In a bit of news kicking off the summer convention season are a few licensing announcements from Funimation Entertainment:

Monday: Mamotte! Lollipop
Tuesday: Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple
Wednesday: Gunslinger Girl 2
Thursday: Soukou no Strain
Friday: Shigurui

Although this wraps up the Funimation release week, I will be updating this post with more possible news coming out of ACEN this weekend.

Also, as a reminder, don't forget to get pre-orders in for upcoming volumes of Negima by Del Rey, as well as the Vol. 1 DVD release of Otoboku by Media Blasters coming up soon.

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Some of you may remember our old Editor-in-Chief, Athos. As it so happens, the A-man is still doing work on our side project Zero no Tsukaima, and has just now finished work on the ninth chapter of Zero no Tsukaima. Kudos to the ZnT team (all two[?] of them) for their contribution. Please do enjoy, everybody.

Chapter 9: DDL, Torrent


Note: For those of you who are curious (read: all of you), exam season has hit our editing staff like a ton of bricks, so the normal release of Negima will be slowed for the next 2 releases or so. We apologize for the delays and ask that you understand that our team is allowed to focus on their real life commitments before anything else.

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A few months ago, I stumbled upon an interesting little manga whilst browsing new releases in Little Tokyo. The manga, titled "Chrome Shelled Regios", tells the tale of a young girl named Nina and her role as the commander of a small platoon of guards in the Academy City of Zuellni. The manga itself is based on a series of light novels set in an alternate world ruined by pollution. Another manga is currently being serialized which follows the novel's main character, Reyphon. There is also an anime in production.

Captivated by the art and the characters, I propositioned the team to work on scanning the manga as a side project. Today, after almost 3 months of slow progression, we finally have a finished product to present to you. It's not much, but feel free to read and enjoy. We hope this marks the beginning of the Aquastar Manga division's journey into new series.

Now, without further ado...

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Just announced today on Right Stuf International's website, they have announced that they have picked up the license for Aria the Animation. Based on the manga by Kozue Amano, the boxset for the 1st season (13 epsiodes) is due out on 9/30/2008.

Pre-orders are available at Right Stuf's online store:

Aria - Season 1 complete set (sub only)

Official Site: Aria the Animation - Right Stuf Intl / Nozomi Ent.

Source: AnimeonDVD.com

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The kids are back in school- MAGIC SCHOOL! Coming to you live from the Magic World is the number one moronic duo of all time-- Yue and her fantastic talking dog, Collet! Yes, there's action, suspense, drama, passion... maybe.

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Some news coming out of NYCC this weekend:

Licenses:
Bandai Ent. - Gurren Lagann, Gundam 00. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Funimation Ent. - No new announcements
Viz Media - No new announcements

Notes:
Note that ADV Films was previously the US license holder for Gurren Lagann. Series is scheduled to begin released sub only first this summer in July, with a dubbed release coming up in early 2009.

I will update this post as we receive more news over the weekend.

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Today's release coming from our fansub division is the 1st of the brand new OVA series of To Heart 2, based on Leaf/Aquaplus's newest PC game release in the To Heart 2 series Another Days.

Takaaki has lost his memory and can't remember anything, especially the girls that he's become close with. Everyone decides to help Takaaki in filling in the gaps in his memory, though some of them do it with some of their own motives in mind. So what exactly happened that caused this in the first place? Tama-nee seems to know.

Special Thanks goes out to the members of TWH and Sprocket-Hole for helping us with distro on this release. Keep checking back with us for updates on our other ongoing projects.

Enjoy the episode and don't forget to help seed!

To Heart 2 ad - Episode 1 (XviD)
To Heart 2 ad - Episode 1 (h264)

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God's in His Heaven and All is Right in the World.

Chapter 210: DDL, DDL2,Torrent

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The folks at Aquastar rush onto the scene with a new bidding for the magic-hungry! That's right, it's Negima Superstar Heroes! With the start of the Dark Chapters, Negima is finally going on broadway! See your local box office for ticket listings.

Chapter 209: DDL, DDL 2, Torrent

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If you haven't played Portal yet...you fail. Go buy it now.
Yes, the cake is a lie ;_; but when you're dead I willl still be alive...alive...ALIVE! muwahahahahaha :insert caek:

Chapter 208: DDL, Torrent

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