NYCC Online: Catch up with Crunchyroll Originals

Anime streaming channel Crunchyroll discussed its 2020 season of original content, including previews of these four originals:

• Onyx Equinox: COMING SOON
  “An Aztec boy is saved from death by the gods and forced to act as ‘humanity’s champion’ and prove humanity’s potential.”
  

• The God of High School: STREAMING NOW
  Another WEBTOON coproduction, featuring “a high schooler and his friends will compete in an epic tournament borrowing power directly from the gods,” from the comic by Yongje Park.

• Tower of God: STREAMING NOW
  Based on the popular WEBTOON of the same name created by SIU, this coproduction follows a young man who “will battle his way through a mysterious tower as he strives to find the only friend he’s ever known.“

• Noblesse: STREAMING NOW
  “A powerful being is thrown into modern civilization after 820 years of slumber” in this Crunchyroll and WEBTOON production, based on the comic by Jeho Son and Kwangsu Lee.

- Courtney (@harmonicacave)

For the first week since its release in US theaters, Guardians Of The Galaxy is not in the top ten films in the box office. For 10 weeks running Guardians stayed in the top 10. The movie has continued to do well since its release, and now is blowing up in China. It has reportedly done so well that there is going to be an animated series. This test footage for the animated series premiered at New York Comic Con. I like the look. It looks like a superhero show, but the animation looks just a little different. 

Here’s what director James Gunn had to say about how well the film has been doing:

To be clear, it’s a huge feat. In our 10th and 11th weeks in theaters, we are outperforming any comic book movie in box office history. We’re bringing in more than the Avengers, any Dark Knight, any Spider-Man, or any X-Men film at this point. Part of this is because of new people discovering Guardians, but a huge part of it is because of you guys seeing the movie again and again (like the kid whose ticket stubs I posted on Twitter yesterday, who has seen GotG in theaters 28 times). I don’t mean to focus on box office dollars or money. For the record, I don’t make any more money the more it makes in theaters – my box office bumps stopped a long time ago because no one expected the film to do this well. But I continue to be flabbergasted and overjoyed that the movie speaks to people, that we were able to make something that was simultaneously big AND sincere, and that it connected with all of you – comic book fans, science fiction fans, film fans, and, just, you know, HUMAN BEINGS.

I’m glad James Gunn will be back on the second Guardians Of The Galaxy film.

- Chris