Shuffle!

Shuffle!

Speaking of Shuffle!, I really like this anime too, it has the element of comedy,drama, and harem also the story of Shuffle! is good that's why I like it too, the characters are all good and interesting.

The Shuffle! girls^^ damn it they are all good looking...



Wow, Is this a present?!



Its Kaede-chan looks so sweet(but be careful of her she has a tendency to snap)



Its Rin-chan(Nerine), she's a pretty girl^^



Its Primula she's a good little girl...



Its Sia-chan, well she fun to be with^^



Its Asa-senpai, well she's outgoing.



You wouldn't like her if she snapped.

X Japan to Move to L.A., Hold 'Simple' Concert There

posted on 2010-02-27 14:05 EST

Rock band intends to hold concert in Los Angeles venue before Lollapalooza

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X Japan leader Yoshiki revealed on Friday that the entire rock group plans to relocate to Los Angeles and hold a concert there as its first official American performance. Yoshiki revealed the plans during the unveiling of his Yoshiki Jewelry brand's new collection in collaboration with Kuwayama. Guitarist Sugizo made a surprise onstage guest appearance at Friday's event before about 120 invitees, and then Yoshiki made the announcement that all of X Japan will be moving to Los Angeles.

Yoshiki had already revealed at the Grammy Awards' red carpet earlier this month that his band agreed to appear at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago from August 6 to August 8. However, he said on Friday that the group intends to hold a concert in a "simple" live venue in Los Angeles as its first American performance. Yoshiki has been living in Southern California for well over a decade, and X Japan already held a Saturday evening music video shoot at the heart of Hollywood last month.

X Japan's most notable anime contributions were the songs in the X² music video collection and later X movie. The animation studio Madhouse adapted both productions from CLAMP's X manga. The surviving band members — Toshimitsu "Toshi" Deyama, Yoshiki Hayashi, Tomoaki "Pata" Ishizuka, and Hiroshi "Heath" Morie — reunited in 2007, ten years after they first disbanded and nine years after the death of guitarist Hideto "Hide" Matsumoto.

Source: Sankei Sports via Tokyograph

Eva 2.0, Summer Wars to Be Screened in Dublin in March

posted on 2010-02-28 03:00 EST

Also at Irish Film Institute's festival: Eva 1.11, 5 cm per second, TokiKake, Blood

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The Irish Film Institute in Dublin will be screening Hideaki Anno and Khara's Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Ha) movie and Mamoru Hosoda and MADHOUSE's Summer Wars movie during a two-day festival next month. Evangelion: 2.0 will run on March 20, and Summer Wars will run on March 21.

Other films to be shown at the festival include Anno and Khara's Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Jo), Makoto Shinkai's 5 Centimeters Per Second, Hosoda and MADHOUSE's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Hiroyuki Kitakubo and Production I.G's Blood: The Last Vampire. Blood: The Last Vampire will share a double-billing with a "mystery film." Jonathan Clements (author of Schoolgirl Milky Crisis and co-author of The Anime Encyclopedia) and industry guests Hugh David and Andrew Partridge will host a panel on the future of anime during the festival.

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance is the second film in the theatrical film remake of Anno and Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion television anime series. The film continues the story of a group of 14-year-olds entrusted with giant biomechanical units to protect Earth from mysterious Angels. It opened in Japan in June 2009. It then ran in Spain's Sitges, Scotland's Glasgow Film Festival, Canada's Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema, and France's Lyon Asian Film Festival. Funimation had released versions of the first film, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, in North America in 2009 in theaters and on home video.

The light-hearted "action entertainment" story of Summer Wars revolves around a modern-day family on a midsummer adventure. The project reunites many of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time's staffers, including scriptwriter Satoko Okudera (Angel, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Miyori no Mori) and character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Evangelion, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, FLCL). The film opened in Japan on August 1, 2009, and has since been scheduled in Spain's Sitges, England's Leeds Film Festival, Germany's Berlin International Film Festival, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in the New York International Children's Film Festival.

[Via EvaGeeks.org]

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Monster to Air in Canada; Deltora Quest to Air in Australia, New Zealand

posted on 2010-02-27 07:00 EST

Super Channel to televise Monster; Cartoon Network AU/NZ to run Deltora Quest

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Super Channel, Canada's only national pay television network, has announced on Friday that it will run the anime adaptation of Naoki Urasawa's Monster suspense manga. The channel will air the series on Mondays at 10:00 p.m. ET, starting on March 15.

Monster follows Dr. Kenzou Tenma, a brilliant brain surgeon who chooses to save the life of a child instead of the mayor, ruining his career as a result. A short time later, the hospital director and the doctors that replaced him are murdered, and Tenma starts searching for the truth behind the deaths.

In addition, DCI Los Angeles, the U.S. division of Dentsu, Inc., announced on Wednesday that it will air the Deltora Quest anime series on Cartoon Network in Australia and New Zealand.

Deltora Quest is based off of a series of books by Australian writer Emily Rodda. The series "follows the adventures of three companions, Lief, Jasmine and Barda, as they journey across the mysterious land of Deltora to recover magical artifacts and defeat Guardians of the evil Shadow Lord."

The 52-episode series will begin airing in April 2010. Cartoon Network also holds DVD and merchandising rights to the series in Australia and New Zealand.

Cartoon Network will also handle free-to-air and broadband distribution, as well as DVD and merchandising rights in these territories.

14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Nominees Announced

posted on 2010-02-27 02:36 EST

Ranjō Miyake, Mikio Igarashi, Fumiyo Kono, Akiko Higashimura, Yoshihiro Yamada, Shohei Manabe

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The Asahi Shimbun paper has announced the six nominees for the 14th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize on Saturday. The awards commemorate the contributions of the manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy/Mighty Atom, Kimba the White Lion/Jungle Emperor, Phoenix, Black Jack) by recognizing the manga that best follow his tradition.

This year's nominating committee — which includes manga creator Go Nagai, manga creator Keiko Takemiya, novelist Shion Miura, essayists, and university professors — selected from among the works that were published from January to December of 2009. The newspaper awards a 2-million-yen (about US$20,000) Manga Grand Prize along with a statuette of Tezuka's Mighty Atom character. In addition, 1 million yen (US$10,000) goes to each of the winners of the New Artist Prize, Short Work Prize, and the Special Prize every year. The winners will be announced in the middle of April, and the actual awards presentation ceremony will take place on May 28.

Imuri
Ranjō Miyake
Enterbrain

Kamurobamura-e
Mikio Igarashi
Shogakukan

Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni
Fumiyo Kono
Futabasha


Himawari - Kenichi Legend
Akiko Higashimura
Kodansha


Hyouge Mono - Tea for Universe, Tea for Life
Yoshihiro Yamada
Kodansha


Ushijima the Loan Shark
Shohei Manabe
Kodansha

Yamada's Hyouge Mono was previously nominated for the 11th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and Manabe's Ushijima the Loan Shark was nominated for the 12th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Another work of Kouno, Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni, was nominated for the 9th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Imuri, Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni , and Hyouge Mono all won Excellence Prizes in the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in December. In the same awards competition, Kamurobamura-e earned a place among the Jury Recommended Works.

Update: More background information added.

Angel Beats, Eva 1.11, Tailenders Videos Streamed

posted on 2010-02-26 16:00 EST

Angel Beats! to premiere in Japan in April, Eva 1.11's English BD/DVD ships on March 6

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The official website for Visual Art's/Key and Aniplex's Angel Beats! television anime series has begun streaming a "making-of" promotional video on Friday. The 177-second video looks behind-the-scenes at the P.A. Works anime studio (CANAAN, true tears) which is producing the project. Seiji Kishi (Magikano, My Bride is a Mermaid, Tentai Senshi Sunred) is directing off a story created by Jun Maeda. Katsuzo Hirata (Cosplay Complex, Hand Maid May) is overseeing the animation and adapting the original character designs by Na-Ga. Satoki Iida (Magikano, My Bride is a Mermaid, Tentai Senshi Sunred) is the sound director. The series will premiere in Japan in April.

The North American anime distributor Funimation has posted eight high-definition video clips from Hideaki Anno and Khara's Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone (Evangelion Shin Gekijōban: Jo) film on Thursday. "Evangelion 1.11" is the name for the latest remastering of the first film in the four-part theatrical remake of Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion television anime. Funimation will ship the 1.11 version on DVD and Blu-ray on March 9.

The international streaming website GONG is hosting a pilot episode of Picograph's Tailenders project from Anime Innovation Tokyo (Cencoroll) in five parts. Anime Innovation Tokyo had already streamed a 90-second short trailer and a two-minute long trailer on its channel on the YouTube website last August. It also posted an earlier trailer on the same website in 2008. The company describes the plot of the anime as the following:

The destiny of Tomoe Shiro, a formidable racer with a very promising career, experiments an U-turn when a serious accident puts his life at stake. He recovers miraculously , though, when his heart is replaced with the engine of his own racing car. However, because of that very reason, race regulations demote him to the category of a mere mechanical part of the vehicle and is deprived from the right to participate as a pilot in regular races.

Only in a far away colonial planet, along with a multitude of other charismatic pilots also vetoed from participating in regular competitions, he will be given the opportunity to race for his pride and the money of the prize. And so this exciting rally starts!!

Sources: Saishin Anime Jōhō, Catsuka via AnimeNation, AnimeNews.biz

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SOS TV Walpurgis Night Fever Anime Streamed on Phones

posted on 2010-02-26 05:05 EST

Also on Emotion's Gekkin service: CANAAN Sufiru & 7 other new manga

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Emotion, the video production subsidiary of Bandai Visual, has confirmed on Friday that it is releasing a new series of anime shorts called SOS TV Walpurgis Night Fever on its Shū 2 Gekkin comic site for mobile devices. The 150-second comedy shorts center on Garnet (Ryoko Shintani) and Crystal Crystal (Miyuki Sawashiro), two girls who live on a war-devastated planet named Walpurgis. The two survivors struggle to get rescued off the planet.

Barnum Studio (Barnum Laboratory), the company founded by Galaxy Angel producer Tetsuro Satomi, is producing SOS TV Walpurgis Night Fever after having animated the Hoshi ni Negai o anime. The two Barnum anime projects share several staff members, such as director Kazuya Ichikawa (Shadow Skill: Kuruda-ryu Kousatsu-hou no Himitsu director, Appleseed: Ex Machina CG layout and motion team leader) and character designer MA@YA (Amuri in Star Ocean).

SOS TV Walpurgis Night Fever's 0th episode is already streaming, and more will follow on March 1 and 15. Despite the anime's streaming, the main focus of the Gekkin service is biweekly manga. One of the eight manga that will debut on March 1 is CANAAN Sufiru, Jun Sasameyuki's "spinout" manga set in the two years previously unexplored in the storyline of the CANAAN television anime and the original 428 ~Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de~ visual novel.

Source: SankeiBiz

Carved Horror Film's Manga Adaptation Listed by Amazon

posted on 2010-02-25 20:00 EST

Shizu Takamura's version of 2007 Kuchisake-Onna/The Slit-Mouthed Woman film

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The Amazon online retailer is listing Shizu Takamura's manga adaptation of the Kuchisake-Onna (Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman) horror film as a September 28 release from DC Comics' CMX imprint in North America. Amazon's listings do not necessarily indicate definite release plans or dates.

The title of the film refers to a well-known Japanese myth of a woman who jealously hunts down victims after her face was slashed from ear to ear. The myth became an urban legend in 1979 with reports of a real-life stalker of children with the same disfigurement. Kōji Shiraishi directed a 2007 film off a script that he and Naoyuki Yokota wrote based on the modern urban legend.

Tartan Video released the original film on DVD in North America. It describes the story as follows:

Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose beautiful face had been grotesquely disfigured by a jealous husband. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and surgical mask, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim's response would almost always lead to their violent death. Now, one by one, children are disappearing again. As teachers and officials desperately begin to investigate, a panic begins to build as the woman's spirit returns for some unfinished business and the town's dark secrets are exposed.

Fujimi Shobo published the manga adaptation in Japan in March of 2007, the same month during which the film opened in Japan.

Source: Tanbishugi (link 2)

Toei Animation Raises This Year's Earnings Forecast

posted on 2010-02-25 14:22 EST

Anime studio now projects net profits 2.5 times higher than last fiscal year's

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Toei Animation has announced on Thursday that it is revising its consolidated earnings forecast higher for the current fiscal year ending in March of 2010. The anime studio raised its sales projections from 17.7 billion yen (about US$199 million) to 20.2 billion yen (US$227 million), although they still remain 7.0% lower than the sales in the previous fiscal year. It now projects operating profits of 1.9 billion yen (US$21 million) — up from its earlier forecast of 1.4 billion yen (US$16 million), but still 39.2% lower from the previous year.

Most significantly, Toei raised its projected net profits from 1.0 billion yen (US$11 million) to 1.2 billion yen (US$14 million) — 2.5 times the net profits reported in the previous fiscal year.

Stronger than expected box office returns from anime films such as One Piece Film Strong World and sales of character goods were cited as the reason for the higher projected net profits. The dip in anime DVD sales was balanced by higher returns from films at the beginning of the year. In particular, Toei had projected that it would earn 3.0 billion yen (US$34 million) from One Piece Film Strong World, but it has now racked up 4.7 billion yen (US$53 million) in ticket sales as of Tuesday.

Sources: Nikkei (link 2)

Boys Be's Itabashi, Love Song's Nishi Launch New Manga

posted on 2010-02-25 17:24 EST

Also launching manga in Flowers mag: Machiko Kyō, Akiko Hatsu, others

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Manga writer Masahiro Itabashi (Boys Be…, A Girls) and artist Kyōichi Aridome are launching a new manga series called Piano Doctor about a piano tuner in the June issue of Shogakukan's Monthly Flowers shōjo magazine in April. This series is one of several that are launching over the next four issues of the magazine.

Keiko Nishi (Love Song, Kame no Naku Koe) will start a new manga called Fuwafuwa Police - Hirugaya-Eki-Mae Kōban Shimatsuki (Fuwafuwa Police: Chronicles of the Police Box in Front of Hirugaya Station) in the April issue on Saturday. The series will follow an odd couple of female police officers as they solve cases "with love and justice." In the same issue, a relatively new creator named Murako Kinuta will launch a manga called Sansukumi.

Machiko Kyō will launch a manga called Girls Bijutsu (Girls' Arts) about the experience of getting into an arts college in the May issue next month. Kyo's autobiographical Sennen Gahō was among the manga recommended by the jury of 2007's 11th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards, and Kyō was among the first manga creators to launch a manga simultaneously in a print magazine and online via a Creative Commons license with last year's Mikako-san manga. Akiko Hatsu (Devil in the Water, Mourning of Autumn Rain), Yōko Nemu, and Sakae Kusama will each start an unnamed manga title in the July issue in May.

Source: Comic Natalie

Nick Simmons' Incarnate Halted Over Alleged Bleach Plagiarism (Updated)

posted on 2010-02-25 09:49 EST

Fans report similarities to Tite Kubo's manga; Kubo, Viz, Radical Publishing respond

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The American company Radical Publishing has announced that it halted the production and distribution of Nick Simmons' Incarnate comic book series on Wednesday evening, amid allegations that the comic plagiarized Tite Kubo's Bleach manga. According to Radical, "We are taking this matter seriously and making efforts now to contact the publishers of the works in question in an effort to resolve this matter." Shueisha publishes Bleach in its Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in Japan, while Viz Media publishes the manga in North America.

Nick Simmons, the son of the Kiss rock band's lead singer Gene Simmons, launched the Incarnate series last August. Posters on the GameFAQs website's forum noted the similarities between Kubo's artwork (pictured at right) and Simmons' artwork (pictured at left) on Sunday, and the discussion spread to the Bleach Asylum forum and the Bleachness community on the LiveJournal website.

Kubo himself remarked upon the controversy in two Twitter posts on Thursday. He noted in the first post the amazing number of overseas fans who responded on websites about an American comic allegedly copying Bleach. He acknowledged that he does not understand English very well, but figured out from reading the sites that the American comic is drawn by Gene Simmons' son. Viz Media posted a Twitter message on Wednesday that said, "We've got our team on it."

ANN contacted both Radical Publishing and Viz Media for further comments on Wednesday.

[Via Bleachness LiveJournal Community, Tanbishugi]

Update: Kubo said in his second Twitter post that he is more interested in the fact that Gene Simmons' son is a comic creator, as opposed to whether there was actual copying or not. Thanks, maaya.

Update 2: Evelyn Dubocq, Senior Director of Public Relations at Viz Media, tells ANN, "We appreciate all our fans bringing this matter to our attention, and we are currently investigating this issue."

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I'm just new to making story so I supposed that my story is still of good but its genre is fantasy, Sci-fi, and a slice of parody on different anime and manga especially the terms, like the weapons, powers and etc...

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Ludwig Revolution

Alternative Titles

English: Ludwig Revolution

Synonyms: Ludwig Kakumei

Japanese: ルードヴィッヒ革命

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: 4

Chapters: 16

Status: Finished

Published: 2004 to 2007

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance

Authors: Yuki, Kaori (Story & Art)

Serialization: Hana to Yume

Synopsis

Prince Ludwig isn't your conventional prince charming. Ludwig is a prince and also a corpse collector, who collects the bodies of pretty women. However, his father the King isn't very happy about it and orders him to get a wife. So Ludwig searches and finds Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty. However things turn out to be rather different from the original story!

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Heart no Kuni no Alice~ Wondeerful Wonder World ~

Alternative Titles

English: Alice in the Country of Hearts

Synonyms: Heart no Kuni no Alice

Japanese: ハートの国のアリス～Wonderful Wonder World～

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: 2008 to ?

Genres: Fantasy, Game, Romance, Shoujo, Harem

Authors: Hoshino, Soumei (Art)

Serialization: COMIC BLADE avarus

Synopsis

The girly but bloody otome game re-imagining of Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with bishōnen characters and added romance.

A parody of Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland where Alice is smart and non-doormatlike.

In this story, Alice is not all what she seems. She is practical, strong, yet an cynical person. Instead of the tradition story, Alice is kidnapped unwillingly by a mysterious (yet somewhat bishie-looking) man with bunny ears into a place call Heartland. Stuck in Heartland due to a trick by the mysterious bunny eared man, she meets the residents of this world. Along the way, Alice meets Blood, handsome mafia leader; Ace, the psycho yet charming knight and more…What should Alice do in such a world!?

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Beelzebub

Alternative Titles

English: Beelzebub

Synonyms: Baalzebub, Ba‘al Zebûb, Baal Zebub, Ba‘al Zəbûb, Baalzevuv, Baal Zevuv, Ba‘al Zəvûv, beruzeBABU, beruze BABU

Japanese: べるぜバブ

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Feb 2009 to ?

Genres: Action, Comedy, Demons, Fantasy, School, Shounen, Supernatural

Authors: Tamura, Ryuuhei (Story & Art)

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Synopsis

The story follows the "strongest juvenile delinquent", Oga Tatsumi, a first year in "Ishiyama High" the school for delinquents. One day while sleeping next to a river he sees a man floating down it, he pulls him to shore and the man splits in half revealing a baby boy. This boy is the son of the demon king and he has been chosen as the one to raise it with the baby's demon maid Hilda. The story follows his life with the child and at the delinquent school.
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Manga Review

Paradise Kiss

Alternative Titles

English: Paradise Kiss

Synonyms: パラダイス・キス

Japanese: パラダイス・キス

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: 5

Chapters: 48

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 2000 to Mar 2004

Genres: Drama, Romance, Josei

Authors: Yazawa, Ai (Story & Art)

Serialization: Zipper

Synopsis

Yukari wants nothing more than to make her parents happy by studying hard and getting into a good college. One afternoon, however, she is kidnapped by a group of self-styled fashionistas calling themselves "Paradise Kiss." Yukari suddenly finds herself flung into the roller-coaster life of the fashion world, guided by George, art-snob extraordinaire. In a glamorous makeover of body, mind and soul, she is turned from a hapless bookworm into her friends22 own exclusive clothing model. (Source: Tokyopop)

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Basara

Alternative Titles

English: Basara

Synonyms: Legend of Basara

Japanese: バサラ

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: 27

Chapters: 107

Status: Finished

Published: 1990 to 1998

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Shoujo

Authors: Tamura, Yumi (Story & Art)

Serialization: Flowers (Monthly)

Synopsis

Sarasa grew up knowing that her twin brother Tatara was prophesied to be the "boy of destiny," the one who would overthrow the oppressive government and unite the people. When Tatara dies in battle, however, Sarasa realizes that it's up to her to secretly take on her brother's identity. On the way, Sarasa meets and falls in love with the mysterious Shuri, who may also have something up his sleeve. Together, she and her group of ragtag fighters journey across the land, attacking the many rulers and hoping to someday reach the leader of them all, the Red King.

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Watashi ni xx Shinasai

Alternative Titles

Japanese: わたしに××しなさい！

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: May 2, 2009 to ?

Genres: Comedy, Romance, School, Shoujo

Authors: Tooyama, Ema (Story & Art)

Serialization: Nakayoshi

Synopsis

Himuro Yukina always wished to be normal like the other girls. Sadly, her eyes are too sharp and her skin is too cold that most people in school, except her cousin Akira, are so afraid, that they think they got a death glare. Yukina is actually a cell phone novelist in the name of Yupina. Sadly, with no human contact, Yukina can't really write more love in her novels. Kitami Shigure, your so-called "ordinary bishounen", which is really a womanizer, has fallen in Yukina's trap and they end up dating for the sakes of their secrets.
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Mx0

Alternative Titles

English: Mx0

Synonyms: Emu x Zero, emuzero

Japanese: エム×ゼロ

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: 10

Chapters: 99

Status: Finished

Published: May 1, 2006 to May 16, 2008

Genres: Action, Comedy, Ecchi, Magic, Romance, School, Shounen, Supernatural

Authors: Kano, Yasuhiro (Story & Art)

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Synopsis

During a flashback, an interviewer inquires Kuzumi Taiga, a prospective student for Seinagi Private High School, on what he would do if he could use magic, during his entrance interview. He replies, "take over the world", with an outburst of laughter, from an attractive girl, following his answer. After the entrance exam, the school rejects his application; although he recalls almost nothing after this event, he does recall the girl, and believes the cause of his school of choice rejecting his application involves her.
Wandering around outside of the school the next day, Kuzumi tries to enter, but an invisible barrier blocks him. A teacher, Mr. Hiiragi, confuses Kuzumi for a student of the school ditching class and pulls Kuzumi into the school through the barrier.

Seinagi Private High School is actually a magic school; Kuzumi is a teenager with no magical skill. Mr. Hiiragi has just accidentally pulled Kuzumi through the barrier into Seinagi Private High School, a magic school. (Source: B-U Manga)

LIAR GAME

LIAR GAME

Alternative Titles

English: Liar Game

Japanese: ライアーゲーム

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: 2005 to ?

Genres: Drama, Game, Psychological, Seinen

Authors: Kaitani, Shinobu (Story & Art)

Serialization: Young Jump

Synopsis

Kanzaki Nao, an honest college student, who receives a hundred million yen one day, along with a card saying she has been chosen to take part in the "Liar Game". The aim of the game is to trick the other players out of their hundred million yen. At the end, the winner gets the hundred million and the loser is a hundred million yen in debt. The next day, she receives notification that her opponent is her former teacher, Fujisawa Kazuo. She goes to him, seeking help, but ends up getting tricked into handing her money over. Desperate, she approaches the police for help, but they are unable to do anything. However, she is told of a mastermind swindler, Akiyama Shinichi, who is to be released from jail the next day. Desperate, she goes to him for help.

Main Characters:

Shinichi Akiyama (秋山真一)
Formerly a graduate student majoring in psyhcology, he is a "genius swindler" who took down a giant MLM scam named Shuuei to avenge his mother. He helps Nao when he sees the honest nature she had, just like his mother. Although he is not invited into the Liar Game, he enters by substituting for another player in Round II. By Round III he is respected (and feared) enough by the LGT players to become unofficial leader of the Southern Country, though he tries to keep things equal in the group. Yokoya, however, knows Akiyama had been manipulating his team mates and mocks him for it.

Nao Kanzaki

Nao is a stupidly honest girl who sees herself trapped in the Liar Game after finding 100 million yen in a box along with a card. Now, she has to take care of the money for 30 days and try to steal another 100 million from his rival.

Onani Master Kurosawa

Alternative Titles

English: Masturbation Master Kurosawa

Japanese: オナニーマスター黒沢

Information

Type: Doujin

Volumes: 4

Chapters: 31

Status: Finished

Published: Not available

Genres: Drama, Parody, School, Doujinshi

Authors: Yoko (Art), Ise, Katsura (Story)

Serialization: None

Synopsis

Onani- means masturbation. And that's what this guy is good at. Every day after school, he sneaks into the mostly unused girls bathroom on the 3rd floor, and masturbates. Until one day when he's caught..... (Source: Sakurahana)

Volume 4 contains an extra chapter.

Main Characters:

Aya Kitahara (北原綾)

A shy girl who is isolated from the class. She is being bullied by Sugawa. Later she discovers Kurosawa's secret and asks him an unexpected request.

Kakeru Kurosawa
Kurosawa spends time at the school library everyday, reading. He reads many books. He is also camera-shy and does not socialize with others, preferring to be a loner.

Magister Takigawa (滝川マギステル)
One of the three "school idols" in Kurosawa's class who first comes across Kurosawa in the school library on a rainy day. She has a very energetic and accepting personality, easily becoming friends with Kurosawa, Kitahara, and the otaku of the class.
She plays a pivotal role in Kurosawa's development.

DENGEKI DAISY

DENGEKI DAISY

Alternative Titles

Japanese: 電撃デイジー

Information

Type: Manga

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: 2007 to ?

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shoujo

Authors: Motomi, Kyousuke (Story & Art)

Serialization: Betsucomi

Synopsis

“No matter what happens, I’ll protect you.”

Teru, who lost her only remaining relative, her older brother, is cheered on by a mail from an enigmatic person, DAISY, who she can contact via the cellphone her brother gave her. One day, through an unexpected incident, Teru ends up working as a servant for the delinquent school janitor, Kurosaki. But this scoundrel, Kurosaki is really…!?

Main Characters

Teru Kurebayashi

Teru is a "poor girl", her brother died when she was younger and left her with a phone. She keeps in contact with a mystery person named "Daisy" who she comes to respect and admire sincerely as he is always protecting her, she has never met him face to face though. At the start of the manga she gets picked on by the student council, after being soaked by them she throws a ball through a window resulting in her meeting with the school Janitor, Tasuku Kurosaki. She starts working for him in payment for the broken window.

Tasuku "Daisy" Kurosaki
Kurosaki works as the school janitor. He is also a computer hacker.
He is a pervert (or is hinted as one), drinks a lot of beer, smokes a lot, is violent, dangerous, scary and calls Teru his servant. He is quite good-looking as well. He does not display his emotions. However, when he gets angry, he can be very terrifying. He swears at times. He likes to eat. He is an excellent cook, but usually commands Teru to cook.

Watchmen's Alex Tse Wrote Script for Live-Action Ninja Scroll

posted on 2010-02-24 12:16 EST

Also wrote animated Tales of the Black Freighter based on Moore, Gibbons' comic

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The Hollywood Reporter newspaper notes in a Monday article that Alex Tse, a co-writer of the live-action Watchmen film, wrote a film script for Warner Brothers' proposed live-action adaptation of the Ninja Scroll anime. Yoshiaki Kawajiri wrote and directed the original 1993 anime film about a wandering ninja fighting a conspiracy of demons. Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way production company acquired the live-action adaptation rights to the anime for Warner Brothers in 2008.

Tse and David Hayter (X-Men, The Scorpion King) co-wrote the live-action film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen graphic novel. Tse and Watchmen director Zack Snyder also co-wrote the Tales of the Black Freighter animated video based on Watchmen's "comic-within-a-comic" story. Tse has since written a script for Warner Brothers' planned new film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man classic short story anthology. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tse is scripting a proposed film version of John Twelve Hawks' Fourth Realm trilogy of science-fiction novels.

In Japan, Tatsuo Sato directed a Ninja Scroll television anime sequel for the MADHOUSE anime studio in 2003. MADHOUSE co-founder Masao Maruyama is still working on plans for a second Ninja Scroll anime film. However, as of 2008, project still needs a script that is acceptable to Maruyama himself and Kawajiri.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter via Icarus Publishing