The new volume in the *Hunter x Hunter* series, “Kurapika Recollection Volume”, is currently being serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump and has quickly become a hot topic.
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.
*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.
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.
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.
Kurapika’s “scarlet eyes” have been stolen! Hunter × Hunter: Phantom Rouge, the first movie in the Hunter × Hunter series, is planned to premiere on Jan.
On Feb. 1, 2013, screenings will begin in Japan for Berserk Golden Age Arc III: Descent. The Blu-Ray/DVD for the second movie in the Berserk series, Berserk Golden Age Arc II: The Battle for Doldrey, was released on Dec. 5, 2012.
VIZ Media, a company that translates Japanese manga for the North American audience, has announced that starting in January 2013, it will begin a new phase of its digital English version of the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump, called Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha.
The TV anime that gave rise to the popularity of the game Go throughout Japan, Hikaru no Go, is coming to Blu-Ray! Starting on Jan. 25, 2013, a series of five box sets will begin to be released.
Directed by Mamoru Nagano, the full length mecha anime movie “Gothicmade” began screening in Japan on November 1st. Proceeding the release of the movie, the original soundtrack was released on October 31st.
Along with the start of the new season of Saint Seiya, “Saint Seiya Omega”, a compilation album of music from the series, titled “Saint Seiya - Song Best”, was released on October 31st.
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