Marvel Animation Comes to Comic-Con 2009!

Marvel Entertainment Inc., has partnered with renowned Japanese animation studio Madhouse (Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers) to create four all new anime versions of classic Marvel Super Heroes. Get an exciting first glimpse of two of the planned four series at this year's Comic-Con International, the country's leading comics and popular arts convention. The Marvel Animation Panel will be held on Friday, July 24, and will include an exclusive first look at official teaser trailers for two of these new series, Iron Man and Wolverine, hosted by writer and multiple-Eagle Award winner Warren Ellis, who will appear to discuss writing the all new adventures of these re-imagined Super Heroes.

These Marvel Anime TV series are being created as a way of merging the beloved Marvel Super Heroes of western culture with the bold animation tradition of Japan. The resulting product will be four visually groundbreaking anime series featuring popular Super Heroes redesigned and repurposed as emerging from the fabric of Japanese culture. The series is expected to begin appearing on the Animax channel in Japan in spring of 2010.

The Marvel Animation Panel with run from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, July 24, at the San Diego Convention Center. An autograph signing with Ellis will follow the panel at Marvel's Comic-Con booth #2429.


Sources: Marvel Entertainment

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Comments (6)

  1. The Narrator: The Better Man

    I like how they said groundbreaking. I hope it lives up to it.

    3 years agoby @narratorFlag

  2. RavenX5 God of Light

    awesome!

    3 years agoby @hackx9Flag

  3. -comrade-

    Good point. Especially with the Asian tilt, I would have expected Dr. Strange to be up for series status.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  4. CBF

    Don't they already have "Wolverine and the X-Men"? It isn't fair for the other properties to overlook them and give the flagship ones two or three series'...es.

    3 years agoby @comicbookfanFlag

  5. -comrade-

    I want to see a Batman Anime.
    They already kind of did this with the FF:WGH series.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

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