Justice League – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today. Wed, 06 Sep 2017 02:00:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/en_rocket_1024.png?w=32 Justice League – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com 32 32 176746664 Justice League teams up with Eagle Talon in new anime 【Video】 https://soranews24.com/2017/09/06/justice-league-teams-up-with-eagle-talon-in-new-anime-%e3%80%90video%e3%80%91/ https://soranews24.com/2017/09/06/justice-league-teams-up-with-eagle-talon-in-new-anime-%e3%80%90video%e3%80%91/#comments Wed, 06 Sep 2017 02:00:58 +0000 http://en.rocketnews24.com/?p=388158 
This fall, the Justice League will team up with the most unlikely of allies: a team of Japanese villains known as Eagle Talon.
DC’s favorite super heroes are set to appear in different forms of media all over the world before their big movie drops late this year. Eagle Talon is a flash animation anime produced by DLE and created Ryo Ono aka FROGMAN.
As a low budget series, Ono serves as the writer, animator, director, and voice actor. Their team is made up of the Chancellor, Yoshida, Phillip, Doctor Leonardo, and Creepy Kid.
Their mission? To take over the world.
These villains’ somewhat bumbling plots of world domination are thwarted by the bully-like ‘hero’ of their world, Deluxe Fighter. You might think this would cause them to butt heads with the likes of the Justice League, but it sounds like they will find a common enemy in the Joker.
A translated version of the film’s synopsis teases some time travel and even some fun alternate anime versions of the Justice League:
“Joker has come to Japan to steal the Eagle Talon Society’s secret weapons in his continued scheme for pure chaos. However, the Justice League is on his trail, but there’s something off with Batman. Now, it’s up to Eagle Talon to go find out what’s wrong with Batman, and that means going back in time to Bruce Wayne’s most traumatic experience, the murder of his parents.”
The poster tagline translates into “Why are YOU going to Tokyo? The Justice League has come from Hollywood.”Eagle Talon itself has kind of a meta spin and even acknowledges how low budget the show appears. Part of the plot of the anime film breaks the fourth wall and actually talks about how expensive it is to get the stars of the Justice League. They must come together and defeat the Joker before they run out of money and break the budget.
This anime movie is set to drop into Japanese theaters just before the Warner Bros. Justice League film hits screens worldwide.
Fun fact: In order to fund this project, they held an auction to sell off the temporary use rights of some of the Eagle Talon monster characters. The auctions were held in May and June of this year with Yahoo! Auctions. Bidders could purchase the rights to use these lesser characters for up to five years.
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DC takes a page from Marvel’s playbook by teaming up with local artist to promote its franchises in Japan.
In Japanese, the word manga can technically be used to refer to all comic books. In practice, though, “manga” is generally reserved for Japanese-produced books, with fans and professionals often using amekomi, a shortened form of “American comics,” for content originating in the U.S.
But this month, the line between manga and amekomi is getting blurred with the beginning of a new series titled Batman and the Justice League, drawn by female manga artist Shiori Teshirogi and serialized in publisher Akita Shoten’s monthly Champion Red manga anthology as of its latest issue, which went on sale June 19.
▼ The manga even gets the issue’s whole cover to itself.
While rival Marvel has made a number of forays into the anime industry with Japanese-animated series starring its X-Men and Avengers characters, DC has had fewer collaborations with Japanese creators, barring some notable manga Batman chapters from artists Katsuhiro Otomo and Kia Asamiya (of Akira and Silent Mobious fame, respectively) and an anime anthology of Batman tales titled Batman: Gotham Knight in 2008. The story for the Justice League manga seems to be sticking to the standard formula for the franchise, as promotional materials describe the story as “The Justice League is formed in Hotham City to protect the world from a union of villains led by the Joker. Will batman resist or accept his destiny?”
Joining Batman are the traditional Justice League regulars: Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash,Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Cyborg, many of whom are sporting the vibrantly colored hair and flowing or spiky locks characteristic of anime heroes.
▼ Instead of a mullet, Supes has the stylishly messy hairdo of a shojo manga love interest, and Aquaman gets a non-connected goatee and mustache combo that wouldn’t look out of place in pirate saga One Piece.
While Superman is already instantly recognizable around the world, and Wonder Woman is getting a lot of extra attention in Japan thanks to her solo movie (even if it hasn’t started playing in Japanese theaters and has some questionable local marketing), many of the other Justice League members are largely unknown in Japan. With the live-action Justice League movie coming later this year, the manga was likely greenlit to bring potential viewers up to speed about who these characters are, and probably isn’t going to have a particularly long run in Champion Red. Nevertheless, Teshirogi’s art is a cool new take on these amekomi icons, even if the manga Justice League is missing Wonder Hello Kitty.
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