(c) 2017 BONES / Project EUREKA MOVIE

With the Japanese premiere this past September and a home video release planned there as well, the focus for the first Eureka Seven: Hi-Evolution feature film has turned to what’s happening in North America. Funimation is handling distribution of the film in this region and they’ve updated their plans for it on their film site with a confirmed February 5th and February 7th, 2017 premiere. It’ll be getting a Japanese language release with subtitles and an English language release as well. Theater locations have not been set yet but will be coming soon but we do have the confirmed English cast:

• Stephanie Sheh as Eureka
• Johnny Yong Bosch as Renton Thurston
• Melissa Fahn as Ray
• Patrick Seitz as Charles Beams
• Crispin Freeman as Holland Novak
• Kate Higgins as Talho Yuuki
• Fred Tatasciore as Adroc Thurston
• Kim Strauss as Dewey Novak
• Max Lawrence as Mitch
• Imari Williams as Milton
• Michael Forest as Sam
• Michael Forest as Blair
• Bill Rogers as Uno
• William Knight as Kuzemi
• Barbara Goodson as Coda

The project sees Tomoki Kyouda returning as the general director working with hands-on director Hisatoshi Shimizu working off of the screenplays by Dai Sato. Kenichi Yoshida is on board as the character designer with Bones once again producing the animation for it.

The Japanese cast includes Kaori Nazuka as Eureka, Yuko Sanpei as Renton Beams/Renton Thurston, Aya Hisakawa as Ray Beams, Juurouta Kosugi as Charles Beams, Kouji Tsujitani as Dewey Novak, Michiko Neya as Talho Yūki, Tohru Furuya as Adrock Thurston, and Toshiyuki Morikawa as Holland Novak.

Plot Concept: Ten years ago, the major earth-shaking “First Summer of Love” event occurred. Renton, who lost his father during the event, now attends the army school of the United Federation of Predgio Towers located in the border town of Bellforest. Because his late father is still praised, Renton feels something is lacking as he continues with his ordinary, boring days. Then one day, Nirvash, the world’s oldest LFO, appears in front of him and a girl named Eureka emerges from the cockpit. This was the beginning of the future of humans and Scub Coral, another intelligent lifeform.

Was this encounter all just a coincidence? Or was it fate? Where will Renton and Eureka’s journey end?

The summer 2017 anime series has Made in Abyss has had its home video release schedule setup and Kadokawa is working a box set design for it. The second set is due in just about ten days and we now have a look at the packaging design for it with some great looking pieces of artwork that will house the project. The show is being released in separate DVD and Blu-ray editions where the DVDs at 16,000 yen per set and the Blu-ray’s at 18,000 per set beginning on October 25th, 2017. Check the schedule out below for what we know about them.

The show is being directed by Masayuki Kojima based on the series composition by Hideyuki Kurata. Character designs are being handled by Kazuchika Kise with Kinema Citrus on board for the animation production.

The Japanese cast includes Miyu Tomita as Riku, Mariya Ise as Regu, Shiori Izawa as Nanachi, Mutsumi Tamura as Natto, Manami Numakura as Shigi, Manami Hanawa as Kiui, Taishi Murata as Jiruo, and Maaya Sakamoto as Raiza.

The opening song is “Deep in Abyss” as performed by Miyu Tomita and Mariya Ise while the ending theme song is “Tabi no Hitarite, Saihate no Migite” by Miyu Tomita and Shiori Izawa.

The original work is by Akihito Tsukushi which began in 2012 and has five volumes out as of the end of 2016 as serialized in Web Comic Gamma.

Plot Concept: The enormous cave system, known as the Abyss, is the only unexplored place in the world. Nobody knows how deep down this titanic pit goes. It is inhabited by strange and wondrous creatures and full of mysterious ancient relics whose purposes are unknown to modern man. Generations of bold adventurers have been drawn by the cryptic depths of the Abyss. Over the course of time, those bold enough to explore the dangerous pit came to be known as “cave raiders.”

In Oosu, the town at the edge of the Abyss, there lives a little orphan named Rico, who dreams of becoming a cave raider as great as her mother was and solving the great mystery of the pit. One day while exploring the murky depths, she stumbles upon a little boy, who turns out to be a robot…

Made in Abyss Japanese Box Set 2 Packaging

Made in Abyss Japanese Box Set 1 Packaging

[Source: Made in Abyss]

© Kohei Horikoshi / Shueisha · My Hero Academia Production Committee

With a thitd season set to hit in 2018 it’s starting to look like this might be the year of My Hero Academia. It was revealed today in Weekly Shonen Jump that the property is getting a feature anime film that will launch in the summer and has its own separate twitter feed that you can see below. The project will be an original story that’s supervised by original creator Kouhei Horikoshi as it focuses on the Class A characters and delves into material from there.

The TV series was directed by Kenji Nagasaki based on the series composition by Yousuke Kuroda. Yoshihiko Umakoshi is on board as the character designer and chief animation director with it being produced at BONES.

The Japanese cast includes Daiki Yamashita as Izuku, Kenta Miyake as All Might, Ayane Sakura as Ochako Uraraka, Kaito Ishikawa as Tenya Iida, Aoi Yuki as Tsuyu Asui, Ryou Hirohashi as Minoru Mineta, Marina Inoue as Momo Yaoyorozu, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Yuuki Kaji as Shoto Todoroki, Eri Kitamura as Mina Ashido, Kōsuke Kuwano as Yūga Aoyama, Kei Shindou as Kyōka Jirō, Masakazu Nishida as Mezō Shōji, Saki Ogasawara as Itsuka Kendou, Kouji Okino as Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu and Azu Sakura as Mei Hatsume.

Originally starting back in the summer of 2014, after creator Kouhei Horikoshi Barrage series ended, My Hero Academia is one of the more well-received books in the English edition of Weekly Shonen Jump.

Horikoshi received a Tezuka Award Honorable Mention in 2006 after publishing several short stories in Akamaru Jump. His first serialized work was Oumagadoki Doubutsuen back in 2010.

Plot Concept: What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks”? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn’t got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all, gives him a chance to change his destiny.

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[Source: animate Times via MAL]

The new week is underway and that means more digital comics and manga debuting.

This Monday is like most others in that it’s fairly light but not exactly complete either. Unlisted but out is a new installment of Batman and Harley Quinn from DC Comics as part of their digital-first initiative.

Marvel Comics has an overseas edition of Deadpool MAX out.

And Viz Media has the latest Weekly Shonen Jump issue out with new installments of One Piece, My Hero Academia, and more that get many fans excited.

The fall 2015 anime series Seraph of the End was handled by NBC Universal Japan for its releases previously and with the singles long done and over with they’re moving on to box sets now. As the first set is almost here we now have a look at the slim packaging design to hold the run as well as the package as a whole with its sleek and minimal approach. The first set is scheduled for a December 25th, 2017 debut priced at 14,000 yen while the second set of twelve episodes is set for February 28th, 2018 priced at 13,000 yen. Both sets have the show reauthored down to two discs in each. Check out the details for the sets below!

Check out our review of the North American releases.

Animated by Wit Studio, it was directed by Daisuke Tokutsuchi while Masashi Koizuka served as assistant director. The show will work off of scripts and composition by Hiroshi Seko while Satoshi Kadowaki will be handling the character designs. The series will star Takahiro Sakurai as Felid Bathory and Saori Hayami as Shinoa Hiiragi. The official site previously announced the lead cast with Miyu Irino as Yuichiro Hyakuya, Kensho Ono as Mikaela Hyakuya, Yuichi Nakamura as Guren Ichinose, Nobuhiko Okamoto as Yoichi Saotome, Kaito Ishikawa as Shiho Kimizuki, Tomoaki Maeno as Kureo Hiragi, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Shinya Hiragi. Aoi Yuki as Krul, Kenichi Suzumura as Crowly, Yuka Iguchi as Mitsuba Sangu, Atsumi Tanezaki as Sayuri Hanayori, Yui Ishikawa as Shigura Yukimi, Daisuke Ono as Norito Goshi and Yu Shimamura as Mito Jujo.

The series began in 2012 with the first volume releasing in January 2013. Viz Media is releasing the manga in North America.

Plot concept: After a catastrophic epidemic kills every adult on earth, vampires arise from the shadows to enslave the remaining human population. Yuichiro and his friends are kept as vampire fodder in a creepy institution masquerading as an orphanage. One day, Yuichiro’s dreams of fighting back are realized when the orphans stage a daring escape. But things go horribly wrong, and his dream is kept alive at a cruel price.

Box Set Packaging:

Seraph of the End Season 1 Japanese Box Set Cover

Seraph of the End Season 1 Japanese Box Set Packaging

Second Season Covers:

Seraph of the End Season 2 Volume 4 Japanese Packaging

Seraph of the End Season 2 Volume 4 Japanese Cover

Seraph of the End Season 2 Volume 3 Japanese Box Art (click for larger)

Seraph of the End Season 2 Volume 3 Japanese Packaging

Seraph of the End Season 2 Volume 3 Japanese Cover

Seraph of the End Season 2 Volume 2 Japanese Cover

Seraph of the End Season 2 Japanese Volume 1 Cover

First Season Covers:

Seraph of the End Japanese Volume 4 Cover

Seraph of the End Japanese Volume 3 Cover

Seraph of the End Japanese Volume 3 Packaging

Seraph of the End Japanese Volume 2 Cover

Seraph of the End Japanese Volume 2 Packaging

Seraph of the End Japanese Volume 1 Cover

Seraph of the End Japanese Volume 1 Cover

Seraph of the End Japanese Volume 1 Packaging

[Source: Seraph of the End]

Marvel Comics is getting things close to the end with the current arc in The Mighty Thor with the death in the wings and they’re now previewing the upcoming 705th installment that’s set to land on March 21st. The book comes from writer Jason Aaron, who has been working this arc for years now, and artist Russell Dauterman that has turned in some fantastic material over that period as well.

“This is it, folks! The big showdown between Thor and Mangog. The penultimate chapter of ‘The Death of the Mighty Thor,’” teases series editor Wil Moss. “Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman have been building to this issue for over three years, and you absolutely do not want to miss this. You may think you know where things are going, but I promise you do not.”

Plot Concept: Since kicking things off with MIGHTY THOR #700, the Mangog has managed to wreak havoc on Thor’s world, and he’s shown no signs of stopping – even in a saga that has so far managed to include almost every Thor villain. On the heels of the action, MIGHTY THOR #705 will continue to up the ante, leaving the fate of Asgard in jeopardy…along with the fate of Jane Foster, who will make the ultimate heroic sacrifice in a conclusion that will rock the Marvel Universe, and the minds of readers everywhere!

MIGHTY THOR #705
Written by JASON AARON
Art by RUSSELL DAUTERMAN
FOC – 2/26/18, On-Sale – 3/21/18

© DC Comics

Creative Staff:
Story: Marguerite Bennett
Art: Mirka Andolfo
Colors: J. Nanjan
Letterer: Wes Abbott

What They Say:
Trapped in the labyrinth with Talia al Ghul…as something approaches.

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Bombshells: United delights me once again this week for the simple fact that I get more Mirka Andolfo artwork. While we get things slimmed down in a number of areas for backgrounds with simple walls and the like we also get some better time spent on backgrounds with new areas revealed and flashbacks to the past. I’m a bit of wary of Marguerite Bennett doing too many looks backward since it ends up making things feel even more complicated and convoluted but it can also slow down the pacing with exposition in this form. Particularly if you’re wary as to whether it’ll be worth the investment in time to really add it to the narrative as a whole. It does bring in some important parts to the history of the world in the area and how things swept across the stage of time but I’m still just a bit wary of it.

A decent part of this installment focuses on the fight and flight against the creature that Renee and Kate have come across and it’s done a bit lighthearted with Kate coming up with all sorts of anime quips that are basically dad jokes. It gets a little silly and chaotic but largely works until we get some funky moments with a little additional help from a mystery woman. She reveals herself to be Talia al Ghul and helps to secure them passage to another area/level where things they’re safe from the creature. The visual presentation of Talia is something that I’m sure is well researched and put together but it just comes across a little odd in a way I can’t quite pin down. It’s working along the lines of what’s accurate for the background for it and I’m definitely curious to see how her role evolves.

What we get is a history of where she comes from with the caliphate that existed over five hundred years ago and spanned a great deal of territory before falling into ruin. This explores some of what became called the Lazarus Pits and how it all came together there but it’s very lightly done, mostly used to show that this is an older order that exists and that the big beast they’ve been facing is one of the first put through it and twisted all that time ago. What we do get is a little bit of the rules as to how the Lazarus Pits work, three times and it’s spoiled, and we get the last page discovery of who the second one to use this one was which isn’t exactly a shock but kind of left me underwhelmed in a way. I’m enjoying this arc for what Kate brings to it, and Renee, but I’m still waiting to figure out the significance of it in the larger scheme of things.

In Summary:
Bringing Talia into the world is something I’m definitely curious to see how it’ll play out and this is a decent start to it. The book kind of runs with a couple of different focuses and throws a lot at the reader so it doesn’t have quite the weight that it feels like it should. I like the fun of the start of it with the quips and action but felt the flashback/exposition side of it was just a bit less compelling, a little too soon to be happening from someone they just met. I would have rather had more time seeing Kate and Renee connecting with Talia than getting the whole history in a kind of cartoon info dump. The book is fun overall and I definitely liked what Mirka Andolfo brought to the page with the action and Kate’s expressions so there’s plenty to like here.

Grade: B

Age Rating: 13+
Released By: DC Comics via ComiXology
Release Date: December 8th, 2017
MSRP: $0.99

©Shuichi Asou/Shueisha,PK ACADEMY

The second season of The Disastrous Life of Saiki k. is on the way and as part of the winter 2018 season and some new details have arrived. The show is set for a January 17th, 2018 premiere and is set to do a collaboration with Gintama for the first episode. In addition to that we’ve gotten a new TV spot below and an updated on who will be playing three characters announced recently with:

• Yuki Kaji as Touma Akechi
• Eri Kitamura as Mikoto Aiura
• Mao Ichimichi as Imu Rifuta

The show was directed by Hiroaki Sakurai based on the series composition from Michiko Yokote. Masayuki Onji served as the character designs while JC Staff and Egg Firm will be handled the animation production for it.

The Japanese cast includes Hiroshi Kamiya as Kusuo Saiki, Mitsuo Iwata as Kuniharu Saiki, Rikako Aikawa as Kurumi Saiki, Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shun Kaidou, Daisuke Ono as Riki Nendou, Yukari Tamura as Chiyo Yumehara, Ai Kayano as Kokomi Teruhashi, Satoshi Hino as Kenishi Hairo, Natsuki Hanae as Reita Toritsuka, Tomoaki Maeno as Makoyo Terukyo, Maaya Uchida as Chisato Meyro, Showtaro Morikubo as Uryoku Chouno and Yoshimasa Hosoya as Aren Kubayasu.

The manga comes from creator Shuichi Asou which began back in 2012 and has seventeen volumes published so far. It’s not been picked up for release outside of Japan (yet). A flash anime short-form series was produced in 2013 for it, which has a different cast than what this series will have. A light novel was also produced in 2013.

Plot concept: Saiki Kusuo has a wide array of superpowers at his command, including telepathy and telekinesis. This might sound awesome, but, in Kusuo’s experience, superpowers are not all they’re cracked up to be. He tries to live a normal life, despite his annoying abilities.

[Source: MAL]

© 2015-2017 Sanrio/SEGA Toys

With a minimal amount of promotion out there for the winter turned into spring 2016 and then into summer, fall, winter, spring, summer and now fall TV series Rilu Rilu Fairilu that began back in February 2016, the promos for new episodes have been doing the heavy lifting. With little promotion to it and no pick-up for streaming either, it’s not a series that has garnered much in the way of attention, even with all of its cute aspects. A new promotional spot for the next episode on December 15th, 2017 has arrived, however, and it’s a pretty good piece so that people can see the series in action. The show, animated by Studio Deen, is being directed by Gojo Series based on the overall composition from Aya Matsui. Nishichi Yamaguchi is on board handling the character designs.

The show stars Yumiri Hanamori as Lip, Aya Uchida as Himawari, Rina Hidaka as Sumire and Aina Kusuda as Rose.

Plot Concept: In a strange magical world of Little Fairilu lives the Fairlu: small magical fairies representing flowers, insects and other entities born from the Fairilu Seed. Each of the Fairilu are born with their own key which only fits to a Fairy Door they need to search. If the certain Fairilu finds the right door, they can finally mature into full fairies, which also links them to the human world. But the Fairilu must study and go to school to learn about the world in which they live while meeting new friends.

© Yuuto Tsukuda / Shun Saeki / Shueisha

Crunchyroll is handling Food Wars: The Third Plate as part of the fall 2017 anime season and they’ve added a new round of clips from it to try and entice you to sample more of it. The two newest clips are definitely fun as we get to see more of the artistry of cooking, which will make you drool, and a good look at a salmon plate that looks great but is definitely not of my taste! They definitely showcase aspects of the series pretty well and they’re also great for sharing to try and win over someone undecided to check it out with. Crunchyroll brings new episodes out every Tuesday at 12:30pm ET for members.

The previous seasons were directed by Yoshitomo Yonetani, the series is being animated at JC Staff with Shogko Yasukawa handling the scripts and Tomoyuki Shitaya working on the character design adaptations. It’ll star Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Soma Yukihira, Risa Taneda as Erina Nakir, Minami Takahashi as Megumi Tadokoro, Ikumi Mito as Shizuka Ishigami, Maaya Uchida as Yūki Yoshino, Ai Kayano as Ryōko Sakaki, Taishi Murata as Shun Ibusaki, Yūsuke Kobayashi as Zenji Marui, Ai Kakuma as Mayumi Kurase, Rina Hidaka as Urara Kawashima, Banjo Ginga as Senzaemon Nakiri and Rikiya Koyama as Joichiro Yukihira.

The manga series is currently running in Weekly Shonen Jump by Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki with twenty-four volumes to its name so far. Viz Media publishes the manga in North America digitally and in print form.

Plot Concept: Soma Yukihira’s old man runs a small family restaurant in the less savory end of town. Aiming to one day surpass his father’s culinary prowess, Soma hones his skills day in and day out until one day, out of the blue, his father decides to enroll Soma in a classy culinary school!

Can Soma really cut it in a place that prides itself on a 10 percent graduation rate? And can he convince the beautiful, domineering heiress to the school that he belongs there at all?!

© Eiichiro Oda / Shueisha · Fuji Television · Toei Animation

Toei Animation has started promoting the next episode of One Piece that’s due out Saturday on December 16th, 2017, in the US with episode 818. The series has been chugging along for quite a few years and is showing no signs of slowing down as they’re going after Sanji and his encounter with Big Mom. Check out the quick promo for the new episode below!

Crunchyroll streams the series in the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America. FUNimation streams it to the USA and Canada.

Please note that Toei removes these previews when the episode premieres.

Series Premise: Monkey. D. Luffy refuses to let anyone or anything stand in the way of his quest to become the king of all pirates. With a course charted for the treacherous waters of the Grand Line and beyond, this is one captain who’ll never give up until he’s claimed the greatest treasure on Earth: the Legendary One Piece!

© 2017 PROJECT Lovelive! Sunshine !!

The fall 2017 simulcast of Love Live! Sunshine!! is close to wrapping up but there’s still some fun to engage with. Crunchyroll hasn’t done too much in the way of clips with this show but they’ve got two fun ones out now that are timely. The first focuses on a very special Christmas gift that I know a lot of fans would love to get while the second comically goes into the ultimate betrayal that Dia comes up with in her mind as to what Ruby may really be up to.

Animated by Sunrise, the first season it was directed by Kazuo Sakai based on the series composition from Jukki Hanada. Yuhei Murota worked on the character designs for it.

The Aquors cast includes Inami Anju as Chika Takami, Rikako Aida as Riko Sakurauchi, Nanaka Suwa as Kanan Matsuura, Arisa Komiya as Dia Kurosawa, Shuka Saito as You Watanabe, Aika Kobayashi as Yoshiko Tsushima, Kanako Takatsuki as Hanamaru Kunikida, Aina Suzuki as Mari Ohara and Ai Furihata as Ruby Kurosawa.

Plot Concept: Love Live! Sunshine!! follows the nine-member school idol group Aqours (pronounced “aqua”) at Uranohoshi Girls’ Academy in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Chika Takami, who is a fan of the Otonokizaka Academy’s μ’s school idol group, similarly forms Aqours in order to save her school from being closed down.

With the German home video release this week, Peppermint Anime is again making their push with Sword Art Online – Ordinal Scale – with its release. After coming out back on April 6th, 2017 in theaters and rolling out from there, they’ve now released a fun new dial0gue-based clip from the film that focuses on how people are using augmented reality in their everyday lives. The set came out on December 8th, 2017 with separate DVD and Blu-ray editions that includes the trailer and a commentary track.

The new film was animated by A-1 Pictures with Tomohiko Itou returning to direct and Shingo Adachi on board to do character designs again. Yuki Kajiura is on board with the music. The film will be an original story written by Kawahara specifically for the screen.

The German cast includes Denise Monteiro as Asuna Yuuki, Patrick Keller as Kazuto Kirigaya, Christiane Werk as Yui, Clara Dolny as Silica, Dirk Hardegen as Agil, Isaak Dentler as Klein, Jennifer Weiß as Sinon, Julia Meynen as Lyfa and Nina Amerschläger as Lisbeth.

Plot concept: In 2026, two years since the SAO incident, a new game called “Oridinal Scale,” an Augmented-Reality MMO, is becoming popular among the players. But…strange things are happening in the game and Kirito and the gang are facing a new danger.

Property concept: In the year 2022, virtual reality has progressed by leaps and bounds, and a massive online role-playing game called Sword Art Online (SAO) is launched. With the aid of “NerveGear” technology, players can control their avatars within the game using nothing but their own thoughts.

Kazuto Kirigaya, nicknamed “Kirito,” is among the lucky few enthusiasts who get their hands on the first shipment of the game. He logs in to find himself, with ten-thousand others, in the scenic and elaborate world of Aincrad, one full of fantastic medieval weapons and gruesome monsters. However, in a cruel turn of events, the players soon realize they cannot log out; the game’s creator has trapped them in his new world until they complete all one hundred levels of the game.

In order to escape Aincrad, Kirito will now have to interact and cooperate with his fellow players. Some are allies, while others are foes, like Asuna Yuuki, who commands the leading group attempting to escape from the ruthless game. To make matters worse, Sword Art Online is not all fun and games: if they die in Aincrad, they die in real life. Kirito must adapt to his new reality, fight for his survival, and hopefully break free from his virtual hell.

© Project Vanguard GZ

The latest season of this franchise has gotten underway with the first ten episodes of Cardfight!! Vanguard G Z now available for streaming through the official channel on YouTube. It has the closed captions option to watch the show with English subtitles not long after new episodes debut here. Promotion is moving on toward the eleventh episode that now is set to land on December 15th, 2017 and the official channel has released the episode preview below!

Please note that TV Tokyo removes these previews as the episode goes live.

Property Concept: Cardfight!! Vanguard features a world where the game Cardfight!! Vanguard is becoming the latest craze among trading card games, becoming a part of everyday life for people all over the world. The game is not limited to Earth alone; battles between the creatures used by the players take place on another planet called Cray.

The story begins with Aichi Sendou, a timid middle schooler whose meek attitude often leaves him a target for bullies. Aichi was given a very rare card, “Blaster Blade”, when he was very young. It’s his one treasure that gives him hope. That is, until it gets taken from him. Although Aichi has never played Cardfight!! Vanguard before, he challenges the thief to a game in order to win the “Blaster Blade” back. This high-stakes game quickly draws Aichi into the world of Vanguard battles, which will test and change his worth as both a player and a person.

© Kato Nishiki 2, Shikiji Dozo / Mithril
© Shigetoji Keiji, Shikijijiji / KADOKAWA / Mithril 2017

We learned back in October about the new compilation film trilogy being put together to cover the Full Metal Panic property. With the first one out and the next two on tap, Kadokawa has scheduled the home video side for all three films. They’re coming out fairly quickly with on a month in early 2018 where the DVDs are priced at 4,800 yen each and the Blu-ray’s at 5,800 yen each. They’re listed with a planned twenty minutes of bonus material for each disc that will be formalized soon.

The film series is planned for a one-week even for each film with Boy Meets Girl on November 25th, 2017, One Night Stand on January 13th, 2018, and Into the Blue on January 20th, 2018.

Property Concept: Jindai High School was a relatively safe place, right up until Sousuke Sagaka transferred there. A total nut, he wreaks havoc on the school’s student body and gets into a world of trouble with the teachers! But there’s more to Sousuke than meets the eye—not just a hell-raising student, he’s actually a member of an elite military unit, on an undercover mission to protect the beautiful schoolgirl Kaname Chidori from the KGB.

[Source: Full Metal Panic]

© Kokuyorin / comico / Recovery of an MMO Junkie Project

The fall simuldub season has Funimation handling a show that’s gotten some good attention all around with Recovery of an MMO Junkie. They’ve been cranking through the episodes and with the simulcast finished up and the OVA coming next weekend we still have a bit more to go with the dub. Check out a recent clip from it that focuses on the creation of a cute character and their struggle! Clifford Chapin is on board as the ADR director with Jessica Cavanagh handling the scripts with the main cast for it with:

• Terri Doty as Moriko Morioka
• Aaron Dismuke as Hayashi
• Natalie Hoover as Lily
• Ricco Fajardo as Kanbe
• Rachel Thompson as Lilac
• Ben Phillips as Pokotarou
• Brandon McInnis as Himeralda
• Josh Grelle as Yuta Sakurai
• Ian Sinclair as Homare Koiwai
• Anthony Bowling as Kazuomi Fujimoto
• Apphia Yu as Harth
• Felecia Angelle as Yuki

The show is coming from director Saori Den based on the series composition by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu. Senbon Umishima is handling the character designs while Signal. MD is handling the animation production for it.

The Japanese cast includes Mamiko Noto as Moriko Morioka, Takahiro Sakurai as Yuuta Sakurai, Ryouta Suzuki as Hayashi, Reina Ueda as Lily, Tomoaki Maeno as Homare Koiwai, Takuma Terashima as Kazuomi Fujimoto, Yuuichi Nakamura as Kanbe, Yuuka Aisaka as Lilac, Takanori Yagi as Himeralda, and Kazuhiro Sunseki as Pokotarou.

Megumi Nakajima is performing the opening theme song “Saturday Night Question” while Yuuka Aisaka is performing the ending theme song “Hikari, Hikari.”

The original manga from Rin Kokuyou began in 2013 and has two volumes released and is on hiatus due to the author’s health.

The series recently got its home video side detailed as the ten episode series will have an eleventh episode that arrives in a Blu-ray box set that lands on December 8th, 2017.

Plot Concept: Moriko Morioka is a 30-year-old single NEET woman. After dropping out from reality, she has taken off in search for a fulfilling life and ended up in a net game or “netoge.” In the netoge world, she began her new life as a refreshing and handsome character named Hayashi. While starting out as a beginner, a pretty character named Lily reached out to help her. Meanwhile, in the real world, awaits a shocking encounter with a good-looking elite company employee, a mysterious blue-eyed blonde.

The summer 2017 anime series Netsuzou TRap has its home video release scheduled and it’s a familiar one for short-form shows.  We had missed the back half of this release previously and artwork wasn’t readily available in a decent size but now we have a look at both volumes of the project that look pretty good. With episodes clocking in at around ten minutes, the twelve episode series is getting a two-volume release on September 29th, 2017 and October 27th, 2017. The DVDs are priced at 5,184 yen while the Blu-ray’s are at 6,264 yen.

Hisayoshi Hirasawa served as the chief director with scripts by Words in Stereo x Yuuichi Uchibori. Masaru Kawashima worked on the character designs and Creators in Pack handled the animation production.

The Japanese cast includes Ai Kakuma as Yuma Okazaki, Hiromi Igarashi as Hotaru Mizushima, Daisuke Ono as Fujiwara and Ryota Osaka as Takeda.

“Our readers and fans have been clamoring for more yuri,” said Seven Seas publisher Jason DeAngelis back in December 2015 upon the acquisition of the manga. “NTR is one of the best-known yuri titles currently running in Japan, and we think Kodama Naoko’s dramatic storytelling along with her beautiful artwork will make this a hit with readers who have enjoyed Citrus.”

The opening theme song will be “Blue Bud Blue” from Haruka Tojo.

Plot Concept: Yuma and Hotaru have been friends since childhood. It is only natural that when Yuma is nervous about her new boyfriend, she asks Hotaru and her boyfriend along for a double date. But when Hotaru offers herself to Yuma as “practice”, both girls realize that they’re more interested in each other than they are in their own boyfriends. With boyfriends in the foreground but a secret, passionate tryst in the background, will Yuma and Hotaru try to forget what happened between them or have they fallen into a trap of true love and betrayal?

Netsuzou Trap Japanese Volume 2 Packaging

Netsuzou Trap Japanese Volume 1 Packaging

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© Hiromi Morishita · OOP / Team Goma

Anime! It’s Tuesday and that means new anime episodes started arriving already across the services. Crunchyroll has the biggest slate with all new simulcasts coming up for:

• 6:25am – BLACK CLOVER
• 7:00am – SHONEN ASHIBE GO! GO! GOMA-CHAN
• 7:55am – THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS THEATER (WEB)
• 7:55am – THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS THEATER (TV)
• 11:00am – SENGOKU NIGHT BLOOD
• 11:30am – JUNI TAISEN：ZODIAC WAR
• 12:30pm – FOOD WARS! THE THIRD PLATE
• 1:00pm – LOVE IS LIKE A COCKTAIL
• 1:45pm – EVIL OR LIVE
• 2:05pm – MAGICAL CIRCLE GURU-GURU

Funimation has a couple of simuldubs up today and some previous dubs released with:

HIDIVE has one show on tap today with:

• 12:00 pm – Blue Gale Xabungle Episode 12

With a movie coming out in just a couple of days with The Last Jedi arriving, Marvel Comics is looking to get fans loaded up on a lot of good content at a fantastic price. They ran a smaller sale last month with like 155 books but now they’re going bigger. Through ComiXology and Amazon Kindle, you can get pretty much all of the trades that they’ve put out so far at rock bottom prices, like $2 or $3 in a lot of cases, which is just incredible. The previous sale focused on the Marvel books but this one expands into the books that Dark Horse Comics produced that are now not-canon but have a lot of things worth delving into – including the manga!

Like anything, there’s some mixed quality as to what you get but there’s a lot to dig into and enjoy. I’m particularly fond of the Lando series and the first Darth Vader book but I also found the two Kanan books to expand things well for those looking at a post-Order 66 experience.

Tuesday is here and the digital service ComiXology is populating with what it expects to have on hand today. Dark Horse runs with a couple of trades while DC Comics has about eight trades on track for today, including an annotated edition of Watchmen. There’s also the latest Injustice 2 installment landing as a digital-first book.

Marvel Comics makes me happy with more Avengers West Coast surfacing as well as Silver Surfer from the great age. We also get several X-Men books and the Vampire Tales series from the early 70’s.

On the manga front, Seven Seas has two volumes out with A Centaur’s Life and Magika Swordsman and Summoner while Viz Media has three books out and Yen Press with three simulpubs that include Today’s Cerberus and the newer Final Fantasy Lost Stranger. Kodansha Comics has a slew of things out with four simulpubs and a dozen or so volumes of ongoing books, several of which are digital-only at the moment.