Marvel Anime

Marvel Anime (2010-2011) is a four-series anthology co-produced between Marvel Comics and Studio Madhouse, first announced at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con. Featuring Iron Man, Wolverine, the X-Men, and Blade as the leads of their respective shows, each of their stories involve travelling to Japan either to simply save the day, motivated by revenge in the case of Wolverine, to save a kidnapped member of the X-Men, or to slay a few vampires hiding there. Supervised by Warren Ellis (with the exception of Blade, for reasons you will find out scrolling down), the anthology is said to create an entire parallel universe for Marvel, according to representatives of the company.


 * Bloodier and Gorier: If the promos for Blade are anything to come by.
 * Furthermore, it's being written by the son of the director behind Battle Royale.
 * Cameo
 * Darker and Edgier: Wolverine racks up a bigger body count in his own series than Tony Stark did.
 * And Blade is about to challenge him for the title.
 * Dueling Shows: The Blade anime premieres in the same month as Blood-C, another show involving a vampire hunter.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: The English dub will reunite Nathan and Peter Petrelli as Iron Man and Wolverine respectively.
 * Instrumental Theme Tune
 * Names to Know in Anime: This will take a while...
 * Keiji Fujiwara as Tony Stark/Iron Man
 * Takako Honda as Dr. Chika Tanaka
 * Shizuka Ito as Nanami Öta
 * Houko Kuwashima as Maria
 * Hiroaki Hirata as Ho Yinsen/Iron Man Dio
 * Unsho Ishizuka as Minister of Defense Kuroda/Rasetsu
 * Rikiya Koyama as Logan/Wolverine
 * Fumiko Orikasa as Mariko Yashida
 * Romi Paku as Yukio
 * Hidekatsu Shibata as Shingen Yashida
 * Kazuki Yao as Hideki Kuroyagi
 * Show Hayami as Juo Kuroyagi
 * Masaki Terasoma as Tesshin Asano
 * Ryuzaburo Ohtomo as Arkady Rossovich/Omega Red
 * Hiroshi Tsuchida as Takagi
 * Iemasa Kayumi as Koh
 * Toshiyuki Morikawa as Scott Summers/Cyclops
 * Aya Hisakawa as Ororo Munroe/Storm
 * Hideyuki Tanaka as Hank McCoy/Beast
 * Yukari Tamura as Hisako Ichiki/Armor
 * Yoshiko Sakakibara as Yui Sasaki
 * Wataru Takagi as Todd
 * Yuuichi Nakamura as Marsh
 * Akio Ohtsuka as Blade
 * Maaya Sakamoto as Makoto
 * Twelve-Episode Anime: all of them.
 * Wolverine Publicity: Guess who is the only character who'll be making an appearance in all four? Go on, guess.