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Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars director Mamoru Hosoda has revealed his next project. Hosoda’s own Studio Chizu, with assistance from Madhouse, will animate Okami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki (The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki) for Japanese theatrical release next July. The drama revolves around a human woman who quietly marries a “wolf man” and raises her two wolf children.

Hosoda and writing partner Satoko Okudera composed the film’s screenplay. Summer Wars character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto provided the character designs. Hosoda will direct the production while Summer Wars visual artist Takaaki Yamashita will serve as animation director.

I’m already very excited to see this!

Source: Anime News Network

Shogakukan has formally revealed the development of an anime based on Kyoran Kazoku Nikki creator Akira’s current romantic comedy light novel series Sasami-san@Ganbaranai. The story revolves around an apathetic hikikomori (shut-in) girl who spies on her brother’s romantic relationship with three sisters. Akira’s Kyoran Kazoku Nikki novel series was adapted into an anime TV series in 2008. Six “Sasami-san” novels have been published since 2009.

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Sunrise has released a teaser trailer for its upcoming cyberpunk school drama anime television series Accel World. The adaptation of Reki Kawahara’s light novel series will premiere next April.

Is this Sunrise’s response to I.G’s Guilty Crown?

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Media Factory has formally announced its development of an anime based on Hajime Taguchi’s light novel series Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! (One of Them Is My Younger Sister!) The five volume & counting harem comedy revolves around a young boy tasked with finding a girlfriend in order to receive his inheritence from his late wealthy father. The boy seeks a partner at his school cautiously, knowing that one of the female students at the school is actually his long-lost sister.

Sigh. Can’t be bothered to even respond.

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The advertising obi on copies of Jun Sasameyuki’s just-released manga Hanasaku Iroha: Green Girls Graffiti reveals that studio P.A. Works’ 10th Anniversary original anime production Hanasaku Iroha will get a new anime installment next year. The 26 episode slice-of-life drama aired on Japanese TV from April to September of this year.

I ended up liking this show enough that I’ll be very interested to see what this new anime does.

Source: Anime News Network

Media Factory has released a trailer for next year’s Zero no Tsukaima F television series. The series will be the fourth (excluding the “Kessakusen” recap series) and final TV series adaptation of Noboru Yamaguchi’s romantic comedy fantasy light novel series. This series will be the first new Zero no Tsukaima anime since the third series ended in 2008. The new series will premiere on January 7.

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Production I.G is developing an anime adaptation of Sega’s fantasy RPG Shining Hearts. Most of the voice cast of the Japanese PSP game will reprise their roles in the anime; however, Kanae Ito, who voiced all three sisters in the game will play just one in the anime. Characters Neris & Airy will be played by Mai Aizawa and Shiori Mikami, respectively, in the anime adaptation.

Studio Deen produced the 2007 Shining Tears X Wind anime television series. Production I.G produced the 2008 anime adaptation of Sega’s World Destruction fantasy RPG.

Source: Anime News Network

Weekly Shonen Jump magazine will formally announce next week that a third season of the Bakuman anime will premiere next fall. The adaptation of Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba’s drama manga about two teens becoming professional manga artists had TV anime adaptations in October 2010 and October 2011.

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The homepage for the Shin Prince of Tennis anime television series has released a trailer. The series picks up several months after the end of Prince of Tennis anime TV series that concluded its broadcast in 2005. The New Prince of Tennis television series will premiere on January 4.

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Comix Wave Film has produced a new TV spot for the Japanese Taisei Construction Company, this one directed by Makoto Shinkai and spotlighting work on the Bosporus Strait Tunnel in Turkey. In 2008 Comix Wave’s and director Ushio Tazawa created an original TV spot for Taisei Kensetsu spotlighting construction of the New Doha International Airport in Qatar.

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Director Hitoshi Takekiyo is remaking his 2007 CG anime short film Hokago Midnight (After School Midnight) as a feature length film for release next year. The gag comedy stars an anatomical model that comes alive at night.

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Warner Bros. has released the first teaser trailer for director Keishi Otomo’s live-action feature adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki’s samurai action manga Rurouni Kenshin. The film stars Takeru Satoh (Kamen Rider Den-O, Beck) as swordsman Himura Kenshin and Emi Takei as Kaoru Kamiya. The film will hit Japanese theaters on August 25.

Looks better than I expected.

Source: Anime News Network

Question:
One trend awhile back that I notice was that some anime were remade to fit with the original story present in the manga. A good example was Fullmetal Alchemist which was remade under the title Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which aside from the anime-only first episode, followed the original manga story very closely. The same thing happened with Hellsing when it was remade in a series of OVAs known as Hellsing Ultimate. And know Berserk, which first aired as an anime adaption in 1997 is being remade into a series of films set to come out in 2012. Which anime should be remade to follow the manga’s original story line.

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Los Angeles & Alberta, Canada, based distributor Seminal Films has announced plans for a domestic release of the 2008 Ice movie edition, in collaboration with MVD Entertainment. Last month Texas based Sentai Filmworks released the original 2007 three-episode OVA version of the sci-fi action anime. The three episodes were combined into the Ice Gekijouban feature film originally released in Japan on November 29, 2008. Seminal Films will release the movie edit on American DVD on January 24.

I’m surprised to see another licensor pick up this particular title, I’m equally surprised to see so much of the American fan community seemingly unaware that a movie version existed since a “raw” of the movie version has been floating around in the American online community for several years now.

Source: Anime News Network

The current issue of COMPTIQ magazine reports that SCA-ji and Kira Inugami’s school comedy manga series Ebiten: Koritsu Ebisugawa Koko Tenmon-Bu is getting an anime adaptation. The ongoing manga that premiered in 2008 revolves around a high school boy who wanted to join his school’s astronomy club but mistakenly joined the school’s club for fujoshi (a club of female members who are all otaku). Ebiten illustrator Kira Inugami may be better recognized as the illustrator for author Sekina Aoi’s Seitokai no Ichizon novels.

Somehow, I don’t think that this is going to be the next Genshiken.

Source: Anime News Network