Bleach to go on 5 week hiatus before finale

Kubo Tite’s Sword-slinging Shinigami manga Bleach is nearing it’s final chapter and to prepare for this the author is planning to take a 5 week break starting from Shonen Jump’s 35th issue. Bleach’s final battle “Sennen Kessen-Hen – Ketsubetsu-tan” will begin in SJ’s 41st issue on September 9th of this year. I guess it takes a long time to draw blank spaces and an over-abundance of speed lines.

via ANN

“All You Need Is Kill” sci-fi novel to be adapted as live action movie starring Tom Cruise

“All You Need is Black Ops”

In a terrifying revelation the likes of the mercifully cancelled Cowboy Keanu and AmeriKira, Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s epic time-looping sci-fi action novel “All You Need is Kill” is set to open in the US on June 6th 2014 under the name “Edge of Tomorrow”. The film will star Tom Cruise Emily Blunt, Charlotte Riley, Kick Gurry, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste and is directed by the honestly not-too-shabby Doug Lipman (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Bourne Identity). If we’re lucky the movie will be so far removed from the original IP it may turn out to be a half decent summer action flick and if it tries too hard to reference the source material but in a more “localized” way then we may end up with something like this:

via ANN

Third Season of Hajime no Ippo greenlit

Mega manly long-running Dempsey Roll manga Hajime no Ippo (Fighting Spirit) is set to have a third season of its anime adaptation released. As a long-time fan of the series I look forward to more punch up action.

via ANN

“Code Geass: Akito the Exiled” second episode promo

The Second OVA episode of the Code Geass Gaiden is set to premier this September and this promo trailer teases at all the sweet sexy mech battles and political intrigue that is sure to ensue.

via JEFusion

“Tiger and Bunny: The Rising” trailer reveals new Hero

Sunrise’s stylish Tokusatsu-esque series Tiger and Bunny has a promo for it’s second film featuring new hero “Golden Ryan” whose superpowers look to be high-level douchiness. Hmm, “Ryan” huh? Would this make the show “Lion and Bunny” now? ^_^ See below for the fabulous justice-filled goodness.