Daisuke Moriyama's Mourning Bride Manga Cancelled

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Crunchyroll Expo Hosts Chihayafuru Anime Season 3 Premiere, Producer Toshio Nakatani

Crunchyroll Expo announced on Friday that it will host Toshio Nakatani, the producer of the Chihayafuru 3 anime season, at this year's convention. Nakatani will participate in a panel and screening for the premiere of Chihayafuru 3 at the CRX 2019 Theater on August 31 at 3:00 p.m.

Crunchyroll will stream the anime this fall.

The anime will premiere in Japan on October 22. The new season was slated to premiere in April on NTV's "AnichU" programming block, but was delayed to October. The season is scheduled to air for two cours (two quarters of a year), for a total of 24 episodes.

The three main cast members return, including Asami Seto as Chihaya Ayase, Mamoru Miyano as Taichi Mashima, and Yoshimasa Hosoya as Arata Wataya. Additional cast members include Tooru Nara as Yūsei Nishida, Ai Kayano as Kanade Ōe, Tsubasa Yonaga as Tsutomu Komano, Megumi Han as Sumire Hanano, Miyu Irino as Akihiro Tsukuba, and Maaya Sakamoto as Haruka Inokuma.

Kenta Miyake (My Hero Academia's All Might) replaces Unshō Ishizuka as Dr. Harada, the mentor who teaches the traditional Japanese game of karuta to the main character Chihaya. Yoshino Ohtori replaces Toshiko Fujita as Taeko Miyauchi, the karuta club advisor at Chihaya's high school. Both Ishizuka and Fujita passed away last year.

Morio Asaka returns to direct the anime at Madhouse. 99RadioService, who performed the opening themes for both previous seasons, returns to perform the new opening song "COLORFUL." Band Harassment performs the ending theme song "Hitomebore" (Love at First Sight).

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The first 25-episode television anime season ran from October 2011 to March 2012. The second season, Chihayafuru 2, premiered in January 2013 and also ran for 25 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed both seasons in several countries as they aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks released both seasons with an English dub on home video. HIDIVE is also streaming the first season with Japanese subtitles and an English dub.

Sentai Filmworks describes the story:

Chihaya Ayase is a beautiful and headstrong young woman with a passion for karuta, a card game inspired by classical Japanese poetry. As a child, Chihaya was introduced to the game by a quiet, gifted transfer student named Arata, and she was instantly drawn to it. Now in high school and reunited with her childhood friend Taichi, Chihaya dreams of finding Arata and the three resuming their love of karuta, only to discover that Arata has quit the game due to personal reasons. Determined not to let Arata's passion go to waste, Chihaya and Taichi form the Mizusawa High School Karuta Club, where they learn that in karuta - as in life - working toward your dreams is the key to winning, even when what you want seems just out of reach.

Suetsugu launched the manga in Kodansha's Be-Love magazine in December 2007. Seutsugu stated that the manga will likely not end until October, when the third anime season premieres. Kodansha Comics is releasing the manga digitally in English. The manga has 24 million copies in print.

Suetsugu's manga has also inspired three live-action films. The first film, Chihayafuru: Kami no Ku (Chihayafuru: Upper Phrase), opened in Japan in March 2016. The second film, Chihayafuru: Shimo no Ku (Chihayafuru: Lower Phrase), opened in Japan in April 2016. The third film, Chihayafuru: Musubi, opened in Japan in March 2018. A five-episode live-action tie-in series, titled Chihayafuru -Tsunagu-, premiered on Hulu Japan in February 2018.

Crunchyroll Expo will be held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in California from August 30 to September 1.

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Daisuke Moriyama's Mourning Bride Manga Cancelled

This year's September issue of Kodansha's Shonen Magazine Edge magazine revealed on Saturday that Daisuke Moriyama's (World Embryo, Chrono Crusade) Mourning Bride manga has been cancelled. The announcement stated that the manga was cancelled due to "various reasons." It also noted that although the editorial department had discussions with the author and other staff members, they could not reestablish a relationship of trust.

The third compiled book volume's release has also been cancelled.

Moriyama launched the manga in Shonen Magazine Edge in May 2017. Kodansha published the first compiled book volume in January 2018 and published the second volume on June 17.

The story centers on the four brothers of the Corsarino mafia family: oldest son Alan, second son Bellini, third son Chris, and fourth son Dino. The brothers respond to a call from their grandfather, the Don of the family, to gather at the family home. When they arrive, the siblings learn of their grandfather's death. The will says that Marika, their grandfather's fiancé, will choose the successor to receive the inheritance.

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Fourth 'Haikyuu!!' Season Airs in January 2020, Gets New OVA Episode

The Haikyuu!! no Hi Zenjitsu-sai talk show announced on Sunday that the fourth anime season will begin airing on MBS and TBS' Super Animeism programming block in January 2020. The new anime season was announced at Jump Festa 2019 last December.

Voice actor Kazuyuki Okitsu (Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online, Orange) will join the cast as Suguru Daishou, the third year captain of Nohebi Academy volleyball team.

The talk show also announced an original video animation titled Haikyuu!!: Riku vs Kuu (Haikyuu!!: Land vs Sky). The two-episode anime, adapting chapters from volumes 22 and 23, will first debut at the Jump Festa 2020 event, which runs on December 21 and 22. TOHO animation will ship the original video anime on Blu-ray and DVD on January 22, 2020.

Haikyuu!! adapts Haruichi Furudate's volleyball manga of the same title, which launched as a one-shot in Shounen Jump NEXT seasonal magazine in January 2011. Weekly Shounen Jump published a second one-shot in April 2011, where it began regular serialization in February 2012. Shueisha published the 38th volume on June 4, with the 39th volume planned for a September 4 release. Haikyuu!! has a cumulative 34 million copies of its compiled volumes in circulation.

The first three anime seasons premiered in Spring 2014, Fall 2015, and Fall 2016. The 15th, 21st, and 27th volumes shipped with three original video episodes in March 2015, May 2016, and August 2017, respectively. The manga also inspired four compilation films, the latest of which screened in September 2017.

A "kick-off" event for the new anime season will be held on September 22 at the Maihama Amphitheater in Chiba. Voice cast members Ayumu Murase, Kaito Ishikawa, Kouki Uchiyama, Souma Saitou, and Yuki Kaji will make an appearance at the event.

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New 'Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai' OVA Announced

At the JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Ougon no Kaze - Esperienza d'oro special event on Sunday, a new episode for the Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai (Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan) original video anime was announced. Warner Bros. Japan opened a teaser website for the episode, revealing an announcement trailer.

The new episode will adapt the "Zange-shitsu" (At a Confessional) and "The Run" chapters from the first and second volumes of Hirohiko Araki's one-shot spin-off manga series of the same title.

A special screening for the episode will be held in six cities, beginning with the TFT Hall 1000 in Tokyo on December 8. The following screenings will take place at Zepp Nagoya in Aichi on January 19, Mielparque Hall in Osaka on February 9, Uenogakuen Hall in Hiroshima on February 23, Sendai GIGS in Miyagi on March 8, and Sonic City Hall in Saitama on March 29. Takahiro Sakurai, the voice of the titular protagonist Kishibe Rohan, will attend each of the six events with other guests. Advance ticket sales for the screenings will begin on October 2.

Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai has been primarily published in Weekly Shounen Jump since 1997. Shueisha shipped the second compiled volume last July, which included the second original video episode "Mutsukabezaka" (Mutsukabe Hill).

Announcement

https://youtu.be/0FEZTAtrqsU

Official site: http://jojo-animation.com/ova/rohan/

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