Category: Manga/Anime/Light Novels

Warner Bros. Japan has uploaded the full trailer for Gisaburo Sugii’s upcoming animated film Guskō Budori no Denki to their YouTube channel.

The film is based on a fairy tale by Kenji Miyazawa about a young man who’s driven from his forest home by a natural disaster and begins working with scientists at the Ihatov Volcano Bureau in hopes of preventing similar disasters from occurring in the future. Sugii previously adapted Miyazawa’s most notable work, Night on the Galactic Railroad, in 1985.

Like the 1985 film, this adaptation features anthropomorphic cat characters instead of humans. It also involves Gusko Budori’s sister Neri being kidnapped and is obviously steeped in new fantasy elements added for this version.

Here’s main voice cast:

Shun Oguri as Gusko Budori
Shioli Kutsuna as Neri
Ryuzo Hayashi as Father
Tamiyo Kusakari as Mother
Kuranosuke Sasaki as the kidnapper
Akira Emoto as Dr. Kubo
Shōzō Hayashiya IX as Akahige (Red Beard)

“Guskō Budori no Denki” will be released by Warner Bros. in Japan on July 7, 2012.

Edit: WB took the upload down. Embedded a new copy.

Shochiku has uploaded a new web-exclusive trailer for Naoyoshi Shiotani’s Blood-C: The Last Dark to their YouTube channel.

The movie follows up last year’s Blood-C manga and anime series. Blood-C was created by the all-female manga artists group CLAMP and features an original story inspired Production I.G’s Blood franchise.

The story is set in Tokyo as a Youth Protection Ordinance is enforced which prevents underage people from going out at night and limits their use of the internet. However, a team of young people have organized an underground resistance movement called “Surat” to fight against the tyranny created by a man named Fumito Nanahara. Surat has uncovered information on a secret organization called “Tower” which backs Nanahara and is engaging in mysterious human experiments.

When a member of Surat begins snooping around the subway to discover more about Tower’s activities, vicious creatures suddenly appear. Just then, a young girl wielding a katana appears. Saya has arrived…

“Blood-C: The Last Dark” will be released in Japan on June 2, 2012.

via ANN

The official website for One Piece Film Z has been updated with a new teaser.

Plot-wise, not a whole lot is known about the new film. The main detail that’s been reported so far, as well as being the focus of this teaser, is that it will feature a new villain named “Z”, which was personally designed by One Piece manga creator Eiichiro Oda. Z is being billed as the most powerful enemy in the history of the One Piece franchise.

“One Piece Film Z” will be released in Japan on December 15, 2012.

Source: ANN

A new teaser has been released for Takeshi Furusawa’s Kyo, Koi o Hajimemasu, a live-action adaptation of Kanan Minami’s shojo manga series of the same name (2007-2011).

Emi Takei stars as Tsubaki Hibino, an excessively studious high school girl who clings to old customs like chastity before marriage and is referred to as a “stupid showa era girl” by other students for her old fashioned appearance. The story depicts her relationship with a “modern” boy named Kyouta Tsubaki (Tori Matsuzaka) who claims her first kiss.

“Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu” will be released by Toho in Japan this December.

Sources: Official website, YouTube