Rewrite Anime Gets First Trailer

Rewrite anime
Source: Official Website
Besides a new visual (see the poster above), The official website of Rewrite anime has also unveiled on Tuesday a first trailer for the anime adaptation from the Rewrite visual novel. The video was displayed for first during the "Winter Comic" event which held in Tokyo from December 29 to December 31.

Watch the trailer below:



The video features the designs for the main characters and confirms that the cast members from the Rewrite game adaptation will return to voice their characters.

The main cast includes:

  • The voice actor, Masakazu Morita is playing the Kotarō Tennōji character.
  • The voice actress, Chiwa Saito is playing the Kotori Kanbe character.
  • The voice actress Saya Shinomiya is playing the Chihaya Ohtori character.
  • The voice actress, Eri Kitamura is playing the Akane Senri character.
  • The voice actress, Keiko Suzuki is playing the Shizuru Nanatsu character.
  • The voice actress, Risa Asaki is playing the Lucia Konohana character.
  • The voice actress, Kana Hanazawa is playing the Kagari character.
As revealed earlier, the anime is slated for release in Summer 2016. And Tensho will be directing the series and supervising it as well, while "Romeo Tanaka"  and "Kai  will be in charge of the series composition and scripts, and "Masayuki Nonaka" will serve as character designer.




Berserk Anime Gets A First Teaser Trailer

Berserk Anime
Source: The official website
After NBC Universal debuted the first teaser trailer for Berserk Anime during the "Winter Comic" event that held in Tokyo for December 29-30, the official website of the anime also began streaming the teaser video on Today which you can watch below:




The video confirmed that the anime series will come out sometime in 2016.

As noted earlier, the format of the anime has not been unveiled yet, but it would probably be a TV anime. In addition, the "Young Animal" mgazine has previously revealed in this month that "Guts" will appear as "Black Swordsman" which was revealed in later parts of the manga that exceeded the previous story of the anime series that aired in 1997



"Gate Anime" Season 2 Trailer Released

Gate Anime Season 2

ANN has reported Today that Warner Bros has recently released a trailer for the second season of the Gate anime which is slated to air on January 9th, 2016.



As revealed earlier, both main cast and staff are returning from the first season to work on this sequel. The returning "Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets" band is performing the opening theme song titled "GATE II - Sekai wo Koete".  While Nao Tōyama, Hisako Kanemoto and Risa Taneda are all returning to perform the untitled ending theme song as their characters'.

The official website for the Gate anime has previously unveiled this month a key Visual for the second season of the series as you can watch below.
Second Season of Gate Anime
Key Visual

Plot:
The story is set on the 21st century, when a gate appears in the Ginza district in Tokyo, where monsters and knights of the Middle Ages of Europe and other fantasy beings begin pouring down from the portal and begin killing people in Tokyo.This event is known as the Ginza Incident. The government sends a squad of soldiers in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces to an alternative world behind the gate. Led by an otaku soldier named "Yoji", they find that the towns in this world are under attack by a dragon. A girl named "Elf" who survived from the dragon's tizzy joins the group in its dangerous adventure across this new strange world.

Naruto's Itachi Shinden-hen TV Anime Slated to Premiere In March 2016

Naruto's Itachi Shinden-hen TV Anime

According to ANN, the Shonen Jump Magazine has announced Today on its recent combined 5th/6th issue that Naruto's Itachi Shinden-hen TV Anime is slated to air sometime in March 2016.

As unveiled earlier, the anime adaptation for Itachi Shinden Spinoff Novels was titled "Naruto Shippuden: The True Legend of Itachi Light and Darkness".

For easy read, Shonen Jump's ad simplified the title to "Naruto Shippūden: Itachi Shinden-hen".


In addition, the main visual for the upcoming anime has previously revealed on TV Tokyo, and the tagline on it reads as: "In Spring 2016, the Truth arc starts."

Super Lovers Boys-Love TV Anime To Premiere In April 2016

Also a visual and the main cast for Super Lovers Boys-Love TV Anime have been revealed:

Super Lovers Boys-Love 2016
The official website

According to ANN, The official website of Super Lovers Boys-Love anime has unveiled last Friday the main cast and a teaser visual ( see the image above) for this upcoming series as well as the release date.

The anime adaptation for Super Lovers Boys-Love manga is slated to premiere sometime in april 2015.

In addition, ANN has reported that the twitter account for the upcoming anime has revealed the same details.

The main cast:
  • Tomoaki Maeno will be voicing the character of the oldest brother, Haru Kaidō.
  • Junko Minagawa will be voicing the character of the youngest brother, Ren Kaidō.
  • Takuma Terashima will be voicing the younger brother of the twin, Shima Kaidō.
  • Yoshitsugu Matsuoka will be voicing the older brother of the twin, Aki Kaidō.
  • Ayumu Murase will be voicing Ikuyoshi Sasaki character, the previous Haru's co-worker.
  • Jun Fukushima will be voicing Ren's friend and schoolmate, Jūzen Kurosaki.

Plot:
The story revolves around Haru, a highschool boy who lives with his mother overseas. His mother asks him to take care of his adopted brother "Ren", a naughty young boy who dislike to talk to others. Although their relationship is tense and adversarial at first, but as more they grow, they become closer to understand each others.

Rewrite TV Anime Slated To Premiere In Summer 2016

Rewrite Anime 2016

A new poster has been revealed this Friday on the Kokusai-Tenjijō station in Tokyo which features the release date announcement for the Rewrite TV anime. The series is slated to premiere in Summer 2016.

A First Promotional Video will be revealed in the Winter Comiket event that will be held in December 29-31, 2016 in Tokyo.

"Tensho" will be directing the upcoming anime and supervising it as well, while "Romeo Tanaka"  and "Kai  will be in charge of the series composition and scripts, and "Masayuki Nonaka" will serve as character designer.

New D.Gray-man Anime Is A Squel

New D.Gray-man
Key Visual
D.Gray-man manga Author, Katsura Hoshino has confirmed on his instagram account that the upcoming anime adaptation of the manga which is now in the works and set for release in 2016, will be a continuation to the previous 2006 series with new different staff and cast.

As unveiled earlier, the voice actor Ayumu Murase will play Allen Walker character and the voice actor Shinnosuke Tachibana will play Howard character.



The official website of the anime previously revealed a first trailer alongside with a key visual for the upcoming anime and the tagline reads as: "I want to live. Even if I destroy you"

The previous anime series premiered in 2006 and continued to air until 2008 and had run of 103 episodes.

Eiichiro Oda Assures That Sanji will return In 2016

sanji wanted alive only

Hurrah! The mystery of 'Alive Only' will be revealed within the coming year !

Last weekend at Jump Festa 2016 during the annual event "One Piece Super Stage", the One Piece's creator Eiichiro Oda and the rest of staff declared promising One Piece's fans that Sanji will return to the anime with an origin story in 2016. The voice actor "Hiroaki Hirata " will return to play Sanji character as well.

Despite being one of main characters in One Piece, Sanji disappeared in the manga for nearly two years.

Sanji disappeared since Chapter 730, which was published on December 9th, 2013 and he didnt appear until Chapter 795 on August 3th, 2015.

Berserk TV Anime Announced For Release In 2016

Berserk Anime 2016

The japanese magazine,Young Animal has announced yesterday that Berserk manga will be getting a new TV anime which is now in the works and slated for release in 2016. More information will be revealed in later date.

The magazine also revealed that "Guts" will appear as "Black Swordsman" which is revealed in later parts of the manga which exceeded the previous story of the anime series that aired in 1997.

The previous anime adaptation from Berserk manga premiered in 1997 and run for 25 episodes

New Gurren Lagann Anime Confirmed For 2016

Gurren Lagann Season 2

The year 2016 will be truly the greatest year for anime!

The official twitter account of the Gurren Lagann anime has revealed Today that Gurren Lagann manga is getting a new TV anime adaptation in 2016. However, the details are still scanty and more information will be revealed on our website as it becomes available.


 This announcement on Twitter came accompanied with a link (http://www.gurren-lagann-ps.jp/) of a newly opened website for the upcoming anime which teases visitors with the text: "Coming soon".

The previous series of Gurren Lagann anime premiered in 2007 and had a ran of 27 episodes.

A TV Anime Adaptation for Itachi Shinden Spinoff Novels Announced For Spring 2016

Itachi Shinden

A new TV anime adaptation for Itachi Shinden Spinoff Novels has been announced  during the Naruto stage program which held at Jump Festa event in Tokyo. The series will be titled "Naruto Shippuden: The True Legend of Itachi Light and Darkness" and it is set for release in spring 2016.

Besides that, the official twitter account of Naruto Movie has confirmed the announcement.


 Naruto Shippūden: Itachi Shinden-hen ~Hikari to Yami~
Main Visual 

In addition, TV Tokyo has unveiled the main visual for the upcoming anime which shows a tagline reads as: "In Spring 2016, the Truth arc starts."

D.Gray-man Anime Announced for 2016

D.Gray-man
Key Visual
During the Jump Festa event that held in Chiba, Sheisha has announced a new TV anime adaptation for D.Gray-man manga. The series is set to be release in 2016.

In addition, a newly opened website for the upcoming anime start streaming a first trailer of D.Gray-man. The video previews new Exorcist coats.



As revealed in the official website of D.Gray man anime , new members will be involved in the main cast and include the voice actor Ayumu Murase who will play Allen Walker and the voice actor Shinnosuke Tachibana who will play Howard.

In the previous series, Sanae Kobayashi played Allen character and Daisuke Kishio played Howard character.

Also, the official website unveiled a key visual (as you can watch above) for the upcoming anime and ANN translated the tagline as: "I want to live. Even if I destroy you"

The previous series of D.Gray-man Anime aired from 2006 to 2008 and it had a run of 103 episodes.

ANN depicts the anime story as follows:

The story take place in the early 20th century and centers around a guy named Allen Walker, who turn into an exorcist for a group called the Black Order. The group try to protect mankind from the evil Millennium Earl.

Boruto Manga Announced For Spring 2016

Boruto 1-shot spinoff manga is also announced for spring 2016

Boruto one shot manga

Viz Media has announced that the Boruto one shot spinoff manga alongside with the Boruto manga series in english, are scheduled for launch on Shonen Jump Magazine in Spring 2016.

Kishimoto, the naruto manga's creator will serve as supervisor of the upcoming Buroto manga, while his assistant "Ikemoto" will be drawing the manga series and Kodachi who wrote the scripts of the previous movies ( "Naruto - Gaara Hiden: Sajingensō ", Boruto -Naruto the Movie") will return to write the Buroto manga's script.

Both series, the Boruto manga which will be a monthly series and Buroto one shot manga will be published on the Shonen Jump magazing starting from the spring of 2016. 

The famous author, Masashi Kishimoto who created the Naruto manga is himself writing the upcoming Boruto 1-shot spinoff manga.

"One Piece Film Gold" Feature Film's Trailer Released

One Piece Film Gold
Official Website
A first 40-second trailer has been streamed on the official website of the upcoming feature film "One Piece Film Gold" as you can watch in below:


As revealed earlier, One Piece Gold Film is slated to air on July 23, 2016 in Japan.

One Piece Film Gold

Also,the weekly Shonen Jump magazine has previously revealed on its second 2016 issue a character design of an obscure man who probably would be a villain along side with another character design named “Kintaro Luffy".

The main staff will include the author Eiichiro Oda who will serve as executive producer, Hiroaki Miyamoto who worked as assistant director on "Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island" will debut as director of this upcoming feature film, Tsutomu Kuroiwa will take over the screenplays.

The main cast:

Mayumi Tanaka as: Luffy
Akemi Okamura as: Nami
Kazuya Nakai as: Zoro
Hiroaki Hirata as: Sanji
Kappei Yamaguchi as: Usopp
Kazuki Yao as: Franky
Ikue Otani as: Chopper
Cho as: Brook
Yuriko Yamaguchi as: Nico

"Assassination Classroom" Season 2 will run for 25 episodes

Second Season of assassination classroom
Official Website
A new visual has been revealed on the official website of assassination classroom anime as you can watch in the photo above. The website also has announced that the 2nd season of the anime will have a run of 25 episodes.

The sequel is slated to air on January 7, 2016.

The main staff from the first season remains the same to work on this upcoming sequel where Seiji Kishi is directing the anime, Kazuaki Morita is serving as characters designer and Makoto Uezu is writing the scripts.

The group of five voice actors ( Mai Fuchigami, Aya Suzaki, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Ryota Ohsaka and Shintarō Asanuma) that named "3-nen E-gumi Utatan" will return to perform the opening theme song titled "Question" as thier characters.

The story revolves around a class of misfits who are trying to kill their new teacher who is an alien octopus with bizarre abilities and super strength! The teacher has just destroyed 70% of the moon and began threating to destroy the earth for the next unless his students can destroy him first. the teacher is the best teacher they've ever had which makes things more complicated.

"One Piece: Adventure of Nevlandia" TV Special's 3rd Trailer Streamed

one piece adventure of nevlandia

A third 15-second Trailer for the upcoming anime special "One Piece Adventure of Nevlandia" has been streamed on Fuji TV, the new trailer features a part of the opnening theme song "Black Make Up" which is performed by the japanese singer Namie Amuro.

You can watch the trailer below:


As unveiled earlier, the voice actors who will play the characters of the new 3 members in Foxy pirate crew have been officially revealed as follows:

  • Chikawa Ennosuke IV  as: Kōmei 
  • Hōka Kinoshita as: Kanshō
  • Takuma Otoo as: Dojack. 

The " One Piece: Adventure of Nevlandia " TV anime special will premiere on Sunday, December 19 on Fuji TV.

Kônosuke Uda who worked on "One Piece: Dead End" and "One Piece: Mega Mecha Soldier of Karakuri Castle" is directing this upcoming special.

ANN depicts the story of the TV anime special as follows:

The story is set on the fog island "devil fruit power user preventing island" in the new world, that make devil fruit users are not able to use their powers. The crew meet again and re-fight the Foxy Pirates with the Davy Back Fight. The Foxy Pirate Crew now have 3 new members include: Dojack, Kanshō and  Kōmei. This last is considered one of a family of genius tacticians.

Komei set a plan where Zoro and Sanji take part in an eating competition, They eat strange mushroom called "good for nothing only", this turns them into good men for nothing, then they are detained in a prison cell. When the rest of the straw hat pirates are trying to catch up with the imprisoned crew, they descend on the island of Nevlandia where a strange fog appears due to sea water which has the same effects of seastone.

"One Piece Film Gold" Two Character Designs Revealed

The first main visual of One Piece Film Gold has recently been revealed on the official website of the 13th One Piece feature film. Crunchyroll translated the tagline which is written on the visual as: "That is The Power to Rule The World".


As revealed earlier One Piece Gold Film will premiere on July 23 in Japan and the main staff will include the author Eiichiro Oda who will serve as executive producer, Hiroaki Miyamoto who worked as assistant director on "Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island" will debut as director of this upcoming feature film, Tsutomu Kuroiwa will take over the screenplays.

Apart from the obvious, the voice actors who will play thier characters in this feature film are officially listed as following:
  • Mayumi Tanaka as: Luffy
  • Akemi Okamura as: Nami
  • Kazuya Nakai as: Zoro
  • Hiroaki Hirata as: Sanji
  • Kappei Yamaguchi as: Usopp
  • Kazuki Yao as: Franky
  • Ikue Otani as: Chopper
  • Cho as: Brook
  • Yuriko Yamaguchi as: Nico
One Piece Film Gold

In addition, the weekly Shonen Jump magazine has revealed on its recent issue, two character designs for One Piece Film Gold.

First design is called “Kintaro Luffy" and the word "Kintaro" is often translated as "Golden Boy" and he's a legendary child from Japanese folklore. The second design features an obscure man, who will probably be a villain?

More information will be posted on here as it becomes available.


"Concrete Revolutio" Anime Season 2 announced


DAISUKI, the anime streaming website has revealed that Concrete Revolutio anime will be getting a second season in April 2016.

The first season of the ongoing series premiered on October 4, 2015 and ran for 13 episodes. DAISUKI and FUNIMATION are streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.

The main staff from Fullmetal alchemist come together again to work on this upcoming release where Seiji Mizushima will direct the anime series, Masafumi Mima will serve as sound director, Mr Shou Aikawa will serve as the screenwriter with Masaki Tsuji and Gen Urobuchi who contributed in the scripts. Studio BONES will handle the animation production for the series .

The official website of the anime depicts the story as follows:

The stage is set in “another Japan” as a banquet of diverse superhumans unfolds…
In an imaginary "Shinka Era" about 20 years after the war, Japan has grown and
developed by leaps and bounds. What if all the superhumans ever written about in fictional stories existed at the same time? Superhumans who came into existence through different circumstances, and who are special in different ways -- Titans from outer space, lifeforms from a mystical world, phantoms and goblins from ancient times, cyborgs created by scientists, relics that rose out of the ruins of ancient civilizations, and the list goes on. One segment of these superhumans makes no secret of their existence and has gained popularity in society. Others cloak their identities and fight in secrecy.
There are enemies of superhumans as well, organizations that operate in the shadows.
The Japanese government has taken many measures to secure peace and order.
One is the establishment of an organization under the Ministry of Health and Welfare -- the Super Population Research Laboratory, a.k.a. the Superhuman Bureau.
Their mission is to identify and approach suerhumans, then oversee and safeguard them. One member of the Superhuman Bureau, Jiro Hitoyoshi, is protagonist of this series.

"Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" Season 2 announced

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma Season 2

Shonen Jump, The Weekly Japanese magazine has revealed on its 2nd 2016 issue that the anime adaptation for Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma manga will be getting a second season. The release date and more details about the anime will be revealed in future issues of the magazine.

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma Season 2
Shonen Jump Cover. Issue 2, 2016
Additionally, This announcement also comes for commemorating the third anniversary of manga's launch.

The first season of "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma" anime aired from Mai 2015 until September and contains 24 episodes.

ANN depicts the manga story as follows:

The anime story revolves around a boy named Soma, who works with his father in his family's restaurant. His father is a cooking master. Soma usually faces the hard working days with his father. His father enrolls him in one of the elite culinary schools which is really difficult to get into. And the graduation rate in it, is only 10%.

Kuromukuro Anime announced to premiere in 2016

Kuromukuro Anime
Source Official website
The Japanese animation studio "P.A.Works" has announced on its website which has been newly opened that the production for a new original anime titled Kuromukuro has been green-lit and will premiere in 2016.

With the production of this series, "P.A.Works" studio will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary anime.

Mr.Tensai Okamura (who is known for directing some great works as The Seven Deadly Sins, Blue Exorcist, and Medabots) will serve as director of this upcoming anime at "P.A.Works" studio (Shirobako, Angel Beats!, Charlotte and True Tears).

"One Piece: Adventure of Nevlandia" TV Special's 2nd Trailer Released

One Piece: Adventure of Nevlandia

A new 16-second trailer for "One Piece: Adventure of Nevlandia" TV anime special has been aired yesterday on Fuji TV. The video displays the opening theme song "Black Me Up" of Namie Amuro as you can watch below.



Shonen Jump magazine has previously revealed in this month on the 2016's 1st issue the voice actors who will play the characters of the new 3 members in the Foxy Pirate crew, where Ichikawa Ennosuke IV (played Luffy in the One Piece kabuki play) will play as Kōmei character, Hōka Kinoshita as Kanshō and Takuma Otoo as Dojack. The magazine also unveiled their character designs.

As a reminder, the " One Piece: Adventure of Nevlandia " TV anime special will premiere on Sunday, December 19 on Fuji TV.

The story is set on a fog island "devil fruit power user preventing island" in the new world, that make devil fruit users are not able to use their powers. The crew meet again and re-fight the Foxy Pirates with the Davy Back Fight. The Foxy Pirate Crew now have 3 new members include: Dojack, Kanshō and  Kōmei. This last is considered one of a family of genius tacticians.

Komei set a plan where Zoro and Sanji take part in an eating competition, They eat strange mushroom called "good for nothing only", this turns them into good men for nothing, then they are detained in a prison cell. When the rest of the straw hat pirates are trying to catch up with the imprisoned crew, they descend on the island of Nevlandia where a strange fog appears due to sea water which has the same effects of seastone.

"Devine Gate Anime" Season 2 Release Date, Key Visual Revealed

Devine Gate Anime Season 2
Source: Official Website

Besides the key visual as you can watch in the photo above, the official website of the Gate anime has revealed on Friday that the 2nd season of anime series (The 2nd cour) will air on Tokyo MX TV and other Japanese TV stations on January 9, 2016.

It has been previously revealed on last September in episode 9 of the series that the second cour of anime has been set to return in January 2016, and will cover "Ark Flame Dragon Arc".

Both the main cast and staff will return from the 1st season.

The returning "Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets" band will perform the opening theme song titled "GATE II - Sekai wo Koete". While, the voice actresses Nao Tōyama, Hisako Kanemoto and Risa Taneda will return to perform the untitled ending theme song as their characters.

Plot:

The story begins sometime in the 21st century, when a portal known as the"Gate" appears in the Ginza district in Tokyo, where monsters and knights of the Middle Ages of Europe and other fantasy beings begin pouring down from the portal and begin killing people in Tokyo.This event is known as the Ginza Incident.

The government sends a squad of soldiers in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces to an alternative world behind the gate. Led by an otaku soldier named "Yoji", they find that the towns in this world are under attack by a dragon. A girl named "Elf" who survived from the dragon's tizzy joins the group in its dangerous adventure across this new strange world.

"One Piece Film Gold" Movie Announced To Premiere In Summer 2016

One Piece Film Gold

It's been 3 years since the previous "One Piece Film Z" movie was aired, One piece fans have been patiently waiting too much for another new release to come out. Finally, we've got good news!

ANN has reported today that Shonen Jump, the weekly Japanese magazine is getting ready to announce on its next issue on Monday that an upcoming film of One Piece titled "One Piece Film Gold" will premiere on July 23, 2016, in Japan.

One Piece Film Gold


According to ANN, The author Eiichiro Oda has signed up as executive producer for this new upcoming release and he is credited for his original work.

The creator Eiichiro Oda also served as executive producer in the previous film "One Piece Film: Z" which premiered in December 2012 in Japan.

"MOB PSYCHO 100" TV Anime Announced for 2016 Release

MOB PSYCHO 100 Anime

A new TV anime adaptation for Mob Psycho 100 manga has been recently announced on the web Ura Sunday comic magazine. The anime series is in the works and scheduled for release in the next year.

Additionally, the announcement unveiled that Studio BONES will take over the production of this upcoming series.

This anticipated anime is certainly going to be great, especially when you know that ONE is the author of Mob Psycho 100 manga who is well-known by his other manga that has brought you "One Punch man" anime series which is currently airing.

Plot:

The story is about a boy with psychic powers called Mob, who will explode if his capacity of emotions reaches 100%. He took that nickname because he is timid when he is among other people, but that is not a problem for him as long as he can live a normal life. But if he loses control on his emotions and his emotional capacity reaches the level 100%, something horrible is going to overwhelm his whole body.