Action manga Btooom! becomes an anime - See the trailer

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A promotional trailer for the anime adaptation of Junya Inoue’s action manga Btooom! Was recently released. Here it is:






Synopsis
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Ryūta Sakamoto is a NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) who just so happens to be a star player on the online action game Btooom! Things get very dicey for him when he wakes up on a tropical island with no memory of how he got there and finds himself being attacked by people using weapons from the game.</em>

The cast has already been selected with live-action actor Kanata Hongou (Jōichirō Nishi in Gantz) taking the lead role of Ryūta Sakamoto. He has support from veteran seiyuu including Yūichi Nakamura (Gray Fullbuster in Fairy Tail), Toru Ohkawa (Roy Mustang in FMA), Suzuko Mimori (Michi Kondō in Lagrange &ndash; The Flower of Rin-ne), and Miyuki Sawashiro (Canaan in Canaan).

The adaptation is directed by Kotono Watanabe who is making his debut as a series director. His previous experience as director include episodes of Chihayafuru and Magi Madoka Magica. He will be working off scripts written by Yousuke Kuroda (Highschool of the Dead). Nano is performing the opening theme, &ldquo;No Pain, No Game&rdquo;, while May&rsquo;n is performing the end theme, &ldquo;Blue Skies&rdquo;. The anime studio Madhouse is animating the project.

<a href="http://www.animenation.net/blog/2012/08/13/first-btooom-trailer-released/">Source</a>
 
I'm really looking forward to this one, I really enjoy the manga. Hoping they'll do an anime of Cage of Eden sometime as well.
 
I think Booom sounds better than the less conventional Btooom. But I'll run with it.

Also why do the Japanese love the term NEET? According to wiki the term originated in the UK, but I'd never heard it once before Eden of the East. So it seems completely bizarre that the acronym would become more commonplace in Japan, where it's just a completely random word to use for many Japanese, who no doubt won't understand the acronym due to it being in a different language and alphabet from their own. Odd.

Round ere the word "bum" gets the job done :lol:
 
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