Gundam Thunderbolt Anime Episode 1's Key Visual Posted

The official website for the anime of Yasuo Ohtagaki's Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga posted a key visual for the first episode on Wednesday. The visual features Ensign Io Fleming of the Earth Federation and Sergeant Daryl Lorentz of the Principality of Zeon, along with their respective mobile suits, the Full Armor Gundam and the red Psyco Zaku. The accompanying tagline reads, "The two are fated to kill each other."

The story is set in the same One Year War in UC 0079 as the first Mobile Suit Gundam anime series. It follows the battles between two ace pilots at the "Thunderbolt Sector," a shoal zone with numerous wrecks of space colonies and warships.

This year's 23rd issue of Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior magazine published on Wednesday themechanical design of the Full Armor Gundam, as well as the character designs of Io Fleming, Daryl Lorentz, the Federation's Claudia, the Zeons' Carla, and the Zeons' "Living Dead Division."

Ohtagaki launched the manga in Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior magazine in March 2012, andShogakukan published the sixth compiled book volume on October 30. Ohtagaki also created theMoonlight Mile manga which inspired a 2007 television anime. ADV Films (and later FUNimation Entertainment) released the Moonlight Mile anime in North America.

Crunchyroll to Stop Streaming Mr. Osomatsu Anime Episode 1

Media distribution service Crunchyroll announced on Wednesday that the first episode of the Mr. Osomatsu(Osomatsu-san) will only be viewable on the service until Sunday, November 15 at 10:00 a.m. EST. The service's Twitter account reported later on Wednesday that the streaming will end on Thursday, November 12 at 10:00 a.m. EST.

The first episode is also scheduled to be removed from various streaming sites in Japan on Thursday, and the entire episode will be reanimated for the home video release.

In a press conference on October 29, Yūichi Takahashi of TV Tokyo apologized for the series' third episode. The episode contained a parody of the Anpanman children's anime character. The first and second episodes of the show also contained parodies of many other series, such as Attack on Titan, Boys Over Flowers, and Sailor Moon.

Japan does not have a parody exception or provision in its copyright law. Therefore, making parodies of copyrighted works may illegally violate a copyright owners' "right to maintain integrity," if performed without the copyright holder's prior consent.

Fujio Akatsuka's original Osomatsu-kun manga and "high tension comedy" TV anime centered on the Matsuno household, which has six naughty and mischievous sons (who are sextuplets). All of the sextuplets, including the eldest Osomatsu, are all in love with the same girl, Totoko. The original series followed the family when the sons were 10 years old.

The series premiered on October 5.