Marvel’s site is sharing a behind the scenes video for the release of Avengers: Earth’s Mightest Heroes series. The seriesis available today, April 26th and watch the video below.
Thor: Tales of Asgard Animated Movie
Thanks to Marvel for posting a clip to the upcoming Thor: Tales of Asgard. This animated, straight to DVD/Blu-Ray, movie is slated for a May 17 release date. Libraries that have fans of Thor and animation in general will want to let them know about the new movie and if your library will be getting it so they can keep an eye for when it hits your shelves.
Turtles Dude
Nickelodeon has announced that in the fourth quarter of 2012 they will be debuting a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. It will be computer generated and will spot light the turtles martial arts skills more than it has been in previous animated series. Once it is established it is reported that the toy market will also be looked at for some new TMNT figures. Link over to ICv2’s site for the full article.
First Look at X-Men Anime Characters
Let your library patrons that are interested in comic books and Japanese anime know about the link provided below. Marvel’s site has posted an article and has a couple of images from the new X-Men Anime series that will be coming out in Japan. When this series comes to U.S. shores libraries will need to consider purchasing this to have a great tie-in with United States comic books and Japanese Anime. You could use this to create new fans for both formats.
http://marvel.com/news/story/15331/first_look_x-men_anime_character_art
Green Lantern Animated Movie
Yahoo just released a first look at the new Green Lantern: Emerald Knights animated movie. This is a direct to DVD and won’t be out for a while, but when it does remember to pick one up for your library. This will appeal to your comic book and animation fans that you have in your library.
X-Men Anime Redue
Marvel’s website has placed the X-Men Anime trailer up on their site to share. Now you can just click on the link below without going to another webpage to see the trailer. Again I would expect this to eventually hit our shores and when it does it would be a cool addition to your anime collection.
SyFy Moves Anime to Thursday
Attention all Anime lovers, librarians as well as your patrons, Anime News Network reports that the SyFy channel will be moving its Anime block to Thursday nights. This will begin on March 24. The article, linked below, also states that the block currently shows it will begin at 11:30 p.m. instead of 11:00 p.m.