The third episode of writer Kazushige Nojima & director Romanov Higa’s web-anime mini-series Buso Chugakusei Basket Army is now online. The story revolves around military school students under seige by international mercenaries seeking to recover a military secret that the children are protecting.
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The homepage for the Blood-C anime movie has annouced that a two-part TV special summarizing the 2011 TV series will air prior to the movie’s opening. The “Tamano o Yo” episode will air on May 26, followed by the “Hitomo no Shi” episode on the 30th. The two episodes will condense the TV series story and feature a newly created scene involving supporting character Itsuki Tomofusa. The TV series sequel movie, Blood-C: The Last Dark, will open theatrically on June 2.
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A new 36-second trailer for next month’s Blood-C: The Last Dark motion picture has hit the web. The action-filled trailer is entirely new footage, but may also reveal a small spoiler, so viewer discretion is suggested. The movie sequel to last year’s TV series will hit Japanese theaters on June 2.
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Bandai’s Sunrise studio has formally announced that the Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn OVA series will be extended by one episode. The anime adaptation of Harutoshi Fukui’s ten-volume novel series was announced as a six-episode anime series in 2009. Sunrise now reports that the adaptation will be extended to seven episodes. The seventh episode will be more than one hour long.
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A new live-action & CG trailer introducing director Kenji Kamiyama’s full CG anime film 009 Re:Cyborg has appeared on the movie’s official website. This latest adaptation of the classic Cyborg 009 manga by the late Shotaro Ishinomori will hit Japanese theaters in 2D and stereoscopic 3D on October 27.
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The homepage for the upcoming sci-fi/action anime TV series K has released a new streaming trailer highlighting the series’ background art.
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Sunrise has announced its development of an anime feature film adaptation of Taku Mayumura’s 1976 juvenile sci-fi novel Nerawareta Gakuen (“Targeted School”). The novel has been adapted into a 1981 live-action feature film, an eleven-episode 1982 live-action TV series, and the 1997 Nerawareta Gakuen: Messiah From the Future live-action film. The novel revolves around a high school boy who rebels when he discovers that a ruthless time-traveler from the future has taken over his school’s student council. Ryosuke Nakamura (Moryo no Hako) will direct the anime film for release this fall.
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Toei Animation has launched a website to announce its development of a TV anime series based on the popular card battle/dungenon crawler mobile phone game Tanken Driland (Exploration Drill Land) from developer Gree.
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The June issue of Gekkan Shonen Gangan magazine that goes on sale this weekend will formally announce the development of a TV anime based on the Zetsuen no Tempest fantasy mystery manga series by writers Kyou Shirodaira & Arihide Sano and illustrator Ren Saizaki. The manga stars an ordinary high school boy who finds himself drawn into a supernatural conspiracy involving a missing friend and a witch. The ongoing manga premiered in 2009 and has six compiled volumes so far. Kyou Shirodaira created the 2000 Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna mystery manga that was adapted into a 2002 anime TV series.
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The homepage for the Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru 2: Futari no Elder OVA has added its first streaming trailer. The adaptation of CaramelBox’s adult PC game about a cross-dressing boy attending an all-girls school is animated by SILVERLINK. The first “OtoBoku” game was adapted into a 12 episode TV series in 2006 by studio Feel. The first episode of the three-episode Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru 2 mini-series will be released on August 29th.
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