December 18, 2019 By: MoA (Translated by gyanyao & Porew ), 29677 views
From "JoJo: Golden Wind" comes business suits! Giorno & Bucciarati are ready for action!
From "JoJo: Golden Wind" comes business suits! Giorno & Bucciarati are ready for action!
From TV anime “JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind” comes blazers and pants (slacks) which can be worn together as business suits inspired by Giorno Giovanna and Bruno Bucciarati. Pre-orders are available at “Premium Bandai” until Dec. 26, 2019.
September 16, 2020 By: Akebono Mine (Translated by Porew & NN ), 31344 views
All 27 "Crayon Shin-chan Movie" series can be streamed for free! "Crayon Shin-chan: Honeymoon Hurricane ~The Lost Hiroshi~" appears for the first time on ABEMA
June 16, 2020 By: Takahashi Katsunori (Translated by YK & NN ), 18978 views
Which anime has the most impressive raining scenes? Weathering with You, PSYCHO-PASS, Kiki’s Delivery Service…Beautiful rain, the characters with special abilities, and stories are the important factors!
August 27, 2019 By: Koutarou Nakase (Translated by vrusshie & Matthew ), 11088 views
「BanG Dream!」 the 4th Tie-up with Lawson! In-store Broadcasting With Saaya Yamabuki and Original Goods
「BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!」 and its 4th tie-up with Lawson as of September the 3rd, has been revealed. The campaign is to give out a limited quantity of originals goods which will be sold on a first-come-first-serve basis
March 27, 2020 By: Nogi Akira (Translated by gyanyao & Porew ), 12364 views
【Cosplay】Check out Okita Rinka, the new-gen cosplayer from Taiwan! Riamu from "The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls", Sakura from "Fate", and so on. Who is your favorite? 【37 photos】
The 2nd PV for TV anime Ahiru no Sora has been released and features the passionate plays of a freakishly tall basketball club member. Broadcasting information was released at the same time. The series will be aired on TV Tokyo’s channel 6 starting on October 2nd.
「Gundam AGEII Magnum SV ver.」 piloted by Kujo Kyoya in 『Gundam Build Divers』 gets a gunpla kit with a scale of 1/144(HG). Currently available for pre-order on Premium Bandai.
「BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!」 and its 4th tie-up with Lawson as of September the 3rd, has been revealed. The campaign is to give out a limited quantity of originals goods which will be sold on a first-come-first-serve basis
"Anime Tamago 2020", also known as the "Agency for Cultural Affairs Young Animator Training Project 2019" is being held this year as well. Key visuals, stories, and the first staff members from the works "Ometeotoru≠HERO", "Rebecca", and "Michiru Rescue!" are currently being announced by their respective production groups.
"Anime Tamago 2020", alias of "Young Animator Training Project", was commissioned by the Agency for Cultural Affairs since 2010 to foster talented animators who will lead the future of the industry through OJT, with the aim of promoting and developing animation in Japan.
In 2019, three production groups, including an animation studio, participated. Through the production of short anime works and learning courses, young people, who are in charge of the creative work of Japanese animation production in the 21st century, continue to study and improve their skills every day.
"Ometeotoru≠HERO" is a 3DCG work produced by Speed under the direction of Awazu Jun.
In 22XX, with a sudden decrease in the human population, various allied species coming from other planets are invited to populate the Earth. As a result, new mixed races with special abilities began to be born, causing ecosystems to be machined at an accelerating rate where the plants and animals are being excluded.
Among them, a special tribe who can manipulates plants has been exterminated, but only one of them survives and try to accomplish the mission to cover the earth with forests. The protagonist named Yuki, born from his father, member of the Hero tribe, and his mother with the ability to manipulate plants, gains the skills of both tribes, and he asks himself who should he help and who should he fight.
" Rebecca" is a work by Vega Entertainment, directed by Teramoto Yukiyo. The story is set in a rural town in Maine, USA, at the end of the 19th century.
Rebecca, a cheerful and energetic 10-year-old girl born as the second of seven siblings, is forced to be left with her two aunts, Miranda and Jane, after her father's death caused pain and suffering to the family.
Rebecca loves her gentle aunt Jane, but inevitably shrinks in front of Miranda with her strict and nagging behavior. One day, Rebecca was accused by Miranda of wearing a pink dress made by Jane without permission. At that time, she was insulted about his deceased father, making her explode in anger and leaving the house...
"Michiru Rescue!" is a work produced by Yumeta Company, and directed by Ochi Koujin.
When four glowing orbs of different colors (blue, yellow, silver, and purple) fly through space chasing after a red-black orb, they end up hitting each other, causing only the blue sphere to fall to the earth and reach the room where the main character, Michiru, sleeps. On the other hand, the red-black orb also appears on the earth turning itself into a boy, and start to raise Mejiro birds illegally.
One day, Michiru is at a flea market in a park, when a large flock of Mejiro birds appear over the sky and start attacking people. The yellow, silver, and purple orbs show up and try to calm down the flock of Mejiro, but their chirp is relentless. At that moment, a voice resounds inside Michiru's head telling her to save the Mejiro...
In addition, "Anime Tamago 2020" has released the first PV footage on YouTube. Look forward to further news!
On Mar. 27, the special program with film premieres for Agency of Cultural Affairs's commissioned project called "Young Animator Training Project", also known as "Anime Tamago 2020", was released on their website.
This is a substitution to the film premiere scheduled on Saturday, Mar. 14, and it is available for free until Thursday, Apr. 30 on their website, together with the special exhibition.
This streamed program explains the content of Anime Tamago 2020, full streaming of 3 completed original anime in this project called, "Ometeotl≠HERO", "Rebecca", and "Michiru Rescue!", and the talk sessions of the directors and producers from each anime, with the navigation done by the voice actors Iwata Mitsuo and Hirano Fumi.
Director Kuritsu from SPEED INC., who produced "Ometetl≠HERO", commented on the young animators' training and the ingenious expressions in a work by saying, "3DCG characters are like a doll without any soul. The young animators learned how to add a soul into that with the lectures by the motion actors".
Producer Yasumoto from VEGA Entertainment CO., LTD. talked about the recording sessions of "Rebecca": "I think the young animators had a lot to learn from seeing actual recording sessions of the voice actors actually playing their roles", and Iwata and Hirano added, "We, the voice actors also want to see the production sites of anime", and "I want to create an opportunity for the voice actors, animators, and producers to interact", which depict their wish to the anime industry.
The producer Amano Koudai, who is from Yumeta Company which had produced "Michiru Rescue!", commented on the difficult parts in the project by saying, "Although we originally should create the rough illustrations after experiencing lay-out works in order to understand a meaning of an expression in a scene, but these days, to save time, we often add a rough draft to a layout. Many young animators had difficulty in finishing each step with the old method".
In the same website in addition to the release of the special program, there is also a gift campaign, which gives away the script book with the autographs by the main casts and staff, and the special exhibition of the screenshots and setting drafts from the 3 works by the young animators.
The animation production studio Sunrise has revealed that they will establish "Sunrise Art Class" on Apr. 2021 to educate the highly skilled art staff with the purpose of boosting the quality of the animation.
This is a training program for potential candidates of Sunrise's art staff as they will be hired after the 6 months of practical training in the provided environment, where they are able to obtain the basic foundation as an art staff.
Japanese animation had garnered attention from both locals and overseas as anime had topped the box office gross revenue among the premiered movie, and it had also become entertainment that can boost people's lifestyle.
Among them, Sunrise has established an "Animation class" in 2005 to train the animators. However, in recent years, the industry is facing a crisis as there is a shortage of art staff, who is responsible for 70% of the animation. Especially when it comes to recruiting the young adults, who bear the responsibility for the next generation, since there is a probability that the various traditional technique that was used might be lost forever.
The background art of the anime played an important role in animation production as it decides the world setting and the atmosphere of the overall work.
Thus, Sunrise has decided to establish "Sunrise Art Class" to train the art staff, so that it possible to boost the quality of the future animation work and delivered the various dreams, hope, and emotions to more people.
The main lecturer for "Sunrise Art Class" is Kouno Jirou, the art director for various works such as "Tanoshii Muumin Ikka", "Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick", “Intrigue in the Bakumatsu: Irohanihoheto", "Megalo Box", and "Isekai Izakaya: Japanese Food From Another World" for long years. The other lectures are art directors and art staff that is actively participating in the industry.
The practical training will be held for 6 months, which is from Apr. until Sep. 2021, and it will focus not only on the foundation skill on the background art, it will also focuses on the techniques and knowledge that can be applied to the workplace after the practical training had ended. After passing the graduation examination, Sunrise will offer employment with them as an art staff.
Moreover, in order for the student to focus on the technique instead of worrying about the daily expense, there will be a stipends program where a total of 600,000 JPY will be given for the 6 months (100,000 JPY per month). There is also an opportunity to receive a conditional presentation for this.
The recruitment will end on Jul. 10, 2020. The acceptance will be announced in late Aug. based on submitted documents, qualifications and after going through the practical and interview test. Further information is available at the official website of "Sunrise Art Class".