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A full two-minute trailer for SHAFT’s anime TV series adaptation of NisiOisin’s light novel Nisemonogatari has appeared online. The story is a sequel to Bakemonogatari, which got a TV anime from SHAFT in 2009. The highly anticipated Nisemonogatari TV anime will premiere on January 7.

Is there even a reason to say that I’m anticipating this show, just like most everyone else? By now this is a juggernaut and practical “must watch” title for the early 2012 season just because it’s too big to ignore.

Source: Anime News Network

Media Factory has released a short teaser trailer for the upcoming Asa made Jugyo Chu! OVA. A 25 minute cut will be initially released on a DVD packaged with limited edition copies of the third volume of Akiyoshi Ohta and Munyu’s original manga, which goes on sale on June 23. A 30 minute cut will be released separately on June 27. Studio GoHands (Mardock Scramble, Princess Lover TV series) is animating the OVA with Hiromitsu Kanazawa (Princess Lover TV series) directing. The manga revolves around a schoolboy forced to disguise himself as a girl and share a dormitory room with his female teacher in order to attend a prestegious school.

The teaser contains potentially offensive suggestive imagery.

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The bonus DVD included in the February issue of the shoujo manga magazine Ciao will include “Ijime ~Ikenie no Kyoushitsu~” (Childhood Bullying: The Sacrificial Classroom), an original short anime based on Kaoru Igarashi’s ongoing manga Ijime ~Hitoribocchi no Tatakai~ (Childhood Bullying: The Lonely Fight). The dramatic shoujo manga draws attention to the social problem of student bullying in Japanese schools. The DVD will also contain the seventh episode of the Hime Gal Paradise OVA series and the eighth episode of the Chocolat no Mahou OVA series.

Source: Anime News Network

The homepage for the upcoming Nintendo 3DS action RPG Code of Princess is now streaming the game’s opening anime sequence. The sequence was directed and animated by Les Misérables ~ Shoujo Cosette & Power Stone animation director Tadashi Shida.

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Question:
I just got finished watching Mawaru Penguindrum, and I don’t know what to even think about it. On one hand it has some incredibly good visuals and the characters are adequately fleshed out. However, the ending left so many unanswered questions (the penguin hat? The three penguins? The survival strategy magical girl scenes), and the symbolism was slathered on so thick that I’m struggling to understand the meaning of this series; let alone whether I truly enjoyed or not either. So, what is your take/opinion of it?

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Studio A-1 Pictures (AnoHana, Kuroshitsuji) has produced a 3-minute promotional video for author Kazuma Otorino’s upcoming light novel Ryugajo Nanana no Maizokin (Nanana’s Buried Treasure). The novel revolves around a schoolboy who’s apartment is haunted by the ghost of an attractive teen girl. The novel, which will hit Japanese bookstores on January 30, won the editor’s top prize in the 13th Enterbrain Entertainment Awards last September.

Source: Anime News Network

The February issue of Gekkan Flowers magazine that goes on sale in Japan on Wednesday will formally reveal the development of an anime based on Yuki Kodama’s shoujo manga Sakamichi no Apollon. The coming-of-age story about a friendship between two boys in 1966 launched in 2007 and is scheduled to conclude next month.

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The February issue of Ribon magazine that goes on sale in Japan on Thursday formally announces the premiere of two shoujo anime short films.

Yuko Kasumi and Yasushi Akimoto’s shoujo manga Marimo no Hana: Saikyo Butou Shogakusei Densetsu (Marimo’s Flower: Strongest Elementary School Fighter) will get a short movie. The ongoing manga about a fourth-grade girl who learns to stand up for her convictions, both emotionally and physically, premiered last year. Yasushi Akimoto is the creator/producer behind the popular J-pop group AKB48 and produced the 2007 ICE OVA series.

Mayu Murata’s romance manga Nagareboshi Lens (Shooting Star Lens) will also get a short film. The manga about a romance developing between a timid girl and the most popular boy in her school premiered earlier this year.

The Marimo no Hana and Nagareboshi Lens anime films will both screen at the touring Ribon Haru no Event publicity event that will stop at four locations throughout Japan next spring.

Source: Anime News Network article 1 & article 2

Similar to the treatment of the Appleseed XIII series, next year’s 26 episode Uchu Senkan Yamato 2199 television series will first premiere theatrically. In addition to the previously announced pilot movie that will consist of the TV series’ first two episodes, six additional features consisting of four TV episodes each will be screened at publicity events ahead of the individual episodes airing on Japanese TV. The first Yamato 2199 film will open theatrically on April 7.

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Eve no Jikan creator Yasuhiro Yoshiura has formally revealed the development of his new anime film Sakasama no Patema, a film which Yoshiura describes as an “extremely strange” boy-meets-girl story.

While Yoshiura’s previous Eve no Jikan, Mizu no Kotoba, and Pale Cocoon anime were produced at Studio Rikka, Sakasama no Patema will be animated by Purple Cow Studio Japan (Yozakura Quartet OADs).

Yoshiura’s prior works have been very distinctive and creative, so this should be a film worth anticipating.

Source: Anime News Network

For God knows why a second season of the Kyokai Senjo no Horizon anime television series will premiere next summer.

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Game developer Abel announced yesterday that 37 year-old studio founder Hiroyuki Kanno passed away on December 19 due to cerebral infarction and brain hemorrhage. Kanno may be best known as the creator of the 1995 EVE burst error and 1996 Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO visual novel games.

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Question:
Why is it that the majority of anime are adapted from a manga (or light novel, visual novel, etc.)? Why are there so few original stories? I don’t mind an anime adapted from something else if the story is complete, but all too often the anime ends before the manga is finished and we are left with an incomplete story in the anime. It’s very frustrating.

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T.O. Entertainment has released a full trailer for the Dragon Age: Blood Mage no Seisen CG anime film. The spin-off from BioWare and Electronic Arts’ RPG franchise will hit Japanese theaters on February 11. The FUNimation co-produced film will be released on American home video next year under the title “Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker.”

That’s no treasure! It’s a mimic!

Source: Anime News Network

Studio BONES has formally revealed its development of a Eureka Seven Ao (Eureka Seven: Astral Ocean) anime television series. The sequel to the hit 2005 television series will introduce a new protagonist when it premieres next April.

I suppose that if Last Exile can do it, why not Eureka Seven as well?

Source: Anime News Network