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.
*Gundam Reconguista in G*, the long-awaited TV series by the creator of the *Gundam* series, Yoshiyuki Tomino, is finally set to begin. Before the broadcast begins in October, a limited two-week screening of the first three episodes of the TV series will take place in 13 theaters around Japan beginning on Aug. 23.
*One Week Friends* is an anime popular for its heartwrenching story that was broadcast from April to June of this year. Now, it has been announced that a soundtrack CD including all 32 songs that color the series will be released on Wednesday, Sept. 17.
On Nov. 28, Tokyo's Ueno Royal Museum will be overrun by Titans. That's the day a large-scale *Attack on Titan* exhibition based on the hit anime and manga series is set to begin.
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