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    The official website for the forthcoming musical adaptation of Shinobu Ohtaka's fantasy action adventure manga Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic , entitled "Musical 'Magi' - Dungeon Kumikyoku ( Suite ) -," has posted a 10-minute documentary clip following its three main cast members' first photo session in costume, interviews, and practice.   Yugo Miyajima  (a member of the seven-member Japanese-Korean dance vocal unit ORβIT ) is cast as the protagonist Aladdin, along with  Hiroki Ino (Tenya Iida in the My Hero Academia stage plays) as another protagonist and Nana Okada (a member of Japanese female idol group AKB48) as the main heroine Morgiana.   In the end of the clip, Miyajima says, "I hope you will see a new side of me on this Magi musical. I also hope that Magi fans who don't know me will get to know me, and I will do my best to make this a wonderful and heart-warming stage."         The stag play directe...

Platform: PlayStation 5, PC Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Developer: Kojima Productions Release: September 24, 2021 ( PlayStation 5 ), March 30, 2022 ( PC ) Rating: Mature Admittedly, it'd take very little for me to be on board with a Death Stranding Director's Cut . It only needed to be more Death Stranding f or me to be sold on revisiting Hideo Kojima's latest vanity project. Luckily for me, that's exactly what the Director's Cut is. I love the original release, and this is a perfect excuse to dive back in. I think you should play it, too. But maybe not for the reasons you think.  Death Stranding Director's Cut is pitched as an expanded version of the base game that came out in 2019, the definitive version of Kojima's vision. After 26 hours – and much, much more still to go – my knee-jerk impression is that the Director's Cut moniker is marketing spiel more than anything. Still, there are some fun and creative new additions th...

  Original Stich, a clothing company best known for its collaboration with Pokémon , announced on Friday that it'll be taking its next anime collaboration to the high seas with Eiichiro Oda' s epic One Piece tale. Over 30 designs inspired by Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and more will be available to customize onto shirts, non-medical grade masks and bandanas to bring One Piece closer to your heart – by wearing the shirts over your chest!   Here's a sample of designs:             The One Piece designs are available on the Original Stich website to add to your shirt of choice for US$100 for adults and US$85 for children with shipping to most major countries around the grand line. The masks and bandanas are available for US$18 apiece.   When your shirts arrive, dress up in style and watch over 1,000 episodes of the  One Piece   TV anime right here on Crunchyroll. New episodes are currently delayed ...

When Sonic the Hedgehog 2 launched on Sega Genesis in 1992, it took the foundation laid with the Blue Blur's debut entry and expanded it in myriad ways. In the 16-bit sequel, Sonic had new moves and a two-tailed fox friend to aid him, but with those upgrades came more significant threats from the evil Dr. Robotnik. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on Genesis was immediately regarded as a definite upgrade over the already strong first entry in the series. Similarly, Paramount's  Sonic the Hedgehog 2  movie expands the universe established by its predecessor and delivers a better overall film thanks to bigger action setpieces, laugh-out-loud gags, and some terrific fanservice moments. Warning:   While I try to remain as spoiler-free as possible, some aspects of the narrative and characters are mentioned throughout this article. Sonic the Hedgehog 2  carries the unenviable task of following up a movie that was, by most accounts, a surprise hit. The first...

    The official website for the Sonny Boy anime series announced on March 29 that its first episode "The Island at the Far End of Summer" was nominated in the 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival's "TV Films in Competition" Division. This is the only nomination for a Japanese animation. The Annecy International Animated Film Festival is the largest animation film festival in the world and will be held in France from June 13-18, 2022.   The sci-fi TV anime directed by Shingo Natsume ( Space Dandy , One-Punch Man ) at Madhouse was aired for 12 episodes from July to October 2021 and simulcast on Funimation . Acclaimed manga artist Hisashi Eguchi ( Stop! Hibari-kun ) served as the original character designer. It received the Excellence Award in the animation category at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival in Japan.     ╭━━━━━━━━━━━╮ ✨祝✨ノミネート???? ╰━ｖ━━━━━━━━━╯ #SonnyBoy 第１話「夏の果ての島」が 2022 #アヌシー国際アニメーション映画祭 TV部門コンペ作品ノミネート✨ https:/...

    Voice actress Keiko Watanabe (Narita Taishin in Umamusume Pretty Derby , Momoko Suou in The Idolm@ster Million Live! ) released her first original song "ALIVE" digitally (Spotify / Apple Music / Deezer / Amazon Music Unlimited / YouTube Music / TIDAL) on March 29, then posted the song's lyric video on her official YouTube channel.   She has posted cover song videos on YouTube, but this is the first time she has released her own original song. This is a project that she started with the desire to "leave behind a trace of my own voice," as she celebrates her birthday on the same day as the release.   She says, "I sang with a fighting spirit of 'I'm going to break everything that confines my heart.' Even in the singing instruction, I was told, 'Harder! Harder!' And it made my attack power increased. I would be happy if I could make the listeners' hearts hot as well."      "ALIVE" lyric video:     Dig...

    CONTRAIL , an animation production company based in Tokyo, has released the second production preview video for director Sunao Katabuchi 's ( Black Lagoon , In This Corner of the World ) yet-titled latest anime film. The clip shows the film's black-and-white storyboards and scenes from its production site.   The film will be produced by Katabuchi's animation production company, CONTRAIL , with Chie Uratani ( Hijikata Toshizo: Shiro no Kiseki ) as assistant director, Masashi Ando ( The Deer King ) as animation director, and Toshiharu Mizutani ( AKIRA ) as art director. The character designer will be announced at a later date. Contrail is now hiring for experienced in-between animators, and this video is posted in conjunction with the recruitment call.   Katabushi says, "The path taken by Sei Shonagon and others is not a bright one, and the world around them is steep and harsh. What lies beyond these images? We would like to create it from now on." Sei...