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Gleipnir Manga Listed With Anime

Japanese retailer HMV is listing this year's third issue of Kodansha's Young Magazine the 3rd with the magazine cover revealing that Sun Takeda's Gleipnir manga will receive a television anime adaptation. The issue will ship on March 6.

Kodansha Comics will release the first compiled book volume of the series on March 19. The publisher describes the first volume:

Shuichi Kagaya an ordinary high school kid in a boring little town. But when a beautiful classmate is caught in a warehouse fire, he discovers a mysterious power: he can transform into a furry dog with an oversized revolver and a zipper down his back. He saves the girl's life, sharing his secret with her. But she's searching for the sister who killed her family, and she doesn't care how degrading it gets: she will use Shuichi to accomplish her mission …

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Wish I could go to this

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New Ultraman anime trailer

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Digimon Adventure Film's Teaser Reveals Cast, Early Spring 2020 Debut

Toei Animation revealed a teaser video, teaser visual, cast, and the early spring 2020 premiere for the temporarily titled Gekijō-ban Digimon Adventure (Digimon Adventure the Movie) anime film project on Wednesday.

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Fuck. One of my favorite shows from last year on Hulu. A service I don't subscribe to. You guys want me to try to get it by other means aren't you?

Screw you Viz.

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Tsugumomo Anime Gets 2nd Season in 2020

The official website for the Tsugumomo television anime announced on Wednesday that the series will get a second season titled Tsugu Tsugumomo that will premiere in 2020. Ryōichi Kuraya is returning to direct the season and handle series composition, and Zero-G will again animate the series. Toei began streaming a promotional video for the announcement that summarizes the first anime season.

JManga published the first two volumes of the manga digitally in English before the site ended service in 2013, and it describes the series:

Kazuya Kagami's most treasured possession in the world is the obi left to him by his late mother. The scent of cherry-blossoms infused into it helps him through his day - but he never expected it to save his life, becoming a beautiful kimono-clad girl who calls herself an "artifact spirit." Her name is Kiriha, tsukumogami of the sash, who naturally moves in with him, as he is her "owner." Throw in Chisato, his bespectacled friend, an overprotective older sister who wants to take baths with him, a busty priestess, a seductive sorceress named Kokuyoura, and Kazuya's life has just gotten a lot more...interesting.

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Project Anima Announces Results of 'Kids/Game' Anime Contest

The official website for Project Anima announced on Wednesday that Hajime Shinagawa's Möbius Dust story is the grand prize winner for the "Kids/Game" category of the competition. Doga Kobo (Majestic Prince) will produce an anime adaptation of the work that is tentatively slated for after 2020.

Project Anima describes the story:

On February 29, 2000, the Möbius meteorites fell on Earth. These meteorites brought a new form of matter known as Möbius Dust to Earth. The dust permeated Earth's atmosphere, leading to a miracle. The day the meteorites fell, nicknamed "2.29," accelerated the economic disparity in Japan.

Before long, the Bloody War Alliance, discontent with this disparity, began committing acts of terrorism. Amidst all this, the police established the anti-RC special mobile unit and a joint anti-RC training school for the initial training of the unit members.

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Hachinantte Sore wa Inai Deshō! Fantasy Anime's Ad Reveals 2020 Airing

The official website for the anime of Y.A.'s Hachinantte Sore wa Inai Deshō! (The Eighth Son? That Can't Be Right!) light novel series began streaming a commercial on Wednesday. The commercial announces that the anime will air on television in 2020.

The tongue-in-cheek ad promotes the elements the story has: "Transported to an alternate world? We got it! The most powerful hero? We got it! Popular with heroines? We got it! Transported into the body of a destitute noble family's eighth son? Wait, that can't be right!")

The novels' story begins with Shingo Ichinomiya, a normal, average employee for a trading company. He wakes up one day to find himself inhabiting the body of Wendelin — a five-year-old boy, and the eighth son of a destitute noble family in a fantasy world.

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Cop Craft TV Anime Unveils Cast, Staff, Summer Premiere

The official website for the television anime of Shoji Gatoh's Cop Craft Dragnet Mirage Reloaded light novel series unveiled the anime's main cast, main staff, Summer 2019 premiere, and key visual on Wednesday.

The story is set in San Teresa City on the fictional Pacific island of Kariaena. The "buddy police action" series follows the detective Kei Matoba and the alternate-world knight Tirana.

15 years ago, an unknown hyperspace gate opened over the Pacific. Beyond this gate lies Reto Semaani, a strange alternate world where fairies and demons live.

San Teresa City — a city where over two million immigrants live from both worlds. As a result, there are the haves and the have-nots. Here is the world's newest "city of dreams." But in the shadow of the chaos, crime is rampant: drugs, prostitution, and weapon trafficking. The detectives who stand up to these heinous crimes are in the San Teresa City Police. When the detective Kei Matoba and the alternate-world knight Tirana — two individuals who differ in gender, personality, and even world of origin — meet, an incident erupts. Two worlds. Two justices. From this, the curtain rises on a buddy police action story!

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Tonko House, Domo's Dwarf, Megalis Make Oni Stop-Motion/CG TV Series

Entertainment news magazine Variety reported on Monday that the California-based studio Tonko House is producing a new stop-motion/CGI animated TV series titled Oni with the Japanese stop-motion company dwarf studios (Domo) and the Japanese visual effects studio Megalis. Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi (Hayao Miyazaki's nephew-in-law) is the project's showrunnner, and noted that the series is set in a "fantastical world of Japanese folklore with a modern spin on it." The Tonko House Film Festival plans to screen test footage of the project in Tokyo from April 27 to May 26.

Tonko House is also developing a new animated TV project named Sleepy Pines, with Chris Sasaki as showrunner. Sasaki worked with Tonko House co-founders Tsutsumi and Robert Kondo when they were still art directors at Pixar. Tonko House describes the new work as "music- and mystery-driven," with a story following a "group of young friends in a band finding their voices in a changing world."

Finally, Erick Oh is again working with Tonko House to develop a science fiction fairy tale feature film titled Leo. Oh directed the Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems television series of shorts which won the "Cristal for a TV Production" award in the TV Films category at the 2018 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

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Isekai Cheat Magician TV Anime Unveils Cast, Staff, Visual

Kadokawa opened a website for the television anime of Takeru Uchida's Isekai Cheat Magician (Fantasy World Cheat Magician) novel series on Wednesday, and revealed the anime's main cast, staff, and visual.

The story centers on Taichi Nishimura and his friend Rin Azuma, who both get transported into a fantasy world. While in their previous world, Taichi is a normal person who just has higher than average reflexes, both he and Rin gain high levels of physical and magical ability, and begin their new life as magicians.

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Original TV Anime Series RobiHachi Reveals 1st Promo Video, Theme Songs, April 8 Premiere

The official website for the original television anime RobiHachi revealed the theme songs and the April 8 premiere for the series on Thursday. Keisuke Koumoto (voice of Hatchi) and Kazuya Nakai (Robby) will perform the opening theme song "Tensai no Playlist" (Genius Playlist) as their characters. Subaru Kimura (Allo), Shinosuke Tokudome (Gras), and Tomokazu Sugita (Yang) will perform the ending theme song "Dancing to Night ~Kimi e no Saitan Warp Kōro~" (The Shortest Warp Route to You) as their characters. Singles for both songs will ship on April 24.

The anime's story is set in Neo Tokyo in the year G.C. (Galaxy Century) 0051, which marks a half century since first contact was made. Humans have obtained super light-speed navigation technology and formed a commonwealth of planets with aliens. A streak of bad luck is continuing for self-proclaimed freelance reportage writer Robby Yarge, who is around 30 years old. He fails at work, so his contract is cut. His girlfriend leaves him, he nearly dies in a traffic accident, and debt collectors come after him.

One day, a bag snatcher steals Robby's bag, and a young man helps him. Hatchi Kita, an 18-year-old part-time worker, catches the criminal and returns Robby's bag. Robby offers him his gratitude and a meal in return. The pair discover they are complete opposites and soon part ways.

However, Hatchi turns up again in Robby's life as a debt collector. Hatchi explains that it's his part-time job working for the loan shark Yan. A cat-and-mouse chase begins, and Yan's Finance president Yan takes his subordinates Aro and Gra along for the ride. Robby manages to elude Hatchi and escape to space while shaking off Yan's group. Robby thinks of escaping to Isekandar, a distant and legendary planet in the Milky Way that is said to bring happiness to those who go there. Though Robby thought he had escaped to space alone, he discovers Hatchi inside his spaceship. The two decide to travel across the galaxy together in search of Isekandar.

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Tannishō o Hiraku Buddhist Text Gets Anime Film in May

Kentetsu Takamori's Buddhist book Tannishō o Hiraku (Opening the Tannishō) is inspiring an anime film adaptation that will open in Japan on May 24. The film stars Kōji Ishizaka as Shinran (in his first anime film role as the lead), and Toshiki Masuda as Yuien. The announcement did not list the staff for the film, but the film's official website describes the film as the second in a series after Naze Ikiru: Rennyo Shōnin to Yoshizaki Enjō, Studio DEEN's 2016 film that is similarly based on a Buddhist text by Takamori.

The new film centers on Yuien, a troubled young man. He meets the Buddhist monk Shinran, and listens to his teachings. Shinran takes him on as his disciple, and they travel together, with experiences both joyous and heartbreaking awaiting them on the road.