The TV anime adaptation of Kotoura-san, MicroMagazine Corporation's popular web manga, will begin airing in January 2013. The anime will be broadcast on CBC, Tokyo MX, Sun TV, and AT-X. The air dates and times have also been announced.
As part of the promotion of Tokyo's Nerima district as Anime Town Nerima District, motorcycle license plates featuring the character Maetel from manga artist Leiji Matsumoto's famous work Galaxy Express 999 have been released.
Recently, “collaboration” is a word that is often heard in the world of anime and games. Collaborations often involve the partnering of different businesses and works, with joint items being made that incorporate both parties involved.
*Photo Kano* is a PSP game released on Feb. 2, 2012. To date, it is the first dating simulation game based on the theme of "photography", and the game has been a big hit.
It was announced on Nov. 30, 2012 that Team Rocket’s Meowth will be coming to the Nintendo DS games *Pokemon Black Version 2* and *Pokemon White Version 2*.
Japan Media Arts Festival 2012 began on Dec. 8, 2012 at ArtisTree in Hong Kong. The event is all about Japanese pop culture and isn’t planned to end until the beginning of January, 2013.
Matching up with the release of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, the “Evangelion & Japanese Swords Exhibit” is now open at the Okazaki Castle in the Aichi prefecture as well as the Iyeyasu and Mikawa Bushi Museum.
Jigoku Youchien Project (original concept by Sugiyama, storyboard by Rintaro Otsuka), a group effort by Kadokawa Shoten, ASCII Media Works, Enterbrain, and Fujimi Shobo, is set to begin.
SEGA’s *Initial D Arcade Stage* is a popular series of competitive racing games that reproduce the world of the anime and manga *Initial D* by Shuichi Shigeno.
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