REBORN Kickstarter announced and detailed for PS3 and PS4
Today it has been revealed that acttil will be helping the video game developer Elemental-Labs with their first game project, REBORN. REBORN is going to be a real-time weapon based 3D action RPG that will be developed for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 using the Unreal Engine. To help get REBORN off the ground, acttil is organizing a Kickstarter for REBORN which is set to go live next week, a...
Shonen Jump Smart Phone App Launches in August
Japanese publishing giants Shueisha have taken another step in the digital distribution for manga. This August their new application “Jump Live” will be available to all iPhone and Android users, the application itself is free and a subscription fee of 250 yen (roughly $2.50 USD) will be charged per month. Promotion for the application recently began just a few days ago; an official website has be...
Reborn! manga to end on November 12th
In some shocking news, it has been revealed that popular Weekly Shonen Jump manga, Katekyo Hitman Reborn! more commonly known as Reborn! will be coming to a final conclusion on November 12th where it’s final chapter will be published in Weekly Shonen Jump #50 for the year of 2012. The series recently wrapped up one of it’s largest story arcs to date which tied up many of the seriesR...
Psycho-Pass Promo Trailer and Details
Are you excited for noitaminA’s upcoming Fall 2012 season offerings? Well if you are, I am sure you have probably heard of the new series Psycho-Pass by now. Details on the series have been very vague up until this point, but some new details on the anime have come to light as well as the first promotional trailer for it. While details of the plot are still currently thin, we now have confir...
Shonen Jump Magazine ending, new digital Shonen Jump Alpha beginning
Viz Media has made an incredibly controversial decision to end their print run of Shonen Jump magazine in April of 2012. The magazine which is itself a U.S. version of the massively popular japanese magazine of the same title, has run in the U.S. since 2002, meaning that it will have been a 10 year run next year. Some fans saw the writing on the walls, when Viz Media announced the magazine was goi...
Anime Focus – #3 The Next BIG 3 Anime
Being the third edition of Anime Focus, I thought it appropriate to discuss a topic many anime fans have pondered and debated upon – What will be the next Big 3 anime? Throughout this edition of Anime Focus I will discuss what series have a chance at being a part of the next Big 3 and whether there will necessarily be another Big 3. Now for those wonder what I am referring to when I say ...
Madman’s Mighty Manga Stocktake Sale
Madman has announced that they will be holding a Manga Stocktake sale, with copious amounts of manga marked down to below the $5 mark. With some even being as cheap as $1! With titles such as Black Cat, Dragon Ball, Absolute Boyfriend and One Piece on sale, this is certainly something you don’t want to miss out on. The sale ends on July 15th so you have just over a month to get your pocket-c...
Reborn! Anime now streaming on Viz Anime site
After over 6 months of the English translated version of the Reborn! manga being on hiatus, Viz Media now has returned it’s support to the series by announcing a weekly streaming of the series Anime adaptation, with 5 episodes being released each Wednesday in the US, uncut and subtitled. This has come after much confusion upon whether Viz would drop the series since the hiatus began. This ca...