Sorry I have not been posting, I have been with family and I am now experiencing a computer problem that will be fixed soon. So I am going all out today, XD.
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?
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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Ghost in the Shell 2.0's Promo Video Streamed
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.
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