One Piece Film Gold Gets The Real First Trailer

A real first trailer for the upcoming feature film "One Piece Film Gold has aired on the Japanese Fuji TV on Today as you can watch below.

Onepiecepodcast wrote the transcript for this trailer as follows:

Gild: “Gran Tesoro~!”

(..)

Text: “An absolute sanctuary not even the World Government can lay a hand on”

Tesoro: “Alright ladies and gentlemen, I hope you do enjoy the moment that dreams and hope turns into despair. Because THAT, is the ultimate entertainment!”

Text: “The ‘monsters’ of the New World are moving out.”

Voice: “The Straw Hats, the crew run by main character Luffy, and the Tesoro Crew. Just what is the Gold-Gold Fruit?!”

Gild: “This is the greatest stage, wouldn’t you say? So what will you do? Straw Hat.”

Luffy: “I’m going to beat you to a pulp!”

As revealed earlier the 13th movie "One Piece Film Gold" is set for release on July 23, 2016, in Japan.

The One Piece manga's creator, Eiichiro Oda will serve as executive producer while Hiroaki Miyamoto who worked as assistant director on "Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island" will debut as director of this upcoming feature film, Tsutomu Kuroiwa will take over the screenplays.

Haikyuu!! Season 3 Announced For Fall 2016

As per ANN, the Haikyu!! manga will be receiving a new third TV anime adaptation slated to premiere sometime in fall 2016. 

The announcement for the third season of the Haikyu!! anime series will be made on the 16th edition of the weekly Japanese magazine, Shonen Jump in this coming Saturday. 

The magazine teased earlier last week on its previous issue that Haikyu!! Volleyball manga will get a big announcement coming on March 19.

Viz is going to release the manga in the US starting in July, 2016.

The first season of the television anime series had a run of 25 episodes and aired from April 6, 2014 to September 21, 2014. The currently airing second season premiered in October 4, 2015 to continue until Mars 27, 2016.

Here is the synopsis of the second season:

After losing against Aoba Jousai, the whole Karasuno team feels at a loss. Especially Kageyama and Hinata, who seem to be the most devastated about the defeat. However, the team soon cheers up when a chance for them to go to Tokyo appears. During their training camp there, Karasuno will meet new formidable opponents. (Source: myanimelist)

Attack On Titan Season 2 Realase Date Delayed

Here is some news that we regret to inform you!

According to Moviepilot and other several reports, the second season of Attack on Titan anime which was previously slated for release in this current year, now is indefinitely delayed due to some reasons concerns the manga. 

The director of the Attack On Titan anime, Tetsuro Araki and the mangaka Hajime Isayama have both decided that the manga will always contain four story arcs ahead of the anime instead of 2 arcs in order to keep the alignment between the manga and the anime. The manga is currently only 2 arcs and the anime won't get the green light for production until the manga reaches to the 4 story arcs.

As reminder, the second season of Attack on Titan was initially planned to be based on more original content and very little elements from the manga.

Source: moviepilot

Hunter x Hunter Announced To Resume In 2016

Cheers!, "Hunter x Hunter" is coming back soon!

According to Comic Natalie, The official website of Hunter x Hunter anime along with the newest issue of Shonen Jump magazine have recently announced the return of the Hunter x Hunter manga on April 18, to resume in the Dark Continent arc. The details still scanty yet, more information will be revealed in the next 41st issue of Shonen Jump magazine on Saturday.

As of writing, the manga has been on hiatus for 1 year and 5 months since the last chapter was published on the combined 37th/38th issue in August 2014. 

The  Hunter x Hunter manga series was adapted into a TV Anime  series which aired  on 1999 until 2001. Later on, 2011 Madhouse take over the work once again and had produced 148 episodes. The show also stopped here due to the authors low back pain. Let's hope it won't happen again this time.

The Ancient Magus' Bride Manga Gets A Prequel anime

A new prequel anime based on The Ancient Magus' Bride (Mahō Tsukai no Yome) manga has been announced recently in the 5th volume of the same manga. The prequel will run for 3 episodes and will focus on the events before Chise meets Magus.

Main cast:

• Chise Hattori will be voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki
• Elias will be voiced by Ryota Takeuchi
• Ruth will be voiced by Kouki Uchiyama
• Silver will be voiced by Aya Endo

The original story is written by Yamazaki, The anime will be directed by Norihiro Naganuma who previously served as assistant director of Hozuki's Coolheadedness tv anime and as the director for Yowamushi Pedal movie, Aya Takaha (Psycho-Pass) will be in charge of the screenplays, Hirotaka Katō (Hozuki no Reitetsu) will take over the character designs, Bambo will oversee the background art, while Wit Studio (Attack on Titan) will handle the animation of this upcoming anime.

In addition, the Japanese publishing company "Mag Garden" opened an official website for The Ancient Magus' Bride anime. The website has unveiled earlier this week the main visual and began streaming the first promotional video.

As revealed earlier last December, the domain name 'Magus-Bride.jp' was registered under the name of the Japanese publisher "Mag Garden"

The main visual (Source: Official website)

Synopsis: The story centers on 15-year-old Japanese girl Chise Hatori who has been neglected by her family and others because of her ability to see inhuman beings. She goes to England on a mysterious man's advise, then sells herself to Elias Ainsworth at a slave auction. Elias, who is a "magus," a sorcerer of great power, takes her to his home, and declares that she will be his apprentice and bride (Source: Crunchyroll).

New Tiger Mask TV anime announced

According to an announcement of The New Japan Pro-Wrestling organisation's owner Takaaki Kidani, a new upcoming TV anime adapted from Tiger Mask is now in production and it will be released soon. 

In addition, The characters in this upcoming series will be based on real wrestlers in the organisation and the anime is slated to air worldwide.

ANN depicts the story as follows: 

"Tiger Mask" is the alter ego of the character Naoto Date, a pro wrestler who faces an evil wrestling organisation and fights for children in an orphanage.

The original manga was published from 1968 to 1971 on shonen Jump magazine and other Japanese magazines. Tiger Mask manga along with Keugen Nu Chi manga are the most successful works of the author Ike Kajioary.

The manga has previously got two TV anime adapations, one aired in 1969-1971, and the other series in 1981-1982.

1969 series reached 31.9% as its highest rating and even it inspired some real wrestlers to compete under The Tiger Mask name.

The Tiger Mask manga has become one of the most popular topics in the national news in Japan during the last years after a child guidance center received backpacks of donations from an anonymous, that sparked a charitable movement called the "Tiger-Mask" to spread in all Japan.

Naruto's Itachi Shinden-hen TV Anime Slated to Premiere In March 2016

According to ANN, the Shonen Jump Magazine has announced Today on its recent combined 5th/6th issue that Naruto's Itachi Shinden-hen TV Anime is slated to air sometime in March 2016.

As unveiled earlier, the anime adaptation for Itachi Shinden Spinoff Novels was titled "Naruto Shippuden: The True Legend of Itachi Light and Darkness".

For easy read, Shonen Jump's ad simplified the title to "Naruto Shippūden: Itachi Shinden-hen".

In addition, the main visual for the upcoming anime has previously revealed on TV Tokyo, and the tagline on it reads as: "In Spring 2016, the Truth arc starts."

Super Lovers Boys-Love TV Anime To Premiere In April 2016

Also a visual and the main cast for Super Lovers Boys-Love TV Anime have been revealed:

The official website

According to ANN, The official website of Super Lovers Boys-Love anime has unveiled last Friday the main cast and a teaser visual ( see the image above) for this upcoming series as well as the release date.

The anime adaptation for Super Lovers Boys-Love manga is slated to premiere sometime in april 2015.

In addition, ANN has reported that the twitter account for the upcoming anime has revealed the same details.

The main cast:

• Tomoaki Maeno will be voicing the character of the oldest brother, Haru Kaidō.
• Junko Minagawa will be voicing the character of the youngest brother, Ren Kaidō.
• Takuma Terashima will be voicing the younger brother of the twin, Shima Kaidō.
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka will be voicing the older brother of the twin, Aki Kaidō.
• Ayumu Murase will be voicing Ikuyoshi Sasaki character, the previous Haru's co-worker.
• Jun Fukushima will be voicing Ren's friend and schoolmate, Jūzen Kurosaki.

Plot:

The story revolves around Haru, a highschool boy who lives with his mother overseas. His mother asks him to take care of his adopted brother "Ren", a naughty young boy who dislike to talk to others. Although their relationship is tense and adversarial at first, but as more they grow, they become closer to understand each others.

New D.Gray-man Anime Is A Squel

Key Visual

D.Gray-man manga Author, Katsura Hoshino has confirmed on his instagram account that the upcoming anime adaptation of the manga which is now in the works and set for release in 2016, will be a continuation to the previous 2006 series with new different staff and cast.

As unveiled earlier, the voice actor Ayumu Murase will play Allen Walker character and the voice actor Shinnosuke Tachibana will play Howard character.



The official website of the anime previously revealed a first trailer alongside with a key visual for the upcoming anime and the tagline reads as: "I want to live. Even if I destroy you"

The previous anime series premiered in 2006 and continued to air until 2008 and had run of 103 episodes.

Eiichiro Oda Assures That Sanji will return In 2016

Hurrah! The mystery of 'Alive Only' will be revealed within the coming year !

Last weekend at Jump Festa 2016 during the annual event "One Piece Super Stage", the One Piece's creator Eiichiro Oda and the rest of staff declared promising One Piece's fans that Sanji will return to the anime with an origin story in 2016. The voice actor "Hiroaki Hirata " will return to play Sanji character as well.

Oda says lots of fans ask him when Sanji is coming back. Please be assured. Next year, is the YEAR OF SANJI

— Greg (@ochimusha108) December 20, 2015

Despite being one of main characters in One Piece, Sanji disappeared in the manga for nearly two years.

Sanji disappeared since Chapter 730, which was published on December 9th, 2013 and he didnt appear until Chapter 795 on August 3th, 2015.