The official website for the forthcoming TV anime ‘K’ has started streaming a number of promotional videos which showcase the anime’s background art and characters.






The list of voice actors involved is pretty impressive with Daisuke Namikawa, Tomokazu Sugita, Kenjiro Tsuda, Daisuke Ono, Mamoru Miyano, Miyuki Sawashiro, Yui Horie, Takahiro Sakurai, Jun Fukuyama announced.

Names of the staff involved are light on the ground at the minute but we do know that a producer named Gou Nakanishi, who has worked on the anime Asura Cryin’, Heroic Age, Negima!? and Fafner, is involved and theme songs for the anime will be performed by the group Angela (Asura Cryin’, Jinki: Extend, and Shikabane Hime:Kuro).

Staff: Gou Nakanishi (Producer), Angela (Theme Song Performance)

Voice Actors: Daisuke Namikawa, Tomokazu Sugita, Mikako Komatsu, Kenjiro Tsuda, Daisuke Ono, Mamoru Miyano, Miyuki Sawashiro, Yui Horie, Takahiro Sakurai, Jun Fukuyama, Yūichi Nakamura

Studio: GoRA/GoHands

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The homepage for the Tari Tari TV anime series is streaming a teaser trailer which introduces the characters ahead of its July premiere.



Synopsis

The story centres around five high school girls who are too young to be called adults, but no longer think of themselves as children.

Wakana Sakai was once a musician until the death of her mother. Konatsu Miyamoto is a positive character who is a member of the after school vocal music club. Daichi Tanaka is part of the badminton team who lives with his college student sister. Wiin is a transfer student who spent the first 12 years abroad in Australia. Sawa Okita is a spirited member of the archery club. Music will bring these characters together during their last summer in high school.

Voicing Konatsu is Asami Seto (Chihaya in Chihayafuru), while Saori Hayami (Miho in Bakuman) voices Sawa and Ayahi Takagaki (Erika in Durarara!!) voices Wakana.

The anime is being created by P.A. Works (Hanasaku Iroha, Another) with Masakazu Hashimoto (Hanasaki Iroha, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva) directing and orchestrating series composition while Kazuki Higashiji (Angel Beats!, Hanasaku Oriha) serving as art director. Music comes from Shiroh Hamaguchi (One Piece, Hanasaku Iroha).

Staff: Masakazu Hashimoto (Director/Series Composition), Masayuki Kawaguchi (Original Novelist), Kei Kunī (Script), Shiroh Hamaguchi (Music), tanu (Original Character Design), Kanami Sekiguchi (Chief Animation Director), Kazuki Higashiji (Art Director)

Voice Actors: Asami Seto (Konatsu), Saori Hayami (Sawa), Natsuki Hanae (Wiin), Ayahi Takagaki (Wakana), Nobunaga Shimazaki (Daichi)

Studio: P.A. Works

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Kagari Tamaoka’s four-panel comedy manga series, Mangirl!, will be adapted into a TV anime by studio Dogakobo (Yuruyuri) which premiere in 2012.

The manga follows a team of girls who want to create Japan’s best manga magazine. Led by Hana, their editor, not even inexperience will stop them.

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Manga UK is streaming a trailer for the DD/Blu-ray release of Roujin Z which will be released by Manga UK on behalf of Kaze on the 11th of June.



Synopsis

In the near future mankind has developed advanced technology and modern comforts but one problem remains: the ageing population. It is hoped that technology will once again come to help with a machine called Z-001 that is able to monitor health and provide all necessary care for the elderly replacing doctors and nurses. Kiyuro Takazawa is the first patient to be “volunteered” much to his nurse Haruko’s concern but once the machine interfaces with him it is subject to his desire to go to the beach and the machine goes beserk escaping from the hospital and leading the police on a merry chase leaving it up to Haruko to save him.

Originally released in 1991 the film was directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo (Blood: The Last Vampire, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) and written by Katsuhiro Otomo (director of Akira). Satoshi Kon also worked on this film as art director and set designer.

According to the website this is the first time that the film will be available in HD.

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The June issue of Monthly Shōnen Gangan magazine is carrying the news that there will be a TV anime of the action-fantasy manga, Zetsuen no Tempest: The Civilisation Blaster.

Synopsis

Yoshino Takigawa is an ordinary high school student who is visiting his friend named Mahiro Fuwa. What Yoshino doesn’t know is that Mahiro has made a deal with a sorceress named Hakaze Kusaribe to hunt down the killers of his parents and sister. The truth begins to emerge when Yoshino is confronted by a mysterious woman named Evangeline Yamato who draws a gun on him and questions him. It is only through the intervention of Mahiro that Yoshino survives and he soon finds himself plunged into a world of magic, murder and a mysterious plague that is linked to a curse that could destroy the world.

The manga is written by Kyou Shirodairo and Arihide Sano with illustrations by Ren Saizaki and originally began serialisation in Monthly Shōnen Gangan back in August 2009 and has been compiled into six volumes to date. Shirodairo may be familiar to readers from his mystery series, Spiral, which was also adapted into an anime.

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The first twenty minutes for Toei’s new movie Niji-iro Hotaru Eien no Natsu Yasumi (Rainbow-Colored Fireflies: The Eternal Summer Vacation) is being streamed online until the 18th of May, the day before it’s theatrical release in Japan.



Synopsis

The story follows a young boy named Yuta, who lost his father in a car accident a year ago. One day, all alone, he goes to catch a beetle at a dam deep in the mountains he used to visit with his father. On his journey he meets a strange old man and it starts raining. Yuta slips, falls off a bridge and passes out. When he wakes up he finds himself in a village that should be under water but he has travelled back 30 years in the past where he will discover and create precious memories linked to summer.

This film is based on Masayuki Kawaguchi’s 2007 novel of the same name. It is directed by Konosuke Uda (Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy,Ginga e Kickoff!!) with a script adaptation from Kei Kunī who wrote the action-packed Princess Blade live action film. The project has character designs and animation direction from Hisashi Mori (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Tokyo Godfathers) with Takaaki Yamashita (Summer Wars) adding visual art, and Seiki Tamura (K-ON!, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) performing as art director. Yumi Matsutōya, the artist responsible for the themes to the classic Ghibli movie Kiki’s Delivery Service is providing the theme song for this film.

Staff: Konosuke Uda (Director), Masayuki Kawaguchi (Original Novelist), Kei Kunī (Script), Masataka Matsutōya (Music), Yumi Matsutōya (Theme Song Composition, Performance), Mori Hisashi (Character Design/Animation Director), Seiki Tamura (Art Director), Takaaki Yamashita (Visual Art),

Voice Actors: N/A

Studio: Toei Animation

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Kakifly will conclude part of the second run of his K-ON! Manga series in the July issue of Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara magazine which goes on sale on the 09th of June.



The original manga series of K-ON! Was serialised in Manga Time Kirara between May 2007 and October 2010. Then, in a surprise announcement, Kakifly confirmed that he would relaunch the manga six months later in April 2011 but with two separate storylines in two Houbunsha published magazines, Manga Time Kirara and Manga Time Kirara Carat:

The Manga Time Kirara version followed Yui, Mio, Ritsu, and Mugi as they attended college while the Manga Time Kirara Carat version continued their adventures in high school and featured the characters Azusa, Ui, and Jun.

The Manga Time Kirara Carat version will still continued to be seriliased.

The anime has been licensed by Manga Entertainment in the UK and both the anime and manga have proven to be a fan favourites of the AUKN staff and forumites.

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TWO OF THE UK's leading East Asian entertainment sources join forces on 26 May for a party like no other.

Taking place at Bloomsbury Lanes, a 5 minute walk from London's Euston Station, NEO Magazine (Great Britain's anime, manga and Asian pop culture magazine) and Japan Underground (innovators in the promotion of Japanese music) will commence a 7 hour energetic DJ battle of the very best tracks from Japan and Korea until the early morning.

Japan Underground will supply a selection of party-rocking tunes from Japan's alternative scenes, including music ranging from classic rockers X-Japan to latest screamo act Crossfaith and everything in between; Mad Capsule Markets, Maximum the Hormone, Dragon Ash, The GazettE, Gackt and many more.

NEO Magazine's approach will focus on pop, throwing in music from some of the artists interviewed in its pages, such as Korea's SHINee to Japan's L'Arc~en~Ciel and An cafe, plus a whole host of J-pop and K-pop from the like of AKB48, 2NE1, MOMOIRO CLOVER Z, Super Junior, Perfume, BIG BANG and Morning Musume. Requests will be welcome throughout the night.

Entry is £5 on the door and the venue is strictly 18+ only – valid photographic ID will be required. The venue contains a fully licensed bar and boasts bowling lanes, karaoke rooms, arcade machines, pool tables as well as table top football.

Japan Underground and NEO Magazine will also be exhibiting at the MCM Expo London Comic Con during the day.

Join the Facebook event page and check the homepages of Neo, Japan Underground and Bloomsbury Lane for further updates.

The last panel of Claymore in the June issue of Shueisha’s Jump Square magazine carried an announcement that the series has come to an end. Furthermore, the preview page for the next issue of the magazine does not include Claymore.



In the issue’s back page where authors have a line of text to communicate with readers, the creator of Claymore, Norihiro Yagi, wrote, "My editor dropped off some of those super-spicy Peyoung noodles that everyone is talking about these days. I tried them, and they did a number on me." 

Claymore started life in Monthy Shōnen Jump back in May 2001 before that magazine was cancelled and the series was temporarily moved to Weekly Shōnen Jump before coming to rest in Jump Square. During its lifetime the first 11 volumes of the series were adapted into a TV anime by Madhouse and both the manga and anime have been licensed an released in the west. So far there are 21 volumes of manga with volume 22 due to be released next month.

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