The end of Bleach is near although I’m not quite sure about the news, because it could be just another fabrication like last year ROOKiEZ is PUNK’D‘s announcement. But since Hiroki Takagi (Bleach anime director) replied to one of his followers saying that the news is true, so it could be for real this time. Picture above taken from a TV program listing in Japan, stating that the Bleach TV anime series will end its run in TV Tokyo’s 6:00 p.m. Tuesday timeslot on March 27.
Some say that it’s just the end of its current timeslot, so it’s merely a timeslot change.
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 is a huge remake project first announced last year for the classic Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers / Uchuu Senkan Yamato); which will include 7 films plus a 26 episodes TV series. Amazon.jp streamed a 4 minute promotional video for the highly anticipated anime project Yamato 2199.
Paul Johannessen is an Australian media production creative professional who’s living in Tokyo, made this amazingly documented video about the situation in the Ishinomaki city, one of the major affected cities by the March 2011 tsunami.
Eureka Seven AO first PV is finally here and it looks awesome! Here’s the full Japanese staff details:
Director: Tomoki Kyoda Music: Koji Nakamura Character Design: Hiroyuki Oda (replacing the Ghibli veteran Kenichi Yoshida) Art Director: Kazuo Nagai Mechanical design:
Kanetake Ebikawa (Full Metal Panic!)
Kimitoshi Yamane (Escaflowne, G Gundam, SEED Gundam, IGLOO, Cowboy Bebop) Takayuki Yanase (Gundam 00, Broken Blade) Director of Photography: Shunya Kimura Color design: Nobuko Mizuta Design: Shiho Takeuchi Design Development: Shigeto Koyama Key Character Design: Kenichi Yoshida Nirvash Design: Shoji Kawamori (If you don’t know who this guy is, then take my word for it ‘expect a kickass Nirvash!’ he’s the legendary Macross designer and creator. SF Setting: Mitsuyasu Sakai Theme Song Performance:
Hemenway (OP1)
Stereopony (ED1)
Last month I posted about the Revoltech Edward Elric from one of my favorite anime Fullmetal Alchemist, and now Revoltech showing us his hollow armor brother Alphonse Elric figure with a nice Revoltech touch.
Title: Canaan / カナン Type: TV Series, 13 episodes Genre: Action, Mystery Themes: Girls with guns, Terrorism, Biological warfare Year: 04.07.2009 till 26.09.2009 Producers: P.A. Works Rating: R – 17+ (violence & profanity)
Plot: Two years ago, Shibuya was ravaged by a biological terrorist attack using the deadly Ua virus. Maria Osawa was saved when her father inoculated her against the virus, but is left with partial amnesia from the shock. She works as a cameraman when she reunites with a girl named Canaan in Shanghai, China. A gifted assassin with synesthesia, she is under orders from an unknown organization for a yet unspecified mission. ANN
Review:
Canaan was on hold to watch for quite a long time, I first stumbled upon Canaan when I was looking for something like Black Lagoon and Cowboy Bebop, although I can say it’s totally not similar to them but on one aspect, that it involves girls with guns. The first episode had a fast pace of action which I liked, bullets coming from an unknown directions, and random people getting killed in a Chinese local festival in Shanghai and from there the story starts to build up. Canaan is also a work of Type-Moon and you can notice their touch on the characters design. The plot is pretty much unique nowadays in the anime industry, but wished if it was told more mysteriously, although the way it was conveyed was all right but pretty easy to predict.
The way I see it, voice acting is the hit for the series. Canaan, the main character, voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro (Yomi Takanashi from Black★Rock Shooter / Celty from Durarara!!) Miyuki is great and I believe Canaan was one of her best performances. Maaya Sakamoto (Hitomi Kanzaki from Escaflowne / Mari Makinami from Evangelion / Shiki Ryougi from Kara no Kyoukai) who made numerous great characters look even greater with her voice, she did Alphard Alshaya in Canaan and she was totally a mean villain. Moreover not to forget Hiroaki Hirata who’s voicing for a supporting character in Canaan called Santana, Hiroki’s best role ever was Kotetsu from Tiger & Bunny. That’s a huge cast, and certainly should not missed.
Canaan, is a short series with a good storyline plus an excellent voice actors. It’s definitely not boring to watch yet its easiness to predict what’s going to happen is setback, but yet worth watching.
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