Bakumatsu Rock - [Studio DEEN] - [2014]

Alternative title:

Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock-

幕末Rock (Japanese)

Themes: Music

In the Bakumatsu era, at the end of the shoguns' rule over Japan in the middle of the 19th century: the Tokugawa shogunate uses the brainwashing Heaven's Songs by the top idols in Shinsengumi to subjugate the country and its people. In this Japan, writing or singing any songs besides the Heaven's Songs is a capital offence. Sakamoto Ryouma and the other rockers rise up and change the world with rock 'n' roll for freedom and justice.

Opening Theme:

#1: "Jack" by vistlip

Ending Theme:

#1: "Zetchō DAYBREAK" by Ultra-Souls.

Insert song:

"Hachinoji Distortion" (ハチノジディストーション) by Showtaro Morikubo

"Hikari no Genseki" (光の原石) by Keiji Fujiwara

"INTERSECT -Tenka Version" by Toshiyuki Morikawa & Kensho Ono

"INTERSECT" by Kishô Taniyama, Toshiyuki Morikawa, & Kensho Ono

"Kyōmei Suzumu Uta" (共鳴進歌) by Kensho Ono

"Over Mirage" (非常幻想（オーバーミラージュ）) by Toshiyuki Morikawa & Kensho Ono

"Rolling Thunder" by Kishô Taniyama, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, & Showtaro Morikubo

"What's this?" by Ultra Souls

"Zankyō - feedback -" (残響 -feedback-) by Kensho Ono

Official website:

TVアニメ『幕末Rock』公式HP (Japanese)

Reviews:

Bakumatsu Rock ‒ Episode 12 (Sep 17, 2014)

Bakumatsu Rock ‒ Episode 11 (Sep 10, 2014)

Bakumatsu Rock ‒ Episode 10 (Sep 3, 2014)

Bakumatsu Rock (Aug 29, 2014)

Bakumatsu Rock ‒ Episode 9 (Aug 29, 2014)

Bakumatsu Rock ‒ Episodes 1-8 (Aug 29, 2014)

News:

Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, October 20-26 (Oct 28, 2014)

Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, October 20-26 (Oct 28, 2014)

Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, September 29-October 5 (Oct 21, 2014)

Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, September 22-28 (Sep 30, 2014)

Bakumatsu Rock: Ultra Soul's Yoshinobu Tokugawa, Naosuke Ii Promo Streamed (Sep 4, 2014)

Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, August 25-31 (Sep 2, 2014)

Anime Available on Viewster (Aug 7, 2014)

New Bakumatsu Rock Game to Bundle Bonus Anime Episode (Jul 10, 2014)

Sentai Filmworks Adds Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock- Anime (Jul 10, 2014)

Persona 4 Voice Actor Showtaro Morikubo Marries (Jul 4, 2014)

Crunchyroll Adds Bakumatsu Rock Anime (Jun 30, 2014)

Bakumatsu Rock Game Briefly Listed for PS Vita in September (Jun 28, 2014)

Bakumatsu Rock TV Ad Introduces Samurai-Era Rocker Ryōma (Jun 26, 2014)

Bakumatsu Rock TV Anime's 1st Promo Video Previews Opening (May 19, 2014)

vistlip to Perform Opening Theme for Bakumatsu Rock Anime (May 8, 2014)

Xseed to Announce New PSP Title, But Not Bakumatsu Rock (May 7, 2014)

Bakumatsu Rock Manga Starts This Month in Zero-Sum (Mar 10, 2014)

Bakumatsu Rock Game for Female Players Gets TV Anime in July (Mar 7, 2014)

Press Release:

Sentai Filmworks Licenses Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock- (Jul 11, 2014)

Other articles:

The Summer 2014 Anime Preview Guide - Samurai Jam - Bakumatsu Rock (Jul 2, 2014)

Sources: wiki/Bakumatsu_Rock, animenewsnetwork.com, animeclick.it

Bakumatsu Rock (幕末Rock) is a Japanese video game by Marvelous AQL. It was adapted into a manga series, Bakumatsu Rock -howling soul-, that began on March 28, 2014 and into an anime television series, Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock-, that premiered on July 2, 2014.^[1][2][3][4] The anime is streamed on Crunchyroll.^[5] Another game, Bakumatsu Rock: Ultra Soul, was released on September 25, 2014.^[6]

Characters

• Ryōma Sakamoto

Voiced by: Kishō Taniyama

• Shinsaku Takasugi

Voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki

• Kogorō Katsura

Voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo

• Toshizō Hijikata

Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa

• Sōji Okita

Voiced by: Kensho Ono

• Naosuke Ii

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto

• Yoshinobu Tokugawa

Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga

• Isami Kondō

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara

Reception

On Anime News Network, Hope Chapman, Carl Kimlinger and Rebecca Silverman gave the first episode of the anime a rating of 2 out of 5 and Theron Martin gave it a rating of 3.5 out of 5.^[7]

Music

• OP: Jack by vistlip
• ED: Zetchō DAYBREAK (絶頂DAYBREAK) by Chō Tamashī Dan (Kishō Taniyama, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Shōtarō Morikubo, Toshiyuki Morikawa & Kenshō Ono)
• Over Mirage (非常幻想（オーバーミラージュ）) by Toshiyuki Morikawa & Kenshō Ono
• Rolling Thunder by Kishō Taniyama, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, & Shōtarō Morikubo
• INTERSECT by Kishō Taniyama, Toshiyuki Morikawa, & Kenshō Ono
• REACTION by Tatsuhisa Suzuki
• Zankyō -feedback- (残響 -feedback-) by Kenshō Ono
• Hachinoji Distortion (ハチノジディストーション) by Shōtarō Morikubo

Italian:

L’edizione di aprile del mensile Animedia ha annunciato la messa in produzione di una serie anime TV per il videogioco Bakumatsu Rock, ed ha rivelato che il debutto dell’anime è già stato fissato per l’estate 2014.

Il gioco è ambientato nell’era Bakumatsu e parla di un’avventura rivoluzionaria combattuta a suon di musica rock, lo slogan è “Dai inizio alla rivoluzione dell’era Bakumatsu a colpi di canzoni!” 

Siamo in Giappone nell’era Bakumatsu alla fine del dominio dello shogun – metà XIX secolo –; lo shogunato Tokugawa utilizza i top idol della Shinsengumi per soggiogare i cittadini e la nazione. Quando i membri della Shinsengumi cantano la “Heaven's Song”, la popolazione subisce un totale lavaggio del cervello. Comporre musica, cantare o suonare altre canzoni, che non siano la “canzone del paradiso”, è severamente proibito, i trasgressori sono puniti con la pena capitale. Ciò nonostante, Ryoma Sakamoto e un gruppo di rocker si ribelleranno, e cercheranno di cambiare il mondo: rock 'n' roll per la libertà, rock 'n' roll per la giustizia!

Itsuro Kawasaki (Arc the Lad) dirige il progetto presso lo  Studio DEEN; Mitsutaka Hirota (The Prince of Tennis II, X-Men) cura la sceneggiatura; mentre Akiharu Ishii (The Prince of Tennis, Blood+,Loups=Garous) disegna i personaggi.

Già sappiamo che il cast del videogioco viene impiegato anche al doppiaggio dell’anime:

• Kisho Taniyama - Ryoma Sakamoto;
• Tatsuhisa Suzuki - Shinsaku Takasugi;
• Showtaro Morikubo - Kogoro Katsura;
• Toshiyuki Morikawa - Toshizo Hijikata;
• Kensho Ono - Soji Okita.

Director: Itsuro Kawasaki

Series Composition: Mitsutaka Hirota

ADR Director: Itsuro Kawasaki

Script:

Megumu Sasano (eps 4-5, 8)

Mitsutaka Hirota (5 episodes)

Yoshiko Nakamura (eps 3, 7, 9-10)

Storyboard:

Hidetoshi Namura (eps 5-6)

Itsuro Kawasaki (OP; ED; eps 1-3, 12)

Nobukage Kimura (ep 11)

Ryoji Fujiwara (ep 4)

Takayuki Inagaki (eps 8, 10)

Tetsuto Saitoo (斉藤哲人; ep 9)

Yoshikazu Miyao (ep 7)

Unit Director:

Itsuro Kawasaki (OP; ED)

Mitsutoshi Satō (ep 3)

Naoki Murata (eps 2, 6)

Nobukage Kimura (ep 11)

Shunji Yoshida (eps 1, 5, 9)

Taro Kubo (eps 7, 12)

Tomoe Makino (ep 8)

Music: Tomoki Kikuya

Character Design: Akiharu Ishii

Art Director: Tsutomu Nishikura

Animation Director:

Akiharu Ishii (OP; ED; ep 12)

Akihito Asai (eps 1, 6, 11)

Akio Hirakawa (ep 5)

Akira Takeuchi (ep 10)

Atsushi Aono (ep 5)

Daisuke Takemoto (武木大介; ep 7)

Hajime Yoshida (ep 10)

Hirofumi Morimoto (eps 1, 6, 11)

Hironori Hano (ep 10)

Hiroyuki Kamura (ep 10)

Hitoshi Kamata (eps 3, 8)

Ikuko Matsushita (ep 5)

Kōdai Kitahara (eps 3, 6, 9, 12)

Masayuki Fujita (eps 5, 8-9)

Mizue Ogawa (ep 9)

Norie Kanekubo (ep 4)

Tomomi Kimura (eps 2, 7, 12)

Toshiyuki Yoshioka (ep 4)

Yae Ootsuka (ep 5)

Yoshiko Nakajima (eps 3, 8)

Yoshinori Deno (ep 8)

Youichi Ishikawa (eps 2, 7, 11)

Art design: Tsutomu Nishikura

3D Director: Kana Imagaki

Sound Director: Shoji Hata

Director of Photography: Shinyo Kondo

Executive producer:

Haruki Nakayama

Shuichi Kyoda

Producer:

Kentarō Hattori

Minako Aoki

Satoshi Noguchi

Tomoko Takahashi

Tsukuru Maruyama

Animation Production: Studio DEEN

Backgrounds:

Art Max

Art Rain

Studio Beam

Studio Jack

Finish Animation:

A-Line

Ace Company

Big Owl

Core

D-Motion

Echo

Hayashi KK

M.S.J Musashino Production

RIC

Rocket Vision

Studio Kuma

Triple A

In-Between Animation:

A-Line

Ace Company

Big Owl

Core

D-Motion

Echo

Hayashi KK

M.S.J Musashino Production

RIC

Rocket Vision

Studio Kuma

Triple A

Key Animation: Hebaragi (ep 8)

Original Creator: Marvelous AQL

Photography: Studio Twinkle

Production:

Marvelous AQL

NAS

NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan

TV Asahi Music

Production Cooperation: Studio Fantasia (eps 4, 10)

Log Horizon 2 - [Studio DEEN] - [2014]

Sources: WTK, 0takomu, Crunchyroll, animenewsnetwork.com, Anime News Network I, II, III, Crunchyroll

Official website:

NHKアニメワールド ログ・ホライズン (Japanese)

News:

Sentai Filmworks Adds Log Horizon 2 Sequel Anime (Oct 3, 2014)

Crunchyroll Adds Log Horizon 2 to Streaming Line-Up (Oct 1, 2014)

Log Horizon 2 Anime Moves to Studio DEEN (Sep 20, 2014)

Rie Murakawa, Yukiyo Fujii, Tsubasa Yonaga Join Log Horizon 2nd Season's Cast (Aug 18, 2014)

Log Horizon's 2nd TV Anime Series to Premiere This Fall (Mar 22, 2014)

Press Release:

Sentai Filmworks Licenses Log Horizon 2 (Oct 5, 2014)

Other articles:

The Fall 2014 Anime Preview Guide - Log Horizon 2 (Oct 4, 2014)

NHK Lists Log Horizon 2 Anime at 25 Episodes (Sep 16, 2014)

animenewsnetwork.com/preview-guide

The official website for second season of the Log Horizon anime announced the series will be animated by Studio DEEN unlike the previous season that was animated at Satelight. The 25-episode series will premiere in Japan on NHK's E-Tele channel on October 4.

The adaptation of Mamare Touno's novel begins when 30,000 Japanese gamers are trapped in the fantasy online game world Elder Tale. What was once a "sword-and-sorcery world" is now the "real world." Shiroe, Naotsugu, and Akasuki join together to survive.

Touno debuted his novel on the user-generated content site Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2010. Motoya Matsu then launched his Log Horizon Gaiden Honey Moon Logs manga adaptation in ASCII Media Works' Monthly Comic Deneaki Daioh magazine that same year. Kazuhiro Hara began serializing the main manga adaptation on Enterbrain's Famitsu Comic Clear website in 2012 also, and Koyuki began drawing another manga called Log Horizon ~Nishikaze no Ryodan~ in Fujimi Shobo's Age Premium website in 2012.

Yen Press licensed both the original novel series and Kazuhiro Hara's manga adaptation for releasenext year.

Shinji Ishihira is returning to direct the series with series composition by Toshizo Nemoto. Tetsuya Kumagai (Skip Beat!) is replacing Mariko Ito as character designer. Masakazu Miyake (Humanity Has Declined) is replacing Yuki Nomura as art director, Imari Katsuragi (Pupa) is replacingTomomi Murakami as color designer, and Shinyo Kondo (Is This a Zombie?) is replacing Yuujirou Yamane as the director of photography.

Veteran gamer Shiroe and other players have been trapped in the world of the online game Elder Tales for six months. The once chaotic city of Akiba has regained its everyday hustle and bustle following the formation of the self-governing organization Round Table Meeting. The earthlings, who are originally from the game world, have gained the trust of Shiroe by waging a defensive war against the Goblins in Zantleaf Region. This has led Princess Rayneshia of the Cowen family, the highest-ranking Earthling Aristocrats, to live in Akiba.

It's almost winter, and the Adventurers are thinking about what they're going to do and what their goals are in this other world. Will they remain in Akiba or go to the city of the West? Or will they travel to the land of the North or another faraway country? The opinions of the Adventurers begin to diverge. What adventures await the members of the Shiroe team in this second series of Log Horizon?

Italian:

L'emittente televisiva pubblica nipponica NHK,  dal sito ufficiale dedicato a questa seconda stagione, ha annunciato che gli episodi dell'anime saranno nuovamente 25.

La serie di light novel di Mamare Touno  inizialmente sono state trasposte in anime dallo studioSatelight, dando vita ad una prima stagione che ha potuto godere di un successo non indifferente; ma ora scopriamo che la seconda stagione invece sarà animata dallo Studio DEEN.

Il primo episodio è atteso per il prossimo 4 ottobre. Yun*chi tornerà anche in questa stagione per curare l'ending dell'anime, che prende il nome di Wonderful Wonderful World;i ritorno atteso  anche per i Man with a Mission, che torneranno con la loro Database, insieme a Takuma cantante dei 10-Feet. 

Antefatto: 30.000 videogiocatori rimangono intrappolati nel gioco fantasy Elder Tale. Il protagonista, Shiroe, tenta di sopravvivere insieme al suo amico Naotsugu e alla bella assassina Akatsuki, in questo mondo fantastico di magia e di spada, che ora rappresenta la loro realtà quotidiana.
Il sito ufficiale ci anticipa brevemente quel che vedremo nelle prossime puntate: in questa seconda stagione Shiroe e gli altri dovranno vedersela con l'arrivo dell'inverno, quindi una serie decisioni dovranno essere prese al più presto: rimanere ad Akiba o andare nella città dell'Ovest? Oppure esplorare le terre del Nord o magari cercare posti ancora sconosciuti? Gli avventurieri non sono tutti d'accordo sul da farsi. Quali avventure attendono la squadra di Shiroe in questa seconda stagione?

La novel ha debuttato online sul sito Shousetsuka ni Narou nel 2010. Motoya Matsu ha lanciato la sua versione manga, col titolo Log Horizon Gaiden Honey Moon Logs, sulla rivista Monthly Comic Deneaki Daioh della casa editrice ASCII Media Works durante il 2012. Questo non è l’unico manga, poiché ne esistono altri 2, iniziati sempre nel 2012: il primo disegnato da Kazuhiro Hara e serializzato sul sitoFamitsu Comic Clear della Enterbrain; il secondo di Koyuki, Log Horizon ~Nishikaze no Ryodan~, pubblicato sul sito di Age Premium della Fujimi Shobo.

Director: Shinji Ishihira

Series Composition: Toshizo Nemoto

Music: Yasuharu Takanashi

Original creator: Mamare Touno

Original Character Design: Kazuhiro Hara

Character Design: Tetsuya Kumagai

Art Director: Masakazu Miyake

Director of Photography: Shinyo Kondo

Color design: Imari Katsuragi

Theme Song Performance:

MAN WITH A MISSION

Yun*chi (ED)

Animation Production: Studio DEEN

Broadcaster: NHK (E-Tele)