Bandai Entertainment is on a creative roll
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Phyl Good
By Phyl Good
Published on 05/4/2008
After several big licensing announcements for the summer, Bandai Entertainment brings well-known producer and translator Toshifumi Yoshida into the fold, and announces a limited theatrical run for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Bandai Entertainment is on a creative roll
Hot on the heels of its announcement of three big anime licence deals for the summer, and its ongoing streaming of Code Geass episodes on Adult Swim, Bandai Entertainment announced on May 2, 2008, that U.S. anime producer Toshifumi Yoshida is coming on board the company's Production team.
Mr. Yoshida has been involved in many English-dubbed productions in recent years, one of the most notable being the InuYasha television series as well as two of the InuYasha films, where he served as Producer and Production Associate. Yoshida has had many other roles in other series productions (e.g. Ranma 1/2, Jim Roh: The Wolf Brigade, and Fatal Fury), including translator, script editor, and adaptor. In fact, his translation work has been quite varied: he served as translator for Animag, one of the first English-language magazines about Japanese animation, he's translated several manga, and as well as appearing at several conventions as a guest in his own right, has often served as translator for convention guests.
Bandai is clearly going to benefit greatly from Mr. Yoshida's experience and expertise.
Meanwhile, in conjunction with Kadokawa Pictures USA, Bandai has also announced that the film, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, will begin its theater run in the Imaginasian Theaters in both Los Angeles and New York, from June 13-19. The showing in Los Angeles will be the English subtitled version, while New York will show the English dub. Later in the summer, from August 29 to September 4, the subtitled version will play in The Landmark Theaters Varsity in Seattle.
In the film, a 17-year old girl, Makoto Konno, discovers that she can leap backwards through time, and tries to change the past in her own favor. She soon realizes, however, that there are consequences to the changes she makes, and that she must use her talents to shape a new future both for herself and the people she cares about.
The movie is an update of an earlier children's novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka, A Girl Who Runs Through Time, which was then adapted into a two-volume manga by Gaku Tsugano. The manga has been licensed by CMX Manga (an imprint of DC Comics) for release in September and November of 2008. In the meantime, fans of the film can watch a subtitled trailer to tide them over while they wait for the movie to come to their area. Bandai has suggested that it may release the film in other cities as well, but there has not yet been further word on other possible locations or dates.
Mr. Yoshida has been involved in many English-dubbed productions in recent years, one of the most notable being the InuYasha television series as well as two of the InuYasha films, where he served as Producer and Production Associate. Yoshida has had many other roles in other series productions (e.g. Ranma 1/2, Jim Roh: The Wolf Brigade, and Fatal Fury), including translator, script editor, and adaptor. In fact, his translation work has been quite varied: he served as translator for Animag, one of the first English-language magazines about Japanese animation, he's translated several manga, and as well as appearing at several conventions as a guest in his own right, has often served as translator for convention guests.
Bandai is clearly going to benefit greatly from Mr. Yoshida's experience and expertise.
Meanwhile, in conjunction with Kadokawa Pictures USA, Bandai has also announced that the film, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, will begin its theater run in the Imaginasian Theaters in both Los Angeles and New York, from June 13-19. The showing in Los Angeles will be the English subtitled version, while New York will show the English dub. Later in the summer, from August 29 to September 4, the subtitled version will play in The Landmark Theaters Varsity in Seattle.
In the film, a 17-year old girl, Makoto Konno, discovers that she can leap backwards through time, and tries to change the past in her own favor. She soon realizes, however, that there are consequences to the changes she makes, and that she must use her talents to shape a new future both for herself and the people she cares about.
The movie is an update of an earlier children's novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka, A Girl Who Runs Through Time, which was then adapted into a two-volume manga by Gaku Tsugano. The manga has been licensed by CMX Manga (an imprint of DC Comics) for release in September and November of 2008. In the meantime, fans of the film can watch a subtitled trailer to tide them over while they wait for the movie to come to their area. Bandai has suggested that it may release the film in other cities as well, but there has not yet been further word on other possible locations or dates.