Anime News - Madoka Wins 12 Out Of 21 Awards

The television series Puella Magi Madoka Magica won 12 of the 21 awards in the first ever Newtype Anime Awards in Tokushima on Saturday. Among others, it won the television series, direction, and scenario categories. Macross Frontier: Sayonara no Tsubasa won the anime film category, while Steins;Gate's Rintarō Okabe won the male character category. The Tiger & Bunny television anime, The IDOLM@STER television anime, and the Tales of Xillia role-playing game each picked up an award. The leading voice actor, leading voice actress, supporting voice actor, and supporting voice actress awards went to Mamoru Miyano, Aoi Yūki, Keiji Fujiwara, and Chiwa Saito respectively. (Unlike...

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What Am I Watching - Working!!

Synopsis - Takanashi is a 16 year-old who is recruited by Popura into the restaurant, Wagnaria. Witness the zaniness of the workers in this otherwise *normal* restaurant.  Review - What a watch. My friend kept mentioning this show to me, and I was getting sick and tired of not knowing what he was talking about. So after he gave me some files, I went to work and watched it on my new Western Digital HD media player. BITCHIN~! At first, I thought that this show would have been your run-of-the-mill work environment style of show. Thankfully enough, it was not. This show has subplots and character developments that make this, at the very least, stand out next to the other slice-of-life shows.  Speaking of characters, like Slam...

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Anime News - GKids to Distribute 13 Ghibli Anime Films in N. America

The distribution company GKids has signed a deal with Studio Ghibli to distribute 13 of the studio's anime films from 1984 to 2002 — including Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, and Spirited Away — in North America. However, Disney will retain the home video rights to the same films, while GKids will hold the theatrical and non-theatrical distribution rights. GKids will distribute the films with both English subtitles and dubbing. GKids will screen Spirited Away and Castle in the Sky for their 10th and 25th anniversaries, respectively, at the New York Film Festival, which will run from September 30 to October 16. The city's IFC Center will then hold a retrospective of Ghibli films from December 16 to January...

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Working'!! TV Sequel's Ad for Early Preview Streamed

The official Japanese website for the Working!! anime beganstreaming a 15-second commercial for the early preview of the second television series, Working!!, on Friday. Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and other television stations will show the first episode of the new series one month early, starting on September 3. The anime is based on Karino Takatsu's manga of the same name, which revolves around a high school freshman named Sota Takanashi who works part-time among a restaurant's high-spirited, eccentric, yet cool staffers. The first season aired during the spring 2010 anime season. NIS America, the American subsidiary of theNippon Ichi Software videogame company, licensed the series last November and released it under the name Wagnaria!!...

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Zero no Tsukaima Gets Final Series as TV Anime

The wraparound jacket band on the second volume of Yukari Higa's Zero no Tsukaima Chevalier manga is announcing this month that the final series of the Zero no Tsukaima light novel franchise has been green-lit as a television anime. Zero no Tsukaima Kessakusen, selected episodes from previous Zero no Tsukaima anime, will air this October. The story follows a budding magician, nicknamed "Louise the Zero" due to her initial ineptness at magic, who accidentally summoned a boy from Earth as her familiar. Noboru Yamaguchi's original light novels have already inspired three television anime series. Yamaguchi has been writing the final series arc of the light novels, and he had planned to end the light novels next year. However, he was diagnosed...

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Anime News - Touhou-Based Anime Streamed

The dōjin (self-published) circle Manpuku Jinja began streaming the full "Gensō Bankakyō ~The Memories of Phantasm~" ("Kaleidoscope of Illusions: The Memories of Phantasm") Shunsetsu Ihen no Shō, the anime that the circle created based on the Touhou Project games, on Tuesday. The circle had just released its full 16-minute anime at Comic Market 80 on Saturday. The anime features numerous characters from the dōjin shooter video game franchise Touhou Project, including Reimu Hakurei, Yukari Yakumo, Marisa Kirisame, and others. (animenewsnetwork.com) I didn't even know this was coming out. I love the Touhou Project series of games, even if I totally suck at bullet hell games. (which is why I prefer Scarlet Weather Rhapsody to the othe...

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Anime News - Game-Based Paperman Anime's Digest Video Streamed

The Japanese game news site 4Gamer beganstreaming a 57-second digest video of the Papermananime short on Tuesday. The anime adaptsGamepot's Japanese first-person shooter game forMicrosoft Windows; even though the game and the anime are set in a 3D environment, it features characters made of "paper" that can be customized like paper dolls. The anime itself will formally premiere online on Wednesday, when Paperman game players can purchase the anime within the game itself and download it online. [Via Moon Phase] (animenewsnetwork.com) For those of you who didn't know what the game was, here it is. ...

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