ANIME

The main cast of the anime *Kitakubu Katsudo Kiroku*, which will begin broadcasting this July in Japan, has been announced.

• 13 years ago

Mao, who has become a manager at his part-time job, has a celebratory toast with Ashiya at a barbeque restaurant. Meanwhile at Villa Rosa Sasazuka, Lucifer, who was defeated by Mao and cannot return to Ente Isla, changes his name to Hanzo Urushihara and begins living with Mao.

• 13 years ago

Where to keep it the same as reality and where to ignore it is very important in determining the orientation of a work.

• 13 years ago

Nisio Isin is a novelist who creates peculiar worlds filled with poisonously witty dialogue and greatly unique characters.

• 13 years ago

Kaga Create has greenlit *BlazBlue: Alter Memory*, an anime adaptation of the popular fighting game *BlazBlue*. The anime is planned to air this fall.

• 13 years ago

*The Flowers of Evil* is a one-season anime that started broadcasting in April, and it is gathering attention with its four different opening themes.

• 13 years ago

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.

• 13 years ago

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.

• 13 years ago

Mikagami, a young boy whom Kirino and the others run into at Comic Market, is a fashion model, designer, and Kirino’s acquaintance.

• 13 years ago

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.

• 13 years ago

The seventh DVD of the slow life anime *Peeping Life* will be released on June 25.

• 13 years ago

Takao is looking forward to his date with Saeki. However, Nakamura greatly changes the meaning of the whole thing.

• 13 years ago

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.

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On April 20, the newest movie in the popular anime series *Detective Conan*, *Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea*, was released in Japan.

• 13 years ago

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.

• 13 years ago

*Star Wars: The Clone Wars* and several staff of *Transformers: Prime* have been nominated for the 40th Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards.

• 13 years ago

*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.

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A Blu-ray box set for the anime adaptation of *Black Lagoon* that was broadcast from 2006-2010 has been announced.

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Tickets are already on sale for *Anohana the Movie*, which will open in 64 theaters across Japan on Aug. 31.

• 13 years ago

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.

• 13 years ago