The decision to make a third season of the anime adaptation of Tamiki Wakaki’s manga *The World God Only Knows*, which is published by Shogakukan and currently serialized in *Weekly Shonen Sunday*, has been announced.
To celebrate the release of *Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo* on Blu-ray and DVD on April 24, an event called “Eva Con” at which *Eva* fans can mingle will be held in Fukuoka on June 15.
It has been announced that popular CanCam model Mizuki Yamamoto will be playing the part of Lin, the maid of the Phantomhive household, in the live-action film adaptation of the popular comic *Black Butler*.
The second part of the grand project *Tezuka Osamu’s Buddha*, a three-part movie series based on Tezuka’s masterpiece manga, is finally underway.
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s mini live event “Invader Invader Live Da-da-da-da,” a celebration of the release of her new single “Invader Invader,” was held on May 15.
In August and September 2012, a specially made rickshaw emblazoned with five of the main characters from the anime *Joshiraku*, which depicts female *rakugo* storytellers, ran the streets of Akihabara, drawing the attention of passersby.
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with director Makoto Shinkai, who is known for his works *The Place Promised in Our Early Days*, *5 Centimeters Per Second*, and *Children Who Chase Lost Voices*, for an interview regarding his newest work, *The Garden of Words*.