Forgive me, Loli Jesus, for I have re-activated my World of Warcraft account... And so another week went by with no updates here on Animekon, in what is becoming a worrying end-of-month tradition. Ah, well, as you can see, we got some new stuff today, and the best is yet to come. But first, here are the new trailers we added today - decidedly dominated by a barrage of Strike Witches clips, but also a high-quality trailer for the newly announced anime sequel ef - a tale of melodies.

- 20th Century Boys trailer (live-action)
- ef - a tale of melodies trailer
- Rosario + Vampire Capu2 trailer
- Slayers Revolution trailer
- Strike Witches trailer
- Strike Witches trailer #2
- Strike Witches trailer #3
- Strike Witches trailer #4
- The Sky Crawlers trailer #3
- Zero no Tsukaima 3 trailer

- The 5th season of Major will start airing in Japan in January 2009 - as was announced during the last episode of this baseball anime series' 4th season, which ended this past weekend.

- A second Neko Rahmen anime project has been announced, after that live-action movie adaptation revealed not so long ago.

- A new Gundam 00 manga is being published in Japan, starting with the August issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Gundam Ace magazine. The manga, titled Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Aoi Kioku (Blue Memories), will deal with the lives of the Gundam Meister pilots.

- The ongoing sci-fi manga series Dosei Mansion (preview) will be getting a live-action film adaptation, retelling the futuristic story in which humanity has has migrated into a massive aerial ring system above the Earth, which is now one big natural reserve.

- Patlabor, the classic mecha anime series, is being adapted into... stamps. Bet you didn't see that one coming. Meanwhile, we're still waiting for some lolicon anime to be adapted into ichigo-flavoured stamps. We'd lick that!

In their vast wisdom - and a fitting marketing hunger - the animation production company Enoki Films USA issued a press release which pretty much reveals the entire story outline of the new anime series Slayers Revolution (premiering in Japan tomorrow night), seemingly hoping that this might somehow enlarge their e-peen and the chance to strike a deal with an American licensor for this 26-episode anime.

As our title implies, reading any further might not be such a good idea, if you're looking forward to Slayers Revolution, and you plan on holding your breath 100% hermetically until the very last moment. With that warning in mind, the spoilerific story outline follows after the image below.

Update: For less spoilers, check out the short Slayers Revolution trailer we've just added.

Update #2: As one commenter points out below, the first episode doesn't really fit in with this so-called story. Like, at all. I wonder what show Enoki Films was talking about, cause it sure as hell doesn't sound like Slayers Revolution so far.

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First revealed at Anime Expo 2003, and confirmed earlier this year, the sci-fi anime series Titania has finally received a broadcast start date - October 2008 - as announced on the newly opened official website. For some reason, though, the project's title seems to have gone through a slight change, and is now known as Tytania.

Other than that, the anime will still be based on Yoshiki Tanaka's series of "space opera" novels, about a soldier who flees the spacefaring Titania Tytania empire and seeks refuge with a rebellion force. Tanaka previously authored other novels that went on to receive anime adaptations, such as Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Sohryuden: Legend of the Dragon Kings, The Heroic Legend of Arslan, and Ryoko's Case File.

Some details about the anime's cast can be found on ANN, but suffice to say that the series will be animated by the veteran studios Artland, while the CG effects will be done by Sanzigen - the company behind Gurren Lagann's 3D computer graphics.

Lolicon eroge maker Rune is slowly but surely heading for a total shutdown, after being around for nearly a decade - since 1999, when they made their debut with the game Fifth. From what Zepy reported last night, the company has been losing lots of people since early May, including, most recently, their two best known artists ever since the early days: Nonohara Miki and Akamaru. At least the latters' reason for quitting seems to have been money; or, rather, the lack of it from their supposed paychecks.

Rune's releases over the past couple of years were Fifth: Eternal Collection Box, Konya no Okazu wa Range de Marine and Yukinochi Fururu! in 2006, followed in 2007 by Purely, 8665^2 and Musume Shimai - for which we've just added some pictures in our gallery.


In light of all this, their upcoming eroge 8665^3, which luckily is mostly finished, could well be their last one. You can browse through Rune's entire catalogue on their website (or on Getchu), and they also have (had?) an imouto-brand called Cage, whose catalogue is filled with equally lolicious games; bar Pure My Imouto Milk Pudding, in which the fake lolis are actually boys. Eew.

I've left the best for last today: Kiss x Sis, a new anime announced over the weekend, based on a manga about sisterly love. And not just any kind of sisterly love, but a double step-sisterly love! That might sound a bit like Onegai Twins, but judging by the manga alone, the Kiss x Sis anime should be a lot more ecchi. Hopefully, anyway.

The original "romantic incest comedy" manga series, authored by Bow Ditama (Mahoromatic), is still ongoing, and so far it's been compiled into 2 volumes. As Zepy puts it, Kiss x Sis is "one of those manga that lies in the border between eromanga and normal manga". And you can certainly see why, if you take a look over the first chapter, available for online viewing. In short, the story (via ANN) goes like this.

"The story centers on Keita, a third-year middle school boy studying for his high school entrance exams. His two twin stepsisters Ako and Riko Suminoe - with no blood relation to him - help him prepare for the exams, but life gets too cozy between Keita and the girls."

We're still waiting for any kind of details about the Kiss x Sis anime. But I can say straight away that our incest seal of approval is as good as won.

Discontinuing today's feeble string of sequel announcements, Soul Eater is one of the ongoing animes which is not ending this month, nor is it getting a second season anytime soon (hell, there are still almost 40 episodes left!). What it is getting, however, is a Wii game called Soul Eater: Monotone Princess.

According to the official website opened by publisher Square Enix, the Soul Eater game will be released in Japan on September 25, and San'plex writes that it will be an action-adventure of sorts, featuring an original story and anime cinematics produced by studio Bones. You can see the first low-res screenshots scattered around the official website, plus a wallpaper which we took the liberty of adding locally.


Also newly announced is Macross Ace Frontier - a multiplayer 3D action game for the PSP handheld console, which will be released  (...)

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Another series ending right about now is The Tower of Druaga, and it, too, will be getting a second season. The story will thus continue with The Tower of Druaga: The Sword of Uruk, as Gonzo calls it, but impatient fans might be disappointed to hear that the second season will start no sooner than 2009 - maybe even July 2009. And, quite frankly, we don't know yet if it will be another 12-episode series, or just a short OVA. For what it's worth, though, I'm betting on a full-fledged sequel. They should have plenty of time to make one.

Stay tuned for some artworks / fanarts of Coopa, the cutest (and only) loli from the first season of Druaga; and some with Fatina, too.

Update: There we go: Coopa and Fatina pics are now up in our gallery.

Vampire Knight, one of the anime series ending around this time of the year (on July 1), will be getting a second season, along with some sort of web-radio show hosted by fictional Cross Academy students. The announcement was made on the official website of the Vampire Knight manga and, via ANN's report, we learn that the second season will start airing in Japan during October.

As for the web-radio show, since we couldn't care less about it, we'll just quote ANN to the letter and move on to more interesting news.

"A Vampire Knight: Cross Academy Broadcasting Club web radio show will also premiere on July 7. On the radio show, Mamoru Miyano, Daisuke Kishio, Susumu Chiba, Junichi Suwabe, and Sōichiro Hoshi will play their fictional counterparts Zero Kiryū, Kaname Clan, Takuma Ichijō, Akatsuki Kain, and Senri Shiki, respectively."

We've been slacking on the news front over the weekend, due to more pressing issues - like splitting our trailers website, TVkon, over two servers (yeah, it's getting THAT big), and moving Animekon to a faster (and more reliable) server. Which meant coding, coding, and more coding... and, inevitably, a few tiny little mishaps along the way, which hopefully not too many of you noticed. But anyway, we're all done now, so let's get back to loli business.

- Innocent kids juices for sale! *Slurp, slurp*

- The flying mecha-lolis anime Strike Witches will also be aired online on Crunchyroll and YouTube, as announced by Gonzo (via Giapet). The TV series, which continues last year's Strike Witches OVA, is part of the Summer 2008 anime season, with a Japanese premiere set for July 4. And, presumably, it will also be rolled out online at the same time.

- If, like us, you're a fan of Makoto Shinkai (5cm per Second, Beyond the Clouds, Voices of a Distant Star), you might want to read this report from a screening event in London he attended on June 20. The focus was on 5cm (since it was screened there), but Shinkai talked about other things, as well, hinting that his next film will be a full-length feature.

- Miyazaki plans museum anime shorts after Ponyo. Whatever, Miyazaki is so last century, Shinkai for the win.

- Another week, another round of Akihabara killer copycats: a 19-year old boy was arrested (backup) after he posted an online threat saying "I will go to [Tokyo] Disneyland to stab visitors to death", and the police also took interest in a 16-year old girl (who wouldn't?) after she threatened (backup) on the Internet to commit mass murder in Tokyo's Shibuya district. For the first time since this month's Akiba massacre, however, somebody went one step further, slashing 3 people with a knife at the JR Osaka Station (backup). They only suffered minor injuries, but the attacker hasn't been caught, yet.