English Dubbed Trailer for "Ghost in the Shell: ARISE"

Ghost in the Shell: Arise is another animated iteration that takes place in yet another alternate setting, set before the original manga.

Funimation, who has aquired the rights for this anime, has posted a brief promotional trailer featuring the voices of the English cast who were announced last weekend at Otakon.

The dub for the anime is set to be released on October 21st and is now available for order on Funimation website.

"M3 The Dark Metal" and Sony Working on Game

The story focuses on a group of 4 boys and 4 girls (later on 5) who met, when they were younger, in a realm full of darkness. A mysterious substance called Necrometal devours or infects anything that comes within a certain distant of a place called the Lightless realm. It starts at an ordinary school in a city of close proximity to the Lightless realm and focus's on Akashi for the most part. Akashi is no. 1 in the school when using the training bots to defeat schoolmates and is first seen fighting his best friend and defeating him. A man approaches him with an invitation to join a special force that is tasked with defeating the corpses and uncovering the secrets of the Lightless realm. Fast forward some time and a corpse appears which has the power to "kill" people who hear its song. It sings a lovely melody and like a countdown, over the next few months it is discovered that Emiru has become infected by the necrometal that has plagued the realm for so long. It is now up to Akashi to use the device known as the Reaper or MA-Vess in order to defeat the corpse and save everyone.

Directed by Junichi Sato (Sailor Moon) and written by Mari Okada (Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine) the anime is now receiving a game adaptation for the Sony PS Vita gaming platform. 

Bandai is said to be working on the project, expected to be an adventure game with a disjointed storytelling style. The game will switch between different perspectives for each of the eight Team Gargouille members with gamers having the ability to select a new character at the beginning of each chapter in the game.

It is expected for a a Japanese launch date of November 20.

Seven Deadly Sins Anime Promo

A second Promo for the upcoming anime "The Seven Deadly Sins" was uploaded to the animes official website this past weekend.

Story Synopsis:

The Seven Deadly Sins were once an active group of knights in the region of Britannia, who disbanded after they supposedly plotted to overthrow the Liones Kingdom. Their supposed defeat came at the hands of the Holy Knights, but rumors continued to persist that they were still alive. Ten years later, the Holy Knights staged a coup d'état and capture the king, becoming the new, tyrannical rulers of the kingdom. The third princess, Elizabeth, then starts on a journey to find the Seven Deadly Sins, and to enlist their help in taking back the kingdom.

The series will debut on MBS and TBS on October 5, 2014 at 5:00pm.

Durarara! Season 2 Confirmed

Hinted in a new Gaiden Book that began publication August 9th, a second season of the "Durarara!" anime is on its way for fans, January 2015.

While at the time little is known for this second season the anime, fans can expect for it to be just as amazing as the first season. The original main staff will be returning including; Director Takahiro Omori, Script writer Noboru Takagi, and character designs by Takahiro Kishida. While a new production company, Studio Shuka, will be taking over for Brainbase making this the new studios first production.

Official Key Visual Uploaded to the Durarara! X2 website.

Gun Gale Online What I Think so Far

I don't know anyone who wasn't excited for this next installment of SAO and close to nobody who wasn't pleased by its premiere episode. It is living up to its hype with contiunuing the great visuals they gave us for SAO and ALO as well as some pretty nice action scenes.

In my opinion I did enjoy the introduction of the main villain early on in the first episode even though it leaves little a mystery. Death Gun is a pretty dark character who seems to be just wanting to commit murder for no reason, so until we know his reasoning and identity thats the little mystery we as viewers have left.

As awesome as Kirito is with a sword for his weapon I feel that he could have been just as bad ass with a gun for this season. He is one of very few who actually use the games close combat weapon but I still cant help but feel the lack of uniqueness that gives him seeing as how anyone can get the photon swords. In SAO what made him pretty bad ass (at least for me) was the fact that he was the only one who could wield two swords and that his were the only two with that design.

Lastly the lack of Asuna and the others that he played with throughout the other two games gives this one a pretty empty feeling. It seems that sinon will be the only important person he really meets in the game that wil actually be on his side throughout the run of the season. I am not sure if any of the other characters will make appearences in the GGO game or not but it would be a nice addition to the adventure and storyline to see where they would go with that.

Overall, this season is turning out pretty nicely despite some personal dislikes about certain parts and I can't wait to see more of the action scenes especially the inevitable fight between sinon and kirito!

Watch the newest episodes @ crunchyroll.com

The Itasha of WCS

Source: www.worldcosplaysummit.jp/en/

The World Cosplay Summit (WCS) event held in Nagoya, Japan is pretty popular among otaku for its outstanding cosplay costumes being shown off by representatives of 22 different nations.

Another otaku loved thing showcased at this international event is Itasha and many of them. According to wikipedia Itasha is "a Japanese term for an otaku fad of individuals decorating the bodies of their cars with fictional characters of anime, manga, or video games (especially bishōjo game or eroge). These characters are predominately "cute" female. The decorations usually involve paint schemes and stickers.", or to most others an amazing car with anime on it.

Some pretty awesome examples of itasha,

NEW arc for "The Irregular at Magic High School" Anime!

It was announced by Crunchyroll.com yesterday that the second arc for the "The Irregular at Magic High School" anime will start with episode 19. The episode will air in four days on the crunchyroll site for all of you premium members out there! 

source: crunchyroll.com

The official website for the anime has been updated with new character visual and an update to the key words page.

source: crunchyroll.com

The "Yokohama Disturbance Arc" is based off of the storyline from volumes six and seven of the light novel series, and will soon be adapted into a manga illustrated by Gin Amau in GFantasy.