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Btooom! Short Synopsis: Our lead character wakes up in a video game. One of Madhouse’s specialties is adrenaline: creating those series that focus on building up this stuff. In that way, Btooom is the perfect series for them. It focuses on this teenager who ends up in a game world, but usually with these kinds [...]
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Btooom! There have been quite a few anime about video games lately, most recently Accel World and Sword Art Online, which are both set in a virtual reality world. But I wouldn’t exactly lump Btooom in the same group, rather, it reminded me much more of Gantz and Bokurano. The atmosphere is dark, and the players are still [...]
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San Francisco, Calif. (October 2, 2012) – Crunchyroll, Inc., continues with its simulcast announcements with the acquisition of Btooom!. Btooom! is set to broadcast every Thursday starting on October 4, at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time for its premium members, and October 11 for free members. More information can be found on www.crunchyroll.com/btooom. Btooom! will be [...]
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Houston, TX — Oct. 2, 2012 — Anime Network announces the Online Special Release of Btooom!, coming this November! Prepare to be blown away by this hard hitting series directed by Kotono Watanabe, with scripts by Yousuke Kuroda (High School of the Dead, Hellsing Ultimate), and character designs by Takahiro Kishida (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, [...]
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Above is the promotional video for the anime adaptation of Junya Inoue’s Btooom! manga, which is slated to be released in October this year. The opening theme is “No pain, No game”, by nano (ナノ). The animation studio for the anime will be MADHOUSE. It will be directed by Kotono Watanabe, and the scripts written ...>>Read more
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According to Earlbox, a TV anime adaptation of Inoue Junya sci-fi action manga series, 「Btooom!」, has been green-lit for production. *Synopsis: Sakamoto Ryuuta is an unemployed 22-year-old who lives with his mother. In the real world, there may be nothing really special about him, but online, he’s one of the world’s top players of the [...]
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Anime studio MADHOUSE will be producing the television anime adaptation of Btooom!’s manga. Btooom! is a Japanese manga series written by Junya Inoue and serialized in Weekly Comic Bunch and later in Monthly Comics Bunch. The story follows Sakamoto Ryuuta, an unemployed 22-year-old who lives with his mother. In the real world, there is nothing
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Mature, Psychological, Seinen, Sci-Fi, Action Mangaka:  INOUE Junya Year:  2009 Original Publisher:  Shinchosha Serialized in:  Comic Bunch Volumes:  6 – Ongoing *Not Licensed in US Summary: Sakamoto Ryuuta is an unemployed 22-year-old who lives with his mother. In the real world, there may be nothing really special about him, but online, he’s one of the [...]
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Mature, Action,k Psychological, Sci-Fi, Seinen Mangaka:  INOUE Junya Year:  2009 Original Publisher:  Shinchosha Serialized In:  Comic Bunch Volumes: 5, Ongoing – 3 Chapters scanlated *Not Licensed in US Summary: Sakamoto Ryuuta is an unemployed 22-year-old who lives with his mother. In the real world, there may be nothing really special about him, but online, he’s read more »
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