ANIME

Manga artist Yasuhiro Nightow’s full-force battle-action manga *Blood Blockade Battlefront* is being adapted into an anime television series. The series suddenly became a focus of attention after the staff and cast were announced along with the production.

• 11 years ago

The short anime *Hill Climb Girl* was released on Nov. 14 on the short video distribution site, Nihon Animator Mihonichi.

• 11 years ago

The results are in for the Ota-Q asking “What fall anime have you tried watching and thought was good?” held on the Tokyo Otaku Mode Facebook page from Nov. 7-11.

• 11 years ago

Manga artist Rumiko Takahashi has released many works to the world including *Inuyasha*, *Ranma ½*, and *Urusei Yatsura*. Takahashi’s newest work, *Kyokai no Rinne*, has now been confirmed to be getting a TV anime adaptation.

• 11 years ago

An anime series titled *Etotama* that combines girls, battles, and an everyday story will start its television broadcast from next April.

• 11 years ago

Hi there! It’s K again, in charge of animations here at KADOKAWA. In this third update, we’ll be introducing the developments at the screenplay meeting. We finally get to meet the creators this time!

• 11 years ago

An anime adaptation has been confirmed for *My Love Story!!*, a work serializing in the shoujo manga magazine *Bessatsu Margaret* (Shueisha). Along with this announcement on Nov. 13, the official teaser site also opened and the official Twitter launched.

• 11 years ago

Introducing the strange creature Totoro from director Hayao Miyazaki’s *My Neighbor Totoro*, which is popular the world over, as a superior plushie.

• 11 years ago

It seems the huge hit work *Assassination Classroom* serializing in *Weekly Shonen Jump* (Shueisha) will cause a whirlwind in 2015. The start of the broadcast of the TV anime series is set for Jan. 9, and a live-action movie will release countrywide in Japan on March 21. These two projects will be picking up attention from here on.

• 11 years ago

*Kantai Collection - KanColle*, which started as a browser game and has become a phenomenon, has garnered popularity through expanding into various media including manga and character goods. In January 2015, the broadcast to the long-awaited anime will finally begin.

• 11 years ago

New information on the anime *The Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls* to begin broadcasting in January has been released.

• 11 years ago

**TOM Interview Question:** From hearing you speak, I can feel how much you love animation. Considering the state of things now, what kind of work do you want to do most?

• 11 years ago

In 1995, Hideaki Anno directed the TV anime *Neon Genesis Evangelion*, which went on to become a social phenomenon and secured his place in the anime world. He's gone on to create the *Rebuild of Evangelion* film series, and in November 2012, announced the latest film, *Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo*. Fans from around the world listened eagerly to what he had to say.

• 11 years ago

With the first game released in 2004, the *Samurai Warriors* series has attained tremendous support up to the present from fans, and now it’s becoming a TV anime series.

• 11 years ago

Hi there! This is K, in charge of animations here at KADOKAWA. My apologies once again for having to cut the report short last time due to time constraints.

• 11 years ago

The popular manga *Blood Blockade Battlefront* by Yasuhiro Nightow, who has a diehard fanbase thanks to his works including *Trigun*, is getting a TV anime adaptation.

• 11 years ago

*Knights of Sidonia* is a TV anime broadcast from April to June of this year, and its CG techniques have been praised on an international stage. The anime has now been chosen for Asia’s largest CG festival, SIGGRAPH Asia 2014, and will be screened at the Electronic Theater.

• 11 years ago

It has been revealed that Yoshiki Tanaka’s masterpiece fantasy work *The Heroic Legend of Arslan* has been greenlit to become an anime once again.

• 11 years ago

English and Chinese (simplified and traditional) sites have opened.

• 11 years ago

Nihon TV has announced that they will broadcast a new original anime series in 2015. The title of the series is *Death Parade*. It will be scripted and directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa with Madhouse in charge of animation.

• 11 years ago