Important information on Karakuridoji Ultimo new manga volume releases

As we know, this manga by Hiroyuki Takei  is serialized in Jump SQ magazine and it is licensed by Viz Media for the US.

 It ran in Shonen Jump USA till April 2011 and after that, you can only get this series by buying its volumes.

The last volume released in the US, volume 6, came out on September 2011.

The newest volumes are 7 and 8.

Volume 7 is scheduled to be released in the US on August 7th, 2012, you can preorder it on Amazon.















Whereas volume 8 was released in Japan on March 3. It is still not determined when it will be released in the US, but one can guess that by the end of the year.

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Akira's creator Katsuhiro Otomo is working on a new manga

Acclaimed manga creator and anime director Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, Domu) revealed that he is preparing a new manga series for "a certain shōnen magazine." According to the interview published in the April issue of Shinchosha's art magazine Geijutsu Shincho on Saturday, this will be Otomo's first shōnen work — and his first long series since Akira.

Otomo began his career as a manga creator on such works as Domu, Kibun wa mō Sensō, and his most famous title internationally, Akira. He then branched into animation by directing part of the Robot Carnival omnibus and a feature film adaptation of his own Akira story.

Intriguing to say the least.

source: ANN, Comic Natalie

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Tamayura will get a second season

The official website for the Tamayura anime franchise announced on Sunday that production on a second season has been green-lit.

The 2011 television series and earlier video series follow a girl named Fū Sawatari (voiced by Ayana Taketatsu) after she moves to Takehara, a waterside town that was her late father's childhood home in Hiroshima Prefecture near the Seto Inland Sea. Tamayura is the latest "healing" anime from director Junichi Sato (Pretear, Princess Tutu, Umi Monogatari ~Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto~, Aria).

source: ANN

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4th Saint Seiya Omega trailer

This trailer shows us the first shots of Athena:



The anime will premiere on April 1 at 6:30 a.m. after a March 31 premiere event that will be simulcast in both Japan as well as in Taiwan, Brazil, and France. This is the first Saint Seiya television anime in 23 years.

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Gintama anime to end on March 26, (tomorrow!)

Oh, God. The end of Gintamonday.

The last issue of Weekly Shonen Jump reported that the Gintama television anime series is drawing to a close on TV Tokyo after five years.

The original TV series adaptation of Hideaki Sorachi sci-fi historical comedy premiered on April 4, 2006 and aired until March 25, 2010.

The 252nd episode is titled "Gomen Nasai" (We're Sorry), although the previous week's next-episode preview listed the title as "Mitei" ("To Be Determined").

Starting on April 2, the animated television series Gon will air on TV Tokyo at 6:00 p.m. on Mondays — Gintamas current timeslot.

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My first doujin

As an aside note, I published the first part of a doujin I'm working on. It's called 'The Girl and the Macman: a techie fairytale'. It is the story of a 6 year old girl and how she learns to use a 6 year old computer, but this is just the beginning.

Here's the cover and you can read the story on my deviantart account if you like :) If all goes well, with part 2 and 3 will have 45-48 pages.

http://nakamuratoki.deviantart.com/gallery/36080885

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Rurouni Kenshin live action movie 2nd trailer

I love this! Sanosuke looks awesome, badass and funny. The movie will premiere on Japan on August 25.

Here's a more complete trailer:



Keishi Ōtomo is directing this samurai film with 22-year-old actor Takeru Satoh (Kamen Rider Den-O, Rookies, Beck, Ryōmaden) as the titular character.

17-year-old actress Emi Takei plays the heroine Kaoru Kamiya. Yuu Aoi (Hana and Alice, Honey and Clover) plays Megumi Takani, Munetaka Aoki (The Last Message Umizaru, live-action The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) plays Sanosuke Sagara, and Taketo Tanaka plays Yahiko Myōjin.

Kouji Kikkawa (Let's Dance With Papa) as Jine Udō, Yosuke Eguchi (Shonan Bakusozoku, Tokyo Love Story) as Hajime Saitō, and Teruyuki Kagawa (From Up On Poppy Hill, 20th Century Boys) as Kanryū Takeda round out the cast.

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Hunter x Hunter will have a movie!

movieNot everything is bad news despite the manga going on hiatus again.

A source linked to the Hunter X Hunter franchise told the Mainchi Shimbun paper's Mantan Web site that production on the first anime film based on Yoshihiro Togashi's manga has been green-lit.

Even though there have been two television anime series, including one ongoing one, there have not been a theatrical anime in the 14 years of the manga's serialization. According to Mainichi's source, the story of the film be an entirely original one.

Source: ANN

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Beelzebub anime will end on March 25!

But the manga by Ryuhei Tamura will continue.

The last episode of the anime is titled 'We don't say farewell'. Since Crunchyroll is streaming it, it will air on late March 24 because of the difference in hours.

My theory on what killed the anime is those weird fillers, low quality and low ratings, and Super Croquette time.

But I'm Sad :(, first Bleach now this.  Well, we can always hope for OVAs. 

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Nazo no Kanojo X (Misterious Girlfriend X) trailer

Also known as Misterious Girlfriend X, there's quite the buzz around this one. It will premiere on April 7. Let's see the trailer:



There's a tendency on going old school lately, huh?

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Hyouka: you can't escape trailer

Let's see how this goes, might be interesting:



It premieres on April 22.

The story follows a boy named Hōtarō (played by Yūichi Nakamura) who is not assertive about getting involved, but was ordered by his older sister to join the classic literature club (kotenbu). In the club, he gets close to the truth about an incident, involving a female member's uncle, which happened 33 years ago. The "energy-saving" boy is joined by an inquisitive girl in the mystery series.

source: ANN

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Hunter X Hunter manga on hiatus again!!

oh dear o.o crazy!

This year's 16th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday that Yoshihiro Togashi is putting his Hunter X Hunter adventure manga on hiatus in the next issue. He had been serializing the manga again since last August. At 30 installments, the most recent run is the longest uninterrupted run of Hunter X Hunter.

The next compiled book volume of the manga, #30, will ship next month. Viz Media published the 27th volume in North America this month.

source:ANN

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Saint Seiya Omega trailer

Wow, I'm so gladly surprised. This new series is old-school style!! It premieres on April 1 and is the first Saint Seiya TV Show to air in 25 years (Lost Canvas doesn't count since it went straight to DVD)

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Store: Fairy Tail Cosplay - Natsu

Not bad at all. This Natsu costume is as exact as you can get.

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Kamisama no Memochou anime review

This was a 2011 series that started out great with the quality, but that had an anticlimatic finale. It is also known as 'Heaven's Memo Pad', or 'God's Notebook'.

An adaptation of the light novels by Hikaru Sugii, the story revolves around Alice, a NEET freelance detective who solves complicated and unussual cases in the Tokyo underground. Her age is unknown but she is way more mature than what she looks.

She is drawn very moe, but her intelligence and deduction capacity is similar to L from Death Note.

She meets Narumi through his classmate Ayaka, and Min, the attendant and owner of a ramen shop called Hanamaru, left by her father. Narumi is a 16 year old high school student who has become isolated and introverted because of the constant school transfers. Ayaka is his only friend through the gardening club.

When he meets Alice, he is skeptic and somehow despective of NEETs. He also meets her team of NEET Detectives in the back of the ramen store's alley: Shosa, a military otaku; Tetsu, an ex-boxer with connections to the police and Hiro, a bishonen gigolo/pimp character who has a net's worth of connections for research.

But the message is clear: you don't have to be an 'active, officially working' member of society to make a significant contribution to humanity. It's the small things that matter. In that sense, Alice is a memorable character to make a statement for NEET.

NEET is a way of life.

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Tsuritama fishing anime 2nd promo streamed

Another great series I'm looking forward to. It will premiere on April 12, on Fuji TV's Noitamina slot.

This is the link to their official site where you can see the spot (opens in new window):
http://www.tsuritama.com/special/spot02.html

Finally there's more detail on the premise: this seishun/adolescent fishing story is set on the island of Enoshima in the Shōnan area south of Tokyo, and it follows four idiosyncratic youths: the one-quarter French, uncommunicative high school student Yuki (Ryota Ohsaka), the fishing enthusiast and self-proclaimed alien Haru (Miyu Irino), the island native Natsuki (Kouki Uchiyama), and the mysterious Indian Akira (Tomokazu Sugita) with his constant duck companion Tapioca.

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Medaka Box premieres on April 4

The anime adaptation of NisiOisin and Akira Akatsuki's manga will premiere on April 4, produced by studio Gainax.



The story follows Medaka (Aki Toyosaki), the strongest girl in Hanokiwa Academy, leads the school's student council. The student body can submit pleas for help, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, into the suggestion box that Medaka installed. Together with council members Zenkichi (Ono), Akune (Daisuke Namikawa), Kikaijima (Ai Kayano), she takes on the challenges in the school that include supernatural powers and near-constant battles.

Looking forward to this :)

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Kore wa Zombie desu ka? new Second Season promo

The second season of this series premieres on April 4.



A video earlier this month revealed the Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead (Is This a Zombie? of the Dead) as the title of the second season. It is not confirmed yet, but it can be a given that Crunchyroll will stream it.

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Library War: Wings of Revolution trailer, opens on June 16

Kadokawa's official website for the anime film adaptation of Hiro Arikawa's Library Wars light novels began streaming a 107-second trailer on Friday. The video reveals that Library War: The Wings of Revolution will open in Japan on June 16 with the "Hatsukoi" (First Love) theme song by the Japanese rock band Base Ball Bear (Gintama, Big Windup!).



Like the television series and two manga series before it, the film adapts Hiro Arikawa's Library War (Toshokan Sensō) light novels about a future version of Japan. A law threatens to clamp down on freedom of expression in 2019, and Iku Kasahara joins the Library Defense Force, a military unit dedicated to protecting books from being confiscated. However, she finds that the job of her childhood dreams is harder than she bargained for.

Source: ANN

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Strike Witches latest movie trailer

The film opens next Saturday. 

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Naruto Shippuden anime March 2012 schedule

The fight between Madara and Konan settles once and for all! She won't let him get the Rinnegan no matter what!

Yep, this month is full canon.

Episode 253 "The Bridge to Peace"
(平和への懸け橋) March 8, 2012 
Episode 254 "Super S Rank Top Secret Mission"
 (ドS級極秘任務) March 15, 2012
Episode 255 "The Artist Returns"
(芸術家再び) March 22, 2012 
Episode 256 "Amass! Shinobi Allied Forces!"
(集結! 忍連合軍!) March 29, 2012 

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Bleach anime March 2012 schedule (FINAL)

So these are the 4 final episodes of the anime. It's been quite the run. There's the remaining final arc of the manga, we still have to see whether it will be made into an OVA or a movie.


Episode 363 "Fierce Fight! Shinigami vs. XCUTION!" (激闘！死神vs XCUTION)  March 6, 2012 


Episode 364 "Desperate Struggle!? Byakuya's Troubled Memories" (絶体絶命!?記憶を挟まれた白哉) March 13, 2012 


Episode 365 "Ichigo vs. Ginjō! Secret of the Substitute Badge" (護VS 銀城！代行証の秘密) March 20, 2012 


Episode 366 "Changing History, Unchanging Heart" (変わりゆく歴史、変わらぬ心) March 27, 2012

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AnoHana gets manga adaptation in Jump Square magazine

The highly acclaimed anime series from 2011 will get a manga adaptation drawn by Mitzu Izumi and the serialization will begin on April 4.

Izumi had previously published two one-shot stories in Jump Square, and those one-shots are now available to read for free on Jump Square's official website.

Produced by A-1 Pictures, the eleven-episode AnoHana anime premiered on Fuji TV's Noitamina block from April 11 to June 23 of 2011. The story follows several childhood friends who try to reconnect in high school after drifting apart.

source: ANN

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A new Shungiku Nakamura' Boys Love anime in the works??!

Ciel Tres Tres magazine by Kadokawa is announcing that there is a new anime from boys-love manga creator Shungiku Nakamura in the works.

According to a copy of the magazine issue that ANN obtained, "the 'new anime' in production that is being announced is not Hybrid Child." The magazine already announced a Hybrid Child anime project last July. While Ciel Trés Trés says that the new anime is "still secret," more details will be announced in the next issue of the magazine on March 30.

This sounds like the third season of Sekaiichi Hatsukoi? Am I hoping too much and I am biased?

Source: ANN

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Code Geass: Nunnally in Wonderland OVA trailer

The second installment of the Wonderland saga premieres on July 27, 2012 in Japan, but there will be a English subtitled version available. :)

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