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Zannen na Ikimono no Jiten Anime Gets New Episodes by Pop Team Epic's Aoki

Japanese public broadcaster NHK announced on Friday that the television anime adaptation of the Zannen na Ikimono Jiten (Encyclopedia of Pitiful Creatures) book series is getting two new episodes. The five-minute episodes will air on E-Tele (NHK Educational TV), NHK's primarily educational channel, on March 28 at 10:00 a.m. and on March 29 at 9:35 a.m., respectively.

Pop Team Epic series director and scriptwriter Jun Aoki is directing the episodes. Cast members Tesshō Genda and Noriko Hidaka are returning from the first series of episodes.

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2019 Soreike! Anpanman Film's New Visuals, Guest Cast Revealed

The staff of the Anpanman anime franchise revealed new visuals and the guest cast for Soreike! Anpanman Kirameke! Ice no Kuni no Vanilla-hime (Let's go! Anpanman: Sparkle! Princess Vanilla of the Land of Ice Cream), the 31st anime film in the franchise, on Friday.

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New Toei Manga Matsuri Omnibus Anime Project Previewed in Trailer

Toei began streaming a trailer on Friday for the revival of its Toei Manga Matsuri omnibus film series after 29 years. The new omnibus film will open on April 26.

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Nobunaga Sensei no Osanazuma Anime's Promo Video Previews Pyxis' Opening Theme

The official website for the television anime of Azure Konno's Nobunaga Sensei no Osanazuma (Mr. Nobunaga's Young Bride) manga began streaming a promotional video for the series on Friday. The video previews voice actress unit Pyxis' opening theme song "Aiseyo Minna, Hai!" 

The anime will premiere on AT-X on April 6 at 11:20 p.m., before premiering on Tokyo MX on April 8 at 12:00 a.m. (effectively April 9).

The romantic comedy manga's story centers on Nobunaga, a middle school teacher who constantly dreams of an adoring beautiful girl appearing in front of him. One day, Kichō, the 14-year-old wife of the real-life Sengoku (Warring States) period warlord Oda Nobunaga, does appear in front of him after having apparently traveled through time. She mistakes the present-day Nobunaga for the historical Oda Nobunaga, and tries to get him to get her pregnant.

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New Summer Anime Series Granbelm Revealed With Staff, Cast, Video, Visuals

Anime studio Nexus announced on Friday that it will produce an original anime series titled Granbelm. The series will premiere this summer.

The anime takes place in a world that long ago featured the existence of magic, but has long since lost that ability. The story begins when the very normal high school student Mangetsu Kohinata meets Shingetsu Ernesta Fukami, who has migrated back to Japan from Germany, on a night with a full moon.

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MAGES., bilibili Collaborate on Journal of the Mysterious Creatures Anime

Japanese game developer and record label MAGES. and Chinese streaming platform bilibili announced on Friday that they are collaborating to produce the Journal of the Mysterious Creatures (Ijō Seibutsu Kenbunroku) anime series, which will air in Japan this year.

The science-fiction fantasy anime is based on a Chinese web novel by 遠瞳 (ANN could not verify the romanization of the author's name). The work centers on Yoshihito, a 23-year-old man who has no job or girlfriend. In order to make ends meet he rents out one of the rooms in his house. While he's showing Lily, his first tenant, around the house, she's suddenly attacked by a vampire named Vivian, and Yoshihito notices that Lily is actually a werewolf. As Yoshihito and Lily start living in the same house, Yoshihito is scouted for an organization that maintains order of the parallel universes, and strange creatures one after another become tenants in his house.

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XFlag, Tatsunoko's Pandora to Akubi Crossover Anime Film Reveals Cast, Staff, Promo Video

The official website for XFLAG and Tatsunoko Production's new anime project Pandora to Akubi (Pandora and Yawn) revealed on Friday that the project is an anime film that will open at the EJ Anime Theater Shinjuku in Tokyo on April 5. The film will then open in four other theaters in Japan on April 12.

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Joshi Kausei Anime's Video Previews Opening Song

The official website for the television anime of Ken Wakai's Joshi Kausei manga began streaming a promotional video for the anime on Friday. The video previews the anime's opening theme song "silent days" by amatsuuni.

The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX's Futabanime programming block on April 8 at 24:00 (effectively, April 9 at midnight).

Crunchyroll is publishing the series digitally, and it describes the story:

Who needs dialog when you're this cute? The beautiful (but unlucky) Momoko, the cool, collected Shibumi, and the refreshingly innocent Mayumi star in a "silent manga." No speeches, no dialog! Just pictures, sound effects, and three high school girls living their daily lives.

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Are You Lost? Survival Manga Listed With Anime

Some Japanese retailers are listing this year's 14th issue of Kodansha's Young Magazine, with the magazine cover revealing that an anime adaptation of Kentarō Okamoto and Riri Sagara's Are You Lost? (Sōnan desuka?) manga has been green-lit. The issue will ship on March 4.

Kodansha Comics began releasing the manga digitally in October, and it describes the story:

Because of a plane crash … starting today, we're spending the springtime of our lives on a desert island!! There's nothing here, so we have to make everything!! And eat everything!! (Ugh!) Check out our high-school-girl survival story of courage and knowledge. We're actually doing pretty well! Volume 1 includes: how to eat cicadas, how to build traps, a simple allergy test, how to eat hermit crabs, etc.

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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Anime's 2nd 'Season' Teaser

The official website for Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These, the new anime of Yoshiki Tanaka's epic science fiction novels Legend of the Galactic Heroes, began streaming a teaser for the anime's second "season" The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Seiran (The New Thesis: Stellar War). The video previews the events the films will cover, following the Alliance's invasion of the Empire at the end of the first season.

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Pokémon Take On a New Dimension in "Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution" Trailer

A new trailer has been published for Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution, an upcoming theatrical anime movie that remakes 1998's Pokémon: The First Movie as a fully 3DCG feature film. It was also revealed that Masachika Ichimura is returning as the Japanese voice of Mewtwo.

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Kenja no Mago Anime's Promo Video Previews Both Opening, Ending Themes

Kadokawa began streaming a promotional video on Saturday for the television anime of Tsuyoshi Yoshioka's Kenja no Mago (The Wise Grandson or lit. The Sage's Grandson) novels. The video previews i☆Ris' opening theme song "Ultimate☆Magic" and virtual singer Nanami Yoshi's ending theme song "Attōteki Vivid Days."

The original story begins when a powerful wizard and sage, who has saved his world from calamity many times, comes upon a baby whom he adopts and names Shin. The baby is actually a man from our world reincarnated into the sage's world. The sage raises Shin, separated from the rest of society, and teaches him in the ways of magic. It is only when Shin turns 15 years old and sets out on his own journey that the sage remembers that he forgot to teach Shin the common sense and ways of this particular world. And so, Shin goes the capital of the Alsheid Kingdom to enroll in the capital's magic academy.

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Fan Vote Prepares to Name Macross's All-Time Greats

What's the greatest Macross song of all time? The NHK is asking fans to decide!


Today, the network opened the "All Macross Big Vote," an online poll inviting fans to pick their greats from the long-running space opera. Visitors can pick their faves for Best Anime, Best Character, Best Mecha, and Best Song across all TV, movies, and OVAs released between 1982 and January 2019.

Results will be announced on May 4 across 3.5 hours of special programming on BS Premium.

The polls are now open for voters, featuring a new video with appearances from voice actors across the Macross franchise. The site is in Japanese only, but voting outside Japan is permitted. Polls close April 21.

www6.nhk.or.jp/anime/macross/series/

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Are You Lost? Anime's Promo Unveils Cast, Staff, July TV Airing

This year's 14th issue of Kodansha's Young Magazine revealed the visual, cast, staff, and July premiere of the anime adaptation of Kentarō Okamoto and Riri Sagara's Are You Lost? (Sōnan desuka?) manga on Monday. The anime will air on Tokyo MX in Japan. The anime's official website is streaming a promotional video

Kodansha Comics began releasing the manga digitally in October, and it describes the story:

Because of a plane crash … starting today, we're spending the springtime of our lives on a desert island!! There's nothing here, so we have to make everything!! And eat everything!! (Ugh!) Check out our high-school-girl survival story of courage and knowledge. We're actually doing pretty well! Volume 1 includes: how to eat cicadas, how to build traps, a simple allergy test, how to eat hermit crabs, etc.

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Gintama Gets New Anime Project 'Probably'

The "Gintama Shirogane Matsuri 2019 (Kari)" event (event visual pictured below) on Sunday teased that a new Gintama anime is in production. The event did not provide any other details for the project.

However, the video above qualifies the announcement, "Gintama Production Committee: Production on Gintama anime's brand-new project green-lit … probably. Since the manga isn't over yet…. But we think we're gonna do it, we guess. Well, just get ready."