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Anime segments featuring popular characters to condense history lessons for children This year's 40th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is revealing on Monday that Fuji TV networks will air a "FNS 27-Jikan TV Nihon no Rekishi" (FNS 27-Hour Japan's History) special on September 9 and 10, which will feature anime segments from One Piece, Dragon Ball Super, Kochikame, and Chibi Maruko-chan. The event will air from September 9 at 6:30 p.m. to September 10 at 9:30 p.m. Preview images for the special in Weekly Shonen Jump feature Kochikame's protagonist Ryō dressed as Sakamoto Ryōma, Maruko from Chibi Maruko-chan dressed in a 12-layer kimono from the Heian Era, Gohan and Trunks from Dragon Ball Super in a rice field during Japan's ancient Yayoi Period, and Luffy from One Piece on a battlefield during the Warring States Era. Weekly Shonen Jump didn't reveal when during the marathon the anime segments would air, or how long each segment would be. Fuji TV had rev

Special premieres October 1 The official One Piece YouTube channel began streaming two promotional videos for the anime's upcoming fall special on Monday. Both the 15-second version and the 30-second version preview [Highlight white text to read spoilers] Luffy's battle with Sanji, the climax of the Whole Cake Island Arc. The one-hour special will air on Sunday, October 1 starting at 9:00 a.m. One Piece usually airs back-to-back with Dragon Ball Super, which will get its own one-hour special on October 8 at the same time. The one-hour special for Dragon Ball Super will air one week later on October 8 at the same time. Each one-hour special will feature two episodes of the television series. One Piece also received a two-hour "Episode of East Blue" (One Piece Episode of East Blue: Luffy to 4-nin no Nakama no Daibōken) special that aired on August 26 from 9:00 p.m to 11:10 p.m. Crunchyroll and Funimation streamed the special. The story is a completely new work, featuri

Marvel’s merry (and dysfunctional) band of mutants have been a big part of our summer blockbuster lineup since the turn of the century. Since their debut, they’ve been through a lot of changes, from costume redesigns. to messy alternate timelines, to Wolverine jumping up the age rating scale. (None of us will ever be the same again after hearing Professor X drop so many F-bombs.) Like any big budget movie series, the X-Men films go through lengthy development stages to decide how characters, props and set pieces will look. Sometimes the finished results are impressive even if they deviate from the comics. RELATED: Suicide Squad: 15 Pieces Of Concept Art (That Would Change Everything) The futuristic Sentinels in Apocalypse, for instance, were about as far from their classic look as possible, but they looked all the more terrifying for it. Sometimes the creatives powers that be manage to translate design elements from page to screen faithfully to great effect. Characters like Mystique a

Police: suspects scanned manga, earned money from website ads Japanese police arrested three people on Wednesday for allegedly violating the Copyright Act by uploading Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga from Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine online, before the manga's chapters were scheduled to be published. The police arrested Yō Uehara, a 30-year-old self-employed male from Chatan, Okinawa Prefecture, and Shizuka Nagaya, a 23-year-old freelance female writer from Tottori, Tottori Prefecture. The police also arrested Ryōji Hottai, a 31-year-old web designer from Akita, Akita Prefecture. According to police, Uehara and Nagaya had been acquiring copies of Weekly Shonen Jump from stores that sell copies early, and using a scanner to copy chapters of the manga and upload them online. The police allege that the pair had been doing this for a year as of July. The police also claim that the pair had earned up to 75 million yen (about US$687,150) through website ads from the s

Welcome to Comic Book Legends Revealed! This is the six hundred and forty-fourth week where we examine comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for Part 1 of this week’s legends. COMIC LEGEND: Steve Englehart disliked Dave Cockrum’s original art for Cockrum’s first Avengers issue so much that he cut up the pages to re-arrange the panels. STATUS: True After leaving DC Comics, where he had become the acclaimed artist on the Legion of Super-Heroes feature, Dave Cockrum settled in at Marvel Comics (he initially intended to continue to do some side work for DC, but his departure from Legion led to DC’s higher-ups essentially black-balling him at the company). He eventually became a semi-regular artist on Avengers, where he gained whole new group of fans for his outstanding work as the alternate artist on Avengers during the Celestial Madonna storyline (writer Steve Englehart was cleverly expanding the story through the use of Giant-Size

Special airs on October 1 The official One Piece YouTube channel began streaming a promotional video and two commercials on Monday for the anime's upcoming fall special. All three videos tease [Highlight white text to read spoilers] Luffy's battle with Sanji, the climax (but not the finale) of the Whole Cake Island Arc. The one-hour special will air on Sunday, October 1 starting at 9:00 a.m. One Piece usually airs back-to-back with Dragon Ball Super, which will get its own one-hour special on October 8 at the same time. Each one-hour special will feature two episodes of the television series. One Piece also received a two-hour "Episode of East Blue" (One Piece Episode of East Blue: Luffy to 4-nin no Nakama no Daibōken) special that aired on August 26 from 9:00 p.m to 11:10 p.m. Crunchyroll and Funimation streamed the special.

Special airs on October 1 The official website for the One Piece anime revealed on Tuesday that Nami Amuro will perform the theme song for the anime, starting with the upcoming fall special. The theme song is titled "Hope." Amuro previously performed the anime's 14th opening theme song "Fight Together." The site also revealed a new visual for the special. The one-hour special will air on Sunday, October 1 starting at 9:00 a.m. One Piece usually airs back-to-back with Dragon Ball Super, which will get its own one-hour special on October 8 at the same time. Each one-hour special will feature two episodes of the television series. One Piece also received a two-hour "Episode of East Blue" (One Piece Episode of East Blue: Luffy to 4-nin no Nakama no Daibōken) special that aired on August 26 from 9:00 p.m to 11:10 p.m. Crunchyroll and Funimation streamed the special. Source: Animate Times

Anime's 1-hour special also airs on October 1 The official website for the One Piece anime revealed on Tuesday that Nami Amuro will perform the new opening theme song for the anime, starting with the upcoming one-hour special. The theme song is titled "Hope." Amuro previously performed the anime's 14th opening theme song "Fight Together." She also performed the theme song for the 2015 two-hour special, One Piece Special – Adventure of Nebulandia. The site also revealed a new visual for the special. The one-hour special will air on Sunday, October 1 starting at 9:00 a.m. One Piece usually airs back-to-back with Dragon Ball Super, which will get its own one-hour special on October 8 at the same time. Each one-hour special will feature two episodes of the television series. One Piece also received a two-hour "Episode of East Blue" (One Piece Episode of East Blue: Luffy to 4-nin no Nakama no Daibōken) special that aired on August 26 from 9:00 p.m to 11:10 p.m. Crunchyro

When Christopher Nolan took the reins of the Batman reboot in the early 2000s, the plan was to ground the hero in a reality we could believe in. He was to be the product of our society, and would play along themes stemming from post-911 alongside other societal issues. The series focused on using practical effects and stunts instead of CGI — really wanting the audience to believe in the Batman. And believe we did. Nolan’s trilogy garnered praise from critics around the globe. RELATED: Un-X-ceptable: 15 Unused Pieces Of X-Men Movie Concept Art It was the way Nolan took some of the absurd aspects of the Batman story, and brought them to the present day in a way that didn’t seem stupid. The Bat-Wing, the Bat-Bike, the utility belt, the Bat-Signal and obviously the Batmobile all were given a reimagining, and the audience lapped it up. It wasn’t just the gadgets, but the characters too — Heath Ledger’s take on The Joker redefined what we thought of the villain. But what about the designs t

Special debuts Namie Amuro's new theme song on October 1 The official One Piece YouTube channel began streaming a third promotional video on Friday for the anime's upcoming one-hour special. The video previews famed betrayals between friends across time, and teases [Highlight white text to read spoilers] Luffy's battle with Sanji, the climax (but not the finale) of the Whole Cake Island Arc. Filmmaker Daisuke Satō, who works to make martial artist introduction videos, collaborated on the video. The anime's newest opening theme song, "Hope" by Namie Amuro, will premiere with the episode. The one-hour special will air on Sunday, October 1 starting at 9:00 a.m. One Piece usually airs back-to-back with Dragon Ball Super, which will get its own one-hour special on October 8 at the same time. Each one-hour special will feature two episodes of the television series. One Piece also received a two-hour "Episode of East Blue" (One Piece Episode of East Blue: Luffy to 4-nin no