On Nov. 6, 2013 at their 20th anniversary presentation, game maker Gust announced an anime adaptation of *Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky*.
Polygon Pictures, a studio highly regarded overseas for *Transformers: Prime* and *Star Wars: The Clone Wars*, is challenging itself with a bold TV anime for the domestic Japanese market.
At their recent corporate strategy meeting and third quarter results briefing, Nintendo announced that the Wii U game *Mario Kart 8* will be released worldwide in May.
*The Idolmaster Movie: To the Other Side of the Light!* was released Japan-wide on Jan. 25 and is having a favorable start. On its first weekend, the movie received ￥1,498,769,000 in box office revenue, ranking at No. 3.
The Feb. 8 release of the animated film *Buddha 2: Tezuka Osamu no Buddha - Owarinaki Tabi* is closing in. Preceding this, a world premiere of the film will take place at the Louvre in Paris.
A new work to keep an eye on has appeared in the popular shonen manga magazine *Evening*. In the Jan. 28 issue, Hiroya Oku’s newest work, *Inu Yasha*, began serialization.
The broadcast time for the Flash anime *Keroro* has been announced. The anime will air at 19:00 on March 22 during Animax’s new programming block, Keroro Hour, during which both the new anime *Keroro* and the previous anime *Sgt. Frog* can be enjoyed.
The video featured here shows live performances by LiSA and Eir Aoi, both of whom you may know as the singers of theme songs in popular anime such as *Fate/Zero*, at Anime Festival Asia 2013 held in Singapore from Nov. 8-9, 2013.
The *Tiger & Bunny* series began airing in 2011. In 2012, the movie *Tiger & Bunny: The Beginning* released and became a huge hit. Now, the second movie in the series, *Tiger & Bunny: The Rising*, is set for a roadshow release on Feb. 8.
*Selector Infected WIXOSS*, an original late-night anime by Warner and Takara Tomy, will begin broadcasting this April. On April 26, the bishoujo-type trading card game *WIXOSS* will also go on sale.
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