Early Unpublished Osamu Tezuka Work Discovered After 6 Decades

Osamu Tezuka, known for his works Astro Boy, Jungle Emperor, Kimba the While Lion, and Black Jack, is a Japanese cartoonist, artist, animator and a producer. He is synonymous to the name anime, having birthed the innovation of Japanese animation, and is the local equivalent to Walt Disney. Tezuka is termed as the Godfather of Anime, and his creative outputs, techniques and redefinitions of various genres gave him the title “The Father of Manga.” Keep Reading

New One Piece Special To Air in December

Fuji TV had just revealed last week that the productions for the anime One Piece, will be releasing a new special episode dubbed as One Piece Episode of Luffy: Hand Island no Boken (One Piece Episode Luffy: The Hand Island Adventure). The special episode will air on Saturday, December 15 at 9:00 PM. Normally, the One Piece television series air on Sunday mornings.

The Hand no Island Boken special episode is separated from the four successive television episodes that will begin airing on December 2. Keep Reading

Comedy Manga Ai Mai Mi Gets Adapted into Anime

Manga artists probably get the best of reality and fiction. When their minds are drifting away, they enter a new world of their own to be shared to their large pool of readers. These quaint ideas are eagerly stored to be recreated by illustrations, emotions depicted by various lines, and characters come to life even in its two-dimensional form. This kind of artwork has swept the world by storm and no wonder, many are eager to enter this kind of profession to share what different world is in the back of their minds. Keep Reading

Strike Witches’ Takamura Directs New Animation Project

Strike Witches’ Kazuhiro Takamura is on a roll this 2012, as he dives into not just one, but two big anime projects. As we all know, the film animation adaptation for Humikane Shimada’s original illustration Strike Witches has been released in March 2012. However, this doesn’t stop Takamura in picking another shoujo-based action packed adventure, as he enters another realm of cute girls fighting to save the world in a new project called Vividred Operation. Keep Reading

Animation for Kamisama no Inai Nichiyobi

What happens to a world where there is no God? Surely it must be a dark and desolate place, filled with chaos and confusion, of sorrow and despair, of darkness and death. Now this sounds too frightening to be true, and it happened—well, not in real life, but in the mind of Kimihito Irie. Irie founded the concepts for this in the Story of Creation, where there were six days a week for one to work, play and do their task, but on the seventh, everyone must rest, just as He did. Keep Reading

PA Works’ Nagi No Asu Kara to Air in 2013

There is no doubt that animations created by PA Works always boast of something good. This popular animation studio has been known to work with Production IG, Bee Train and Tatsunoko Production, giving it the experience to produce well-known series in delightful animation details. The company is also known to be involved with video game animations, widening its brand towards various media.

PA Works and ASCII Media Works’ Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh Magazine produced original animation, Nagi no Asu Kara, has been scheduled to air in 2013, to the much anticipation of fans. Keep Reading

Cuticle Tantei Inaba Anime Reveals Cast

cdinabaBack in August, various fliers from the 82nd Comic Market’s Frontier Works booth have revealed that a new manga will be receiving its television anime adaptation. Cuticle Tantei Inaba, the title of the series, is set forth into a new media to cater anime and manga lovers alike. This manga by the artist Mochi, Cuticle Tantei Inaba, is currently serialized in Square-Enix’s G Fantasy Magazine, will be appearing in your television screens by 2013. Keep Reading