While doing my daily gallery browsing on Sankaku Complex, I came upon this here piece of news: Yet another Haruhi game is set for release, for the almighty Nintendo platform that some of us call Wii. And that some of us actually use. Sometimes.

So, what will we get this time? An adventure game. In which the girls will be... adventuring. In various places. Probably not as many places as the Haruhi dance game, which will, hopefully, feature lots and lots of Haruhi dancing, but hey, they say that this one will feature 3D characters. Which we, here at Animekon, DO NOT approve. 2D girls are much, much better.

Sega is planning to ship the game in the early stages of 2009. And we hope that it comes with a Wii controller shaped like an artificial pussy.

Seeing how the next best thing after fifth grade lolis are high school girls, we can only rejoice at the thought of another comedy / ecchi / school anime coming our way. This brand new instrument of pleasure shall be known as Hatsukoi Limited (First Love Limited), a title which has so far been indicative of a manga from the Weekly Shonen Jump mangazine, serialized between October 2007 and May 2008.

Aside from an anime, said manga will also get a drama CD, and both adaptations will show the first loves of a high school girl named Ayumi, as well as other middle school and high school girls. All dressed in pink.

"I love the smell of pink in the morning. Smells like... victory."

- Death Note II: The Last Name, the second live-action movie that is, is to be screened in U.S. theatres this October 15 and 16. You can thank (or curse) Viz Media for the English dubs it will feature, and for this Death Note 2 movie trailer we grabbed from the official website. At least the trailer is also available with the original Japanese voices.

- Hells Angels, some OVA adapted by Madhouse from a dark fantasy manga, will finally be screened this October at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), thus making its late world debut. It was supposed to be screened at last year's edition, but was "withdrawn due to various issues". Pantsu?

- Ghibli's veteran director Hayao Miyazaki thinks that, after this year's Ponyo hand-drawn film, his next anime project will see the light of the silver screen at least 3 years from now. By that time he will be over 70. Or dead.

- Tonari no 801-chan, that anime adaptation based on the 801-chan (Yaoi-chan) 4-koma comedy manga announced not so long ago, has been cancelled. It was just a dream, as the manga's creator puts it.

- Asakiyumemishi: The Tale of Genji, some historical shoujo manga from... over 9000 years ago, will be getting an anime adaptation. The manga itself is based on a classic Japanese story about the lives of a motherless prince and his descendants. The anime series will have 11 episodes, and will start airing from January 2009 (website).

- Kozue Amano, the creator of the Aria and Aqua manga series, will launch a new manga in the Comic Blade magazine's January issue (out on November 30). No title was given so far.

- And finally, Square Enix will launch a free web magazine called Gangan Online in October, packed full of manga and light novels. ANN has the "launch titles" announced so far from various manga creators, if you can be arsed to check them out.

If being a samurai that runs around hacking people for a living is your thing, then be on the lookout for Negibozu no Asataro, Toei Animation's latest anime adaptation that is set to premier on October 12th. This thing here seems to be inspired from Kazuyoshi Ino's picture books with the same name, books where the samurai in question, Asataro, who also seems to have a freaking onion instead of his head, wonders the land in search for adventure.

Onion rings, delicious. Can I have some, pl0x.

Within the latest pages of Jump Square magazine we have an interesting announcement, according to which the light novel series Denpa teki na Kanojo will be soon magically transformed into an anime series. The author, Kentaro Katayama, is also the one responsable for Kurenai, another light novel that touched our TV screens in the early days of 2008.

From what we gather, Denpa teki na Kanojo (literally meaning "electromagnetic girlfriend") is set somewhere in the same uiverse with Kurenai and, according to the folks over at Animenation, will also benefit from special appearences of Kurenai characters. Hmm, that Kurenai chick was pretty hot...

Coharu Sakuraba's Minami-ke manga series seems to be getting a third anime adaptation, after two successful seasons that we have greatly and vigorously enjoyed. The first, in 2007, while the second one aroused many young otakus this year. Not many details so far about the developer, crew, deadlines, all we know it is on the verge of cumming coming really soon.

If you haven't seen the first two seasons yet, I urge you to give them a quick try. If you would like to taste other Sakuraba's adaptations, I have one title for you: Today in Class 5-2. Which was pure madness.

We have pondered and pondered, here at Animekon (actually, mostly, when we were extremely wasted in some pub, being made fun of because we were staring at little girls), about the would-be duel between the Suzumiya Haruhi dance, and the Lucky Star dance. If that is not a thing to ponder upon, then my name is Hazuki. Which is not, sadly.

Lately, the official site of this lovely anime series is streaming some sort of commercial, promoting the following Lucky Star OVA. We are certainly awaiting this with trembling hands, and hankies prepared. Along side the trailer, you can also see them little dudettes in some fancy Nanoha-like costumes, exactly what every magical girl fanatic needs.

...and yet again, great games seem to be restricted to consoles, at least until some smart ass decides to port it, pirate it, or release an emulator. According to Dogz in Ze Can, the lolis at Sega are making a Hatsune Miku game, entitled Project Diva, for the PSP. You know, that little shiny thing from Sony, that can play Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII.

As any Miku game that we can imagine (except for those naughty things that are already rambling in my mind), this one will involve music and will be a rhythm game, with a related story mode. Unlocking missions, winning stuff, and doing various other things, will allow you to buy stuff and decorate Miku's room, a nice and cozy place where this awesome little girl will be able to run around and scream real loud. Either while being molested, either while doing things to herself.

I am not really found of characters that get to BUY superpowers. Sure, it is an old Internet meme, but guys like Batman or Iron Man seem to me like casual simpletons, blessed by a certain sadistic God with tons and tons of spendola. And what do you do when you have spendola and are not sane enough to just stay in house, play some MMO and drink your life to death? You get bored. And buy superpowers. And try to imitate a cool dude from The Justice League. And since you have that kind of money, you actually buy your damn way into The Justice League-kun.

The last deal in the acquisitions of superpowers business was made between Madhouse, your all favorite Paprika and Gay Note creators, and Marvel Comics. The reason? Iron Man. The same thing that was (incredibly successful) brought to the big screen lately. I, for one, despised the movie, for several reasons, the main one being the fact that a Marvel movie is dependent on action. And this one had none, just some blah blah bullshit and an egocentric Downey Jr. But that is not the issue here.

The Sports Nippon newspaper published a “versus” image fight, between the American version, and the soon-to-be adapted into an anime Japanese version. The spring of 2010 will set the tables. We'll just have to bring the bento. And the chopsticks. And the lolis, since this show will certainly miss them by a mile.

- Production I.G appears to be working on a "3D movie project", as well as a family-oriented modern fantasy film, which might turn out to be one and the same project. All in all, according to a financial report issued by the studio's parent company back in July, Production I.G (GitS 2: Innocence, The Sky Crawlers etc.) currently has 4 theatrical works planned for the future.

- Speaking of Production I.G, one of their upcoming OAD (original anime DVD) projects - namely the xxxHOLiC OAD bundled with the 14th xxxHOLiC manga volume - has been delayed until until February 17, 2009.

- And a similar fate befell the upcoming Tsubasa OAD, originally panned for release in February along with the 26th manga volume, but now pushed back to March 2009.

- Dungeon & Fighter, some random Korean MMO known in Japan as Arad Senki, will be getting an anime adaptation under Gonzo's supervision. The predictably generic anime series shall be known as Slap Up Party: Arad Senki, and it will start airing in 2009.