Live Action Anime

A teaser for Production I.G.‘s upcoming animated film Bungaku Shojo was added to the official website for the film recently.
Based on a series of light novels by Mizuki Nomura, the story revolves around the only two members of a high school literary club: the president, a senior named Toko Amano and author Konoha Inoue. Inoue [...]

Here’s the teaser for the upcoming Gintama film.
Based on a Hideaki Sorachi manga, Gintama was first adapted to an anime series by Sunrise and has been airing on TV Tokyo since 2006. The new film will be based on the Benizakura story arc from episodes 58-61 of season 2 of the series.
The film will be [...]

Well another late post, but I thought some of you Inuyasha fans might like this. It’s the trailer for the upcoming Inuyasha The Final Act.

This bit of news it is a little late but the adaptation of Hideo Okuda’s Kūchū Buranko (Trapeze) short story collection has been announced as a 2D anime and live action hybrid adaptation. Yumi Sugimoto will play a “sexy nurse” in the anime and live action roles.

The stories center around the various odd patients of [...]

A body was found near the mountain that Crayon Shin-chan creator Yoshito Usui was planning on climbing. Reports say that the body found was wearing similar cloths to those Yoshito Usui was wearing the day he went missing. The body was discovered by another climber who said it was in a spot not easily accessible [...]

A teaser trailer and a full trailer for the upcoming sixth feature film Space Battleship Yamato anime series has been posted on the official website for the film.

According to Tokyograph, the new film is set in 2220 (17 years after the events of “Final Yamato”), at a time when Earth is threatened by [...]

Recently there has been a lot of talk about Marvel studios branching out to the East in search of new ways to bring their products to life.  Well, it’s finally coming around.  Here are the latest trailers for the Marvel projects.

Iron Man (アヤンマン)

Wolverine (ワルヴァリン)

Both trailers were revealed at San Diego Comic Con and according to [...]

Funimation announced at Otakon on Friday that they have licensed four Detective Conan films.
The films are:
Detective Conan: The Last Magician of the Century (1999)
Detective Conan: Captured In Her Eyes (2000)
Detective Conan: Count Down to Heaven (2001)
Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
Funimation will begin releasing the films individually this winter.
You can discuss this on [...]

Aniplex has announced at Otakon on Friday that the first Gurren Lagann film Gurren Lagann the Movie – Childhood’s End will be shown at the Viz Cinema theater in San Francisco with English subtitles on September 8.  This is the first part of Gainax’s theatrical remake of its Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann anime series.

The second [...]