Samurai Shodown Game's Trailers Streamed

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[ALEXANDROS] Rock Band Goes on Asian Tour

Japanese rock band [ALEXANDROS] announced on Tuesday that it will go on tour in June on July, with concert venues in Shanghai, Beijing, Jakarta, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Taipei. The schedule is as follows:

June 21 - Modern Sky Lab, Shanghai

June 23 - Omni Space, Beijing

June 28 - MNC Conference Hall, Jakarta

June 30 - Moon Star Studio 1, Bangkok

July 5 - Music Zone @ E-Max, Hong Kong

July 7 - Legacy Taipei, Taipei

[ALEXANDROS] performed the theme song "Mosquito Bite" for the live-action film of Tite Kubo's Bleach manga, as well as the film's featured song "MILK." The band is also performing the theme song "Pray" for the Japanese screenings of Legendary Pictures' Godzilla sequel film Godzilla: King of the Monsters film.

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Assassin's Pride Anime Reveals EMT Squared as Animation Studio, 2019 TV Premiere

Kadokawa opened a website and Twitter account for the anime of Kei Amagi's Assassins Pride light novel series on Thursday. The site reveals that EMT Squared (The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar, Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear) is animating the series for airing this year. They also posted a new visual.

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The series takes place in a world where only those from noble families have the mana to be able to fight against monsters. Kūfa is a noble born to a duke's family who is sent to tutor a young woman named Merida. If it turns out that Merida has no talent with mana, Kūfa is secretly instructed to assassinate her.

Amagi launched the novels will illustrations by Nino Ninomoto in 2016. Kadokawa published the ninth novel volume on January 19. A separate short story collection shipped in February 2018.

Yoshie Katō (Shindere Shōjo to Kodoku na Shinigami) launched a manga adaptation in Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine in May 2017. The manga's third compiled volume shipped last November.

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2nd Made in Abyss Compilation Film Opens in U.S. on May 27

Sentai Filmworks announced on Tuesday that it will screen Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (Made in Abyss: Hōrō Suru Tasogare), the second Made in Abyss compilation anime film, in theaters in the United States beginning on May 27. Bonus features with the screening will include behind-the-scenes content and interviews.

Anime Central will host the U.S. premiere of the film at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare and Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois on May 17. The premiere will include a red-carpet event, and director Masayuki Kojima, music producer Hiromitsu Iijina, and composer Kevin Penkin will attend a Q&A session.

Sentai Filmworks describes the film:

Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight follows Riko and Reg on their adventure through the Abyss, picking up directly after the events of Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn. Riko has learned the truth of her origins, and in the process the mystery surrounding her mother's death has deepened. More determined than ever to travel to the bottom of the Abyss, Riko and Reg leave Ozen's Seeker Camp and delve into the treacherous Third Layer — and beyond, to depths brimming with supernatural creatures, unexpected allies and deadly enemies. Perilous, poignant and spectacular in turns, this continuation of Riko and Reg's journey is sure to leave fans of MADE IN ABYSS absolutely spellbound.

Sentai Filmworks premiered the first compilation film, Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn, in at Regal Cinema (L.A. LIVE) in Los Angeles on March 15 before it opened in theaters on March 20 and 25. The company hosted a red-carpet event at the premiere with Kojima, Iijima, Penkin, and producer Shinpei Yamashita as guests.

The first film, Made in Abyss: Journey's Dawn (Made in Abyss: Tabidachi no Yoake), opened in Japan on January 4, followed by the second film on January 18.

Gekijōban Made in Abyss: Fukaki Tamashii no Reimei (Made in Abyss the Movie: Dawn of the Deep Soul), the new anime film in the franchise, will open in Japan in January 2020.

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'Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai' Manga Bundles OVA

The 24th issue of Weekly Shounen Jump of 2019 revealed on Monday that Taishi Tsutsui's Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai (We Never Learn) manga will receive an original video animation. The new episode will be included with the manga's 14th limited edition volume, shipping on November 1. Pre-orders for the limited edition volume will be accepted through August 26.

The 25-minute episode will adapt chapters 48 and 49, which follow Yuiga and Asami going on a fake date, and Yuiga encountering his teacher Mafuyu Kirisu after she accidentally loses her swimsuit top. The volume retailing for 4444 yen (about US$41) will also include an illustration card for the Precious Memories trading card game drawn by Tsutsui.

The romantic comedy manga began its serialization in Weekly Shounen Jump in February 2017, with 11 volumes in print as of April 4. Shueisha will publish the 12th compiled volume on June 4. The series has a cumulative 2.3 million copies of its compiled volumes in circulation.

The television anime adaptation produced by Silver and Arvo Animation premiered on April 7. Aniplex of America licensed the anime, and is simulcasting the series on Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Hulu.

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Cast Members Revealed for 'Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars' Dub

Viz Media revealed cast members for Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars on its Twitter account on Monday. The company will release part one, which contains 17 episodes out of a total of 34, on a DVD, a Blu-ray and DVD combo, and a limited edition on June 18.

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Chibi Chibi: Stephanie Sheh

Sailor Star Fighter: Melissa Hutchison

Sailor Star Maker: Erika Harlacher

Sailor Star Healer: Sarah Williams

Sailor Galaxia: Carrie Keranen

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars is the fifth and final 90s anime adaptation of Naoko Takeuchi's 18-volume magical girl manga.

Viz Media began dubbing Toei Animation's series in 2014 and shipped part one of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon in November of that year. Recently, Viz released Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SuperS part one and two in April and November of last year, respectively.

Kodansha Comics USA is currently releasing the 12-volume reprint of the original manga and will ship volume four on May 14.

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Gero×Araki Perform To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts Anime's Ending Theme

The official website for the television anime of Maybe's to the abandoned Sacred Beasts (Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e) manga revealed on Thursday that Gero×ARAKI will perform the show's ending theme song "HHOOWWLL."

The anime will premiere in July on Tokyo MX, MBS, and BS11.

The anime stars:

Katsuyuki Konishi as Hank

Ai Kakuma as Nancy Schaal Bancroft

Yūichi Nakamura as Cain

Mamiko Noto as Elaine

Kaito Ishikawa as Claude

Yōko Hikasa as Liza

Kana Ichinose as Miglieglia

Maaya Sakamoto as Elizabeth

Additionally, the following cast members will play Hank and Cain's Incarnate soldier comrades:

Kouki Uchiyama

Tomokazu Sugita

Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Shinnosuke Tachibana

Kenjiro Tsuda

Saori Hayami

Daisuke Hirakawa

Jun Fukuyama

Hiroki Yasumoto

Vertical Comics is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

During a protacted civil war that pitted the North against the South, the outnumbered Northerners used dark magic to create monsterous super-soldiers called Incarnates. Now that the war has ended, those Sacred Beasts must learn to make their way in a peaceful society, or face death at the hands of a Beast Hunter.

Nancy Schaal Bancroft, the daughter of an Incarnate, turns to hunting the hunter herself. But once she catches up with her quarry, she discovers hard truths about the lives of these Sacred Beasts.

Jun Shishido (storyboards and episode director for Yuri!!! on Ice, Death Parade, Banana Fish) is making his series directorial debut with this anime at MAPPA, and Shigeru Murakoshi (Zombieland Saga) is in charge of the series scripts. Daisuke Niinuma (episode animation director for Banana Fish, Kids on the Slope) is designing the characters, and is also serving as the chief animation director. Takayuki Sano is credited for Incarnate design. Chikako Kamata (Yuri!!! on Ice, Banana Fish) is the color designer, while Hirofumi Morikawa (Banana Fish) is the art director. Momoko Mifune (Yuri!!! on Ice, Banana Fish) is the director of photography, and Satoshi Aihara is the editor.

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Fujisawa Plans to Resume GTO: Paradise Lost Manga

Manga creator Tohru Fujisawa announced on Wednesday that he will resume his GTO: Paradise Lost manga in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine after he finishes the two chapters of his Re: Animal Joe manga.

Fujisawa put the manga on hiatus after finishing its first part. He put the manga on hiatus due to a staff shortage, and said that once he can set it up so he can publish the manga weekly again, he will resume the series.

Fujisawa launched the spinoff of his GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka) manga in Weekly Young Magazine in April 2014. Kodansha published the manga's 11th compilerd book volume in January 2018.

Crunchyroll previously offered the manga online, including the latest chapters as they came out in Japan, but the company ceased offering catalog chapters of the title last year. Kodansha Comics also publishes the manga digitally in English.

Tokyopop and Vertical published the various GTO manga titles, including GTO: The Early Years, in North America. The original manga inspired a television anime, as well as several live-action adaptations.

Fujisawa also plans to launch his Red Data Planet manga with co-creator Iomaru in Akita Shoten's Bessatsu Shōnen Champion magazine starting on July 12.

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Samurai Shodown Game's Trailers Streamed

SNK began streaming a trailer for its new Samurai Shodown (Samurai Spirits) game on Tuesday. The official PlayStation YouTube channel also began streaming a Genjuro character trailer.

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Additionally, SNK began streaming a Charlotte character video last Thursday.

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The game will launch for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in Japan on June 27, and in the West in June. The Nintendo Switch and PC versions will follow in winter 2019. The arcade version of the game will debut this summer.

The game will have three new playable fighters: Darli Dagger, Wu-Ruixiang, and Yashamaru Kurama. SNK is developing the game using Unreal Engine 4. The game will have Japanese audio with subtitles in English, Japanese, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Pan-American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.

The game will be set between the events of the original game and Samurai Shodown V. The game's fighters will include the following characters from previous games in the franchise: Haōmaru, Nakoruru, Earthquake, Galford, Hanzo Hattori, Tam Tam, Kyoshiro Senryo, Jubei Yagyu, Ukyo Tachibana, Charlotte, Genjuro Kibagami, Shiki, and Yoshitora Tokugawa. More characters will debut after the game's launch as DLC.

The fighting game series launched in 1993. The most recent game in the franchise, Samurai Shodown: Sen, launched for arcades in April 2008. The game later received a release for Xbox 360 in Japan in December 2009 and in North America in March 2010. SNK and Digital Eclipse will release a Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection for the PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC (via Steam) this fall.

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Medabot Smartphone Game Unveils Title, Story

The official YouTube channel for Imagineer's Medabots (Medarot) franchise began streaming a video on Thursday that revealed that the franchise's new smartphone game is titled Medarot S: Unlimited Nova, and will debut sometime this fall or winter for iOS and Android in Japan.

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The game's story begins when the protagonist (seen below) comes into possession of a Medabot through a certain incident. He joins the "Medalympics," a robot battle tournament where the winner gets to have one wish granted.

Imagineer subsidiary SoWhat is developing the game.

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The first Medabots (Medarot) game inspired a television anime series by Bee Train in 1999, and a sequel series titled Medarot Damashii (Medabots Spirits) in 2000. ADV licensed the series in North America, and Nelvana produced a dub for the first series, which aired in the Fox Kids network in 2001, before moving to ABC Family. Medabots Spirits aired on ABC Family in 2003.

Delta Arts, the studio behind many of the recent Medabots games, shut down in April 2016.

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'Maou-sama, Retry!' TV Anime Adds Two New Cast Members

The official website of EKACHI EPILKA's Maou-sama, Retry! TV anime announced two additional cast members on Wednesday.

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Mikan: Hitomi Nabatame (White Album 2)

Yukikaze: Sora Tokui (Love Live! School Idol Project)

A pre-screening event for the first and second episodes will take place on June 16 at the United Cinema Toyosu in Tokyo. Kenjirou Tsuda, Kanon Takao, and Kaori Ishihara will attend a talk show at the event.

Maou-sama, Retry! is based on the fantasy light novel by Kurone Kanzaki. Hiroshi Kimura (Hamatora The Animation) will helm the anime, while Ouka Tanizaki (Tales of HR) is in charge of seres composition. The anime will premiere in July 2019 on Tokyo MX and BS Fuji, among other stations.

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Square Enix Announces Paid DLC for Kingdom Hearts III Game

News website Famitsu confirmed on Thursday that game director Tetsuya Nomura announced at the "Kingdom Hearts Orchestra -World of Tres-" concert in Tokyo on April 27 that Square Enix is developing paid DLC for the Kingdom Hearts III game.

Nomura stated that the DLC is temporarily titled "Kingdom Hearts III ReMIND." The DLC will have a new scenario temporarily titled "ReMIND," a "limit cut episode" and boss fight, and a secret episode and boss fight. The DLC in Japan will also offer the option to switch to the English dub of the game. Nomura did not reveal a release period or price for the paid DLC, but stated that the DLC will be available as a set.

Nomura also announced that there will be a free DLC that will include a new keyblade and form change that will release around the same time as the paid DLC.

Nomura added that he will reveal more information "around the time it rains a lot." Japan's rainy season on the main Honshu island starts around early June and ends in mid-July.

Square Enix released a patch for the game on April 24 that added a Critical Mode, a new game plus option, a higher photo gallery limit, and more.

Square Enix released the game on January 25 in Japan for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and on January 29 in the West. The game had shipped more than 5 million copies worldwide, including digital sales, as of February 5, and is the fastest-selling title in the history of the franchise.

Shiro Amano is drawing a manga based on the game, and he launched the manga on April 29.

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Sentai Filmworks Releases Sakura Wars, Orphen TV Anime on BD

Sentai Filmworks and Section23 Films announced on Tuesday that Sentai Filmworks will release the Sakura Wars television anime and the Sorcerous Stabber Orphen television anime on Blu-ray Disc. The company will also re-release the Waiting in the Summer anime on Blu-ray Disc with an English dub.

The Sakura Wars Blu-ray Disc release is slated for August 13, while both Sorcerous Stabber Orphen and Waiting in the Summer are slated for August 20.

Section23 Films also announced that Maiden Japan's Blu-ray Disc release of the Battle Programmer SHIRASE anime will ship on August 6. Sentai Filmworks' Blu-ray Disc release of the Devils' Line anime is slated for August 27. Sentai Filmworks will also release a new "Steelbook Edition" for The Big O anime on August 20.

Sentai Filmworks released Sakura Wars on DVD in 2009, and again in 2016. The company also released Sorcerous Stabber Orphen on DVD in 2009 and 2011, and released a subtitled-only version of Waiting in the Summer on Blu-ray Disc in 2016.

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'Try Knights' TV Anime Reveals Additional Cast Members

The official website of the television anime adaptation of Chizuka Erisawa and Shunsaku Yano's Try Knights rugby manga announced three additional cast members on Thursday. The anime series produced by Gonzo, in cooperation with the Japan Rugby Football Union, will begin airing in Summer 2019.

Tomomi Houryuu: Seiji Maeda (Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara)

Pearce Valentine Shoutani: Shuuta Morishima (Battery)

Seiichirou Nada: Yoshiki Nakajima (Hinamatsuri)

Based on Yano's scenario and featuring Erisawa's artworks, Try Knights began its serialization in Monthly Comic Gene in June 2018. Manga artist Rihito Takarai (Ten Count) and Try Knights Union are credited for the original character design and original concept, respectively. Kadokawa published the first two compiled volumes on March 27.

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