Funimation Acquires Attack on Titan Season 3 & Japanese Premiere Date Announced

On Friday, Pony Canyon began streaming an all-new trailer for the upcoming season of Attack on Titan. This new trailer for the third season revealed its Japanese premiere is July 22 at 12:45 a.m. on NHK. Short afterwards, Funimation Entertainment officially announced they acquired the rights to distribute and dub the season. In addition, Funimation provided an English subtitled version of the trailer. Also, the Attack on Titan official website revealed two new cast members, Kazuhiro Yamaji and Yūsaku Yara. Kazuhiro Yamaji will play Kenny Ackerman, a former member of Military Police…

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Dragon Ball Super – Time Change, Hiatus, or Finale?

News broke overnight that Dragon Ball Super is going to be switched out for the Gegege no Kitaro series on April 1st. In addition, Fuji TV vaguely explained that there is no intention of a new Dragon Ball series, or that Super is officially over. This has led fans to speculate that Fuji TV is trying to avoid saying outright the series is cancelled. Whereas, others believe it is just moving, or being placed on a hiatus. According to this newspaper, the new Gegege no Kitaro series will indeed take Super’s…

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SDCC 2017 to Host Resident Evil & Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars Panels

San Diego Comic Con’s official website has recently revealed two new panels for the event. The first panel is for the Resident Evil: Vendetta animated film, based on the Resident Evil (Biohazard) game. The panel will feature executive producer Takashi Shimizu (Ju-on), director Takanori Tsujimoto (Ultraman X), and Capcom supervisor Hiroyuki Kobayashi. Hiroyuki Kobayashi’s work includes the previous Resident Evil cg-animated films, Damnation and Degeneration.   Now, Resident Evil: Vendetta received a limited “one night only” screening in theaters throughout North America this past June, and an additional screening at…

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Viz Media Reveals Terraformars English Dub Cast

Yesterday at Anime Expo, Viz Media announced the English dub staff, and cast for the TerraFormars anime. TerraFormars is an adaptation of Yū Sasuga’s and Kenichi Tachibana’s manga series which premiered in September 2014. The series follows an expedition team’s battle on Mars with mutated cockroaches, seeking to exterminate humans. To combat these mutant cockroaches that were once used for the terraforming process of the planet, the expedition team undergo “Bugs Procedure,” experimental surgery designed to make them superhuman. Now, this announcement came during Viz’s own panel. In addition, voice…

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Sunrise's Yatate Bunko to Publish a new Gundam Story

Sunrise recently revealed that they will be publishing a new Gundam novel set after the events of Gundam UC 0096 titled “Mobile Suit Gundam: Twilight Axis” in their new Light Novel Imprint publication Yatate Bunko. The story will be focusing on the events of the Laplace Box incident that took place during Gundam Unicorn, with the story being written by Ark Performance who previously worked on the Johnny Ridden side stories for Gundam, as well as the Arpeggio of Blue Steel series.     Source: Crunchyroll

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Daisuke Sakaguchi to portray Near in "Death Note: New Generation"

It was recently confirmed that the 42yr old voice actor Daisuke Sakaguchi will be portraying the successor of L, Near, in the upcoming three-part web drama “Death Note: New Generation”. He was recently heard during a short phone conversation during the second part of the series “Chapter Ryuzaku: Last Wishes”. Sakaguchi is best known for his portrayal of the 13yr old Gundam Pilot Uso Ewin from Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, as well as well as having an upcoming role in the new Digimon series as Hackmon. Huluにて絶賛配信中の『デスノート NEW GENERATION 竜崎篇・遺志』に、原作で人気のニアが登場しますが、演じているのは人気声優の阪口大助さんです!竜崎がデスノート捜査参加を決意するまでのストーリーに華を添えています。#デスノートLNW…

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The Official Pokémon Book of Joy Hits Stores in September

Know any Pokémon fans that need some enlightening, then this book may be for them. Del Rey will be distributing the book “The Official Pokémon Book of Joy” in the US and UK, with the release date slated to be September 22nd. The 300-page book will be released as a Hardcover edition, and will be chock full of illustrations and inspirational quotes.   Source: Crunchyroll

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GetMeOffTheMoon Releases Mega Man Legends 3 Documentary

Yesterday, on their YouTube channel “GetMeOffTheMoon”, the admins of the facebook page 100,000 Strong for Bringing Back Megaman Legends 3 released their Documentary of the creation, and inevitable cancellation of the much sought after Mega Man Legends 3 video game. Mega Man Legends 3 was going to be the first new game in the Mega Man Legends franchise since the release of Mega Man Legends 2 on the original Sony Playstation back in April 2000. Source: Crunchyroll

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