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Jerry Bruckheimer producing a live-action Beyblade movie for Paramount

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Uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop) is reuniting with Paramount Pictures for a live-action movie based upon Takara Tomy’s Beyblade franchise. Launching in Japan in 1999 as a line of spinning-top toys with a tie-in manga, Beyblade received an anime TV series adaptation in 2001, which was followed by several sequels and spinoffs […]

Netflix releases Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 season 2 trailer ahead of May premiere

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Netflix has released a new trailer for the second season of the CG-anime series Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 which arrives on the streaming service this May; check it out below along with the official key art from Netflix Japan… In 2045, the world has been thrown into a state of systematic “sustainable war,” but […]

Netflix anime Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy gets a trailer

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Last week Netflix announced a new anime adaptation of Kazushi Hagiwara’s classic manga Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, and now we’ve got a first teaser trailer for the upcoming series ahead of its premiere on the streamer later this year; check it out here, along with the official synopsis…  Four hundred years since the collapse […]

Netflix announces Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy anime series

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Netflix is adding to its anime output with a new series adaptation of Kazushi Hagiwara’s classic manga Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, the streamer having made the announcement through its Netflix Anime social accounts with the release of a teaser poster. Inspired by Hagiwara’s love heavy metal music and Dungeons & Dragons, Bastard!! takes place […]

First trailer for Catwoman: Hunted animated movie

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During yesterday’s DC FanDome event, the first trailer for director Shinsuke Terasawa’s upcoming DC anime feature Catwoman: Hunted was released and sees the feline felon in the crosshairs of villains, Interpol and Batwoman as she attempts to steal a priceless jewel; watch it here… Catwoman: Hunted follows “Catwoman as she attempts to steal a priceless […]

Marvelous Adult Cyberpunk Anime That Are Extremely Underrated

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Marvelous Videos presents cyberpunk anime for adults… While western entertainment struggles to remove adult animation from the realm of comedy, the animators over in Japan have successfully molded their animated serials, colloquially referred to as “anime”, into a multitude of categories. Yes, some of these are for kids, but a good chunk are also for […]

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World anime series coming to Netflix

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Scott Pilgrim will take on the world again. The character has been in comics, live-action films, and even video games…but now, it will be Scott Pilgrim vs. anime! Today, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Scott Pilgrim vs. the World will take on an anime adaption on Netflix. Graphic novel creator Bryan Lee O’Malley […]

Hayao Miyazaki finally confirms new Studio Ghibli film How Do You Live?

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Although he called time on his career (again) following 2013’s The Wind Rises, it’s been no secret that legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki has been working away on another project for the past few years. Iconic animation house Studio Ghibli re-opened its doors to work on the feature back in 2017, while producer Toshio Suzuki […]

Marvelous 80s Anime Gems That Every Fan Must Watch

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Marvelous Videos presents ten underrated anime gems from the 1980s… Back in the day when Blockbuster was still in business, there used to be an entire video section dedicated to Japanimation. That was the neologistic term at the time to describe any animated product coming out of Japan. These days, we now use the phrase […]