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This year's 27th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine announced on Wednesday that George Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga did not appear in the issue...

Q&A session to be held with screening on July 2

It is confirmed today that a stage play based on Buronson and Tetsuo Hara's post-apocalyptic action manga series Hokuto no Ken/Fist of the North Star is scheduled to be performed in Tokyo this September. The manga started its serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1983 and this stage play is part of its 35th anniversary project.

 

As the title "Legend of the Century's End Thugs" suggests, the stage play will focus on the thugs of the Raoh army, instead of the main characters. The tagline is "The stage play of the thugs, only for the thugs, by the thugs." It will be performed at Theater G-Rosso in Tokyo eight times from September 6 to 10.

 

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Monsieur Yoshisaki's band Crystal King, who performed the first OP song for the TV anime in the mid-1980s,

"Ai o Torimodose!," will join the stage to perform the song with six-member idol group AouP. AouP member

Aoi Mizuki is also listed as the cast.

 

Announced main cast:

 

 Ryuko Isogai (Senri Chitose in in The Prince of Tennis musicals)

 Ryunosuke Kawai (Wakashi Hiyoshi in The Prince of Tennis musicals)

 Juri (Jin Akutsu in The Prince of Tennis musicals)

 Takeshi Hayashino (Hiroshi Chinen in The Prince of Tennis musicals)

 Naomichi Hanazono (buyouka/traditional Japanese dance performer)

 Aoi Mizuki (AouP member)

 

Voice appearance: Shigeru Chiba (TV anime narrator, various thugs' voices)

 

 

 

Source: "Fist of The North Star: Legend of the Century's End Thugs" official website

 

©Buronson, Hara Tetsuo/NSP 1983

 

Staff reveals visuals for Michella, Sonic; 1st season gets rebroadcast, all-night screening event

Nicholas Buc to arrange tracks, conduct orchestras; singer Donna Burke to perform

Kimberly Guilfoyle deliberately dropped a bombshell on her Fox News colleagues Thursday night when she just happened to mention that Donald Trump had called her this morning to discuss a range of issues. Guilfoyle also revealed that she had reassured Trump about his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement - several hours in advance of his official announcement.

Media Matters caught Guilfoyle's startling disclosure which occurred in the middle of a discussion about Trump's decision to withdraw from the climate agreement:

KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE (CO-HOST): I don't think this is a deal that anybody should be crying about. Like we said, it's nonbinding, and the United States is already a clean energy, oil and gas leader. So, we can keep doing what we're doing, we can keep reducing our emissions. Why would we in fact put ourselves at an economic disadvantage, giving and subsidizing an economic windfall to other countries, in sort of a climate redistribution of wealth scheme? It makes no sense to me.

I think he did the brave and courageous thing, and in fact, I told him that this morning at 8AM, when he called. And I spoke to him about it, and this was something very much so on his mind, but he seemed like--

GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): Wait a second, who called you?

GUILFOYLE: The president.

GUTFELD: Why?

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The official website for the anime film adaptation of Fumiyo Kouno's award-winning manga Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni/In This Corner of the World announced today that its DVD/Blu-ray will be released in Japan on September 15, 2017. The Sunao Katabuchi (Black Lagoon, Mai Mai Miracle)-directed film was released in Japan on November 12, 2016, and is still running in three theaters in Tokyo and Osaka. It has attracted 1,995,474 audience in 201 days since its release, earning over 2.58 billion yen so far.

 

The Blu-ray will be released in two editions: regular and special limited edition, while the DVD has only the regular edition. The regular edition of both the DVD and Blu-ray have 10-minute bonus footage, in addition to the 129-minute film. The special limited edition of the Blu-ray comes with a 240-minute bonus disc and a 100-page booklet. All DVD/Blu-ray editions are confirmed to have the Japanese and English subtitles.

 

Bonus footage for both the DVD and Blu-ray: 

 

 -Pilot film

 -"Fuyu no Kioku" (The Memory of Winter)

  (the OP episode for the event for the crowdfunding supporters)

-Teasers

-Theatrical trailers

-TV spots

-"Suzu-san no Arigato" clip

 

Blu-ray limited special edition bonus disc content:

 

 -Making footage

 -"Non, Suzu ni Naru (Non becomes Suzu)" - tentative title

  (The main voice actress Non's interview and behind-the-scenes footage)

 -Special live concert for the release of the original soundtrack album

  performed by Katsumi Quintet (Kotoringo and others)

 -Talk event at Nerima Anime Carnival 2015

  by Sunao Katabuchi (director), Fumiyo Kouno (manga author)

 -Talk event at Kure-city Art Museum

  by Sunao Katabuchi, Fumiyo Kouno

 -Premiere screening event

  by Sunao Katabuchi, Non, Kotoringo (soundtrack composer, theme song performer)

 -"Tokoton" (thoroughly) talk event for the release

  by Sunao Katabuchi, Fumiyo Kouno, Minori Omi (Keiko Kuromura), Nanase Iwai (Rin Shiraki),

  Mayumi Shintani (Hojo-san)

-Greetings from the stage

  by Sunao Katabuchi, Non, Minori Omi, Megumi Han (Sumi Urano), Nanase iwai, Mayumi Shintani,

  Kotoringo, and more 

 

Blu-ray and DVD jacket images

 

  

9月15日発売予定『この世界の片隅に』BD通常版、DVDのジャケットイメージです。商品情報は公式サイトにてご確認ください。https://t.co/0b6RfHzWzm
　#この世界の片隅に pic.twitter.com/mJo8HAYSi5

— 『この世界の片隅に』ロングラン上映中！ (@konosekai_movie) June 1, 2017

 

Announcement video for the DVD/Blu-ray release

 

 

Source: "In This Corner of The World" anime film official website

 

© Fumiyo Kouno, Futabasha/"Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni" Production Committee

 

7-minute episode debuted in 1973

New film stars Hikaru Midorikawa as Karato Hijiri

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Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced on May 18 that it will allow Kickstarter projects to launch directly from Japan later this year. The platform...

As reported, the anime film adaptation of Japanese manga artist Tsutomu Nihei's first serialized manga work BLAME! will be released in 27 theaters in Japan on May 20 for a limited time run of two weeks, and will be also simultaneously streamed on Netflix globally.

 

To promote the release, the film's official website has posted a 80-second longer version anime clip also based on the manga, which was previously inserted in the eighth episode of the Knights of Sidonia: War of the Ninth Planet TV anime. The episode "Saikai/Reunion" of the second season of the TV anime adaptation of Nihei's Knights of Sidonia manga series was aired in Japan on May 22, 2015, and the BLAME! clip was produced as a play within the play.

 

Polygon Pictures, previously worked on the Knights of Sidonia anime series again works on anime production of the BLAME! film. The Sidonia director Hiroyuki Seshita serves as the director, alongside

the original manga creator Nihei as creative consultant.

 

"BLAME! The Ancient Terminal City" TV unaired version clip

  

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2nd trailer for the "BLAME!" feature film

 

 

Poster visual

 

 

1st trailer for Netflix

  

 

Tankobon 1st volume: Original (1998)  and New Edition (2015)

 

 

Source: "BLAME!" official website

 

© Tsutomu Nihei, Kodansha/BLAME! Production Committee

 

A lot of people think Pence will be the next president. I'm not so sure, because when someone like Joe Scarborough, in a conversation with New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush, openly calls a Republican VP a liar, it's because he doesn't expect him to be an issue:

GLENN THRUSH: Let me just backtrack for a second. You showed Sarah Huckabee Sanders. We now forget, almost like a sideshow, Mike Pence went up on Capitol Hill yesterday and told reporters that the president -- precisely the same thing that sarah huckabee sanders said -- the vice president of the United States, Joe, said the very exact same thing, that the deputy attorney general did this and Trump was following his recommendation.

JOE SCARBOROUGH: We don't know whether Sarah Huckabee Sanders was set up to go lie for the White House. We do know from your reporting that Mike Pence was in the room when Donald Trump decided that he wanted fire Jim Comey.

GLENN THRUSH: Not only that --

JOE SCARBOROUGH:: and it's much harder for Mike Pence to say I was given bad information. It appears he was not lied to. It appears that he lied.

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Since we've got to spend most of June working on panels, we'll try and knock out an episode or two this month. This time around, Clarissa reviews the relatively recent anime series Flying Witch, for which print editions of the manga have just started to be released in English. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

It's been two years since Kohske's crime manga Gangsta. has run in Monthly Comic @ Bunch. Kosuke also dropped off social media, killing her Twitter account. The magazine has now announced that the series will return in its July issue, out May 20th.  It will be preparing by offering the current run of 42 chapters for free on its site May 15-28.

 

The manga, released in North America by Viz, was adapted into a 2015 anime, released by Funimation.

 

 

 

 

via otakomu and Mantanweb

 

 

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.

According to the newest Oricon sales report for the week ended April 16, the 463-yen regular edition of the 22nd volume of Hajime Isayama's mega hit manga series Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan sold 373,742 copies in its second week, topping the weekly manga sales chart again. The latest volume was released in Japan on April 7 and sold an impressive 652,849 copies in its first week.

 

As reported, the regular edition of the internationally popular series' previous 21st volume sold 632,419 copies in its first week and 365,298 copies in the second. Judging from the steady sales numbers, the popularity of the series is still strong in Japan.  

  

22nd volume PV (spoiler contained)

   

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Top 10 manga tankobons (April 10-16, 2017)

 

1. "Attack on Titan" vol.22 regular edition - 373,742 copies

2. "Detective Coanan" vol.92 - 310,209 copies

 

 

3. "One-Punch Man" vol.13 - 133,227 copies

4. "Umimachi Diary" vol.8 - 110,659 copies

 

 

5. "Ajin" vol.10 - 97,666 copies

6. "My Hero Academia" vol.13 - 86,018 copies

 

 

7. "Blue Exorcist" vol. 19 - 84,902 copies

8. "Tensei Shitara Slime datta ken" vol. 4 - 83,648 copies

 

9. "Tokyo Tarareba Musume" vol.8 - 73,648 copies

10. "Grand Blue" vol. 8 - 62,415 copies

 

  

Source: Oricon

 

Among spring 2017's notable anime theme sequences, one of the must-sees is Atom The Beginning, the adaptation of Tetsuro Kasahara's prequel to Osamu Tezuka's seminal Astro Boy. A team with 26 year-old Austrian GIF animator-turned-pro Bahi JD put together a fantastic sequence set to After the Rain's "Kaidoku Funō," which NBCUniversal Anime/Music has published online. 

 

 

オープニングの公式アップロード---> You can watch the opening again here officially---> https://t.co/AICL9UUjLM

— BAHIJD バヒ・JD (@bahijd) April 15, 2017

みんなどうもありがとうございます！Thanks for watching! And thanks to all staff who worked on it.見てくれてありがとうございます！お疲れ様です。

— BAHIJD バヒ・JD (@bahijd) April 15, 2017

『アトム ザ・ビギニング』OPの原画:
・久保田 誓
・伍 柏諭
・Jonathan Djob Nkondo
・山下 清悟
・川野 達朗
・森匡三
・榎戸 駿
・土上いつき
・佐田とし
・黄 成希
・末澤 慧
・吉松孝博
・磯 光雄
・吉田大洋
・荒木佑太
・Bahi JD

— BAHIJD バヒ・JD (@bahijd) March 31, 2017

Not even half the people who worked on Bahi's spectacular ATOM opening got credited in the TV broadcast because of NHK's stupid restrictions

— kViN (@Yuyucow) April 15, 2017

For those unaware, NHK only allows a certain number of people to be credited. That's why you see consistent lists throughout their shows.

— kViN (@Yuyucow) April 15, 2017

Sometimes they skip entire roles! In this case Bahi himself had credited everyone to begin with, but it's pretty disrespectful.

— kViN (@Yuyucow) April 15, 2017

• Contributors included 
• Chikashi Kubota
• Bo Yu Wu
• Jonathan Djob Nkondo 
• Shingo Yamashita
• Tatsuro Kawano
• Tadaka Mori
• Hayao Enokido
• Itsuki TsuchigamiToshi Sada
• Genki Yoshimura
• Kei Suezawa
• Takahiro Yoshimatsu
• Mitsuo Iso
• Oshima Yoshida
• Yuta Araki
• Bahi JD

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.

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Writer Riichirou Inagaki, illustrator Boichi launched manga last month

Add the monthly Jump Square to the list of manga magazines in transition. To Love-Ru Darkness is heading out. 7th Garden moved online. And, it's time for some new blood. A big name in the wave of upcoming manga is Rurouni Kenshin's new Hokkaido arc. However, the plans are currently for an indefinite "summer." And, speaking of cute guys and historic swords, there's a Touken Ranbu tie-in to the game-turned-multi-media franchise.

 

The six new manga include: 

Summer: Rurouni Kenshin Hokkaido arc by Watsuki Nobuhiro

June Issue: Do Kyuuhentai Egxelos (eguzerosu) by Kitada Ryouma

July Issue: Futaribocchi Sensou (The battle between only us two) by Hijihara Erubo

August Issue: Katsugeki (Fury) Touken Ranbu 

August Issue: Yuugai Shitei Doukyuusei(Harmful Designation Same Year Students) by Kuroha

September Issue: Sentaku no Toki (Time to choose) by Gunsen Kiri

 

 

via YonkouProd

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime

The stampede of classic Gundam titles continues today at Crunchyroll with the addition of the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing ENDLESS WALTZ movie to the catalog! 

 

This is a 1998 compilation film culled from the earlier 3-episode Gundam Wing ENDLESS WALTZ OVA, which functions as a continuation of the Gundam Wing TV series (also now available on Crunchyroll!)

 

This subtitled presentation of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing ENDLESS WALTZ begins streaming today, Thursday, April 30, at 8pm PST and will be available to all members worldwide except Asia and Italian speaking countries.

 

About Mobile Suit Gundam Wing ENDLESS WALTZ

 

The Revolution Has Begun!

Mankind has moved into space. Thousands of people live on giant orbiting space colonies called "Sides." However, the Earth Government, which rules the colonies, is unjust and cruel. A group of revolutionaries builds five robotic weapons called Gundams and plans to send them to Earth to begin their fight for independence.

Piloted by five young men, these of freedom of the colonists with them as they descend to Earth to begin Operation Meteor!

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Patrick Macias is editor in chief of Crunchyroll News & Otaku USA magazine.

He is currently serializing his latest writing project, MONDO TOKYO, on Wattpad.

Though technically it's already like a year late, we finally review Mobile Suit Gundam 00! Note: this isn't edited. Like, at all in fact. Normally we edit for clarity and to remove cross-talk, excess noise, table banging, and the like. NOT THIS TIME. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Who could be against fair pay and safe workplaces? Give you one guess.

President Trump just signed a bill, passed by the Republicans in the House and Senate, that repealed President Obama's Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order.

"Fair pay and safe workplaces" says it all. The rule stated that our government should contract with companies that have "a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics."

It required companies to report if they had violations of workplace laws covering wage theft, discrimination and safety, when applying for new government contracts of $500,000 to $1 million. The federal procurement officers would take that into consideration, and work with the companies to remedy the problems.

That is what President Trump and the Republicans repealed. This Trump/Republican government does not care if companies that have "a satisfactory record of integrity and business ethics." In fact, repealing this rule signals to companies that it is OK to "save money" by stealing pay from employees, violating their civil rights and threatening their safety.

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Japans's Nippon Professional Baseball opens its season on March 31st, and to prepare, the Central League's Hiroshima Toyo Carp has revealed their latest pop culture collaboration. Fist of the North Star hero Kenshiro bats and adversary Raoh pitches, with the slogan "hard ball" on t-shirts and towels in the team's red uniform color. 

 

These sell for 3,240yen and 2160yen respectively across the city.

 

 

Last year, the Central League's Hanshin Tigers did a Fist of the North Star collation with manager Tomoaki Kanemoto illustrated in the style of Kenshiro from series illustrator Tetsuo Hara.

 

via IT Media

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.