Black Clover: Quartet Knights Game's Character Video Previews Asta

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Funimation Reveals English Dub Cast for Steins;Gate 0 Anime

Funimation revealed the English dub cast for the Steins;Gate 0 anime on Friday.

The cast, under ADR Director Cris George, includes:

J. Michael Tatum as Rintarō Okabe

Cherami Leigh as Suzuha Amane

Jackie Ross as Mayuri Shiina

Tyson Rinehart as Itaru "Daru" Hashida

Jad Saxton as Faris Nyan-nyan

Lindsay Seidel as Ruka Urushibara

Trina Nishimura as Kurisu Makise

Monica Rial as Maho Hiyajo

Chris Wehkamp as Alexis Leskinen

Cherami Leigh as Yuki Amane

Funimation's dub for the series will premiere on April 30.

The anime premiered in Japan on April 11. Retailers Sofmap and Neowing are listing the series with 23 broadcast episodes and one unaired episode that will ship on home video. Crunchyroll is streaming the series with English subtitles.

The anime adapts the game of the same name.

Kenichi Kawamura (Qualidea Code, SoniAni: Super Sonico the Animation) is directing the anime at WHITE FOX (Girls' Last Tour, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-). Jukki Hanada (Love Live! Sunshine!!, Nichijō) is returning from the previous anime to be in charge of series composition. Tomoshige Inayoshi (Buddy Complex, Battle Spirits: Sword Eyes), who was an episode animation director for the first television anime, is designing the characters based on huke's original designs. Kanako Itou is singing the opening theme song "Fatima," and Rock band Zwei is performing the ending theme song "Last Game."

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Kemono Friends, Re:Creators, ID-0, KADO - The Right Answer Nominated for Seiun Sci-Fi Awards

The 57th Japan Science Fiction Convention (Nihon SF Taikai) revealed the list of nominees for the 49th Seiun Awards earlier this month.

The nominees of the Media and Comic categories include:

Media Category

Arrival film

Blade Runner 2049 film

ID-0 anime

KADO - The Right Answer anime

Re:CREATORS anime

Kubo and the Two Strings film

Passengers film

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children film

Kemono Friends anime

Comic Category

Masakazu Ooi's Sukoshi Fushigi na Komatsu-san

Yumi Tamura's 7SEEDS (all 35 volumes)

Hiroya Oku's Inuyashiki (all 10 volumes)

Masakazu Ishiguro's Sore de mo Machi wa Mawatteiru (And Yet the Town Moves) (all 16 volumes)

Masami Yuuki's Hakubo no Chronicle (all 11 volumes)

Yumiko Shirai's Iwa to Niki no Shinkonryokō

Ken Kurogane's Smoky God Express

Yoshiki Tanaka's 16-volume Arslan Senki (The Heroic Legend of Arslan) series received a nomination in the Japanese Long Story category. The 16th volume shipped in Japan on December 14.

Taiyo Fujii's short story "Kidō no Tamaki" received a nomination in the Japanese Short Story category. Viz Media's Haikasoru imprint published Fujii's Gene Mapper in English.

Noriko Nagano (Don't Leave Me Alone Daisy), Yasushi Suzuki (Goth's Cage, Purgatory Kabuki), Denpō Torishima (Kaikin no Tada), and Rasenjin Hayami (Princess Principal setting collaboration) received nominations in the art category.

Young King Ours' tribute manga project for the 50th anniversary of Yuki Hijiri's Locke the Superman manga received a nomination in the "Free" category.

The awards this year are again separated into nine categories: Japanese Long Story, Japanese Short Story, Translated Long Story, Translated Short Story, Media, Comic, Art, Nonfiction, and a "Free" category. Each category has between 6-9 nominees. The nominees were chosen among works that were released between January 1 and December 31, 2017.

The attendees of the 57th Japan Science Fiction Convention at "Juracon" in Gunma will vote on the winners, and the staff will announce the winners at the convention on July 21.

"Seiun Shō" literally translates to "nebula awards," but the Japan SF Con's Seiun Awards are more akin to the Hugo Awards, in that the attendees of each respective convention vote on the winners. There is another set of awards, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan's Nihon SF Taishō honors, that are the rough Japanese equivalent of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Awards. Like the Hugo Awards, the Seiun Awards honor all forms of speculative fiction — including but not limited to science fiction — and related materials.

Previous winners of the Seiun Awards include Shin Godzilla, Kochikame, Girls und Panzer, Knights of Sidonia, The World of Narue, Bodacious Space Pirates, Range Murata, Masamune Shirow, Makoto Shinkai, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gundam: The Origin, 20th Century Boys, Summer Wars, Cardcaptor Sakura, Madoka Magica, Pacific Rim, Space Battleship Yamato 2199, Moyashimon, and more.

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Collar X Malice Unlimited Fandisc's Opening Movie Streamed

Idea Factory began streaming the opening movie for Collar X Malice Unlimited, its fandisc for Collar X Malice, on Friday. The band Plastic Tree is performing the opening theme song.

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Idea Factory's Otomate game brand will release the fandisc for PlayStation Vita on July 26. The disc will include an interlude, sequel story, and at least three side stories.

Otomate released the original mystery visual novel in Japan in August 2016, and Aksys Games released the game in English in July 2017.

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Code:Realize Musical Reveals Cast in Costume

The official website for the musical adaptation of Idea Factory and Otomate's Code:Realize romance game revealed visuals of the main cast in costume on Friday.

Ai Hasegawa as Cardia

Shinji Rachi as Arsène Lupin

Kentarō Akisawa as Abraham Van Helsing

Hiroki Nakada as Victor Frankenstein

Shūto Washio as Impey Barbicane

Ryō Takizawa as Saint-Germain

Yuzuki Hoshimoto as Finis

Yūki Kimisawa as Herlock Sholmès

The musical will run for seven performances in Tokyo at the Theatre 1010 on May 17-20, and then will run for three performances in Osaka at the Morinomiya Piloti Hall on May 26-27.

Kōtarō Yoshitani is directing the play, Sayaka Sakuragi is writing the script, tak is composing the music, and Mamoru is the choreographer.

Code:Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~ originally shipped in Japan for the PlayStation Vita in November 2014. The game features a steampunk aesthetic and a cast of literary and historical figures, including Arsène Lupin, Abraham Van Helsing, Victor Frankenstein, Impey Barbicane, and Count Saint-Germain. Aksys Games released the game in North America and Europe in October 2015.

Code:Realize ~Future Blessings~, a fan disc, launched for the PS Vita in Japan in November 2016. Aksys Games will release the game for the PS Vita in English on March 30. Code:Realize ~Bouquet of Rainbows~, a PlayStation 4 game bundle featuring both the original game and fandisc, launched in Japan in August 2017. Aksys Games released the game in English on March 30.

Code:Realize ~Shirogane no Kiseki~, a second fan disc, launched on the PS Vita and PS4 in Japan on December 21.

The original game inspired a 12-episode television anime adaptation that premiered in October. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired and Funimation streamed an English dub.

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Black Clover: Quartet Knights Game's Character Video Previews Asta

The official website for the Black Clover: Quartet Knights game began streaming a character video on Friday. The video previews the main character Asta.

The game's playable characters so far include Asta, Yuno, Noelle Silva, Mimosa Vermillion, Gauche Adlai, Magna Swing, Luck Voltia, Yami Sukehiro, young Yami Sukehiro, Vanessa Enoteca, and an original female character named Karuna. The character listing on the game's official website has placeholders for eight more characters, but the website isn't yet listing Karuna or Vanessa.

The game will allow for four-vs.-four matches, and players will make their own teams to participate in cooperative battles and face off against rivals.

The third-person magic shooting game will launch in the West for PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam this year. The game will also arrive in Japan on PS4 this year.

Yūki Tabata launched the original manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in February 2015, and the manga has more than 4.8 million copies in print. Viz Media is publishing the series digitally and in print in North America.

The television anime adaptation premiered in Japan on October 3, and Crunchyroll is streaming the series in Japanese with English subtitles. Funimation began streaming the show's English dub on October 29. The anime will have 51 episodes. The show debuted on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block on December 2.

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Attack on Titan 3rd Season's Promo Video Reveals July 22 Premiere (Updated)

Pony Canyon began streaming a promotional video on Friday for the third season of the Attack on Titan anime series. The video reveals that the series will premiere on July 22 at 24:35 (effectively July 23 at 12:45 a.m.) on NHK (the show will air at 25:15 in the Kansai region).

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Funimation began streaming an English-subtitled video on Friday.

#AttackonTitan Season 3 - Official Subtitled Trailer

IT'S OFFICIALLY COMING TO FUNIMATION, JULY 2018! #AOT pic.twitter.com/HZoBlaJQB9

— Funimation (@FUNimation) April 27, 2018

The anime's official website also revealed a new visual.

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The official site has also revealed two new cast members. Kazuhiro Yamaji (One-Punch Man's Silver Fang, Psycho-Pass' Jouji Saiga) will play Kenny Ackerman, and Yūsaku Yara (The Legend of the Galactic Heroes' Narrator, Saint Seiya's Sagittarius Aiolos) will play Rod Reiss.

Returning staff members at Wit Studio include: chief director Tetsuro Araki, director Masashi Koizuka, script supervisor Yasuko Kobayashi, character designer Kyoji Asano, assistant director Hiroyuki Tanaka, chief animation directors Kyoji Asano and Satoshi Kadowaki, and composer Hiroyuki Sawano, among others.

The 12-episode second season premiered in Japan in April 2017. Funimation and Crunchyroll both streamed the series as it aired. The English dub of the second season premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block and on Funimation's streaming service in April 2017.

A compilation film of the second season, titled Gekijōban Shingeki no Kyōjin Season 2: Kakusei no Hōkō (The Roar of Awakening), opened in Japan on January 13.

The first 25-episode series aired in 2013. Crunchyroll streamed the first season as it aired in Japan, and Funimation released the series on home video in 2014.

The first season also inspired two compilation films. Attack on Titan Part 1 – Guren no Yumiya premiered in November 2014, and Attack on Titan Part 2 – Jiyuu no Tsubasa premiered in June 2015. The second film added new ending footage that linked the film to the second season. Funimation screened the films in the United States in March 2017.

Update: Added Funimation's subtitled video (added Twitter version, which is region-free.)

Update 2: Funimation confirmed on Friday that it has acquired the home entertainment, video on demand, and broadcast rights of the series in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Naruto Kabuki Play to Feature Wagakki Band Song

The staff of the kabuki play adaptation of Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto manga revealed on Friday that Wagakki Band (Samurai Warriors, Shingeki no Kyojin: Hangeki no Noroshi, Twin Star Exorcists) will provide a song for the play. The staff additionally revealed a new poster visual and more cast.

The new cast includes:

Emiya Ichikawa

Kashima Noritoshi

Hidekazu Ichinose

Umemaru Nakamura

Emisaburō Ichikawa

Enya Ichikawa

The previously announced cast includes:

Minosuke Bandō (live-action Tokyo Ghoul's Uta) as Naruto Uzumaki

Hayato Nakamura will play Sasuke Uchiha

Ichikawa Ennosuke IV (Luffy, Hancock, Shanks in One Piece's kabuki adaption) as Madara Uchiha

Ainosuke Kataoka (Eiga Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! film guest voice actor) as Madara Uchiha

The play will run from August 4-27 at the Shinbashi Enbujō theater in Tokyo. G2 is writing and directing the play.

Kishimoto launched Naruto in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1999, and ended the series in November 2014. The manga has 140 million copies printed in Japan, and 80 million copies printed outside of Japan.

The series has spawned multiple anime, anime film, OVA, and game adaptations. The Naruto Shippūden anime series ended in March 2017. The manga is inspiring a live-action Hollywood film at Lionsgate.

Ukyō Kodachi and Mikie Ikemoto launched the Boruto sequel manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in May 2016. The manga inspired a television anime series titled Boruto: Naruto Next Generations that premiered in April 2017, and is ongoing.

Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga has also inspired a kabuki play. The play first ran from October-November 2015 at the Shinbashi Enbujō theater. The play then ran in Osaka in March 2016, and then in Fukuoka in April 2016. Theatrical screenings of the play across Japan premiered in October 2016. The new run of the kabuki play ran from October 6-November 25 at the Shinbashi Enbujō theater, with a current run in Osaka this month and a planned run in Nagoya in May.

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Keiko Nishi's 'Otō-san, Chibi ga Inakunarimashita' Manga Gets Live-Action Film

Shogakukan announced on Friday that a live-action film adaptation of Keiko Nishi's Otō-san, Chibi ga Inakunarimashita (Father, Chibi is Gone) manga has been green-lit. Shōtarō Kobayashi is directing the film, which is slated to open in spring 2019.

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The cast includes (from left to right in image above):

Tatsuya Fuji as Masaru Takei, the domineering husband

Chieko Baisho as Yukiko Takei, the wife who has a long-hidden sadness

Mikako Ichikawa as Nahoko Takei, the daughter

The manga's story is set in an isolated house in Tokyo. After all the kids left, the only people living in the house are an old couple: Shō, the blunt and unsociable husband; and Yukiko, the gossipy wife, with only their cat Chibi for company. One day, Yukiko confides to her daughter that she wants to divorce Shō. Not long after, their cat Chibi goes missing, and all the secrets that each family member has buried in their heart come to light one by one.

Nishi launched the manga in Shogakukan's Zōkan Flowers magazine in November 2013, and ended it in July 2015. Shogakukan published the manga's one compiled book volume in September of the same year.

Nishi recently ended the Shiro ga Ite (Shiro is Here) manga on March 14. Nishi launched the manga in Zōkan Flowers in November 2015.

JManga published two volumes of Nishi's four-volume series Kyudo Boys, about the romantic relationships of a group of high school boys, digitally in English before the the site ended service. She launched her Hatsukoi no Sekai (World of First Love) manga in Monthly Flowers in January 2016. Shogakukan published the manga's third compiled book volume last October.

Nishi's Otoko no Isshō (A Man's Lifetime) manga received a live-action film adaptation that opened in 2015.

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