Natsume's Book of Friends Anime Film Previewed in Long Trailer

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Natsume's Book of Friends Anime Film Previewed in Long Trailer

Aniplex began streaming a long trailer on Friday for Natsume Yūjin-Chō: Utsusemi ni Musubu (Natsume's Book of Friends: Tied to the Temporal World), the anime film of Yuki Midorikawa's Natsume's Book of Friends (Natsume Yūjin-Chō) manga. The video previews Uru's theme song "remember." (Note: Aniplex's video is region-locked to Japan, a region-free version is below.)

Watch Video: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6tldsz

The anime will premiere on September 29 in Japan. The film will feature a returning cast. In addition, Kengo Kora plays Rio Tsumura, a young man whom Natsume meets and befriends. Sumi Shimamoto plays Yori Tsumura, Rio's mother. Ayumu Murase plays Daisuke Yūki, Natsume's schoolmate from elementary school. Viking comedy duo member Eiji Kotōge plays Monmonbō, a yōkai who has come to take its name back from Natsume. Viking comedy duo member Mizuki Nishimura plays Roppon-ude, a six-armed yōkai who aims to take Natsume's book.

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Midorikawa is supervising the film's original story. Animation studio Shuka is returning from the television anime's fifth and sixth seasons to animate the film. Takahiro Ōmori is again serving as chief director, but Hideki Ito is the new director. Sadayuki Murai is again handling series composition, Tatsuo Yamada is returning for yōkai design, and Makoto Yoshimori is again composing the music.

The anime seasons and Midorikawa's original manga revolve around Natsume, a boy who has been able to see yōkai since he was little. Unfortunately, humans shun him, and there is not much fondness between him and yōkai either. One day, he inherits a Yūjin-Chō ("Book of Friends") from his grandmother. The book is actually full of contracts that his grandmother made to trap yōkai. As one yōkai after another shows up, Natsume tries to release or help them — even while many of them seek vengeance on him.

Natsume Yūjin-Chō Roku, the sixth anime season, aired for 11 episodes starting in April 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired. The anime's fourth and fifth home video releases bundled two new original video anime (OVA) episodes in September and October. Crunchyroll is streaming both OVAs.

Crunchyroll is also streaming the previous five seasons of the anime. Viz Media is releasing Midorikawa's original manga in English.

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Short TV Anime 'Okoshiyasu, Chitose-chan' Announces Cast and Additional Staff Members

The official website for the previously announced Okoshiyasu, Chitose-chan has announced cast and additional staff members. Kouji Yusa (ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka) and Kotori Koiwai (Non Non Biyori series), who are from Kyoto, are voicing multiple characters in this short anime while actor Shinichi Tsutsumi (Gintama 2nd live-action movie) will be doing his first anime narration. The ending theme song will be "Nakuko mo Warau" by Nyanzonu Deshi. The anime will broadcast on Saturdays 1:35 a.m. via Tokyo MX and KBS Kyoto starting October 6.

Staff

Director, Series Composition: Kyou Yatate (Micchiri Neko)

Character Design, Animation Director: Jun Mita (Bananya script, storyboard, episode director, animation director)

Color Design: Haruko Nobori (Mahou Shoujo Site)

Art Director: Yoshinobu Yamada

Sound Director: Nobuyuki Abe (Fumikiri Jikan)

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Manga 'Gintama' to Continue After Final Chapter

This year's 42nd issue of Weekly Shounen Jump magazine, which has final chapter of Gintama manga released, has announced that Gintama manga will continue via Jump GIGA magazine starting on the December release of the magazine.

Hideaki Sorachi serialized the manga series since December 2003 on Weekly Shounen Jump magazine. It was previously announced that the manga series would end. The latest anime series started broadcasting in July 9. The second live-action movie has premiered in Japanese theater in August 17.

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Gintama Manga Moves to Jump Giga Magazine

This year's 42nd issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Saturday that Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga will end its serialization in the magazine as previously announced, but that it will continue on in Shueisha's Jump Giga magazine starting in its winter issue for "a little while longer."

Sorachi explained that he had actually been planning to end the manga for some time. He noted that Weekly Shonen Jump has a system where an author informs the editorial department that the author wants to end the manga about half a year before the ending, and then works toward that ending with the remaining time. But Sorachi said that he had been delaying the end for a while, before declaring that he would make it to the ending by August. However, Sorachi then explained that he needed a bigger page count to reach the ending, and that the page count for the weekly magazine was not enough. In the end, he apologized to the readers who "just skim over Jump," and for not ending the manga in the magazine.

Sorachi began the manga in 2004, and the manga has more than 55 million copies in print in Japan as of February. Viz Media published the first 23 volumes in English. Shueisha published the manga's 74th volume (seen right) on August 3.

The manga entered the "Silver Soul" arc, its final arc, in July 2016.

The current anime began in October 2017 with the "Porori Arc," before it entered the "Silver Soul" arc in January. The anime began a hiatus in March but returned in July for the "climax" of the arc. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.

The manga also inspired two anime films, including the "final" Gekijōban Gintama Kanketsu-hen: Yorozuya yo Eien Nare film that opened in 2013, and various OVAs and event anime.

The manga also inspired a live-action film that opened in Japan in July 2017. The film also received a sequel that opened on August 17 in Japan. Each of two live-action films also received a live-action net spinoff series. The first film screened in the United States and Canada in January prior to a March 6 home video release from Well Go USA.

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Black Clover: Quartet Knights Game's English Launch Trailer Streamed

Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe began streaming an English launch trailer on Friday for the Black Clover: Quartet Knights game. The video highlights the game's playable characters.

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The end of the Japanese launch trailer also features a preview of the game's first DLC with a "summer festival" theme (starts at 3:11 in below video).

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The game launched in the Americas and Europe for PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam on Friday. The game launched in Japan for the PlayStation 4 on Thursday. People who pre-order the game in Japan will receive a download code adding young Yami as a playable character, and a "Black Asta" skin.

The game's playable characters include Asta, Yuno, Noelle Silva, Mimosa Vermillion, Gauche Adlai, Magna Swing, Luck Voltia, Yami Sukehiro, young Yami Sukehiro, Vanessa Enoteca, Charmy Pappitson, Klaus Lunette, Mars, Fana, Vetto, and Licht. The game will also feature an original female character named Karna.

The third-person magic shooting game allows for four-vs.-four matches, and players can make their own teams to participate in cooperative battles and face off against rivals. Da-iCE is performing the game's theme song "Limits."

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 last October, and Crunchyroll is streaming the series in Japanese with English subtitles. Funimation began streaming the show's English dub last October. The anime will continue on past its originally planned 51 episodes. The show debuted on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block last December.

#Game #Black_Clover

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