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.

Girls und Panzer TV Anime Slated for October

The official website for the upcoming Girls und Panzer television anime series revealed on Thursday that the series will begin airing on Japanese television this October.

The story centers around high school girls who drive tanks that exist in real life, as they compete in teams. Tsutomu Mizushima (Squid Girl, Another, Blood-C, XXXHOLiC) is directing the anime at Moetan's studio ACTAS (with 3D CGI by Strike Witches' Graphinica) with Reiko Yoshida (K-ON!, Romeo × Juliet, Saint Seiya Omega) in charge of scripts. Humikane Shimada (Strike Witches, Sky Girls) is in charge of original character designs with assistance by Takeshi Nogami (Strike Witches: The Witches of Andorra, Panzer fräulein ALTESEISEN, Sailor-fuku to Jūsensha).

Source: Saishin Anime Jōhō via ANN.

To LOVE-Ru Darkness TV Anime to be Aired This Fall

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To LOVE-Ru Darkness TV Anime is confirmed to be aired this October!

More details about this will be updated soon.

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Little Busters! TV Anime to be Animated by J. C. Staff

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The news that the long-awaited adaptation of Key eroge Little Busters! is to be handled by J.C. Staff rather than the much hoped for Kyoto Animation has prompted tremendous outpourings of sweet otaku tears in Japan and beyond.

Non-fans of the original can probably be forgiven for not caring at all, but for overexcited Key fans hoping the title would be a blockbuster on par with Clannad the news has been devastating – though whether this is the result of the perceived weakness of J.C. Staff or the extreme strength of Kyoto Animation is still the subject of much anguished debate.

Source: Sankaku Complex.