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Shojo Manga Yumeiro Patissier To Be Animated

Matsumoto Natsumi’s Shojo manga “Yumeiro Pâtissier” was announced to get a TV anime adaptation. It will be aired from October. Yumeiro Pâtissier has been published in Monthly Ribbon magazine and is a tie-up project with KONAMI. A trading card game…

Spinoff Manga of ‘Sword Art Online’ Announced

In the latest issue of Dengeki Bunko Magazine, it was announced that a new spinoff manga of “Sword Art Online” will begin monthly in the light novel from vol.32 (publication date: June 10th). The manga is named “Sword Art Online…

Sunrise Produces A Novel Based Movie Colorful

Director Hara Keiichi (“Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi”, “Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Appare! Sengoku Daikassen”) was announced to produce a new movie “Colorful” with Sunrise. The movie will be premiered in 2010. Character Designs Kobayashi Makoto PuraPura Other supporting…

GAINAX To Produce New Anime With Car Maker SUBARU

Car manufacturer SUBARU has launched a teaser website of their own anime project. They will collaborate with GAINAX. SUBARU x GAINAX Anime official website Staff Director: Saeki Shoji Concept Art: Kikuchi Daisuke (key animation of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann) Character…

Japan’s Weekly Manga Rankings for Jul 4 – 10

Here are the weekly manga & light novels rankings for July 4th – 10th. ranks/ this week’s sales by copies/ cumulative sales/ titles Manga *1, 571,502 633,082 Hunter x Hunter vol.28 *2, 315,082 317,010 Gintama vol.40 *3, 238,715 238,715 Natsume…

Moribito Honored with Batchelder Award

This morning, at the midwinter conference of the American Library Association in Denver, Nahoko Uehashi’s Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, the first novel in her popular series of fantasy novels, won the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for outstanding translated work.…

Sentai Filmworks Licenses Kobato

According to the official press release on their website, Sentai Filmworks has licensed the TV anime series Kobato. Sentai Filmworks will release the 24 episode series on DVD starting this August with Collection 1. Source: press release