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The official Twitter account for director Shoji Kawamori and anime studio Satelight's new project unveiled a new visual on Wednesday. The staff will hold a "New Project Briefing" at the nicofarre event hall in Tokyo's Roppongi district on October 17 to reveal the work's title and the main cast, who will be in attendance at the event. Kawamori is credited as the original creator, chief director, and mechanical designer of the new work. When Kawamori revealed the new television anime series during Anime Expo 2016, Satelight offered the following story description: The new series is set in a near-future world where the boundary between human being and AI is vague. A rapid biological evolution, similar to "Cambrian Explosion," is caused by one incident. This incident turns into the genesis of a new jostle for supremacy, and the influence of the evolution goes beyond biological framework and spreads to various kinds of materials and technologies. The era of massive evolution in

Macross Frontier's Risa Ebata designs characters voiced by Tomoaki Maeno, Nao Tōyama Anime creator Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Escaflowne, Aquarion) unveiled his latest title Jūshinki Pandora (Heavy Divine Unit Pandora) in a "New Project Briefing" event on Tuesday. The television anime series will premiere next spring. The tagline in the character visual above reads, "To live, we formed a pact." On the day the Xianglong (Shanron or Soaring Dragon) Crisis occurred in 2031, Leon Lau was right in the middle of the unfolding events. The Quantum Reactor, a next generation energy device developed to replace dwindling environmental resources, exploded and unleashed an unknown energy. As a result, the global environment changed overnight. Living things (besides humans) and machines each underwent their own unique evolution, and the B.R.A.I. (Biological Revolutionary of Accelerated Intelligence) entity in particular evolved and came into being. As a result, humanity was drive

Rorschach the Houseguest (Pages 10, 12, 15-16)Among all of Doomsday Clock‘s “newsworthy” developments, one of the biggest may be the apparent debut of the latest Batsuit. Although Batman is wearing his Rebirth-era costume in D-Clock promotional materials, this costume has a smaller chest symbol made of a rigid material like the Batman Incorporated or the second Batman: Earth One versions. RELATED: The First Batman/Rorschach Team-Up Did Not Go How We Envisioned The return of the Bat-symbol’s yellow oval (also part of the Inc. and Earth One versions) would be more surprising if DC hadn’t just announced the return of Superman’s red trunks in the upcoming Action Comics #1000. By our math Detective Comics #1000 won’t be out for over a year, and the 800th issue of Batman (i.e., the 2016 series’ issue #35) has come and gone. However, Detective #977, marking 950 issues since Batman’s first appearance and 650 since the yellow oval’s

DC Comics’ Doomsday Clock has been one of the publisher’s most well-received events in years as Geoff Johns and Gary Frank bring over Alan Moore’s Watchmen characters into the DC universe. Now, two of the series’ most popular characters, Mime and Marionette, have gotten the Bruce Timm animated treatment from the ’90s thanks to artist Rick Celis. RELATED: Doomsday Clock #4, Annotated – Rorschach, Bat-Villains & A Hero’s Last Flight Celis loves transforming characters into versions of themselves via a style heavily influenced by Batman: The Animated Series and in the past, he applied the same treatment to Fox’s Gotham personnel. Now, he’s done the same to Mime and Marionette, making them look like they’re straight from the Timm-verse. His sketch includes a stern Mime, with his make-believe gun in hand, as well as Marionette displaying a kooky smile, which is what has fans comparing them to Joker and Harley Quinn so mu