Accel World Voice Actress Sachika Misawa Treated for Heatstroke

The staff for voice actress Sachika Misawa reported on Saturday that she was diagnosed with heatstroke after she collapsed in her home. Misawa is now resting while she is being treated at a hospital.

As a result, she will not be appearing on Saturday's Anikin~Skytree Radio program as scheduled. The staff apologized to all those involved and the fans. Misawa will try to recover enough to attend the Ani-plugged concert in Tokyo's shibuya duo Music Exchange venue on Sunday.

Misawa played Kuroyukihime/Black Lotus in Accel World, and her other roles include Yuri Gamagoori inShangri-La, Cafe and Miki Mori in Yumeiro Pâtissière, Arianna in Campione!, Momoko in Angel's Drop, and Kagami Totori in Fantasista Doll.

Temperatures reached 33°C (91°F) with humidty above 70% in Tokyo on Saturday, and it was even higher earlier in the week. 17 people died in Japan during last week's heat wave.

Source: ANN via Hachima Kikō

"Watamote" Theme Song Single Cover Art Previewed

Anime's new superstar of awkwardness Tomoko Kuroki is gearing up to take the music world by sweaty storm with the 28 August release of Watamote's opening and end theme singles. To hype the occasion, the official site for the series has published previews of the release's cover art.

Image source: Crunchyroll

"No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (Wata Mote)"

Intro Theme: Watashi ga Motenai no wa Do Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui  - limited edition with DVD

Fourth single release from Suzuki Konomin, peforming with Kiba Of Akiba. Includes illustrated jacket. Also comes with music clip, making of, promotion video by Production I.G and much more on DVD.

Features anime version of the song, Kiba of Akiba version, Konomi Suzuki version and off vocal, as well as Tears BREAKER as an off vocal version.

Standard edition

Image source: Crunchyroll

Image source: Crunchyroll

End theme single, featuring Izumi Kitta's “Dou Kangaete mo Watashi wa Warukunai” as well as new character songs with Izumi Kitta as Tomoko Kuroki and Kana Hanazawa as Yuu Naruse.

Source: Crunchyroll

Otaku Still Celebrate Mugi’s Birthday in Style

Fans of gentleman’s choice moeblob Tsumugi Kotobuki are celebrating her 02 July birthday even now, with the usual impressive devotions on display and still only the subtlest hints of any further developments on the K-ON! front, in the form of a mysterious resumption of the Raji-On radio show after several years of inactivity and a trickle of new official art…

Here's some of the pictures found (Images are © by their respective owner).

So, Happy Birthday, Mugi-chan!

Source: Sankaku Complex

Log Horizon Fantasy Novels Get TV Anime By Satelight

Motoya Matsu's manga adaptation of Mamare Touno's Log Horizon fantasy novel series is revealing on Saturday that the story is getting a television anime adaptation. The anime studio Satelight is producing the planned 25-episode series for airing on the public broadcaster NHK's E-Tele channel this fall.

Image source: ANN.

The story begins when 30,000 Japanese gamers are trapped in the fantasy online game world Elder Tale. What was once a "sword-and-sorcery world" is now the "real world." The main lead Shiroe attempts to survive with his old friend Naotsugu and the beautiful assassin Akatsuki.

Touno debuted his novel on the user-generated content site Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2010. Matsu launched his Log Horizon Gaiden Honey Moon Logs manga adaptation in ASCII Media Works' Monthly Comic Deneaki Daioh magazine last year, and the latest installment is running in the magazine's March issue this Saturday. Kazuhiro Hara began serializing the main manga adaptation on Enterbrain's Famitsu Comic Clear website last year, and Koyuki began drawing another manga called Log Horizon ~Nishikaze no Ryodan~ in Fujimi Shobo's Age Premium website last year also.

Source: 0takomu and ANN.

Happy New Year 2013 and Happy 2nd Anniversary, Anime Section!

 

Happy New Year 2013, everyone! And also, Happy 2nd anniversary to Anime Section! First introduced as Facebook page, then to Blogger, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube. Hope 2013 will be better than last year.

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