Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000% Gets 2nd Season

posted on 2012-01-15 02:52 EST

Announced at special live event on Sunday

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At the special "Uta no Prince Sama - Maji Love Live 1000%" event held on Sunday, the staff of the Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000% anime announced that a second season has been green-lit.

Baku Tech! Bakugan Battle Manga Gets TV Anime

posted on 2012-01-16 05:50 EST

Latest anime based on Bakugan action game

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A television anime adaptation of Shingo's Baku Tech! Bakugan manga has been green-lit. The battle manga centers around the Bakugan action game of balls that instantly transform, and a boy with the title "Baku Tech" due to his almost peerless skills.

The manga has been running in Shogakukan's Coro Coro Comics magazine since 2010, and the third compiled book volume shipped last August. Bakugan: Mechtanium Surge. the third Bakugan television anime, has been running in Canada and the United States since early last year.

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Phi Brain: Puzzle of God Anime Gets 2nd Season

posted on 2012-01-18 03:39 EST

New enemy appears in Sunrise anime's 2nd season premiering April 8

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The anime studio Sunrise announced on Wednesday that a second season of the Phi Brain: Puzzle of God (Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle) television anime series has been green-lit. In the second season, the story continues to revolve around the Orpheus bangle and Phi Brain, but the puzzle battles heat up.

A new enemy, a group of boys named Orpheus Order, appears before Kaito and the others, and the battles begin anew.

The new season will premiere on April 8. Sentai Filmworks licensed the first season, and The Anime Network has been streaming the first television season.

Sora no Otoshimono's 3rd Anime Season Listed

posted on 2012-01-22 11:05 EST

Heaven's Lost Property's 3rd season listed in screenshot of ad

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The Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten began airing a television commercial for the March issue of its Monthly Shonen Ace magazine this past week, and a purported high-definition screenshot from the ad indicates that a third anime season of Sora no Otoshimono (Heaven's Lost Property) has been green-lit. The ad itself hints that the March issue will contain an "important announcement" for Sora no Otoshimono. The issue will go on sale on Thursday, January 26.

The two previous Sora no Otoshimono television anime seasons and film adapt Suu Minazuki's manga of the same name. The story follows a boy's life which is turned upside down by an angel falling from the skies. Crunchyroll streamed both of the television seasons outside Japan, and Funimation licensed both television anime series and the film for North America.

Shirokuma Café Women's Comedy Manga Gets Anime

posted on 2012-01-26 02:22 EST

April anime based on manga about animals at cafe run by polar bear

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The March issue of Shogakukan's women's magazine Monthly Flowers is announcing on Saturday that an anime adaptation of Aloha Higa's Shirokuma Café (Polar Bear Café) manga will debut in April. The gag comedy follows the daily life of penguins, grizzly bears, and other animals at a café run by a polar bear.

Higa launched the manga in Monthly Flowers in 2006 as her first published work. Shogakukan published the third volume of the manga in 2010.

Jewelpet Magical Girl Anime Gets 4th TV Show, 1st Film (Updated)

posted on 2012-02-05 22:00 EST

Latest projects based on Sanrio/Sega character & toy line

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After three television anime series, the Jewelpet magical girl anime franchise gets its fourth television anime series this April and its first film this August. Gekijo-ban Jewelpet Sweets Dance Princess will open in Japan on August 11.

Sanrio and Sega Toys launched their Jewelpet character and toy line in 2008, and the first Jewelpet anime followed a year later. Each Jewelpet toy is a stuffed animal; in the storyline, these pets belonged to magicians in "Jewelland" and can use magic themselves, thanks to their round jewel eyes. They study every day to learn how to use magic.

The Jewelpet franchise started out with 33 different creatures in 2008, but with the launch of the new television anime series, it will have 52 different characters. That includes 12 new Sweetspet creatures that are being introduced in the current Jewelpet Sunshine television anime series.

The story of the new film is set in Sweetsland, a country next to Jewelland. Ruby and the other Jewelpets are celebrating the birthday of the princess with dancing. However, during the preparations for the birthday party, a mysterious object appears from the skies. In the object is a Sweetspet boy, whose identity is unknown.

Update: The fourth television series, tentatively titled, Jewelpet Kira?Deco—!, will premiere on April 7.

Saint Seiya Returns in New Omega TV Anime Series

posted on 2012-02-06 16:18 EST

1st TV anime for mythical fantasy in quarter century to feature a new generation

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Toei Animation announced on Tuesday that the mythical fantasy anime Saint Seiya will return to television for the first time in about a quarter century with a new series, Saint Seiya Omega, on April 1. Saint Seiya Omega will have an original adventure action story with a new generation of characters, led by the protagonist Koga.

Morio Hatano, an episode director on Heartcatch Precure! and Kaidan Restaurant, is the series director, and Yoshihiko Umakoshi (Air Master, Berserk, Boys Over Flowers, Casshern Sins, Heartcatch Precure!, Mushi-Shi) is designing the characters and overseeing the animation process. Reiko Yoshida (Bakuman., D.Gray-man, K-ON!, The Story of Saiunkoku) is in charge of the scripts.