
Popular fantasy light novel and manga series 鋼殻のレギオス / Koukaku no Regios / Chrome Shelled Regios is due to receive an anime adaptation, set to begin airing in January 2009.
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Popular anime マリア様がみてる / Maria-sama ga Miteru unsurprisingly finds itself with a new season, its fourth, set to start in January 2009, and to air with a variety of stations.
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Well received eroge adaptation 恋姫†無双 / Koihime Musou keeps up its reasonably strong performance with the addition of battles and service in the eleventh episode, though both are present in moderation, as usual.
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Since episode ten of occasionally steamy loli oppai anime 恋姫†無双 / Koihime Musou offered little in the way of interesting scenes (what there was you can see below), but much in the way of slightly boring busty machiavellian plotting, it seems an opportune juncture to take a look at the original eroge CG character designs in comparison with the anime.
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A TV anime adaptation of sci-fi novel Shangri-La has been announced. Perhaps most notably, the art design will be provided by the great 村田蓮爾 / Range Murata, so that alone should be interesting to see.
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Her nipple is “covered” by a tattoo? Of a flower? As usual, what goes through the mind of a censor in determining what to allow or disallow is absolutely incomprehensible. One of the strangest pieces of nipple exposure seen to date.
Aside from the matter of this brief and idiosyncratic exposure/censorship, the unfavourable evaluations of the latest To Love-Ru episodes have been added to, by what seems to have been universally agreed to be the worst episode so far, number 23. So bad it may be interesting?
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In a spot of potentially excellent news for Minami-ke fans (amongst whose number I am happy to count myself), we have the news that a third season of the anime is planned, being apparently a continuation of the Okawari series.
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As we saw previously, loli action anime 恋姫†無双 / Koihime Musou has been expanding its cast of small, female characters, but at that time there was nothing more than a bit of yuri hand holding to whet the appetites of cake aficionados; this time however, things are different. As you can see above. And below.
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You may have heard of Haruhi spinoff/parody manga 涼宮ハルヒちゃんの憂鬱 / The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan (see below), by ぷよ / Puyo, a superb and most amusing manga using the SOS-dan, but eschewing the ridiculous story and serious elements of the original in favour of parody and absurdity (famously Nagato is a determined erogamer, for example).
It has gained great popularity, and even the authors of the original have stated that they should probably made the main story like it; the popularity has allowed an anime adaptation, just announced.
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The big development hinted at some time ago, and revealed in the leaked Bones documents, has finally had a formal announcement, though details are yet scant – there is to be a new Full Metal Alchemist TV anime.
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Favourably received action anime 鉄腕バーディー DECODE / Tetsuwan Birdy Decode (or Birdy the Mighty) is to get a new season, set to air in January 2009. This was announced on a staff blog, as well as at Comiket. Further details are promised later.
You may recall that the author of the source manga recently had some publication troubles, with his serialising magazine shutting up shop, so this must come as a relief to him.
Via Moon Phase.

Eroge anime adaptation 恋姫†無双 / Koihime Musou has broadened its appeal further with the introduction of loli dojiko character Koumei, or “Hawawa Gunsou” as she is also known, from her pitiful quailing (“hawawa!”) at the appearance of any enemy; it is an addition which looks to have been very well received, judging by the amount of attention given to the matter by a great many sites. Let us, too, follow suit and see what all the fuss is about…
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