Animanga in the News: 4/17/11

Here you will find a run down of today's anime and manga news! If anything major happened the anime and manga world today, you'll find it in this post! By the way, I'm saladesu, one of the translators and global moderators of MH, and I'll be posting a post like this every day (as much as possible, anyway). Look forward to them ;)




From the 6th to the 11th of June, an international animation film festival called Annecy 2011 will be held in France. The official selection for full-length feature films has been announced. 9 movies were selected for the in competition category and 6 were selected for the out of competition category, all from a pool of 64 nominees.

Representing Japan in the in competition category is Director Hara Keiichi and Sunrise's film "Colorful" and Director Kojima Masayuki and Madhouse's "Tibet Inu Monogatari". Furthermore, in the out of competition category, Director Kurosaka Keita's "MIDORI-KO" and Director Morishita Kouzou and Toei Animation's "Tezuka Osamu's Buddha - Akai Sabaku yo! Utsukushiku -" will be screened.

"Tibet Inu Monogatari" had also been introduced at Annecy 2009 under the "Work in Progress" category, and is now running for an award two years later.

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