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"Pure Love Chapter" opens in Japan on October 14 The official website for the Uchū Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi (Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love or Star Blazers 2202: Warriors of Love) anime sequel project began streaming a 60-second trailer on Friday for the third film in the franchise, subtitled "Junai-hen" (Pure Love Chapter). The film will open in Japan on October 14, and will screen in 25 theaters, five more than the second film. The episode's below visual features the text, "The demon informs. Choose your love." Theaters screening the third film will again sell special edition Blu-ray Discs, and the film will also be available to stream online for a fee starting on October 14. The second film, subtitled "Hasshin-hen" (Departure Chapter), opened in Japan on June 24. The project is a seven-part theatrical anime project, and the first film, subtitled "Kōshi-hen" (Starting Chapter), premiered in Japan on February 25. The anime's story

Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-second week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for Part 1 of this week’s legends. COMIC LEGEND: DC was already planning a new Robin before Jason Todd was killed. STATUS: I’m Going with False Reader Mark G. wrote in about an old Jim Starlin interview that he read in Comic Buyer’s Guide after Jason Todd was killed following a 1-900 number vote… In it, Starlin was quoted as saying “the death of Robin was planned all along, because DC intends to introduce a new version of the character” Starlin himself has said that he was misquoted, but what I think is really at heart is something I dealt with in a Comic Book Legends Revealed a few years back, namely that while Jason Todd’s actual survival was up for grabs by the voters, it was likely that he was not going to be in the book anymore. For instance, whether he lived or died,

Comic book characters tend to have a very singular look: they’re all pretty freaking gorgeous. The women tend to have unattainable bodies that are even more anatomically incorrect than that of a Barbie’s, tiny pointy noses, delicate features and giant eyes. And the men are square-jawed and handsome with more impossible muscles that Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime bodybuilding years. In many ways, these books provide an escape for its readers who want to be transported to distant lands and read stories of beautiful people saving the day. To put it simple, they have everything going for them. RELATED: Sinister Six-Pack: The 15 Fittest Supervillains But not all comic book characters have to be pretty. Believe it or not, every once in a while, there’s a character that isn’t so perfect. They’re flawed like the rest of us and some of them grotesquely so. These are the few comic book characters you’re probably less jealous of. Sure, a lot of them have powers, but if they’re not doing so h

Sci-fi comedy anime slated for 2018 Writer Satoshi Miyakawa and artist Kei Itō's Uchū Senkan Tiramisu (Space Battleship Tiramisu) manga is inspiring a television anime adaptation in 2018. Studio Gonzo will provide the animation. Itō drew a new illustration to commemorate the anime adaptation. The illustration is posted on the anime's official website. The science fiction gag comedy follows the everyday life of Subaru Ichinose, the ace pilot of the space battleship "Tiramisu." Since he cannot get used to being surrounded by older pilots, Subaru shuts himself in the cockpit of his personal ship "Durandal." Miyakawa (Haha o Nakushita Toki, Boku wa Ikotsu o Tabetai to Omotta.) and Itō launched the ongoing manga on Shinchosha's Kurage Bunch website in October 2015. The fourth compiled book volume will ship on Friday. Source: Comic Natalie

Manga is spinoff of upcoming anime film This year's 10th issue of Kodansha's Monthly Young Magazine announced last Wednesday that the Mazinger Z Interval Peace spinoff manga will end in the next issue on October 20. Takahiro Ozawa (Tokyo Toybox, Giga Tokyo Toy Box) is in charge of the manga's scenario, Kaoru Osada (Gunparade March Another Princess) is drawing the manga, and Go Nagai is credited with the original work. The manga launched in May on the same day as another spinoff manga, Mazinger Z Alter Ignition, which is still running on Dynamic Planning's website. Mazinger Z Interval Peace is a spinoff work of the new anime film based on Nagai's Mazinger Z manga. The manga is the "first youthful group drama" manga in the franchise, and it takes place in a world where the very existence of super robots is questioned. The manga follows former pilot Kōji and his companions and their conflicts. The men that were once called heroes now stand at a crossroad, and must choose.

Shino Arima performs ending theme for film opening on October 14 The official website for the Uchū Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi (Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love or Star Blazers 2202: Warriors of Love) anime sequel project began streaming a new promotional video on Wednesday for the third film in the franchise, subtitled "Junai-hen" (Pure Love Chapter). The video previews the ending theme song "Kimi, Hitohira" (You, Petal). S.E.N.S. Project is producing the song, and Shino Arima is performing the song. The website also revealed that a television special for the film will debut on BS11 on October 7 at 10:00 p.m. The program will also air on BS11 on October 9, followed by Tokyo MX on October 10. The program will air the film's first ten minutes and feature a digest of the previous two films. The program will also include interviews with voice actresses Sayaka Kanda, who voices Teresa, and Houko Kuwashima, who voices Yuki Mori. In addition, director

Yuuki Kaji, Takahiro Sakurai star in upcoming film series The official website for the new anime film series based on Nanae Chrono's Peacemaker Kurogane manga revealed two rough character designs on Monday. The first film in the series was originally slated to open this year, but is now scheduled for a 2018 debut. Yuuki Kaji as adolescent Tetsunosuke Ichimura (reprising the role from a previous drama CD series) Takahiro Sakurai as Susumu Yamazaki (reprising the role from the Peacemaker anime) The additional cast members include: Yumiko Kobayashi as Tetsunosuke Ichimura (as a child) Jouji Nakata as Toshizō Hijikata Mitsuki Saiga as Sōji Okita Yūji Ueda as Tatsunosuke Ichimura Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinpachi Nagakura Kousuke Toriumi as Heisuke Tōdō Kenji Nomura as Sanosuke Harada Takashi Matsuyama as Hajime Saitō Masami Iwasaki as Kai Shimada Takaya Hashi as Isami Kondō Mikako Takahashi as Saya Shinnosuke Tachibana as Suzu Yamatoya All the cast me

Bandai Namco Entertainment America announced on Thursday that its TEKKEN World Tour Finals tournament will take place outside of Japan for the first time in the 20+ year franchise history. The tournament will take place at City View at Metreon in San Francisco, California on November 12, and will feature 16 finalists. Twitch will livestream the tournament. Tekken 7 launched for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC via Steam on June 2. The game is adding the character Geese Howard from SNK's Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series to the game this winter. The tournament event on November 12 will have demo stations for the character. Bandai Namco Entertainment released an arcade update for Tekken 7 titled Tekken 7: Fated Retribution in July 2016 in Japan. The update includes a graphics update as well as a new system, new stages, new costumes, new items, and new characters. Bandai Namco Entertainment added Akuma (Gōki) from CAPCOM's Street Fighter games and Nina Williams a

Saladin Ahmed is versatile, to say the least: He’s a published poet, his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo and the Nebula, and he’s the writer of Marvel’s Black Bolt. Now, he’s stretching his wings even further: BOOM! Studios announced at today’s New York Comic Con panel that Ahmed will collaborate with artist Sami Kivelä on an original comic series, Abbott, which will launch in January 2018. RELATED: Saladin Ahmed’s New Black Bolt Comic Came From an Absorbing Man Pitch Set in Detroit in the 1970s, Abbott is a supernatural crime noir story about a hard-boiled black reporter for a tabloid paper who comes across a series of mysterious murders that bear strong similarities to the murder of her husband 10 years previously. Her investigation leads her into danger and ultimately into a struggle with a terrifying adversary. CBR asked Ahmed to give us a few clues about his

3rd film in 7-part project opens in Japan on October 14 Bandai Visual began streaming a television commercial on Friday for the third film, subtitled "Junai-hen" (Pure Love Chapter), in the Uchū Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi (Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love or Star Blazers 2202: Warriors of Love) anime sequel project. A television special for the film will debut on BS11 on October 7 at 10:00 p.m. The program will also air on BS11 on October 9, followed by Tokyo MX on October 10. The program will air the film's first ten minutes and feature a digest of the previous two films. The program will also include interviews with voice actresses Sayaka Kanda, who voices Teresa, and Houko Kuwashima, who voices Yuki Mori. The film will open in Japan on October 14, and will screen in 25 theaters, five more than the second film. Director Nobuyoshi Habara and script writer Harutoshi Fukui will appear at stage greeting events at a total of four theaters in Jap