Light Reading

ANN reports that The Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi film will open in theaters in Spring 2010. It will be based on the fourth book in the light novel series by Nagaru Tanigawa.
The Suzumiya Haruhi light novel series is being released in English through Little, Brown and Company, and the manga series is being released [...]

Either Haikasoru’s licensing of Loups-Garous was highly felicitous or they had an inside line on the news that Loups-Garous is being adapted into an anime film to be released in 2010. Bandai Visual, Kitty, Kinoshita Koumuten, Dentsu, and Mixi are co-producing the film which will be animated by Project I.G. and Transarts.
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Crunchyroll will be streaming Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu 2 ~Purezza~, the second season of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, based on the light novel series by Yuusaku Igarashi.
Here’s the Crunchyroll blurb:
Picking up where we left off from the first season, we’ll be able to follow Yūto and Haruka through more adventures together! This fan-favorite will launch [...]

Crunchyroll has announced that Friday at 7:30 a.m. it will begin simulcasting the Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra anime based on the light novel series by Ishio Yamagata.
In a world where the dead are transformed into books…
When a person dies, the body is divested of the soul, and when the soul departs from its [...]

There’s a bit of new licensing news from the New York Anime Festival. ANN reports that Haikasoru confirms that it will be releasing Loups-Garous by Natsuhiko Kyogoku (Requiem from the Darkness) in January 2010 and Slum Online by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (All You Need is Kill and Yokuwakaru Gendai Maho) in March 2010 which were [...]