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Second Season of Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica Confirmed [Updated on Dec 6]

According to the window announcement of a bookstore, the second season of "Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica" was announced. It will be aired from the spring 2009. The official website is counting down for a surprising news, probably the official announcement of the new season. The nu...

18 years ago

Viz gearing up for rapid release of 11 new Naruto volumes

In 2007, Viz Media released volumes 16 through 27 of Naruto all within four months of each other in North America in a campaign they dubbed "Naruto Nation". According to the release listings of Simon & Schuster, a Viz distributor, they'll be doing it again, but this time all in t...

18 years ago

[Retraction] New Anime Koi Suru Otome to Shugo no Tate

According to Gamers Magazine blog, the announcement of the anime was a misprint. We'd like to retract this news. Source: Gamers Magazine blog According to Gamers magazine, Alchemist's new game "Koi Suru Otome to Shugo no Tate -The shield of AIGIS-" will be a TV anime series. The...

18 years ago

Minori's New Game Eden Announced

According to the official website, minori (the game production company of "ef" series) announced a new PC game "eden* -They were only two, on the planet-" to be released in 2009. The detail of the game will be given in Monthly Comptique magazine to be released on Nov 10th. Source...

18 years ago

New Tenchi Muyo! Series Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari Confirmed [Updated on Nov 20]

According to New Type magazine, the long delayed "Tenchi Muyo!" series "Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari" was finally confirmed. The official website indicates that the production company is AIC Spirits. In 1998, the official "Tenchi Muyo!" web site announced that "Seikishi" TV anim...

18 years ago

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KyoAni's MUNTO To Be a TV Anime [Updated on Dec 10]

According to New Type magazine, Kyoto Animation's original anime Munto will be aired as a TV animation titled "Sora wo Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai". The series will be composed of the first and second OVA and some new episodes. It will be aired from the early spring...

18 years ago

Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking For Oct 27 - Nov 2

Here is the weekly manga sales ranking top 20 for October 27th - November 2nd. Rank/ This week's sales/ Total sales/ Title 1, 288,970 288,970 REAL vol.8 2, 110,451 356,191 Ookiku Furikabutte vol.11 3, *96,563 *96,563 Atashinchi vol.14 4, *79,418 266,420 Berserk vol.33 5, *68,456...

18 years ago

Tezuka Osamu's Works To Be Provided For Free

According to Nikkei News, Tezuka Production will provide all the Tezuka Osamu's works published before 2000 for free within the next three years. About 700 titles of manga and 100 titles of anime will be available online on the web site " TezukaOsamu.net". Currently, the first on...

18 years ago

Fight Ippatsu! Juuden-chan!! Anime Announcement

Bow Ditama, creator of Kiss x Sis and a person responsible for the art in Mahoromatic manga, has confirmed recently at Chibi Japan Expo in France that his Fight Ippatsu! Juuden-chan!! comedy manga will be adapted into an anime next summer. The story revolves around the office lad...

18 years ago

Macross Frontier the Movie - officially a remake

Director and creator of Macross franchise, Shoji Kawamori, said recently in the interview that previously announced Macross Frontier the Movie won't be by any means a completely new work. Instead, it will follow the original story with some improvements and changes to the story a...

18 years ago