Last update - Mar 30, 12:37 GMT (07:37 EST, 04:37 PST)

This Friday, March 30, the Noitamina website should officially reveal the second anime that will be aired during its popular late-night programming block from July, alongside the recently announced anime sequel Moyashimon Returns. The website's coders, however, may have let the cat out of the bag a bit early, by leaving the "rendezvous" name in the source code, as an ID for the "mystery" anime's cell on the page.



This tiny slip gives a ton of weight to a recent rumor that's been flying around the Japanese forums, claiming that the TV anime in question will be (...)

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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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Even with a second season of Recorder to Randsell starting next week, on April 6, there will still be some "unaired anime" left over it, enough to warrant a Recorder to Randsell OVA. It will be bundled on DVD with the special edition 4th volume of Meme Higashiya's 4-koma manga about the misleadingly looking siblings Atsushi Miyagawa and his sister Atsumi Miyagawa. The 4th volume with the OVA is releasing on July 17, as revealed this week.



The first two anime seasons are created by studio Seven, and the same will probably hold true for the OVA. In the original story, Atsushi looks like an adult (...)

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The classic samurai manga Lone Wolf and Cub is getting yet another live-action movie adaptation, it seems - Hollywood style, this time. Deadline is reporting that Kamala Film has acquired the film rights to this manga authored by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Goseki Kojima, and that Justin Lin (Fast Five) is already set to direct, based on a script written by David and Janet Peoples (Twelve Monkeys). Sooo... what about that anime?!




A new anime adaptation of Junjou Romantica is in the works, according to this week's issue of Asuka Ciel magazine, based on Shungiku Nakamura's boys-love manga (...)

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Odds are that Hiromu Arakawa's slice-of-life manga Silver Spoon is getting the anime treatment, if we are to trust a report from Media Factory's Da Vinci magazine. The original story states that the manga, which won the 5th Manga Taisho Award earlier this month, "seems to have anime adaptation plans" - like other previous winners of that award.



The Silver Spoon manga, also known as Gin no Saji, has only been running since May 2011, and its 3rd compiled volume will be released (...)

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An anime adaptation of an unspecified format, based on Etsuya Mashima's 4-panel slice-of-life comedy manga Chitose Get You!!, is being announced this week in the May issue of Takeshobo's Manga Life MOMO magazine. CR is guessing that the anime will be a series of 5-minute shorts.



The manga was launched in 2002, and its latest, 7th volume was released in September 2010. The story follows an energetic 11-year-old school girl (...)

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Last update - Mar 26, 21:30 GMT (16:30 EST, 13:30 PST)

A new Hatsune Miku themed manga created by Ontama, titled Mikubon Vocaloid in Wonderland / Hachune Miku Kenkyuusho, began serialization today, in the May issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Comp Ace magazine. The same issue also kicked off a few other manga series, including Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai S (by Hamao Sumeragi), Danshi Kinsei!! Fureeze Jogakuin (by Yuki Azuma), and Lens Drops (by Renga Kijima).




Akira manga creator Katsuhiro Otomo revealed that he is preparing a new long-term manga series for "a certain shounen magazine", with a story set in the Meiji period. (...)

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This week's issue of the Monthly Comic Zero-Sum magazine is making a couple of OVA announcements of certain interest to girls, and of potential interest to metrosexual guys. The most important one is that Wild Adapter, Kazuya Minekura's mystery boys-love manga series, is getting a 2-episode OVA adaptation.



In the manga's story, a young gang leader named Makoto takes in Minoru Tokitou, a boy with a mysterious past. Minoru has been exposed to the drug "W.A." which has (...)

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The Macross Frontier spinoff manga Sheryl: Kiss in the Galaxy was supposed to have ended one year ago, after the 2nd Macross F movie; and yet, it's back again. Kariko Koyama resumed her shoujo manga yesterday, in the May issue of Kodansha's Bessatsu Friend magazine. Word is this new chapter "depicts a time when Sheryl, her future manager Grace, and Macross Frontier protagonist Alto met each other". Loli Sheryl is lolicious.




Another announcement dwaddling out of the 2012 TAF's inaugural day, yesterday, was that studio Tatsunoko Production is planning to air 3 new TV anime series by April 2013, (...)

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