Here is the latest accessory that Bleach fans can enjoy. Don’t like walking in the rain, slice the raindrops with these Bleach inspired umbrellas. Viz is producing them and are scheduled for a 4th quarter release of 2014.
J-Park Tokyo
Namco has released information about the new J-Park Tokyo indoor theme park. The theme park will be on the 3rd floor of the Sunshine City World Import Mart Building in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro ward. There will be five main attractions: 2 – One Piece; 1 – Naruto and 2 – Dragon Ball.
The above is concept art of the Dragon Ball interactive attraction.
The J-Park will have a Heroes Arena that will have mini attractions from Gintama, Kochira Katsushiki-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo, Toriko, Bleach and Hunter X Hunter. It will also have a J-World Kitchen with menus themed around Shonen Jump’s manga series and characters.
J-Park is scheduled to open July 11 so if you happen to be in the area, be sure to stop by and have some fun! Thanks to AnimeNews Network for the heads up on this and you can go to their site link here for more concept art.
Bleach Screening
Be sure to check out Viz Media’s Neon Alley site, which will be streaming the dubbed version of Bleach the Movie: Hell Verse on Sunday, November 25 at 8:00 p.m. EST. The DVD and Blu-ray will then be released for purchase on December 4.
Bleach Manga to Speed Up Publishing
Viz Media will be speeding up Tite Kubo’s Bleach with volume 40. There will be two volumes per month until the end of 2012 and the series will be caught up to Volume 53 at that time. This is an attempt to get the release schedule closer to the Japanese release dates for Bleach.
Toonami Coming Back to Adult Swim
Cartoon Network is bringing back Toonami to it’s Adult Swim block on May 27 at 12:00 a.m. (midnight). Most of the shows will be what you would think: Bleach; Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood; Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig; and Cowboy Bebop. However two shows will be airing that are new to the block: Deadman Wonderland (12:30 a.m.) and Casshern Sins (1:00 a.m.) It’s good to see Toonami coming back and hopefully they will expand on their variety of shows in the future.
AMV of the Week Do Over
Didn’t realize I had already done the tribute video for Serenity, so here is another AMV for you. This one comes from YouTuber SimplyMadStudiOs. This AMV takes the song “Like it Loud” performed by Myah Marie and edits it to several anime: Bleach; Ookami-san; Toradora; Angel Beats; Higurashi; Macross Frontier; Shuffle!; Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya; and Umineko, as stated by the maker of the AMV. It spotlights the female characters of these anime as the tough ladies that they are. The transitions are timed with the beats of the song which make it a fast paced video. The added background isn’t distracting, but add to the video. Just a great video with a great song nice going SimplyMadStudiOs. You can find the AMV on YouTube under “[SmS] We like it Loud! [Collab]” or check it out below: