Pokémon The Origin Anime 1'st PV: Visual and Characters Unveiled

As you may know already a Pokémon anime is underway, called Pocket Monsters: The Origin. And now the Pokemon Company posted a promotional video, new key image, and character information for Pocket Monsters: The Origin television anime special on Saturday. The promotional video was shown at the "Pokémon Game Show" event held at the Tokyo Big Sight event center on Saturday. The Pokémon Hitokage (Charmander), Ishitsubute (Geodude), Kamex (Blastoise), Lizardon (Charizard) and Shiten'nō (Elite Four) member Wataru (Lance) are featured in the promotional video.

According to the website, the main character is a boy named Red with his partner Hitokage/Charmander:

His rival is named Green. (Red and Green are the default names in the original video games.)

Professor Okido (Professor Oak), Gym Leader Takeshi (Brock), Red's mother, and Team Rocket will also appear in this special set in Kanto, the first region ever seen in the Pokémon franchise.

In the fierce battle with Team Rocket's leader Sakaki (Giovanni), Red will encounter a strange Pokémon. The characters are based from Nintendo's original Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green (released as Pokémon Blue in North America) video games.


The special will premiere in Japan on October 2 at 7:00 p.m.

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Pokémon: The Origin TV Anime to Premiere in Japan on October 2

This is a first! The Pocket Monsters: The Origin television anime will premiere in Japan on October 2 at 7:00 p.m. The anime was announced at the "Pokémon Game Show" event held at the Tokyo Big Site event center on Saturday.

Images from a promotional video shown at the event reveal that the anime will feature the player and rival characters from Nintendo's original Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green (released as Pokémon Blue in North America) video games. The original games' and television series' first gym leader Takeshi (known as Brock in English) will also appear in the upcoming anime. The Pokémon Hitokage (Charmander), Ishitsubute (Geodude), and Kamex (Blastoise) are featured in the promotional video.

The separate Pocket Monsters XY television anime series will premiere in Japan on October 17 as a tie-in with the Pokémon X and Pokémon Y games. Pre-orders for Pokémon X and Pokémon Y opened in Japan on August 10, and the games will ship for the Nintendo 3Ds worldwide on October 12.


Source: Dengeki Online

Yowamushi Pedal TV Anime's 1st PV

The official website for the Yowamushi Pedal anime began streaming its first promotional video on Saturday. The video introduces the series' main cycling team: Sakamichi Onodo (Daiki Yamashita), Shunsuke Imaizumi (Kousuke Toriumi), Shōkichi Naruko (Jun Fukushima), Shingo Kinjō (Hiroki Yasumoto), Yūsuke Makishima (Showtaro Morikubo), and Jin Tadokoro (Kentarou Itou).

Also joining the cast is Megumi Han as Aya Tachibana, Ayaka Suwa as Miki Kanzaki, Junichi Suwabe as Toji Kanzaki, Daisuke Kishio as Junta Tejima, Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yasutomo Arakita, Satoshi Hino as Hayato Shinkai, Tetsuya Kakihara as Jinpachi Tōdō, Tomoaki Maeno as Juichi Fukutomi, Tsubasa Yonaga as Sangaku Manami, Atsushi Abe as Tōichirō Izumida, and Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Hajime Aoyagi.

Osamu Nabeshima (D.Gray-man, Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, Zetman) will direct the anime at TMS Entertainment. Reiko Yoshida (Tamako Market, K-ON!, Bakuman.) will be in charge of series composition, while Takahiko Yoshida (Welcome to the NHK, Big Windup!) will serve as character designer.

The story centers around Sakamichi Onoda, a high school otaku who loves figures from anime and games so much that he would ride his commuter bicycle to and from Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district in a 90-kilometer (about 60-mile) round trip over steep slopes. Onoda ends up joining the competitive sport of bicycle racing.

Wataru Watanabe launched the original manga in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in 2008, and the story already inspired stage plays. The limited edition of the manga's 29th volume bundled an original anime DVD with the same main cast as the television series on August 8.

The anime series is slated to premiere in Japan this October.


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Daisuki: to Stream Cowboy Bebop TV Anime

The anime streaming service Daisuki announced at its panel at Otakon on Saturday that it will stream Shinichiro Watanabe and Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop television anime series. Funimation had announced at its panel earlier in the day that it had licensed the series and plans to release the series for the first time digitally and on Blu-ray Disc. Funimation plans to release the series on home video in 2014. Bandai Entertainment previously held the license to the series. The series originally aired in Japan in 1998-1999.

Sunrise producer Masayuki Ozaki noted at the Daisuki panel that he hopes that Cowboy Bebop will be available on Daisuki just before Funimation re-releases the series on home video in 2014.

Daisuki launched in May and is also streaming Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Lupin the 3rd, The Prince of Tennis, Sword Art Online, Mobile Suit Z Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, Gundam UC, Dragon Ball Z, and One Piece. The site is also streaming Monogatari Series Second Season, Nekomonogatari (Black), Nisemonogatari, and Bakemonogatari this summer.

Yowamushi Pedal Anime will premiere this October

This year's 36th issue of Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine is announcing on Thursday that that the television anime of Wataru Watanabe's Yowamushi Pedal manga will premiere this October.

The story centers around Sakamichi Onoda, a high school otaku who loves figures from anime and games so much that he would ride his commuter bicycle to and from Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district in a 90-kilometer (about 60-mile) round trip over steep slopes. Onoda ends up joining the competitive sport of bicycle racing.

Watanabe launched the manga in the magazine in 2008, and the story already inspired stage plays.