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Following on the heels of the upcoming Beelzebub Shounen Jump Festa movie, Ryuhei Tamura’s supernatural comedy manga will also get a television series next January. Beelzebub is the story of a high school delinquent who ends up serving as an unwilling surrogate father to the newborn son of the devil. Source: Anime News Network

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Prolific anime production assistance studio Asahi Production has announced its development of a multimedia franchise known as AGC38. The franchise will star 38 original anime girls who will appear in merchandise, TV appearances, online, and tentatively in original manga and anime. The female characters will be introduced to the public five at a time each [...]

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Pink Lady, the legendary pop music duo of Mitsuyo “Mie” Nemoto and Keiko “Kei” Masuda that topped the Japanese charts from 1976 to 1981 and got immortalized in the 1978 biographical anime TV special Pink Lady Monogatari: Eiko no Tenshitachi, have announced a new comeback. The duo will release a new version of its debut [...]

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To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the Galaxy Angel Rune TV series from 2006. The theme song is “Uchuu de Koi wa Ru-run Run” sung by the Rune Angel-tai.

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Question: I’m finally starting to watch Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I was wondering if this series could somehow start a trend with studios animating an incomplete manga series and then reanimating the series once the manga is over, or was this just a special case? There are factors to consider: how long will it be, popularity [...]

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GLASGOW, UK - September 1st, 2010 - Scotland Loves Animation is proud to announce several pieces of information regarding our first event - Scotland Loves Anime.

TICKET SALES:

Ticket sales in Glasgow, at the Glasgow Film Theatre have now gone live as of today for Scotland Loves Anime.  They are available via the GFT's ticket sales site here:

http://tickets.glasgowfilmtickets.org.uk/

Then click on "Scotland Loves Anime" in the left sidebar of events to get the full events listing so far.

Ticket sales in Edinburgh at the Filmhouse will be announced via our website, Twitter and Facebook as soon as they go live.  Scotland Loves Anime in Edinburgh no later than end of next week.

GUEST LIST ANNOUNCEMENT

To celebrate this - we are pleased to announce the first three guests in the lineup for Scotland Loves Anime.

JONATHAN CLEMENTS
Appearing for both weekends of Scotland Loves Anime.

Jonathan Clements is the author of Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade, and co-author of the Anime Encyclopedia. He is currently writing his PhD thesis on An Industrial History of Japanese Animation.

SATOSHI NISHIMURA
Appearing during the Glasgow weekend (8/10/10-10/10/10) of Scotland Loves Anime ONLY.

Mr. Satoshi Nishimura has worked for years as an animator on numerous anime titles providing key animation and story board work. He has worked on numerous series including MASHIN EIYUUDEN WATARU, FUTURE GPX CYBER FORMULA,CARD CAPTOR SAKURA, DRAGON BALL , PARADISE KISS and more. Later, Mr. Nishimura became a Director with several equally notable titles to his credit, including Trigun, and Hajime no Ippo. Mr. Nishimura’s latest title is Trigun Badlands Rumble.

SHIGERU KITAYAMA
Appearing during the Glasgow weekend (8/10/10-10/10/10) of Scotland Loves Anime ONLY.

Mr. Shigeru Kitayama joined Victor Japan in 1984 and became an animation producer in 1993 after an assistant producer position in the anime titled NINJA SCROLL. He is also the current chief producer of Flying Dog Inc. Mr. Kitayama enjoys war and “spaghetti-western” movies with hobbies consisting mainly of plastic models and toy guns. He also plays guitar for an amateur band. Mr. Kitayama has worked on such titles such as TRIGUN, EXCEL SAGA, NOIR, GUNGRAVE and MADLAX.

ABOUT SCOTLAND LOVES ANIME:
Scotland Loves Anime features an eclectic selection of Japanese animation at venues in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee. The season’s line-up includes the UK premieres of Badlands Rumble and One Piece Strong World, as well as the Scottish premieres of Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva and Summer Wars. Scotland Loves Anime also includes some special guest appearances and other supporting events.

Scotland Loves Anime is supported by: Manga Entertainment, the Japan Foundation, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Arts and Business Scotland, Ozarin.co.uk, Kadokawa Pictures and Flying Dog.

For more information please visit http://www.lovesanimation.com

Like the coming of the tides, the next Super Robot Wars game is upon us. Super Robot Wars L will be for the Nintendo DS, and will feature robots from a few new series that haven’t been featured in a SRW game before, like the Rebuild of Evangelion films, Macross Frontier, and Linebarrels of Iron. If you are like me, you have been waiting for a SRW game for the Playstation 3 forever, and unfortunately we will have to continue waiting. The DS is way popular at the moment, and it will continue to sell well and cost less to make, so I do not blame them for taking this path. For a DS game, the animation’s don’t look half bad, especially some of the newer series like Macross F, check out the first PV below and take a look yourself.

Though, I am kind of upset that once again we have another Seed/Seed Destiny SRW game with Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. Can we at least go back to the Universal Century or move on to 00 or even go back to G Gundam? Hopefully they are saving 00 for a PS3 SRW which will hopefully be announced sometime in the near future. Hopefully. Either way, enjoy L for now!
  

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Covers of Upcoming DVD Releases  

Here are a few DVD covers of upcoming UK anime releases:

To see more & dicuss the latest DVD covers founded by our forum members click on the comments. 

Funimation has announced its latest marketing effort with rich media developer iVidopia in which both companies have designed and developed the Corpse Princess Talk2Me ad unit for integration into ad-supported applications in the iTunes App Store and Android Marketplace. The ad features access to clips from the series and links to the distributor’s social media [...] Related posts:

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5. ADV to Release Princess Resurrection and Clannad in Half-Season Collections (Updated)

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When Sega went and registered the "valkyria3.jp" web domain, a lot of people went ahead and assumed that there would be a new Valkyria Chronicles title on the way. And why not? The strategy series has been a consistent critical success all around (Dale loved Valkyria Chronicles II), and even warranted anime and manga adaptations in Japan.

Which makes this teaser site, located at "code1935.jp" all the more exciting, because those silhouettes are clearly of the first game's iconic Edelweiss battle tank, and various Gallian soldiers wielding various war weapons. Furthermore, "code 1935" could be a reference to the first game, as its "Second Europan War" broke out in - wait for it - the year 1935. The site opens on September 16th, which also happens to be the same day as the Tokyo Game Show, so we can expect some more details then, like, for example, what platforms it's destined for.

Which brings us to the big question: Can the Valkyria fans in the audience identify all the weapons in that shot? I see shocktrooper machine guns, sniper rifles, scout rifles, mortar lances, rocket lances, what could be the Ruhm (Selvaria's gun), and...is that  sword? Hm. That might make sense, as Valkyria Chronicles II has a melee-focused spinoff "Fencer" class.