Total derived from panic novel Metal project begins this summer (updated)

The band of jacket wraparound in new volumes of Full Metal Panic! Sigma manga announced that the imprint of Fujimi Fantasia Bunko of Kadokawa will release a new Full Metal Panic! design of novel of spin this summer. The previously disclosed collection of Full Metal Panic! Stories will be also published in the same period. The history of the new draft of novel laying down more than a decade after the story in the original series.

Shoji Gatoh, the author of the original Full Metal Panic! series of novels, written and had supervised the new draft of the novel, but Naoto Oguro write the actual text. Shikidouji is reprising his role as the illustrator of the novel, and Kanetake Ebikawa is contributing to the mechanical designs. Gatoh indicated in January that "a small interesting project related Full Metal is in the works".

Last June, the American publisher Tokyopop revealed their plans to publish the volumes fourth and fifth of the original Full Metal Panic! series of novels in 2011. TOKYOPOP includes two volumes in a book in February before announcing that it will close its American publication operations this month. Full Metal Panic! It focuses on a group of mercenaries called Mithril in a parallel Earth in which did not end the cold war in 1991. The main final volumes in the original series sent in Japan last summer.

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New Lupin III project to air this fall (updated)

A television advertisement announced Friday that a new project of Lupin III television has been given the go-ahead to air this fall on the NTV network. Mantan Web site of the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said that about a year and a half since the last work of new Lupin III, Lupin III: the final work. The last work was 17.6 in Tokyo Kanto area when it aired in February 2010.

The various projects of anime Lupin III adaptation manga of Monkey Punch on a thief who embarks on its many comedians capers while commented on his nemesis of police, Inspector Zenigata. Monkey Punch released the manga Futabasha Manga action magazine in 1967. The manga has already led to three television series, six films and an irregular series of special two-hour television that began in 1989. The Lupin III vs Detective Conan special was aired in March 2009 and was 19.5 in Kanto.

Update: More information on aggregate Fund.

Update 2: The site of Animeanime.biz confirms the news that the new project will be a new television series.
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New original Sakura by Ufotable no Ondo listed project

The official website of Machi-Asobi vol. 6 posted an update this week to announce that Sakura no Ondo, a new original studio ufotable project, will be revealed during the event may 3-5 of the Japanese prefecture of southwest of Tokushima. Key visual art project will be also presented at the impromptu Hashinoshita Bijutsukan display under a bridge.

The event had previously revealed that promotional videos for the other two projects — type-Moon fate/Zero ufotable and Carnival Phantasm/type-Moon/LARC — will be screened at the event, as well as an announcement of a new work Gonzo.
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