You can see the To Aru Kagaku no Railgun trailer over at the official web page; the Anime starts airing in October in Japan, and will hopefully be imported to the US soon. Davies is already writing season 4 of Torchwood, according to this SF Universe take on a new Torchwood Magazine article. And DVD Review posts step-by-step instructions on how to recreate a famous movie werewolf scene.
We have seen the Zombieland trailer, and it is gold! We all saw it as the warm up to District 9 this weekend (and if you didn’t see District 9, run, do not walk, to your nearest movie theater! That one is the Must See movie of the year, and so much more than the trailer or the reviews lead you to believe). Stake Land is billed as an apocalyptic vampire Western, and does not contain the pretty Tru Blood vampires. On second thought, I’ll just go for Zombieland, with a side order of Elvira; I like my horror laughing!
There is a new Anime podcast available from the Anime News Network. The first episode covers Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Ponyo and other Miyazaki films, and more.
I read this a while ago and just kept forgetting to mention it here, but Paste magazine has an excellent article on the experimental animation of Tezuka Osamu, including a number of the videos themselves embedded in the story. Best known in North America as the creator of Astro Boy, Tezuka pretty much invented Japanese Anime in its modern form, as well as authoring an amazing number of Manga titles. The new Astro Boy Movie will be hitting theaters in October, while last February was Tezuka’s 80th birthday and the NHK’s 20th anniversary of their satellite service. In honor of that, the NHK is running specials from February until October about Tezuka Osamu’s contributions to Manga, Anime, and Japanese popular culture (you do have to scroll down a bit to get to the entry about it). In April of this year the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards were handed out, the winners being those Manga and Artists deemed the best in Japan. Here is his 1962 experimental piece, “Male”…
Anime Today interviewed Bandi Entertainment’s Robert Napton about the new movie EUREKA SEVEN – good night, sleep, tight, young lovers for episode 99. They covered some other interesting topics as well, which mostly involves trying to sell you things, but there are a few good contests you might want to get in on. The movie will be showing on the big screen in the US for one night only on 24Sep09 courtesy of Fathom Entertainment. If you happen to be in Texas this weekend, you might want to hit San Japan, the Japanese Culture and Anime Con in San Antonio. To the north, there is Anime Iowa, and for Europe try Aya Revolution. All the Cons are running Panels, Cosplay, Screening Rooms, and all the other usual; two have AMV competitions, and one has both a J-Pop and J-Rock lounges.
io9 strikes again, this time with the 10 best Fan Collectibles that don’t exist… and neither do the fans. More than one of them was created by Joss Whedon. There is a new Mind Meld at SFSignal; this time the topic is Books That Hold Special Places in our hearts and on our shelves. I found quite a few favorites listed there, as well as a few I missed the first time around.