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Blade, Fairy Tail, Ro-Kyu-Bu! Promo Videos Streamed

posted on by Gia Manry
U.S. comic-based anime, manga-bundled DVD, sports comedy set for summer

The official website for Madhouse's adaptation of the American comics company Marvel's Blade franchise is streaming a trailer movie for the show, which will premiere in Japan on July 1. The video is not embeddable but can be viewed at the official website. The site also confirmed the staff and cast:

Original Creator: Marvel Comics
Director: Mitsuyuki Masuhara
Series Script Supervisor/Script: Kenta Fukasaku
Animation Production: Madhouse
Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) Inc., Madhouse

Cast:
Akio Ohtsuka as Blade
Maaya Sakamoto as Makoto
Tsutomu Isobe as Deacon Frost
Osamu Saka as Noah Van Helsing
 
The story revolves around Blade, a "Daywalker" vampire hunter who was born with vampire and human blood after a vampire attacked his mother. While visiting Japan on a mission, Blade tracks down Deacon Frost, the vampire who killed his mother. Blade confronts "Existence," a mysterious organization composed of vampires modified by Frost.

Kodansha posted the following promotional video of the Fairy Tail manga's special "Yōsei Gakuen Yankee-kun to Yankee-chan" anime DVD, which will be bundled with the manga's 27th volume on June 17. The special features the characters from Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail fantasy adventure series parodying tropes from school comedy stories such as Yankee-kun to Megane-chan.



The official Ro-Kyu-Bu! YouTube account posted the following live-action teaser video for the upcoming television anime adaptation of Sagu Aoyama's light novel series. The story centers around a high school freshman boy named Subaru Hasegawa who joined the basketball team, but the team stopped playing due to the captain being suspected of being a lolicon. Subaru somehow ends up as a coach of an elementary school's basketball team with five girls.



The girls are played by five voice actresses, who form a unit named Ro-Kyu-Bu! after the anime's title:



Yūki Kaji (Hasegawa) and Shizuka Itou will also appear in the series.

[Via Moon Phase, SaiAni, Ota-Suke]

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