The Japanese production company Media Factory began streaming a promotional video for the second season of the Haganai (Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai) school comedy anime on Sunday.
This same video ran in July during the MF Bunko J imprint's 10th Anniversary Summer School Festival, which officially announced Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai 2 (working title). The video also ran during Saturday's TBS Anime Festa 2012 event, which revealed that the second season will premiere next January on the TBS and BS-TBS television channels.
This year's 38th issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine is announcing on Wednesday that Hayate the Combat Butler: Can't Take My Eyes Off You, the new Hayate the Combat Butler television anime, will premiere on TV Tokyo on October 3 at 26:05 (effectively October 4 at 2:05 a.m.). The series will tell a new story that is original to the anime and not directly based on existing material from Kenjirou Hata's original manga. However, Hata personally created the story concepts for the new anime. [Via Manga News]...
It has been revealed that Piko, the singer most recently known for his song "Make my Day!", the opening to Binbogami ga!, will make his debut as a voice actor in August 22 episode of the series. Noted for his wide range and his initial debut online, Piko's videos have received a total of over 30 million views on video sharing websites. He also performed at concerts in Taiwan and Hong Kong last year. Piko's single for "Make my Day!" was released on Wednesday, and he has plans to perform again in Hong Kong on September 28 as a part of the "Piko Live Tour 2012." Source: Oricon via Yaraon!...
Fliers passed out on Friday by the booth for Frontier Works at the 82nd Comic Market have announced that Mochi's Cuticle Detective Inaba manga will be receiving a television anime adaptation. The series is currently serialized in Square-Enix's G Fantasy magazine. An official website for the series has been opened, as well as a Twitter account. The series tells the story of Hiroshi Inaba, a part-man, part-wolf, former "secret doberman" who begins his own detective agency. [Via Animate.tv]...
The wraparound jacket band on the first volume of Roots and Piyo's Teekyū! gag comedy manga is announcing this month that the manga will have a television anime adaptation. The manga centers around a girls' tennis team. (The title is a wordplay on a Japanese term for tennis, teikyū.) Piyo launched the manga in Earth Star Entertainment's Comic Earth Star magazine earlier this year. Earth Star Entertainment claims that this is the fastest television anime adaptation ever, since the manga only launched five months ago. The anime will premiere on the television station Tokyo MX on October 7 at 10:27 p.m. [Via IEEE802.11] ...
TV Tokyo's official website for Medaka Box announced that the second season will premiere in October. The first 12-episode anime season aired from April to June, and Crunchyroll streamed the season into several countries as it aired. Sentai Filmworks licensed the season in North America. ...
he official website for the Haitai Nanafa television anime series announced on Tuesday that the series will premiere on October 6 on the Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting station. The series will air on Saturdays at 5:55 p.m. The story of Haitai Nanafa revolves around an energetic middle school girl named Nanafa Kyan. Nanafa lives in Okinawa with her grandmother who runs the "Kame Soba" soba shop, her beautiful older sister Nao who is in high school, and her younger sister Kokona, who is in elementary school and has a strong ability to sense the supernatural. One day, Nanafa witnesses a seal fall off of a Chinese banyan tree, and three spirits who live in that tree are unleashed. These spirits include Niina and Raana, who are "jimunaa" spirits. The third spirit is Iina, who is an incarnation of an Okinawan lion statue. As spirits start appearing one after another, the...
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To Love-Ru spin-off anime to premiere in October Musical artists Ray and Kanon Wakeshima will perform the opening and ending theme songs for this Fall's To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness anime series. Ray sang the opening theme "sign" for Waiting in the Summer (Ano Natsu de Matteru). Known for her haunting mix of cello and vocals, Wakeshima previously performed the ending themes for Vampire Knight and Vampire Knight Guilty. She recently opened for Moi dix Mois at Sakura-Con in Seattle this year. Atsushi Ootsuki is returning from the To Love-Ru television anime to direct To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness at Xebec, and To Love-Ru veteran Yuichi Ouka is also designing the characters. The television series will premiere this October. The manga will also ship with an anime DVD this month, followed by a second DVD in December. [Via Ota-suke]...
The official website of the anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day anime announced on Sunday that a film will open in Japan next summer. The film will retell the anohana story from Menma's point of view. The announcement was first made at Sunday's anohana event....
An anime adaptation of Shūzō Oshimi's The Flowers of Evil (Aku no Hana) manga has been green-lit. Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushishi, Detroit Metal City) will helm the project, but no other details have been announced. The "corrupt pure-love story" revolves around Takao Kasuga, a bookish boy who loves the poems of Charles Baudelaire (the original author of the poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal or Flowers of Evil). One day after school, he discovers and steals the gym clothes of Nanako Saeki, the girl he has a crush on. However, he learns that Sawa Nakamura, a girl he loathes, happens to catch him in the act. Nakamura blackmails Kasuga into a "contract," or else she will reveal his secret. Oshimi launched the manga in the inaugural issue of Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2009, and Kodansha published the sixth book volume in June. Vertical will publish the third volume...
The official website of the Lychee Light Club (Litchi Hikari Club) horror comedy franchise revealed that a television anime adaptation will premiere this October. The title of the anime will be Litchi DE Hikari Club (Lychee DE Light Club). More details will be provided on the "Litchi Hikari Club Secret Base" website. The story revolves around nine students at an all-boys school who create a god-like Lychee machine — that runs on lychee fruits — to seek out the beautiful women of the world. However, the machine eventually becomes self-aware "and is soon equally capable of measuring beauty and executing justice." Usamaru Furuya's one-volume Lychee Light Club manga ran in Ohta Publishing's Manga Erotics F magazine from 2005 to 2006. The North American manga publisher Vertical released the manga in April 2011. The story already spawned a prequel manga and stage play. [Via Jam Guru]...
The Otomate Party 2012 event announced on Sunday that a television anime adaptation of Amnesia, a romance adventure game for female players, has been green-lit. In addition, there will be a new Amnesia game next year. The game begins on the morning of August 1, when the protagonist wakes up and discovers she has absolutely no memories of the past. A boy appears before her, and he introduces himself as a "spirit" named Orion. The protagonist struggles to regain her memories under the guidance of Orion. She then gets a phone call, but she does not recognize the name on her mobile phone screen. She meets her apparent "boyfriend," despite not knowing his face. Idea Factory released the original game on the PSP system in 2011....
Key Staff Director - Hideki Okamoto (Battle Girls – Time Paradox, Iketeru Futari) Series Composition - Yuuko Kakihara (Heaven's Lost Property, Persona 4 The Animation) Character Design - Atsuko Watanabe (Valkyria Chronicles, Charger Girl Ju-den Chan) Animation Production AIC Classic Introduction Watch Ebiten, take your complaints elsewhere! Story An anime about a club full of girls with lots of dreams—though none of them ever come true! From the staff who brought you “Battle Girls - Time Paradox” and “Heaven's Lost Property” comes a high-tension “be-prepared” club comedy!! Characters Itsuki Noya VA: Mariya Ise Itsuki is a small, cute girl who transferred to Ebisugawa Public High School. She's a shy girl, and after mistaking Tenmonbu for the Astronomy Club, the poor girl ends up getting toyed with by Kyoko and the others. Kyoko Todayama VA: Kana Asumi Kyoko is the troublemaker of Tenmonbu. She's a girl of action who...
The pamphlet included in the latest and final volume of the anime adaptation of Kaduho's Kill Me Baby! manga notes that the original manga's creator has been notified about some of the staff's wishes regarding his drawings in the case that a second season of the anime is produced. The paragraph then goes on to ask fans to continue supporting the series until a decision is made regarding the production of a second season. Source: Yaraon!...
This year's 35th issue of Kodansha's Young Magazine is announcing on Monday that a new anime series adaptation of Shuuichi Shigeno's Initial D car-racing manga has been green-lit. The format of the new anime series — be it a television anime, original video anime, or another format — and other details have not been revealed. More details will be provided in the combined 36th/37th issue of the magazine on August 6. The story follows Takumi Fujiwara, a high school boy with a natural talent for driving, in his racing pursuits on the public highways. The manga debuted in 1995, and Kodansha published the 45th book volume last month. The manga already inspired several television anime series, a live-action film, several original video anime projects, and a successful game line. Tokyopop published the manga and released part of the anime before ceasing its North American publishing operations. Funimation also licensed...