large market of figurines, comics, spin-offs and fans. It focused on a team of five pilots flying lion-shaped mechs which joined together to become Voltron, a sword-weilding mech used for the sake of defending the galaxy from evil forces.
Source: Variety
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Manga-ka: Lily Hoshino
Publisher: DMP/June
Rating: OlderTeen (16+)
Released: March 2006
Synopsis: “In the land of magic, a new king is being crowned. However, a mishap during the ceremonial rite causes the royal crest to be accidentally attached to a normal human, Kazuomi. To protect the crest from any villains who may be after it, Mewt, the cute and brave sorcerer, is dispatched to the human world. There, Mewt must live disguised as a girl, and as “she” and Kazuomi live under one roof together, the two begin to find themselves attracted to each other…”
Citizens of a far away land gather to crown their new king, branding him with the country’s crest in recognition. However a magical mishap sends the crest off to an unknown source and it’s up to the young sorcerer Mewt to find it. Moments later, Kazuomi, a notorious lady’s man, is suddenly struck with a pain in his stomach, and is soon landed upon by the young girlish Mewt who fell from the sky. Kazuomi is the new bearer of the crest and it’s now Mewt’s job to watch over him and learn the ways of this new world.
