Darknives Anime & Manga Blog

That’s right It’s a good time for to go check other interesting series besides Naruto and Bleach.

At least I’ll have some more time to get the blog up to date

Seems like Hollywood has been on a remake-old-stuff state for quite some time.

Horror movies, specially the really old ones and the Japanese, were one of the most remade category a few years back. In the meantime, some sci-fi have also been done. Most of this movies have been crap and more oriented into making money. At least the sci-fi genre is more understandable since today’s special effects can really expand what you can do in terms of storytelling.

It seems the new trend will be anime. I personally think this is great. It will bring anime to the spotlight and hopefully develop this business outside of Japan. I just hope they don’t screw them up. I’m not even expecting them to be faithful but, at least take make good movies.

So, as for the movies. Everyone knows of Dragon Ball. I’ll now list some others:

20th Century Boys

This is one of the best manga’s I’ve ever read. And it’s one of those that really happens in our “reality” so to speak. I always though this would be an ideal story to bring to the big screen. This one is being made by the Japanese but, I wouldn’t doubt the possibility of an american re-make if the movie is popular enough. For example, I think a Death Note re-make won’t be far.. It looks really faithful to the original manga, I just hope the scenes featured in the trailer are not final, because it seems a little unfinished on the cinematographic department. Still, I have high expectations for this one.

Akira

“Warner Bros. are ploughing ahead with their adaptation of the Akira graphic novels, with two live-action feature films now in production. According to Variety, each movie will be based on three of the books in legendary artist Katsuhiro Otomo’s six-volume series that revolves around bikers and psychics in post-apocalyptic, dystopian Tokyo. As IGN reported last year, Irish helmer Ruairi Robinson is set to make his feature debut with the first film, which WB execs have pencilled in for a summer 2009 release. Gary Whitta is writing the script. Paul Bettany regretted watching himself in The Da Vinci Code. Interestingly, Leonardo Di Caprio’s production company Appian Way is also onboard – although as far as we know the star won’t be involved as an actor. The 1988 animated version of the story, directed by Otomo, became a cult classic thanks to its cutting edge animation and complex, adult plot, and a slew of writers, producers and directors have been trying to make a live-action version ever since. Let’s hope DiCaprio and Co. succeed this time around.”

Taken from IGN

Cowboy Bebop

“Bebop is a show that could work beautifully in live action if done correctly and rumors of a live action version have circulated for years. When Watanabe was here in Toronto for the Worldwide Short Film Festival earlier this summer I put the question of a future live action version to him directly, to which he just smiled and commented that “That would be up to Hollywood.” And apparently Hollywood says yes. With further questioning Watanabe also spilled that he is currently preparing new animated and live action projects though he would not comment at all on what the new projects were, which at least opens up the possibility that he may have a hand in the Hollywood Bebop.”

Taken from Twitch

Having Watanabe participating in this movie would really improve my confidence on the movie.

Ghost In The Shell

“After 19 years since its debut in 1989, DreamWorks has finally secured the rights to adapt the Japanese manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell into a 3D live-action feature film. Both Universal and Sony were also chasing the rights, but Steven Spielberg himself took a personal interest in it and made sure it ended up in the hands of his company - DreamWorks. Spielberg says that Ghost in the Shell is one of his favorite stories and is “a genre that has arrived and we enthusiastically welcome it to DreamWorks.”

Taken from FIRSTSHOWING

Does the live-action-3d mean this will be like Bewolf?

Robotech

“After a lengthy negotiation, Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up feature rights to “Robotech,” a 1980s Japanese cartoon series with giant robots known as mechas. Maguire is eying the lead role, and will serve as a producer. Maguire is producing through his Maguire Entertainment banner. Drew Crevello also is producing through his Supercool Hollywood BigTime Prods. Craig Zahler (”The Brigands of Rattleborge”) has been tapped to write the screenplay. “We are very excited to bring ‘Robotech’ to the big screen,” Maguire said. “There is a rich mythology that will be a great foundation for a sophisticated, smart and entertaining film.” A sprawling sci-fi epic, “Robotech” takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion concerns a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship’s energy source known as “protoculture,” and the planet’s survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.”

Taken from Twitch

Evangelion

“Development of a live-action movie version of Neon Genesis Evangelion was announced in May 2003 by the Houston-based anime distributor ADV Films, who holds worldwide rights to the series outside of Asia and Australia, and Universal Studios would be the American distributor. The film will be made by ADV, Gainax, and Weta Workshop Ltd.. Its release is currently projected to occur at any time ranging from as early as 2009 to as late as 2015. In December 2005, Fortune Magazine reported in an article about ADV Films that it had raised “about half of the $100 million to $120 million” needed to produce the film. It’s not completely clear if this money was raised by ADV alone or if part of that amount was contributed by Gainax.At Anime Expo 2008, ADV founders Matt Greenfield and John Ledford, in response to a question over the progress of the live action movie, revealed they had hired the producer for Appleseed Ex Machina and pitched the idea to other producers such as Jerry Bruckheimer and Steven Spielberg. They went on to say that interest in the project had been boosted by the success of the 2007 film Transformers.”

Taken from Wikipedia

Michael was a very important artist who loved his work and his fans. Although he was a comic book artist, some of his most known work, Witchblade, was adapted to manga and anime. It’s a really great loss to the comic world.

"Michael Turner, beloved comic book artist, passed away in Santa Monica, Calif. on June 27 at the age of 37 after years of battling chondrosarcoma, a form of cancer that affects bones and cartilage. "In this all access world, very little remains that one could consider truly rare," said Marvel Editor in Chief Joe Quesada. "Mike Turner was one of those things. One of those rare individuals who come around once, maybe twice in a lifetime, a cut above the rest of us, special in every way, undeniably touched by god or whatever higher power you believe in. After getting his start on Witchblade for Top Cow, Turner not only launched his own publishing company, Aspen, but brought his dynamic art style to both Marvel and DC. His work has graced dozens of Marvel comics, most notably on covers to Civil War."

You can check his cover art here.

And here you can read a very important tribute and life lesson. Don’t miss it.

Hi, just to let you guys know. My PC has a problem and doesn’t power on anymore I’m using my laptop now, but the Internet connection here is really bad and I have almost no traffic allowed per month.

So, anime reviews may be delayed for some time. For now, I’ll only continue with the manga. I should have it fixed by next week.

Take care 

A video recently hit the web. It’s a preview for some kind of new episode of Baccano! But the fact that there is almost no information about this preview and that it is not translated make it hard to know what’s going on.

Baccano! was one of the best series from last year and one of my favorite anime series ever. It’s a really original story with a lot of interesting characters that combines noir with pulpfiction and Jazz. If you haven’t seen this series yet, please do so now. Believe me, it’s the best series out there that you have never heard about.

There are to Baccano! mangas. The first is from 2002, so I suppose it’s the original thing. There’s no scanlations that I can find, so I don’t know if the anime is a portrait of that manga or a free adaptation. The second manga series is from last year and seems to be more related to the anime.

Continuing on the new anime, for what I’ve found, this seems to be a new episode featuring Ghram that was released as an extra in the last volume or a new OVA series. The first is probably the correct one, which is a shame, since I really would have liked a new Baccano! series. The character that the preview shows could also be a young Ladd, there’s no much room for mistake when you seen a smiling face holding a shotgun.

Whatever the plot is about, I can’t wait to see this.

Here is the Baccano! trailer and the extra episode preview for those of you who are to lazy to look.

If anyone knows something, please comment and share. 

Berserk has finally returned from hiatus and I’ll start blogging it from the latest chapter.

Also, I apologize for the blog staying inactive for so much time, but I’ll try to get everything up to the latest release as soon as possible.

I’ll be starting to blog some one-shots from time to time.

As such, I decided to creat a new category and moved the recent Bleach one-shot to that section. 

Dattebayo has recently post news on their website stating that they will stop fansubbing due to their work being posted on streaming sites such as Youtube.

Although they are known for their constant trolls, I don’t think they are kidding this time. They have been asking for people to stop uploading their work for a long time now. All their reasons were perfectly plausible and there’s also the fact that their website has been down. Maybe they have taken thier site down for the sake of some anime company.

Still, maybe things aren’t so seriouse and they just used this time of the year (when there’s normally no released anime) to try and scare people.

Anyway, people still need to stop uploading episodes to those sites. I personaly can’t watch an episode in one of those sites. The quality is pretty bad for what I consider acceptable when I’m seriously watching a show. Anyone can get this episodes in full quality real easy.

I finally caught up to Naruto’s latest chapter. I just need to blog chapter 380 and Bleach’s episode 150 to end this week. I’ll try to be more quick on the posts.

I’ll start to blog some new manga series as soon as I have time. I’ll probably start at least one next week. The new series will be: 666 Satan, Berserk, Bleach, Claymore and Gantz.

I finally took some time to customise the blog.

Comments appreciated.