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Scotland Loves Anime 2011 Line-Up Announced
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Scotland Loves Animation announced its line-up for this October's event in Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion.
The Scotland Loves Anime festival will run from October 7 to 9 at GLASGOW, and October 14 to 16 at Edinburgh. The full line-up is given at the bottom of this article.
prizes at this years's Annecy, the world's largest animation film festival.
Tekken: Blood Vengeance is based on the Tekken fighting videogame series. Namco and Bandai will screen the film in 3D in selected U.K. cinemas, before releasing it as a hybrid DVD/3D Blu-Ray in mid-November.
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression and Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion are the first two parts of a trilogy GoHands.
Another premiere is the anime film adaptation of opens in Japan on September 17.
Coicent (Ergo Proxy, Cowboy Bebop). Four people awake to find themselves in a prison: an ex-soldier, a beautiful woman, an average Joe and a young computer hacker.
The line-up also includes the first instalment of opening on September 10.
The full line-up is:
GLASGOW
October 7th – October 9th
Tekken: Blood Vengeance 3D
Saturday 8th:
Arrietty (dubbed children's screening)
Hotarubi no Mori e, plus two episodes of "related anime." (EU premiere)
Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (Scottish premiere) and Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion (EU premiere)
Sunday 9th:
Vision of Escaflowne, UK premiere)
Colorful (UK premiere)
Secret Film – To Be Announced September 12th (UK premiere)
Edinburgh
October 14th – October 16th
The Princess and the Pilot (UK premiere)
Coicent/Towa no Quon/Five Numbers! (UK premiere)
Special screening (UK premiere, to be announced on September 12th)
Hotarubi no Mori e, plus two episodes of "related anime."
Colourful
Mardock Scramble Parts 1 and 2
Tekken: Blood Vengeance (2D)
Special screening
Tickets will go on sale for both cities in the next two weeks.
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