Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] THE MOVIE I. presage flower opens in Japan this weekend. A premiere event at The Theatre at Ace Hotel (Los Angeles, CA) on Friday, November 3rd has been scheduled, along with an American theatrical run beyond that. With this all coming soon, Aniplex of America has posted an English subtitled preview of the feature.
Tickets for the American run are available at http://www.fatestaynightusa.com/theater/.
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The inaugural Anime NYC is bringing anime favorites from all over the world to New York City next month. Most recently added to the roster is Masaki Tachibana, best known this anime season as the director of the new series Princess Principal.
Tachibana's appearance is made possible through the cooperation of Anime NYC and Bandai Visual. Prior to Princess Principal, he was a key animator for shows like Flip Flappers and Girls und Panzer der Film, as well as an episode director for Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex.
Tachibana will be on hand for autograph signings, a Princess Principal Q&A, and an episode screening at the event.
He joins guests like anison performer Yoko Ishida, composer Naruyoshi Kikuchi, American voice actors Cristina Vee and Erica Mendez, and many more. The event will also be hosting the US premiere of Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower and a concert of Gundam music.
>> Official Princess Principal website
Source: Anime NYC
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Starting October 10th, smartphone RPG Granblue Fantasy brings in CLAMP's magic girl for a Cardcaptor Sakura - Sakura And the Adventures of The Mysterious Sky event. The character and her friends will be appearing as SS rare character cards, her card battle outfits will be offered as limited skins, and there will be a story in which CCS cast teams up with Granblue's Magisa and Petra to investigate the mysteries of Fairy Valley. The event runs through October 24th.
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Sakura Kinomoto - Sakura Tange
Kero - Aya Hisakawa
Tomoyo Daidouji -Junko Iwao
Syaoran Li - Motoko Kumai
Magisa - Sayaka Ohara
Petra - Noriko Kuwashima
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Level-5 shows no signs of slowing down with the Professor Layton franchise anytime soon. The latest news comes from Total Licensing Magazine, which reveals plans for a Professor Layton TV series. While there isn't much info on the series yet, it's reportedly planned for 2018, with 26 episodes in the works.
The company will attend the Brand Licensing Europe and MIPCOM trade shows this month, so hopefully we'll know more once the events are underway.
Via Nintendo Wire
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Aniplex of America has officially opened ticket sales for the nationwide theatrical release of anime movie Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] THE MOVIE I. presage flower, on the series’ official homepage. Earlier this week, Aniplex of America, along with the film distribution company AZOLAND PICTURES, announced that they will be holding a special one-night only premiere event at The Theatre at Ace Hotel (Los Angeles, CA) on Friday, November 3rd.
Tickets for both the premiere event and nationwide theatrical release are available at: http://www.fatestaynightusa.com/theater/.
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The star-studded cast of both Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] and Fate/Zero returns in the first chapter of the epic film trilogy, including Noriaki Sugiyma as protagonist Shirou Emiya, Ayako Kawasumi as Saber, Kana Ueda as Rin Tohsaka, and Noriko Shitaya as the series’ tragic heroine, Sakura Matou. Fan-favorite ufotable (the Garden of Sinners, God Eater) and director Tomonori Sudou (Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]) also join the team of returning staff for the feature film, along with music by Yuki Kajiura (Sword Art Online franchise, Puella Magi Madoka franchise). Based on the original story by Kinoko Nasu and TYPE-MOON, Fate/stay night [Heaven’s Feel] THE MOVIE I. presage flower brings the Fate series’ unique storytelling and otherworldly cast of characters to the big screen for the first time. Movie-goers will now have a chance to experience the despair, romance, and terrifying secrets of the Holy Grail War in the first chapter of this high-stakes trilogy.
About Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] THE MOVIE I. presage flower:
“If I became a bad person, would you be able to forgive me?”
The boy wished to protect the girl. That was his thought.
10 years after the Holy Grail War—a battle waged by Masters and Servants over the wish-granter, the Holy Grail—another war breaks out in Fuyuki City.
Shirou Emiya—the adopted son of Kiritsugu Emiya, a participant of the previous Holy Grail War—resolves to fight, carrying out Kiritsugu’s dying wish.
There’s a young girl by Shirou’s side who’s in love with him—Sakura Matou.
Every morning, she goes to Shirou’s house to make breakfast and dinner for him, bringing kindness into the life of a boy utterly alone in the world.
But once the Holy Grail War starts, there’s a change in the air in Fuyuki City.
Murders abound across the city, and the atmosphere grows ominous.
Shirou decides to shelter Sakura in his home.
Along with Saber, the Servant he summons, Shirou allies himself with the mage Rin Tohsaka and takes part in the Holy Grail War.
But the battle starts to go awry as secret maneuvers by unseen forces are put into play.
For more information, please visit: http://www.fatestaynightusa.com/.
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Original Story: Kinoko Nasu/TYPE-MOON
Original Character Design: Takashi Takeuchi
Director: Tomonori Sudo
Character Design: Tomonori Sudo, Atsushi Ikariya
Screenplay: Akira Hayama (ufotable)
Art Director: Koji Eto
Director of Photography: Yuichi Terao
3D Director: Kazuki Nishiwaki
Color Setting: Mika Matsuoka
Editing: Manabu Kamino
Music: Yuki Kajiura
Animation Producer: Hikaru Kondo
Animation Production: ufotable
Distributed by: Aniplex
Theme song: “Hana no Uta” by Aimer
CAST
Shirou Emiya: Noriaki Sugiyama
Sakura Matou: Noriko Shitaya
Shinji Matou: Hiroshi Kamiya
Saber: Ayako Kawasumi
Rin Tohsaka: Kana Ueda
Taiga Fujimura: Miko Ito
Kirei Kotomine: Joji Nakata
Zouken Matou: Masane Tsukayama
Ayako Mitsuzuri: Fumie Mizusawa
Issei Ryudou: Mitsuaki Madono
Kiritsugu Emiya: Rikiya Koyama
Lancer: Nobutoshi Kanna
Gilgamesh: Tomokazu Seki
Rider: Yu Asakawa
Assassin: Shinichiro Miki
Caster: Atsuko Tanaka
Archer: Junichi Suwabe
Souichirou Kuzuki: Masaki Terasoma
Illyasviel von Einzbern: Mai Kadowaki
Leysritt: Miho Miyagawa
Sella: Haruhi Nanao
True Assassin: Tetsu Inada
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Fast food and gacha... a recipe for a physically and mentally healthy life! Fresh off the Splatoon team-up, McDonald's Japan has begun cooking up their latest game collaboration. The regional version of the chain is preparing to join forces with Cygames' mobile RPG Granblue Fantasy starting next week.
While there's teaser art, specifics of the promotion are TBA.
【グランブルーファンタジー】10月11日（水）より「グラン」×『グランブルーファンタジー』コラボキャンペーン開催決定！全国のマクドナルド店舗（一部店舗を除く）で開催決定。詳細は近日、公開予定です。 #グラン #グラブル pic.twitter.com/l9pLDxdwwV
— マクドナルド (@McDonaldsJapan) October 2, 2017
【グランブルーファンタジー】10月11日（水）より『グランブルーファンタジー』×『マクドナルド』コラボキャンペーン開催決定！全国のマクドナルド店舗（一部店舗を除く）で「グラン」コラボが開催されます。詳細は近日、公式サイトで公開予定です。#グラブル#グランバーガー pic.twitter.com/SSGAbMBJnU
— グランブルーファンタジー (@granbluefantasy) October 2, 2017
グラブルとマックまじか～！！
— ノア@YJ (@LETIZIAstorm) October 2, 2017
クルージータちゃんとグランくんめっちゃ良い⤴⤴ pic.twitter.com/oCbWcobMas
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Along with a sequel, Taiwanese puppet co-production Thunderbolt Fantasy is coming back in Thunderbolt Fantasy: Sword of Life and Death, a Shā Wú Shēng, the Screaming Phoenix Killer (CV Nobuyuki Hiyama) focused story partially based on the Thunderbolt Fantasy Gaiden novel and partially a new story by Gen Urobochi. While the project was announced back in March, format and scheduling information is finally being announced.
For the first two weeks of December, the project will be touring eight cinemas in Tokyo, Kawasaki, Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe and Tokushima. There will be a greeting from Gen Urobochi, along with cast Kousuke Toriumi, Junichi Suwabe, and Nobuyuki Hiyama, and theme song performer TM Revolution. Advanced tickets go on sale October 28th.
12/3日(日)『生死一劍』舞台挨拶＆トークイベント開催！虚淵玄、鳥海浩輔、檜山修之、T.M.Revolution 西川貴教が登壇予定！
— サンダーボルトファンタジープロジェクト (@TBF_PR) October 2, 2017
全国の劇場でライブ・ビューイングも開催予定です!!詳細は公式webページから！https://t.co/JmH0YpA98m#サンファン pic.twitter.com/msfCteVCSl
「TVシリーズ2期」と同時に制作が進行中の『Thunderbolt Fantasy 生死一劍』。公式サイトが公開！『生死一劍』は12月2日(土)～、全国にて劇場上映！12月3日(日)には舞台挨拶＆トークイベントを開催！https://t.co/JmH0YpixJM#サンファン pic.twitter.com/bPz3mb3I6k
— サンダーボルトファンタジープロジェクト (@TBF_PR) October 2, 2017
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October 1st is Megane (eyeglasses) Day in Japan for the very esoteric reason that 1001 looks like a pair of glasses. Every year this inspires some social media activity.
The latest participants included:
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid's author, Coolkyoushinja
眼鏡の日（だった） pic.twitter.com/t2uRME08AI
— クール教信者@新都社 (@coolkyou2) October 1, 2017
Dagashi Kashi's author, Kotoyama - the character is Hajime Owari, who will be in the second season of the anime.
眼鏡の日なんですね pic.twitter.com/MvQFyF5DGL
— コトヤマ (@cot_510) October 1, 2017
Also, from Dragon Garow Lee, author of Dragon Ball Side-Story: The Case of Being Reincarnated as Yamcha:
日付変わったけど眼鏡の日という事で pic.twitter.com/hpP4Cg0WzU
— ドラゴン画廊・リー (@dragongarowLEE) October 1, 2017
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The latest of the One Piece 20th anniversary festivities kicks off next month, in the form of an art exhibit in Kyoto. As previously reported, Kyoto will be hosting a citywide event, showing off One Piece art while encouraging tourists to check out major parts of their city.
In addition, the Buddhist temple Daikaku-ji will be hosting a "story art exhibition" entitled One Piece Art Nue - Flower of the Beast, Princess, and Oath. The sode story features two new characters -- Prince Lark and his fiancee Kiku -- who are attacked by a Japanese chimera called a nue during their wedding ceremony. Of course, they seek out the Straw Hat Pirates for help.
But there's another side to the story, from the point of view of the deserter Tora Tsugu. Late one night, as Tora stumbled along a moonlit beach, he caught sight of a mysterious fruit. Starving, he bit into it... and since this is One Piece, we can guess what happened. The Devil Fruit turned Tora into a nue -- with the face of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the limbs of a tiger, and a snake for a tail.
The exhibit will combine One Piece characters with traditional Japanese art as the story is told visually.
The Daikaku-ji exhibit will be on display as part of Kyoto's city-wide installation, which runs from October 7-22.
>> One Piece 20th x Kyoto Official Site
>> Watch One Piece on Crunchyroll
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Persona 5 character designer Shigenori Soejima is working with Cospa to release official real-life versions of Ann Takamaki’s hoodie and Futaba Sakura’s jacket early next year in Japan.
Read Persona 5 Is Getting Real-Life Ann’s Hoodie And Futaba’s Jacket, Supervised By Shigenori Soejima on Siliconera!
Honestly, for MONTHS now I've looked at Feast of Fiction's Black Butler curry buns and silently stewed at home because they swooped my style. I won't lie – I can be a bit of a petty person. I didn't want to recreate the same recipe since they already did it, and I didn't want to be a copy-cat, yadda yadda. So it goes. Looking back, I'm not sure why I was so dumb about it. Curry buns are AMAZING, and, thanks to Restaurant to Another World, I had my chance to make a personal comeback without having to make the recipe from Black Butler.
And boy, oh boy, was it worth it. You. GUYS. Curry buns are a thing of art. Only the Japanese could come up with something as amazing as this – curry, inside bread which has been coated in breadcrumbs and deep fried to produce a crunchy, golden-brown exterior. As presented in this episode 11, the curry buns are given as a gift to the chef. It looks like he kept them in the freezer until ready to fry, which is an awesome bonus with this recipe: the buns, once coated in panko, can easily be frozen so that you can enjoy a fresh, hot curry bun whenever it strikes your fancy.
Now, there is a fair amount of prep work that goes into this recipe. You have to make both a bread dough and a curry paste filling. However, both come together very easily, so while this recipe is labor intensive, none of the labor is actually that difficult. There are three main parts: the bread dough, the filling, and then the exterior coating. These do take time – plan to set aside a few hours to assemble and fry these babies.
The first step is to make a nice, softly sweet bread dough. Once you have that taken care of and get it rising in a warm spot, the second step is to get the curry going. The key to a good filing is making sure that it's not too watery and loose. There aren't too many recipes available online for a good filling, despite the Feast of Fiction's recipe for their own curry bun. I didn't want to replicate the Black Butler recipe, and the Restaurant to Another World recipe, as it appeared in the episode, was pretty vague. I decided to go with a curry roux packet to keep things simple (since making bread and deep frying are a lot by themselves), and made the curry the same way I normally would. Except, instead of following the recipe according to the box, I used much less water than the recipe actually calls for. Luckily, this worked perfectly to produce a filling that was not loose at all, and more like a paste! The filling on its own is a tad salty, but once you get it in the bun, it's just perfect. The concentrated curry mixture compared to the sweetness of the bread is perfect.
The last step is to deep fry. The oil needs to be hot to prevent the dough from absorbing too much extra oil. The final coating should be lightly greasy, but not dripping with oil. Hot oil will help ensure you have the perfect crunchy coating. Fry about two minutes per side, taking care to keep oil at 365°F. They will be golden brown and perfectly crisp when they're done!
Watch the video below to get started on making you own curry buns!
Ingredients for the Curry Bun:
Dough recipe adapted from here.
1 1/2 cups bread flour
1/2 cups cake flour
1 tsp instant yeast
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp neutral oil (I used vegetable)
3/4 cup water
Curry Filling:
1 small russet potato
1 small carrot
1/2 pound ground beef
1/2 box of Vermont Curry, hot
2 cups water
2 cups panko
1 egg + 1 tbsp water, beaten
Oil for frying (I used vegetable)
To Make the Curry Bun:
1. Start with the dough. Whisk the flours, sugar, salt, and yeast together. Add in the oil and water and stir together. When it starts to lump together, knead in the bowl until mostly all combined. Tip out onto a floured work surface and knead for about 10 minutes, or until dough is soft yet firm, not sticky, and pliable. Add more water or flour as needed.
2. Form dough ball, and coat the ball and the inside of a bowl with oil. Cover top with plastic, and set in a warm place for about an hour, or ninety minutes, or until dough has doubled in size.
3. While dough is rising, prepare curry filling. Peel and finely dice carrot and potato. Place into a pan over high heat with a bit of oil, and cook about two minutes. Throw in the ground beef, and cook until browned. Then, add in the water, which is deliberately less than the box calls for. Cover the pot, and let simmer about ten minutes or until veggies are tender and soft when pierced with a fork. Turn off the heat. Break up the curry roux, and drop pieces in. Stir until the curry blocks are melted, and a thick curry paste has formed. Set aside.
4. When bread is ready, punch down and split into 8 pieces. Roll each piece into a ball, and let rise again for about 40 minutes.
5. When ready, roll each dough ball out until the dough is about 1/4 inch thick. Pile curry filling into the middle, about 1.5-2 tbsp per bun, or as much as you can reasonably fit inside. Bring excess dough over the mound of filling, and pinch edges together until the dough is completely encased.
6. Once all the buns are formed, it's time to coat them. Coat each bun by coating it in the egg wash, and then coating each bun in a thick layer of panko. Ideally, you should coat them right before frying – don't let them sit out too long after they've been coated. At this point, you could also easily flash freeze the buns and take them out to cook later by throwing them straight into your hot oil.
7. Heat oil, which should come at least halfway up the pan you are using, to 365°F. Fry a couple of buns at a time, cooking about two minutes per side, or until golden brown.
8. Drain on a paper towel, if necessary, and eat immediately!
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Not quite like Clark Kent going into a phone booth and coming out Superman, the One-Punch Man anime left season one with Shingo Natsume directing at Madhouse and heads into season two with Chikara Sakurai (Naruto animation supervisor) helming a J.C. Staff production.
Chikashi Kubota is back as character designer, with Tomohiro Suzuki writing series composition and Makoto Miyazaki on music. Shoji Hata takes over as sound director.
Cast from the earlier anime and drama CDs are similarly returning:
Saitama - Makoto Furukawa
Genos - Kaito Ishikawa
Speed-o'-Sound Sonic - Yūki Kaji
King - Hiroki Yasumoto
Hellish Blizzard - Saori Hayami
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Fire Emblem Warriors launches on Nintendo Switch and 3DS on October 20, but the content doesn't stop there. A Season Pass will be available on the same day, and DLC sets are currently planned for release through March 2018.
Each set will come with new playable characters, new weapons, and other additional content, and will be priced at $8.99 each. Here are the details:
$79.99 Special Edition:
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Along with the returning cast and staff, Maaya Sakamoto is coming back for "Clear," the theme song for the Cardcaptor Sakura - Clear Card Chapter TV anime. Sakamoto penned the lyrics. Yoshiki Mizuno composes the music. Shin Kono handled arranging.
TVアニメ「カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編」のOPアーティストが坂本真綾さんに決定！坂本真綾さん、作曲・水野良樹さんからのコメントも到着！ #ccsakura https://t.co/UGi75G7DL3 pic.twitter.com/7KozHqMgS9
— カードキャプターさくら（公式） (@ccsakura_info) September 25, 2017
The anime will start on NHK BS Premium January 7th at 7:30 - with rebroadcasts starting on the 12th at 23:45.
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Yoshiki Tanaka's Legend of the Galactic Heroes, telling a sci-fi war based on 19th century Prussian conflicts, inspired a huge body of anime between 1988 and 2000, including 110 OVA episodes and 52 side-story OVA episodes. In February 2014, after a decade and a half, a new anime project was announced during the opening of stage production Legend of the Galactic Heroes Chapter IV: After the Clash. Today, Tanaka and the Production I.G team (mostly from their Kuroko's Basketball anime) took to the stage at Shinjuku Cultural Center to present plans for this new project.
The Legend of the Galactic Heroes Die Neue These anime will arrive with Dawn Chapter 12 episode TV anime in April 2018. Three theatrical screenings of four of episodic films from the Star chapter will then play in 2019.
This summer, Viz's Haikasoru label announced plans to publish Yoshiki Tanaka's novels and Sentai Filmworks announced the license of the earlier cult anime.
本日、5/19に「田中芳樹作家生活四十周年記念パーティー」が開催されました！またイベントレポートは改めて「銀河英雄伝説」公式ポータルサイトにて掲載させていただきますのでお楽しみに！公式ポータルサイト→ https://t.co/UYYbXVBw93 pic.twitter.com/NCEzMKXRvE
— 銀河英雄伝説│公式ポータルサイト (@gineiclub) May 19, 2017
新アニメプロジェクト「銀河英雄伝説」の公式WEBサイトリニューアル&Twitter解説しました！今後情報発信行ってまいりますので、よろしくお願い致します。https://t.co/CsBusO3HV4 #gineidenanime
— 銀河英雄伝説DieNeueThese (@gineidenanime) May 10, 2017
Cast
Reinhard von Lohengramm - Mamoru Miyano
Yang Wenli - Yuichiro Umehara
Siegfried Kircheis - Kenichi Suzumura
Narrator - Yoshimitsu Shimoyama
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Original: Yoshiki Tanaka (published by Tokyo Creative Company)
Director: Shunsuke Tada
Series composition: Noboru Takagi
Character design: Yoko Kikuchi, Iwao Teraoka, Katsura Tsushima
Chief animation director: Takayuki Goto
Special effects director: Atsushi Takeuchi
Mechanical design: Atsushi Takeuchi, Shinji Usui, Shimon Ashikaga
Original Mechanical Design:Naoyuki Kato
Production: Production I. G
Supervision: Wright Staff
Planning cooperation: Kitty Entertainment
Production Cooperation: Tokuma Shoten
Production cooperation: DMM pictures
Production: Shochiku · Production I. G
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Cardcaptor Sakura's site got a big update today with plans for the Clear Card Chapter TV anime, now scheduled to start on NHK BS Premium January 7th at 7:30 - with rebroadcasts on starting on the 12th at 23:45. A new visual and character designs offer a look at the now junior-high aged cast, who reunite in time to meet a mysterious new transfer-student girl.
新作アニメシリーズ「カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編」NHK BS プレミアムにて 2018年1月7日（日）より毎週日曜7:30～放送開始！ #ccsakura https://t.co/8nroIcMe6h pic.twitter.com/TJXx5xO0EY
— カードキャプターさくら（公式） (@ccsakura_info) September 20, 2017
「カードキャプターさくらクリアカード編」
— くまい もとこ (@motorsports0908) September 20, 2017
放送時間が決まったようです！
詳細は↓こちらをご覧ください。
旧作からスタッフ、キャストが殆ど変わらないという事が未だに奇跡のようです。
中学生になった李小狼も、応援してください。
https://t.co/lPee9oSVxV
「カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編」の放送時間が発表されました！
— 岩男潤子 (@iwaojunko) September 20, 2017
BSプレミアム 2018年1月7日(日)より午前7時30分より放送スタートです！
みなさん是非観てくださいね！
ヽ(=´▽`=)ﾉhttps://t.co/JYxdHOPNb3#ccsakura
staff
STAFF
Original: CLAMP
Director: Morio Asaka
Series composition: Nanase Ohkawa
Costume & Card Design: Mokona
Character design: Kunihiko Hamada
Sound director: Masafumi Mima
Music: Takayuki Negishi
Production: Madhouse
Production · Writing: NHK · Kodansha · NHK Enterprise
Cast
Sakura Kinomoto: Sakura Tange
Kerberos: Aya Hisakawa
Tomoyo Daidouji: Junko Iwao
Syaoran Li: Motoko Kumai
Yukito Tsukishiro/Yue: Megumi Ogata
Toya Kinomoto: Tomokazu Seki
Eriol Hiragizawa - Nozomu Sasaki
Kaho Mizuki - Emi Shinohara
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Blade Runner Black Out 2022 is a new and highly-anticipated animated short, directed by Cowboy Bebop’s Shinichiro Watanabe, which serves as a prologue for the upcoming feature film Blade Runner 2049… and Crunchyroll and VRV are the first places you’ll get a chance to see it!
Blade Runner Black Out 2022 will be available first on Crunchyroll and VRV beginning on Tuesday 9/26 at 4:49am PST in regions worldwide except Asia.
Blade Runner Black Out 2022 unfolds three years after the events of the original Blade Runner storyline and is part of a series of short films designed to bridge the gap between the original visionary science fiction classic and the new Blade Runner 2049 movie, set to open on October 6th. Other previously released shorts in the series include 2036: Nexus Dawn and 2048: Nowhere to Run.
Shinichiro Watanabe, of Space Dandy, Samurai Champloo, and Cowboy Bebop fame, is the director of Blade Runner Black Out 2022. As he says in the preview below, Blade Runner Black Out 2022 is a chance for him to be a part of a work that has influenced him the most.
Be sure to watch Blade Runner Black Out 2022 when it debuts on Crunchyroll and VRV on Tuesday 9/26!
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With The Ancient Magus Bride approaching as one of the most anticipated anime of the Fall season, Kore Yamazaki was at Crunchyroll Expo to host an advance screening of the first three episodes of the anime, deliver a Q&A on her internationally best selling manga, and play a public grudge match of Mario Kart against her editor. Between events, interviews, and autograph sessions, Yamazaki spent the her time industriously working on the latest chapter, even opting to allow one lucky audience a sneak peek at her process, illustrating several pages during a live drawing at her Q&A panel. On the final day of the convention, I guiltily interrupted her inking to ask a few questions about her career and creative process.
Can you tell me about how you became a professional mangaka?
I've been drawing illustrations since I was very little -- around three years old. I had a lot of siblings, so we would have fun drawing for each other. It was way later, when I was in high school, that I decided to become a manga author.
Did you submit an original work or win a contest?
I've never made submissions. I would mostly post doujinshi online and sometimes do my own original manga.
Can you tell us a little about your creative process week to week?
I start by outlining what the characters would say and do -- what you would call a plot outline. It's the most painful part, and I start there. Then I do what's called the "name," which is the very first rough draft, where I decide where the characters' dialogue goes and how they behave. Those two processes -- the plot outline and the name -- are the most painful. After that, I do the draft, then I do the inking, followed by all of the processing and finishing.
You’ve mentioned a few assistants. What part do they play in illustrating the manga?
There are some things that I don't need to do myself. For example, the hair colors and tones. I do work on backgrounds as well, but there are backgrounds that don't need my attention, so I let the assistant do that. I also have them put the shine in the characters' hair.
The two pillars of The Ancient Magus Bride seem to be Chise’s personal journey and the greater events of the magical world. Did the idea for one of these come before the other?
I've wanted to illustrate Chise's growth from the beginning, but I also wanted to depict Elias' growth as well. It's fantasy, but I wanted to write a story about personal growth, which both children and grown-ups can enjoy. The matter-of-fact expressions are part of my writing style, but...
I notice you spend a great deal of time focusing on both Chise’s menial work is very similar to crafting magic. Is there any sort of intention behind that?
It's hard to explain. Manga is more interesting when there are ups and downs, but depending on the material, having too many ups and downs can be off-putting to some people. I think it's more approachable when it's written in a more straightforward way.
You’ve said that writing each chapter is more like letting the characters communicate their actions to you, have they told you how the story will end?
I don't know if I'm thinking of the plot development consciously or if it's just flowing out of my head. I think of the direction for myself, and the characters talk to me as I'm writing the story.
You wrote about being surprised you made it past volume 2 and later 3. Can you elaborate on why you found this unexpected?
I never thought my manga would have any appeal to the general public. Of course, for every manga, there's someone out there who will appreciate it, but I never really thought to apply that thinking to myself. I was really surprised that I'd get to do more than two volumes.
You’ve now traveled to France, Germany, and the US promoting your manga. Have you noticed any differences in terms of what the fans interact with your work? What they enjoy or take away from it?
*Laughs* I get a lot of common questions.
You’ve mentioned a you were inspired by celtic mythology in which Sleigh Beggys are a type of fae. Does this mean Chise isn't human?
I think it's out in the States, but you could say she's kind of like a mutant. She's human, but not really. There are quite a few of them in the Magus Bride world, though they haven't been discovered. Chise can see all kinds of things, but most people can't, even though they are capable. Even if, say, they're attacked by something, it just looks like they died from a freak accident or from illness.
Frau Faust will soon be coming out in the United States. Are there any connections between the two stories or ways you feel Frau Faust contributed to The Ancient Magus Bride?
I’m so happy! They're completely unconnected, but since they both come out of the same factory, that is, me, the messages may be similar.
The Ancient Magus Bride is shonen but Frau Faust is josei. Were they meant for different audiences?
The Ancient Magus' Bride started out targeting the female audience more, but it has readers of all age groups and all genders. Faust is written for women, but I haven't really changed my position much in that regard.
Are there any other mangaka who you consider to be personal influences, either in general or specific to The Ancient Magus Bride?
There are quite a few. I think the one I discovered when I was little, and which has had an influence on me ever since, is Ashiarai Yashiki no Juunin Tachi by Tokuichi Minagi. I think it's had a strong impact on my work.
Why do you draw yourself as a rabbit?
A friend of mine once drew me as a rabbit, and I've been using that, but with a different design.
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Peter Fobian is an Associate Features Editor for Crunchyroll and author of Monthly Mangaka Spotlight. You can follow him on Twitter @PeterFobian.
With Blade Runner 2049 set to open this fall, a "Blade Runner Blackout 2022" anime short tie-in has been announced. Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe helms the work about a mass power-outage on the American west coast, disrupting food supplies and prompting a ban on Replicant manufacturing.
[Staff]
Director / Screenwriter: Shinichiro Watanabe
Character Design / Drawing Director: Shukou Murase (Cowboy Bebop animator, Halo Legends, Gundam)
Music: Flying Lotus
Production : CygamesPictures Co., Ltd.
[Cast]
Iggy: Kenichiro Matsuda (Ghost in the Shell's Batou)
Trixy: Ichigo Aoba
Len: Makoto Furukawa (One Punch Man's Saitama)
via Cinema Today and Anime! Anime!
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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.
Following the previously introduced Yang Wenli (January 2018 release), Japanese retailers today started accepting pre-orders for Kotobukiya's upcoming new ARTFXJ figure of Reinhard von Lohengramm from the Legend of the Galactic Heroes anime franchise based on Yoshiki Tanaka's science fiction novel series of the same name for release in February 2018. As reported, Siegfried Kircheis is also planned to be added in the lineup soon.
The price for the 235mm-tall (10mm taller than Yang) pre-painted PVC figure of Reinhard is 10,800 yen (about 98 US dollars). Purchasers at Kotobukiya's official stores, including its online store, will also get a faintly smiling face part.
With the faintly smiling face part
【予約開始】ARTFX J ラインハルト・フォン・ローエングラム｜今なお多くのファンの心を魅了し、不朽の名作として語り継がれている『銀河英雄伝説』より、シリーズ第二弾として「ラインハルト・フォン・ローエングラム」が登場！#銀河英雄伝 https://t.co/H9Oir1w1eD pic.twitter.com/zo6c2aPZJZ
— コトブキヤオンラインショップ (@kotobukiya_2han) 2017年9月14日
Yang Wenli ARTFXJ figure (January 2018 release)
「ARTFX J ヤン・ウェンリー」も引続きご予約受付中！ コトブキヤショップでしか手に入らない特典もあり！ https://t.co/mVIoxtrS4G #銀河英雄伝説 pic.twitter.com/0amM0uBMSg
— コトブキヤオンラインショップ (@kotobukiya_2han) 2017年9月14日
Source: Kotobukiya press release
(C)Yoshiki Tanaka, Tokuma Shoten, Tokuma Japan Communications, Wright Staff, Suntory
(C)Naoyuki Kato
Before adapting Fate/Zero and /stay night, Ufotable adapted Type-Moon founders Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi's The Garden of Sinners (or Kara no Kyōkai) into a series of anime movies. Starting today, this production is now streaming on Amazon Channels' Anime Strike.
They describe it
Produced by ufotable, The Garden of Sinners series includes seven films, one bonus movie epilogue, and two side story films under the name The Garden of Sinners: recalled out summer. The story focuses on Shiki Ryougi, who possesses “Mystic Eyes of Death Perception” in which she can see the invisible lines of mortality that hold every living and non-living thing together. Working for a small independent agency, Shiki attempts to unravel the baffling mystery behind a series of abnormal and horrifying incidents.
ufotable, known for its lavish animation, also created Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] as well as their most recent TV series, Katsugeki! Touken Ranbu, which released on Anime Strike earlier this year.
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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.
An early look at the cover for this year's issue 19 of Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine is teasing an announcement for Ritz Kobayashi's 2006 moe mahjong manga Saki. With 2009, 2012, and 2014 anime series, a 2016 live-action drama and film, 2010 and 2013 spin-offs, there's a broad range of possibilities to speculate on.
Cover
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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.
Sega is developing a new Shin Megami Tensei game for smartphones, called Dx2 Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation, and this week’s issue of Famitsu magazine shares a first glimpse in a preview.
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Fire Emblem Heroes shared a look at a schedule of upcoming events for the month of September, which includes Grand Hero Battle Revivals and new Fire Emblem Warriors maps.
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Colophon: a statement at the end of a book containing the scribe or owner’s name, date of completion, or bitching about how hard it is to write a book in the dark ages
- Oh, my hand
- The parchment is very hairy
- Thank God it will soon be dark
- St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing
- Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink
- Oh d fuckin abbot
- Massive hangover
- Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job
- Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night
- If someone else would like such a handsome book, come and look me up in Paris, across from the Notre Dame cathedral
- I shall remember, O Christ, that I am writing of Thee, because I am wrecked today
- Do not reproach me concerning the letters, the ink is bad and the parchment scanty and the day is dark
- 11 golden letters, 8 shilling each; 700 letters with double shafts, 7 shilling for each hundred; and 35 quires of text, each 16 leaves, at 3 shilling each. For such an amount I won’t write again
- Here ends the second part of the title work of Brother Thomas Aquinas of the Dominican Order; very long, very verbose; and very tedious for the scribe; thank God, thank God, and again thank God
- If anyone take away this book, let him die the death, let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen
Catherine’s Golden Playhouse hostess Trisha, a.k.a. “The Midnight Venus,” was featured in a recent Atlus live stream to talk about key staff and recruit members to Studio Zero.
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