ANIME & MANGA NEWS ROUNDUP 3/22/10
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Mar 22 2010, 5:03 PM
The ONE PIECE MEMORIAL BEST album was the top selling CD this week in Japan. The anime soundtrack sold over 82,000 units, a feat that hasn't been accomplished since CODE GEASS BEST CD reached #1 on the Oricon chart back in 2009. THE ONE PIECE album contains 33 tracks and is a 2-CD set.
Sakura-Con has announced that it will host voice actor Ryo Horikawa who is best known for his role as Vegeta in DRAGON BALL Z. The convention runs April 2 - 4 in Seattle. Outside of his role as Vegata, Horikawa has also voiced more than 100 anime films, including the character of Heiji Hattori in DETECTIVE CONAN and Kou Uraki in MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 0083.
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Warner Brothers has picked up the popular manga/anime series BLEACH for a live-action adaptation. Peter Segal, director of GET SMART and 50 FIRST DATE is producing. The manga, written and drawn by Tite Kubo, has been published in
weekly installments in Japan since 2001. Viz has collected the stories
in graphic novel format, so far releasing 29 volumes. BLEACH has been adapted into an anime TV series that airs in Japan. An English
version airs on Cartoon Network and Canada's YTV. In Japan, the title
has spawned features and a musical.
A new DIRTY PAIR manga has been launched in May's MONTHLY COMIC RYU. According to Anime News Network, The new series is, "Like the original novels, Tamaki's manga follows the misadventures of
the Lovely Angels, two galactic private investigators named Kei and
Yuri who solve mysteries, but often leave chaos and wanton destruction
in their wake."
Anime Nation is reporting a live action film adaptation of Satoshi Karasuya’s autobiographical manga Onobori Monogatari will hit
Japanese theaters on July 17. The 4-koma manga originally serialized
from 2006 to 2008 details Karasuya’s move from rural Japan to Tokyo in
his effort to become a professional manga artist. Yasutaka Mori directs with Yoshio Inoue starring in his first
leading role.
For those emailing me about including cos-play news, let me point you out to Denise Kuan's blog The OCD where she is documenting with great detail her journey in creating the costume of Xianghua from SOUL CALIBER IV (which she plans to debut at this year's Anime Expo). She is creating the costume from scratch and her blog is instructional on the process. Not only is her handy father helping her with making Xianghua's sword, but he had in the past recreated Cloud's sword (from FINAL FANTASY) and Wolverine's claws! Don't you wish your dad was that cool?
The ONE PIECE MEMORIAL BEST album was the top selling CD this week in Japan. The anime soundtrack sold over 82,000 units, a feat that hasn't been accomplished since CODE GEASS BEST CD reached #1 on the Oricon chart back in 2009. THE ONE PIECE album contains 33 tracks and is a 2-CD set.
Sakura-Con has announced that it will host voice actor Ryo Horikawa who is best known for his role as Vegeta in DRAGON BALL Z. The convention runs April 2 - 4 in Seattle. Outside of his role as Vegata, Horikawa has also voiced more than 100 anime films, including the character of Heiji Hattori in DETECTIVE CONAN and Kou Uraki in MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 0083.
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Warner Brothers has picked up the popular manga/anime series BLEACH for a live-action adaptation. Peter Segal, director of GET SMART and 50 FIRST DATE is producing. The manga, written and drawn by Tite Kubo, has been published in weekly installments in Japan since 2001. Viz has collected the stories in graphic novel format, so far releasing 29 volumes. BLEACH has been adapted into an anime TV series that airs in Japan. An English version airs on Cartoon Network and Canada's YTV. In Japan, the title has spawned features and a musical.
A new DIRTY PAIR manga has been launched in May's MONTHLY COMIC RYU. According to Anime News Network, The new series is, "Like the original novels, Tamaki's manga follows the misadventures of the Lovely Angels, two galactic private investigators named Kei and Yuri who solve mysteries, but often leave chaos and wanton destruction in their wake."
Anime Nation is reporting a live action film adaptation of Satoshi Karasuya’s autobiographical manga Onobori Monogatari will hit Japanese theaters on July 17. The 4-koma manga originally serialized from 2006 to 2008 details Karasuya’s move from rural Japan to Tokyo in his effort to become a professional manga artist. Yasutaka Mori directs with Yoshio Inoue starring in his first leading role.
For those emailing me about including cos-play news, let me point you out to Denise Kuan's blog The OCD where she is documenting with great detail her journey in creating the costume of Xianghua from SOUL CALIBER IV (which she plans to debut at this year's Anime Expo). She is creating the costume from scratch and her blog is instructional on the process. Not only is her handy father helping her with making Xianghua's sword, but he had in the past recreated Cloud's sword (from FINAL FANTASY) and Wolverine's claws! Don't you wish your dad was that cool?
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