カリス

An avid doodler, writer, and a big Japanese Culture fan, I write about nifty new releases of animated movies, manga-turned-live-action, surprising anime news, amazing art exhibits, and everything else. I translate interesting updates, and abuse the word すごい！

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Trailer for Upcoming Patema Inverted Anime Film

11Yasuhiro Yoshiura, creator of Pale Cocoon and Time of Eve, has begun streaming the full trailer of his new project Patema Inverted on YouTube, just right after debuting on Yahoo! Movies Japan. The characters and their descriptions have also been revealed.

The lead role of Patema will be played by Yukiyo Fujii. She is the princess of an underground town, raised on being waited but is liked by everyone due to her innocent and outgoing personality. Keep Reading

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Wake Up, Girls! Characters Revealed

03The cast for this upcoming anime from director Yutaka Yamamoto was disclosed at an event at Wonder Festival this summer. The anime trails after the journey of aspiring idols coming from Japan’s earthquake-hit Tohoku region. This will air on television and even be screened in theaters early next year.

While we previously had a glimpse of the seven girls (and their backs) in this post, we now see their faces and their details! Keep Reading

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Anime Promo for I Wanna Be! Manga Streamed

01Animation production company Studio DEEN has produced a cute anime promotional teaser for the upcoming four-panelled manga I Wanna Be! (Waanabi.jk), offering a video on a DVD made available at Comic Market next month. The manga fosucses on the weekly slice of life series created by Kenichi Kuroi. It narrates the dreams and aspirations of 4 third-year high school girls attending a private school.

An animation teaser for a manga? Keep Reading

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Tokyo Toybox in the Flesh

02A gamer’s life always have its ups and downs, but it’s nothing boring. Sure, we’ve seen otakus sitting on their couches and holding their game console all day—sometimes without food, water, sleep, or even going to the rest room for one! But we all know that the adventure exists right inside those monitors, unknown to us, they live in another world. Now, it wouldn’t be surprising if they said they all came from a supernatural alter-dimension and then comes back to live in the reality. Keep Reading

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Hajime no Ippo 3rd Season

02George Morikawa’s popular boxing novel is about to take another round, not on the ring, but on your TV screens. The 34th issue of Kondansha’s Weekly Shounen Magazine has just disclosed that Hajime No Ippo (はじめの一歩) is green-lit for a third serving. The anime is scheduled to start airing fall of 2013 in Japan.

In the announcement ad, one can read the headlines “Ippo Fights the Formidable Enemy, Sawamura! Keep Reading

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Daily Lives of High School Boys Releases First Trailer

01There’s always fun when you’re in high school, and for a group of lads studying in an all-boys school, fun is just an understatement. The Japanese film website Eiga.com has begun streaming the first trailer for the gag comedy manga Danshi Kokosei no Nichijo (Daily Lives of High School Boys) recently. Featuring the theme song “Maji Kansha” from Team Shachihoko, one can take a glimpse of what fun these high school boys have in and out of the class. Keep Reading

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Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road Coming This Fall

04Bushiroad has already confirmed that its Neppu Kairiku Bushi Lord project will be revamped into Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road, a TV Anime slated this fall. This was revealed at the Bushiroad Dai Senryaku Happyoukai 2013 event. This anime series will be a collaboration of Bushiroad, Bandai Visual, Nitroplus and Kinema Citrus.

This project, involving an anime movie in 2005, has been originally announced back in 2003 as a collaboration between the studios Gainax, Broccoli and Takara. Keep Reading

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