It has been announced that the movie “Voltes V Legacy” and others will be broadcast on BS12 TwellV’s “Sunday Anime Theater” in December 2024. “City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes” will be broadcast on December 1, 2024, “Slam Dunk: The Movie All Four Films” will be broadcast on December 8, “Voltes V Legacy” will be broadcast on December 15, and “Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan” will be broadcast on December 22.
The film City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes, which aired on December 1st, is a new feature-length anime created in 2019 as a project to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the anime broadcast. Under the direction of Kenji Kodama, the first director and general director, the original staff, including screenwriter Yoichi Kato, and first-time creators, created an original story written specifically for this film.
Another highlight is the miraculous reunion of the original voice cast, including Kamiya Akira as Ryo Saeba and Ikura Kazue as Kaori Makimura. Marie Iitoyo, making her voice acting debut, plays Ai Shindo, a beautiful model who makes a request to Ryo. Kouichi Yamadera plays Shinji Mikuni, Kaori’s childhood friend and up-and-coming IT company CEO. Tutorial’s Tokui Yoshimi also makes a special guest appearance.
The “Slam Dunk 4 Movies All-at-once Broadcast” broadcast on December 8th will bring you four movies based on the manga “Slam Dunk” by Takehiko Inoue, which was serialized in “Weekly Shonen Jump”. All of them were released as part of the “Toei Anime Fair”. “Slam Dunk” depicts the exploits of Sakuragi Hanamichi, a member of the Shohoku High School basketball team, who bets on a practice match against the powerful Takezono Gakuen High School. In “Slam Dunk: Conquer the Nation! Sakuragi Hanamichi”, a rival appears for Haruko, Hanamichi’s source of energy. Akagi, the captain of the Shohoku basketball team, and Rukawa, who are aiming to conquer the country, also show their skills.
The highlights of “Slam Dunk: Shohoku’s Greatest Crisis! Hanamichi Sakuragi” are the presence of Ryota Miyagi, a point guard who sets up the game with lightning speed and technique, and Hisashi Mitsui, a three-point shooter who recovers from a setback after reuniting with Anzai. “Slam Dunk: Roar the Basketball Spirit! Hanamichi and Rukawa’s Hot Summer” dramatically depicts the heart-to-heart exchange between basketball players, between a boy who gives up on his dream due to illness and Hanamichi and Rukawa who continue to pursue their dreams, just before the fateful match against Ryonan.
The movie “Voltes V Legacy” airing on December 15th is a live-action adaptation of the 1977 TV anime “Voltes V: The Super Electromagnetic Machine,” which has been in theaters for about half a century in the Philippines, where the work enjoys even more enthusiastic support than in Japan. For the theatrical release in Japan, the film was re-edited to include the addition of scenes that were not included in the Philippine version of the film, and the quality of the images has been greatly improved. It is now a more powerful “Super Electromagnetic Edited Version.” Don’t miss the first TV broadcast of the fastest machine in the universe.
“Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan,” which will air on December 22nd, is a crossover work that was aired in March 2009, in which “Lupin the Third,” originally written by Monkey Punch, and “Detective Conan,” originally written by Gosho Aoyama, came together in a dream collaboration. The film version, “Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan: The Movie,” which was released in December 2013, is a sequel, and this is the first time that the popular characters Lupin and Conan have “co-starred” in a full-scale collaboration.
“City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes” will be broadcast on December 1st, “Slam Dunk 4 Movies All at Once” on December 8th, “Voltes V Legacy” on December 15th, and “Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan” on December 22nd on BS12 TwellV’s “Sunday Anime Theater”. For broadcast details, please check the “Sunday Anime Theater” official website.
“Sunday Anime Theater” broadcast schedule for December 2024 December
1st “City Hunter the Movie: Shinjuku Private Eyes”
December 8th “Broadcast of 4 Slam Dunk movies”
(“Slam Dunk”, “Slam Dunk: Conquer the Nation! Sakuragi Hanamichi”,
“Slam Dunk: Shohoku’s Greatest Crisis! Burn, Sakuragi Hanamichi”, “Slam Dunk: Roar, Basketball Spirit! Hanamichi and Rukawa’s Hot Summer”)
December 15th “The Movie ‘Voltes V Legacy'”
December 22nd “Lupin the Third vs. Detective Conan”
December 29th Broadcast suspended due to special programming
(C) Hojo Tsukasa/Core Mix, “2019 City Hunter The Movie” Production Committee
(C) Inoue Takehiko, IT Planning, Toei Animation
(C) TOEI Co. Ltd, Telesuccess All Rights Reserved
Original Work: “Lupin the Third” / Monkey Punch, “Detective Conan” / Aoyama Gosho (Published in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday) (C) TMS, NTV, YTV, Shogakukan
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