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The first confirmed details regarding the Madoka Magica PSP game have surfaced from scans of a feature article in Dengeki magazine launched earlier this week in Japan. The game is being produced by Namco-Bandai in collaboration with Nitro+ and SHAFT. Koi-Nya The game will be released on March 15th 2012 for 6790 yen or a limited [...]
The Fuji TV network has announced that a Black Rock Shooter television series will air in the Noitamina timeslot next January. Evidently studio Ordet will animate the production, as the studio produced the 2010 Black Rock Shooter OVA. However, OVA director Yutaka Yamamoto has announced that he is not directing the TV series. This production was easy [...]
The Twitter account for England’s Manga Entertainment has confirmed that the US release of Madhouse’s 2009 feature film Redline will now be released in 2012 rather than the previously slated November 2011 date given to retailers earlier this summer. The film was screened in North America last year at Viz Cinema on the same day [...]
NIS America has announced September 20th as the release date for the second volume of the Katanagatari fantasy period action anime. The initial release will follow NIS America’s Limited Edition release pattern and will be packaged in a collectors box containing both the Blu-Ray and DVD versions of the series with episodes 6-12 on each [...]
In a move guaranteed to earn gushing fanboy praise, Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of the current historical drama anime television series Ikoku Meiro no Croisée. The 12 episode series that premiered on Japanese television on July 3 will premiere on The Anime Network on July 26 under the title “Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth [...]
Anime director and character designer Toyoo Ashida passed away on Saturday, July 23, at the age of 67. Ashida may be most fondly remembered among American otaku as the director of the Fist of the North Star television series and first movie, and director of the 1985 Vampire Hunter D movie. More recently, Ashida directed [...]
Reportedly Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine has revealed that a second Hunter x Hunter anime television series will air this fall. The 62 episode first Hunter x Hunter TV series aired in 1999 and was followed by three OVA series. Source: Anime News Network
The public broadcaster NHK began streaming the second special promotional movie for the Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle television anime series on Friday. Sunrise is producing this original anime for the NHKEducational TV channel. The school adventure story revolves around Kaito, a puzzle-loving freshman at the private high school named “Root Academy.” He is selected as a candidate for “Phi [...]
ASCII Media Works’ monthly online seinen magazine Dengeki Comic Japan announced on Monday that creator Tohru Fujisawa (GTO) and artist Takashi Sano (Iketeru Futari) will launch a new manga series called Black Sweep Sisters on August 25. The “thrilling dark action” manga centers around two dissimilar (“one large-breasted, the other small-breasted”) sisters who are exorcists for rising evil spirits. The [...]
The media-distribution website Crunchyroll is currently streaming “episode 12.5″ of the winter 2010 anime series Durarara!!, based on Baccano! author Ryohgo Narita’s light novel series. While Crunchyroll simulcasted the television anime, episode 12.5 was originally a DVD extra, released on the series’ seventh volume in August. Episode 12.5 of Durarara!! is titled “Heaven’s Vengeance” and [...]