The broadcast start date of the TV anime adaptation of *Ao Haru Ride*, a popular shoujo manga currently serialized in *Bessatsu Margaret* (Shueisha), has been announced.
“The Ball is Your Friend. Captain Tsubasa Exhibit,” a large-scale exhibit introducing the charms of soccer and Yoichi Takahashi’s popular sports manga *Captain Tsubasa*, will be held at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo beginning on June 14.
Viz Media, the largest North American company for Japanese anime and manga, has officially announced that it has acquired the North American license for *Sailor Moon Crystal*, which will release simultaneously worldwide this July.
Over 3 million total volumes have been published of Yūnosuke Yoshinaga’s popular manga *Broken Blade*, Comic Meteor revealed. The milestone was reached in one fell swoop with the release of the 13th volume on May 12.
Performances of the stage play “Blue Exorcist: Awakening the Blue Flame Arc/Kyoto’s Unclean King Arc” will begin on June 21 at Sunshine Theatre in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.
Evangelion Store Tokyo-01, the official store for *Evangelion* which, since November 2011, has gathered popularity for roughly two and a half years in its Harajuku, Tokyo location off of Takeshita-Dōri, is moving to Ikebukuro.
*Gochūmon wa Usagi Desu ka?*, a new TV anime that began airing in April, is currently collaborating with the private library cafe Schatzkiste until May 31 in Akihabara, Tokyo.
A live-action movie is in the works for Tsugumi Ohba’s and Takeshi Obata’s hugely popular manga *Bakuman* which has been serialized in *Weekly Shonen Jump* (Shueisha) since 2008.
The popular manga *Denkigai no Honya-san*, which is currently serialized in the manga magazine *Monthly Comic Flapper* (Kadokawa, Media Factory), is becoming an anime.
Original vending machines designed after the popular Japanese anime *A Certain Magical Index* and *A Certain Scientific Railgun* have appeared in Tachikawa.
A video for Part 2 of “J. League × Captain Tsubasa Dream Shoot,” a collaboration between J. League and the manga *Captain Tsubasa*, was released on May 1.
The final volume of Kadokawa Corporation’s hit comic series *Neon Genesis Evangelion*, which has totaled over 23 million copies sold, is set to be released.