#MovieNEWS Blade of the Immortal - Official Trailer

Great news everyone!

One of my favorite Japanese film directors is back with an adaptation I didn't expect...!

Takashi Miike is making an adaptation of "Blade of the Immortal".

A now-sadly obscure great samurai manga from the early 2000s. I only read like two volumes of it, but I remember really loving these books. (I had the above volume!) It's about an immortal samurai warrior seeking revenge against those who betrayed him.

Here is the first proper "red-band" trailer:.



It looks AWESOME!!

And some people (on the internet..) dare say the Japanese adaptation of manga series are not great... Sigh..

The film will be out in November in some places worldwide (September in the US, in Texas!).

MR Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3

Or as I like to call it, "Teenage Mutant Samurai Frogs"!~

The Turtles are back... in time!

Find more TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA REVIEWDS on this very same blog!

Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / The Secret of the Ooze

#Movies NEWS! Ranma + Kenshin proper trailers

Let's check out on upcoming live manga-adaptations!

But first, check out this -totally unrelated-new poster for Sam Raimi's 2013 Oz: the Great and Powerful. Which is going to be a prequel of the old classic.
Was it really necessary? And why not a sequel, there's several "official" books sequel to the original story, why make a prequel which won't feature scarecrows or lions in it? Do we really need "the untold secret past" of Oz?...

sigh...

Manga NEWS! Kenshin gets a trailer

And now the live adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin gets a trailer!



And it looks pretty cool!
Another anime getting a pretty much perfect adaptation?

RabbidsTV - Samurai Rabbid

Speaking of Rayman, I've been watching some shorts featuring the Rabbids from the Rayman Raving Rabbids games.

Ubisoft sure loves 'em (and I know, we all know, don't need to mention it, they've been stealing Rayman's storm these past couple of years..but now both franchises live perfectly fine and on their own separate side).
They've been making fun CGi videos with 'em since day one.

Here's a pretty funny one from the TGS 2009:

Manga NEWS! Kenshin gets live

Here's yet another one of these recent movie adaptations from good ol' popular mangas/animes.

This one will also be a Japanese movie (like the recently announced Ranma, Phoenix Wright and Harlock) rather than an American butcher-job...
One of my all-time favorite classic mangas is getting the treatment this time.
Rurouni Kenshin!

Kenshin, for the ones of you who don't know, is a story about this self-titled young retired Samurai living in the Meiji Era. (after the long Edo period, Meiji marked the time when Japan decided to live the old rules away, start opening his culture to the outside world and progress and Samurais became obsolete)

Outcast Studios - LIVE DRAW NIGHT December 2011

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Hi guys!
Yesterday evening was my 4th participation in the Outcast forums all-new "Live Draw Nights" for this quarter!
(You can find all my previous blogs by either following my meme tag or checking out the following links for the LDN February 2011, LDN May 2011 & LDN September 2011)

This weekend was yet another rude sessions of sketching, sketching and even more sketching!
Like before, I tried to keep my Twitter account updated as I went along.

If you're just joining me and don't know in what this LDN art jam challenge consists, it was roughly 4 hours long of various challenge thrown at us.
It's kinda like being in a "virtual convention" with various online members of the Outcast forums, getting various different challenges every hour and having to quickly (either digitally or traditionally) draw a lot of random characters.
It's a real challenging practice.
It was fun to get all together and draw, draw, draw! Keep our senses sharp and our hand fast. A great way to work your skills if you will!

Like the previous times, we had a great time. Various characters and fun ideas during the night.
Just trying to keep up is a fun challenge in itself!~

Now, let's dig into yesterday's entries!