Kazuya Minekura Puts Wild Adapter Manga on Hiatus Due to Health

Mystery boys-love series to return from latest hiatus in March

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The 43rd issue of Ichijinsha's Zero Sum Wardmagazine announced on Friday that Kazuya Minekura'sWild Adapter "hard-boiled action" manga is on hiatus due to the creator's poor health. The issue featuredthe series on its cover but did not include its scheduled installment. The Zero Sum editorial department apologized to readers and said that Minekura plans to resume the manga in the next issue on March 16.

Ichijinsha slowed the serialization of Minekura's Wild Adapter and Saiyuki Reload Blast manga in 2013 due to her health. The manga had already resumed after a separate hiatus earlier that year. Minekura also wenton hiatus from her manga work in late 2010 due tosurgery.

The manga launched in Tokuma Shoten's bimonthly Chara magazine in 2001, but then it switched publishers to Ichijinsha in 2011. Ichijinsha has since republished the six compiled volumes of Wild Adapter.

In the manga's story, a young gang leader named Makoto Kubota takes in Minoru Tokitoh, a boy with a mysterious past. Minoru has been exposed to the drug "W.A." which has transformed his right arm into a monstrous limb. The two investigate the origins of the drug that is devastating the city's underground.

The series inspired an original video anime in 2014. The characters of Wild Adapteralso appear in Minekura's Shiritsu Araiso Kōtōgakkō Seitokai Shikkōbu (Araiso Private High School Student Council Executive Committee) manga and its 2002 video anime adaptation.

Tokyopop licensed the Wild Adapter manga in 2006 for release in North America. The company published six volumes before the company closed its North Americanpublishing division.

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Silverlink Makes Ore ga Ojō-Sama Gakkō ni 'Shomin Sample' Toshite Usarareta Ken TV Anime

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei!'s Masato Jinbo to direct 2015 series

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The wraparound jacket band on the sixth volume ofRisumai's Ore ga Ojō-sama Gakkō ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Usarareta Ken (Story in Which I Was Kidnapped by a Young Lady's School to be a "Sample of the Common People") manga is announcing on Tuesday that Masato Jinbo (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei!, Nozo × Kimi) will direct the television anime adaptation at the studio SILVER LINK. Kento Shimoyama (Bleach, Servant × Service) is in charge of series composition, and the anime is slated to premiere this year.

Ichijinsha announced last July that an anime adaptation of Takafumi Nanatsuki's original light novel series was green-lit. The light novel series debuted in 2011 with Gekka Urū's (Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankei Nai yo ne) character designs, and the ninth volume will also ship in Japan on Tuesday.Risumai's manga adaptation launched in Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Rex magazine in 2012.

In the romantic comedy's story, an ordinary high school boy is kidnapped by an elite young lady's academy to be a "sample of the common people." The school is full of sheltered girls who have never met male peers before.

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Crunchyroll Offers Manga with Premium Membership, Adds GTO & Zatch Bell Anime, TomoToons

Crunchyroll began including the Crunchyroll Manga service in all premium memberships on Thursday. Premium members now have full access toCrunchyroll's manga titles at no additional cost. The website announced that manga-only memberships will be discontinued, and manga-only members will receiveinformation about how to continue their premium memberships.

The Attack on Titan and Fairy Tail manga's full catalogs, including simultaneous-release chapters, will be available in Crunchyroll Manga for three months.Crunchyroll's other manga manga titles include The Seven Deadly Sins, Is This Girl For Real?, A Silent Voice - Koe no Katachi, The Tenth Prism, Sun-Ken Rock, andBokura wa Minna Kawaisou.

The website also began streaming the GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka television anime series under the titleGTO - The Animation on Friday. All 43 episodes arenow available for premium members in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Central and South America (including the Caribbean), Europe (excluding France, Italy, and the Netherlands), Africa, and the Middle East. The website will release 12 episodes for free members every week.

Crunchyroll beganstreaming Konjiki no Gash Bell!! (Zatch Bell) on Wednesday. The first 25 episodes are available for both free and premium users, while the episodes 26 to 100 are available for premium users. Crunchyroll will release 25 episodes for free users every Wednesday.

Crunchyroll is collaborating with the TomoToon serviceto stream Horror News and the CG-animatedadaptations of Norifusa Mita's Kurokan and Naoki Konno's Double Hard manga. Kurokan and Double Hard will begin streaming "in a few weeks." Horror News began streaming on Wednesday with all episodes available for premium members and the first six episodes available for free users. The website will add six episodes of Horror News for free members every week. All three series will be available worldwide outside Korea and Japan.

The website began streaming TOHO's classic live-action tokusatsu (special effects) film Destroy All Monsters and the Mononoke television anime on Tuesday.

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Madoka Magica The Movie Part 3: Rebellion Gets English Dub

Aniplex outlines dual-language Blu-ray/DVD plans

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Aniplex of America outlined the details of its Blu-rayDisc release of Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Part 3: Rebellion at its Otakon Las Vegas panel on Friday. The third and final Madoka Magica movie will ship on April 7 in three editions: a Limited Edition Blu-ray/DVD/Soundtrack CD Combo Set, a Standard Edition Blu-ray, and a Standard Edition DVD.

All three editions will feature:

• Languages: Japanese and English
• Subtitles: English and Spanish
• Aspect ratio: 16:9 widescreen
• Total Run Time: 116 min.
• Rating: 13UP
• Textless Opening and Ending

The Standard Edition Blu-ray will add the theatrical trailer, commercials, and collaboration manner videos (Monogatari Series x Madoka Magica). The Limited Edition Blu-ray/DVD/Soundtrack CD Combo Set will also add the original soundtrackCD, a deluxe booklet, and a postcard set.

Pre-orders will begin on Friday, January 16.

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Crunchyroll to Stream 3rd Kuroko's Basketball Season

Streaming to begin on Friday, January 23, 2 weeks after Japanese airing

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Media service Crunchyroll announced on Friday that it will stream the third season of the Kuroko's Basketballtelevision anime. The streaming will begin for all users on Friday, January 23 in North America, South America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Each episode will stream two weeks after its Japanese broadcast date.

Anime Consortium Japan is streaming the third season on the Daisuki service as each episode airs in Japan, and it describes the story of the season:

Seirin High School makes it into the semifinals of the Winter Cup. They defeated Toô Gakuen, featuring Aomine, and Yosen, featuring Murasakibara, both from the "Generation of Miracles," causing Seirin to be one of the more noticed schools. They firm their resolve towards the semifinals. Kagami, nudged by Kuroko, heads outside of the tournament building in order to reconcile with Himuro, but sees a guy picking a fight with Himuro and Alex, steps in to help them.

That guy is Shogo Haizaki of Fukuda Sogo Gakuen. He is a graduate of Teiko Junior HIgh, and he was supposedly a regular player in the first-string team before Kise joined...

The returning cast includes:

Kensho Ono as Tetsuya Kuroko
Yuuki Ono as Taiga Kagami
Chiwa Saito as Riko Aida
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Junpei Hyūga
Hirofumi Nojima as Shun Izuki
Kenji Hamada as Teppei Kiyoshi
Ryohei Kimura as Ryōta Kise
Sōichiro Hoshi as Yukio Kasamatsu
Daisuke Ono as Shintarō Midorima
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Kazunari Takao
Junichi Suwabe as Daiki Aomine
Kenichi Suzumura as Atsushi Murasakibara
Hiroshi Kamiya as Seijūrō Akashi

New cast members include Wataru Hatano as Reo Mibuchi, Takahiro Fujiwara as Eikichi Nebuya, and Masakazu Morita as Shōgo Haizaki.

Tadatoshi Fujimaki launched the main manga series in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2008, and Shueisha published the 30th and final compiled volume last year. Fujimakilaunched a sequel manga in Shueisha's Jump Next magazine on December 29. As of April, the series had more than 27 million copies in circulation.

The first anime season based on the manga ran from April to September of 2012. The second season premiered last October and ran through March. Crunchyroll streamedthe first two anime seasons outside of Japan as they aired.

Image © Tadatoshi Fujimaki/SHUEISHA, Team Kuroko

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Aniplex USA Outlines Koimonogatari, Nisekoi #3/#4, Durarara!! Reissue Box on Blu-ray

Aniplex of America confirmed the details of its Blu-ray Disc releases of Koimonogatari and Nisekoivolumes 3 and 4, as well as its reissue of the Durarara!! Complete Blu-ray Box Set, at its Otakon Las Vegas panel on Friday.

The English-subtitled Koimonogatari set will have all six episodes of the Hitagi End arc (the fifth arc in Monogatari Series Second Season) on two Blu-ray Discs for US$74.98 (US$59.98 at retail). The February 24 box will feature:

Video Contents

• Textless Openings (Hitagi Solo & Duet Versions)
• Textless Ending
• Promotional Video & Commercial Collections

Packaged Bonuses

• Deluxe Booklet
• Pinup Postcard Set
• Package Illustrated by Character Designer Akio Watanabe

Pre-orders will begin on Friday, January 16.

Nisekoi volumes 3 and 4 will ship on Blu-ray Disc on March 31 and May 26, respectively. Volume 3 will have episode 11-15, and volume 4 will have the final episodes of the first season(16 to 20).

Each volume will feature:

• Spoken Language: Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Number of Disc: 1
• Total Run Time: About 125 min.
• Rating: 13 UP
• Textless Ending (All-Star Version in #3, Heroines Version in #4)
• Textless Ending (Marika Version in #3, Chitoge & Kosaki Version in #4)
• Collectible Ending Card Pin-ups
• Deluxe Poster and Package Illustrated by Nobuhiro Sugiyama (Character Designer/Chief Animation Director)
• Bushiroad's Collectible Weiss Schwarz Exclusive PR Card (while supplies last)

Pre-orders will begin on Friday, January 16. Each volume will list for US$64.98 (US$49.98 at retail).

Similar to the earlier Limited Edition BD Lunch Box Set, theDurarara!! Complete Blu-ray Box Set will include the entire 24-episode television series and two original video anime episodes with the English dub on five Blu-ray Discs. This set will ship on April 7 with the following features:

• Video: 16:9 HD Widescreen
• Audio: English and Japanese
• Subtitles: English and Japanese
• Episodes: All 26 episodes (24 TV episodes + 2 OVA episodes)
• Total length of more than 600 minutes!!
• Bonus Videos: Textless Openings and Endings

Pre-orders will begin on Friday, January 16.

Update: The Durarara!! reissue will not include the earlier edition's lunch box or the other bonuses not listed above. The reissue box will list for US$159.98 (US$129.98 at retail).

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Digimonstory Cybersleuth PS Vita Game Gets Manga One-Shot

Game ships in Japan March 12

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This year's March issue of Shueisha's V Jump will announce on Wednesday that Media Vision'sDigimonstory Cybersleuth PS Vita game will get a one-shot manga adaptation in the April issue on February 21. Ikumi Fukuda (Shin Megami Tensei 4 Demonic Gene manga) will draw the manga.

The game's story will follow either a female or male protagonist, depending on the player's choice. When strange phenomena begin occurring, the protagonistbecomes a "Cybersleuth," and searches for the truthbehind the mysteries along with his or her Digimon and their other human allies, Arata Sanada and Nokia Shiromine.

Artist and manga creator Suzuhito Yasuda (Durarara!!, Yozakura Quartet, Kamisama Kazoku) will once again provide the character designs for the game. Manga artist Oh! great (Air Gear, Tenjho Tenge) also designed a monster for the game.

The game will ship in Japan on March 12.

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Japan's Animation TV Ranking, December 29-January 4

New Year's specials air and TV ratings dip

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One Piece: Episode of Chopper + Fuyu ni Saku, Kiseki no Sakura aired on Fuji TV on Wednesday, December 31 at 9:00 p.m. and earned a 3.3% rating. Gekijōban Gintama Kanketsu-hen: Yorozuya yo Eien Nare aired on TV Tokyo on Friday, January 2 at 12:45 a.m. and earned a 2.4% rating.Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie aired on TV Tokyo on Thursday, January 1 at 12:35 a.m. and earned a 2.1% rating.

Title	Station	Date	Time	Length	Average Household Rating
Sazae-san	Fuji TV	January 4 (Sun)	18:30	30 min.	13.5
Chibi Maruko-chan	Fuji TV	January 4 (Sun)	18:00	30 min.	8.7
Detective Conan	NTV	January 3 (Sat)	18:00	30 min.	7.8
Kotoshi Saigo no Dora Warai!! Toshiwasure da yo! Doremon 1-Jikan SP(Year-End One-hourDoraemon Special)	TV Asahi	December 30 (Tues)	17:30	60 min.	6.3
The Seven Deadly SinsSpecial Episode - Shinshun (New Year's Party)	TBS	January 4 (Mon)	17:00	30 min.	2.8
Oshoukatsu Zura! Yōkai Watch Monge Medetai 2-Jikan Special (New Year's Two-Hour Yōkai Watch Special	TV Tokyo	January 3 (Sat)	08:00	115 min.	2.7
Pokémon XY Dai-Hakuryoku Battle Zenbu Mimasu Special	TV Asahi	December 31 (Wed)	08:00	55 min.	2.2
Animation Hitsuji no Shaun (Shaun the Sheep) Selection	NHK-E	January 3 (Sat)	09:25	20 min.	2.0
Animated O-saru no George (Curious George) Special	NHK-E	January 3 (Sat)	08:25	60 min.	1.9
Animated O-saru no George (Curious George) Selection	NHK-E	January 1 (Thurs)	08:20	25 min.	1.6

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Upcoming Anime

	Name & Description	Premiere date
	Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal (TV 2015)	2015-01-17
	Isuca (TV) Asano begins work as the housekeeper for the old family of Shimazu, where he meets the ill-mannered, selfish, beautiful Sakaya. She is actually the 37th head of the Shimazu family in charge of sealing away monsters with Spirit Archery. Discovering that he has the powers of "true names" and "true eyes,"Asano becomes wrapped up in Sakaya's battle with the monsters as her assistant.	2015-01-23
	Go! Princess Precure (TV)	2015-02-01
	Labyrinth of Grisaia (TV)	2015-03
	Eden of Grisaia (TV)	2015-03
	Mysterious Joker (TV 2)	2015-04-06
	Takamiya Nasuno Desu! (TV)	2015-04
	Hōkago no Pleiades (TV)	2015-04
	Gintama (TV 4)	2015-04
	Nisekoi: (TV)	2015-04

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