At today's Madoka Magica stage event from Anime Contents Expo (via CR), the anime's staff and cast announced a few details about the first two movies in the upcoming "trilogy"; namely their titles and release timeframe. The first part will be subtitled "Hajimari no Monogatari" (The Story of the Beginning), and the second one "Eien no Monogatari" (The Story of Eternity). They are both planned for a fall 2012 premiere in Japan.



Unfortunately, no big news was revealed about the third Magica Movie movie, which will be the only one of them to tell an all-new story. As for the first two parts, (...)

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In a novel kind of announcement spotted today at the 2012 Anime Contents Expo (ACE), the production company Aniplex was displaying a T-shirt with the title of the fourth TV anime series in the Hidamari Sketch franchise, along with its release timeframe: it will be called Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb, and it's planned for an October 2012 debut in Japan.



Like the previous three TV series and last year's TV special, this latest Hidamari Sketch anime is again based on Ume Aoki's popular 4-koma manga. Studio Shaft animated all the previous adaptations, so presumably they will return for this fourth season.

Also joining the summer 2012 line-up is Dog Days 2, airing in Japan from July - as announced today on the anime series' official website. The second season's key visual is also being displayed there, and - best of all - the first trailer that you can also watch locally, after first being shown this weekend at the 2012 Anime Contents Expo (ACE).



Like the first Dog Days TV anime from last year, Dog Days 2 is again created by studio Seven Arcs (Nanoha, Sekirei, Asura Cryin'), based on a concept from manga artist (...)

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At today's stage event for Kokoro Connect from Anime Contents Expo, it was announced that this upcoming TV anime is being created by studio Silver Link (BakaTest series, C³), and that it will start airing this summer. Additionally, the promo video shown there also seems to indicate that the Kokoro Connect game adaptation revealed last month will be a PSP title.



Studio Silver Link is also currently working on the Otoboku 2 not-TV-anime-but-OVA sequel, and it also animated this month's TV anime Dusk Maiden of Amnesia - which starts (...)

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