Marvel Anime from Marvel Entertainment and Madhouse
Marvel Anime from Marvel Entertainment and Madhouse. Marvel Entertainment Inc., has partnered with renowned Japanese animation studio Madhouse and multiple-Eagle Award winner Warren Ellis to create four all new anime versions of classic Marvel Super Heroes.
Marvel Anime is a four-part anime project with collaborations from both Marvel Entertainment and Madhouse. The project will take famous Marvel characters and reintroduce them for a Japanese audience in a 12-part series. The announcement was confirmed at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con. According to former Madhouse President and CEO Jungo Maruta, Marvel is giving the anime studio "free reign" [sic] to re-imagine the Marvel superheroes for Japanese audiences. It is unclear how different from the original source material this version will be. The series will be released in Japan in October 2010 and throughout the world in 2011. It will air in Japan on Animax and in the United States on G4. The series will be guided by Warren Ellis. Trailers have been released for Marvel Anime: Iron Man, Marvel Anime: Wolverine, Marvel Anime: X-Men, and Marvel Anime: Blade. “It will create an entire parallel universe for Marvel,” said Simon Philips, president of Marvel International about Marvel Anime.
Iron Man (Aian Man?) is the first show of the series with 12 episodes. The series was directed by Yuzo Sato with Warren Ellis writing the story. A special preview ran on Animax on September 25, 2010, before the series began airing on October 1, 2010, and ended on December 17, 2010. It is scheduled to air on G4 alongside Wolverine on July 23, 2011 following G4's Comic-Con 2011 Live coverage.
Tony Stark goes to Japan to produce a new arc station and showcase the Iron Man Dio, a new prototype armor, that will replace him when he retires. However, the Dio goes out of control and it is up to Tony as Iron Man to stop it along with an organization called the Zodiac.
Wolverine is the second show of the series with 12 episodes. It aired on Animax between January 7, 2011 and March 25, 2011. It is scheduled to air on G4 after Iron Man on July 23, 2011 following G4's Comic-Con 2011 Live coverage.
Logan learns that his girlfriend, Mariko Yashida, who disappeared a year ago, has been taken to Tokyo by her father Shingen, who is the head of a Japanese crime syndicate and a supplier of AIM.
X-Men scheduled to air as the third show of the series with 12 episodes. It began airing on Animax from April 1, 2011. A preview trailer was released on February 18, 2011, featuring mutants such as Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm and Beast.
Following the death of Jean Grey, the X-Men are called together by Charles Xavier to travel to Japan following the abduction of Hisako Ichiki and face the U-Men.
Blade is the fourth and final show of the series. Comprising twelve episodes like the others, the story is written by Kenta Fukasaku, son of the late Kinji Fukasaku. It is currently set to air on Animax starting on July 1, 2011.
Blade, a "Daywalker" vampire hunter who was born with human and vampire blood in his veins after a vampire attacked his mother, is visiting Japan on a mission. There, he not only confronts Deacon Frost, the vampire who killed his mother, but he also faces up against "Existence," a mysterious organization of vampires modified by Frost.
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