New trailers for Sky Crawlers, Blade of the Immortal

Paul

Paul

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Several impressive new trailers have been released recently and here's a quick run-down of what to look out for:
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<li>A new (and much longer) trailer for Mamoru "Ghost in the Shell" Oshii's Sky Crawlers <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiTx10ZGYb0">has been placed on YouTube</a>. The theatrical movie, previously described as a "a philosophical story built around the visceral trials and tribulations of a group young fighter pilots who are forced into fighting a "war for entertainment"" will be out in Japan later this summer.</li>

<li>The official website for the anime adaptation of Blade of the Immortal (a violent, supernatural samurai epic) has gone live with an <a href="http://mugen.kc.kodansha.co.jp/eizou.html">extended streaming flash trailer</a>. Be warned, it contains bloody gore.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjVdMgbz5ak">A 35-second teaser for the live action thriller 20th Century Boys has appeared online</a>. It&rsquo;s set to become the most expensive Japanese film project of all time, being based on Naoki "Monster, Master Keaton" Urasawa&rsquo;s multi-generational manga of same name. The story involves a group of men who, as childhood friends in the 1970s, wrote (and then buried) a comic-book manuscript that describes a massive terrorist attack on the civilized world. Decades later, their story, including every insignificant little detail, starts to come true.</li>
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Sky Crawlers is looking every bit as good as I am hoping it will be. Definitely notable use of music too. Really can't wait to see it.
 
Looks awesome! I can't wait :) So long as Oshii doesn't overcook the philosophy this time around it will hopefully be a classic.
 
Sky Crawlers; I so want this to be licensed and dubbed. It's the only other series that has used the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden which was a WW2 experimental fighter with an advanced design for its time that only actually flew for 45 minutes during a test, just before the Japanese surrender, which ended it's production, and then forgotten until re-discovered in old archives. It is speculated that the 2 prototypes were distroyed so that the Allies wouldn't steal the design for their own use, but it was soon obsolete anyway with the invention of the jet fighter in Germany and, shortly later at Farnborough. "Oh My Goddess" had a story arc about it in the manga, which coincidentaly is where I first learned about it.
 
Mohawk52 said:
Sky Crawlers; I so want this to be licensed and dubbed. It's the only other series that has used the Kyushu J7W1 Shinden .....
"Oh My Goddess" had a story arc about it in the manga, which coincidentaly is where I first learned about it.
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It's an awesome plane and I'v seen it in OMG as well =) had to check the name of the plane again though. The helix thing is really weird =P
 
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