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Mobile Suit Gundam UC Bande Dessinée Prequel Manga Released

October 26, 2017 Pak Hanu

Recently a new prequel manga for Gundam Unicorn launched in the December issue of the Monthly Gundam Ace magazine. The manga is titled, “Mobile Suit Gundam UC Bande Dessinée Episode: 0,” and is written by Kouzo Oomari. Mobile Suit Gundam UC Bande Dessinée Episode: 0 takes reference from “The Postwar War” (Sengo no Senso) short story that was featured in the 11th volume of the original Mobile Suit Gundam UC novels. The manga focuses on the Neo Zeon remnants as they steal the Sinanju Stein mobile suit. The manga’s character illustrations were designed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Hajime Katoki worked on the mechanical designs. The original Mobile Suit Gundam UC Bande Dessinée manga series…

Kodansha to Publish Mazinger Z Alter Ignition Manga

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 Pak Hanu

Kodansha has recently confirmed that they will be publishing the Mazinger Z spin-off one-shot manga, Mazinger Z Alter Ignition. The single volume will be released on December 20. Mazinger Z Alter Ignition was written by Yu Kinutani and was originally launched on the Dynamic Planning’s official website on May 19. A separate manga series titled, “Mazinger Z Interval Peace,” by Takahiro Ozawa, also launched in the Monthly Young Magazine on the same day. The manga showcases an alternate take on the events featured in the original Mazinger Z manga series. The original manga series focuses on a high school boy named Koji Kabuto and his powerful robot called the Mazinger Z. He faces off…

Saint Seiya: Next Dimension Manga Continues Next Spring

October 19, 2017October 19, 2017 Pak Hanu

The recent issue of the Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine has announced that the next chapter for Masami Kurumada’s Saint Seiya: Next Dimension – The Myth of Hades will will return “around next Spring.” The magazine also announced that another project by Kurumada will be released in the January issue of Champion RED, which will be released on November 19. Masami Kurumada’s Saint Seiya: Next Dimension – The Myth of Hades manga series serves as a prequel to the original Saint Seiya manga series. The series features the previous “Holy War” that took place during the 18th Century between Athena and Hades along…

NYCC 2017: Viz Media Licenses 2 Pokémon Sun & Moon Manga

October 6, 2017October 6, 2017 Pak Hanu

Viz Media has announced at New York Comic Con 2017 that they have licensed two new Pokémon Sun & Moon Manga titles. The first manga series is the Pokémon Sun & Moon (Pocket Monsters Special Sun Moon) manga series by Hidenori Kusaka and Satoshi Yamamoto. The second title is Pokémon Horizon: Sun & Moon by Tenya Yabuno. They have also licensed the Pompom Pokémon craft book. The Pokémon Adventures (Pocket Monsters: Special) manga series’ Sun/Moon arc debuted in the CoroCoro Ichiban! magazine on November 21, 2016. Viz Media will be releasing the first volume of the arc in Spring 2018. The Pompom Pokémon craft book will be released in Summer 2018. The craft…

Kodansha Comics to Release Complete Rave Master Manga Series Digitally

September 21, 2017September 21, 2017 Pak Hanu

Kondasha Comics has updated their official Website with an announcement that they will be releasing the entirety of the Rave Master manga series digitally. As a part of their Fairy Tail conclusion celebration the 35 volume run of the manga will be released on BookWalker, comiXology, Crunchyroll, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook on October 3. Those who are interested can pre-order their copies via the various digital platforms. For those who are unaware Rave Master is a manga series created by Hiro Mashima who also worked on the Fairy Tail manga. The Rave Master manga series was published in the Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine…

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Spin-off Manga Series Announced

September 6, 2017September 6, 2017 Pak Hanu

Recently Kōhei Uchida launched a spin-off manga series on DeNA’s free Manga Box app based on the Guardians of the Galaxy films. The spin-off series titled, “Guardians of the Galaxy: Galaxy Rush,” is the serialized version of Uchida’s winning submission in the “Marvel” Special Prize contest that was held earlier this year by the Weekly Shonen Magazine. New chapters will be added to the service every Wednesday. The manga features an original story were the Guardians of the Galaxy enter a dangerous battle-royale style race called Galaxy Rush in where the victor is deemed the fastest in the galaxy. It has also been…

Los Ingobernables de Tokusatsu Ep 21 – Anime to Toku Switcheroo

August 5, 2017August 5, 2017 Hero Club

Welcome to an all-new episode of “Los Ingobernables de Tokusatsu!” Due to last week’s episode being overloaded with San Diego Comic Con news, and Kamen Rider Build stuff. We moved episode 20’s discussion into its own episode. This discussion of course is about anime’s that could recieve tokusatsu-like adaptations, and tokusatsu programs that should have anime/manga sequels. In addition, to the discussion this episode features all three main hosts, and a guest host, Soundout12! Now, since this episode was shot shortly after episode 20, expect our thoughts on…

Sony Pictures Television Networks Acquires Funimation

July 31, 2017December 1, 2017 Ben Odinson

So this is surprising, to say the least. I’ll just quote the press release on this on my fellow anime fans. Founder Gen Fukunaga started Funimation with a vision and a mission to make anime as accessible as possible to fans across the world. In the 23 years since we began, we have been committed to creating anime experiences fans love: from bringing Dragon Ball to the U.S., to bringing the best anime to home video and theaters, to SimulDubs that bring episodes in English to fans within two weeks…

Mobile Suit Gundam Walpurgis Manga Announced

July 28, 2017 Pak Hanu

It was recently announced in the September issue of the Gundam Ace magazine that a new Gundam manga series titled, “Mobile Suit Gundam Walpurgis,” will be launching in the next issue of the magazine. The next issue of the magazine will be released on August 26. The manga will be illustrated by Hiyon Katsuragi and written by Reiji Kaito. ANN provided a story synopsis for the manga series. The story takes place in Universal Century 0089. The magazine describes the manga’s protagonist Mashiro Oaks as a high school student on Side 2 Colony “Olympus.” He gets the high score on a game…

Corocoro Announces Splatoon Anime

July 17, 2017July 17, 2017 Pak Hanu

Corocoro has announced that they will be streaming a net anime based on the Splatoon manga series. The series will be streamed exclusively on the Corocoro Youtube channel on August 12. The manga series is created by Sankichi Hinodeya and is currently running in the Corocoro magazine. For those who are unaware, Splatoon is a third person shooter video game that debuted on the Wii U in 2015. The sequel, Splatoon 2 will be released for the Nintendo Switch on July 21. Source: Ga-m