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Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine launches a new gag comedy manga for manga creator Hideki Ohwada (Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku). Titled Sengoku Yankee the manga is about fools in Japan's warring-states period. Centered on "foolish" military commanders during Japan's strife torn Sengoku era.



Publisher Takeshobo announced last month that an anime adaptation of the Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku manga has been given the green light. The manga is a political parody of a fictionalized version of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. In the anime the Prime Minister plays a special form of 'Mahjong Diplomacy" against foreign adversaries such as George W. Bush, Kim Jong-il, Vladimir Putin, Margaret Thatcher among others.

The issue bundles a "Osada-bon" booklet about the artwork of Neon Genesis Evangelion manga creator and Summer Wars chearacter designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. Already bursting with new content the same third issue of Young Ace is starting a new vampire comedy manga called Blood-Rad by manga creator Yuki Kodama.

Source: Anime News Network

An anime adaptation of Hotaru Odagiri's Uragiri wa Boku no Namae o Shitteiru boys-love manga has been given the green light, as reported by a retailers' solicitation sheet. The official announcement of the anime will be made in the October issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Asuka magazine on August 24. The manga series has been running in Asuka monthly since 2005 and the sixth compiled book volume will ship on August 26th.

Source: Anime News Network

The Kadokawa Anime Channel on the YouTube streaming website has officially posted the first eight episodes of the "renewed" airing of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya television anime series with English subtitles this past weekend.

The eighth episode, "The Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody," happens to be the first new Haruhi episode that Kyoto Animation produced since the anime's original 2006 run.

The English-subtitled episodes will be available until July 5 (July 6 at 12:59 p.m. Japan Standard Time). Kadokawa has been streaming each episode in Japanese one week after its broadcast since last month.

Source: Anime News Network

Volume two of Kadokawa Shoten's Macross Ace magazine shipped in Japan on Friday. Included in the second volume there is a new manga series based on the Macross science-fiction franchise. The First story in the Macross Frontier drama CDs has been adapted by artist Megane Kikuya (.hack//XXX) into Nyan-Dra: Alto Meets Sky.

Alto Saotome is a pilot of a transforming space fighter and is also the main character in last year's Macross Frontier television series. Macross Frontier has inspired at least five earlier manga series.

The magazine is also continuing the serialization of the Super Dimension Fortress Macross the First, the manga retelling of the first Macross television series and movie by original character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto.
The character designer and animation director of Macross Frontier, Yuichi Takahashi, is also drawing a four-panel manga called Vajranpo. Macross A Shuccho-go. There are also interviews with Lynn Minmay voice actress and singer Mari Lijima, acclaimed mechanical animation designer Ichiro Itano, Full Metal Panic! creator Shoji Gatoh and Macross mechanical illustrator Hidetaka Tenjin to be found within this second volume of the magazine.

The next volume of Macross Ace is scheduled to ship in the middle of November — the same month

There is a new Gundam manga in the August issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Gundam Ace magazine which shipped on Friday. The first few chapters of Masato Natsumoto's Kidō Senshi Gundam Senki U.C. 0081-Suiten no Namida- (Mobile Suit Gundam Battlefield Record U.C. 0081: Tears of the Seas and Skies) manga and Tsukasa Kotobuki's Kidō Senshi Gundam: Day after Tomorrow ~Kai Shiden no Memory yori~ (Mobile Suit Gundam: Day after Tomorrow: From Kai Shiden's Memories) manga are included in the issue.

In the same issue, Meimu's manga adaptation of the computer-animated Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: Jūryoku Sensen video series and Yoshihiro Sono's Kidō Senshi Gundam: Orera Renpō Guren-tai manga have sadly come to an end. The next issue of the magazine will ship in July with the first chapters of writer Tomohiro Chiba and artist Koichi Tokita's Mobile Suit Gundam 00I manga, and Mizuho Takayama's tentatively titled Kidō Senshi Gundam: Zeon MS Shōnen Yūgeki Tokka-hei manga. Previews of these upcoming titles are included in the current issue.

Source: Anime News Network

The Kadokawa Anime Channel on Youtube has released the trailer to Summer Wars, the new anime movie from Mamoru Hosoda, the mastermind behind TokiKake (The Girl who Leapt Through Time). The film, centering on a family dealing with the intersection of their reality and a world called Oz, is set to open in Japan on August 1st.

Source: ANN

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