Posts Tagged Anime

Saturday Afternoon Moment of Who: Paul Johnson’s Anime Doctor Who is Finished!

Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Art, Artist, Only in Japan, Television, Trailers on June 4, 2011

Otaking aka Paul Johnson has finished his anime Dr Who project. We followed this project for three years now. It’s been worth the wait.

Drop below the cut for the 13 minute trailer experience.
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Tuesday Tease: A Quick Glimpse into the SUPERNATURAL Anime

Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Anime, Television on August 10, 2010

Synopsis
The Winchester boys finally get a chance to fight demons without budgetary constraints.

What We Learned:
Thirty-four seconds is not enough.

Why We’re Gonna Watch:
SUPERNATURAL is a guilty pleasure. Watching what is essentially The Hardy Boys with Demons grow and flourish over the years has been a treat. It makes us wonder where the Nancy Drew with Ghosts counterpart has been hiding. Unless that’s what Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been all along.

When’s it coming?

Warner Home Video will ship Supernatural the Animation on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan in two boxes on January 12 and April 6, 2011.

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Tuesday Tease: Madhouse Produced Iron Man Anime Coming to @G4TV in 2011.

Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Anime, Television, Trailers on July 27, 2010

Official Synopsis

In the Madhouse Iron Man series Tony Stark travels to Japan to unveil a new ARC reactor project and peace initiative. He announces his retirement and the mass production of a new Iron Man Dio armor, but is soon forced back into action as problems arise with the Dio armor.

What We Learned:
There’ll soon be one other show on G4 worth our precious time. That first show being Attack of the Show.

Why We’re Gonna Watch:
This anime has been talked about for many months. Now there’s a nice trailer in which to focus our intent.Madhouse is a Japanese animation studio that has produced some of the most amazing anime we’ve layed eyes upon. A list of favorites include: The Animatrix (Program and World Record), Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Metropolis, Trigun, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue and, well, our list could go on forever. Another reason to watch is Warren Ellis wrote it.

And, oh yeah, animated powered armor battles. Can’t forget those.

When’s it coming?
2011 on G4TV.

Official site:
We haven’t quite zeroed in on this one yet. This Wikipedia site should do for now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Anime
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First Trailer for SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN HARLOCK Hits Internet, Makes Life Worth Living

Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Anime, Movies, Only in Japan, Trailers on July 6, 2010

Official Synopsis

In the future, Mankind has achieved a vast starfaring civilization, but is slowly and steadily succumbing to ennui or despair, often due to defeat and subjugation by a foreign invader. Rising against the general apathy, Harlock denies defeat and leads an outlaw crew aboard his starship Arcadia to undertake daring raids against Earth’s oppressors.

What We Learned:
CG animated skull adorned space pirate ships look kinda sexy. This is what all future space battles should strive to beat. The Most Common Superpower is effective as ever.

Hats off to the sneaky 2010 Tokyo International Anime Fair attendee who captured this pilot trailer and… um… pirated uploaded to all the Internet in order to show how cool he is glorify the awesomeness of this coming movie.

Why We’re Gonna Watch:
We have not seen a full episode or read the manga to Space Pirate Captain Harlock.Having admitted this, we do know the importance of creator , and anime legend, Leiji Matsumoto‘s work. Some of you causal anime fans, and brazen Daft Punk fans, might notice the animation style looking a bit familiar. Maybe you should check out the Wikipedia article for the music movie Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem.

For future reference, we rate the excitement level for the Harlock movie two points above the Space Battleship Yamato movie.

Yes, this looks that wonderful.

When’s it coming?
2012 is the best date we can scrounge up.

Official site:
All we have for now is the Wikipedia site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pirate_Captain_Harlock

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SUPERNATURAL Anime is a Go, How Long Until Sam and Dean Fight “Naughty Tentacles”?

Posted by mistergroonk in Anime, Only in Japan, Television on July 1, 2010

It’s Thursday and we’re missing Supernatural.

Yuya Uchida (Soul Eater’s Dr. Franken Stein, Naruto ShippÅ«den’s Rinji) will dub the role of Sam, while Hiroki Touchi (Trinity Blood’s Abel Nightroad, Bokurano’s Kokkpelli) will dub the role of Dean. Both actors dubbed these same roles for the live-action version in Japanese.

Also, we haven’t talked anime in a while. It’s nice to solve a problem of two birds with one stone.

At the Rising Con Spain 2010, Jensen and Jared confirmed the project and that they’d seen and approved the artwork for Sam and Dean. They also said they would voice the first couple of English language episodes.

The Winchester brothers (Sam and Dean) will be designed to look like the original actual actors (Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki). Sub characters: e.g. John, Bobby, Mary, Jessica etc. will be designed in a completely new way to give fresh impression. Enemies (Creatures, Demon and Ghosts) will be given a cool design taking full advantage of Japanese anime expression.

When’s it coming?
January 2011.

via Supernatural wiki

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Tuesday Tease: GAIKING, See Power Armor as it Should Be

Posted by mistergroonk in Anime, Just Freaking Neat, Movies, Only in Japan, Trailers on May 18, 2010

Holy Hideaki Anno! How did we miss this!?

Proper trailer and information breakdown below the surface.

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Carl Macek (1952 – 2010)

Posted by mistergroonk in Anime, People Who Died on April 19, 2010

Carl began his career doing grassroots promotional work on sci-fi films such as Star Wars and Alien, and worked for numerous industry icons including Dino Di Laurentiis and Ivan Reitman. He wrote the book The Art of Heavy Metal (Animation for the Eighties) in 1981. In 1984, Macek began his long association with Japanese animation. He worked with Harmony Gold, U.S.A. to develop the groundbreaking anime series ROBOTECH that has been credited with igniting the anime movement in the US. After his stint at Harmony Gold, Macek moved on to work for D.I.C. and Bill Kroyer’s studio.

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Animated Win: Doctor Who Fan Anime Project Continues. Part 4, Daleks Shoot Up the Place!

Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Anime, Video on April 16, 2010

INTERNET – PAST – 11/2009 A discovery is made: Making a Doctor Who Anime from Scratch

INTERNET – PRESENT – OtaKing77077 releases part 4

INT – GROONK’S LIVING ROOM – MORNING

Groonk
Oh, hell yeah!

via ancient forever)

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2 for Tuesday Tease: PONYO ON THE CLIFF BY THE SEA of COLD SOULS

Posted by mistergroonk in Movies, On the French, Only in Japan, Trailers on August 11, 2009

Toying with a new format. Two trailers. One Post.

Less searching? GNET is always evolving…for you.

PONYO ON THE CLIFF BY THE SEA

Hayao Miyazaki‘s (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke) latest opus is close to the breaking shore. Sadly, Disney marketers still haven’t figured out how to cut a proper trailer for all the wondrous things you’ll find inside a Miyazaki flick.

Equally legendary animator, Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), offers curious insight on PONYO. Know that we will be watching it as soon as this little town offers the chance and forming our own opinions.

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