The official Tales of Symphonia anime homepage has announced that a Tales of Symphonia: Teseara Chapter OVA series will launch next spring.
Source: Moon Phase
via Anime Nation
{June 18, 2009} New Symphonia Anime Announced
{June 18, 2009} Last Gasp Acquires Suehiro Maruo Manga
Last Gasp has acquired translation and distribution rights to award winning underground manga artist Suehiro Maruo’s 2008 manga The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (Panorama-tou Kitan). The manga is an adaptation of Edogawa Rampo’s 1926 novella about a failed sci-fi author who assumes the identity of the deceased son of a rich industrialist in the early 1920s. The English language publication will be released next spring.
Source: Same Hat! Same Hat!
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{June 18, 2009} Yoku Wakaru Gendai Maho Episode 0 Announced
The official homepage for the upcoming Yoku Wakaru Gendai Maho television series has announced that an episode 0 titled “cruncha cruncha cruncha” will stream for free on the series’ homepage and Bandai Channel site from the 29th through July 6. The regular series will begin its TV broadcast on July 11.
Source: Moon Phase
via Anime Nation
{June 18, 2009} Kuroshitsuji Sequel Announced
Yay..!!! Best news so far.. ^_^
The official homepage for last year’s Kuroshitsuji television series has announced that a second series has been green-lit for production.
Source: Anime News Network
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{June 18, 2009} Tatakau Shisho Anime Announced
An anime adaptation of author Ishio Yamagata and illustrator Shigeki Maeshima’s light novel series Tatakau Shisho was reportedly announced during this past weekend’s Hatsukoi Limited & Yoku Wakaru Gendai Maho Joint Festival publicity event. The 8 volume novel series that made its debut in September 2005 is a romantic fantasy drama set in an alternate world in which the deceased are enshrined as books. Young man Koria Tonisu has his memory erased and a bomb implanted in his chest, and is ordered to kill Hamyuttsu Meseta, the world’s most powerful armed librarian. However, Tonisu falls in love with Meseta and becomes embroiled in the ongoing battle centered on the library.
Source: Anime News Network
via Anime Nation
{June 18, 2009} Queen’s Blade’s 2nd Season Green-Lit
Queen’s Blade: Gyokuza no Tsugumono (literally, Queen’s Blade: Inheritor of the Throne, or Queen’s Blade and the evil eye), the second season of the Queen’s Blade television anime series, was announced after the final episode of the first season ran on the AT-X channel in Japan today.
Source: 2channel, Moon Phase Comments
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Anime Maker Ōdan Sendenman Blog reports that production on a DVD Volume 0 is being planned. Although the industry blogger cannot discuss the contents of the DVD yet, the blog indicates that the DVD may be released by this summer’s Comic Market in August.
{June 18, 2009} Quantcast Sengoku Basara’s 2nd Anime Season to Premiere in 2010
The official website for Itsuro Kawasaki and Production I.G’s anime adaptation of the Sengoku Basara (Devil Kings) historical action-adventure videogame has confirmed that a second season will premiere in 2010. In both the game and the anime, Kazuya Nakai, Sōichiro Hoshi, and Norio Wakamoto play Date Masamune, Sanada Yukimura, and Oda Nobunaga, respectively — actual historical figures in Japan’s bloody Warring States Period.
The game already inspired a 12-episode anime season that premiered in April. A 13th episode will ship on the anime’s seventh DVD next January. The first season has just ended on Wednesday night with the announcement (pictured at right) of the second season. The game also inspired more than one manga adaptations and even rice bags — official Sengoku Basara rice bags and unofficial ones drawn by Sengoku Basara manga artist Chimaki Kuori.
Source: animeanime.jp
via ANN
{June 18, 2009} Eyeshield 21 Football Manga Ends in Japan After 7 Years
Writer Riichirou Inagaki and artist Yuusuke Murata ended their Eyeshield 21 sports manga in this year’s 29th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on Monday. During its seven-year run, the popular manga exposed many young fans to the American form of football and inspired a 2005-2008 television anime series, an event-only anime short, and several games. The 37th and final compiled book volume of the manga will ship in October.
Viz Media is publishing the 26th volume of the manga in North America this month. The Crunchyroll website is streaming the anime series after the defunct Toonami Jetstream website had released parts of it.
Source: Comic Natalie
via ANN
{June 18, 2009} Tomoko Ninomiya’s Appendicitis Puts Nodame on Hold
The official website of Kodansha’s Kiss magazine has announced on Monday that the next issue will not have its scheduled installment of the Nodame Cantabile manga because the manga’s creator, Tomoko Ninomiya, had to be rushed to a hospital. Ninomiya suffered from abdominal pain and high fever while working towards her next deadline, and has been diagnosed with acute appendicitis. She will be unable to work on her manga while she receives treatment.
The magazine’s next issue, which will be this year’s 13th issue, will ship in Japan on June 25. The Nodame Cantabile manga’s return date has not yet been decided, but Tomomiya’s future plans will be announced in Kiss magazine and its official website.
Kodansha had just announced that Ninomiya will launch a new series of short stories called Noda-Can BS (Nodame Cantabile Backstage) in Kodansha’s bimonthly Kiss Plus magazine on August 8. Ninomiya returned to the main Nodame Cantabile manga in March after taking time off to have her baby and recover from carpal tunnel syndrome.
The Nodame Cantabile: Paris anime sequel aired in Japan from October to December, and another television series has been green-lit for this fall. Two live-action films were later announced for release in 2010. The 22nd volume of the Japanese manga will bundle a original animation DVD in August. Del Rey will publish the 16th of the 21 current volumes of the manga in North America next month.
Source: Comic Natalie
via ANN
