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The official website for next month’s Katanagatari television series now hosts a streaming 3 minute long trailer. The adaptation of author NisiOisin’s historical adventure novel series about two siblings searching for 12 lost swords will consist of 12 hour long anime episodes broadcast one per month. The first episode will air on January 25th. The second episode will quickly follow on February 8. The third episode will air on March 8.

Source: Anime News Network

Monthly Coro Coro Comic magazine has announced the development of an anime adaptation of Noriyuki Murase’s children’s comedy manga series Keshikasu-kun. The award winning manga, ongoing since 2004, stars Keshikasu-kun, an eraser (keshi-gomu) that aims to surpass his rivals including the correction fluid and blackboard eraser to become the strongest of all stationary items. Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions identifies the anime production as a TV series.

Source: Anime News Network

An anime short film adaptation of the Mizuki Shigeru no Tono Monogatari (Shigeru Mizuki’s Legends of Tono) manga is now in development as an exhibit for the Tono Municipal Museum in Japan’s Iwate Prefecture. Late author Kunio Yanagita’s book Tono Monogatari, a collection of folktales about the spooks, spirits, and monster residents of the city of Tono, celebrates its hundredth anniversary next year. Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro creator Shigeru Mizuki launched his manga adaptation of the hundred year old book in July 2008. It’s that manga adaptation which will be getting turned into an anime that will debut next spring as part of the Tono Municipal Museum’s centennial celebration of the publication of the original book.

Source: Anime News Network

A new Hoshi Shinichi’s Short Shorts TV special will air on the NHK network on January 2. This special will contain four animated and two live-action adaptation of short sci-fi stories by acclaimed author Hoshi Shinichi. The Hoshi Shinichi’s Short Shorts TV series aired in spring 2008. 9 segments from the 2008 TV series were re-broadcast as a TV special in February 2009.

Source: Anime News Network

Question:
A little web reseach reveals that 1997′s “travesty,” known to most English-speaking anime viewers as the VOLTAGE FIGHTER GOWCAISER movie was a compilation of three original separate episodes. By any remote chance, have you ever seen the separate episodes, and, if so, do they restore any sense to the otherwise incomplete and convoluted storyline, as depicted in the movie version?

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The latest trailer for April’s bishoujo battle action anime television series Angel Beats! is the first one to reveal footage from the actual animation. This heavily promoted original anime production is based on a story by Maeda Jun, scenario writer for PC games including Kanon, Air, and Clannad. The animation is a co-production between PC game developer VisualArt’s/Key and anime producer Aniplex. The animation is being produced by P.A. Works.

This literally looks exactly like what should be expected from a sad-girls-in-snow story animated by the studio that brought us Canaan.

Source: Moon Phase

The official homepage for next year’s Senko no Night Raid anime television series has launched with a streaming 15 second web teaser and 15 second TV commercial.

Looks promising, but Tatakau Shisho also looked promising and turned out to be terrible. So we’ll just have to hope for the best.

Source: Anime News Network

The official website for next year’s mystery/horror anime television series Shiki now hosts a hidden teaser trailer. The adaptation of Fuyumi Ono’s novel series tells the story of a rural mountain village that becomes a feeding ground for vampires.

Source: Moon Phase

An official Japanese website has launched announcing a July 31 premiere of the Konchuu Monogatari: Minashigo Hutch ~Yuuki no Melody~ anime motion picture. Tatsunoko’s 91 episode 1970 Konchuu Monogatari: Minashigo Hutch television series, known as “The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee” in English, had a 26 episode sequel television series in 1974 and a 55 episode remake TV series in 1989.

Source: Moon Phase

The official homepage for the Koihime Muso anime franchise has announced that a Shin Koihime Muso OVA will hit Japanese DVD & BD on July 7. This OVA extension of the second Koihime Muso TV series will debut (probably) around the end of the broadcast of the third TV series. The Shin Koihime Muso: Otome Tairan TV series is scheduled to premiere in April.

Source: Moon Phase

Evidently the Haiyore! Nyaruko-san anime that was announced last October will be a 20 minute OAD released on March 17 as a bonus DVD packaged with limited edition copies of Manta Aisora’s fourth Haiyore! Nyaruko-san light novel. Just a reminder, this is the romantic comedy story about an ordinary Japanese high school boy who meets an attractive young girl who reveals herself to be the ancient monster god Nyarlathotep (from author H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cthulhu mythos”).

Source: Rakugakidou

Director Mamoru Oshii has announced that his next work will be a feature film adaptation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s classic Tetsujin 28-gou manga series. Oshii directed a stage play based on Tetsujin 28 last January. Director Shin Togashi helmed a live action Tetsujin 28 motion picture in 2005.

Source: Anime News Network

Question:
Have there been any shounen anime which feature either almost all or all girls or women as the main characters?

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This month’s new release third volume of artist TAGRO’s risqué comedy manga series Hen Zemi (Abnormal Physiology Seminar) has announced that the fourth collected manga volume will be released in July with a bonus anime episode. The 2006 and ongoing manga series stars the odd students of a university course on human sexuality.

Source: Anime News Network

The Tokyu Corporation’s pin@clip “augmented reality” iPhone application, which launched service on December 1st, will begin a promotional campaign this Saturday connected to the 2007 Denno Coil anime television series. The pin@clip service uses the iPhone camera, GPS, and Google to superimpose information about local locations, services, and events in real-time over the camera’s view. The service reports on department store sales, movies, concerts, and similar events in Tokyo’s Shibuya district.

The award winning Denno Coil anime depicted a near future world in which children wear electronic glasses that augment their view of reality. During the promotion, the pin@clip application will display references to the Denno Coil anime, and the Parco Part 1 department store in Shibuya will sell 15 different Denno Coil t-shirts.

You can say that this technology seems to be getting used for a rather frivolous purpose, but it’s still darn neat to see anime technology literally appearing in real life.

Source: Anime News Network