Director and creator Goro Taniguchi, whose past works include *Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion* and *Planetes*, is setting out on a new shojo anime project.
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.
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.
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.
Getting an interference from a similar power to hers, and being guided by her intuition, Mikoto comes across a girl wearing a Tokiwadai Middle School uniform.
*009: USA Edition*, which is gathering attention as being the American graphic novel adaptation of Shotaro Ishinomori’s science-fiction masterpiece, will be released on July 19 by the American publisher Archaia.
On May 13, Bandai launched a countdown page on its official online store Premium Bandai counting down to an announcement of new Studio Ghibli merchandise.
In commemoration of the release of the game *Steins;Gate: Phenogram of Linear Restraint*, a collaboration karaoke room was opened for a limited time in Pasela Akihabara Showadorikan from April 25 to May 26.
