A new multimedia franchise called "Khronos Gear" is being started by the Japanese mobile game company G-mode (makers of Keitai Shoujo and Sengoku Paradise: Kiwami - both adapted into anime). The three projects announced so far include a manga, a game and, most notably, an OVA that's being created by studio AIC for release this summer.



The OVA is titled Katayoku no Khronos Gear (Winged Chronos Gear) and features a sci-fi story set in the near future, after humanity has built an orbital elevator and begun (...)

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Having taken a year-long break after the three Stitch! TV anime series that had been airing since 2008, Disney's cute blue alien is ready for a comeback this summer. Though not with a full-fledged series, but only with an hour-long TV special, titled Stitch to Suna no Wakusei (Stitch and the Planet of Sand), planned for June.



This time around, Stitch will leave behind his Okinawan friend Yuuna, and even our planet, and he heads back out into space to confront a planetary war at the sand planet (...)

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The official website for the upcoming anime series Ebiten has clarified the release date and format of this project: it will start in July, and at first it will be streamed on the Japanese video service Nico Nico Douga, similar to the ongoing Upotte!! anime. So that's one more title added to the Summer 2012 season.



The anime, fully titled Ebiten: Kouritsu Ebi Sugawa Koukou Tenmonbu, is in the works at studio AIC Classic, based on a school otaku comedy manga (...)

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So much for Shakugan no Shana III (Final) being the last time fans had the pleasure of enjoying their favorite loli tsundere. It may have marked the final chapter of the main story from Yashichiro Takahashi's light novels, but the author still has one more book in the making - it was revealed today. What kind of story will it tell, and how will it fit with the rest of Shana's saga, it's not clear yet (a side-story, perhaps?). But if there is another book coming, you can bet your seet lollipop that it's going to get animated at some point, as well.



I.G Port, the parent company of both Production I.G and Xebec, is founding a new animation planning and production subsidiary, called Wit Studio. This new anime studio will (...)

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The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 version of Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena is beeing listed by Famitsu for an August 2 release in Japan. Adding to the game's original version for the arcades from last month, the home consoles edition of Persona 4 Arena introduces a story mode (screenshots) featuring a large number of new scenarios.



Another freshly announced release date is now listing Capcom's upcoming CG film sequel Resident Evil: Damnation for an October 27 premiere in Japanese theaters. (...)

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The anime project Code Geass: Akito the Exiled has had its fair share of secrecy, as for the past couple of years fans had been left wondering what format this anime would take... Until a recent blog post by singer, pianist, composer and actress Ichiko Hashimoto revealed that studio Sunrise is planning it as an OVA consisting of 4 episodes.



Each episode will run for about 50 minutes, and will receive a limited theatrical premiere at first, before the regular home video release on Blu-ray - very much like (...)

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This week's announcement of a Nintendo 3DS sequel for last year's all-girls ninja action game Senran Kagura also included a bit about a TV anime series adaptation, likewise in the making. No details seem to have been provided about the Senran Kagura anime, but the 3DS game sequel, at least, was revealed to be set for an August 30 release in Japan.



Titled Senran Kagura Burst, the new game features the opposing ninja faction from Viper Academy as playable characters, and adds stereoscopic 3D support (...)

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The recently announced TV anime To Love-Ru Darkness will certainly not be a Summer 2012 title, now that an OVA has been revealed to come before the new TV series. According to Shueisha's Jump SQ.19 magazine, the To Love-Ru Darkness OVA will be bundled on DVD with the limited edition 5th volume of the spin-off / sequel manga of the same title, written by Saki Hasemi and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki, out in Japan on August 17.



Like the upcoming TV anime, the OVA is also animated by studio Xebec. It will consist of 3 short episodes (totaling about 24 minutes) that will adapt 3 extra chapters from (...)

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News of a Hori-san to Miyamura-kun OVA adaptation may have only (re?)surfaced a couple of days ago. But according to a Twitter update by HERO - the author of the web manga that inspired this anime project - plans for the OVA actually date back to a couple of years ago. Still, he wasn't ready to reveal any details about it just yet.



HERO originally launched his Hori-san to Miyamura-kun web manga in 2007. Square Enix has also been publishing it as a series of compiled volumes, and they released (...)

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The upcoming Blu-ray and DVD volumes for the home video release of the TV anime series Kuroko no Basuke (Kuroko's Basketball) will each include a short OVA episode with "bloopers". The anime began airing in Japan (and also simulcasting on Crunchyroll) earlier this month, and its first home video disc is planned for release on July 27.



The bundled OVA shorts are called Kuroko no Basuke NG-Shuu, like the manga extras in the compiled book volumes of Tadatoshi Fujimaki's original basketball manga, (...)

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