

The artists of top anime studios Production IG, Gainax, Madhouse and Bones each provide an image comparing the most iconic characters of their studios – just which studio is victorious is doubtless in the eye of the beholder.
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The many fans of Darker Than Black’s second season have been disturbed to note a production error of epic magnitude, with the anime mysteriously featuring a flying car thanks to the evident thoroughness of its quality control procedures.
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The newly released preview for the upcoming Halo Legends anime (below) has impressed many, but some can’t help but notice some curious discrepancies between the anime and the game, such as the complete absence of ranged combat in favour of lots of jumping around and punching…
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The spectacular trailer to the newly announced Halo anime has been unveiled, and is visible below:
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Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing an anime based on the Halo franchise, employing some of the top names in the anime industry.
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Plans for a new Darker Than Black animation were strongly hinted at in the infamous Bones animator list that was leaked to the public last year, but it is now official – a continuation to Darker Than Black was revealed in the latest Young GanGan magazine.
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A new CM for the new Fullmetal Alchemist remake (鋼の錬金術師) aired after the latest airing of Gundam 00.
It can be seen below:
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The new series of highly popular alchemy anime Hagane no Renkinjutsushi – Full Metal Alchemist, which we first heard of in the Bones scandal, has had its release date confirmed, along with its website launched.
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The big development hinted at some time ago, and revealed in the leaked Bones documents, has finally had a formal announcement, though details are yet scant – there is to be a new Full Metal Alchemist TV anime.
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All the indications are that the leaked Bones animator list was at some point a company document after all: anime industry group “The Association of Japanese Animations”, as well as several other industry groups, have issued statements deploring the uploading of a file containing the personal details of animators and vowing to tighten handling of this sort of data to ensure no repeat.
Every company in the industry must make more strident efforts to administer employee information, they say, in what sounds like a slight to the errant Bones.
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The recently leaked and rather controversial Bones animator list has been disowned by Bones as not being an internal company document, however as Moon Phase rightly points out, they have not touched upon the genuineness of the information contained within (the personal details are thought to be genuine), nor shed any light on the provenance of the document.
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A document purporting to be the internal performance review of animators working at notable studio Bones (FMA, Scrapped Princess, RahXephon) has surfaced, and the callow, if not vicious, statements in it are sure spell a PR calamity should there prove to be so much as a grain of truth to them, and that is without taking into account the egregious leak of the personal information of hundreds of animators, as their full names, addresses, work details, etc, are also present. On to the excerpts.
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