The WWE's Wrestlemania 32 kicked off on Sunday with plenty of surprises outside of headline matches between Roman Reigns and Triple H, the Undertaker and Shane McMahon, and Dean Ambrose and Brock Lesnar. One ring entry that grabbed anime fans was the trio The New Day. The group busted out of a giant cereal box to reveal themselves in Saiyan Armor from Dragon Ball Z.
The #BootyOs are flowing on the stage of #WrestleMania, as #TheNewDay enters! @DiGiornoPizza #risetotheoccasion https://t.co/Z4UtMouxA8
— WWE (@WWE) April 4, 2016
MMA fighter Ronda Rousey is also a big Dragon Ball Zfan. She confessed her long-time crush on Vegeta and has since trained as Pikachu and shared her hopes to star in a live-action Metroid film.
Bandai Namco Entertainment released an English version of its Tales of Link smartphone game on the Google Play store.
Bandai Namco Entertainment describes the game:
Your favorite characters from the popular “Tales of” series are here in an all-new story, crafted just for your mobile screen! TALES OF LINK is a free-to-play RPG in which you create a party of your favorite heroes to fight in fun, tactical battles on their journey to save the world! Assemble your party and battle your way through the main story as your team grows stronger. Fans of anime series, JRPGs, and the classic “Tales of” will love the exhilarating battles and exciting tactical gameplay that TALES OF LINK brings right to the palm of your hand!
TALES OF LINK is set in a world protected by the “Seal of the Holy Shrine.” When the seal to the heavenly world is suddenly broken, the “Seed of Ruin" is unleashed, scattering demons across the land. These demons bring inevitable disaster and threaten to inflict war and suffering on the world, and it's up to you to stop them! Join your favorite anime characters on an epic journey to cleanse the world of these demons and stop them from destroying heaven and earth!
Bandai Namco Games originally released the game in Japan in 2014. In the game, Shiori Mikami leads the game's voice cast as adventurer Sara. Sara teams up with characters from past Tales of games in order to defeat enemies. The cast of characters also includes fairy Lippi (Ai Nonaka), goddess Leone (Aya Endo), and warriors Caesar (Masakazu Morita).
Bandai Namco Entertainment had trademarked the title in Europe last August.
A pre-show feature on the Adult Swim website, Toonami: Pre-flight, announced on Friday that the Toonami block will run the Hunter x Hunter television anime. The series will premiere on April 16.
Bang Zoom! Entertainment is producing the anime's English dub. North American anime and manga distributor Viz Media announced its dub cast for the 2011-2014 series in March:
Erica Mendez as Gon Freecss
Cristina Vee as Killua Zoldyck
Matthew Mercer as Leorio
Keith Silverstein as Hisoka
Erika Harlacher as Kurapika
Viz Media announced in October that it licensed the series. The company plans to release the series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD.
The second television anime adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter × Hunter manga premiered in Japan in 2011 and ran for 148 episodes. The final episode premiered in 2014.
Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan. The series retold the story of Togashi's original manga from the beginning. The story follows Gon Freecs as he strives to become a Hunter in order to find his father and to find the reason why his father abandoned him as a baby to become a Hunter.
Togashi launched the series in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1998, and Viz Media published the manga's 32nd volume in English in April 2014. Togashi is resuming his Hunter × Hunter manga with the Ankoku Tairiku (Dark Continent) arc. The manga has been on hiatus since August 2014. Viz Media confirmed in March that its digital edition of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine will publish the return of series.
The manga also inspired a television series in 1999-2001, two anime films in 2013, and several OVAs. Viz Media released the original anime series on DVD.
Aniplex USA unveiled more cast, character designs, and a new visual for the Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale anime film during Sakura Con on Saturday, and the film's website also updated on the same day.
Shingo Adachi drew the new visual, showing Kirito and Asuna in their "Ordinal Scale" outfits.
The newly announced cast shows the characters Silica, Lisbeth, Sinon, and Klein in their "Ordinal Scale" outfits.
The cast for the newly revealed characters reprise their roles from the original television anime series:
Rina Hidaka as Silica
Ayahi Takagaki as Lisbeth
Miyuki Sawashiro as Sinon
Hiroaki Hirata as Klein
The site previously revealed the "Ordinal Scale" characters designs for Kirito and Asuna.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka will return to play Kirito, and Haruka Tomatsu will return to play Asuna.
Aniplex USA previously streamed a trailer for the film earlier this month.
The film will open in Japan in 2017.
"Ordinal Scale" is the name of a game after "Sword Art Online" and "Gun Gale Online." The game uses a new augmented reality device called "Augma." The English website describes "Augma" as follows:
A next-generation, wearable multi-device that looks like a pair of small headphones. In terms of size and portability, it is far superior to the existing VR machine “Amusphere.” Augma doesn't have a full-dive function, however, its AR function is greatly enhanced to compensate for it. It can transmit visual, audio and tactual sensation data to players while they are awake, thus enabling the users to enjoy fitness and health management like a game.
Additionally, the site describes the "Ordinal Scale" game as follows:
“Ordinal Scale,” an ARMMO-RPG that was designed exclusively for “Augma.” Following its release, it has become the most discussed game due to its advanced technology. In this game, players can raise their rank by collecting items that appear in various places in the real world and by defeating monsters. This “Ranking System” is the main feature of the game, and in this system, each player's status is determined by their rank which is indicated by an ordinal number instead of a cardinal number. As the result, high ranking players are given overwhelming power and often rank has become a major factor in deciding the outcome of a PvP battle.
The film's all-new original story will take place after the Mother's Rosario arc, which was the final arc depicted in the TV anime's second season. Original light novel author Reki Kawahara is writing a new story for the film. Tomohiko Ito is returning from the two TV anime series and the anime special to direct the film at A-1 Pictures. Shingo Adachi is also returning from the TV anime to design the characters based on abec's original character designs, and Yuki Kajiura is returning to score the music.
The official website for the television anime adaptation of Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins manga announced on Sunday that a new television anime special will air for four consecutive weeks beginning in August. Suzuki is writing a brand new story for the special. The special is titled Nanatsu no Taizai: Seisen no Shirushi (The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of holy war). The staff also revealed a key visual for the special (pictured below). Aniplex is streaming an announcement commercial for the new special (note: the linked video is region-locked to Japan).
The four-week special will air on MBS and TBS on Sundays at 5:00 p.m. The first season of the anime is also being rebroadcast on Tokyo MX starting on April 6.
The anime's staff had announced in October that production on a new television anime series was green-lit for this year. The original announcement of the new television anime series had stated that the new series would feature the same staff, but Sunday's announcement lists a different staff. The staff has not specified if the announcement last October was for this four-week special.
Tomokazu Tokoro (Hellsing Ultimate, Haibane Renmei) is directing the anime at A-1 Pictures. Yuniko Ayana (Girls Beyond the Wasteland, Hello!! KINMOZA) writing and overseeing the scripts, and Yuichiro Kido (Gatchaman Crowds insight) is also writing the scripts. Keigo Sasaki is returning to design the characters, Tomoko Sudo (animation director for Oreshura, Silver Spoon) is the chief animation director, and Hiroyuki Sawano and Takafumi Wada are composing the music.
The returning cast includes:
Yuuki Kaji as Meliodas
Sora Amamiya as Elizabeth
Misaki Kuno as Hawk
Aoi Yūki as Diane
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Ban
Jun Fukuyama as King
Mamoru Miyano as Gilthunder
Takahiro Sakurai as Griamor
Ryohei Kimura as Hauser
Maaya Sakamoto as Merlin
Yuuhei Takagi as Gowther
The first television anime of the manga premiered in Japan last October, and ended with 24 episodes. The manga also bundled two original video anime projects last summer.
Thanks to Kagayaki and Dennis R. for the embedded videos.
The Pokemon Company International and Niantic Labs revealed more information about the upcoming smartphone app game Pokémon GO on Thursday. Niantic Labs also posted new screenshots of the game.
Players will use the app to be able to find Pokémon in the real world using location-based technology. Certain Pokémon are available only in certain areas: for example, water types will be found in lakes or oceans.
The smartphone can be set to vibrate when a Pokémon is nearby. Players can also find "PokéStops" and Pokémon Gyms at "interesting places, such as public art installations, historical markers, and monuments." At PokéStops players can acquire Poké Balls and other items. After the player explores enough, these PokéStops will offer Pokémon Eggs that will hatch after the player walks a certain number of steps.
Pokémon Gyms will be empty until players assign Pokémon to them. Each player can only assign one Pokémon to the Gym, and so must work with a team to defend the Gym. At a certain point in the game, players will be asked to join one of three teams.
Players can gain levels as a trainer to catch more powerful Pokémon and receive better items. Catching enough of one kind of Pokémon will allow the player to evolve that Pokémon. The game will also offer achievement medals.
Nintendo also hopes to let players pay attention to their surroundings instead of just looking at their screens by offering the "Pokémon Go Plus" wristband device. The device can also be used as a clip to be clipped onto suit jackets, etc. The "Pokémon Go Plus" device will have LED and vibration functions that will alert players to something happening in the game. The device uses Bluetooth technology to connect to players' smartphones. Players can still play the game without the device.
Niantic Labs and The Pokémon Company revealed the augmented reality smartphone app last September. Niantic has raised US$20 million from The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, and Google for the game, and the three investors will give Niantic another US$10 million upon meeting unspecified performance goals.
Pokémon GO will be available in 2016 for Android phones and iPhones. Field testing will begin in Japan this month.
Japanese lawmakers have formed a caucus to plan a Manga National Center that would open as early as spring of 2020, just before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. As part of the Cool Japan initiative, the project will feature a museum with manga, anime, and games. The museum will serve as a branch of the existing National Diet Library.
In addition to displaying manga, anime, and games, the proposed museum would train creators, hold events, and collect information. The National Diet Library has already been preserving Japanese works as a whole as part of its charter.
Chairman Keiji Furuya leads the nonpartisan caucus of parliamentarians from several parties, including the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the rival Democratic Party of Japan (which is merging with the Japan Innovation Party to form the Minshinto party this year.) The caucus also includes former prime minister Tarō Asō, a well-known manga fan who previously advocated a national media arts center with a focus on manga and anime.
The group projects that the museum will cost 10 billion yen (about US$100 million), and aims to minimize government expenditures by accepting funds from the private sector. The caucus plans to form a formal committee and revise the current law on the National Diet Library to include the Manga National Center in the 2017 ordinary Diet session.
Meiji University has already been developing a tentatively titled Tokyo International Manga Library, although it has been delayed from its planned 2014 opening. The university plans to house two million items of manga, anime, games, and other media in the proposed archive at its Surugadai campus in the central Tokyo ward of Chiyoda. Some of the caucus members are considering collaborating with the university on the proposed museum.
The Japanese national government, under former prime minister Asō, had planned a different, earlier project called the National Media Arts Center — which is better known by its nickname, "the anime hall of fame." However, after Asō's Liberal Democratic Party was removed from power for the first time in over 15 years, the succeeding prime minister Yukio Hatoyama and his Democratic Party of Japan cancelled the controversial project. Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Tatsuo Kawabata said that the new government "would rather focus on fostering human resources, including creators, who will contribute to promoting media arts." The Liberal Democratic Party returned to power in 2012.
The city of Kyoto south of Tokyo has had its Kyoto International Manga Museum since 2006. Although not strictly a manga library, visitors can pay 800 yen (about US$7 with student discounts available) a day to enter the museum and read books from its collection.
The Pokémon Company and U.K. artist Quentin Devine created the world's largest Pokémon Trading Card as a mosaic. The mammoth undertaking measures 10 meters (33 feet) on its longest edge, seven meters (23 feet) wide. Overall its 71.54 square meters (770 square feet) and is comprised of 12,987 individual cards.
The picture itself is, of course, Pikachu, and replicates the original card's artwork drawn by GAME FREAK illustrator Ken Sugimori. The giant card was unveiled in Paris on Monday. Pokémon Trading Card producer Yuji Kitano and director Atsushi Nagashima posed with Devine to mark the event.
Devine has previously created a mosaic of the Mona Lisa from self portraits and the Queen of Britain from pennies.
With the massive success Naruto has achieved throughout the years, a spin-off manga entitled Boruto is scheduled to begin in May, continuing the story established by Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto, but features fresh faces led by Naruto's son.
Kishimoto had been dropping hints of potential expansion of his story the past two years, starting off with the release of 10-chapter manga series 'Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage Scarlet Spring' and the movie Boruto: Naruto the Movie.
Roughly two-years after the end of the main Naruto manga series, Kishimoto will be taking a step back this time to give way for his assistant Mikio Ikemoto, who will serve as the Illustrator of the series. Ukyō Kodach, the writer behind Naruto - Gaara Hiden: Sajingensō novel and screenplay writer of Boruto: Naruto the movie, will be the writer for the new manga, although Kishimoto remains at the center of this very talented team.
According to Shonen Jump, chapter of Boruto will be published on a monthly basis. In short, this is going to be more waiting time between chapters than the original Naruto series which was published weekly. Moreover, there's no assurance if this is going to be a long story. Everybody knows that it took 15 years for Kishimoto to finish his own series. But who knows, there could be a Boruto: Shippuden years by 2021.
Speaking of Boruto: Shippuden, fans of the series don't need to wait that much long to see what Boruto, Sarada and Mitsuki would look like as teenagers. All thanks to this nifty fan art, we already have a picture of what they are about to be.
(Photo : Fan Art) Boruto Shippuden? Mitsuki, Naruto, and Sarada all grown up
Boruto, the son of Naruto and princess Hinata of the Hyuga clan, looks pretty much his father only that he's a little bit better in picking the right choice of clothes to wear. Sarada, the daughter of Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura, is simply gorgeous, while Orochimaru's son, Mitsuki, resembles like a Shinobi rock star with that locks.
By the way, Kishimoto's next one-shot manga entitled Naruto Side Story ~The Path That the Waxing Moon Illuminates will finally answer question surrounding about Mitsuki, who claimed to be the son of the previous story's villain/ anti-hero Orochimaru. The One-Shot is scheduled for release on April 25, while Boruto manga will kick off on May 9.
It should be a rumor but we'll provide you an update of this as soon as possible.
This year's 17th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine is revealing on March 23 that the Fairy Tail television anime series has a new project in the works. The announcement did not give any more information about the new project.
The current anime season will air its last episode on March 26, after premiering in April 2014. The anime season had aired an adaptation of the Fairy Tail Zero prequel manga between January 9 and March 11.
The first television anime series aired between 2009-2013. Hiro Mashima's original manga has also inspired several video anime adaptations, including upcoming anime that will ship with the manga's 55th and 56th volumes in May and July, respectively. A second anime film has also been green-lit after the first one premiered in August 2012.
Mashima's manga has also inspired several spinoff manga, as well as a stage play that will run in Tokyo from April 30-May 9.
Funimation is releasing both anime series in DVD/Blu-ray Disc sets, and has also released the film on home video.
Kodansha released the manga's 54th compiled book volume in Japan on Thursday, and Kodansha Comics will publish the manga's 53rd volume in North America on March 22. Crunchyroll has streamed both television anime series, and it is also releasing new chapters online as they are published in Japan.
The Pokémon game franchise's 20th anniversary is in full swing this year, with nostalgic revisits to Red, Blue and Green in the form of merchandise, game ports, and event tie-ins. When the games first debuted in the U.S. in 1998, few were expecting the best-selling phenomenon we have today. The gap between generations was longer, or at least it felt that way as a kid. I was about 11 years old when I got my copy of Pokémon Blue, and outside of referencing a physical strategy guide or calling up the pay-per-minute helpline (my parents banned me after racking up a small debt when I kept getting stuck in the Seafoam Islands) there were few other options. The oracle of gaming knowledge known as the Internet, didn't exist as it did today. Instead, schoolyard rumors passed around by kids promised rare Pokémon, better catching odds, or hidden lore. There was no way to find out the truth outside of doing it yourself. Some proved fruitful, like cloning items with MissingNo while others were convoluted tall tales.
This list of popular rumors persisted through most of the First Generation. Later game releases don't have these kind of urban legends as any fan-posited theory is dismissed or proven true rather quickly thanks to internet.
Mew is Hiding Under a Truck I remember being told this one directly. Once the concept of Mew was known, everyone was trying to unlock the cat-like progenitor of Mewtwo. Allegedly, a truck near the S.S. Anne could be moved with Strength, and Mew would be revealed. This task is easier said then done. To access the truck, the player needs Cut, but to have access to this HM before getting on the S.S. Anne requires trading. That aside, Mew isn't under the truck. The only way to obtain him outside of giveaways is an even more convoluted glitch that involves a Cerulean Gym trainer, flying away at just the right moment to a specific place, and walking in a certain area.
Lavender Town Music Killed Children "Lavender Town Syndrome" is a creepypasta story that began circulating around 2010. It claims that the original score for Lavender Town, an area in the game that includes a graveyard for deceased Pokémon, drove players (in this case, children) in Japan to kill themselves. The story purports that the music was changed for the American release to prevent further death. The reasoning of course, isn't true. The score was changed since some of the high-pitched notes included in the original would be considered irritating.
Pressing Up and B at the Right Moment Improves Pokémon Catching Odds This was a method I wholeheartedly believed in while playing through the first generation. Some players heard that it was down and b instead of up and b, and others still swear that it improves their odds. The rumor was prevalent enough that hackers have combed the code looking for any indication that mashing buttons on the correct frame works but nothing has ever come up.
Pikablu is Pikachu's Evolution After Using a Water Stone Key artwork and materials of new Pokémon started making its way across the pond around the same time as Pokemon: The First Movie. New evolutions and Pokémon were more easily kept under wraps in those days. When images of Marill surfaced, the design made it a dead ringer for a Pikachu evolution. It was quickly dubbed "Pikablu" and gamers speculated that it was from exposing Pikachu to a Water Stone instead of a Thunder Stone. This was laid to rest when the game finally came out.
Turn Dragonite into Yoshi You can actually blame this one on Nintendo itself. In a 1999 issue of Nintendo Power magazine, the company told its readers that there was a secret method to replace Dragonite's sprite with Mario's friend Yoshi, which involved trading between two friends. Kids heard the rumor without knowing that the secret was published in the April issue, as an April Fool's Joke. The context was usually removed when the story was shared, leading to a lot of disappointed Dragonite trainers.
A page on the Shonen Jump+ website announced that Yoshihiro Togashi is resuming his Hunter × Hunter manga in the Ankoku Tairiku (Dark Continent) arc. This year's 16th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine will reveal more details on Saturday.
The manga has been on hiatus since 2014's combined 37th/38th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump in August 2014. What was initially a two-week hiatus for serious lower back pain has extended until now.
Shueisha shipped the 32nd compiled volume in Japan in December 2012, and Viz Media released the same volume in North America in April 2014. The manga inspired two television anime series; the latest one ran from 2011 until 2014. The manga also inspired two anime films and several original video anime titles.
This year's 15th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine announced on Monday that Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga will receive a role-playing game titled Gintama Kabukichō Daikatsugeki (Gintama Kabuki District Great Action Movie) for iOS and Android. The game is the first smartphone game for the franchise.
Bandai Namco Entertainment is producing the game, which will be free to play. The game will have a story and will allow players to take on quests with a party of up to five characters from the Gintama universe. The game will be set in the Kabuki District, the main setting of Gintama.
Each playable character will have four skills that they can use in RPG-style combat, as well as cooperative attacks with other characters.
The game's official website announced on Monday that open beta testing for the Android version of the game will begin soon, but did not specify an exact date. Bandai Namco Entertainment will release the game this year.
The Gintama anime series is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and the fourth anime series will end this month. Sorachi previously reported that he is starting the manga's final arc this year, although he himself does not know if the manga will end this year or next year.
The official website for the "Next Generation" of the Naruto franchise revealed that Mikie Ikemoto's upcoming Boruto spinoff manga will debut in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on May 9. A new chapter will run in the magazine once a month, starting in this year's 23rd issue.
In addition, Masashi Kishimoto will publish a one-shot for his original Naruto manga in this year's combined 22nd/23rd issue on April 25.
Ikemoto, who worked as an assistant under Kishimoto, is drawing Boruto. Kishimoto is supervising the manga, and Ukyō Kodachi (Naruto - Gaara Hiden: Sajingensō novel, Boruto -Naruto the Movie- screenplay cooperation) is writing the manga's script. The new manga focuses on Boruto.
Shueisha had launched the countdown site last year, and the countdown had featured the logo and the silhouettes of the characters from Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto manga — specifically, of the children of the main characters from the Naruto manga, who were featured in Boruto -Naruto the Movie- and in Kishimoto's Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring one-volume sequel manga.
Kishimoto ended his main Naruto manga after 15 years of serialization in November 2014. He then wrote the Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring one-volume sequel manga, and also worked on the script and character designs and served as the chief production supervisor on the Boruto -Naruto the Movie- film sequel. A series of novels continued the story after the manga's end.
At a preview screening for Boruto -Naruto the Movie- last July, Boruto voice actress Yuko Sanpei said that she "wanted to see the films continue," and Kishimoto responded with a wry smile, "I can't. Please let me rest now." After finishing Naruto, Kishimoto said, "During this time, I finally went on my honeymoon. Even though my son has grown as big as [protagonist Naruto's son] Boruto." Kishimoto had gotten married over a decade ago.
Kishimoto attended last year's New York Comic Con event in October. He confirmed that he is working on plans for his next manga, a science-fiction story.
The staff of the upcoming Sword Art Online anime film announced at the Dengeki Bunko Haru no Saiten 2016 event on Sunday that the film's title is Sword Art Online Ordinal Scale and it will open in Japan in 2017.
The event additionally revealed more details about the film. "Ordinal Scale" is the name of a game after "Sword Art Online" and "Gun Gale Online." The game uses a new augmented reality device called "Augma," and the game was made specifically for the device. The game has a unique feature where players can raise their rank by defeating monsters and using items.
The event also confirmed that Yoshitsugu Matsuoka will return to play Kirito, and Haruka Tomatsu will return to play Asuna. Yuki Kajiura will return to compose the film's soundtrack. The event also revealed a new visual (below) and character designs, both drawn by abec.
The film's all-new original story will take place after the Mother's Rosario arc, which was the final arc depicted in the TV anime's second season.
The Mother's Rosario arc in Reki Kawahara's original light novel series covers volume 7 of the series. The second half of the anime's second season also covered the Calibur arc, which took place in volume 8 of the light novel series, but aired in the second season before the Mother's Rosario arc.
Kawahara is writing a new story for the film. Tomohiko Ito is returning from the two TV anime series and the anime special to direct the film at A-1 Pictures. Shingo Adachi is also returning from the TV anime to design the characters.
Kawahara's Sword Art Online light novel series inspired two TV anime series in 2012 and 2014, as well as the Sword Art Online: Extra Edition TV special in 2013. The franchise also includes several manga adaptations and spinoffs and three video games. A fourth video game will ship in 2016.
The Dengeki Bunko Haru no Saiten 2016 event debuted a video for the Accel World: Infinite Burst film on Sunday. Below are screenshots from the video:
The event announced that Yumi Hara (The IDOLM@STER, Log Horizon) and Yuuka Nanri (Wandering Son, Blood Lad) will join the cast of the film. Hara will reprise her role as Utai Shinomiya/Ardor Maiden from the Accel World -Kasoku no Chōten- PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable game, while Nanri will play Rin Kusakabe from the same game.
Utai Shinomiya/Ardor Maiden
Rin Kusakabe
Additionally, KOTOKO × ALTIMA will perform the film's theme song "Plasmic Fire."
The film will open in 24 theaters around Japan on July 23, but the staff hinted that more theaters might be added if the film does well enough.
Original light novel series author Reki Kawahara (Sword Art Online) is writing the story for the original new anime, and it will add new characters.
The returning staff and cast include:
Original Creator: Reki Kawahara
Original Novel Illustrations: HIMA
Director: Masakazu Obara
Character Design/Animation Director: Yukiko Aikei
Duel Avatar Design/Action Director: Yousuke Kabashima
Animation Production: Sunrise
Sachika Misawa as Kuroyukihime
Yuuki Kaji as Haruyuki
Aki Toyosaki as Chiyuri
Shintarō Asanuma as Takumu
Kadokawa published the 19th volume of the light novel series last October. Yen Press is publishing the light novel series in English, and it will ship the sixth volume on March 22. Yen Press also publishes the manga adaptation by Hiroyuki Aigamo, and shipped the sixth volume in January. The 24-episode television anime adaptation premiered in 2012, and Viz Media streamed the series on Hulu as it aired in Japan. Viz Media released the series on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in 2013.
The staff for the Digimon Adventure tri. six-part anime film series revealed at a stage greeting event at the Shinjuku Wald 9 theater in Tokyo on Saturday that the third film in the project, titled Digimon Adventure tri. Kokuhaku (Confession), will open in Japan on September 24. The third film was originally announced as debuting this summer.
The second film, Digimon Adventure tri. Ketsui (Determination, pictured at right), opened in Japan on Saturday for a three-week run in theaters. Crunchyroll began streaming the film as four episodes for premium members on Friday. The episode will be available for free members on April 10.
The first film, Digimon Adventure tri. Saikai (Reunion), opened in Japanese theaters on November 21, and Crunchyroll began streaming the film on the same day as four episodes.
