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Inuyasha Confirmed to End Next Wednesday in Japan
The 28th issue (released on June 11) of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine has confirmed that the next issue (on sale on June 18) will feature the final chapter of Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha time-travelling fantasy manga. Takahashi has been working on Inuyasha over the course of 11 years and seven months, more than 54 volumes, and 558 magazine installments. Inuyasha will be Takahashi's longest regularly serialized work — topping Urusei Yatsura (over eight years), Maison Ikkoku (seven years), and Ranma 1/2 (over eight years). (One-Pound Gospel, the Mermaid series, and Rumic Theater have all been running for more years, but were all also irregularly serialized and shorter in page count.)
So my question is, Will it really end? Or will the adventures continue in the novels or live action movies that will most likely follow?
1st Anime Album in 11 Years to Rank in Japan's Top 3
The original soundtrack for the Macross Frontier science-fiction anime series has reached #3 on Oricon's next weekly chart of all albums sold in Japan. The 72,000 sold copies make Macross Frontier Original Soundtrack I: Nyan Fro the first anime soundtrack to reach the chart's top 3 rankings in nearly 11 years. The last anime album to reach #3 or higher was The End of Evangelion soundtrack, which was first released on September 26, 1997. More sales of the Macross Frontier soundtrack are expected as many music stores across Japan had sold out and had to reorder more copies.
Popular composer Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Macross Plus) worked on all 24 tracks on the Macross Frontier album. The album also features the "Triangler" opening theme from Maaya Sakamoto (Escaflowne, Cardcaptor Sakura) and the "Diamond Crevasse" ending theme from May'n (May Nakabayashi). Both songs reached #3 on Oricon's weekly charts of all singles sold in Japan. At one point in May, both singles ranked in the top 10 in the same week. At least two more singles are scheduled for release with May'n and one of Macross Frontier's main voice actresses, newcomer Megumi Nakajima.
Macross Frontier is the latest sequel to the Macross space opera series. Like the first Macross series, it features a space war, love triangles, three-mode transformable fighters, and pop music. The first Macross series spawned a film, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?, and Mari Iijima's movie theme "Do You Remember Love?" became a top-ten single for six straight weeks as well as a top-40 song for all of 1984. At least six Macross albums (including the Macross: Do You Remember Love? soundtrack album) have placed on Oricon's weekly charts for all albums sold in Japan. (Evangelion has also placed six albums on the Oricon weekly album charts.)
Tokyopop's Output to Drop to 20-22 Monthly Releases
Mike Kiley, the former Tokyopop publisher who will soon fill a "key senior executive role in Tokyopop Media," told the ICv2 retail news source that Tokyopop will ship 225-250 print releases from September of 2008 through next year after its restructuring. 20-22 releases are planned per month during that timeframe. As a result, Tokyopop's total publishing output for 2008 will be in "the very low 400s," which is a drop of 80 titles from the previous plans. Kiley declined to specify how each of Tokyopop's different product lines will be affected.
ICv2 also confirmed that the 39 employee layoffs represented 35-40% of the Tokyopop's workforce in the United States, and Kiley acknowledged that people involved in the direct production of books were the most affected. Tokyopop will be contacting specific creators under its contracts, after sending a message to all of them on Thursday night.
Neo Angelique Abyss -Second Age- TV Sequel Confirmed
Neo Angelique Abyss -Second Age-, the second anime series based on KOEI's Neo Angelique fantasy adventure franchise for female gamers, has been confirmed to start in July in Japan. The new television series will pick up where Neo Angelique Abyss, which began in April and will run for 13 episodes, ends. KOEI also created other game, anime, and manga franchises under its female-oriented Neo Romance label, including the original Angelique franchise, Haruka -Beyond the Stream of Time-, and La Corda D'Oro.
The official Japanese website of Mamoru Oshii's The Sky Crawlers film has posted a promotional video for Ghost in the Shell 2.0, the enhanced edition of the first Ghost in the Shell cyberspace film. The website also posted an article that describes the visual updates and audio remixing for this edition that opens in five Japanese theaters on July 12. The Ticket Pia agency has also posted three before-and-after images and the poster image.
Link for the video. Just click on th little play button, on the website, and the screen should pop up.
And right now, I find this moderately important.rightstuf.com is having a MASSIVE sale on Geneon DVDs and CDs They range from $5, $10 and $15. Sale ends June 15th.
Okay, so I haven't been interested in the news lately. Here's an extra-special apology to Batou and Tim for leaving them high and dry: the news! Thanks for being such troopers, guys!
The manga commissioned by the United States Navy is being distributed in Japan on the US naval base in Yokosuka and online. The manga is to prepare the Japanese citizens for the arrival of the USS George Washington CVN 73, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The Navy wanted an alternative approach to reaching the Japanese people than a regular pamphlet, and for good reason. Since the whole Nagasaki and Hiroshima thing, nuclear-powered weapons have been a predominant motif in anime and manga as horribly despised weapons.
The story explains the carrier's mission through a fictional Japanese-American sailor. There are pdf formats available online in both English and Japanese.
A twenty-five year old male suspect has been arrested for repeatedly attacking others with a knife. This is far beyond the otaku muggings we have heard about previously, where only money was stolen.
Tomohiro Katō, a Susono City resident, came barrelling into the street shortly after noon. He hit people with his rented truck and afterwards, got out and began stabbing people. So far, roughly seventeen people have been hit in some way and seven have died. The victims range in age from nineteen to seventy-four and include one woman.
Authorities (and the newspapers) have now taken notice of a message that was posted on a cell phone forum that said "I Will Kill People in Akihabara". It was posted seven hours before the Sunday afternoon event that ended up closing down stores in the immiediate vicinity, including the Akiba branches of Sofmap and Mandarake.
My source has updated the news article nine times already and any more news will be updated accordingly.
UPDATE: Already? Yes. JapanProbe has oodles of extra side-bits. I'm not quite sure yet how they can be incorporated, but I'll try to shove it all in an extra post later.
why is no one else posting news. Anyway heres the news by the Bootnr's only Angel me Fallenangel8 ^_^.
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Yakuza Not As Smart As You Think!
CHIKUSHINO, Fukuoka -- Three gangsters and another man assaulted two police investigators on Thursday after mistaking them for members of a rival yakuza organization, police said Saturday.
The four were identified as Yasunori Mikasa, 25, Tatsuya Nakamura, 23, and Hidemaru Mikasa, 22, all members of the Fukuda-gumi, an affiliate of the Dojin-kai crime syndicate, and Hiroyasu Mikasa, 24.
They were arrested for robbery resulting in injuries after turning themselves in at a local police station on Friday.
"We committed the crime. We mistook them for members of a rival gang," one of them was quoted as telling investigators.
The incident occurred in a parking lot in Chikushino in the predawn hours of Thursday, during an investigation into the illicit sale of paint thinner as a drug.
Over 65,000 Watch 1st Death Note Film in U.S. Theaters
The Variety Japan news source reports that over 65,000 people watched the first Death Note live-action film adaptation in 300 theaters on May 20 and 21. By contrast, over 6,000 people in 166 American theaters watched Viz Media's first foray into nationwide digital theater distribution (Naruto The Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow) on June 6, 2007. Viz Pictures Director of Marketing Manami Iiboshi noted that the NCM Fathom promotional agency had the Death Note film's trailer running in theaters across the nation for a month before the screenings. The film reportedly sold about 20,000 tickets in advance and about 40,000 tickets on the screening days. Viz Pictures has begun exploring the possibility of releasing the second live-action film, Death Note: The Last Name, in theaters this fall after the first movie ships on DVD in North America on September 16. Viz's next nationwide theatrical screenings will be next week's Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody.
Museum Celebrates Galaxy Express 999's 30th Anniversary
On May 27, Tokyo's Suginami Animation Museum unveiled an exhibition commemorating the 30th anniversary of Leiji Matsumoto's Galaxy Express 999 space-opera anime. Adapted from a manga that Matsumoto himself began publishing in 1977, Galaxy Express 999 ran to 113 episodes as a television series and spawned three movies. There were several spinoffs as well, with the latest being The Galaxy Railways and its Ginga Tetsudo Monogatari: Eien e no Bunkiten sequel.
ok so this is a little news but really cool news to people going to AX.
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The Dark Knight Flies Over Anime Expo® 2008
Get ready to rage against evil, as Anime Expo® 2008 brings a screening and panel of the highly anticipated BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT two days before it is released on DVD, Blu-Ray and On Demand to this year’s Anime Expo® 2008 held from July 3-6, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA. More information can be found on the website www.anime-expo.org.
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Read or Die's Kurata, Sola's Abeno to Start New Manga
ASCII MediaWorks is revamping its Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine with more pages and manga titles. The August issue (on sale on June 27) will launch with sola artist Chako Abeno's manga adaptation of the White Album game from AQUAPLUS (Comic Party, To Heart). Honoka Level Up! artist MATSUDA98 will adapt Tomytec's Tetsudō Musume (Railroad Girls, top right image) series of female railway worker characters. Hiroshi Sakurazaka's Saitama Chainsaw Girl novel will also get a manga (center image) by Uguisukagura.
In addition, the August issue will include the one-shot manga "Mahō-I Neko to Ibara Hime" by Daisuke Moriyama (Chrono Crusade, World Embryo), Yasu Fukuyama's manga adaptation of Yūsaku Igurashi's (soon to be animated) light novel Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, and Short Summer Vacation by Yoshi-Wo.
. Anyway heres the news by the Bootnr's only Angel me Fallenangel8 ^_^.
