Toriko, One Piece Get 3D Film Double-Billing

The 44th issue of Shueisha 's Weekly
Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on
Monday that the 3D film versions of the
Toriko and One Piece manga will open
in a double billing in Japan on March
19, 2011. Toei Animation is producing
the Jump Heroes Film double billing,
and the official website will be at the
jump-heroesfilm.com address.

Thanks to Liam for the news tip.

by: animenewsnetwork

Love Hina Manga Returns with 1-Shot Story in September

This year's 39th issue of Kodansha 's
Weekly Shonen Magazine is announcing
on Wednesday that Ken Akamatsu 's Love
Hina romantic comedy manga is returning
with a one-shot manga story in the next
issue on September 1. The memorial
revival special will have six full-color
pages and feature the characters
Keitarō and Naru. The same 40th issue
of the magazine will also run the 300th
installment of Akamatsu's Negima!
Magister Negi Magi manga and offer an
exclusive Negima t-shirt.

U.S., Japan Manga Publishers Band Together to Stop Scanlation Sites

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When news broke last month that a coalition of American comics publishers banded together to sic lawyers and the FBI on HTMLcomics.com, a popular website that hosted unauthorized scans of new and old comics, many industry watchers wondered if U.S. and Japanese publishers would take similar action against manga scanlation sites. Well, the speculation is over.

As of this morning, news broke on Publishers Weekly, Anime News Network and via press releases from VIZ Media and tweets from TokyoPop that 36 Japanese publishers (joined together as the Japanese Digital Comic Association) and U.S. manga publishers, including Yen Press, TokyoPop, Vertical Inc., and the Tuttle-Mori Agency have announced the formation of "a coalition of Japanese and U.S. publishers announced a coordinated effort to combat a rampant and growing problem of internet piracy plaguing the manga industry."

JAPANESE BOX OFFICE, MAY 29-30

The newest film in the Kamen Rider franchise, Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider The Movie Cho-Denō Trilogy Episode Red Zero no Star Twinkle dropped from #2 to #4 on Kogyo Tsushinsha's box office chart during the May 29-30 weekend. According to Box Office Mojo, the film earned US$1,113,878 on 210 screens in its second weekend for a gross-to-date ofUS$4,224,455.

Sgt. Frog, Kuroshitsuji, Bloody Monday Videos Streamed

The official website for the Sgt. Frog
( Keroro Gunsō) science-fiction comedy
anime has begun streaming a 15-second
trailer for the Chō Gekijō-ban Keroro
Gunsō Tanjō! Kyūkyoku Keroro Kiseki
no Jikūjima de Arimasu!! film on
Monday. This fifth film inspired by
Mine Yoshizaki 's manga about a
frog-like alien will open on February
27. The film's story revolves around a
curious stone figurine, shaped like Sgt.
Frog, that Sgt. Frog's friend Fuyuki
comes across. Uncovering the secrets of
the figurine leads the two and their
allies on an adventure at the massive
stone statues of Easter Island.
Tokyopop published the manga, while
Funimation is releasing the television
anime series.

FUNimation: No More Big Wind Up, Anime to be Licenced

On Friday's ANNCast, FUNimation
Entertainment guests Adam
Sheehan and Lance Heiskell
reported that Funimation would not
license the second season to the Big
Windup! baseball anime. Heiskell
cited low sales, saying, "there was
not enough of an audience there
who bought the series." Heiskell
also said the low sales does not
warrant Funimation acquiring other
titles from the same genre of
sports anime.

2009's Top Anime Movies at Japanese Box Office

No film in 2009 approached the success of 2008's Ponyo (15.50 billion yen or about US$171 million) in Japan. However, nine Japanese animated films did earn more than 1 billion yen (US$10.8 million) in 2009 in their domestic market — whereas only six anime films earned more than 1 billion yen in 2008.

The second film in Khara's four-part remake of Gainax's Evangelion anime grossed more than twice much as the first film did in 2007. Warner earned more than twice as much distributing Summer Wars (1.63 billion yen or US$17.5 million) in 2009 than it did with The Sky Crawlers (700 milllion yen or US$7.5 million) in 2008. Precure All Stars DX: Minna Tomodachi— Kiseki no Zenin Daishūgō is the first film in the Precure franchise to gross more than 1 billion yen. Similarly, Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser set a new record for the Detective Conan franchise.

Three films — Evangelion 2.0, Summer Wars, and Precure All Stars DX — garnered more than 1 billion yen each, even though they opened on less than 200 screens. One Piece Film Strong World opened too late in December to be included in this tally, but it earned US$32,238,129 after three weekends on less than 200 screens as well. Each screen averaged 5,523,614 yen (US$62,196) in just the first two days — the new record for a nationwide release in Japan after the passing of fire safety laws.

Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky

The official website for the anime films based on Gosho Aoyama's Detective Conan manga has begun streaming the 48-second teaser trailer for Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in The Sky. The 14th film in the franchise will open in Japan on April 17.

One Piece Movie: Strong World

Looking for One Piece Strong World
Movie 10 or One Piece Movie 10
Strong World English Subbed?
This movie has not been released
yet in DVD. So it will not be
available yet. 6 months more!
Strong World is the name of the
upcoming tenth feature film for the
One Piece franchise.