Monthly Archives: June 2010
Kana Nishino to sing NARUTO film ending theme song
Singer Kana Nishino has been chosen to sing the ending theme song to the upcoming NARUTO Shippuuden movie, NARUTO the Move: The Lost Tower. Her new song, “if” that will be released the same day the movie comes out, July 31.
This will be the anime’s seventh movie for the NARUTO Shippuuden series. Since it’s syndication in 2002, the anime has three movies for the original anime series, NARUTO.
Kana joins the ranks of YUKI, DJ OZMA and Puffy who have all made NARUTO Shippuuden movie theme songs. She will also hold her first nationwide tour, called Kanayan Tour 2010 ~Autumn~ starting September 3 at the Zepp Stadium in Fukuoka. The tour will consist of six performances in six cities throughout Japan.
Kana’s new album “to Love” will drop 6/23 with two versions. A normal and limited edition which contains a DVD with video clips and making, special jacket and some special goods.
source: TokyoHive
Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden Resumed
After a long period of about two years, Yuu Watase resumed the manga Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden. The long-awaited chapter has been published in the Rika Flower magazine, released June 14th and counts a total of 60 pages.
Official Magazine Website here
Source:
JShoujo
I’m wondering if this is better than the first Fushigi Yuugi..^^”
These past week had been hard on me. I tried finishing the series I’ve watched last fall but I failed. I have a total of 100 episodes from at least 8 different anime series and I have to finished them on 1 week.. @_@ The series that I’ve finished are these: Aoi Bungaku, Inuyasha: Kanketsu-hen, Tegami Bachi, Seiken no Blacksmith, Kobato., and Miracle Train. I still need to finish To Aru Kagaku no Railgun and The book of Bantorra but that would definitely imposible now since our classes would start on Tuesday.. T_T
I am hoping that I can make reviews on those titles on the coming days.. I am really hopeful that the lazy bug won’t bite me..^^” And I’m also trying to finish my first fic and that is about the anime Working!!… I’ll try posting it here too.. 
Manga Aggregator to Close as OpenManga Plans Launch
The maintainers of MangaHelpers, a site that aggregated unauthorized scans of manga with translations, have announced that they have taken steps to shut down the site. While they expressed their belief that they have served publishers’ market reach, the maintainers acknowledged that continuing to operate is no longer an option. Uploading and linking to untranslated manga scans and scanlations have been disabled on the site, and access to the current library is only available to scanlators to allow them to back up their work.
MangaHelpers also announced the pending launch of OpenManga, a new platform to allow manga creators to distribute their work digitally. The program will feature the ability for artists to sell merchandise and accept donations. The new program will also provide ways for users to legally translate and localize these manga. A website with a splash image has already launched. Manganovel Corporation, a online manga company 89% owned by the conglomerate Toshiba Corporation, launched a similar service in 2007, but it is no longer operating.
Read more on: AnimeNewsNetwork
Fast response from Manga Helpers though I don’t quite understand this whole Open Manga thing..^^”
Ai no Kotodama BL Manga Gets 2nd Live-Action Film
Keiko Konno’s Ai no Kotodama boys-love manga has inspired a second live-action film, Ai no Kotodama ~Sekai no Hate Made~ (Words of Devotion: To the End of the World), which will open in Japan on August 7. Satoshi Kaneda directed the second Ai no Kotodama film as he did for the first.
Like the original manga, the first Ai no Kotodama film (2007) centered on the relationship between partners Ohtani (live-action GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka’s Hidenori Tokuyama) andTachibana (live-action The Prince of Tennis’ Yasuka Saitou) after high school. Saitou reprises his Tachibana role in the second film, but there are two new main characters who work at an advertising agency: an IT worker named Hirofumi (Makoto Ueunobori) and a high-level employee named Shinji (Ryūnosuke Kawai). Both Ueunobori and Kawai have appeared in the live-action stage musical version of The Prince of Tennis manga, and the Hirofumi character is Ueunobori’s first starring role in a film.
Digital Manga Publishing’s Juné imprint released the two volumes of the Ai no Kotodama manga under the title Words of Devotion in North America in 2007. Last month, the Japanese publisher Frontier Works announced that Kaneda will direct still another live-action film version of a boys-love manga — Hyouta Fujiyama’s Pure Heart (Junjō).
source: ANN
I’d still prefer an anime yaoi than live-action..^^”
Japanese, U.S. Manga Publishers Unite To Fight Scanlations
An international coalition of Japanese and American-based manga publishers have joined together to combat what they call the “rampant and growing problem” of scanlations, the practice of posting scanned and translated editions of Japanese comics online without permission of the copyright holders. The group is threatening legal action against 30 scanlation sites.
The effort brings together the 36 member Japanese Digital Comic Association—which includes such major Japanese houses as Kodansha, Shogakukan and Shueisha—as well as manga publisher Square Enix, the Tuttle-Mori Agency and U.S.-based manga publishers Vertical Inc, Viz Media, Tokyopop and Yen Press, the manga/graphic novel imprint of the Hachette Book Group.
A spokesperson for the coalition said the effort shows that Japanese publishers—who license the majority of manga sold in the U.S.—are taking an aggressive interest in combating manga piracy outside of Japan as well as inside the country. The group charges that the former fan-driven practice of scanlating—begun in the 1970s to scan, translate and post manga online when it was difficult to find manga outside of Japan—has been transformed by “scanlation aggregators,” heavily trafficked, for-profit Web sites that host thousands of pirated manga editions and offer them for free to readers.
According to a spokesperson, these sites are among the most heavily trafficked sites on the web attracting millions of visits each month while earning advertising revenues and even soliciting donations and sometimes charging for memberships. The group also charges that pirated manga is now beginning to turn up on smartphones and other wireless devices through the use of apps developed “solely to link to and republish the content of scanlations sites.”
Read more on: Publishers Weekly
I found this article on one of my friend’s post in LJ. This made me sad. I know piracy is illegal but not all manga titles have been licensed. And even if it’s licensed, not all country has it..:( That’s all for now, I can’t think much since my thoughts are wandering to the number of anime episodes that I need to finish today.. Ja..
Japan Basketball Association Awards Slam Dunk’s Inoue
The Japan Basketball Association’s board of directors revealed during its Wednesday meeting that it is awarding Slam Dunk manga creator Takehiko Inoue with a special commendation. The award is part of the association’s 80th anniversary celebration. The special commendation recognizes Inoue’s contribution to the growing popularity of the basketball in Japan, as well as the Slam Dunk Scholarship that he established in collaboration with his publisher Shueisha. Since 2007, the scholarship has been sending Japan’s top high school players to study abroad in America, where they study English and prepare to possibly play basketball in America’s National Collegiate Athletic Association.
I admire Inoue-sensei more.. ^_^ And cool, they have Slam Dunk Scholarship.. 
Anime News
Mitsudomoe’s 2nd PV
The official website for the television anime adaptation of Norio Sakurai‘s Mitsudomoe gag comedy manga has begun streaming its second promotional video for the series on Wednesday. The story centers around the comedic misadventures of the Marui triplets of sisters in sixth grade.
I’m still if I’ll watch this or not..
Inazuma Eleven Movie Announced
According to Monthly Coro Coro Comic, an anime movie of Inazuma Eleven was announced to be premiered this winter.
Official logo of the movie “Gekijoban Inazuma Eleven – Saikyo Gundan Orge Shurai”
Sources: Scan of CoroCoro
Code Geass Scans
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these scans. Credits goes to drakyndra at LJ.
This is the new official art.
Overloading fanservice.. ^^” I lol’ed at Lelouch’s shirt..
And this one, from Newtype’s Geass article.
Something’s wrong on his outfit on the left pic.. The outfit’s too tight eh? Or perhaps it’s the proportion of his body that makes it look..awful? What’s with his expression anyway? >_< On the contrary, he looks better on that Zero’s outfit.. ^^”
Again, credits goes to drakyndra. These pics are originally posted here.
Euryx
