A Special 3D Trailer for the Movie is now Available
[Red/Cyan Glasses are required for viewing. Movie theater glasses will not work]
The trailer is presented in five different stereoscopic 3D options (red/cyan, green/magenta, blue/yellow, interleaved rows, columns or checkerboard, side by side). There are two videos of director Kenji Kamiyama discussing YouTube's first use of 3D glasses for a Japanese film trailer and the free midnight preview screening of the film in Tokyo on February 25. Kamiyama himself is overseeing the conversion, and I.G also added a newly animated opening sequence. The movie will open in Tokyo's Shinjuku Wald 9 theater and other Japanese theaters on March 26, 2011.
This is a beautiful compilation of diverse emotional and key moments of series such as Death Note, Vampire Knight, Code Geass, Haruhi Suzumiya and others, very well done with great quality.
Just as it usually happens with American comics (save a few exceptions, cough *The Dark Knight* cough), live action adaptations of anime/manga series have traditionally been an utter failure in box offices worldwide.
With the upcoming opening of Avatar: The Last Airbender this month on your nearest cinema, we can review the why and what will happen in the future with pending live action anime adaptations.
We have to keep in mind that Japanese cinema is still the ideal media for live action adaptations of animes, even if audiences are reduced to locals and fans.
Dragon Ball Z: Evolution (2009):
This adaptation had James Wong as a director and a less than ideal cast to play the characters, neither Chow Yun Fat or James Marsters could save this lackluster (they didn't look like the characters anyway!). The project started with a completely wrong approach, as if they didn't understand what the manga was about at all.
Even Krillin and Tien got removed from the script because they weren't considered relevant. And if we take the $100 million budget,it's difficult to know in what they spent it.
Rather than creating a solid script with specific details that was faithful to the manga and capture its essence, the film had this super tacky Mortal Kombat, Power Rangers, B-movie feel that leaves a bad taste in your brain after the credits roll . Ultraviolet was not so bad, if you look at it.
No wonder that fans of the original manga by Akira Toriyama consider it a total shame.
The images speak for themselves.
Sometimes I can't help thinking that if we had a real movie of Dragon Ball, with all the drama involved, at least half an hour would go only in the fight of Goku and Vegeta gathering strength XD. I don't know if a series or miniseries would be better in this case.
MADHOUSE, the studio behind series like Death Note and Vampire Hunter D, is producing the anime version of the CW series as part of a project for Warner Brothers.
According to the site Cinema Today, this is the first project by a Japanese studio based on foreign series.
Supernatural: the animation will be released on DVD and Blu Ray on January 12th, February 2nd and April 6th, 2011 respectively in Japan by Warner Home Video.
While animeanime.jp reports that the series will contain 22 episodes or OVAS that will cover the story of the first two seasons of the live action series, adding new scenes and original stories, as well as details of the Winchester brother's childhood.
Takahiro Yoshimatsu (Trigun) is in charge of character designs.
The seiyuus for the characters of Sam and Dean will be Yuya Uchida and Hiroki Touchi, the actors that did the Japanese dub for its broadcast in that country.
Following on from a poll the other day, Crunchyroll have now setup a petition to get 100,000 signatures and help it aquire the rights to simucast Bleach.
The petition will be sent directly to Japan, and if sucessful, could see simucasted on the site.
Crunchyroll already have a deal with Tokyo TV and is enjoying sucess with other SJ shows such as Naruto Shippuden and Fairy Tail
Parece ser que los Crunchyroll seran los que esten a cargo ahora de proveer los episodios de Bleach subtitulados desde el momento en que DB los deje de proveer.
Para eso han habilitado una pagina con una peticion para enviarla a Japon y de esa manera puedan obtener la negociacion con TVTokyo por los derechos de transmision simultanea y fansubbing.
