New series/sequel announcements

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Seems interesting. I'll be looking forward to it.

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To Love-Ru Darkness Manga to Bundle Anime DVD in August

posted on 2012-04-17 07:40 EDT

5th manga volume to include 3 anime shorts about Momo, Mikan, Haruna

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The first bimonthly issue of Shueisha's Jump SQ.19 magazine is announcing on Thursday that the limited edition of the fifth To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness manga volume will bundle an anime DVD. The DVD will run about 24 minutes long and contain three episodes. The limited edition bundle will ship on August 17.

The anime shorts will adapt three bonus extra chapters — Chapter 0 "Prologue ~Project Shidō" (Prologue: Project Launch), "Pollen plan ~Kiken na Imōto Jōji~" (Pollen plan: Dangerous Sister Affair), "Body touch? ~Nyan-derful Life~" — from the manga which center around the characters Momo, Mikan, and Haruna, respectively.

The manga is also inspiring a television anime. Atsushi Ootsuki is returning from the earlier To Love-Ru television anime to direct at Xebec, and To Love-Ru veteran Yuichi Ouka is also designing the characters.

[TheCoffeeGod]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...e-in-the-works

Senran Kagura TV Anime "In the Works"

posted on 2012-04-17 22:12 EDT

Magazine scans reveal plans to adapt 3DS action game

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A scan of this week's issue of Enterbrain's Weekly Famitsu magazine, which is promoting the upcoming Senran Kagura Burst Nintendo 3DS game, has revealed that plans are underway for a television anime adaptation of the side-scrolling action game featuring female ninjas. The original Senran Kagura was released in September 2011 on the 3DS, and a manga adaptation has been serialized in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive since last October.

[TheCoffeeGod]

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Game Firm G-mode, Studio AIC Make Khronos Gear Anime

posted on 2012-04-24 05:45 EDT

Tenchi Muyo's Hayashi directs future sci-fi story with Aoi Yūki, Ryuichi Makino

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The mobile game company G-mode (Keitai Shoujo, Sengoku Paradise Kiwami) announced on Tuesday that it launching Khronos Gear (Katayoku no Khronos Gear), a mixed-media franchise that includes an original video anime from the studio Anime International Company (AIC). G-mode is also producing the game and manga components of the project.

The story is set in the near future not long from now, when humanity has completed an orbital elevator and begun developing the outer planets in earnest. An enigmatic extraterrestrial enemy known as "Obliquus" has set its sights on the solar system, and humanity enters a state of war with the first aliens it has encountered.

To counter the enemy's overwhelming technological superiority, the Khronos Foundation has assembled the descendants of every country's heroes from Japan's Musashi Miyamoto and Ryōma Sakamoto to France's Napoleon and Joan of Arc. The foundation then fuses the descendants with "Gear" battle suits as special biological weapons, thus giving birth to "Khronos Gear."

Hiroki Hayashi (Tenchi Muyo!, El Hazard, Battle Programmer SHIRASE) is directing the Khronos Gear anime, and Ryuichi Makino (Battle Athletes, Girls Bravo, Hourou Musuko/Wandering Son) is designing the characters. JR Eki Sakurajima (Battle Programmer SHIRASE, ToHeart2 adplus) is in charge of the story scenario and scripts, while Shigemi Ikeda (Mobile Suit Gundam Seed, Mobile Suit Gundam UC) is working on the background art with art director Ayu Kawamoto (No. 6, Waiting in the Summer, Kodomo no Jikan). Aya Ouchi (Tenchi Muyo! GXP, Wandering Son) is the color key artist, and Toshiki Kameyama (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia) is the sound director.

Tomoaki Maeno will play the protagonist Musashi Miyamoto, while Aoi Yūki will play the heroine/love rival Jeanne Saya. Sayuri Yahagi and Yumi Hara round out the cast as Haruka Sasaki and Ryō Sakamoto.

The manga will run in G-mode's web comic magazine Comic Meteor.

[TheCoffeeGod]

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Anime Adaptation of Touya Mikanagi's Karneval Announced

posted on 2012-04-24 23:27 EDT

Wraparound jacket of 9th volume reveals plans for anime

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The wraparound jacket band on the 9th volume of Touya Mikanagi's Karneval manga announced on Wednesday that the title will be receiving an anime adaptation. The adventure title runs in Ichijinsha's Comic Zero-Sum josei manga magazine.

[TheCoffeeGod]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...-upcoming-game

Accel World OVA to be Bundled with Upcoming Game

posted on 2012-04-25 22:40 EDT

Accel World: Ginyoku no Kakusei release date, other details also revealed

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The latest issue of ASCII Media Works's Dengeki Playstation magazine has revealed that the upcoming Accel World: Ginyoku no Kakusei Playstation 3 and Playstation portable game will have limited edition releases that feature a bundled original video anime (OVA). The limited edition Playstation 3 version of the game will come with a Blu-ray Disc of the OVA, while the limited edition Playstation Portable version of the game will come with a DVD.

The limited editions of the game will also come in a special box with an approximately 60-page book of production materials. The game is due out on September 13, and will cost 10,480 yen (about US$128) and 9,430 yen (about US$115) for the Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable limited editions, respectively. The regular edition of the Playstation 3 version will cost 7,330 yen (about US$90), and the regular and downloadable editions of the Playstation Portable version will cost 6,280 yen (about US$77).

The Accel World television series began airing on April 6.

The "future teen" story of Accel World revolves around a bullied middle school boy named Haruyuki. One autumn day in 2046, he has an encounter with Kuroyukihime, the prettiest girl in his school, that changes his life. Through a mysterious piece of software from Kuroyukihime, Haruyuki learns of the existence of the virtual "Accel World." In that moment, the lowest of the "school caste" becomes "Burst Linker," a knight defending a princess.

[TheCoffeeGod]

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Sunrise Animates 1st Feature of Kaiketsu Zorori Kids' Books

posted on 2012-04-28 06:05 EDT

Story of mischievous bandit fox who dreams of becoming the "King of Pranks"

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The anime studio Sunrise announced on Saturday that the first full-length feature film adaptation of Yutaka Hara's Kaiketsu Zorori (The Incredible Zorori) children's books has been green-lit. The Kaiketsu Zorori Da-Da-Da-Daibōken! (The Incredible Zorori's G-G-G-Great Adventure!) film will open this winter.

Hara's books follow Zorori, a mischievous bandit fox who dreams of becoming the "King of Pranks." Zorori aims to "build my own castle and make a beautiful princess my wife," and he embarks on one misadventure after another with his two boar companions Ishishi and Noshishi. In the film, Zorori is after a trove of riches discovered by the treasure hunter Zorondo Ron.

Hara's books already inspired a 1993 film, a 2004-2005 television anime series, a second television anime from 2005 to 2007, and a second film in 2006. (These earlier films were short works that were screened with other anime.) Tomoko Iwasaki, an episode director on the Kaiketsu Zorori televison series and Inazuma Eleven, will direct the new film at Sunrise and Asia-Do.

[TheCoffeeGod]

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Dusk Maiden of Amnesia BD/DVD to Have Unaired Episode

posted on 2012-04-29 10:00 EDT

6 BD/DVD volumes to begin shipping on June 27 in Japan

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The ongoing Dusk Maiden of Amnesia television anime will have six Blu-ray Disc/DVD volumes that will begin shipping in Japan on June 27, and the last monthly volume will have an unaired 13th episode. The first five volumes will have two episodes, while the last volume will have the 11th and 12th television episodes along with the unaired episode.

[TheCoffeeGod]

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Haganai Gets New Original Video Anime on September 26

posted on 2012-05-06 06:57 EDT

Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (Haganai) Add On Disc includes unaired 13th episode

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The "Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (Haganai) Premium Event" announced on Sunday that an original video anime called Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Add On Disc was green-lit for release on September 26. The video anime release will include the unaired 13th episode.

Yomi Hirasaka and Buriki's original light novels revolve around Kodaka (Ryohei Kimura) — a half-Japanese/half-British transfer student whose delinquent-like blonde hair and fierce eyes scare people — and a seemingly perpetually sullen girl named Yozora (Marina Inoue). The two decide to form Rinjinbu, a club for misfits with hardly any friends.

The light novels already inspired a 2011 television anime series that Funimation licensed and streamed in North America. The new original video anime is different from the original anime DVD that was bundled with the seventh light novel volume last September.

[TheCoffeeGod]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...-gets-tv-anime

Mangirl! Manga About Editors' Lives Gets TV Anime

posted on 2012-05-07 09:31 EDT

Kagari Tamaoka's manga about female manga editors who launch magazine with zero experience

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The wraparound jacket band on the first volume of Kagari Tamaoka's Mangirl! manga and Monthly Comic Earth Star magazine's website are announcing that a television anime adaptation of the manga is in the works for next year. The four-panel manga follows the daily life of naive Editor-in-Chief Hana and "Japan's cutest manga editors" as they attempt to realize their dream of launching the #1 manga magazine — even though they have zero experience in actually editing manga.

Yasu (Joshiraku, Toradora!) created the original character designs for the manga, which was originally titled Sōkan! Comic Earth Star Henshū-bu (Launch! Comic Earth Star Editors) when it debuted in Earth Star Entertainment's Monthly Comic Earth Star magazine. The first compiled volume will ship on Saturday. The studio Dogakobo (Yuruyuri, Koihime Musō, A Bridge to the Starry Skies) is producing the anime.