Last update - Apr 6, 14:46 GMT (09:46 EST, 06:46 PST)

The previously revealed game adaptation of Eureka Seven AO appears to be a PlayStation 3 title, planned by Namco Bandai as a hybrid disc release with the anime's future Blu-ray edition. A similar hybrid disc project is also being reported to bundle a game adaptation of the Lagrange anime series. As a reminder, the TV anime series Eureka Seven AO will start airing next week, from April 13, and yesterday a new trailer was released for it.

Update: That "future Blu-ray edition" is actually a Eureka 7 AO OVA. And the Lagrange game for the PS3 will be similarly bundled with the Lagrange OVA Kamogawa Days, out on June 23. No release date was announced at this time for the new Eureka 7 OVA, however.




All right, that's it: it's official! The To Love-Ru Darkness anime project is most definitely a TV series, according to the May issue of Shueisha's Jump Square magazine (...)

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Last update - Apr 4, 12:36 GMT (07:36 EST, 04:36 PST)

Yet another follow-up story regarding the format of To Love-Ru Darkness now says that this recently announced anime project might not be a TV series, as reported by AnimeAnime.jp a couple of days ago. Their article has since removed any mention of "TV" for the anime's format - which is not to say that it won't be a TV series, just... not officially, yet.

Update #3: Follow-up story: it's a TV anime, officially.



So the first day of ACE 2012 only had 20,780 attendees, in part due to the bad weather that messed up the public transports. Well, I dunno what the weather was like on Sunday (...)

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Last update - Apr 4, 12:35 GMT (07:35 EST, 04:35 PST)

As a follow-up to yesterday's announcement of a To Love-Ru Darkness anime project, the AnimeAnime.jp website has a report about a "Secret Event" held by Geneon Universal at Anime Contents Expo today. There they revealed the format of this upcoming adaptation, as being a TV anime series. Meanwhile, its official website now shows a lovely key visual with the title character, Golden Darkness. No release timeframe yet.

Update: Follow-up story: or maybe not a TV anime...
Update #2: Follow-up story: it's a TV anime, officially.



Japanese game maker Gust has finally released some official screenshots and artworks for the recently announced new fantasy RPG Atelier Ayesha. The images focus on (...)

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By now it's April 1 in Japan, so whatever "announcements" you read for the remainder of this weekend, take them with limited enthusiasm and unlimited skepticism... Having said that, a Japanese fansite is "reporting" that the PS3 game Tales of Xillia is getting an OVA adaptation from studio ufotable. They claim-slash-joke that the anime will have 4 volumes, with the first one releasing this autumn.



A new "non-game" Angel Beats! project will be announced on April 10, according to Dengeki G's Magazine's official Twitter account (via ANN). More about it (...)

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A game adaptation of the upcoming anime Saint Seiya Omega, for an unnamed platform, has been announced for a Fall 2012 release by Namco Bandai. The publisher shared what appears to be an in-game (or at least "in-engine") screenshot, but other specifics about the game were not detailed at this time.



The TV anime series Saint Seiya Omega starts airing in Japan tomorrow, April 1. It is created by Toei Animation, and marks the first new television anime adaptation (...)

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Having saved the best for last, the most notable new titled announced today by Fuji TV at its anticipated Noitamina press conference is Robotics;Notes, complete with a debut trailer. This TV anime adaptation will air in Japan from October 2012 and, according to Famitsu, it's created by studio Production I.G. The other freshly revealed projects are Psycho-Pass (also set for October) and Natsuyuki Rendez-vous (July).



The Robotics;Notes anime is based on the third entry in the "augmented science adventure" game series developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, following (...)

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The Amagami Precious Diary manga spin-off that's been serialized in the Young Animal Island magazine has come to an end. The manga was originally launched by Tarou Shinonome in the Young Animal magazine in November 2009, based on the Amagami romance simulation game that also inspired two anime series: Amagami SS in 2010 and Amagami SS Plus in 2012. The manga's final compiled volume (#5) ships in June.



This week marked the debut of a Walkure Romanze manga adaptation, in the May issue of Dengeki Daioh magazine (out since March 27). The manga is based on the 2011 eroge (...)

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For the past few days, Namco Bandai has been counting down to the announcement of a new game, through a teasing website that kept updating itself with new hints - first that it would be an action-adventure; then that it would be for a Sony platform (eventually narrowed down to the PSP). And now, according to a report from the latest Jump issue, the game is revealed as being titled Hunter x Hunter Wonder Adventure (obviously based on the Hunter x Hunter shounen manga and anime), and set for a winter release.



In other shounen manga related news, the 65th volume of the One Piece manga has set a new sales record in the Oricon charts: 3 million copies sold in less than two months! (...)

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Last update - Mar 29, 10:37 GMT (05:37 EST, 02:37 PST)

The next DLC pack for Final Fantasy XIII-2, coming this May, has been revealed to be titled "Requiem of the Goddess", according to Dengeki PlayStation magazine. Word is this new DLC "will show Lighthing and villain Caius in a different form of battle from what we saw in the main game". Whatever that means.




The same issue of Dengeki PlayStation has also revealed a few details about Gust's recently announced "Project A14": it will be called Atelier Ayesha and (...)

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Last year's TV anime series AnoHana, so impossibly titled Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai., is set to receive a PSP game adaptation, as well, on top of the imminent AnoHana manga that's launching in the Jump Square magazine this April 4. The adventure game is being developed by Guyzware, to be published by 5pb. this summer.



The original slice-of-life story, created for the 2011 anime by studio A-1 Pictures, follows six childhood friends who grew apart in high school, and are to be reuninted by (...)

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