Bleach anime is listed to end on March 27, replaced by Rock Lee Spinoff

Yes, this is to be expected.

I had a feeling when I started reading the first page of the last arc in the manga, and I figured that this is pretty much it, folks. The manga is going to end sooner than we all thought.

And it's highly likely that the last arc is going to be made into a movie?

A recent television program listing in Japan reports that the Bleach television anime series will end its run in TV Tokyo's 6:00 p.m. Tuesday timeslot on March 27. When a Twitter follower of Bleach animation director Hiroki Takagi sent him an image of the listings, Takagi responded by saying, "So quick. I was going to paste it… /(^o^)\"

Shueisha had already announced that the weekly Naruto SD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden anime will premiere on TV Tokyo on Tuesday, April 3 at 6:00 p.m.

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Bleach live action adaptation is already in motion by Warner Bros studios

OH DEAR GOD NO!!!!! O_O

"The Variety entertainment trade news source is reporting on Wednesday that American film studio Warner Brothers licensed the live-action feature rights to Tite Kubo's supernatural action manga and anime Bleach. Warner is now developing the project and has assigned Dan Mazeau (Wrath of the Titans remake) to write a script. Peter Segal (Get Smart remake, The Longest Yard remake, Anger Management) is attached as a producer with a possibility of being the director as well.

The other producers include Segal's Callahan Filmworks partner Michael Ewing, actor Masi Oka (Heroes, Get Smart), and Jason Hoffs (The Terminal) at Viz Productions (a subsidiary of Bleach's North American publisher Viz Media). Branon Coluccio will be an executive producer.

Segal told Variety, "I've always been a huge fan of Bleach and have great respect for its creator Kubo-sensei and the truly original and amazing world he has created in this manga."

Oka, who acted in Heroes and Segal's Get Smart film, is a well-known manga fan. He drew inspiration from Dragon Ball for his Heroes character Hiro Nakamura, and he describes himself as a Naoki Urasawa and Shonen Jump "geek." He brought the project to Callahan Filmworks.

The Hollywood Reporter newspaper's Heat Vision blog reported in 2010 that Warner Brothers was "in the process of securing the movie rights to" Bleach. Heat Vision had reported then that Segal was lining himself up to produce, but not direct. "

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Detective Conan movie trailer streamed!

Looking forward to this! The film premieres on April.



The 16th Detective Conan film, titled 'The Eleventh Striker', has the pint-sized detective being stalked by a criminal unless he can decipher the criminals' coded messages.

The website also announced that the band Ikimono-gakari will perform the theme song "Haru Uta" for the film. The film's new trailer features the song. The group has performed theme songs for television anime including Bleach, Naruto Shippūden, Ghost Slayers Ayashi, and Big Windup!.

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Saint Young Men manga will resume on March 22

:) Following the announcement of the return of Arakawa Under the Bridge, Kodansha's Morning magazine announced on Tuesday that Hikaru Nakamura will resume her Saint Young Men comedy manga in the Morning 2 magazine's 56th issue on March 22.

Like Nakamura's other ongoing manga Arakawa Under the Bridge, Saint Young Men has been on a half-year break since last September, due to Nakamura's maternity leave.

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Arakawa under the Bridge manga returns on April 6!! Saint Young Men author is back!!

Great news for fans of both series!! Author Hikaru Nakamura is resuming her Arakawa Under the Bridge comedy manga in the eighth issue on April 6, according to an announcement by Young Gangan magazine.

Like Arakawa's other ongoing manga Saint Young Men, Arakawa Under the Bridge has been on a half-year break since last September, due to Arakawa's maternity leave. In the caption for an illustration that she drew to announce the news, Arakawa revealed that she gave birth to her baby without incident, so she is ready to return to her manga work.

WHOO!! Excellent!!

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Queen's Blade Rebellion trailer

This series premieres in April. If you loved Highschool of the Dead, you may love this. Here are some teasers:

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Madhouse Studio Animates Short Based on Schulz's Peanuts Madhouse Studio Animates Short Based on Schulz's Peanuts Madhouse Studio Animates Short Based on Schulz's Peanuts

MADHOUSE revealed that it has begun producing animation based on the Peanuts comic strip by the late American artist Charles M. Schulz.

According to the studio, it has produced an animated short that "is released somewhere in Tokyo" and indicated that the short is also on the web. Only two studios have been authorized by Peanuts Worldwide LLC to make animation; the other is Bill Melendez Productions, the studio famous for the Peanuts television specials.

source: ANN

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Curiosities: DC's Earth Two Wonder Woman design inspired in Saint Seiya?

Just found this amusing.

It looks like Wonder Woman is wearing a Silver cloth, similar to Yuzuriha from Lost Canvas?

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Yuzuriha's Silver Cloth:

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Saint Seiya Omega premieres on April 1

I would normally be very skeptic of this project if Reiko Yoshida of Bakuman and D-Grayman fame wasn't supervising the scripts, along with old school Heartcatch Precure director Morio Hatano.

This new series by Toei is inspired by but not directly based on any of creator Masami Kurumada’s manga.

In fact, it will introduce a new generation of bronze saints led by 13 year-old Koga, who seek to rescue Koga’s adopted mother, the reincarnation of the goddess Athena, who is kidnapped by the villain Mars.

Here are a few images released:

It looks like a mix of Moe and old-school O_O It will be aired on mornings, so it is aimed more at children. 

I would wait and see.

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Strike Witches movie trailer

It will premiere on March 17 in Japanese theaters, animated by AIC.

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Ultraviolet: code 044 anime will premiere on February 19 on G4

One of the latest projects by late director Osamu Dezaki of Ashita no Joe, Aim for the Ace and Rose of Versailles fame, it originally inspired the 2006 movie with Milla Jovovich as the lead character, '044', a female warrior genetically engineered with high combat skills and ordered by the government to annihilate a vampire army.

The Zap2it and TV Guide television listings for the G4 channel are listing that the station will begin airing the Ultraviolet: Code 044 television anime series this month. The listings indicate that the first episode, "Tabidachi," is slated to air on Sunday, February 19 at 12:00 a.m., right after the station airs the original live-action Ultraviolet film on Saturday starting at 10:00 p.m.

source: ANN

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Afro Tanaka 2nd Tv Ad streamed

This amusing movie based on the comedy manga by Masaharu Noritsuke will premiere on Japanese theaters on February 18.

Actor Shota Matsuda (Liar Game, Hana Yori Dango) stars as an odd, Afro-haired young man named Hiroshi Tanaka who faces his greatest challenge at the age of 24: his first potential girlfriend played by Nozomi Sasaki. The girlfriend is a new character that does not appear in Noritsuke's original manga. Daigo Matsui is directing the film.



Here's also the official trailer:



XD this must be funny as hell.

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Naruto Shippuden anime February 2012 schedule

Better late than never, these days passed so quickly and I didn't realize that I needed to post the schedule for this month.

Naruto finally met his Mom! The truth is revealed on what happened the day the Nine Tails awakened and set to destroy Konoha! Yondaime's facts!

Episode 247 "Target: Nine Tails" (狙われた九尾) February 2, 2012
Episode 248 "The Fourth Hokage's Death Match!" (四代目の死闘!!) February 9, 2012
Episode 249 "TBA" February 9, 2012 <----a double episode?
Episode 250 "The Freak vs. The Monster! A Battle in Paradise!" (珍獣VS怪人! 楽園の戦い!) February 16, 2012
episode 251 "The Man Known as Kisame" (鬼鮫という男) February 23, 2012

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ZetMan 2012 anime trailer!

It is finally here! From the studio that produced Saint Seiya Lost Canvas!

Zetman premieres in April.

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Tsuritama fishing anime will be directed by Kenji Nakamura

This is amazing, I can't wait!

Fuji TV has revealed that the fifth Noitamina anime series will be directed by Kenji Nakamura (Ayakashi, Mononoke, Kuchu Buranko, C).

Tsuritama, a fishing anime set on Japan’s Enoshima island starring four teen boys and a pet duck, will premiere in April. Yuichi Takahashi (Macross Frontier, Iron Vendetta) is providing the animation character designs based on concept designs by Atsuya Uki (Cencoroll). A-1 Pictures is animating the series.

I'm really intrigued, here's a screencap from the trailer:

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Sailor Moon manga is number 1 graphic novel again in American bookstores!

WOW!! And Naruto doesn't stay far behind!

The third volume of Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon manga topped Nielsen BookScan's top 20 graphic novels in American bookstores for January. It was the fourth time in five months that the manga ranked #1 on the chart since the manga returned in September.

In addition, Takeuchi has two more books in the top 20: Sailor Moon volume 2 at #10 and volume 1 at #16.

Naruto also had three books in the top 20: volume 54 at #3, volume 53 at #8, and Naruto: The Official Character Data Book at #19.

The retail news source ICv2 lists Rosario + Vampire Season II volume 7 at #4, followed by Black Bird volume 12 at #6. Black Butler volume 8 (#7) and the manga-influenced Maximum Ride volume 5 (#9) round out the top 10.

The 27th and final volume of Fullmetal Alchemist landed at #12, and One Piece volume 60 was at #15. Highschool of the Dead volume 5 makes the list at #20.

The BookScan rankings represent sales at Barnes & Noble and other book chains, independent bookshops, and online purchases — but not sales at comic book stores, Walmart, and some other venues.

source: ANN

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Yuri Seijin Naoko-san trailer and preview

This series was originally scheduled for release in November and December, but was pushed back to February 15, 2012.



Tetsuya Takeuchi is directing, designing, and storyboarding. The manga series premiered in Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh in 2005.

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Prince of Tennis II DVD/BD will include special OVAs

Bandai Visual announced that each Blu-ray Disc/DVD volume of The Prince of Tennis II (Shin Tennis no Ōji-sama) will include an original video anime episode, starting with the first volume on April 20.

It will also include the first television episode, "The Return of the Prince," as well as liner notes and audio commentaries by the cast for each episode. The first pressing of the first volume will add an illustrated sleeve case and an original illustrated sheet.

source: ANN

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EXTRA: Bleach manga will end after final arc

Interesting turn of events! After author Tite Kubo indicated a few months ago that Bleach manga would last another 10 years, it turns out that the upcoming 10th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday that Tite Kubo's Bleach manga is entering its final story arc. Kubo has been drawing the manga in the magazine since 2001, and Shueisha published the 53rd compiled book volume of the manga in December.

There's even the layout sketch of the color opening page that kickstarts the Final Arc of Bleach!

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