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Iron Man is a pretty good fit for anime, if you think about it: a brilliant, arrogant playboy billionaire who dons a mechanical suit often to fight other mechanical suited menaces in explosive mechanical battles over glittering cityscapes. Madhouse's "Iron Man" anime is heading to G4 in 2011, but it launches this month in Japan, and the Japanese opening sequence has hit the net, showcasing the show's blend of traditional and CGI animation styles and its distinctly anime twist on the Tony Stark you know and love/hate. Check out the video after the jump.



The opening for the Madhouse produced Iron Man anime adaptation has now surfaced on YouTube. The credits mention Joe Quesada, Stan Lee, Alan Fine, Jeph Loeb and Dan Buckley but do not mention either Takeshi Koike or Warren Ellis, two key staff members that were previously announced to be attached to the project. The Iron Man adaptation by Madhouse is meant to be a reinterpretation of the origin story. Initial reviews have also started to surface expressing immense dissatisfaction with the 3D animation used for the suit rendering and the 2D animation quality along with the character development and design.



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The first episode of MADHOUSE's Iron Man anime series will have its world premiere at Comic-Con International, which will run in San Diego from July 22 to July 25. The Animax anime television channel has also announced that the anime will then hold its television premiere on Animax in Japan on Friday, October 1 at 10:00 p.m. Marvel Entertainment had previously stated that the 12-episode series would premiere during the second quarter (April-June) of the year. Marvel Anime: Iron Man and Marvel Anime: Wolverine were slated to air in the United States next year.

Marvel Entertainment had revealed in August of 2008 that it was working with MADHOUSE on four series with Marvel's stable of comic book characters. (The other two projects will center on Blade and X-Men.) Masao Maruyama, the co-founder of MADHOUSE, offered a video preview of its Iron Man and Wolverine work at Comic-Con International last July.