Dreams Come True in 9 years for the first tour by United States

On Wednesday, the Japanese duo Dreams Come True announced that it held four concerts in United States this October. The duo also held free concerts of acoustic in the prefectures affected by the earthquake of Ibaraki from August 19 to August 21, Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.

The Japanese leg of the tour "Dreams Come True Wonderland 2011" already started in Sapporo Dome on June 24 and will end in Okinawa on September 23 and 24. After the extreme Japanese, the second part of the tour of the tour: "dreams come True Wonderland 2011: night dreams come True in the United States supplied by Pocari Sweat", will begin October 1 in Los Angeles. The tour will continue in Seattle on October 2 and in New York City on October 9 and 10.

Dreams Come True performs the song "mata ne" one piece: episode of Chopper + Fuyu ni Saku, greenhouses Kiseki no Sakura movie. The duo have not visited the United States in nine years. Unlike previous performances by the duo in the United States, this tour will include Japanese songs.

You can find information about the United States of part of the tour on their website.

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Ghibli Arrietty different Dub molds in United States, United Kingdom.

Arrietty, Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Studio Ghibli film based on the British novel by Mary Norton borrowers, will have different dub dyes in the United States and United Kingdom.

The English dub, due in theaters July 29, will feature Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones of Atonement) and Tom Holland (one of the child actors who had the lead role in the musical version of Billy Elliott). The cast also includes Mark Strong (Green Lantern/Sherlock Holmes), Olivia Colman (Peep Show), Phyllida Law (the time machine) and Geraldine McEwan (Marple).

The American voice, meanwhile, will feature Bridgit Mendler (Wizards of Waverly Place) as Arrietty and Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live, parks and recreation). The rest of the American cast including Will Arnett (Arrested Development, running Wilde), David Henrie (Wizards of Waverly Place) and Carol Burnett (The Carol Burnett Show). The film opens in American theaters on February 17, 2012.

Typically for Ghibli movie, Arrietty is being distributed in the UK by optimum releasing. However, it's the first Ghibli movie to be released with different dub dyes in the United Kingdom and the United States. (Two projects of Ghibli: waves and yesterday, were released on DVD in United States but not United States, but both versions only English subtitles.)

Co-founder of Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki supervised and wrote the film, which updated the novel moving the history to a suburb of modern Tokyo. The story follows the "little people" who live in the floorboards of a normal human family.

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Tekken: Revenge of the blood to run in cinemas in United States 3D (updated)

Anime North American Distributor Bandai Entertainment announced on Tuesday that the Tekken: film CG of revenge of blood will run in cinemas in United States more than 375 in 3D on July 26 at 7: 30 pm local time. In addition, Bandai Entertainment plans to launch the DVD of this film based on the video game franchise struggle of Namco.

Bandai Entertainment is working with NCM Fathom and Namco Bandai Games America on theatrical screenings. The projection includes a special 20-minute interviews with writer / director of project of Tekken. Bandai Entertainment and Fathom has worked together in the sword of the stranger and Eureka Seven - good night, sleep tight, young lovers of film projections, but Tekken: events of revenge of blood screening is their first joint effort in 3D.

One of the producers of the new film is art director of Tekken Yoshinari Mizushima. Digital frontier, the Studio responsible for open archival material of film in Tekken 5 and Tekken 6 games as well as Appleseed and Resident Evil: degeneration movie, is producing the new film with director Yoichi Mori. Dai Sato (Casshern, Cowboy Bebop, Eureka Seven) wrote the screenplay, and Shinji Higuchi (Evangelion, Gunbuster, Vandread) handled the storyboard.

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Waiting for orders from judge on United States Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime license

On Thursday, the judge of the bankruptcy of United States Shelley Chapman ordered TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems (NAS), the owners of Yu-Gi-Oh! anime franchise, to comply with an automatic stay in the anime licenses. According to the order, the owners may not return the franchise or otherwise exercise control over the rights of the franchise. The rights were held by the American Distributor 4Kids under their contracts of 2001 and 2008 with TV Tokyo and NAS.

TV Tokyo and NAS had announced in March that could end up 4Kids Yu-Gi-Oh! license and sue the dealer. The owners stated that 4Kids fraudulently concealed income that should have been subject to royalties for Japanese owners.

In his order on Thursday, judge Chapman also said that the trial on the licensing of the franchise it carried out in two phases: the first will determine if TV Tokyo and NAS announced the cancellation of the license of 4Kids was valid, and the second will determine if 4Kids owes money to the owners and exactly how much. 4Kids must respond to the demand on June 10, followed by the discovery, objections, and lists of witnesses. The first phase of the trial will begin on August 29.

4Kids went bankrupt in April; the company had previously stated that it may have to the file after Yu-Gi-Oh! demand. Demand judging and preventive or submitted, the demand before the Court of bankruptcy because of the relationship between the two cases. When 4Kids learned ADK, the owner of Nihon Ad Systems, to promote the new Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal series licensing International Expo at the end of this month, 4Kids filed a motion requesting the application of the automatic suspension before mentioned.

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United States SyFy channel not ready Anime more after June 9

Programming online for the U.S. Syfy cable channel not listed currently no number after 9 June, although two show - Monster and Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar - are still in the middle of their careers. The channel shows seventh and eighth episodes of the monster, as well as episodes of 15th and 16th of Star Blazers June 9 beginning at 12: 30 a.m.

ANN is awaiting comments from Syfy, Viz Media, Manga Entertainment and entertainment of Voyager.

SyFy (then called Sci Fi) launched their anime block in 2007 under the name AniMonday. In 2008, the block moved to Tuesday and more recently moved to Thursdays. It has also changed the timing of the block; on June 9 the block will begin at 12: 30 in the morning, where he had previously started at 11: 00 or 11: 30 p.m.

Thanks to Ragnawind and LagannImpact for the news tip.
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City of Korea Hunter Show licensed for the transmission of the Hulu United States

The SBS of speaker of Korean television annnounced on Wednesday that license its adaptation of the manga series of comedy of police action of Tsukasa Hojo City Hunter for distribution in the United States, Hong Kong, Thailand and Viet Nam. In particular, the SBS said that United States people will be able to see the series on the Web site of video streaming Hulu.

Actor Lee Min-Ho stars as Ryo Saeba, a private eye ("Sweeper") with unparalleled accuracy and an obsession of over the top for the opposite sex. Instead of Tokyo in the early 1980s, the new SBS series re-imagines configuration of the manga as Seoul in 2011. Lee plays a former CIA operative who now works as a gun for hire. Minyoung Park plays in love with Ryo.

SBS also reported that there is interest in licensing the series for Bulgaria, Japan, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Philippines and other countries.

The series premiered on Wednesday in Korea of the South, and is running every Wednesday and Thursday at 9: 55 PM the original manga had already been adapted into four anime series of television, an anime film and several special television and video. ADV Films released the majority of these projects of anime in North America. Hojo since then pointed out a sequel of Angel Heart his manga City Hunter, and the manga has also been adapted for television anime. Martial arts of Hong Kong Jackie Chan played Saeba in an adaptation of Hong Kong of loose 1992 of City Hunter live action.

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United States encourage adds niños-amor Manga selfish love for Kindle

ANIMATION of United States announced on Sunday that is launching Kingdom manga touch niños-amor selfish love in web retailer Amazon.com Kindle store, as well as three other published volumes in Japan by free Shuppan. These volumes are P.B.B. Play Boy Blues volume 6, sound of my voice - Boku no Koe-volume 10-loving Hyper Maniac 5 volume.

Selfish love is a two volume series that revolve around President of society of honors from a University, that gets to choose his Vice President and select a hapless fellow. Japanese Publisher Biblos released the series in 2003; After the Publisher went bankrupt, a group of companies which includes encouraging Japan acquired their catalogue and established free Shuppan. Line of being beautiful central park media originally licensed the series of Byblos and released in North America in 2004. Central Park media closed in 2009.

United States animate is the American arm of animate character goods retail chain, and has been releasing Boys Love manga free e-book Kindle platform since April. The last batch of titles have been published in the United States before.

Last week, the Publisher of manga American yaoi Manga Digital Publishing revealed that Amazon had pulled of yaoi titles from the United States Kindle store. A representative of encouraging informed ANN that some of his titles had been "blocked" by Amazon and were current not planning to address the issue, although it is under consideration.
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Clamp door 7 ships of Manga in United States, in the world this summer

The official website of the creator of CLAMP manga Quartet announced Thursday that manga CLAMP door 7 will be published in book form compilation in the United States by Dark Horse Comics this summer. The manga is also launching their careers magazine serialized in Korea in the South, Taiwan and Hong Kong this month, and the magazine Animeland French launched a limited four-month in March. The history of fantasy begins when a high school boy named Chikahito Takamoto visits to a shrine during a trip from Kyoto and meetings of three people: Hana, Sakura and Tachibana - with mysterious powers at a level barely veiled of lucid sleep among our consciencewaking up the world and the subconscious State of lethargy.

Of Korea of the South Haksan culture company of Taiwan publication of online, Hong Kong Hong Kong Tong Li Publishing, of France Viz Media Europe, of America Dark Horse Comics, Brazil new Pop Germany EMA and Spain all Norma Editorial published the manga in the form of book compiled this summer.

When asked about the door 7 on Sunday, a representative of Dark Horse Comics said that "keep in touch".

Dark Horse Comics had originally announced that it would publish books of 80 pages per month, or "mangettes", from the most recent work of clamp in 2009. The project was to they have been published almost simultaneously in America of the North, Korea in the South and Japan. The version number in the history of Shueisha Jump Square magazine in Japan last November, and the complete series was released in the same magazine in February.

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