Archive for 10/19/15
Sankaku Head Announces "Himouto! Umaru-chan" Spin-off Manga
Sankaku Head, the author of the manga and TV anime Himouto! Umaru-chan, has announced the publication of a spin-off manga starring Umaru's shy friend, Nana Ebina. The new series, entitled Akita Imouto! Ebina-chan, will begin serialization on Nico Nico Seiga at the end of November in 2015.
新連載告知です！11月末より「秋田妹！えびなちゃん」をニコニコ静画さま他で連載します～！海老名ちゃんの可愛さを最大限に生かした漫画にしたいと思います！ pic.twitter.com/Q9bqAgjwDh
— サンカクヘッド (@sankakuhead) October 19, 2015
Source: CrunchyRoll/My Game News Flash
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Manga,
Shirow Miwa to Create "RWBY" Manga Adaptation
With Rooster Teeth's CG RWBY getting a limited Japanese theatrical run Novamber 14th, then a home video release on December 9th, Dogs: Bullets & Carnage manga artist Shirow Miwa is on board to comicalize the series for seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump.
Miwa will be expanding the story to explore some of its mysteries in the adaptation supervised by Rooster Teeth, debuting in the magazine's December issue, out November 19th. Miwa previously contributed to a RWBY tribute book, presented at last December's Comiket.
11/19(木)発売の「ウルトラジャンプ」より、三輪士郎さんによる #RWBY の"MANGA"がスタートします！Rooster Teeth監修、本編未登場のエピソードが登場します！ http://t.co/DNYu5GjlhD pic.twitter.com/aEEp1DD7rm
— RWBY 日本公式 (@RWBY_JAPAN) October 19, 2015
Source: CrunchyRoll
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Manga,
Bakuon!! High School Motorcycle TV Anime Slated for 2016
The December issue of Akita Shoten's Young Champion Retsu magazine is revealing on Wednesday that the previously announced anime adaptation of Mimana Orimoto's Bakuon!! manga will be a television anime premiering in 2016. In addition, an original anime DVD (OAD) bundled with the manga's seventh compiled book volume is slated for release on March 18, ahead of the TV anime's premiere. The limited-edition set will retail for 3,880 yen (about US$32), and the deadline to pre-order is January 21.
The anime project will also launch a website and Twitter account on Wednesday. The website will gradually reveal character visuals for the television anime.
The story revolves
around high school girls who discover the appeal of motorcycles. Sakura
Hane is a high school student who looks a little bit like an airhead.
On the way to her all-female high school one day, she is worn-out
climbing a hilly road with a bicycle, but she sees a girl named Onsa
Amano who is riding a motorcycle. Sakura immediately becomes interested
in motorcycles, and she and Onsa join the motorcycle club at the school.
Then, Sakura sets out to get her license.
Orimoto (Mahou Shoujo Neko X, Maid in Japan) launched the series in Akita Shoten's Young Champion Retsu magazine in February 2011. Akita Shoten published the manga's sixth compiled book volume on May 20.Source: ANN/Young Champion Retsu
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Anime,
Sekirei's Gokurakuin to Launch Brave Star Romantics Manga
This year's 21st issue of Square Enix's Young Gangan announced on Friday that Sakurako Gokurakuin (Sekirei) will launch a new romance action manga titled Brave Star ☆ Romantics in the next issue on November 6. The magazine describes the series as "a romance-action story with shortcut superpowers."
The magazine will also debut the four-panel manga Akai-san wa Kyō mo Tsunderu. by writer Junichi Odaka (Isoshime! Nioka-sensei) and artist Daisuke Noda. The manga about a female shogi player was first published as a one-shot in August.
Gokurakuin ended her Sekirei manga in August. She began the series in 2004 and the series inspired two anime adaptations in 2008 and 2010. Funimation has released both anime in North America. Yen Press announced in July that it will release the Sekirei manga digitally.
Gokurakuin launched the manga series Kaisei no Caricature in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan in September. She is credited with the original idea, setting, and storyboarding, while Hiromu Mogi is writing the story and Sora Gōto is providing the art.
Source: ANN/Young Gangan
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Manga,
Main Visual for 3rd "Initial D" Anime Film Posted
The official website for the trilogy anime film project based on Shuichi Shigeno's street car racing manga Initial D today posted a main visual for the upcoming third chapter titled Shin Gekijo-ban Initial D: Legend 3 -Mugen-, featuring the protagonist Takumi Fujiwara and his opponent in this chapter, Ryosuke Takahashi. The visual also includes Shigeno's original manga arts for the first time. The tagline is written as "Challenging to the Ultimate Limit."
Following the first chapter in August 2014 and the second in May 2015, the third and final chapter is scheduled to be released in Japan on February 6, 2016. Advance tickets with an Akagi Red Suns sticker (10cm x 33.5cm size) will go on sale at Japanese theaters on October 31.
Source: CrunchyRoll/"Shin Gekijo-ban Initial D" official website
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Anime,