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Broadcast Schedule Confirmed for "Blue Exorcist :Kyoto Saga"

The son of Satan is back for another round starting next month when Blue Exorcist -Kyoto Saga- premieres.

The new series will air on the following channels:

TBS: Saturdays at 1:55 AM starting January 7
MBS: Saturdays at 2:10 AM starting January 7
CBC: Saturdays at 2:50 AM starting January 7
BS-TBS: Sundays at midnight starting January 8

Attack on Titan Season 2 Gets a Release Date

Attack on Titan is finally getting ready to return for a second season, which mean that it's time for Hiroyuki Sawano to think up some more confounding titles for the tracks of a new soundtrack.  The popular composer closed out November by Tweeting that he's glad to be returning to the format and the series, and is now having fun preparing to record in the new year.

In July, season 2 was announced for spring 2017.

Original: Hajime Isayama  (Bessatsu Shonen Magazine / Kodansha)
Chief Director: Tetsuro Araki
Director: Masashi Koizuka
Series configuration: Yasuko Kobayashi
Character Design: Kyoji Asano
Chief Animation Director: Kyoji Asano, Satoshi Kadowaki, Ayumi Yamada
Assistant director: Hiroyuki Tanaka
Action Animation Director: Yasuyuki Ebara, Arifumi Imai, Takuma Ebisu
Art Setting: Yuho Taniuchi
Titan Setting: Takaki Chiba
Color design: Ken Hashimoto
Art Director: Shunichiro Yoshihara
3DCG Director: Hiroshiju Shigenori
3DCG Producer: Yabuta Shuhei
Director of Photography: Yamada, Kazuhiro
Editor: Aya Hida
Acoustic Director: Masafumi Mima
Music: Hiroyuki Sawano
Sound effect: Shizuo Kurahashi
Sound Production: Techno Sound
Animation Production: WIT STUDIO

• Cast
Eren: Yuki Kaji
Mikasa: Yui Ishikawa
Armin: Marina Inoue
Jean: Kisho Taniyama
Annie: Yu Shimamura
Sasha: Yu Kobayashi
Christa: Shiori Mikami
Connie: Hiro Shimono
Reiner: Yoshimasa Hosoya
Bertolt: Tomohisa Hashizume
Ymir: Saki Fujita
Levi: Hiroshi Kamiya
Erwin: Daisuke Ono
Hanji: Romi Park
Hannes: Fujiwara Keiji

M.A.O to Voice One of Three Heroines in TV Anime "One Room"

The official website for SMIRAL animation (Ani Tore!, Makura no Danshi)'s new original short TV anime One Room confirmed today that 24-year-old voice actress M.A.O will voice one of its three heroines, 17-year-old high school girl Yui Hanasaka who will be featured in the first to fourth episodes. M.A.O recently played the lead character Luluco in the Space Patrol Luluco TV anime for Trigger, and is currently voicing Baranowska in Classicaloid, Sayaka Miyata in Keijo!!!!!!!!, and Papika in Flip Flappers.

According to the character description, Yui Hanasaka is a 17-year-old high school girl in the third grade. She had lived in Hokkaido, but recently moved to Tokyo to concentrate on her study for the coming university entrance exam, living with her older sister who is trying find a job. She is neat, serious, and works hard on everything. While being naive and slow, she is also mentally strong and sometimes takes a positive attitude unexpectedly.

"Sabagebu!" Manga Author Posting Countdown Illustrations

The final chapter of Hidekichi Matsumoto's survival game-themed comedy manga series Sabagebu! is published in the January 2017 issue of Kodansha's Nakayoshi shoujo manga magazine released today in Japan. To celebrate the end of the manga's six-year serialization, the author has been posting countdown illustrations on her official Twitter.

The Ancient Magus' Bride Anime's Part 2 Trailer Shows Riichi

Shochiku began streaming a trailer for the second part of The Ancient Magus' Bride: Those Awaiting a Star (Mahō Tsukai no Yome: Hoshi Matsu Hito), the three-part anime based on Kore Yamazaki's manga The Ancient Magus' Bride (Mahō Tsukai no Yome), on Wednesday.

Riichi: Welcome to the Library of the Forest.
Elias: It all began with a book that Chise received.
Chise: The Lonely Little Star
Elias: Chise's past in Japan, and the young man that she met.
Riichi: My name's Riichi. Riichi Miura.
Riichi: It's been a long time since anyone's been come by here. I'm glad.
Riichi: I'll do something special, just for today.
Elias: A previously unknown story in The Ancient Magus' Bride begins here.
Chise: When I'm reading, I can forget about all the bad things.
Chise: What book is that?
Riichi: Oh, that? That's uh... what book was it again?
Chise: It's reading the very last page that I like the most.
Riichi: Chise Hatori, I have something to ask of you.
Chise: Miura!
Elias: The Ancient Magus' Bride: Those Awaiting a Star Part II
Riichi: Something tells me that this book is something you'll need.
Shochiku also revealed a visual for the second part. The text on the visual reads, "I've been waiting for a star like you."

Source: animenewsnetwork

One Piece Film Gold Begins Listing Theaters for U.S. Screenings

The Fandango site began offering pre-sale tickets for the January screenings of the One Piece Film Gold anime movie in North America, and the site offers searches by city or ZIP code. The One Piece Podcast compiled a partial list of participating theaters in the United States. Fandango is not necessarily listing all of the theaters that will eventually screen the film.

IGN previously streamed a video previewing the film's English dub earlier this month.