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News Roundup: Jan. 22-29

January 29, 2016

Sailor Moon Crystal

The Sailor Moon Crystal Death Busters Arc cast has been announced. This arc will be the third season in the revamped Sailor Moon Crystal anime. In other Sailor Moon announcements, the art exhibition for Naoko Takeuchi’s Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon manga was released in Japan at Tokyo City View.

Hatoful Boyfriend- Holiday Star

DLsite.com has an interview with the creators of Hatoful Boyfriend. Fans of the visual novel should check it out.

La Corda d’Oro 4

La Corda d’Oro 4, the Playstation Vita game for girls, is being delayed to March 10. However, more information has been released including a new promo video.

Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu!

Crunchyroll added a new Japanese live-action drama to its winter lineup. Shiratori Reiko de Gozaimasu! (I’m Reiko Shiratori!) is a 10-episode series that premiered in Japan Jan. 14. The show is based off of the manga which ran in Kodansha’s Mimi magazine in 1988. The manga is also getting a new one-shot story which will be published in Kodansha’s Kiss magazine in the Feb. 25 issue.

12-Sai manga volume 1

Nao Maita’s 12-Sai (Age 12) manga is getting an anime. According to Anime News Network, the manga “begins with Hanabi, a sixth-grade girl who is neither an adult nor a child. She deals with issues such as accidentally witnessing her homeroom teacher kissing, and worrying about experiencing physiological changes before her friends. The manga depicts a 12-year-old girl’s innocent worries and first love.”

Nodame Cantabile manga

The Nodame Cantabile manga is getting a one-shot story which will also be published in Kodansha’s Kiss magazine in the Feb. 25 issue.

Kōdai-ke no Hitobito

The teaser for Kodai-ke no Hitobito live-action film has been released. The movie, which opens in Japan Jun 4, is based on the manga by Kozueko Morimoto. According to ANN: “The story centers around Kie Hirano, a 30-year old female office worker with a large-scale imagination. She gets to know Mitsumasa Kodai, a handsome colleague, who also happens to be a telepath who can read people’s thoughts. Mitsumasa is charmed by Kie’s personality, and they start a relationship. Mitsumasa’s mother Yuko judges Kie to be unfit to marry her son, but the family matriarch Ann makes Yuko retract the statement. Now Ann teaches Kie how to be a proper lady, and Kie’s life becomes intertwined with the Kodai family.”