Tag: Japanese Animation

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Magic Tree House Anime

This will be something to catch the eye of librarians.  Anime News Network, linked below, is reporting that Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House has been green-lit to be an animated film.  If everything moves forward without any complications the article says that the film will be released in Japan in 2012.  This is one that I would say will be translated for the U.S. market.  This will be a great promotional tool when it does hit the U.S. to make displays featuring it and the children book series by Osborne to encourage more readership for the series.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-07/magical-tree-house-books-to-get-animated-film-in-2012

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Carnegie Hall to Show Miyazaki Shorts

Attention librarians in the New York area.  Inform your patrons about Carnegie Hall showing two Hayao Miyazaki shorts this month.  On March 26, Carnegie Hall will have two showings of Hayao Miyazaki’s Yado-Sagashi (House Hunting) and Mizugumo Mon Mon (Mon Mon the Water Spider).  The first showing is at 6:30 p.m. and the second showing of the two shorts will be at 8:30 p.m.  Tickets are $15 per person.  Follow the link to Anime News Network for the short article.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-02/new-york-carnegie-hall-to-show-2-miyazaki-shorts

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Pokemon Still Going Strong

ICv2 is reporting more 15th Anniversary news, see link below for full article.  The 14th and 15th feature films will debut in Japan during the month of July.  The titles of the two films are Pokemon: Vintini and the Black Hero: Zekrom and Pokemon: Vintini and the White Hero: Reshiram.  These films feature the Legendary Pokemon listed in the titles, which tie into the release of the Pokemon TCG: Black and White set that was mentioned in an earlier post, see second link.  When these two films make it to the U.S. to purchase these will be two films librarians will want to purchase to add to their anime collection for all of their Pokemon fans.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/19506.html

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/19496.html

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X-Men Anime

This will be of interest to librarians working on their anime collection.  Anime New Network’s site has a brief article about the X-Men anime starting on Japanese television channel Animax.  The article also mentions that Animax is already airing Ironman and Wolverine animes.  These are not available for purchase yet.  However, with these being U.S. properties I can see these eventually collected and distributed in the United States (dubbed and subbed).  I could be wrong with my speculation, but I would definitely keep these writing down and in the back of your mind for a possible future anime purchase.  Follow the link to Anime News Network and there will be an image of X-Men’s Cyclops, pictured above.  Click this image and it will take you to Animax’s site where you can see the trailer/commercial for X-Men.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-02-18/x-men-anime-nichijou-promo-videos-streamed