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Oct122017 by DocNo Comments

Full-Blown Fullmetal Alchemist Goes Fully Live-Action, In Full Trailer

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Fullmetal Alchemist, the story that refuses to die, will not stop until it's inhabited every entertainment medium known to man, twice. Inspired by the original manga from Arakawa Hiromu, the journey of two brothers in a fantastical world has been chronicled multiple times in animated form, to rapturous praise by many, and critical side-eyes by a few. We imagine the same will be the case when their latest incarnation, in the form of this new live-action film, comes to the big screen this December. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NRt4keIZZk I haven't seen more than a few episodes of the anime years ago (shut up, I know) but, at the very least, the film looks visually striking. The effects work is far beyond what I'd expected to see, and the scenery and costumes are all lovely. Apparentl...

Oct102017 by DocNo Comments

Game of Thrones: The Anime – Winter is Animated

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The war for the Iron Throne just got a little more epic, with this fun opening credits sequence from French Youtuber Malec. Inspired by the wildly popular fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, this interprets the battle to save Westeros, and the many dramatic turns it takes, in a fashion only Japanese animation can deliver. Or at least something like it. Check out the fan-made opening credits sequence here, but newcomers be warned. There be spoilers in these waters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efD3nmwF-IM I love that the music, while evoking the typical sound of classic anime openers, also adopts the style of the actual Game of Thrones theme, one of the most iconic of its kind. Interspersing Japanese lyrics with seemingly random English adds the perfect touch. Particularly the phra...

Oct72017 by DocNo Comments

Pacific Rim: Uprising Trailer – Back For More Monster Mayhem

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Guillermo Del Toro's giant monster mash Pacific Rim is the little movie franchise that could, still trucking after unfavorable returns in the domestic box office a few years ago. But stronger international support gives the super-robot actioner a new lease on life with director Steven S. DeKnight's Pacific Rim: Uprising. Let's check out the trailer and hope this opportunity hasn't been wasted. When word came down that Del Toro would get another chance to pit titanic Jaegers against city-stomping Kaiju, his passionate fanbase let out a sigh of relief, quickly turning to caution as it was announced that the monster maestro would not be returning to the director's chair for this project. Instead, we have DeKnight of TV's Spartacus and Daredevil taking the reigns. Let's ponder the results...

Feb182016 by UkiyaSeedNo Comments

New Line Cinema to Create Live-Action Astro Boy Film

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It is reported that a live-action Astro Boy film is currently in works via Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema subsidiary. San Andreas' Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore will write the script while Animal Logic Entertainment, Ranger 7 Films, and Tezuka Productions will produce the film. The film is aimed to become a four-quadrant adventure movie. Based on Osamu Tezuka's popular Astro Boy manga, the series was adapted into multiple anime series, an animated film by Imagi Animation, and once had a live-action TV series, which ran from March 7, 1959 to May 28, 1960. The original manga series is about Astro, a robot created by a scientist to replace his dead son. As time went on and realized that he will not grow up, he abandoned Astro and eventually, under Dr. Elefun, he fights evil with h...

Jun252014 by Lee B. GoldenNo Comments

LUPIN III Gets A Spectacular New Trailer!

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By: @FilmCombatSyndicate Director Ryuhei Kitamura's newest contribution to live action storytelling has a glossy new full trailer this week for the forthcoming release of Lupin III. Written by Mataichiro Yamamoto, the film is based on the original 1967 manga by Monkey Punch and other mediums in the years that followed, now presenting another new epic scope into the eponymous crime caper story with actor Shun Ogiri leading a cast in this new, multilingual origin tale that illustrates how Lupin's team comes together. And it does so on a pretty large scale with shots in various parts of Asia, including Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines and Thailand. (more…)

Oct122012 by Keith JusticeNo Comments

Live Action Gatchaman Video featuring SMAP

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With the news that we're actually getting Live Action Gatchman, it reminds me of a time in 2000 when we thought we were getting Gatchman Live Action, but it turned out to be a set of commercials instead promoting some ISDN service starring the hip boy band of the time, SMAP. Commercial or no... they were pretty freaking rad. Hit the jump to get a taste of things to come. (more…)