A bit of old-news digging is in order, yes? For starters, a pleasing announcement for a new TV anime was made several days ago, revealing an upcoming Sankarea anime based on Mitsuru Hattori's "zombie moe adolescent romantic comedy" manga (with 4 volumes compiled so far). Details about the adaptation are missing at this time, though it would appear that a certain Studio Hami is involved, given its official website location. So for now, you'll find a story synopsis on the anime's local page, along with an incipient gallery.



The ongoing anime series Gintama' and Sket Dance will each have a (...)

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A new original anime project titled Ano Natsu de Matteru is being announced on the cover of the latest Megami Magazine, with a full-page illustration showing the anime's two lead female characters - Ichika Takatsuki and Remon Yamano - not sure yet which one's which; nor what format will the anime take, but presumably we're looking at a TV anime series.



What makes this upcoming project special is that it's coming from (...)

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Three years ago, the Diet of Japan was faced with a petition for a new, harsher law against child pornography, that would have also incriminated 2D materials such as anime, manga and eroge. At that time, the Diet chose to "investigate" (a.k.a. ignore) the matter for three years - and all was good... until now. But time's up, and Japan's pesky Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is once again pushing for such a legislation, as they did back then.



In their latest anti-loli crusade, the LDP - together with their usual coalition partners (...)

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Some interesting gaming news bits this morning, and to start off with the bad one - the PS3 and PSP (non-ero) versions of Fortune Arterial, which were supposed to come out later this year, have been cancelled due to "various reasons" cited by developer August and publisher Kadokawa Shoten. The game was originally released for the PC in 2008, and was adapted into a TV anime last autumn plus an OVA earlier this year.



Moving on to brighter topics, a Famitsu report (via Andriasang) is finally clearing up (...)

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Hardly a shocker, this one. The ongoing TV anime series Fairy Tail is showing no signs of stopping anytime soon, as a third year of airing is being confirmed in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine. With this, the anime will be entering the "Tenroujima" story arc from Hiro Mashima's shounen action manga on which the anime is based.



And with this glorious copy-pasting of last year's confirmation of Fairy Tail's second year (...)

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A new anime project tied to the Fafner franchise is being announced on said anime's official website (via ANN) today. It's titled Kiyasu Kohei no Sekai (Kohei Kiyasu's World), as it will be written and directed by voice actor Kohei Kiyasu, from his "unique view of the world". Kiyasu previously voiced Fafner's Soushi Minashiro character throughout the franchise, so... no idea whatsoever where they're going with this one! Or whether or not it's a separate project from the Fafner sequel anime that was announced last month.



The "next season of Code Geass" - presumably the (...)

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Before I get down to the boring stuff (more or less), let me just point out the latest pick for Animekon's "loli of the month" - Rin Kaga, the silent 6-year-old girl from the TV anime series Usagi Drop (Bunny Drop), which began airing in Japan and simulcasting on Crunchyroll close to a month ago. And if this isn't cute enough for you, then... hell, go hug a Chiyo-chan dakimakura or something! But first, be a good papa and vote for her loliness...



Although the new Hunter x Hunter TV anime series was silently added to the local (...)

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A scan from Shueisha's Super Dash Bunko magazine reveals today that the light novel series Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! is getting an anime adaptation, of some yet-to-be-specified format (but presumably a TV anime series), as well as two manga adaptations - to be serialized in the Jump Square and Cookie magazines starting this August.



The original light novels' title translates as "Listen to me girls, I am your father!" (I dare (...)

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From Natalie, with love, come some early illustrations for the upcoming second season of Squid Girl, crafted by the original manga's creator Masahiro Anbe. The new TV anime series - titled Shinryaku!? Ika Musume (notice the extra wtf-question-mark) - will start airing in Japan from October 2011.



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A wee-bit of controversy surrounding the recently-released PS3 fantasy RPG Atelier Meruru started a couple of days ago, when Japan's Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (CERO) retracted the game's "A" rating (for All ages), under which it initially shipped back on June 23. By now, however, the controversy is pretty much over, as CERO has already changed the rating to "B" (for ages 12 and up) due to traces of "sexual" content. Developer Gust admitted that the game documentation it first submitted to CERO was incomplete, so for a little while it had to put further shipments of Atelier Meruru on hold. The game's actual contents remain unchanged, though.



The anime adaptation Another, which was announced last winter as a project based on (...)

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