The official website for the Hyakka Ryōran Samurai Girls television anime series began streaming a new promotional video last Saturday. (In the linked page, select the "動画" item from the lefthand menu.) The anime adaptsAkira Suzuki's light novels which are set in the early 21st century — except in this alternate world, the Tokugawa shogunate never lost power and Japan maintained its enforced seclusion from the rest of the world. The 25th shogun assumed the mantle of Japan's leadership 20 years ago, and the student council enforces the suppression of rebellious elements at a giant academy for children of military families at the foot of Mt. Fuji. The girls Yukimura Sanada and Matabei Gotō battle the mostly female members of the ruling student council faction such as Sen Tokugawa ("Sen-hime"), Hanzō Hattori, and others. A 16-year-old male student named Muneakira Yagyū and a female Jūbei Yagyū are caught in the middle. The anime will premiere this October, and Hobby Japanannounced at Anime Expo that it will bring the light novels to North America.
The American television network G4 began streaming a promotional video for the Iron Man anime series last Saturday. Like the other Marvel Anime projects, the Iron Man anime adapts the American comic book series of the same name into 12 episodes from Madhouse studio. G4 wil launch the series in 2011 after the October premiere in Japan.
The North American anime distributor Funimation began streamimg promotional videos for both Sengoku BasaraandCorpse Princess earlier this week. Funimation also announced the English dubbing cast for Sengoku Basara:
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This continuation of Netflix's live-action version of Haro Aso's death game manga stretches the patience more than the previous seasons, but it's still ultimately worthwhile.― The third live-action season of Alice in Borderland, based on the death game manga by Haro Aso, drops onto Netflix with big disadvantages. One is that it's released almost three years after the second season, which seemed to e...
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We spoke with voice actors Hishikawa and Hidaka about their work on Turkey!-Time to Strike- and their thoughts on bowling, time travel stories, and the Sengoku Period of Japan.― On August 21, fans of Turkey! Time to Strike gathered at the Loft Plus One bar in Shinjuku for a talk show with voice actors Hana Hishikawa (voice of Mai Otonashi) and Noriko Hidaka (Sumomo), Yutaka Omatsu and Gen Oishi from...
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