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In what we can only describe as a perfect example of East meets West, Marvel animations has partnered with Madhouse Inc. (known for death note and Nana) to give you a couple of western heroes an anime makeover.


Set for release in 2010, ironman and Wolverine will be aired on Animax. Watch the trailers below.

Poster from Comiccon

Trailers

Official Press Release:

Marvel Entertainment Inc., has partnered with renowned Japanese animation studio Madhouse (Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers) and multiple-Eagle Award winner Warren Ellis to create four all new anime versions of classic Marvel Super Heroes. Get an exciting first glimpse of IRON MAN and WOLVERINE, two of the planned four series!

These Marvel Anime TV series are being created as a way of merging the beloved Marvel Super Heroes of western culture with the bold animation tradition of Japan. The resulting product will be four visually groundbreaking anime series featuring popular Super Heroes redesigned and repurposed as emerging from the fabric of Japanese culture. The series is expected to begin appearing on the Animax channel in Japan in spring of 2010.

Madhouse, Inc., established in 1972 with offices in Tokyo, Los Angeles and Beijing, is one of the top animation studios in the world working exclusively with some of Japan’s top anime directors. They have created many well-known titles such as worldwide hits Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D, Trigun, Tokyo Godfathers, and Metropolis, Japanese successful TV series such as “Death Note” and “Nana”, as well as Paprika (an Official Selection at the 2006 Venice Film Festival) and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2007 Japanese Academy Award for Best Film – Animation)

Iron-man = Cool, Wolverine = WTF??

Watched the trailers? Then you might be one of many who were outraged with the Wolverine trailer. First off, it doesn’t look like wolverine. AT. ALL. Well, maybe except for the claws. The well-beloved gruff Canuck was turned into a thin, ninja like, goth bishonen with a mullet.

The reactions for the trailers were like two sides of a coin, people liked how Iron man retained the look and given the moves of a mecha, but Wolverine was totally a different story. It seemed that no one wanted the look on Wolverine, and personally he did seem a bit too metrosexual than what most people would’ve liked. But that’s japan for you and we can’t say if it’ll be successful of not, as there have been news that X-men and blade are slated to be up next on the anime makeover machine.

So what do you think? Post it in the comments below!