Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Black Butler

List of Black Butler episodes
The episodes of the 2008 Japanese animated television series Black Butler are based on the Black Butler manga series drawn and illustrated by Toboso Yana. The episodes are directed by Toshiya Shinohara and produced by A-1 Pictures.
The plot of the episodes follows Sebastian Michaelis, a demonic butler who is obligated to serve Ciel Phantomhive, the twelve-year-old head of the Phantomhive noble family, due to a contract he made with Ciel.The episodes started airing on October 2, 2008 on Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting and Mainichi Broadcasting System. Other stations that air the episodes at later dates include Hokkaido Broadcasting, Kumamoto Asahi Broadcasting, RCC Broadcasting, Shizuoka Broadcasting System, Tokyo Broadcasting System, and several other broadcasting networks. The anime adaptation of the manga was confirmed on July 11, 2008 by Gakken's Animedia magazine, and the official website of the anime began to stream a trailer of the anime on July 26, 2008.Two DVD compilations are planned for release by Aniplex; the first compilation is to be released on January 21, 2009 and the second on February 25, 2009.
Three pieces of theme music are used for the episodes: one opening theme and two closing themes. The opening theme is "Kiss of Monochrome" by the Japanese rock band Sid, the current closing which began airing with episode 14 is "Lacrimosa" by Kalafina, while the first closing theme is "I'm Alive!" by the American singer Rebecca Hollcraft, commonly known as Becca.Two singles containing the theme music and other tracks have been released; the single containing tracks from Sid was released on October 29, 2008 and the single from Becca was released on October 22, 2008. The third single containing tracks from Kalafina has a release date of March 4, 2009.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Zero no Tsukaima

Zero no Tsukaima (ゼロの使い魔, Zero no Tsukaima?, lit. El Familiar de Cero) es una serie de novelas ligeras de fantasía y comedia escritas por Noboru Yamaguchi e ilustradas por Eiji Usatsuka.

La novela ha sido adaptada a una serie de anime por J.C.Staff en julio de 2006 y ese mismo año también se realizó una versión manga dibujada por Ana Mochizuki.
La primera temporada del anime tuvo un notable éxito en Japón, estrenándose una segunda temporada en julio de 2007 llamada Futatsuki no Kishi (双月の騎士, 'Futatsuki no Kishi'?)[3] y una tercera, Princesses no Rondo (ゼロの使い魔 ~三美姫(プリンセッセ)の輪舞(ロンド)~, ~Sanbiki (Purinsesse) no Rinbu (Rondo)~?) estrenada el pasado 6 de julio de 2008.[4] La primera temporada de la serie fue licenciada en los Estados Unidos por Geneon Entertainment. En Diciembre del 2008 saco un Ova que es mas un capitulo extra de genero Ecchi. Cabe decir que utiliza nombres de personajes históricos de la historia de Francia y sacados de la novela "El vizconde de Bragelonne", de Alejandro Dumas, el autor de Los tres mosqueteros.