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Gantz Live Action Teaser Released

We’ve all heard the news of the Gantz anime series getting a live-action treatment not too long ago. Well, some footage has finally been released and even though it’s not much, it will still allow people to speculate, which is always fun! The first film will be released in early 2011 and the second will follow in [...]

Official Tekken Live Action Trailer

Well boys and girls it’s been a pretty damn long wait, and I have to say by the look of the trailer I can’t predict that it will be a great movie, but compared to other awful video game adaptations, it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
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Post-Christmas Review Special, Part 3: Code Geass

Christmas and New Year are sadly behind us now, and so too concludes the post-Christmas review special. Nevertheless, in part 3 comes the Thrasher’s take on the much-beloved bombastic blockbuster, Code Geass. After taking Japan and the US by storm, its first season has finally arrived on DVD in the UK in 2009. How does [...]

Footage from Live Action Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad Streamed

Looks like the official website for the upcoming live action adaptation of Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s series Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad is streaming 30 seconds of the movie, and you can watch it right HERE.

Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi (20th Century Boys, Ikebukuro West Gate Park) began filming for the movie late last summer, and the film is slated [...]

Funimation licenses The Legend of Kamui

This news comes courtesy of the Anime News Network. Funimation have announced that they will be licencing The Legend of Kamui, Yoichi Sai’s live-action adaptation of the classic Sanpei Shirato manga, for release in America. The film, which premiered on September 19th in Japan, is due for a 2010 DVD release Stateside, although at this [...]

Post-Christmas Review Special, Part 2: Darker Than Black

A happy new year from the Thrasher’s Word to Liveactionanime.org! The post-Christmas special continues, with the Thrasher giving his two cents on Studio BONES’ most recent 26-episode blockbuster, the mature, yet remarkably self-deprecating Darker Than Black. With a second season having just finished its run in Japan, the story is going to be a long [...]

Teaser Trailer for LAA Space Battleship Yamato

It was noted in July of last year that a live-action adaptation of the classic space opera anime series Space Battleship Yamato. Yesterday, a thirty-second teaser trailer emerged online courtesy of fanboy.com. You can watch it below:

Judging by the date at the end of the trailer, the prospective Japanese release date appears to be December [...]

LAA Podcast #26

Just in time for one last podcast in the first decade of the 2000’s, myself and Thrash Til Death discuss everything that’s gone on in the wide world of Live Action Anime adapatations in the past several weeks. And you can downlaod it right HERE!

In this episode, Thrash and I discuss recent happenings with the Cowboy [...]

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Live Action Tetsujin 28 Coming Soon!

From the shadows I emerge to post this news I found over at ANN. Seems as though director Mamour Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers) has in the works a live action version of the acclaimed manga Tetsujin 28. He made the announcement during a press conference for his latest live action Assault [...]

Post-Christmas Review Special, Part 1: Claymore

Well, it’s that time again, everyone, when that benevolent, obese spirit of jollity (Santa, if that was unnecessarily abstract for anyone) has been and gone. Many of you, this December 25th, may have been blessed either with anime, or with vouchers or cash to obtain anime. But before you go rushing off to the inevitable [...]

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