The current issue of Afternoon Magazine reveals the development of an anime TV series based on Riichi Ueshiba’s romantic comedy manga Nazo no Kanojo X (Mysterious Girlfriend X). The popular manga story has been ongoing since 2006. Ueshiba’s Yume Tsukai fantasy manga was adapted into an anime television series in 2006.
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The first episode of Enterbrain’s web anime series Buso Chugakusei Basket Army (Armed Middle School Student Basket Army) is now online. Romanov Higa (Catblue: Dynamite, TANK S.W.A.T. 01) storyboarded and directed the first episode. The next episode will premiere at the end of February. Episodes subsequent to that will debut monthly.
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Media Factory has released a new three-minute trailer for next month’s supernatural harem anime High School DxD, this one introducing the anime’s female cast members. The adaptation of Ichiei Ishibumi’s light novel series revolves around a lecherous school boy killed on his first date then resurrected as an underling for the school’s prettiest girl, who also happens to be a high-ranking devil.
Rather than say anything in particular about this show, I’ll mention instead that we’ve seen a whole lot of teen supernatural adventure/comedy shows lately, including Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?, Yumekui Merry, Ao no Exorcist, and Itsuka Tenma to Kuro Usagi.
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The homepage for the Natsume Yujin-cho anime franchise has added a streaming trailer for the Natsume Yujin-cho Shi fourth television series that will begin on January 2.
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A 30 second TV spot for studio AIC’s forthcoming Amagami SS+ television series is now online. The romantic school drama is a sequel to last year’s Amagami SS television series adaptation of Enterbrain’s PlayStation 2 romance simulation game. The second series will premiere on January 5.
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A preview of next month’s Kill Me Baby television series has appeared online. The adaptation of Kaduho’s four-panel comedy manga Baby, Please Kill Me! revolves around a grade-school girl assassin and her dim-witted classmate friend. J.C. Staff (Hidan no Aria, Yumekui Merry) animates with Yoshiki Yamakawa (Hatsukoi Limited) directing. The show will premiere on January 5.
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The recently concluded live-action Ouran High School Host Club television series will get a four-episode spin-off series beginning January 6. Ouran Host creator Bisco Hatori will personally write all four episodes of the “Ouran High School Host Club ~Haruhi no Happy Birthday Daisakusen~” (Ouran High School Host Club: Haruhi’s Great Happy Birthday Plan) mini-series. The five-minute episodes will be distributed via cel-phone and the LISMO Drama website.
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Question:
While any anime could serve as an introduction into the manga it’s based, including long running series that basically tell the manga’s story in an animated format (i.e. Bleach, Naruto, One Piece). But there seem to be anime, that to me, basically serve as an introduction to the manga. Two examples I can think of are Kekkaishi and History’s Strongest Disciple Kenichi. While 50-52 episodes seem to long to act as an introduction, both anime only cover one major arc aside from the introduction arc. Both end on cliffhangers rather than having their own original endings with unresolved issues. They in a way are saying to get the rest of the story read the manga. As these examples of anime that are used to introduce the manga or are their better examples.
The homepage for next month’s Area no Kishi ~ The Knight in the Area “dramatic soccer anime” television series has added a streaming teaser trailer. The show will premiere on January 7.
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Media Factory has released a teaser trailer for Gainax’s forthcoming TV series adaptation of author NisiOisin and illustrator Akatsuki’s school action manga Medaka Box. The manga revolves around a school student council president named Medaka who handles tasks and requests of any sort submitted to her student council suggestion box.
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Director Keiji Gotoh (Kiddy Girl-and) will direct an anime TV series adaptation of Konami’s social networking service game Sengoku Collection. Brains Base (Baccano) will animate. The game reinvisions warlords from Japan’s Sengoku era as cute girls who battle for ownership of rare treasures.
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The current issue of Monthly Gangan Joker magazine has revealed the development of an anime TV series based on Maybe’s supernatural manga series Tasogare Otome×Amnesia ~ Dusk Maiden of Amnesia. The manga story revolves around a school boy who partners with the ghost of a former student to uncover the mystery of how and why the female student died years before. The anime will premiere next spring.
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Kadokawa Shoten has produced and released an original anime commercial promoting author Kyoko Kogure’s romantic comedy light novel series Neo Satomi Hakkenden: Satomi-chan Chi no 8 Danshi (New Eight Dogs Chronicle: Satomi’s Family of 8 Young Men). The Sunrise anime studio created the original concept for the novels that reimagine Kyokutei Bakin’s classic novel series Nanso Satomi Hakkenden as a modern day romantic comedy.
Maybe we’ll get a TV anime out of this. This TV commercial looks quite cute.
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The current Danboru Senki (“Cardboard Wars”) television series will conclude on January 11 with episode 44. Its sequel series, Danboru Senki W, will premiere the following week, on January 18. The adaptation of Level-5′s simulation RPG revolves around kids that battle with toy robot models.
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Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy Express 999, and Captain Harlock creator Leiji Matsumoto has publicly announced his development of a 2013 feature film based on his 1993-1998 Chou Jiku Senkan Mahoroba (Cosmo Super Dreadnought Mahoroba) manga, a time-travel side-story to Uchuu Senkan Yamato.
Last February Matsumoto announced that his original anime Zero Desigze would premiere this year, and that a live-action Galaxy Express 999 motion picture was in development. No new information on either production has surfaced recently.
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