Ahead of an April 13 premiere in Japan, a brand-new trailer for girls' love music anime Whisper Me a Love Song was released today, previewing the first notes between two harmonious love birds and the series' opening theme song, "Follow your arrows" by in-story band Ssgirls. Related: Whisper Me a Love Song Anime Sets the Stage for April 13 Premiere with New Visual A November 2023 announcement in the change of staff saw Akira Mano take over as director from Xinya Cai due to health reasons, and Yokohama Animation Lab step in to co-produce with Cloudhearts. Hiroki Uchida serves as series composer, alongside Minami Yoshida as character designer and Hiroshi Sasaki and Wataru Maeguchi as music composers. As for the cast, Hana Shimano takes on her first main role as Himari Kino, with Asami Seto (Mai Sakurajime in Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai ) voicing Yori Asanagi. They're joined by support acts Yuna Nemoto,...
- 3/22/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Legendary Mangaka Akira Toriyama took his last breath on March 1, 2024. He is the one responsible for paving the path for the upcoming generation of manga and anime lovers. He created the iconic Dragon Ball franchise and gifted the fans with two of the most celebrated characters in anime history – Son Goku and Prince Vegeta. No anime discussion is ever done without Akira Toriyama and his magnum opus in it.
He was such a workaholic that he kept on creating manga till the end. Even though he was not a part of Dragon Ball Super, he later joined the franchise and helped it reach new heights. Recently, an announcement surfaced online that mentioned that his latest work, Sand Land, will be adapted into an anime. The fans could not help but ask whether it had the potential to dethrone the Dragon Ball franchise.
Fans Are Excited For Sand Land Sand Land...
He was such a workaholic that he kept on creating manga till the end. Even though he was not a part of Dragon Ball Super, he later joined the franchise and helped it reach new heights. Recently, an announcement surfaced online that mentioned that his latest work, Sand Land, will be adapted into an anime. The fans could not help but ask whether it had the potential to dethrone the Dragon Ball franchise.
Fans Are Excited For Sand Land Sand Land...
- 3/9/2024
- by Priyanko Chakraborty
- FandomWire
After being delayed from January, a Japanese air date is officially set for upcoming girls' love music anime Whisper Me a Love Song : April 13 at 25:30 Jst (effectively April 14 at 1:30)! A second key visual was also revealed, along with the news that "Follow your arrows" by the in-story band Ssgirls will be the opening theme song, while "Giftee" by Hana Shimano (voice of Himari) will serve as the ending theme song. Key Visual Related: Whisper Me a Love Song TV Anime Adds Three More Cast Members A production staff shakeup saw Akira Mano take over as director from Xinya Cai due to health reasons, and Yokohama Animation Lab step in to co-produce with Cloudhearts. Hiroki Uchida serves as series composer, alongside Minami Yoshida as character designer and Hiroshi Sasaki and Wataru Maeguchi as music composers. As for the cast, Hana Shimano takes on her first main role as Himari Kino,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
March is the month for sand it seems as the Sand Land project revealed today that the anime adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s manga, which was previously released as an anime film in Japan, will premiere on March 20 around the world on Disney Plus with seven episodes. The first six episodes will encompass the film’s story while episodes seven to 13 will be new content set in a lush green lands aptly named Forestland. A new teaser video was released for the whole Sand Land project while a new visual drawn by Toriyama of the Forestland sage was unveiled alongside two new characters. The two new characters being introduced in the new arc are Anne, voiced by Mikako Komatsu (Maki Zenin in Jujutsu Kaisen ), and Meunière, voiced by Ayumu Murase (Shoyo Hinata in Haikyu!! ). Related: Sand Land Anime Film Becomes TV Series in Worldwide Spring 2024 Release The first half of the Sand Land anime,...
- 3/4/2024
- by Daryl Harding
- Crunchyroll
The official website of Sand Land revealed the much anticipated release date for the anime series on Feb 4, 2024.
Sand Land: The Series will premiere on March 20, 2024, making its debut with the first seven episodes simultaneously on Disney+ Star’s “Star Anime Series” programming. Following the debut, episodes 8-13 will be released weekly, with each episode dropping every Wednesday.
For viewers in the U.S., the series will also stream on Hulu.
The first six episodes, titled the “Akuma no Oji” (Prince of Demons) arc, will be a retelling of the Sand Land anime film, but adapted into a series format with some added footage.
Following the initial six episodes, a brand new arc titled “Tenshi no Yusha” (Angelic Heroes) will kick off on March 27th. This arc, consisting of episodes 7-13, will take place in a new location called Forest Land.
An illustration depicting the world of “Forest Land” drawn...
Sand Land: The Series will premiere on March 20, 2024, making its debut with the first seven episodes simultaneously on Disney+ Star’s “Star Anime Series” programming. Following the debut, episodes 8-13 will be released weekly, with each episode dropping every Wednesday.
For viewers in the U.S., the series will also stream on Hulu.
The first six episodes, titled the “Akuma no Oji” (Prince of Demons) arc, will be a retelling of the Sand Land anime film, but adapted into a series format with some added footage.
Following the initial six episodes, a brand new arc titled “Tenshi no Yusha” (Angelic Heroes) will kick off on March 27th. This arc, consisting of episodes 7-13, will take place in a new location called Forest Land.
An illustration depicting the world of “Forest Land” drawn...
- 3/4/2024
- by Ami Nazru
- AnimeHunch
How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer , an upcoming TV anime based on the romantic comedy manga by Nana Aokawa, has revealed the main staff and main cast for the series. The main cast includes: Suo voiced by Mikako Komatsu (Lorrane Vivie in The Unwanted Undead Adventurer ) Suo character visual Tokiwa voiced by Shunsuke Takeuchi (Dennis in Undead Murder Farce ) Tokiwa character visual Fuji voiced by Aoi Yuki (Pascal in NieR:Automata Ver1.1a ) Fuji character visual Asagi voiced by Shun Horie (Migi in Migi&Dali ) Asagi character visual Kohaku voiced by Nao Toyama (Hoshi Ayukawa in My Tiny Senpai ) Kohaku character visual Hagi voiced by Gakuto Kajiwara (Kai in Sasaki and Peeps ) Hagi character visual The original How I Attended an All-Guy's Mixer manga is serialized in Square Enix's Gangan Online shojo manga magazine, and an English language version is also available on the MangaUp! app. Kazuomi Koga directs the...
- 2/25/2024
- by Paul Chapman
- Crunchyroll
Yuki Kodama's coming-of-age manga Kids on the Slope has won fans over in many forms, from its 2012 anime adaptation to the live-action film released in 2018. Next month, the story will be presented in a new form: a night of staged readings and live jazz music. Animax Reading Drama: Kids on the Slope will unite 18 talents, who will take turns as the production's six lead cast members. Stepping into the roles will be: As Kaoru Nishimi: Junta Terashima (Shiki Ando in Paradox Live The Animation ) Ryu Kiyama (Kakeru Shiwasu in the Tsukiuta stage plays) Tasuku Kaito (Meguru Bachira in Bluelock ) Gakuto Kajiwara (Asta in Black Clover ) As Sentaro Kawabuchi: Fumiya Imai (Hiiragi Kashima in given ) Ryotaro Akazawa (Taichi Nanao in the A3! stage plays) Toshiki Masuda (Eijiro Kirishima in My Hero Academia ) Yoshiki Nakajima (Yo Uei in Dr. Stone ) As Ritsuko Mukae: Ibuki Kido (Megumi Jinno in Eromanga Sensei...
- 2/8/2024
- by Kara Dennison
- Crunchyroll
The official website and accounts for the upcoming Whisper Me a Love Song anime today revealed three more cast members, adding Reina Ueda, Chika Anzai and Aoi Koga as Momoka Satomiya, Hajime Amasawa and Miki Mizuguchi, respectively. It was also announced that a pre-screening event will take place on March 30 at United Cinemas Aqua City Odaiba in Tokyo. Related: Whisper Me a Love Song TV Anime Strikes a Chord in New Trailer Originally scheduled to begin airing in January 2024, the series will now premiere in April 2024 after a production staff shakeup that sees Akira Mano take over as director from Xinya Cai due to health reasons and Yokohama Animation Lab step in to co-produce with Cloudhearts. As for the cast, Hana Shimano takes on her first main role as Himari Kino, while the experienced Asami Seto (Mai Sakurajime in Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai ) will be the...
- 2/2/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Features the voices of: Megumi Ogata, Kana Hanazawa, Mikako Komatsu, Kōki Uchiyama, Tomokazu Seki, Yuichi Nakamura, Takahiro Sakurai | Written by Hiroshi Seko | Directed by Sunghoo Park
Directed by Sunghoo Park, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is a prequel to the popular anime series of the same name. As such, it serves as the perfect introduction to the characters and the mythology, and can be enjoyed equally by newcomers and fans alike.
The film is set in a world where dark thoughts and feelings can create monsters known as curses, who haunt places associated with negative emotions (such as schools or hospitals) and wreak all manner of destruction. After an incident involving school bullies, Yuta Okkotsu (voiced by Megumi Ogata) discovers that he has a curse, or demon inside him called Rika-chan (Kana Hanazawa), who’s fiercely protective and will hurt anyone that threatens Yuta.
Help is at hand in the form of...
Directed by Sunghoo Park, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is a prequel to the popular anime series of the same name. As such, it serves as the perfect introduction to the characters and the mythology, and can be enjoyed equally by newcomers and fans alike.
The film is set in a world where dark thoughts and feelings can create monsters known as curses, who haunt places associated with negative emotions (such as schools or hospitals) and wreak all manner of destruction. After an incident involving school bullies, Yuta Okkotsu (voiced by Megumi Ogata) discovers that he has a curse, or demon inside him called Rika-chan (Kana Hanazawa), who’s fiercely protective and will hurt anyone that threatens Yuta.
Help is at hand in the form of...
- 3/21/2022
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
This is one of the best weekends for new indie releases in some time — a bit of space in theaters to run and audiences slowly, but increasingly, willing to return.
Focus Features’ The Outfit – the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) — opens nationally on over 1,200 screens with Mark Rylance starring as a bespoke British tailor from London’s Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he ends up running a tailor shop in a rough Chicago neighborhood making suits for the only people around who can afford them, a family of vicious gangsters.
The script is by Moore and Johnathan McClain. Also starring Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O’Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Simon Russell Beale. It premiered in Berlin last month. Deadline review here.
Initially set for release Feb. 25, The Outfit occupies the slot vacated by Downtown Abbey: A New Era. In January, in the shadow of Omicron,...
Focus Features’ The Outfit – the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) — opens nationally on over 1,200 screens with Mark Rylance starring as a bespoke British tailor from London’s Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he ends up running a tailor shop in a rough Chicago neighborhood making suits for the only people around who can afford them, a family of vicious gangsters.
The script is by Moore and Johnathan McClain. Also starring Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, Dylan O’Brien, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Simon Russell Beale. It premiered in Berlin last month. Deadline review here.
Initially set for release Feb. 25, The Outfit occupies the slot vacated by Downtown Abbey: A New Era. In January, in the shadow of Omicron,...
- 3/18/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s hard to know if the Japanese animated fantasy “Jujutsu Kaisen 0” might be a good entry point for anybody who hasn’t already either watched the recent anime series or read its battle shonen manga comic-book source material.
This new feature-length prequel doesn’t deliver much more than what the anime series already has: a satisfying, faithful, and hormonal action-drama about teenage “jujutsu” martial-artist sorcerers/exorcists and their ongoing quest to destroy monstrous sentient curses and cursed objects.
Set about a year before the events depicted in both the anime and the manga, “Jujutsu Kaisen 0” presents a self-contained story about Yuta Okkotsu (voiced by Megumi Ogata in the Japanese-language version), a young jujutsu sorcerer who’s haunted by the cursed spirit of his childhood sweetheart Rika (Kana Hanazawa), who died in a hit-and-run accident shortly after exchanging engagement rings and lovers’ vows with Yuta.
Yuta’s one-and-done...
This new feature-length prequel doesn’t deliver much more than what the anime series already has: a satisfying, faithful, and hormonal action-drama about teenage “jujutsu” martial-artist sorcerers/exorcists and their ongoing quest to destroy monstrous sentient curses and cursed objects.
Set about a year before the events depicted in both the anime and the manga, “Jujutsu Kaisen 0” presents a self-contained story about Yuta Okkotsu (voiced by Megumi Ogata in the Japanese-language version), a young jujutsu sorcerer who’s haunted by the cursed spirit of his childhood sweetheart Rika (Kana Hanazawa), who died in a hit-and-run accident shortly after exchanging engagement rings and lovers’ vows with Yuta.
Yuta’s one-and-done...
- 3/13/2022
- by Simon Abrams
- The Wrap
The curses and characters of Jujutsu Kaisen will come to the big screen when Jujutsu Kaisen 0 makes its North America theatrical release in the spring.
Crunchyroll revealed on Tuesday that the anime film from Toho Animation will release on March 18 in more than 1,500 theaters across the nation. Available in both English dub and subtitled, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is based on the prequel manga to Gege Akutami’s anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 follows Yuta Okkotsu, a nervous high school student, who enrolls in the mysterious Tokyo Jujutsu High School under the guidance of Satoru Gojo after being haunted by the curse of his childhood friend.
The upcoming anime film is animated by Mappa and directed by Sunghoo Park. he film is being distributed in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand by Crunchyroll in association with Funimation and in additional European countries by Crunchyroll and Wakanim.
Crunchyroll revealed on Tuesday that the anime film from Toho Animation will release on March 18 in more than 1,500 theaters across the nation. Available in both English dub and subtitled, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is based on the prequel manga to Gege Akutami’s anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 follows Yuta Okkotsu, a nervous high school student, who enrolls in the mysterious Tokyo Jujutsu High School under the guidance of Satoru Gojo after being haunted by the curse of his childhood friend.
The upcoming anime film is animated by Mappa and directed by Sunghoo Park. he film is being distributed in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand by Crunchyroll in association with Funimation and in additional European countries by Crunchyroll and Wakanim.
- 1/25/2022
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is going all in on anime as they add the eagerly anticipated Godzilla movie and 12 other projects to their slate of upcoming programming. Deadline says in addition to the series the network is also overseeing the development of Cannon Busters, Devilman Crybaby, B: The Beginning, and Knights Of The Zodiac: Saint Seiya just to name a few.
The Godzilla and Saint Seiya grabs really show that Netflix is working to grab their Western audience who loves anime, but with competitors like Crunchyroll and Funimation (who was recently bought by Sony) in the mix, who knows if they'll be able to compete on that front. Time will tell, but the addition of so many projects seems promising for the future of anime on the platform.
Below you'll find details photos and some trailer for the anime projects that Netflix has picked up!
Cannon Busters
Created, directed and executive produced...
The Godzilla and Saint Seiya grabs really show that Netflix is working to grab their Western audience who loves anime, but with competitors like Crunchyroll and Funimation (who was recently bought by Sony) in the mix, who knows if they'll be able to compete on that front. Time will tell, but the addition of so many projects seems promising for the future of anime on the platform.
Below you'll find details photos and some trailer for the anime projects that Netflix has picked up!
Cannon Busters
Created, directed and executive produced...
- 8/2/2017
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
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