Week of 11/7/20
Getter Robo Ark Manga Gets Anime
Fuji TV Announces 2 New Anime
“Zutto Ōen Project” Announces 3 Anime
WOWOW Announces 2 New Anime
Demon Slayer 10th Highest-Earning Film In Japan
Gundam Composer Honored for Cultural Merit
Whisper of the Heart Antique Replicas
Also This Week…
TsukiPro Franchise Gets VazzRock Anime Spinoff
The Tsukino Talent Production, or TsukiPro franchise announced this week that a spinoff television anime is in the works for its Vazzy and Rock Down groups. VazzRock the Animation will debut in 2022, and feature the two six-member groups, which both began with CD releases in 2018. The franchise also includes two seasons of Tsukiuta. THE ANIMATION, which centers on singing anthropomorphized months, and two seasons of TsukiPro the Animation, which features other groups from within the franchise.
Cue! Idol Training Game Gets Anime
Liber Entertainment’s Cue! idol-training smartphone game is also inspiring an anime adaptation in celebration of its first anniversary. Yumeta Company and Graphinica will produce the anime. The app game was launched in October 2019, and allows the player to assume the role of manager at a small voice-acting agency, managing 16 aspiring idols.
“Transsexual Fantasy” Manga Gets Mini Anime
The last anime announced this week is a two-episode mini anime based on Moto Kuromura’s manga The Hero King, Reincarnated to Master Martial Arts — Thus Becoming the World’s Strongest Female Knight-in-Training. Based on Hayaken’s novel series of the same name, the manga centers around the elderly “Hero King” Inglis. Before death, he wishes “to live freely in the next life and master martial arts”–and is reincarnated into the distant future as the daughter of a legendary knight family.
The anime’s first episode aired today, and the second will come out next week on the 14th.
Bandai Spirits Holding ‘Tamashii Nation’ Virtual Festival
Bandai Spirits is hosting the “Tamashii Nation 2020 Figure Museum” virtual event this weekend. The event features almost 1,000 figures from various franchises, such as Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Gundam, and Demon Slayer. It includes a VR exhibition hall, a 360-degree panorama of figures, and video streams for new product announcements.
Anime Japan To Be Held Online and In-Person
AnimeJapan announced on Monday that AnimeJapan 2021, set for March 27th through 30th, will be a combination in-person and online event. The event’s public days will be held on March 27th and 28th, with events both in-person at Tokyo Big Sight and online. The in-person part of the event will feature merchandise sales, exhibition booths, and 40 stage events across the two days. The online part will stream the stage events and show the exhibition booths, and will also host a “work you want animated” ranking poll.
The show’s business days will be held March 29th and 30th online only. These days allow buyers and licensors to have business discussions with anime staff representatives, and will also feature seminars and exhibitor introductions.
Shaman King Manga Gets Shojo Spinoff
This week’s issue of Kodansha’s Nakayoshi magazine announced that Hiroyuki Takei’s Shaman King manga is inspiring a shojo manga spinoff. Titled Shaman King & a garden, the new manga will debut in the magazine on December 1st. Takei is credited with the original work, with Jet Kusamura organizing the manga, and Kyō Nuesawa drawing it. The manga will share the pasts of characters Kanna, Matilda, and Marion.
The original Shaman King debuted in 1998. It previously inspired several other manga spinoffs and a television anime, and is also inspiring a new anime series coming in 2021.
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