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Girls & Panzer Video Teases 2014 Film, New Anzio OVA

posted on 2013-05-19 20:30 EDT

Teaser of upcoming project debuted at "Heartful Tank Carnival" last month

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The official website for the Girls und Panzer anime began streaming the teaser footage for its upcoming projects on Friday. The same footage premiered at the "Heartful Tank Carnival" event on April 28.





The video first revealed that the Girls und Panzer ~Heartful Tank Disc~ will go on sale in September. The fan disk will include footage from the "Heartful Tank Carnival" and other events, as well as behind-the-scenes footage with the cast and staff, a brand-new picture drama, and a new senshadō lesson from Yukari Akiyama.

Next, the video announced that production on an original video anime (OVA) about the battle against Anzio Girls High School has been green-lit. Finaly, production on an entirely new Girls und Panzer film has been green-lit, and it will open next year. Tsutomu Mizushima is once again directing the project, after helming the television anime series.

The World God Only Knows' 3rd Season Cast Revealed

posted on 2013-05-18 09:00 EDT

Yuka Iguchi, Ayahi Takagaki, Haruka Tomatsu star in anime of manga's Goddesses arc

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This year's 25th issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine is revealing the main cast for the third season of The World God Only Knows television anime (Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai Megami-hen) on Wednesday. Yuka Iguchi (Nekomonogatari (Black), A Certain Magical Index) will play the astronomy club president Tsukiyo Kujō, Ayahi Takagaki (Heaven's Lost Property, Blue Exorcist) will play the sheltered girl Yui Goidō, and Haruka Tomatsu (Sword Art Online, Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live) will play the new district chief Lune.

The magazine's 24th issue revealed on Wednesday that anime will cover the Goddesses arc in Tamiki Wakaki's original manga. The third season will premiere this summer.

Weekly Shonen Sunday announced in December that a third anime season and an original video anime spinoff has been green-lit. The Magical Star Kanon 100% video spinoff reimagines the idol Kanon Nakagawa as a magical girl. It will be bundled on DVD with the 22nd manga volume on June 18, followed by a standalone Blu-ray Disc release on August 28.

The World God Only Knows' 3rd Series Title Is Also Goddesses Arc

posted on 2013-05-19 11:14 EDT

The official website for the The World God Only Knows anime confirmed on Wednesday that the title of third series is Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Megami-Hen (The World God Only Knows: Goddesses Arc). This year's 24th issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine confirmed on the same day that the third series will cover this arc in Tamiki Wakaki's original manga.

The third season will premiere this summer. Yuka Iguchi (Nekomonogatari (Black), A Certain Magical Index) will play the astronomy club president Tsukiyo Kujō, Ayahi Takagaki (Heaven's Lost Property, Blue Exorcist) will play the sheltered girl Yui Goidō, and Haruka Tomatsu (Sword Art Online, Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live) will play the new district chief Lune.

Funimation Plans Attack on Titan on Home Video in 2014

posted on 2013-05-19 11:03 EDT

Hit anime now streaming via Funimation & Crunchyroll

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Funimation confirmed at its panel at Anime Central on Saturday that it plans to release Attack on Titan on home video next year.

The series premiered in Japan on April 6. Both Funimation and Crunchyroll are streaming the series as it airs in Japan.

Hajime Isayama's original manga depicts the battles between humans and the giants who now rule the world outside humans' walled enclaves. Isayama launched the series in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2009. The manga has become a sleeper hit, and Kodansha USA is publishing it in North America.

Viz Acquires Accel World Mini Shorts, Master License for K

posted on 2013-05-18 16:45 EDT

Super-deformed comedy shorts to be dubbed; Viz to host K guest at Anime Expo

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North American anime licensing company Viz Media announced at its panel at Anime Central on Saturday that it has acquired the rights to the Accel World mini shorts. Viz will dub the shorts with the same cast used in the television series.





The super-deformed vignettes were included in the Blu-ray Disc and DVD volumes in Japan. The shorts adapt Akariryuryū's four-panel gag manga spinoff that re-imagines the cast in new comical adventures. Viz Media announced its status as master licensee for Accel World earlier this month. The rights include videogram, television, online distribution, home video and all merchandising.

Viz also announced that it has become the master licensee for the K television anime. Rights include the domestic home video, television rights, online rights and distribution, and merchandising. The anime premiered in October and Viz streamed the series as it aired in Japan. A sequel was green-lit in December.

Viz describes the story:

K is set in a world where history has taken a slightly different course from the one we're familiar with and follows the story of a young boy whose life is caught in a supernatural war between seven kings. Yashiro Isana, also known as Shiro, is wanted for a crime he has no recollection of committing. He finds himself being hunted by the groups HOMRA, led by Mikoto Suoh, “The Red King,” and SCEPTER 4, led by Reisi Munakata, “The Blue King.” While on the run, another young man named Kuroh Yatogami helps him. Will this fated encounter change Shiro's life forever?

Viz will host a K-related guest at Anime Expo in Los Angeles from July 4 to 7.

BlazBlue Fighting Game Series Gets Anime Green-Lit

posted on 2013-05-17 21:30 EDT

Game designer Toshimichi Mori wanted animation adaptation in 2010

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The wraparound jacket band for the second volume of the BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger fighting game's novelization announced on Saturday that an anime adaptation of the BlazBlue games has been green-lit.

Game designer Toshimichi Mori said in 2010 that he wanted to have his popular BlazBlue series adapted into animation. Game creators Arc System Works' European partner Zen United responded by launching an official petition to support the game's adaptation into an animation.

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, the BlazBlue franchise's first title, debuted as an arcade game in 2008. BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma, the lastest game in the series, was released for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan in December 2012.

BlazBlue Alter Memory Anime's Story, Cast, Staff Revealed

posted on 2013-05-19 10:10 EDT

teamKG, Hoods adapt BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger's plot with returning cast

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Arc System Works presented the story, cast, and staff for BlazBlue Alter Memory, the upcoming anime of its fighting game franchise, at its Arc System Works Festival event in Yokohama on Sunday.

The story is set in December of 2199, when the streets are full of anticipation for the end of the year and the start of the new one. Amid the celebrations, word spreads that Ragna the Bloodedge, an SS-class rebel with the highest ever bounty on his head, has appeared in the 13th Hierarchical City of Kagutsuchi. The apparent aim of Ragna or the "Grim Reaper" is the destruction of the system controlling the world. To collect the bounty, a motley array of unrivaled fighters converge on Kagutsuchi.

The games' cast members reprise their roles in the anime:


• Tomokazu Sugita as Ragna the Bloodedge
• Kanako Kondou as Noel Vermillion
• Tetsuya Kakihara as Jin Kisaragi
• Kana Ueda as Rachel Alucard
• Yūichi Nakamura as Hazama
• Chiwa Saito as Taokaka
• Chiaki Takahashi as Litchi Faye-Ling
• Kenji Nomura as Iron Tager
• Asami Imai as Tsubaki Yayoi
• Chie Matsuura as Kokonoe
• Tomomi Isomura as Makoto Nanaya

The games' Toshimichi Mori is supervising the project, and Hideki Tachibana (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira) is directing the anime at teamKG and Hoods Entertainment. Seiji Mizushima (Fullmetal Alchemist, Mobile Suit Gundam 00) is collaborating on the direction. Deko Akao (Arakawa Under the Bridge, Mysterious Girlfriend X) is overseeing the series scripts being co-written by Tatsuya Takahashi (The IDOLM@STER, Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~). Tomoyuki Shitaya (Bakuman., Hatsukoi Limited, Kiss×sis) is serving as both character designer and chief animation director. The rest of the staff includes:


• Art Director: Shigemi Ikeda (Atelier Musa)
• Color Key: Haruko Nobori (Hiwa)
• Director of Photography: Koujirou Hayashi (Graphinica)
• Editor: Masato Yoshitake (Graphinica)
• Sound Director: Masaki Tsuchiya
• Sound Production: Studio Mausu
• Music Production: Lantis

The anime will premiere this fall.

009 Re:Cyborg Film's English-Subbed Trailer Streamed

posted on 2013-05-18 17:55 EDT

Kenji Kamiyama's action/sci-fi film to screen in Australia, New Zealand starting in September

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Australian anime distributor Madman Entertainment began streaming an English-subtitled trailer for Kenji Kamiyama's action science-fiction film 009 RE:CYBORG film on Thursday. Madman Entertainment will screen the film in theaters in Australia and New Zealand as part of its Reel Anime 2013 lineup in September and October.





The story begins in 2013 when skyscrapers in London, Moscow, Berlin, and New York are destroyed by simultaneous bombings. The indiscriminate terrorism by an unknown group with unknown motives sets off widespread panic throughout the world.

There was once a group of nine cyborg fighters who rescued humanity from threats, but they had disbanded to their home countries. Now the man who created them, Dr. Gilmore, has summoned and assembled them back together again. However, the 00 Number Cyborgs' former leader, a Japanese man named Joe Shimamura (Mamoru Miyano), is now living alone in Tokyo's Roppongi with his past memories erased.

Madman Entertainment announced in April that it had licensed the series, and a different international trailer began streaming before then.

The United Kingdom anime distributor Anime Limited film screened in London on April 4, and Kamiyama attended. Anime Limited also hosted screenings in Glasgow and Dublin last month. The film is scheduled for a home video release in the United Kingdom in the fourth quarter of 2013. The distributor is working with with the studio NYAV Post on an English dub.

Madman will also screen Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo as part of the Reel Anime 2013 lineup.

Hi guys,

There is a World Table Tennis Championships going on in Japan which means the following shows will not broadcast as scheduled and will be postponed for a week. Don't worry because there's still a bunch of other shows I'm sure you want to catch up on!

Saturday, May 18th - Zettai Boei Leviatan #7 postponed to --> Saturday, May 25th at 11am PDT
Sunday, May 19th - Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W #7 postponed to --> Sunday, May 26th at 10:05am PDT
Monday, May 20th - Hayate the Combat Butler! Cuties #7 postponed to --> Monday, May 27th at 10:35am PDT
Monday, May 20th - Arata the Legend #7 postponed to --> Monday, May 27th at 11am PDT

Hi guys,

There is a World Table Tennis Championships going on in Japan which means the following shows will not broadcast as scheduled and will be postponed for a week. Don't worry because there's still a bunch of other shows I'm sure you want to catch up on!

Saturday, May 18th - Zettai Boei Leviatan #7 postponed to --> Saturday, May 25th at 11am PDT
Sunday, May 19th - Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos W #7 postponed to --> Sunday, May 26th at 10:05am PDT
Monday, May 20th - Hayate the Combat Butler! Cuties #7 postponed to --> Monday, May 27th at 10:35am PDT
Monday, May 20th - Arata the Legend #7 postponed to --> Monday, May 27th at 11am PDT