'7 Seeds' Receives Second Season on Netflix in 2020

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Daily Lives of High School Boys' Yasunobu Yamauchi Launches Fantasy Manga

The official Twitter account for Square Enix's Gangan Online web manga magazine revealed on Tuesday that Yasunobu Yamauchi launched a new manga titled Hakurai no Kishi (The Knight of White Thunder) on Tuesday. In the "quintessential fantasy of sword and sorcery, and of humans and beasts," a wise king named Carliga and a hero named Jack are enmeshed in a conflict over the Holy Sword, a relic of a great war. The sword will once again bring together the ambitions of two great nations, and a woman bandit named Zety will also become involved in the conflict.

Yamauchi previously drew the Daily Lives of High School Boys manga. Yamauchi launched the manga in Square Enix's Gangan Online website in 2009, and ended it in September 2017. Square Enix published seven volumes for the manga. Vertical licensed the manga in July earlier this year.

The manga inspired a television anime in 2012. NIS America released the anime on home video. The manga also inspired a live-action film adaptation in 2013.

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Azumi Manga Gets 4th Stage Play in 2020

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Theater production company RUP announced on Tuesday that it is producing a new stage play adaptation of Yu Koyama's AZUMI manga titled Azumi Sengoku-hen (Azumi Warring States Arc) that will run at the Bunkamura Theater Cocoon in Tokyo in March, and at the Cool Japan Park Osaka WW Hall in Osaka in April. Yui Imaizumi will play the titular role of the assassin Azumi. Shunichi Okamura, who directed the 2005, 2015, and 2016 stage play adaptations of Azumi, will return to direct the play.

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Koyama began the first Azumi manga in 1994 in Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior magazine, and it won the Excellence Prize at the first ACA Media Arts Festival, Manga Division in 1997. He ended the series in 2008. This series inspired the 2005 and 2016 stage play adaptations, the latter of which was also titled Azumi Bakumatsu-hen.

In 2009, Koyama launched a continuation of the series also titled Azumi (title written in English instead of Japanese) in the same magazine, and ended it in February 2014. Shogakukan published 18 compiled book volumes for the manga. This series inspired the 2014 stage play adaptation.

The first series has also been adapted into two live-action movies, both of which were released in North America by Urban Vision.

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'7 Seeds' Receives Second Season on Netflix in 2020

The anime adaptation of the 7 Seeds manga will receive a second season on Netflix. Included in the official website's announcement Monday was a new trailer and key visual (pictured) for the season, which is set to stream in 2020.

The staff and cast will return for the second season, led by director Yukio Takahashi and animation studio Gonzo. The only key addition is an additional production credit for Studio Kai, a new studio founded by Gonzo at the end of July.

The official website also announced a television run for the first season starting in January 2020. The 12-episode season has streamed on Netflix since June 28.

Synopsis

In the immediate future, a giant meteorite has collided with earth. All living organisms, including mankind, have been wiped off the face of the planet. The government, who had foreseen this outcome, took measures to counter the worst-case scenario. In particular was Project "7SEEDS," in which five sets of seven young men and women were carefully selected and placed into teams (Spring, Summer A, Summer B, Autumn and Winter). Each participant was then put under cryogenic sleep in hopes of preserving the continued existence of mankind.

When those men and women awoke, they found themselves suddenly thrust into a cruel world. While bereft and grieved over forever losing their loved ones, they sought to find ways to survive. (Source: MU)

The 7 Seeds manga was penned by Yumi Tamura over a span of 16 years, beginning in Betsucomi magazine and a year later switching to Monthly Flowers for the remainder of its serialization. The 35th and final volume was released in August 2017.

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High School DxD's Ishibumi's Previous Work Slashdog Gets Manga

Writer Ichiei Ishibumi announced on Sunday that his Daten no Inugami -Slashdog- (The Fallen Dog God -Slashdog-) light novel series is inspiring a manga adaptation that will launch in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Alive magazine on December 26. Kikurage, the illustrator of the novel series, is also drawing the manga.

Ishibumi actually wrote the first volume of the story in 2006, before his more popular High School DxD series, and the novel was then titled Slash/Dog. That series only received one volume, before Ishibumi revived the series with a new first volume (seen right) in November 2017, with the full title of Daten no Inugami -Slashdog- High School DxD Universe. Kadokawa published the third volume last December.

Set in the same universe as High School DxD, but years before the events of that series, the story centers on Tobio Ikuse, a high school student still reeling from an incident that caused the disappearance of his childhood friends. One day, he is attacked by beings known as "Utsusemi," but is rescued by Natsume, one of his missing friends. Together with Natsume and another girl named Vali, he races to find out the cause of his friends' disappearance.

Ishibumi and Miyama-Zero launched the High School DxD novel series in 2008, and ended it with the 25th volume in March 2018. The pair then launched the Shin High School DxD novel series in July of that same year, and Kadokawa published the third volume on August 20. Yen Press also published all 11 volumes of Hiroji Mishima's High School DxD manga adaptation.

The novel series inspired four television anime adaptations in 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2018. Funimation released all four series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in North America.

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Funimation to Add Robotech TV Series, Films to Catalog

Funimation announced on Monday that it is adding Harmony Gold's Robotech television series, the Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles feature film, and the Robotech II: The Sentinels film to its catalog. Funimation's new license from Kew Media Distribution includes worldwide rights outside Japan. The rights include video on demand, electronic sell-through, home entertainment, and merchandising.

Robotech was Harmony Gold's edited and rewritten 1985 adaptation of three separate anime science-fiction series: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada. The series is streaming on Crackle, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video. The 2006 Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles film was a U.S.-produced sequel to the television series.

ADV Films and A&E Networks Home Entertainment released the 1985 series on DVD in North America. Harmony Gold launched a Kickstarter campaign for a Robotech Academy pilot in July 2014, which was eventually cancelled.

Sony is planning a live-action Robotech film.

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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Stage Play Reveals Visual, Cast, Run Dates

This year's 47th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed a visual, run dates, and cast on Monday for the stage play adaptation of Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga.

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The play stars:

Ryōta Kobayashi as Tanjiro Kamadō

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Asari Takaishi as Nezuko Kamadō

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Keisuke Ueda as Zenitsu Agatsuma

Yūgo Satō as Inosuke Hashibira

Reo Honda as Giyū Tomioka

Tomoyuki Takagi as Sakonji Urokodaki

Shōri as Sabito

Arisa Sonohara as Makomo

Yuria Kakizawa as Hakuhatsu

Kokoro Kuge as Kurokami

Mimi Maihane as Tamayo

Hisanori Satō as Yushirō

Yoshihide Sasaki as Muzan Kibutsuji

The play will run in Tokyo at the Tennōzu Ginga Gekijō from January 18-26, and in Hyogo prefecture at the AiiA 2.5 Theater Kobe from January 31-February 2. Kenichi Suemitsu is scripting and directing the play, and Shunsuke Wada is composing the music.

Gotouge launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in February 2016. Viz Media is publishing the manga in English digitally and in print.

The manga inspired a television anime adaptation that premiered on April 6, and aired its 26th and final episode on Saturday. Aniplex of America has licensed the series and is streaming the show on Hulu, Crunchyroll, and FunimationNow. Adult Swim's Toonami programming block premiered the television anime on October 12.

The 26th episode ended on September 28 with an announcement of a sequel anime film that will cover the manga's Demon Train Arc.

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'Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai' Reveals New Cast Pair

The official website of the JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) anime series revealed two new cast members for the new Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai (Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan) original video anime on Sunday.

Kouki Uchiyama (Devilman: Crybaby, Sarazanmai) will voice Yoma Hashimoto (pictured left in character visual) in "The Run" segment. Hiroki Takahashi (Tennis no Ouji-sama, Senjuushi) will play the character of a young man (pictured right) in the "Zange-shitsu" (At a Confessional) portion of the episode.

Production staff from the television anime will return for the new episode. Keito Watanabe (Sword Art Online: Alicization, Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai) will serve as the art director. Sound director Takayuki Yamaguchi (Eromanga-sensei, Toaru Majutsu no Index III) will join the staff as mixer.

The new original video anime will adapt the "Zange-shitsu" and "The Run" chapters from the first and second volumes of Hirohiko Araki's one-shot spin-off manga series of the same title. The episode will screen in six cities in Japan between December 8 and March 29, 2020.

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

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'Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou, Aruiwa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen' Light Novel Gets TV Anime

his year's Fujimi Fantasia Dai Kanshasai event announced a television anime adaptation of Kei Sazane's Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou, Aruiwa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen (The Last Battlefield Between You and I, or Perhaps the Beginning of the World's Holy War) light novel series on Sunday.

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Synopsis

A great war has raged for years between the scientifically advanced Empire and Nebulis, the realm of the witches―until the youngest knight ever to receive the title of the Empire's strongest meets the princess of the rival nation. Though they are sworn enemies, the knight is taken by her beauty and dignity, and the princess is moved by his strength and way of life. Will the fighting between them ever be allowed to end? (Source: Yen Press)

Sazane launched the action fantasy novel series, also known by its short name KimiSen, in May 2017 with illustrations by Ao Nekonabe. Fujimi Shobo published the seventh volume on September 20 (pictured right).

A manga adaptation by okama (Himawari!) has been serialized in Young Animal magazine since last May. Hakusensha published the second compiled volume on May 29.

Yen Press licensed both the light novel and manga adaptation in English under the title Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World this February. The first novel volume went on sale on September 24, with the first manga volume planned for a November 5 release.

Novel special site: https://fantasiabunko.jp/sp/201705kimitoboku/

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