From Up On Poppy Hill blowout and two big double-sided posters!
Summer means Ghibli films! Studio Ghibli’s newest work, From Up On Poppy Hill, opens July 16th, and the August issue of Animage includes five interviews: director Goro Miyazaki, producer Toshi Suzuki, character designer and animation director Katsuya Kondo, Umi’s actress Masami Nagasawa, and Shun’s actor Junichi Okada! We give a teaser of the story and point out key points of the film!
Also included are two B2 size reversible posters♪ Twice the size of the usual B3 magazine insert, these impressive Tiger & Bunny and Inazuma Eleven posters are anything but ordinary♥ The reverse sides are full of info you won’t want to miss, too! The Tiger & Bunny poster features character drafts with commentary by director Keiichi Sato, while Inazuma Eleven features a guide to the Endoh arc’s DVDs by Endoh’s actress Junko Takeuchi. These are posters you can gaze upon or read☆
And as the season turns to summer, the industry also turns to autumn! We cover upcoming titles like the Level 5 / Sunrise tieup Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, Guilty Crown, Squid Girl!?, and more! Which shows do our editors have their eyes on? Fond out!
The popular Book in Book feature this month covers shrine maidens♥ We examine bewitching shamanesses from Aria the Scarlet Ammo, Steins;Gate, Blue Exorcist, and Blood-C! (One of them’s a cross-dresser, but that’s a plus in our book♥)
This issue we also have three hot pinups! Both pairs Blue Exorcist brothers in yukata, Suite Precure’s Hibiki and Kanade on summer vacation, and Carnival Phantasm’s lineup of swimsuit-clad Type-Moon heroines all appear☆ Also from Blue Exorcist is an interview with the actors of the Devil Brothers, Hiroshi Kamiya and Tetsuya Kakihara, lineart, and lots of info♥ Add in a K-on! Light Music Club Summer Vacation game you can play with your own friends over summer vacation, and you have an August issue no anime fan will want to miss!
■ Cover story: From Up On Poppy Hill: Climbing the hills of our town, I think of him.
Prescreening guide
Interviews: director Goro Miyazaki, producer Toshi Suzuki, character designer and animation director Katsuya Kondo, Umi Komatsuzaki’s actress Masami Nagasawa, Shun Kazama’s actor Junichi Okada
■ Autumn’s premieres: The curtain rises!
01 Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, 02 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, 03 Guilty Crown, 04 Squid Girl!?, 05 Un-Go, 06 Wagnaria!!
Production staffs discuss the keys to victory!
■ Book in Book: “Holy Shrine Maidens”
01 Aria the Scarlet Ammo: Shirayuki Hotogi, 02 Steins;Gate: Ruka Urushibara, 03 Blue Exorcist: Izumo Kamiki, 04 Blood-C: Saya Kisaragi, The designer’s Nanoha’s Yasuhiro Okuda♪ Check him out in Himetama!
■ Bonuses
Super-size B2 reversible posters!
Tiger & Bunny
A-side: Lineart and commentary from director Keiichi Sato and others
B-side: “Heroes Complete!!”
Inazuma Eleven
A-side: Junko Takeuchi’s complete guide to the Endoh-arc DVDs!
B-side: Raimon Junior High Culture Festival!
Source: Gundam.Info
