News from the Shores of Japan
[Source: aicn.com]
Kenji Kamiyama is overseeing a 3D conversion of Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society, scheduled to hit Japanese theatres on March 26, 2011.----
Hayao Miyazaki has a new short "Pan-dane to Tamago Hime" ("Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess") playing at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo. -based on the Corn Harvest
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Keiichi Satou (Karas director, The Big O character/mechanical designer) is helming the project, and Masafumi Nishida overseeing Sunrise produced Tiger & Bunny featuring original design by Masakazu Katsura (Video Girl Ai, DNA², I''s, Zetman)
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Loudness will be performing the for the upcoming Mazinkaiser OVA
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Studio DEEN's Hiroshi Hasegawa is sponsoring an anime adaption of a local folktale associated with the "Inu Matsuri" ("Dog Festival") in the memory of his late wife.
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A second Black Rock Shooter OVA is the works
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Angel Beats!'s Seiji Kishi will be directing an adaptation of Eri Takenashi's Type-Moon (Fate/Stay Night, Melty Blood) short manga anthology
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Kazuki Sakuraba's (Gosick) fantasy romance boys-love manga re-imagining of the classic epic Nanso Satomi Hakkenden, will have an anime adaptation will be adapted into an anime movie
