North American licensing company, Sentai Filmworks, announced that they have acquired the rights to the second season of K-ON! yesterday. Sentai Filmworks will collaborate with Bang Zoom! Entertainment in order to bring the hit television anime series to North America later this year. The 26 episode series will be released on both BluRay and DVD along with the an OVA in both English (dubbed) & Japanese (with subtitles).
This comes as welcomed news to fans of the series, since the license holder of the previous season, Bandai Entertainment, had shut down distribution activities earlier this year.
Limited First Impressions: Black Rock Shooter (2012)
Written by No Limit
The ocean mirrors the blue of the sky.
The deep azure is heaven's ocean.
In the blue of the sky, heaven's tears lie.
In the tears of heaven, the little bird flies.
Mato Kuroi has just entered middle school. There she meets the quiet and distant, Yomi Takanashi. Mato tries to make friends with her, but her attempt is blocked by a creepy girl, Kagari Izuriha, who seems obsessed with Yomi to point of Yuno-levels….
Mato, however, is determined to become friends with Yomi no matter what. Meanwhile, a girl in black with a giant gun is searching for something or someone in another world as she does battle against many powerful enemies. What connection do these two stories hold?
Black★Rock Shooter’s origin is a little complicated to explain. Black★Rock Shooter was originally a character created by an artist known as Huke. One day the leader of a Vocaloid synthesizer band called Supercell, Ryo, approached him to create a song based on his work after being inspired by it and getting Huke to join the band as a creative team member. They created a music video based around the Black★Rock Shooter character, with the song performed by the Vocaloid Hatsune Miku. The video was a runaway hit and was popular enough to spawn an OVA based on the character. The OVA generated enough interest that an anime based its plot for the Winter 2012 anime season, which is what I am looking at today.
Kadokawa Pictures' youtube channel began streaming the trailer for their upcoming Strike Witches movie. The film which was originally announced in October of 2010 is scheduled to premiere in theaters on March 17, 2012. You'll find the trailer for the theatrical film which is based on 2 television anime series and an ova below.
French Book Traces Illustration of Fate/Zero's Saber
Written by SolidX
In school they always tell you not to copy others' works, but what happens if your textbook is guilty of that very act? Esteemed 2channel users have spotted an oddly familiar face in a French guide to the Japanese language. Perhaps it is a coincidence, but it doesn't stop there. They went so far as to track down the source image to prove that this had to be a serious case of TRACE ON. You'll find the incriminating evidence of this Simmons-style homage below.
If you remember back in 2010 there was a spinoff of Naruto featuring the super deformed chibi version of Rock Lee and other characters from Naruto. NarutoSD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden also known as Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth Full Power Ninja Training will finally make it's anime debut.
I bet you want me to uncensor those melons? Heh, heh, heh-NO.
Being single sucks, as Issei Hyodo knows quite well. Then again, being a massive pervert doesn’t really make him that much more appealing for girls. However, one day he is approached by cute girl named Yuuma, who asks him out on the spot. Hey, cute girl asking you out for your first date? You bet he says yes! Unfortunately the date doesn’t go so well…Yuuma stabs Issei and leaves him to die after revealing that she is a fallen angel actually named Reynalle. As Issei lies dying and bemoaning the fact his ex didn’t at least let him grope her breasts first before murdering him, his school's illustrious red-haired beauty, Rias Gremory, appears before him…
And he wakes up completely unharmed the next morning in his bed. Guess it was just a really weird dream. However, as he tries to settle back into his usual lifestyle of being a hormonal teenage boy, he is attacked by another fallen angel to finish the job; but he is saved once again by Rias.
Issei awakens once again in his bed. This time, though, he finds that he is completely naked… along with an equally naked Rias beside him. As he fights back the nosebleed, she explains to him that she is actually a demon and she brought him back to life after the first attack as her demonic slave. Now Issei joins her Occult Club, which features a bunch of cute girls and he couldn’t be happier…
High School DxD is an adaptation of the light novel series of the same name by Ichiei Ishibumi, and it proves to be one of the more… risqué anime series released for the winter season of 2012.
First Episode of Madoka Magica English Dub to Stream Next Week
Written by SolidX
Nico Nico Douga will be streaming the first episode of the English dub of the hit anime, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica next week. The first episode is scheduled to air Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:30 PM EST on the Nico Nico Live program. Fans who live in Japan, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand will be able to tune in to watch. After the episode there will be a special segment with three of the English voices behind the characters.
English speaking viewers can watch the stream on Aniplex USA's NicoNico channel.
UPDATE: Added link to stream.
Mother of god… Bleach, a series that has been on-going for over a decade is finally coming to an end soon! The magazine known as Weekly Shonen Jump will bee announcing on Monday that the epic series is soon coming to a close.
P.S.: Wow, I remember watching Bleach years ago. I can’t even believe it still went on for this long.
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