Live Action Black Butler Character Videos

Warner Bros. Japan put up 4 character promo videos for their live action adaptation of Yana Tosobo Black Butler manga earlier this week. The videos highlight Sebastian, Lin, Shiori, and Hanae. This adaptation takes place in the year 2020 in a Asian city where Western and Asian cultures intermingle frequently. Shiori is a intelligence operative for the Queen of the Western nations. The Queen orders Shiori to find out about the "serial mummified murder case." This case leads to Shiori becoming part of something she wish she wasn't.

Shoiri

Sebastian 

 I don't much about Black Butler but I do know that Shoiri is not the main character of the original. I also know that this is set 130 years later than the original. This adaptation seems to loosely follow the premise of the original. Sebastian is still here, of course and does the same thing he did in the original. Sebastian being a demon explains why he lived for an extra 130 years. Shoiri seems to be a "Ciel" clone, she dresses like him in some scenes and has the eye patch too!

As stated before I don't know much about Black Butler, and its probably good that I don't because I can actually see this movie with non-bias eyes. The film is out now in Japan. I won't post all the videos here. If want to see them all go here.

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Weekly Ramen Bites Nov. 4-9

This where I recognize all the news stories that I didn't during the week and post them all here for you.

Dragon Ball Z:Battle of Z's New English Trailer Features Flow's Cover Song - Well..... Its there. I like that you can get the Ninja suit for Goku. I haven't played any of the new Dragon Ball Z games since Budakai Tenkachi 3 on Wii. The cover isn't bad I..... just have affection for the old one.

GTO Early Years get sequel. - This will not die. It will not go away. Ever! It is true, there will be a sequel. It will still follow, Oni-Baku the duo of Eikichi and Ryuji. Seriously though why won't you die. I like you but die.

Sword Art Online: Extra Edition to Stream Worldwide - OMG! I can't wait! The spciecial will air January 1st 2014 and be avaliable immediately after it airs in Japan on Crunchyroll and Daisuki.

One Piece Celebrates 300 Million Copies with Special Prefecture Posters - 300 Million copies! How many milestones are you going to set Japan! First it was Twitter than Television and now manga! Well....... not exactly manga since the record wasn't set or shown to be broken but its still a feat nonetheless.

"Yea! We broke a record!" That's what Luffy would say.

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500,000,000 for Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop Live Action without Keanu Reeves

Not sure if you been keeping up with this project but Keanu Reeves has been trying to make a live action adaptation of Cow
boy Bebop for some time now. During a Q&A session on Reddit this past Sunday, a fan asked about his Cowboy Bebop project Reeves responded with;

Cowboy Bebop does not look like it is going to happen with me in it. The script that was written was great and amazing, but it would cost like half a billion dollars to make it, and while I wished and hoped I would have done that project, we are working on trying to get Bill & Ted 3. There's a script and we are trying to put it together.

Twentieh Century Fox, 3 Arts Entertainment, and the anime studio, Sunrise were on to produce the film. Its still possible that the movie will happen just not as soon as we would like. Keanu Reeves was slated to play Spike in this adaptation but it looks like that's not going to happen. I'm excited for this, I really am. The screenplay is being written by Peter Craig, who wrote The Town which is a really good movie. Thanks to Pacific Rim a Cowboy Bebop movie might actually be good. My only concern is how will it play out and which characters will make an appearance in the movie. Will it be just Spike and Jet or will Faye and Edward be in it as well? 

We won't know but we'll just have to wait and see. See ya, Space Cowboys n' Girls. 

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Weekly Ramen Feast Oct. 14-19

Sentai Filmworks Adds 3rd Season of Phi-Brain Anime - The North American licensing company Sentai Filmworks will release Phi-Brain for Home Video. The show is currently on Crunchyroll.

Kingdom Hearts III's D23 Expo Japan Game Footage Streamed - This footage gets me a little excited for the game. I still won't rush out to get the PS4 but this will speed up time to purchase one.
Persona 3 The Movie #1's 3rd Promo, Key Visual Unveiled -Its been a while since I reported on the Persona 3 movie and it looks good. Not intresting but good, if they cut a better trailer then maybe.

Pacific Rim games comes to PS3 - Now PS3 owners can experience this critically panned video game for themselves. I don't see anything special about the game and none of the trailers I've seen makes me want to play it. I liked the movie, I mean I really liked the movie. Really, really like the movie.

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Weekly Ramen Feast Oct. 7-12

Learn English with Tiger & Bunny (and Probably Vice Versa, Too) - The release of the english dubbed episode 1 movie will come with the movie script both in English and Japanese. If wanted to Japanese this could be a great opportunity.

Guilty Crown, Red Raven Manga to End in November - Square Enix monthly magazine Shonen Gangan annouced that both Guilty Crown and Red Raven will end next month or more specifically on November 12. There was a manga to this!

NHK TV Program: New Pikachu Game Is in the Works - A new pikachu? Great! No really it is. Pikachu Snap! that game for the N64 was different. It didn't seem like much but having a microphone and talking to Pikachu was kind of cool. Then there was the Pikachu giga pet toy and..... I'll stop now.

Viz Adds Terra Formars, Ore Monogatari, Black Rose Alice Manga - Lots of new manga titles including Battle Royale: Angels Border. This is pretty cool.

Funimation Unveils Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians' Dub Cast - The cast is out and.... there are a couple of stand outs. Josh Grelle will play Doctor Kada, and Catlin Glass will paly Shuusou. There are a couple more but those two actors stand out to me the most. I've never read the manga nor have I watched the anime but I've heard things many good many bad, it doesn't look like my thing but I knew you would like it.

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Sazae-san makes Digital Transition

Didn't we just do a news story on this anime?

It's back in the news again this month. Not for record breaking (unless you consider this a record as well), but for making the digital transition. That's right Sazae-san is no longer using physical cels for animation, and going to digital next month. According the Association of Japenese Animation Sazae-san was the only TV anime still using cels. Since its airing in 1962 the show has always been hand drawn cels.

I'm impressed. Over 2200 episodes drawn by hand! Granted not all the episodes were full length but that's still impressive nonetheless. Its kind of sad too. The last TV anime to use hand drawn cels, most of people's favorite anime has been hand drawn by cels. Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, and many others. I'm sure hand drawn cels will still be used, not on TV. I'm sure some movies will still have some hand drawn scenes but animation making a transition to a digital format. In our modern age we see this transition in everything. In some schools Handwriting is no longer taught, its been replaced by typing.

I just hope animation schools don't stop teaching the hand drawn process.

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Weekly Ramen Feast Sept. 22-28

Sorry about not getting you last week as a treat I'll give you Sunday.

Tales of Xillia 2 RPG's English Promo Video Streamed - Is it bad to same I'm a little disappointed. I expected something more lavish.


New Pokémon XY Anime Trailer Introduces Ash's New Travel Companions - He gets new companion buddies, yes! *clears throat* I mean that's great.

Magi: Aratanaru Sekai 3DS Game's Promo Streamed - Another video game news story. Magi joins a long list of an anime with a video game.

Valvrave the Liberator 2nd Season's New TV Ad Streamed - This is the 10th ad for the new season. It premieres  October 10 with Aniplex of America, Crunchyroll, and Hulu streaming it. I've been meaning to watch this but I haven't gotten around to it. I'm sure I can catch up before season 2 starts.


Speaking of Mech's

The Tiger & Bunny Movie! - The movie may have already came out but the Blu-Ray/DVD release from Funimation will be coming October 1st.

Blue Exorcist film due Dec 17 - North America will get a limited edition Blu-Ray box set of the film. The price for the Blu-Ray is 89.99 and 39.99 for the DVD. That's a lot for Blu-ray but I can't talk since I was near to shelling out 110 dollars for the DVD set of Cowboy Bebop. A DVD box set!


Attack on Titan Parody of 2009 Freakout Video- It's not really news just something funny I wanted to share.

Crunchyroll Streams:

Ace of Diamond

Samurai Flamenco

Meganebu, Galilei Donna, & Walkure Romanze

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Weekly Ramen Feast Sept 1-7

A new month lets see whats happens

Lightning Returns Samurai Costume Set Previewed in Videos - It looks cool, but I'm not going to post the video here. Not enough room.

but....

I will post Dead or Alive Ultimate trailer.

Its already so if you got a ps3 I suggest u get it. Now!

Speaking of video games.....

The preview of Attack on Titan 3DS game also came out this week. It looks ok nothing impressive. Its a 3DS game so don't expect top shelf graphics but it would be cool to play.

Guinness Certifies Sazae-san as Longest Running Animated Show - Since 1969 Sazae-san has aired of 2200 episodes.

Too lazy to do anything else for now.

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Weekly Ramen Feast Aug 19-24

It's been a slow news week but I think I've scavenged enough. Lots of video game stories so.. Yay!

Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō Spinoff Manga Launches - A new manga by Chimaki Kuori, was published in the October issue of Champion Red magazine on Monday. It takes place right after the events of Saint Seiya, this manga will follow a "saintia" who fights evil to protect Athena. I wasn't into Saint Seiya before but I might just this manga a try. If I like it I might just read Saint Seiya again.

U.S. Trailer for 3rd Disgaea - The streaming trailer for the 3rd English Disgaea game. Being someone who hasn't played a Disgaea game it looks fun.

Killzone Games Inspire Manga 1-Shot in Shōnen Ace Magazine - I'm usually very nervous and happy about these type of things. On one hand I love having any universe expand beyond its original medium to tell a different side or a story, or highlight something that was in the background. I am fan of the Killzone games and the universe itself so I'll be watching this closely.

Tales of Symphonia: Unisonant Pack Remaster's Sheena Promo Streamed -

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