While we're just over a month away from the March 17th debut of the
Strike Witches theatrical anime movie, we've finally gotten the first full length trailer for it. After two successful seasons the movie was greenlit and follows up the series rather than being a re-imaging or alternate reality take on it. Check out the two minute trailer below!
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Media Factory is getting its promotion underway for an upcoming release from the company that will land this coming summer bundled with the manga via DVD and then getting a Blu-ray release a few days later with bonus materials. Asa Made Jugyo Chu! is trying for a TV series and is using the manga bundled release as a showcase to see if it can generate enough interest.
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While news of a Nazo no Kanojyo X anime adaptation surfaced awhile back, it's now been revealed via pictures from the latest issue of "Afternoon" magazine that the series will air in April of this year.
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With two TV seasons and a movie behind it,
Heaven't Lost Property (aka Sora no Otoshimono) has found itself getting a third season approved according to the cover seen for the March issue of Monthly Shonen Ace which goes on sale later this week
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Kyoto animation is getting things moving with its next series, entitled Hyouka, with it being set for the spring 2012 anime season.
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The online streaming site that Sony Pictures Entertainment runs, Crackle.com, has now formally added the Animax anime channel to its US/Canada lineup.
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The short version of the first Berserk movie's ending theme has been revealed and it contains a fair bit of animation form the theatrical feature as well. With the promotion for the feature ramping up, expect more to come.
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Fans of the new series Amagami SS+ are getting a bit of extra love this week as the full music video for the opening song, "Check my soul" from azusa has found its way online. Azusa is also responsible for the ending song, but that's not due for release in Japan until early February.
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Another OAD release coming up is the special for Kimi no Iru Machi, which translates to A Town Where You Live by Kouji Seo. The series is getting a couple of OADs that will be included with the 17th and 18th volumes of the ongoing manga series, which is set for March and June of this year. The OAD is being animated by Tatsunoko and runs for just over a minute to help promote the preorder for the 17th volume of the series.
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Another April series getting some background details released is that of Sankarea, the zombie romantice comedy that's based on the manga series by Mitsuru Hattori.
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While a lot of focus is on the January premieres, April is just around the corner and new revelations about the Eureka 7: AO series has been released, including a plot concept which you can see below. It looks like a good chunk of the original staff is returning for this sequel series with Tomoki Kyoda set to direct, Shoji Kawamori doing Nirvash design and Shiro Takeuchi doing design as well. A new character designer is on board though with Hiroyuki Oda replacing Kenichi Yoshida. The one missing factor so far is the writer, which the original had Dai Sato for.
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January 7th marks the start of another new anime series with the followup season to Bakemonogatari coming out entitled Nisemonogatari.
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January 7th is when Brave10 debuts in Japan and a new promo has been released to promote the series. Clocking in just under two minutes, it highlights a good bit of action for the series. With its strong action side and manly men, it's a series that will definitely garner some attention in a sea of highschool oriented fanservice comedies.
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With it getting closer to launch date, a new promotional video has been released for the upcoming series High School DxD. Owing to its nature, it's titled "Nyu" which is a fun little bit of wordplay between new and breasts, which is wholly appropriate for the show and what it's all about.
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