Himouto! Umaru-chan R Premieres This October

Get ready for more laughs as Umaru-chan is back once again for a new season with more of her witty and childish antics.

Anime Dagashi Kashi Gets A 2nd Season; Airing In 2018

Kotoyama's hit manga, Dagashi Kashi is renewed for a 2nd season anime series that will be aired in Japan next year.

Love Live! Sunshine!! 2nd Season Premieres This October

Attention Love Livers, this is not a drill: the Aqours of Uranohoshi High are back for another season as their road to making their dreams come true continues.

Cardcaptor Sakura Gets New Anime Project, Manga Sequel

In celebration of Cardcaptor Sakura's 20th anniversary, Kondansha's Nakayoshi magazine has announced in their July issue that a new anime project is in the works that will be announced on June 3rd.

Love Live! Sunshine!! Anime TV Series Premieres This July

To all Love Livers, the upcoming Love Live! anime series, Love Live! Sunshine!! will premiere this coming July in Japan.

Real Action Heroes Hitagi Senjougahara Official Images

If you are a fan of the Monogatari series; anime or its original light novels, MEDICOM TOY will be releasing one of the protagonist from the series, Hitagi Senjougahara, the main character from Hitagi Crab and Hitagi End story, to be released in the Real Action Heroes line.

Saber Marionette 'Re: Animate' Project Announced

Saber Marionette fans (like myself) are excited on this news because Animation Innovation Content (AIC) announced that they have acquired the rights to the Saber Marionette franchise by Hiroshi Negishi and Satoru Akahori and a 'Re: Animate' project of the series is also announced.

figma Satsuki Kiryuin from Kill la Kill Official Images

Goodsmile Company has posted official images of an upcoming figure soon to be released in the figma line: Satsuki Kiryuin, the once antagonist later became one of the main protagonist from the hit anime series, Kill la Kill.

Anime News: HERO TV Will Air Ouran High School Host Club This November UPDATED

Well November is around the corner and HERO TV, the local Anime cable channel in the Philippines has announced that they will air the anime Ouran High School Host Club in their new anime lineup next month.

SH Figuarts Sailor Saturn First Official Image Unveiled

Tamashii.jp has first dropped the bomb again as they unveiled the official image of SH Figuarts Sailor Saturn from the series Sailormoon.

Anime News: New Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime Series Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V

Its been a while since I've been blogging again, save the formalities later on my next post, right now on to the news. As Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL (Zeal) meets its series' end next year, a new Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series will air after ZEXAL's finale.

Anime News: Stan Lee Co-creates HEROMAN

Stan Lee is no stranger to the comic business in the US; co-created several of comic icons we know today such as Spider-man, The Fantastic Four, Avengers and Iron Man (with an upcoming movie sequel in May). But did you know that he also co-created a Japanese manga series?

Anime Review: Transformers Animated Episode 01 Jap Dub

Few days ago, I finally managed to watch the first episode Transformers Animated in Japanese dub. I am surprisingly not satisfied after I watched it. Here's my quick review of the episode:

Anime Review: SUMMER WARS

Kinda late post for my review of this Anime movie. Well, here goes...

SUMMER WARS

Format: Movie
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Art Direction: Youji Takeshige
Character Design: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Screenplay: Satoko Okudera
Music: Akihiko Matsumoto
Animation Studio: MAD HOUSE
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Japan
Date Shown: August 1, 2009

SUMMARY:

What if your Social Networking site controls everything that you do, meaning your average daily life, your daily activities, everything until the system goes haywire by a hacking AI program is on the loose and destroying everything, affecting our way of living in the real world. This is the story of SUMMER WARS.

Anime News: Upcoming Anime Spring 2010 Line-up

We have a whole lot of Anime titles coming up for March, April and May. New titles and new seasons of you're favorite Anime series.

Anime News: Upcoming Anime Fall line-up 2009

We have new updates on the upcoming Anime will be airing in Japan this fall and boy the line-up is more crazier than before.

Most of the Anime line-up are remakes, others returning for a new season, and even a famous Korean telenovela is translated into Anime. Here's some list of the the upcoming fall line-up:

Anime News: Gurren Lagann Premieres on Animax

Animax Asia has added their anime line-up this May with the addition of the hit anime, Gurren Lagann.


Gurren Lagann (whole title Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann) is a 27 episode anime series created by Gainax, the same production that brought groundbreaking anime titles such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, His and Her Circumstances (Karekano) and FLCL (Furi Kuri).

Gurren Lagann follows the adventures of Simon and his friend Kamina who dream of going to the Earth’s surface.

Their dream looks to set to become reality when a giant mecha crashes unexpectedly into their underground village to ignite an effort by humans to fight the Beastmen and regain control of Earth’s surface using their powerful robot, Gurren Lagann. Joining them in their mission is the sexy sniper Yoko Ritona, the mysterious girl Nia Teppelin and the crew of Team Gurren.

Gurren Lagann is directed by by Hiroyuki Imaishi, written by veteran playwright Kazuki Nakashima.

It will be premiered on Animax Asia on May 22 at 7:30 PM (SIN and PHI)

Event: TagCom 3rd Strike Day 2 (Mar 1, 2009)

Posted another gallery of the event that I attended last March 1, which is Day 2 of the 3rd TagCom event. Click on the poster to got to my gallery.

TagCom Poster courtesy of Hobbiworx

Anime News: New Anime Line-up for 2009

Well, 2008 is been a blast of line-up of Anime shows this year: Code Geass R2, Gundam 00 Season 2, not mention Macross Frontier, Casshern SINS and Birdy the Mighty. Next year, the line-up will more exciting as the last one with January 2009 line-up: Afro returns, Lina, Goro and Birdy will be back for another season, Koji retells his classic Super Robot story, Ippo is back in the ring, and new set of characters and series for 2009. Here's the upcoming line-up:

Afro Samurai: Resurrection
Slayers Evolution-R (Season 5)
Birdy the Mighty Decode: D (Season 2)
Z-Mazinger
Hajime no Ippo
Major Season 5
Anne of Green Gables
Precure 5
Maria-sama ga Miteru 4
Kurokami
Viper's Creed
Chrome Shelled Regios
Asakiyumemishi
Zoku Natsume Yuujin-chou
Shikibane Hime

and many more... click on the image to view the whole line-up. Thanks to CEN.TAKU.ME for the heads-up.

Anime News: The Elric Brothers are back...

Posted by Ngee Khiong on his blog site, here's a trailer appeared after the airing of Gundam 00's episode yesterday, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi or better known as Full Metal Alchemist new season which its slated to air in April 2009.

Here's the 15 second trailer:

Thanks to Ngee Khiong for the news.