Haganai's 2nd Season Slated for January 2013

 The official Twitter account for the Haganai (Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai) school comedy anime announced on Saturday that the second season will premiere next January on the TBS and BS-TBS television channels.

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.

New Hayate the Combat Butler Anime Slated for October 3

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]

Binbogami ga! Singer Piko to Voice-Act in Anime

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!

Cuticle Detective Inaba TV Anime Announced

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]

Teekyū! Manga About Girls' Tennis Team Gets TV Anime

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]

Japan's Video Game Rankings, July 30-August 5

Japan's Game Ranking: July 30-August 5

Rank	System	Title	Maker	Release Date	Weekly Copies	Total Copies	4Gamer Reader Review
1	Wii	Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online (Including Bundled Editions)	Square Enix	August 2	367,148	367,148	55
2	3DS	New Super Mario Bros. 2	Nintendo	July 28	213,547	621,050	90
3	NDS	Pokémon Black 2/White 2	Pokemon	June 23	66,758	2,521,764	70
4	3DS	Tohoku Daigaku Karei Igaku Kenkyūsho - Kawashima Ryūta Kyouju Kanshū - Mono Sugoku Nō wo Kitaeru 5-Funkan no Oni Training	Nintendo	July 28	31,792	72,064
5	Wii	Just Dance Wii 2	Nintendo	July 26	29,602	89,723
6	Wii	Hoshi no Kirby 20th Anniversary Special Collection	Nintendo	July 19	21,001	150,655
7	PS3	Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena (Persona 4 Arena)	Atlus	July 26	20,477	148,961	85
8	NDS	All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation 2	Bandai Namco Games	August 2	20,459	20,459
9	PSP	Digimon World Re: Digitize	Bandai Namco Games	July 19	17,508	134,362	71
10	Wii	Wii Sports Resort (Wii Remote Control Plus Pack) (Including Bundled Editions)	Nintendo	October 11	15,706	1,012,372	75
11	3DS	Kobito Dukan Kobito Kansatsu Set	Nippon Columbia	July 26	14,653	35,278
12	3DS	Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb	Bandai Namco Games	July 12	14,321	131,794
13	PSP	Super Dangan Ronpa 2: Sayonara Zetsubō Gakuen (Including Limited Editions)	Spike Chunsoft	July 26	13,646	82,646	93
14	NDS	All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation 2	Bandai Namco Games	August 2	12,928	12,928
15	3DS	Rune Factory 4	Marvelous AQL	July 19	11,467	118,439	90
16	PS3	Jikyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 2012	Konami	July 19	11,292	94,980
17	3DS	Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland 3D (Including Bundled Editions)	Square Enix	May 31	11,056	848,725	80
18	PSP	Mayuta no Kiseki (Including Limited Editions)	Nihon Falcom	July 26	10,998	85,858	65
19	PSP	Smile Precure! Meruhen World	Bandai Namco Games	August 2	8,786	8,786
20	Wii	Mario Party 9	Nintendo	April 26	8,718	510,638

Hardware Sales

System	Weekly Sales
3DSLL	82,251
3DS	42,164
Wii	41,415
PS3	13,944
PSP	11,824
Vita	9,038
PS2	1,154
Xbox 360	981
DSi	637
DSi LL	405

 
Source: Media Create via 4Gamer

Medaka Box's 2nd Season Slated for October

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.

Haitai Nanafa TV Anime to Premiere in October

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 peaceful life of Nanafa and her family begins to change.

The official website for the series is currently displaying the character designs for the main characters.
A partial list of cast members for the series includes:

Niina (voiced by Rei Matsuzaki)
Iina (voiced by Hiromi Igarashi)
Obaa (voiced by Izumi Kishaba)
Ojii (voiced by Masahiro Arakaki)

Fall Season Anime

To Love-Ru Darkness Themes Sung by Ray, Kanon Wakeshima

To Love-Ru spin-off anime to premiere in October

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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]

anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day Gets Film Next Summer

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.

The Flowers of Evil Suspense Manga Gets Anime

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 in North America in October.

Source: Comic Natalie

Lychee Light Club Horror Comedy Manga Gets TV Anime

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]

Amnesia Romance Game for Female Players Gets TV Anime

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.

Ebiten ~Ebisugawa Public High School's Tenmonbu~

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 immediately acts when she finds something interesting. Her hobbies include harassing Kanamori. She loves kompeito (a type of small sugar candy) and incense.
	Elizabeth Margaret VA: Iori Nomizu A mysterious maid who suddenly appeared in Tenmonbu. She pressures Kyoko and the others with her oppressive attitude unbefitting a maid, but they get back at her too. She appears to have come to Tenmonbu in search of someone…
	Hakata Kanamori VA: Asuka Nishi Hakata is a fujoshi who loves BL and cosplay. She typically buys doujinshi in sets of three: one for viewing, one for preservation, and one for converting others. She has a habit of organizing everything as “seme” or “uke”. With as often as Kyoko tries to strip her, she's in charge of sex appeal.
	Rikei Hiromatsu VA: Risako Murai Rikei is a quiet and well behaved girl. She's the one in the club with the most common sense, and hates idiots. She's in charge of calling the others' jokes. However, she also has a big cat-fetish, and loses sight of everything else when cats are involved. Her hobbies include fortune telling by cards.
	Hasumi Oba VA: Satomi Satou Hasumi is vice president of Tenmonbu. She looks like a graceful beauty, but she's actually quite the fighter, and her special move is the Iron Claw. Kyoko can't win against her. She's the type who will often run with a joke. She's also the barrier preventing Student Council President Iseda's attempts to disband their club.
	Yuka Iseda VA: Midori Tsukimiya Yuka is president of Ebisugawa Public High School's student council. Apparently she was once the president of Tenmonbu, but she left them for some reason. She views Tenmonbu as an enemy and does what she can to try and disband them. However, she's also a tsundere yuri girl who loves Oba. According to Oba, her letter of resignation was never accepted.

Kill Me Baby! Creator Asked to Prepare for 2nd Season

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!

Initial D Car-Racing Manga Gets New Anime Series

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 and released some of the earlier anime.

Source: Comic Natalie