Anime Vice Anime/Manga News

Bandai Entertainment has a guest from Lantis, Ai Takai, with an announcement from Bandai Visual Japan, which teamed up with Lantis (a music production company): They're going to release Jpop and anime music on iTunes in the US and Canada starting later this month or next month at the latest. They're talking up some of the artists now, including JAM Project, Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, CooRie, Yozuca, and Minami Kurabayaki.

That is really cool.

Back to Bandai Entertainment proper, run by marketing head Bob Napton and president Ken Iyadomi. This next bit is the sum-up of current and upcoming titles. I'll just share release dates as they go through.

Sword of the Stranger out now...
Kurokami DVD info ncoming soon
Code Geass is currently airing on Adult Swim at 2am, and the first part of R2 is coming out in August, with a regular edition and special with volume 4 of the manga-- that should be interesting.
Gundam 00 second season is also airing on SyFy. Season 1 part 1 is due out July 21st; special edition has the first manga volume and Gundam 00-F, neither of which will be released until sometime later.
Gurren Lagann is out in its entirety of course.
The Lucky Star OVA is due out the first week of August at an SRP of $14.98-- no dub, but a few extras, like the Washinomiya Lucky Star Event and some Lucky Channel stuff.
Hayate no Gotoku is also dub-less, episodes 1-7 on July 21st for $39.98.
.hack//G.U. Trilogy is $19.98 and due out in August, also no dub. Extras include "parody mode." Hmm!
True Tears is due in July as an Anime Legends release.
Aaaaand sola is also due in August in a complete collection.
FREEDOM standard-def and anime legends Eureka Seven are both due out this month.

Volume 2 of the Code Geass light novels are due out soon. Suzaku of the Counter-Attack is on sale now, both volumes.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time manga is also due out this month.
Lucky Star volume 1 is on sale currently, came out about a week ago. Volume 2 in September. Apparently it's doing very well!
Gundam 00 regular and Gundam 00F will be out in August and October respectively, but both are available early with the Gundam 00 season 1 part 1 special edition.
The Eureka Seven manga is being released in an omnibus, the first of a series we're told, in September.
Witchblade Takeru of course just got nominated for a Harvey again; omnibus in November.

ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!

It's another Bones item. Let's see...the Eureka Seven movie.   Looks very AU from the series, but it's Bones, so it'll be awesome-lookin'. They're calling the movie now "Eureka Seven -good night, sleep tight, young lovers-."

And more: on September 24th they'll have a one-night-only engagement with Fathom at 3-400 theaters, like Sword of the Stranger and other films. Sweet! Tickets go on sale August 21st. It'll be the debut of the English-language version, so sounds like dub. You can check out their site for the movie, eurekasevenmovie.bandai-ent.com, which is currently up and running.

Part three of the announcement? Also live right now, ANN is now streaming the Eureka Seven TV series.

Q&A session-- someone asked about Haruhi season 2, but it's "classified." Someone's asking about Blu-Ray, which of course they have several releases of.

The end!