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Girl Friend BETA TV Anime Adds 15 More Cast Members

The official Twitter account for the Girl Friend (Kari) (Girl Friend BETA) television anime announced a new cast member every day from August 6 through August 20. The full list of new cast members is:

• Haruka Tomatsu as Nonoka Sasahara
• Kaori Ishihara as Yuzuko Hazuki
• Kikuko Inoue as Kanata Amatsu
• Aoi Yūki as Isuzu Shiranui
• Yukari Tamura as Koruri Tokitani
• Minori Chihara as Mahiro Natsume
• Minako Kotobuki as Saya Kagurazaka
• Minami Tsuda as Mutsumi Shigino
• Maaya Uchida as Nao Miyoshi
• Rie Kugimiya as Matsuri Kagami
• Emiri Katō as Rino Suzukawa
• Houko Kuwashima as Shinobu Kokonoe
• Noriko Shitaya as Remi Tamai
• Ayahi Takagaki as Tsugumi Harumiya
• Ai Kayano as Haruko Yumesaki

 Previously announced cast members include:

• Kaori Nazuka as Fumio Murakami
• Sakura Tange as Chloe Lemaire
• Satomi Satou as Kokomi Shiina
• Hitomi Harada as Erena Mochizuki
• Rina Satou as Akane Sakurai

The anime adapts CyberAgent's social romance simulation game of the same name. The five previously announced cast members are reprising their roles from the original 2012 smartphone game.

Naotaka Hayashi (Morita-san wa Mukuchi, Magi - The Kingdom of Magic assistant director) will direct the anime at the studio SILVER LINK (No-Rin, C³, Baka and Test). Michiko Yokote (Love Stage!!, No-Rin, Genshiken) will handle series composition. Noriko Tsutsumiya (Dragonar Academy, C³, Kokoro Connect animation director) is designing the characters based on original character designs by QP:flapper (MM!, Oreimo 2, Sora no Method).

Kadokawa will release the first issue of the special Girl Friend (Kari) Magazine on August 22. The magazine will include four manga series that focus on specific characters from the anime. Tsukako Akina launched the Girl Friend (Kari) Kokomi Shiina ~Koi Shite Madonna~ manga in the September issue of Kadokawa's Dengeki Maoh magazine on July 26.

CyberAgent's blogging website Ameba started service for the game for smartphones in 2012. As of June 2014, the number of registered users has passed 5.3 million. The game features over one hundred girls for the player to date, each voiced by a different voice actress. Some of the game's cast includes Yui Ogura as Momoko Asahina, Nana Inoue as Kazumi Kawabuchi, Megumi Toyoguchi as Akiho Shigetō, and Yukari Tamura as Koruri Tokitani

Rina Satou, Asuka Ōgame, Mikako Komatsu Star in Happy Cooking Graffiti Anime

The official Twitter account for Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara magazines announced the lead cast, staff, and premiere date for the television anime adaptation of Makoto Kawai's four-panel manga Happy Cooking Graffiti (Kōfuku Graffiti) on Saturday.

The series will star Rina Satou (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal, A Certain Scientific Railgun S) as Ryō Machiko, Asuka Ōgame (Vividred Operation, Kokoro Connect) as Kirin Morino, and Mikako Komatsu (Nisekoi, K) as Shiina.

The story follows Ryō, a middle school girl who lives by herself. She has a knack for cooking, and she makes friendships with everyone through her food. The cooking manga is "full of detailed cuisine art to whet the appetite and slightly erotic meal scenes." The "kōfuku" in the title is a wordplay on two Japanese homonyms — one which means "happiness," and another that means "appetite."

Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Monogatari series director Akiyuki Shinbo will helm Happy Cooking Graffiti as chief director at Shaft. Mari Okada (Selector Infected Wixoss, AKB0048) will be in charge of series composition and Kazuya Shiotsuki (Nisekoi chief animation director, Madoka Magica animation director) will design the characters.

The series will premiere this winter.

Kouki Uchiyama, Ai Kakuma, Yukiyo Fujii Star in KyoAni's Amagi Brilliant Park TV Anime

The cast of Kyoto Animation's anime adaptation of Shoji Gatoh's Amagi Brilliant Park light novel series was announced on Saturday. The series will star:

 Kouki Uchiyama (Soul Eater Not!, Haikyuu!!, Nisekoi) as Seiya Kanie 

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 Ai Kakuma (Kanojo ga Flag o Oraretara, Dragonar Academy, Aldnoah.Zero) as Isuzu Sento 

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 Yukiyo Fujii (Patema Inverted) as Latifah Fullanza

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Additional cast includes:

• Shiori Mikami as Kobori
• Ryoko Shiraishi as Macaron
• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Sylphy
• Ayako Kawasumi as Moffle
• Yuka Aisaka as Muse
• Minami Tsuda as Salama
• Ai Nonaka as Tirami 

 The "slapstick drama" begins with Seiya Kanie, a high school boy who is invited on a date in an amusement park by a mysterious beautiful transfer student named Isuzu Sento. He is introduced to Latifah, a "real" princess and the park's manager, and is asked to be the acting manager of this "disappointing amusement park in the Tokyo suburbs." 

Gatoh (Full Metal Panic!) started the series with illustrations by Yuka Nakajima (Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!/Papa Kiki!) last year, and Fantasia Bunko published the third volume in January. Yasuhiro Takemoto (Full Metal Panic!, Lucky Star, Hyōka) is directing the anime. AKINO with bless4 (Aquarion themes) will perform the opening "Extra Magic Hours."

Amagi Brilliant Park will premiere on October 2.

Nobunaga Shimazaki, Maaya Uchida Lead Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu. TV Anime's Cast

The staff of the television anime adaptation of Yume Mizusawa's Ore, Twin Tail ni Narimasu. (I, Will Become a Twin Tail.) light novel series unveiled the cast for the series on Saturday. The announcement was first made at the TBS Anime Festa event on the same day.

The anime's cast will star Nobunaga Shimazaki (Free!, Pupa) as protagonist Sōji Mitsuka, Maaya Uchida (Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live, Norgami) as heroine Thouars, Chinatsu Akasaki (Tari Tari, Love Lab) as Erina Shindō, M.A.O (Futsū no Joshikōsei ga Locodol Yattemita, Z/X Ignition) as Mikoto Sakuragawa, and Yōko Hikasa (K-ON!, Majestic Prince) as Isna. In addition, Tesshô Genda will star as Lizadgildy, Tetsu Inada will join the cast as Draggildy, and Sumire Uesaka will play the role of Tail Red, Sōji's alternate form.

Maaya Uchida will perform the anime's opening theme song, titled "Gimme! Revolution." The single containing the song will ship in Japan on October 22. The ending theme single will be released on the same day, and will be performed by the voice actresses of the three main heroines.

The story centers around Sōji Mitsuka, an ordinary high school boy who happens to have an obsession for twin-tail hair. One day, a mysterious beautiful girl named Thouars (Tuaaru) appears before him from a parallel world. At the same time, monsters appear in his town, and they declare that all twin-tails in the world belong to them.

These monsters feed off the "attribute power," the spiritual energy of humans. Thouars entrusted Sōji with Tail Gear, imaginary armor initiated by powerful Twin-Tail attributes. With the armor, Sōji transforms into Tail Red, a twin-tail warrior girl, to protect Earth.

Hiroyuki Kanbe (Oreimo) is directing the series, and Naruhisa Arakawa (Outbreak Company, MAOYU, Spice & Wolf) is in charge of series composition. Kazuaki Morita (Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Danganronpa) is adapting Ayumu Kasuga's original character designs. The series is being animated at Production IMS (Sora no Otoshimono Final: Eternal My Master, Date A Live II).

Wit Studio Unveils 1st Original TV Anime, The Rolling Girls

Pony Canyon announced The Rolling Girls, the first original television anime from Wit Studio (anime adaptations of Attack on Titan, Hōzuki no Reitetsu). Kotomi Deai (second Silver Spoon season) is directing the anime, and Yasuyuki Muto (Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings franchise) is writing the scripts. Artist tanu (Tari Tari) is reponsible for the original character designs concepts, and Katsuhiko Kitada (Hal) is reponsible for the character designs. 

Under the Dog Sci-Fi Anime Kickstarter Launches

Creative Intelligence Arts announced a Kickstarter on Friday for an original 24-minute anime titled Under the Dog. The project is seeking to raise US$580,000 by September 7.

The project aims to carry the tradition of older sci-fi anime titles such as Akira and Ghost in the Shell, and the material was written between 1994 and 1995. The production team is using Kickstarter in order to avoid the process of funding from production committees and therefore retain creative control of the anime. If the Kickstarter is successful, the team hopes to expand with more projects in the Under the Dog universe.

Masahiro Ando (Hana-Saku Iroha, Blast of Tempest) will direct the series based on a story by Jirō Ishii (428: In a Blockaded Shibuya, producer on Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors). Yuusuke Kozaki (Fire Emblem: Awakening) is designing the characters, Kinema Citrus is in charge of animation, and Orange Co. (Ghost in the Shell Arise) is in charge of 3D CGI. Creative Intelligence Arts founder Hiroaki Yura is producing. Keiichi Momose (Steamboy, Stand By Me Doraemon) is serving as Audio director, Kevin Penkin is composing the original score, and John Kurlander is serving as the mixing and recording engineer.

Ishii, Kozaki, and Yura are all guests at Otakon this weekend.
Creative Intelligence Arts describes the story:

Under the Dog takes place in 2025 in Neo Tokyo, five years after a devastating terrorist attack at the Tokyo Olympics. In the wake of the tragedy, the U.N. formed a covert ops unit dedicating to seeking out, then eliminating those responsible for the attack. Anthea Kallenberg, a girl of Swedish descent is a member of this elite group who has honed her combat abilities and has become a deadly assassin, but must come to terms as to who she really is.

If funded, the finished product will be in Japanese with English subtitles, and also include the original soundtrack and behind-the-scenes diaries and interviews.

Yuichi Nakamura Joins World Trigger TV Anime's Cast

The combined 37-38th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is revealing on Monday a more detailed cast list for Toei Animation's anime adaptation of Daisuke Ashihara's World Trigger manga.

From left to right in the image, the cast will star Yūichi Nakamura (Guilty Crown, Zettai Karen Children) as Yūichi Jin, Nao Tamura (Aiura, Log Horizon) as Chika Amatori, Tomo Muranaka (Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky, Oreca Battle) as the protagonist Yūma Kuga, Hideyuki Tanaka (Magic Knight Rayearth, Hellsing) as Replica, and Yuuki Kaji (Guilty Crown, Attack on Titan) as Osamu Mikumo.

The official website for the manga had previously announced a portion of the cast earlier this week, but did not list Yūichi Nakamura or specific roles. Cast members that have not had their roles announced are Nobuhiko Okamoto, Rie Kugimiya, and Jun Fukuyama.

World Trigger debuted in last year's 11th issue of Japan's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Viz Media added the series to its digital anthology version of Weekly Shonen Jump, and it will publish the first print volume on October 7.
Viz Media describes the series as follows:

Weekly Shonen Jump's newest series is out of this world! A gate to another dimension has burst open, and from it emerge gigantic invincible creatures that threaten all of humanity. Earth's only defense is a mysterious group of warriors who have co-opted the alien technology in order to fight back!

The World Trigger television anime will premiere on the TV Asahi station and its affiliates in October. Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine's Jump Special Anime Festa will screen a World Trigger anime at its tour this November.

Attack on Titan: No Regrets Spinoff Gets Anime DVDs

Hajime Isayama's 14th Attack on Titan manga volume is announcing on Friday that the spinoff story Attack on Titan: No Regrets (Shingeki no Kyojin Gaiden: Kuinaki Sentaku) is being adapted into anime. The new anime will come on two new original animation DVDs that will be bundled with the 15th and 16th volumes of the main manga on December 9, 2014 and April 9, 2015, respectively.

Artist Hikaru Suruga and writer Gan Sunaaku launched this spinoff manga in Kodansha's Aria magazine last fall, and Kodansha Comics is publishing it in North America. Kodansha Comics describes the story:

This prequel to megahit Attack on Titan answers the questions: How did Captain Levi of the Survey Corps go from street tough to humanity's strongest soldier? And how did Commander Erwin become a cold, calculating leader, ready to sacrifice anything to save the human race? The fires that forged this bond of loyalty and trust were intense indeed!

The staff and cast from last year's Attack on Titan television anime series are returning for these original animation DVDs:

• Director: Tetsuro Araki 
• Series Composition: Yasuko Kobayashi
• Character Design: Kyoji Asano
• Animation Production: Wit Studio

• Hiroshi Kamiya as Levi
• Daisuke Ono as Erwin

Kantai Collection Anime's 1st Promo Previews Animation

Kadokawa began streaming the first promotional video for the television anime adaptation of the Kantai Collection -Kan Colle- card game on Monday.

The anime will star :

 Sumire Uesaka as Fubuki

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 Saki Fujita as Akagi

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 Yuka Iguchi as Kaga

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The anime will premiere in January 2015. 

Keizou Kusakawa (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, Problem children are coming from another world, aren't they?) is directing the anime of Kadokawa Games' moe-character card battle game at the studio Diomedea (Squid Girl, Problem children are coming from another world, aren't they?). Jukki Hanada (Love Live! School idol project, Steins;Gate) is in charge of the series scripts. 

Kadokawa Games launched the original free-to-play browser game with the service provider DMM.com in April 2013. In the game, players compete with cards featuring female moe characters inspired by Japanese World War II warships such as aircraft carriers, battleships, and cruisers. Players build, organize, and repair their anthropomorphized fleet to progress through maps.

Kantai Collection Anime's Staff, January 2015 Premiere Unveiled

The television anime of the Kantai Collection -Kan Colle- card game will premiere next January. The staff made the announcement at the anime's first solo event, "The 1st Yokohama Naval Review Rehearsal," at the Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall on Sunday. The anime's official website will debut an advance promotional video on Monday.

The J-Cast News website had reported in April that the series would premiere this summer. Kadokawa Games had not announced a more specific timeframe, only that the show would premiere this summer or later.

Sumire Uesaka will star as Fubuki, Saki Fujita will star as Akagi, and Yuka Iguchi will star as Kaga.

Keizou Kusakawa (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, Problem children are coming from another world, aren't they?) is directing the anime of Kadokawa Games' moe-character card battle game at the studio Diomedea (Squid Girl, Problem children are coming from another world, aren't they?). Jukki Hanada (Love Live! School idol project, Steins;Gate) is in charge of the series scripts. The rest of the staff includes:

• Original Creators: DMM.com/Kadokawa Games
• Planning: Takeshi Yasuda 
• Original Story Concept: Kensuke Tanaka
• Chief Production Director: Shinichiro Inoue 
• Character Design/Chief Animation Directors: Naomi Ide, Mayuko Matsumoto 
• Character Design Cooperation: Yoshinori Shizuma, Shibafu, Konishi
• Mechanical design: Tsutomu Miyazawa, Kōta Moroishi 
• Creature Design: Tsubasa Shimizu 
• Effects Director: Takashi Hashimoto 
• Art Director: Maho Takahashi 
• Color design: Shuji Kamimura 
• Cgi Director: Eiji Inomoto 
• CG Modeling Director: Hideki Kawabata
• CG Production: Orange
• Director of Photography: Yasuyuki Itou 
• Editor: Yuuji Oka
• Sound Director: Toshiki Kameyama 
• Sound Production: Glovision
• Music: Natsumi Kameoka
• Music Production: Flying Dog
• Production: Kan Colle Joint Fleet Headquarters

Kadokawa Games launched the original free-to-play browser game with the service provider DMM.com in April 2013. In the game, players compete with cards featuring female moe characters inspired by Japanese World War II warships such as aircraft carriers, battleships, and cruisers. Players build, organize, and repair their anthropomorphized fleet to progress through maps.

Live-Action Patlabor Trailer Previews Toshio Suzuki's Role

Studio Ghibli co-founder appears in 4th part of The Next Generation -Patlabor- series

The official YouTube channel for Mamoru Oshii's live-action The Next Generation -Patlabor- series and film began streaming a new trailer for the fourth part on Friday. The video includes a clip of Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki's role as a shady "Neppūsha" agent. 

The fourth part will premiere in theaters in Japan on August 30 and will include episode 6 "Daikaijū Arawaru Kōhen" (A Giant Monster Appears Part II) and episode 7 "Time Dokan." Episode six is the second half of a story about a mysterious giant sea creature. The story starts when a surfer suddenly disappears at sea. At the same time, a large sea monster appears. At the beach, marine biologist Nobuko Nanami is researching the incident, but the Section 2 Division 2 team just happened to be vacationing at the same seaside. They are caught in the investigation when the visiting tourists are excited to see a large robot like Labor fight a sea monster.

Episode seven starts when Section 2 Division 2 gets a call about bombs placed across the city. The team sets out to find where the bombs are placed and who is behind the destruction.

MaiDiGi TV also began streaming two clips from the series' third part on Friday. The third part opened in theaters in Japan on July 12 and ran for two weeks.

The third part is made of two episodes: Episode 4 "Norainu-tachi no Gogo" (Stray Dogs' Afternoon) about a battle between terrorists and Section 2 Division 2 in a convenience store, and Episode 5 "Daikaijū Arawaru Zenpen" (A Giant Monster Appears Part I) about a mysterious giant sea creature.

The Next Generation -Patlabor- project is not a remake of the earlier Patlabor anime stories, but a completely new work. The story is set in Tokyo in 2013, and it represents the "third generation" of Patlabor. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police has disbanded its Section 2 Division 1 of police robots, and Section 2 Division 2 barely survived the budget cuts due to the long recession.

The project begins with this seven-part series, which is composed of the "episode 0" and 12 full episodes helmed by chief director Mamoru Oshii and other directors. Each full episode is projected to be about 48 minutes long. Finally, Oshii is directing and writing a feature-length film that will open during Japan's Golden Week holidays in spring 2015, and it is expected to run about 100 minutes long.

Oshii commented that the seven-part series will have a "slapstick" ambiance, while the feature film will be serious. Oshii and Kei Yamamura are writing the scripts for the series, and Kenji Kawai is returning to the franchise to compose the music for both the series and the feature film.

Former Hello! Project singer and actress Erina Mano stars as pilot Akira Izumino (as opposed to the earlier anime's heroine Noa Izumi). The cast also includes Seiji Fukushi as Yūma Shiobara, Rina Oota as Ekaterina Krachevna Kankaeva ("Kasha") from Russia, Shigeru Chiba reprising his anime role as maintenance crew chief Shigeo Shiba, and Toshio Kakei as Captain Keiji Gotōda (the successor to the anime's Captain Kiichi Gotō).

Satomi Satou, Hatsumi Takada, Akane Tomonaga to Perform Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete's Themes

Lead cast sings for October TV anime of Trumple's adult game
 
The official website for the television anime of Trumple's Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete (À la recherche du futur perdu or Searching for the Lost Future) adult game announced the theme song performers on Saturday. Satomi Satou (voice of Karin Fukazawa) will perform the opening theme song, and Hatsumi Takada (Kaori Sasaki) and Akane Tomonaga (Yui Yoshikawa) will perform the ending theme song.

King Records will release single CDs for the opening song on October 22. The first copies will include a limited-edition cover image and cost 1,800 yen (about US$18). A version that features an original anime illustration will cost 1,200 yen (US$12), and the single's regular version will retail at 1,300 yen (US$13).

The anime's cast includes:

Takuma Terashima (Sacred Seven, The IDOLM@STER) as Sō Akiyama

Hatsumi Takada (Maria Holic, Shin Koihime Musō: Otome Tairan) as Kaori Sasaki  

 Kei Mizusawa (Shin Koihime Musō: Otome Tairan, Infinite Stratos) as Airi Hasekura  

 

Akane Tomonaga (Majikoi - Oh! Samurai Girls, Diabolik Lovers) as Yui Yoshikawa

Tomoe Tamiyasu (Little Busters!, Recorder and Randsell) as Nagisa Hanamiya  

Kappei Yamaguchi (Ranma ½, One Piece) as Eitaro Kenny Osafune

Atsumi Tanezaki (Hozuki no Reitetsu, Persona 3 The Movie #1 Spring of Birth) as Yaeko Azuma
Masashi Hirose (Gegege no Kitarō, Kinnikuman) as Sakunoshin Honjo
Satomi Satou (K-ON!, Is the order a rabbit?) as Karin Fukazawa 

  Naoto Hosoda will direct the anime at animation studio feel with scripts by Sadayuki Murai, Tatsuya Takahashi, and Satoko Shinozuka and series composition by Rie Kawamata. Ikuo Yamakado will be designing the characters based on original designs by Kurehito Misaki and Shinobu Kuroya. Fūga Hatori will provide the music. Satoshi Motoyama will serve as the project's sound director.

The original game's story is set one autumn at the beginning of the 21st century in the Uchihama area. Uchihama Academy is growing by leaps and bounds. With the construction of a new school building, there will be one last General Club Festival at the old building that is slated to be closed. The students vow to go all out to make this final cultural festival a success.

The Astronomy Club of the protagonist Sō Akiyama is filled with the big names on campus. Just before the festival on October 1, the club receives a request from the student executive committee to calm the uneasiness among the students. There are reports of ghost sightings, accidents, sleeping sickness, and other mysterious incidents at the old building. When Yui Furukawa, a quiet girl who transferred late into the school, appears before Sō, the gears of fate slowly begin to move.

Trumple released the game for personal computers in Japan in 2010. Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete is the only game the company ever released, and it announced in 2012 that production within the company had ceased.

The anime series will premiere on television in Japan this October.

Haruka Terui Stars in Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru TV Anime

Ad introduces title character played by Engaged to the Unidentified voice actress

Pony Canyon began streaming a 15-second television commercial on Friday for the upcoming original anime series Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru. Haruka Terui (Engaged to the Unidentified's Kobeni) plays Yūna in the commercial.

In the video, the main character Yūna Yūki introduces herself: "Hero, depart! I'm Yūna Yūki. I'm a hero in middle school. Everyday is noisy, but it's very fun! Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha will begin broadcasting in October."
Seiji Kishi (Persona 4 The Animation, Danganronpa The Animation) is directing the series based on an original plan by Takahiro (Akame ga KILL!) at Studio Gokumi. Makoto Uezu is handling series composition and BUNBUN is designing the characters.

The story takes place in the era of the gods, year 300. Yūna Yūki lives an ordinary life as a second year middle school student, but she's also a member of the "Hero Club," where club activities involve dealing with a mysterious being called "Vertex."

The series will air on MBS' "Animeism" block in starting in October.

Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru Anime by Akame ga Kill! Writer Announced

A teaser website for an original anime series titled Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru (Yūna Yūki is a Hero) opened on Thursday introducing the anime's main staff. The series will air on MBS' "Animeism" block in starting in October. 

The staff includes:

• Original Work: Project 2H
  
• Series Planning: Takahiro (MinatoSoft)
  
• Director: Seiji Kishi
  
• Series Organizer: Makoto Uezu
  
• Character Designer: BUNBUN
  
• Animation Character Designer and Director: Takahiro Sakai
  
• Production Studio: Studio Gokumi

The story takes place in the era of the gods, year 300. Yūna Yūki lives an ordinary life as a second year middle school student, but she's also a member of the "Hero Club," where club activities involve dealing with a mysterious being called "Vertex."

The anime is part of the "Takahiro IV Project" which includes four titles written by Takahiro during 2014. The first three titles are the PC game Shōjo-tachi wa Kōya o Mezasu, the anime adaptation of Takahiro's Akame ga KILL! manga, and the novel series Washio Sumi wa Yūsha de Aru. Takahiro is credited with the original idea behind the PC game, but Romeo Tanaka (Humanity Has Declined) is writing the scenario.

The novel series is serialized in Kadokawa's Dengeki G's Magazine, and illustrator kotamaru is providing the art for the online web comic adaptation.

Parasyte Anime's Cast, Staff Revealed

Nobunaga Shimazaki, Aya Hirano, Kana Hanazawa star in October anime.

Japanese news source Mantan Web unveiled the cast, staff, and designs for the upcoming anime of Hitoshi Iwaaki's science-fiction horror manga Parasyte (Kiseijū) on Wednesday. The anime's full title will be Kiseijū: Sei no Kakuritsu.

The cast includes:

Nobunaga Shimazaki (Free!'s Haru, Date A Live's Shido) as Shinichi Izumi 

Aya Hirano (Fairy Tail's Lucy, Death Note's Misa) as Migi

Kana Hanazawa (Tokyo Ghoul's Rize, Persona 4 the Golden Animation's Marie) as Satomi Murano

 Kenichi Shimizu will direct the series at Studio MADHOUSE with Shoji Yonemura (Guin Saga, Glass Fleet) in charge of series composition. Tadashi Hiramatsu (Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, Karekano) is designing the characters and Ken Arai is composing the music.

Other staff members include:

• Chief Animation Director: Toshiyuki Komaru
• Art Director: Fuminao Akai
• Color Design: Ken Hashimoto
• Director of Photography: Akane Fukuhara
• CG Director: Naoya Fukushi
• Editing: Kashiko Kimura
• Sound Director: Tomoaki Yamada 

 The series will premiere in October.

The manga takes place in a world where alien beings called Parasites come to Earth and start taking over humans by entering in through their noses and ears and attaching themselves to their brains. One alien called Migi is only able to take over high school student Shinichi Izumi's right arm, and is unable to control Shinichi completely. Migi and Shinichi learn to co-exist, and the two battle other Parasites who see humans only as food.

Iwaaki serialized the manga in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from 1990-1995. Mixxine, the company that eventually became Tokyopop, published Parasyte in its Mixxine magazine and later in compiled book volumes. Del Rey then republished the series from 2007-2009, and Kodansha Comics republished the manga again from 2011-2012.

The manga will also get two live-action film adaptations, the first of which is slated for December.

Live-Action Attack on Titan Confirmed for 2 Films

Hiroki Hasegawa, Kiko Mizuhara, Kanata Hongou, Takahiro Miura, Nanami Sakuraba, Satoru Matsuo, more join cast.

Live-action Attack on Titan film director Shinji Higuchi confirmed on Wednesday that the project will span two films. Both are slated to open next summer. The movies are currently filming across Japan including on Hashima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture.

Higuchi stated that, with the supervision of Attack on Titan manga creator Hajime Isayama, the story will be based on the world and characters of the manga, while incorporating new characters and new formidable enemies. Yuusuke Watanabe(Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, live-action Gantz, Gantz II: Perfect Answer, 20th Century Boys, Gatchaman) is writing the script. Film critic Tomohiro Machiyama, who is also friends with Isayama, is working on the scripts together with Isayama and Watanabe.

Isayama's manga depicts the battles between humans and the giants who now rule the world outside humans' walled enclaves.

23-year-old actor Haruma Miura is starring in the films. Joining the cast is Hiroki Hasegawa, Kiko Mizuhara, Kanata Hongou, Takahiro Miura, Nanami Sakuraba, Satoru Matsuo, Satomi Ishihara, Taki Pierre, Jun Kunimura, Shū Watanabe, Ayame Misaki, and Rina Takeda.

Hajime Isayama's original Attack on Titan manga has inspired four spinoff manga, and a 25-episode television anime version aired last year. Isayama launched the series in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2009, and the manga now has 40 million copies in print.

Kodansha Comics is publishing Isayama's original manga in North America. The company is also releasing three of the four spinoff manga, and the Attack on Titan Guidebooks: INSIDE & OUTSIDE. Vertical is publishing the Attack on Titan: Before the Fall light novel series.

Both Funimation and Crunchyroll streamed the anime version of the manga as it aired in Japan, and Funimation released the first part of the series on home video this year. 

Fate/stay Night Heaven’s Feel Movie Announced

Not only do we get a new adaptation of Fate/Stay Night which will be airing this October, during the fall 2014 anime season. It has been confirmed we will be getting a Fate/Stay Night Heaven’s Feel Movie and you can view the promotional video below. The movie will be based on Sakura Matou’s route from the Fate/stay night visual novel.

Heaven’s Feel is one of the routes in Fate/stay night. The heroine of this route is Sakura Matou. Heaven’s Feel is the third and final route the player will be able to play through in Fate/stay night. It can be accessed after the first two routes, Fate and Unlimited Blade Works, have been completed. – Type moon wikia

More information about the upcoming movie will be revealed soon.

Fate/stay Night Heaven’s Feel Movie PV01:

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Miritari! 4-Panel Comedy Manga Gets TV Anime

Ichijinsha announced at its Miritari! booth at WonderFest that an anime adaptation of Mamo Williams' four-panel comedy manga is in the works.
The story takes place during a conflict between the Krakozhia Dukedom and the Grania Republic. In the midst of the fighting, a savior appears to the Krakozhia Dukedom, and it is a high school student named Sōhei Yano. Two female soldiers, First Lieutenant Ruto and Second Lieutenant Haruka, appear in tanks to intrude on Sōhei's everyday life, followed by the enemy soldier Shachirofu, all of whom use firearms without hesitation at his house.
The series ran in Manga 4-Koma Palette magazine and Ichijinsha published the fifth and final compiled volume last year. Williams is currently serializing Miritari! Otsugata in the same magazine.

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