The February issue of Ichijinsha’s Monthly Comic Zero-Summagazine started serialization on naked ape’s Otoh Saki’s (Switch, Dolls) and Ai Tenkawa’s (Wolf God) Kisshō7 -seven-manga on Wednesday. The Kisshō7 -seven- school comedy manga takes place at a high school in Kichioji, Tokyo, and revolves around the rumored “Kisshō7″ (Lucky 7), the seven beautiful student council members of the school. Digital Manga Publishing licensed Tenkawa’s Wolf God manga in [...]
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The Nico Nico Douga website’s âge live streaming event revealed designs for the anime adaptation of the Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse novel on Thursday. In July, a teaser websiteannounced that the adaptation will run on television in Japan next year. The Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipsenovel itself is spinoff of the 2006 romance simulation game Muv-Luv Alternative from the adult game company âge. The novel has been running in Enterbrain’s Tech [...]
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The publisher Shogakukan posted Vivian Wijaya’s Kokkyonaki Gakuen (Campus Dwellers Without Borders) manga on its Club Sunday website on November 4. According to The Japan Times paper, Wijaya’s slice-of-life comedy story is the first Japanese manga by an Indonesian female author. Shogakukan also states that the work is the first simultaneous trilingual publication of a comic in Japanese, English, and Indonesian. [...]
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Kodansha announced during the BOX-AiR New Author Awards’ Anime Adaptation Presentation on Tuesday that Yū Yamaguchi’s Aruvu Rezuru -Kikai Jikake no Yōsei-tachi-(Aruvu Rezuru: Mechanized Fairies) novel will be the first BOX-AiR work to be animated. In this cyber science-fiction story, a boy named Remu goes to take back the soul of his little sister, who disappeared in [...]
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The Japanese online retailer Getchu.comreported on Wednesday that an anime adaptation of Pan Tachibana’s Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai. (So, I Cannot Get Erotic.) romantic comedy light novel series has been green-lit. The anime studio feel. is producing the project. The main character of the story, who lost his “erotic spirit” by making a contract with a beautiful Goddess [...]
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Project-H Books hasannounced its latest adult manga license in Velvet Kiss published by Takeshobo in Japan and authored by Harumi Chihiro. The two volume series will be published next year. Synopsis: Nitta Shin finds himself saddled with a sudden, crushing debt. His loan agent tells him he can escape repayment if he keeps a particular woman company. He [...]
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The Sankei Shimbun paper’s web editors announced the results of the Net Ryūkōgo Taishō 2011 (Net Buzzword Awards 2011) on Thursday, and the catchphrase used in the Puella Magi Madoka Magica anime was #3 on the list. The awards committee received 153,516 responses about this year’s fad words and Internet memes. The Gold Prize goes to “popopopon” — the onomatopoeia word sung in [...]
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The game publisher Square Enixannounced on Thursday that it willlaunch an arcade card game called Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter (Super High-Speed Transforming Gyrozetter) next summer, along with a television anime next year. The card game depicts battles between cars that transform into robots. The staff behind Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road, led by Ryūtarō Ichimura (Dragon Quest VIII, Dragon Quest IX) is [...]
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In celebration of the upcoming release of Gundam Unicorn volume 4, Bandai Visual has provided ANN with two Gundam Unicorn prize packs to give away. Each prize pack consists of: 1 Blu-ray (Japanese edition vol.1 – includes English subtitles, English dub and works in US players) 1 clear file (promotional item for vol.4) 1 poster (promotional item for vol.4) Gundam Unicorn Volume 4 will be [...]
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The latest feature film by acclaimed director Makoto Shinkai in Hoshi o Kodomo (Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below) has been licensedby a yet unnamed North American licensor, following the cancellation of its planned screening at the Waterloo Festival of Animated Cinema yesterday in Ontario, Canada. The confirmation of the license came as part of [...]
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