By Joseph Luster

On Wednesday, Shogakukan's Flowers—a magazine that serializes the prequel to Yu Watase's Fushigi Yugi, Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden—announced a very different venue for the popular shojo series.

Promotion company Amipro is producing a stage adaptation of Watase's work. Directed by Shintaro Sugano, so far the only announced cast member is actress Mao Miyaji.

The show will be performed over a five-day period at The Pocket theater in Nakano, Tokyo, with nine performances scheduled from October 20-24. Updates on the cast may make their way onto Shogakukan's site, but for now here is the original announcement page.

Anyone here a Fushigi Yugi fan? Dramatically costumed shojo fare like this is certainly suited well for stage performances.

Source [Tokyograph]

By Joseph Luster

As exciting as all the new licenses we hear about are, sometimes it's refreshing to see some classic stuff put back into the active retail roster. For those already duly titillated by such a statement, Diskotek Media are your heroes of the day.

Their latest licensing announcements on the anime front include the Galaxy Express 999 and Adieu Galaxy Express 999 movies, as well as the original Project AKO movie.

On the live-action side of things, we've got Princess Blade and Aquarian Age to look forward to.

I personally couldn't be more excited about the opportunity to own the 999 releases on DVD, two of my favorite movies. Anyone else out there pumped about Diskotek's announcements?

Source [Diskotek]

By Joseph Luster

In case you missed the big news, Yen Press recently announced the transition of their operation to the digital space, launching an all new online-only magazine. Naturally, there are some new license announcements fresh out of San Diego Comic-Con to go with that brave venture.

The big one is Daisuke and Shoji Sato's Highschool of the Dead. Now folks looking forward to the Sentai Filmworks release of the anime (available streaming on The Anime Network) can get a taste of where it all started.

In addition to Highschool, Yen also announced the licensing of Betrayal Knows My Name, as well as the continuation of the Higurashi manga. The online future of Yen is looking pretty bright right now.

A subscription to Yen Plus can be had for fairly cheap. $2.99/month ain't bad at all, so give it a spin and support someone taking a step in a fresh direction.

Source [Japanator]

Joseph Luster

The sound of fans cheering on Ryu should be a familiar noise now that the fourth iteration of Capcom's venerable Street Fighter series has had plenty of time to become a fixture of the community. The cheers at this year's Comic-Con, however, egged on our hero as he went against a foe both old and new.

The latest from Super Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono, Street FIghter X Tekken does exactly what you think it would, pitting two very disparate sides against one another in the type of brawling at which Capcom excels.

What might make this much more exciting to some than your typical Capcom vs. game is the way it appears to adhere to the SFIV style, dramatic supers and all. Fans of Tekken need not moan and groan, though, as Namco is also developing Tekken X Street Fighter, which will play like their side of the coin.

While the official trailer is embedded below, it's mostly artsy fluff. I urge you to scroll even further down to check out the footage recorded from the panel at SDCC.

Source [Capcom Unity]

By Joseph Luster

It's been a while, but thanks to Comic-Con, news about the Madhouse-animated Marvel projects is finally starting to surface.

Superheroes in anime form—Iron Man, Wolverine, X-Men and Blade—will air on the G4 network in America in 2011. Iron Man will kick off the festivities, with Wolverine following at some point after that.

The schedule for the other series is up in the air, and mostly depends on Madhouse's own production schedule. In the meantime, G4 put up a promotional video for Iron Man; check it out below:

Video Game - E3 2011

Source [ANN]