Shin Anime & Manga Thread

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Marui Group's Promotional Short Anime "Soba he" Shows Off Beautiful Rainy Scenery

The official YouTube channel for "Marui no Anime," a joint project amomg Marui Group that owns various fashion buildings across Japan, film company Toho, and CG anime production company Orange, has started streaming a 160-second original short promotional anime "Soba he" (To be Near You).

Synopsis:
One rainy day, Osamu gets on his way back home. Then he finds out the umbrella that Sayu gave to him as a present is missing. The umbrella transforms into a girl, and starts moving around the city that gets rained on.

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Masaaki Yuasa's 'Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara' Anime Film Trailer Previews Theme Song

The official website for director Masaaki Yuasa's Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara (tentative English title: "Riding a Wave with You") anime film revealed a trailer and poster visual on Saturday. The trailer previews GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE's theme song "Brand New Story."

The love story follows Hinako, a college student who moves to a coastal town. She loves surfing, and when she's on the waves she's fearless, but on land she has trouble riding the waves of life. When a fire wreaks havoc in the town, Hinako encounters a firefighter named Minato. Minato can handle almost any task on land, but is a beginner at surfing. As they surf and spend more time together, Hinako feels drawn to someone like Minato who devotes himself to helping other people, and the two start a relationship. However, Minato loses his life in an accident at sea. Despondent, Hinako sings a song about their memories together, and Minato appears again from the water.

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Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san TV Anime's Promo Video Reveals April 10 Premiere

The official website for the television anime adaptation of Rimukoro's Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san (Senko, the Always-Helpful Fox) manga began streaming the show's promotional video on Friday.

The video reveals that the show will premiere on April 10 at 10:30 p.m., before airing later on Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, and BS11. The show will stream in Japan on d Anime Store and AbemaTV.

The site also revealed a new key visual, and revealed that Azumi Waki and Maaya Uchida will perform the show's opening theme song "Koyoi mofumofu!!," and Waki will perform the ending theme song Moffu Moffu de Yoinoja yo."

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Psycho-Pass Anime Gets 3rd Season

The official website for the Psycho-Pass anime franchise revealed on Friday that the anime is getting a third season titled Psycho-Pass 3. The anime will air on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block.

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Miru Tights Web Anime Unveils New Visual, May Premiere

The official Twitter account for the Miru Tights web anime revealed a new visual for the anime, as well as its May 11 debut date.

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'Hora, Mimi ga Mieteru yo!' TV Series Gets 2nd Season in April

The official website for Hora, Mimi ga Mieteru yo! (Look, I Can See Your Ears!), the television animation of a Chinese web comic, revealed on Friday that the series has a second season that will premiere on AT-X on April 5 at 10:30 p.m. The site also revealed a new visual for the second season.

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Ascendance of a Bookworm Fantasy Novel Gets TV Anime

A website opened on Friday to announce that a television anime adaptation of Miya Kazuki's "biblia fantasy" novel Honzuki no Gekokujō - Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiramasen (Ascendance of a Bookworm) has been green-lit.

J-Novel Club is releasing Suzuka's manga adaptation in English, and it describes the story:

A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Maine, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amounts of money to buy one. Maine resolves herself: If there aren't any books, she'll just have to make them! Her goal is to become a librarian. This story begins with her quest to make books so she can live surrounded by them! Dive into this biblio-fantasy written for book lovers and bookworms!

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Lupin III Gets New Mine Fujiko no Uso Anime Film in May

The official blog for the Lupin III anime announced on Friday that the franchise will have a new theatrical anime film titled Lupin the IIIrd: Mine Fujiko no Uso (Lupin the IIIrd: Fujiko Mine's Lie) that will open in Japan on May 31. The story is about an imminent crisis that drives Fujiko into a corner. The film is described as the third film in a series consisting of 2014's Lupin the Third: Jigen's Gravestone and 2017's Lupin the IIIrd Chikemuri no Ishikawa Goemon.

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Feudal Warlord Flashes Back in Kochoki ~ Wakaki Nobunaga ~ TV Anime Trailer

The main cast, a new trailer, and a new key visual have all been published for Kochoki ~ Wakaki Nobunaga ~ ("Beautiful Butterfly ~ Young Nobunaga ~"), an upcoming original TV anime that focuses on the life of feudal warlord Oda Nobunaga when he was a handsome but directionless young man.

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Heroes Suffer a Slack Attack in LAIDBACKERS Anime Film Trailer

Sloth and super powers don't mix in a new trailer for LAIDBACKERS, an upcoming original "reverse isekai" theatrical anime film about a group of heroes from a magical land who try to take it easy when they are reincarnated as ordinary people in modern Japan.

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Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2 Gets a Character-Loaded Visual

A new key visual is here for the continuation of the Attack on Titan anime, and it's a pretty tightly-packed piece of art. Season 3 part 2 brings the saga back to TV when it premieres in Japan on April 28 at 24:10 (so technically April 29), so get yourself pumped up with the illustration below.

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Granblue Fantasy Anime Season 2 to Premiere in October

The official website for the Granblue Fantasy the Animation teleivsion anime series confirmed on Saturday that the previously announced new television anime is Season 2, which will premiere this October. The website also presented a newly created teaser visual

The tagline accompanying the visual reads, "Once again now, to the vast blue skies…" The season will depict the new journey of the boy Gran — who came of age through adventure while heading for Estalucia, Island of Stars — and the girl Lyria who fell from the skies.

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Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato Anime Film Reveals Visual, Theme Song by Egoist

The official website for the Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress anime revealed on Saturday that EGOIST will perform the theme song "Sakase ya Sakase" for the Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato (Kōtetsujō no Kabaneri: Unato Kessen) sequel anime film. The site also revealed a new visual.

The film will open in Japan in spring 2019 and will focus on the character Mumei. The film will take place half a year after the story of the original television anime series. The official website for the anime lists the film as the "middle volume."

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Level-5's Ni no Kuni Game Series Gets Manga

The April issue of Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine revealed on Saturday that Ran Kuze (Tenshin - World War Angel, Tokyo Ravens: Sword of Song) will launch a manga adaptation of Level 5's Ni no Kuni franchise in the magazine's May issue on April 9. Level 5 is credited with the original work and supervision.

The "great adventure" manga will feature an original story in Ni no Kuni. The first chapter will include a color page.

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Fairy gone Anime Reveals April 7 Premiere, Manga Adaptation

The official website for P.A. Works' original television anime Fairy gone revealed the show's April 7 premiere date on Saturday. The anime will air on Tokyo MX on April 7 at 24:00 (effectively April 8 at 12:00 a.m.), before airing later on MBS, BS11, and AT-X.

The site also revealed that Ryōsuke Fuji (Attack on Titan: Lost Girls) will launch a manga adaptation (pictured below) in the May issue of Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on April 9.