The good folks from Wu-Jing.org have dugg out a second teaser trailer for Jeffrey Lau’s Chinese Roboaction-Fuck-You-Bay-Romcom Metallic Attraction: Kungfu Cyborg.
And yes, effect wise it looks just as bad as the early first promo trailer. Kungfu Cyborg will open in August, until then two more trailers will be released. The final one is even supposed to…brace yourself…show finished effect shots!

[via Wu-Jing.org]

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Sweet eyecandy for Kazuaki Kiriya’s Goemon! The folks over at Japon : de l’art et du cochon got their hands on a promotion DVD for the film that opens in Japan May 1st.
They were even nice enough to post 32 screenshots from the included 10 minutes clip show. Sadly the resolution of the shots has been reduced but beggar can’t be choosers…at least until a Blu-ray disc release gets announced.

[via @wildgrounds]

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Some more, very good news for this years’ Animotion film festival that takes place during the AnimagiC anime con in Bonn, Germany from July 31 to August 2.
After the announcement that the second film of the Rebuild of Evangelion series: Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance will be shown just one month after the Japanese theatrical premiere, it has now been reported that the Eureka Seven movie Pocket Full of Rainbows (Trailer) and both Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann compilation movies (Guren-hen & Ragan-hen) will also be screened. And to ecstasize my international visitors as well: All four films will be shown with English subtitles!
Pocket Full of Rainbows and Ragan-hen just opened last weekend in Japan, so I think the Animotion team deserves some extra credit for their effort!
[via SOS-Brigade]
[23.07.2009] Update: I just got the confirmation that the Gurren Lagann movies and Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance will NOT be screened during the AnimagiC!

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Just in time for the currently ongoing epidemic plague *caugh* a first full trailer for the live-action adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s classic manga MW has been released.
MW tells the story of the young banker Michio Yuki (Hiroshi Tamaki), who as a kid survived the outbreak of a virus called MW and the following cover-up operation by the military. However, his encounter with the virus wasn’t without consequences. It slowly drives him insane and makes him murder the people responsible for the outbreak. To complete his revenge he plans to unleash MW once more, but this time to wipe out the entire human race. The priest Yutaro Garai (Takayuki Yamada) is supposed to stop the catastrophe but seems to be more busy trying to save his own soul…

Gaga Communications will bring MW to Japanese cinemas starting July 4, 2009.
[via Nippon Cinema]

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It’s been a while since I last reported on Studio 4°C’s “World War II meets the occult” anime project First Squad, mainly because there was just nothing new to report even though I was eying the official website like a hungry wolf horny monkey.
Now Twitch’s very own Todd reports that First Squad will be screened during Cannes Marché du Film from May 13, 2009 and even got a new trailer featuring all new scenes plus a full synopsis for us to enjoy.

It is 1942. The Red Army is putting up a violent and effective resistance against the German invaders. 14 year-old Nadya is a medium. In a deadly air raid the girl is shell-shocked. Recovering from her concussion, Nadya discovers her new gift – the ability to foresee the “Moments of Truth” – the most critical moments of future combat encounters, in which one person’s actions will decide the outcome one way or the other.

Nadya’s ability is indispensable for the classified 6th Division of the Russian Military Intelligence, which is waging a secret war against the “Ahnenerbe” – an occult order within the SS. The Ahnenerbe summons from the realm of the dead the powerful prince of darkness, Baron von Wolff. With him on their side they hope to change the course of history and achieve world domination. To oppose the Baron Nadya decides to enlist the support of her old friends from the beyond – the Pioneers of the First Squad.

[via Twitch]

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Finally a real Trailer for Naoto Takenaka’s Japanese zomcom Yamagata Scream which, unlike the previously released teaser clips, actually shows some footage from the film! Thanks to lively school girls and undead samurai warriors I’m already in love…
As you can see, the film centers around a group of high school seniors on an involuntary field trip to a small village where they somehow awake a clan of samurai warriors who cowardly died while fleeing from a battle.

Yamagata Scream opens August 1st in Japan.
[via Nippon Cinema]

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Finally we will be able to enjoy the malicious grin of our favourite vampire overlord Alucard in high definition! Can you Moe? reports that Geneon/Universal will release the sixth episode of the Hellsing Ultimate OVA on Blu-ray Disc in Japan on July 24, 2009. There will be a standard and limited edition, but until now it’s unclear what extra gimmicks (maybe another relief?) will be included in the latter. Of course, there’s also no mentioning of English subtitles…
Let’s hope that FUNimation didn’t screw up and also got the rights for an US Blu-ray Disc release when they saved Hellsing from Geneon’s cold dead hands in July 2008.

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Beautiful video portrait by Eric Tsutomu which show that Japan is so much more than used pantsu machines, hyperactive animals, Anime, Pocky, strange films, disgusting ice cream or underage fitness trainers…

Don’t forget to activate the HD option!
[via i ♥ pluto]

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my journeys into the Japanese anime underworld it’s the unshakable fact that one should NEVER underestimate the determination and purchasing power of the Japanese Animeotaku elite!
This has just been proven by the fact that the ero-anime fitness video “Training with Hinako” (Issho-ni Training) has conquered the pole position of Amazon.jp DVD rankings (Screenshot) and has beaten titles like WALL-E, Ponyo and Neon Genesis Evangelion!
The following video of an avid fan of Hinako shows just how a well-build (and amazingly detailed) anime character can motivate today’s youth to exercise more…even if you have to hide your face while doing so.

[via Sankaku Complex]

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Production I.G has posted a first short teaser trailer for their latest CG anime project Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror (Hottarake no Shima – Haruka to Maho no Kagami). The film follows the young girl Haruka who discovers a secret world calles Oblivion Island created by the things we once loved and left behind when we grew up. Unseen by humans, these things sneak into our world to take all the forgotten treasures of our childhood to expand their world…

According to the Production I.G website, Oblivion Island was created to win back market shares from the foreign animation studios. The script was written by Hirotaka Adachi (Goth) and Shinsuke Sato (Princess Blade), the latter will also direct the full length feature film. Oblivion Island is supposed to open across Japan on August 22, 2009.
[via ANN]

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