[NEWS] Anime News 2nd May 2013

Day 1,990, 15:05 Published in Japan Japan by Aister Pendragon


EVANGELION MANGA WILL BE FINISHED IN TWO CHAPTERS

June issue of Young Ace magazine has just revealed that Yoshiyuki Sadamoto is wrapping up the manga Neon Genesis Evangelion in 2 chapters. If the last chapters of this sci-fi series will be published continuously, it will be finished in June 4th.

Sadamoto has published the manga on Shounen Ace magazine monthly since December 1994 - before the anime is showed on the TV. It has been published for 18 years. To celebrate for the upcoming ending, Young Ace is organizing an event "Evangelion Comic Climax Special" including talks with the people related to the manga and several other contents related in the last magazines.

Sadamoto has written in Young Ace in March that he is "trying his best to have an ending to the manga in this year". Glenat, one of the French manga publishers, also announced in the late August last year that volume 14 of the manga will be the end.

Volume 13 and also the lastest volume of the manga was already published in Japan, US and other countries in late November last year.



GANTZ MANGA IS REACHING THE END

In issue 14 of Miracle Jump magazine published on last Tuesday, the author of Gantz - Hiroga Oku - said that he will soon finish this manga:

"Gantz is reaching its end. I'll try my best till the finish"

The manga revolves around a young man in Tokyo, who was revived after an accident in the metro station. Kei and the other revived people were forced to fight against the weird creatures in a string of deadly missions, arranged by a mysterious force.

Oka published the manga the first time in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in 2000. Volume 36 of the manga was published in Japan in March. The ending arc of the manga started in 2009. Oka has written that he wanted to end the manga sooner in 2012.

This manga was also adapted to anime by Gonzo and 2 live-action in 2011.



“KIMI NO IRU MACHI” (THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE) JUST REVEALED THEIR ANIME CAST

The anime about the romantic and funny relationship for this summer.

After being adapted into 2 OVA in the year 2012, the comedy manga about high school love written by Kouji Seo, Kimi no Iru Machi will be adapted into anime this summer by Gonzo, directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi (Casshern Sins) and the story will be written by Riko Yoshida (Girls und panzer, K-on!). A new picture is also released with the cast:

Haruto Kirishima will be voiced by Yoshimasa Hosoya (Junpei Hyuga in Kuroko’s Basketball, Reiner Braun in Attack on Titan)
Eba Yuzuki will be voiced by Megumi Nakajima (Ranka Lee in Macross Frontier)
Asuka Mishima will be voiced by Ayane Sakura (Akane Ishiki in Vividred Operation)
Kyosuke Kazama will be voiced by Daisuke Ono (Sebastian Michaelis in Black Butler)



“THE WORLD GOD ONLY KNOW” THIRD SEASON WILL BE AIRED IN SUMMER SEASON THIS YEAR

The third season of the anime which was adapted based on the romantic comedy manga with the same name, "Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai", has been confirmed to be introduced in this summer. This is a surprised decision. But this is a very expected series after all.



FIGURE ACTION HERO OF HATSUNE MIKU

After a long time of waiting, Hatsune Miku - Figure Action Hero version is going to be introduced.

With a height of approximately 30 cm, surely everyone will be pleased with the detail level of this figure. The figure is done with cooperation of a lot of people, the head was done by Akeji, the body was done by PERFECT-STUDIO and Akimoto Meiko did the costume. Moreover, the fig also included an add-on which is the YAMAHA DX7 keyboard.

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This figure action hero will have the price of 21,000 yen (214 US dollars) and will be shipped to the ordering list in January 2014.