[Anime] Disc Avengers Anime from Toei

[Dark Kabuto]

Toei Animation is producing Disc Wars: Avengers, Marvel's first television anime series for Japanese boys, for Walt Disney Japan to air throughout Japan next spring. Bandai is responsible for turning the characters into merchandising. The series is aimed at male boys ages 6-12.

In the anime, portable capturing devices known as "Discs" were developed to capture evil villains. However, thanks to Loki's machinations, both villains and heroes are sealed up in these Discs and scattered around the world. Amid the chaos, five youths obtained the power to restore these Disc-sealed heroes through a program called "Biocode." These youths received five discs that Spider-Man, who narrowly escaped being sealed himself, retrieved. Thus, these five can restore Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, and Wasp — the Avengers!

Walt Disney Japan has developed local anime content for the Japanese market in the past — notably the Fireball television anime and the Stitch! television anime in 2008. The two television anime have inspired prequels and sequels.

Marvel also collaborated with the anime studio MADHOUSE to create four television anime — Iron Man, Wolverine, X-Men, and Blade — before its acquisition by Disney. There has since been an Iron Man: Rise of Technovore video project. Toei also collaborated with Marvel on the 1978-79 live-action special-effects (tokusatsu) version of Spider-Man. Kodansha published Ryoichi Ikegami's manga re-imagining of Spider-Man in Monthly Shonen Magazine, while Marvel itself created the Mangaverse comic project.

SOURCE: AnimeNewsNetwork

Can't be any worse then Avengers Assemble…right?

 

[Hell Kaiser Andy]

It seems weird.

 

[Ore-sama]

Hmm I'm okay with this. Then again, I'm a sucker for kids' collectibles anime and anime based off western content so maybe that's just me being biased.

 

[Dr Kain]

Oh joy, just what we need, another terrible anime based off a Marvel series. I guess sixth time's the charm, right?

 

[Bigdog]

Oh joy, just what we need, another terrible anime based off a Marvel series. I guess sixth time's the charm, right?

Terrible? Pokemon is mediocre. :laugh:

 

[FieryRed]

Oh joy, just what we need, another terrible anime based off a Marvel series. I guess sixth time's the charm, right?

I enjoyed both Iron Man Anime and X-Men Anime, as a matter of fact. What we need are more serious anime series based on Marvel Comics, but this doesn't seemed to fit the bill.

 

[Bigdog]

I enjoyed both Iron Man Anime and X-Men Anime, as a matter of fact. What we need are more serious anime series based on Marvel Comics, but this doesn't seemed to fit the bill.

I wouldn't mind if they cancelled Ultimate Spider-Man and remade the Toei Spider-Man as an anime, modernized and Americanized.

 

[Galaxian]

Isn't this the setting for Ultraman Ginga? :laugh: