The Tsugumori takeoff scene as seen in the sci-fi anime *Knights of Sidonia* can now be experienced using the latest virtual reality Oculus Rift headset.
On Aug. 11, the newest PV for the PS Vita game *The Irregular at Magic High School: Out of Order*, planned to release Oct. 30, was made public by Bandai Namco Games.
Ayuko Hatta’s popular manga *Okami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji* that is currently serializing in the shoujo manga magazine *Bessatsu Margaret* is becoming a TV anime.
A specialty shop for *Kuroko’s Basketball*, which is picking up attention due to the decision to begin production on Season 3 of the TV anime, will be opening in Shinjuku Marui Annex in Tokyo.
A live-action film adaptation of Io Sakisaka’s bestselling manga *Strobe Edge* has been announced. The film stars the extremely talented Sota Fukushi and Kasumi Arimura, and it will release in March 2015.
It has been revealed that the popular anime *Wake Up, Girls!*, which kicked off early this year with the simultaneous release of an animated film along with a TV anime series, will be getting a new development this fall.
Kyoto Animation, which has gathered tremendous support from anime fans, is creating an anime based on an original work by Shoji Gatoh of *Full Metal Panic!* fame. This long-awaited anime is *Amagi Brilliant Park*.
*RWBY* is an American anime that follows the lives of ultra powerful teenagers training to be the next generation of peacekeepers, or hunters and huntresses.
A large original art exhibit for *Ghost in the Shell* that gathers in one place a variety of documents created over the series’ 25-year history began on Aug. 8 at the Seibu Ikebukuro Honten Annex 2F Seibu Gallery.
Mizuho Kusanagi’s manga *Akatsuki no Yona* which is currently serialized in *Hana to Yume* (Hakusensha) is becoming an anime to begin broadcasting this October. A new PV will also be shown at the Marvelous booth during Comic Market 86 being held from Aug. 15-17 at Tokyo Big Sight.
Pre-orders have begun for four items in the “Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel Laminate Series” beginning with a *Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel* one-piece dress on Bandai’s official shopping site, Premium Bandai.
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