Wow has it been a long time since I’ve been able to write one of these. But now that there’s a little bit of breathing space it’s time to dig into some new trailers. First up is a brand new trailer for the upcoming movie, King of Thorn. For those who haven’t heard me or hundreds of other bloggers re-hash the story, the story takes place in the future after a group of 160 individuals have woken up from cryogenic stasis. After waking up, one girl (who entered stasis while her twin sister was left behind) and the others expect to find scientists who have found a cure for the incurable disease that had begun to ravage the world; what they find instead is a new world filled with monsters and no answers as to what has happened while they were asleep. Directed by Kazuyoshi Katayama (Appleseed, Sentimental Journey, Those Who Hunt Elves) and produced by Sunrise, the movie will finally be released to Japanese theaters on May 1^th after spending most of 2009 in the film festival circuit.

The new two minute trailer shows a lot of the same footage from the first trailer but still manages to insert some new animation and the previously unheard theme song. If you’re into dark sci-fi this is a title that you are going to want to watch.

Moving in a MUCH lighter direction, a new teaser was also released this week for the next Studio Ghibli film; Karigurashi no Arrietty. The minute long teaser only shows a bit of animation but leaves two minutes to talk with the composer for the movie, Cecile Corbel, from France. As mentioned previously, Miyazaki won’t actually be directing this one and instead has passed the reigns over to Hiromasa Yoenbayashi who worked his way up from being an animator at Studio Ghibli.

Now, I know that we’ve all grown used to the wonderful scores from Joe Hiasashi but with a new director at the helm, I have no problem with things being shaken up a little. Will it all pay off in the end? That’s for you to decide when it’s released to theaters on July 17^th… well, all of you in Japan at least. It’s still a little early to predict when the movie will get a release anywhere else in the world.

Closing this one out, Bandai has uploaded an ‘un-edited’ ASOS Brigade episode to their YouTube channel which finally reveals new details on the Haruhi Suzumiya season 2 license that was announced last month. Yes, I’m aware that this isn’t actually a trailer for the new season but I honestly just didn’t want to write a hundred word post just to tell you that the new season will be released as one complete box set at some point in the future. There’s no release date attached to the box set quite yet but let’s be honest, at this point is anyone taking Bandai release dates seriously?

That’s it for today’s roundup. What’s looking good to you? Leave your thoughts in the comments and discuss away!

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