IDOLiSH7 Anime's 2nd Season Premieres in April 2020

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IDOLiSH7 Anime's 2nd Season Premieres in April 2020

The official website for the IDOLiSH7 franchise announced on Monday that the anime's second season will premiere in April 2020. The anime's first episode will have an advance screening at an event in Osaka on December 14. The event will also be livestreamed at various theaters in Japan.

Makoto Bessho (Shangri-La, Armitage: Dual-Matrix) is returning to direct the new season at TROYCA, and Ayumi Sekine (Makura no Danshi, Fate/Grand Order: First Order) is back as the series script supervisor. Also credited as returning are supervisor Ei Aoki (Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero), original character designer Arina Tanemura (Full Moon O Sagashite manga creator), animation character designer Kazumi Fukagawa (Inari Kon Kon, GLASSLIP animation director), and at least one of the chief animation directors, Masami Inomata.

The advance screening version of the first IDOLiSH7 television anime's first two episodes opened in 79 theaters in Japan and began streaming in Japan in November 2017. Crunchyroll began streaming the episodes worldwide outside Asia on the same day. The remaining 15 of the 17 episodes began airing in Japan in January 2018.

The IDOLiSH7 Vibrato spinoff series of net anime shorts launched in February 2018.

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Love Plus Every Smartphone Game Launches on October 31

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The official Twitter account for Konami's LovePlus franchise announced on Monday that the LovePlus EVERY smartphone game will launch on October 31. The game was previously slated for last winter but then was delayed until August, and then delayed again to an indefinite date, before being slated for a November 2019 release.

The game's cast includes Sakura Tange as Rinko Kobayakawa, Saori Hayami as Manaka Takane, and Yuko Minaguchi as Nene Anegasaki.

Part of the game will support virtual-reality devices.

The LovePlus franchise launched on the Nintendo DS in 2009. The game inspired an enhanced LovePlus+ edition that launched in Japan in 2010.

The New LovePlus game shipped for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan in 2012, and the New LovePlus+ enhanced version shipped for the same console in 2014. The franchise has also spawned mobile and arcade spinoffs, and several manga series.

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Live-Action Sazae-san TV Special Casts Kazuyuki Asano as Isazaka

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The official Twitter account for the 50th anniversary special of the family television anime Sazae-san revealed on Monday that Kazuyuki Asano (seen below) will play the character Ukie Isazaka in the special's live-action segment.

In the original anime, Isazaka is the neighbor of the Isono's, and is a romance novelist who has multiple bestselling books. In the live-action segment set 20 years after the anime, Isazaka has focused away from books, and seems to be more focused on his duties as committee member for the Bon dance at the local shopping district. But in truth, he is slowly but surely writing the manuscript for a new novel, which will be his first family novel, and the one he intends to be the capstone to his career.

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The live-action segment's cast members include (from left to right in image above):

Yoshie Ichige as Fune

Masatō Ibu as Namihei

Gaku Hamada as Katsuo

Yūki Amami as Sazae

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Masuo

Mayu Matsuoka as Wakame

Ryō Narita as Tarao

Hiyori Sakurada as Hitode Fuguta

Shinya Kote will also play Anago in the live-action segment. Norito Yashima will play Sazae's cousin Norisuke Namino, and Taiki Nakabayashi will play Wakame's boyfriend Takeshi Kaizuka. Yū Inaba will play Ikura Namino.

The special will premiere on November 24, and will air for three and a half hours on Fuji TV. Masayuki Suzuki is directing the live-action segment, and Tomoko Akutsu is penning the script.

The live-action segment will depict the family 20 years into the future. This segment serves as a follow-up to the September 2018 sequel stage play that imagines the family 10 years into the future.

The anime segment of the special will bring in fantasy elements as it depicts the past of Sazae's family, as well as a family trip. Earlier this year, the staff chose 28 families from Tokyo's Asahigaoka district (the setting of the Sazae-san story) to be animated into the series, and this anniversary special's anime segment will feature three of those families. These families' names will even appear in the anime segment.

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Light Novel 'Majo no Tabitabi' Receives TV Anime Adaptation

A television anime adaptation of Jougi Shiraishi's Majo no Tabitabi (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina) light novel was announced at the GA Fes 2019 event on Saturday.

Synopsis

Once upon a time, there was a witch named Elaina, who set off on a journey across the world. Along the way, she would meet all kinds of people, from a country full of witches to a giant in love with his own muscles—but with each meeting, Elaina would become a small part of their story, and her own world would get a little bit bigger. (Source: Yen Press)

Staff

Director: Toshiyuki Kubooka (Harukana Receive, Berserk: Ougon Jidai-hen trilogy)

Series Composition: Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken, Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou)

Character Design: Takeshi Oda (Harukana Receive, Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu chief animation director)

Concept Design: Kazumasa Uchio (Final Fantasy film)

Studio: C2C

Cast

Elaina: Kaede Hondo (Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara)

Fran: Kana Hanazawa (Sora yori mo Tooi Basho)

Saya: Tomoyo Kurosawa (Hibike! Euphonium)

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The adventure fantasy novel originally debuted as an e-book on Amazon's Kindle service in 2014, but stalled in sales in the beginning. Shiraishi promptly advertised their series on 2channel's VIP bulletin board and successfully attracted a following. SB Creative began printing the novel through its GA Novel label with illustrations by Azure in April 2016 and published the tenth volume on August 9. The 11th volume is planned for a November 15 release (pictured right).

Itsuki Nanao began drawing a manga adaptation on the Manga UP! web magazine last November. Square Enix published the first volume on April 12.

Yen Press and Square Enix licensed the light novel and manga adaptation in English this July, respectively, and plans to ship the first volume of each next year on January 21 and May 12.

Majo no Tabitabi placed ninth and sixth in the tankobon division in 2018 and 2019 editions of the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! rankings, respectively.

Teaser PV

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Official site: http://majotabi.jp/

Official Twitter: @majotabi_PR

Novel special site: https://ga.sbcr.jp/sp/tabitabi/

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Pokémon GO Gets Online Battle, Matchmaking System in Early 2020

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Niantic announced on Monday that it will add an online matchmaking and battle system to its Pokémon GO game. The new system is called the "GO Battle League," and will launch in early 2020.

The new feature will allow players to battle each other from across the globe using a matchmaking system and a ranked league system. The previous Trainer Battle system only allowed nearby players to battle each other (with the exception of those in Ultra League or who are Best Friends).

The Pokémon GO app launched in select countries including the United States in July 2016.

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Masami Kurumada Teases 'Special Series' of Saint Seiya Manga

The December issue of Akita Shoten's Champion RED magazine teased the "second coming" of a "special series" by Masami Kurumada on Saturday. The special series reveals one mystery after another in his Saint Seiya franchise. The magazine's next issue will provide more details on November 19.

Masami Kurumada serialized the original Saint Seiya manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1986 to 1990. The manga has inspired a number of television anime, original video anime projects, anime films, and spinoff manga. The manga recently inspired a CG anime remake that debuted worldwide on Netflix on July 19. A live-action Hollywood film has also been green-lit.

Viz Media published the original manga in English under the title Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac. ADV Films released Toei Animation's anime adaptation with an English dub under the title Knights of the Zodiac, and later released it unedited under the title Saint Seiya. New Video Group later also released the series on DVD, and Netflix is now streaming it.

The series has inspired numerous sequel and spinoff manga by Kurumada and other authors, as well as anime adaptations of those same manga. The most recent of these is an anime of the Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō spinoff manga that premiered in December 2018.

Kurumada published the last chapter of the current season of his Saint Seiya: Next Dimension - The Myth of Hades manga in Weekly Shōnen Champion in June 2018. The magazine did not announce when the manga will return. Kurumada has been serializing the manga since 2006 and Akita Shoten released the 12th volume in May 2018.

Netflix added the first 41 episodes of the 1986 Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac) anime series with a new English dub and English subtitles last Tuesday.

Kurumada (Saint Seiya) launched a new manga based on his Fūma no Kojirō manga series titled Fūma no Kojirō: Jo no Maki (Prelude Chapter) in Champion RED on August 19. The manga ended on Saturday.

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