If you like manga about overpowered tennis playing middle-schoolers, then you're in luck. On Saturday, Jump Square magazine posted the cover of their January issue. The cover reveals that there is a film adaptation of the manga in the works.
The manga, written by Takeshi Konomi, already has 2 other films and a live action film, aside from an anime adaptation and various OVAs
Source: [ANN]
Funimation has teamed up with new company, Cinema Asia Releasing, and Eleven Arts in order to bring us Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance. Not only is it coming stateside, but it's also going to be in theaters. An Eleven Arts spokesperson told the Hollywood Reporter that although they don't have an exact number, they're aiming to have approximately 70 to 100 theaters nationwide playing the title. The movie is set for release January 2011.
This is pretty exciting news for Eva fans, so be sure to check out the trailer above. From an industry perspective, we're seeing a lot more theatrical releases of what normally goes straight to DVD this year. Perhaps it's a sign of awesome things to come.
Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance is the second in a 4 part series of films, adapting Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Editor's Note: Today's cool header is by pixiv's あか.
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It's rare for an announcement to get me hopping up and down "all excited like" but even I couldn't help but squee today. Shounen Sunday announced on Wednesday that work on a theatrical film adaptation of Kenjirou Hata's popular manga, Hayate no Gotoku. Hideto Komori (animation director of Darker than BLACK) will be directing the film, making this his first time directing. The only way to view the announcement is from a mobile device, but we managed to get a copy.
For anyone who can read the moonrunes, this area of interest the text on the bottom left.
Unfortunately, this series isn't as well known as it should be. So for those unfamiliar with the story, Hayate no Gotoku! (Hayate the Combat Butler!) follows a boy named Ayasaki Hayate who serves as a butler to a young girl in order to pay off a 150,000,000 JPY (1.8 million USD) debt left to him by his parents. The manga has already inspired 2 anime adaptations as well as a Taiwanese live action drama. The 17th volume of the manga, will be published by Viz Media in North America, this coming March.
Source: [ANN], [Uri-Sure Matome R]
“This is a new war.”
My rating system:
5 = Perfection.
4.5 = REALLY good, but lacking that oomph to make it 5.
4 = Great.
3.5 = Above average. Definitely worth a look.
3 = Average.
2.5 = Below average. If you like its genre, you probably would like it.
2 = Not terrible, but not something you would like.
1.5 = Bad, but still worth checking JUST to make fun of how bad it is.
1 = BEWARE! EVIL! NOT EVEN WORTH MAKING FUN OF! WILL LITERALLY MAKE YOU SICK!
Summer Wars is about Kenji, a mathematical genius and part-time moderator of OZ, a massive online virtual experience that is used by practically every single person in the world. One day, he is asked by Natsuki, the most popular girl in his school, to take up a summer job. Being any natural mathematics nerd with a crush, he accepts. However, upon arrival at Natsuki’s family estate, Kenji finds out that he’s been drafted to pretend to be Natsuki’s boyfriend/fiancé in front of her extensive family during her beloved grandmother’s birthday. Later that night, Kenji receives a text message that is nothing but numbers. Thinking it’s just a random math question; he solves it and replies to sender. However, it turns out to that solution was the code to break into OZ’s mainframe. Oops. With a rogue program causing trouble in both the virtual world and the real world, Kenji has to take it down.
Now for the review:
The first thing many people have noted about this movie was that it was very, very pretty. Madhouse put a lot of effort into the design of OZ, and it suited it well. OZ looked very much like those cutesy websites pages where you create your own little avatar to interact with others and environments. It was very bright and creative. In contrast, the real world looked more dull and crisp. It was an excellent blending of two styles: OZ’s more stylistic and watercolor look and the real world’s more simple and sketchy one.
It seems like glorious Japan has realized we really really like their movies. Following Gantz's world premiere in the United States, I'm glad to announce that you can finally get your Evangelion fix (legally) stateside. Thanks to the guys at Eleven Arts and Funimation, you can watch Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance in select movie theaters throught out the country. Particulary if you're like us and are located in New York, you go see it today at 11 pm!
Check out the trailer and showtime listings after the jump!
Unlimited Reviews: Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Written by No Limit
“Now with 40% less angst and more badass! …Seriously.”
—TV Tropes on the Rebuild of Evangelion films
My rating system:
5 = Perfection.
4.5 = REALLY good, but lacking that oomph to make it to 5.
4 = Great.
3.5 = Above average. Definitely worth a look.
3 = Average.
2.5 = Below average. If you like its genre, you probably would like it.
2 = Not terrible, but not something you would like.
1.5 = Bad, but still worth checking JUST to make fun of how bad it is.
1 = BEWARE! EVIL! NOT EVEN WORTH MAKING FUN OF! WILL LITERALLY MAKE YOU SICK!
Evangelion: 2.0 continues where the first film left off: The special military agency NERV is still destroying any Angels that emerge as a new Evangelion pilot is taken on. For the first half of the movie it continues to follow the original series’ premise. The second half, however, decidedly takes a different turn…
I know I keep promising no more talk of K-ON! but it's impossible to escape Yui. Through the magic of twitter, a Pony Canyon publicity representative by the name of "nojitetsu" has confirmed the date for the upcoming K-ON! movie. Director Naoko Yamada announced the film's release date to be December 3, 2011 at the Come With Me live event this Saturday.
The movie was announced at the end of the last episode of the second season of the series. Stay tuned for more details as they're available.
Source: ANN via Moe Ota-News Sokuhō
Heaven really is a place on Earth! (A movie theater to be exact.) Bad puns aside, the official website for both the Negima Magister Negi Magi: Anime Final and Hayate no Gotoku! Heaven is a Place on Earth films has been updated to include a teaser.
The films are being shown as a double feature and as such both films share the same teaser and release date. IF you haven't marked it on your calendars yet, both films open August 27, 2011. Both films are based on manga series which ran in different magazines. However both anime adaptations ran on the same station which is the likely cause of the double feature.
