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Infinite Stratos’ Yumizuru Reports Declining Health

Posted by: Sai_Hikaru on: August 23rd, 2010

Izuru Yumizuru, the author best known for the IS (Infinite Stratos) light novel series, posted a Wednesday blog entry about deteriorating health conditions that are leading to a lack of interest in writing more. Yumizuru posted that the resulting increased medication — around 20 pills on one particular morning — has cause side effects such as general fatigue. Due to an impaired sense of taste, cola and even plain water tastes extremely bitter. Yumizuru is taking sleep medication to battle insomnia, but is experiencing nightmares.

Media Factory’s MF Bunko imprint shipped the fifth Infinite Stratos light novel volume in June after announcing that a television anime adaptation was green-lit. Director Yasuhito Kikuchi and the studio 8-Bit are working on the anime.

Composer Bice Wrote K-On!! Song Before Passing Away

Posted by: Sai_Hikaru on: August 19th, 2010

The listings for the newest K-ON!! CD singles have revealed that the late singer-composer Bice wrote a song for K-ON!! before she passed away in July. As reported last month, Bice’s official website announced on July 30 that she passed away in her home on July 26 due to a heart attack. The K-ON!! song she wrote, “Gohan wa Okazu,” appeared in episode 20, which just aired on Tuesday. As recently as two days before her passing, she wrote on her blog about writing a song for a popular anime.

Bice made her debut on a major label with her self-titled maxi-single in 1998. She worked on the soundtracks for the Mahoraba ~Heartful days~ and Kirarin Revolution television anime series, as well as the soundtrack for the PlayStation 2 game Rimokokoron. (She worked on Mahoraba ~Heartful days~ under the stage name Anne.) She also performed the “Like Someone in Love” opening theme song for the Japanese live-action television adaptation of Yayoi Ogawa’s Kimi wa Pet (Tramps Like Us) manga.

Freezing Manga’s TV Anime Confirmed for Next Spring

Posted by: Sai_Hikaru on: August 13th, 2010

The official website of the Freezing franchise has confirmed that a television anime adaptation of Lim Dal-Young and Kim Kwang-Hyun’s manga will premiere in Japan in Spring of 2011. The production company Media Factory also made the announcement at its Comic Market 78 booth at the Tokyo Big Sight event center on Friday. The story revolves around Kazuya, a boy who lost his sister in humankind’s fight against beings from another dimension. He enrolls in Genetics, a military academy for combat training against the dimensional beings. There, a group of girls known as “Pandora” prepare to fight the unknown enemy.

The manga has been running in Kill Time Communication’s Comic Valkyrie magazine since 2006, and the seventh compiled book volume shipped in March.

New K-On!! Songs Are on Weekly Singles Chart

Posted by: Sai_Hikaru on: August 10th, 2010

The market survey firm Oricon reported on Tuesday that the new ending and opening theme songs for the K-ON!! television anime series ranked #2 and #3, respectively, on the singles sales chart for the week of August 2-8. The fictional five-girl band Ho-kago no Tea Time’s “No, Thank You!” sold 87,000 copies, while the band’s “Utauyo!! Miracle” sold 85,000 copies. Only “This is Love,” the first new single in a year from the male idol group SMAP, topped Ho-kago no Tea Time’s songs this past week.

The anime’s first set of opening and ending theme songs, “Go! Go! Maniac” and “Listen!!” ranked #1 and #2 in their first week of sales this past spring. That feat made Ho-kago no Tea Time only the third female act to ever rank one-two simultaneously on the chart and the first to do so in 26 years.

K-ON!! is the second television anime series based on kakifly’s K-On! four-panel comedy manga about a group of high school girls who form a band. Voices actresses Aki Toyosaki (Yui Hirasawa), Y?ko Hikasa (Mio Akiyama), Satomi Satou (Ritsu Tainaka), Minako Kotobuki (Tsumugi Kotobuki), and Ayana Taketatsu (Azusa Nakano) perform as their respective characters in the anime’s soundtrack and the related CD releases. Both the original manga and the ongoing anime are scheduled to end next month. Bandai Entertainment announced at Anime Expo in July that it licensed the first K-On! television series, and Yen Press licensed the original manga. The parent company of the Japanese television station TBS reported that it earned 1.8 billion yen (about US$20 million) in sales of K-ON!! anime t-shirts and other tie-in characters goods from April 1 to June 30.

Thank You !

Posted by: Sai_Hikaru on: August 9th, 2010

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