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News Round Up: March 10-20

March 20, 2016

We got a little behind, so this one’s a couple days late. Here’s what happened in shoujo-related news last week.

Prince of Stride fans, if you’re going to Japan around Christmas time, the series is getting a live Stage Play!

According to ANN, the play titled Prince of Stride THE LIVE STAGE Episode 1 will run from December 9-14 at Tokyo’s Theatre 1010, and it will then run at Osaka’s Theater Drama City in the second half of December. The play will be the first in a four part series.

Moto Hagio will be writing the story for a new series debuting in YOU josei manga magazine. The series titled Tenshi Kamoshirenai (Might be an Angel) will be drawn by Yuu Hatano. The first chapter will be published in April.

Techno group Perfume will be holding 4 U.S. concerts this year. The group will debut their new album in April and the U.S. concerts for that tour will be held in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Otome fans, MangaGamer’s Ozmafia is set for a late April release.

Ozmafia tells the story of a girl that awakes in an unfamiliar land with no memories of who she is or where she is. To make things worse, the first person she meets tries to kill her. Running for her life the heroine runs headfirst into another stranger. Fortunately for her, this man is the don of the mafia famiglia Oz. With no love for would-be murderers of innocent women, he drives off her attacker and takes her underneath his famiglia’s wing. This is hardly the end of her troubles, however. Famiglia Oz is but one of many different mafia famiglie in town, and bitter conflicts for territory rage eternally between them all. Only on Sundays does peace return to the town by a mutual compromise, and come the next day the battles continue anew as if they had never ceased.It is in this war-torn town that our rootless heroine must find her way. Who amongst the mafias simply seeks to use her for their own ends, and who can she truly come to trust… and even love?

Pre-orders have been opened up for the April 29 release through Steam and MangaGamer’s official site.

Hana to Yume announced in the back of volume 20 that Akatsuki no Yona (Yona of the Dawn) will be getting a two-part OVA that covers the Zeno arc of the manga. The DVDs will be released with volumes 21 & 22 of the manga and must be special ordered in Japan.

Skip Beat! fans, if you want to see the anime come to fruition here in the states, you know, actual copies you can hold in your hands and never be revoked, then you should head over to Kickstarter and fund the Skip Beat anime project. The project was restarted with a lower goal of $155,000 and will be running until April 16th. As of this publication, the amount is at $63,000.

If you’re a fan of Chico with Honeyworks, the group that did the opening for the Ao Haru Ride anime, then you might be interested to know that they are releasing a movie based on a lot of Honeyworks songs titled Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita: Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai (I’ve Always Liked You: Confession Executive Committee), and Chico will be voicing some of them as well. This looks like something shoujo fans would love, so take a look. The movie opens in Japan, April 23.

Great news for those who are big fans of Natsume, Natsume’s Book of Friends is getting a Season 5 anime this fall! The series will be called Natsume Yūjin-Chō Go and will reprise a lot of the previous staff. I’m sure more details will be forthcoming soon.

Also announced earlier today, Hana to Yume will be starting the spin-off series of Gakuen Alice called Kageki no Kuni no Arisu (Alice in the Country of Opera) in April’s issue 8. Then in issue 9 will appear the sequel story of Love So Life called Life So Happy that is set 2 years after the first series. (from natalie.mu)

News Round Up: March 10-20

March 20, 2016

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