Hideaki Yoshikawa's ecchi manga Kagaku na Yatsura is getting some sort of anime adaptation - presumably an OVA, given the manga's highly-risque nature! The announcement comes from the 30th volume of Akita Shoten's Champion RED Ichigo magazine, which goes on to report that the anime will be bundled with said manga, before stopping short of offering any actual details about the adaptation.



From what ANN writes, the "science trouble" romantic comedy manga follows two beautiful girls "born from science" - a cyborg girl and a half-dog girl - who go to extremes with the power of science. Just what kind of extremes, well, you can get an idea by visiting the anime's freshly-opened (and borderline NSFW!) local gallery...

The 1st episode of Madoka Magica will be streamed for free this February 10, with English dubs, no less (delighting or horrifying as that may sound). This "Exclusive Screening" was announced by Aniplex of America and it will be a one-day-only event hosted on the Niconico Live-Streaming channel next Friday at 20:30 PST / 23:30 EST / 04:30 GMT. The streaming will only be available in six countries: US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.



For those of you still passionate about the Code Geass franchise, I'll point out some local database updates, partly based on reports from (...)

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Not a "sci-fi" anime, mind you, but SF as in "seishun fishing" ("youth fishing") - whatever that is... Such is the would-be genre for the newly revealed anime Tsuritama, airing in Japan on Fuji TV's late-night Noitamina timeslot from April 2012. The project was first teased one month ago, as a TV series coming from director Kenji Nakamura ([C], Kuuchuu Buranko).



Today, with the full opening of the official website, comes a whole lotta goodies and details about it - including the staff & cast working on the project over at studio A-1 Pictures, a story outline as quoted below from ANN, and - not least of all - the anime's first trailer. (...)

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As Type-Moon's long-awaited new visual novel, Mahoutsukai no Yoru, is nearing its release this April 12, the Japanese studio is now offering a demo version for download on the game's official website - check the "Special" section. An English fan-translation is also available, already, and you can grab it from a certain post, on a certain Russian forum.



The once-cancelled Dantalian no Shoka OVA, that was meant to follow last year's TV anime, has resurfaced as a new bundle. This time, it's being planed for release (...)

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Last month's hints and this week's sketchy announcement of a 3rd Sora no Otoshimono anime series were strongly reinforced yesterday, by Kadokawa, through a trailer confirming this upcoming third TV anime season. Pinching the pretty pic below will take you right to it...



Studio Sunrise announced that Gundam Unicorn's upcoming 5th episode - titled "Kuroi Unicorn" (Black Unicorn) - will premiere (...)

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An OVA adaptation of High School DxD will follow the ecchi TV anime series that debuted earlier this month. As revealed on the Japanese Amazon website, the OVA's Blu-ray will be bundled with the 13th volume of the original light novels, out there on September 20, 2012. The ongoing TV anime is created by studio TNK, based on a light novel series authored by Ichiei Ishibumi and illustrated by Miyama-Zero.



A 2nd season for the ongoing TV anime series Phi Brain was announced to follow right after the current one, meaning that it will start airing in Japan from (...)

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The first episode of Gokujyo was initially supposed to air in Japan yesterday, after this TV anime adaptation was announced back in September. But, as it turned out, the broadcast was cancelled and replaced with a tongue-in-cheek apologetic image. The anime's website was also updated today with an apology, citing "various circumstances" for the episode's cancellation, out of "self-restraint".



Therefore, the anime's actual TV debut will now take place on January 23, with the airing of Gokujyo's episode 2. As for the first episode, (...)

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The long-running but highly-sporadic Hellsing OVA, also known as Hellsing Ultimate, has recently entered its final "season", with the release of volume 8 this past July in Japan. Now, it's being announced that volume 9 will follow on February 15, 2012 (on Blu-ray and DVD), leaving one last volume to conclude the story after that - hopefully before the end of 2012.



Meanwhile, FUNimation has announced over the weekend that it acquired the U.S. home video rights to the 8th volume of the Hellsing OVA. They plan to release it (...)

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Sounds like Japanese lawmakers have been watching too much Akira lately. In light of this year's quake-tsunami-nuclear disaster, various Diet members, of various political colours, have formed an association to promote "urban crisis management". Most notably, they are proposing (via ANN) the creation of a new, "backup" city, in case Tokyo ever gets hit by a major earthquake - something the Japanese have been bracing up for, for decades...



This "substitute capital" would be established at the site of Osaka International Airport at Itami, safely placing it some 400 km (250 miles) away from Tokyo, to the west. Plans (...)

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That vague "big project" that was hinted back in July for the Minami-ke franchise turns out to be another anime adaptation, indeed, although it's still not clear if it will be a TV series (that would be season 4) or if it will take some other format, such as OVA or anime film. The announcement was made at the end of the character song CD which came with the limited edition 9th volume of the Minami-ke manga.



Another vague big project - anime or otherwise - is also being teased for the Working!! franchise, as "the next step after the ongoing second television anime season", (...)

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