The anime follows Harubaru Hinode and his childhood friend and rival Raichi Kuronashi as they battle with their BakuTech, which are superior to normal Bakugan due to special metal parts. Harubaru prefers his Flare Dragaon, while Raichi’s favorite is Destroy Munikis.

BakuTech! Bakugan has been serialized in Monthly Corocoro Comic since September 2010 and has three tankobon volumes so far. It’s unclear if this will be presented as a spin-off or continuation of Bakugan Battle Brawlers, the fourth season of which aired in North America last year. No word yet on broadcast info or staff for BakuTech! Bakugan.

Bessatsu Shonen Magazine reports that Kumeta Koji’s manga “Joshiraku” was announced to get an anime adaptation.

Joshiraku manga official website

Synopsis:

A group of girls discus random things and usually reaches an unusual or humorous conclusion that’s far from the initial discussion topic.

2011 has been a good year for us, a nice new host, a nice new theme and a nice new name but with Uni deadlines and workload vastly increasing I just simply don’t have time to update the site as often as I really want to, so I am looking for some new writers. If you enjoy writing and think you would make a good addition to the team, then continue reading to see what I’m looking for:

• You enjoy/Love Japanese popular culture.
• Keeping up with the latest news on your interests (e.g. JPOP, Cosplay, Anime/Manga, Idols, Tokusatsu etc) is part of your average day

If the few things above describe you well, then you could make a good writer for this site. As a writer, you would have to few posts on a specific aspect (or two) of Japanese popular culture.

If you’d like to apply, drop me an email at asch[.]otakucomplex@gmail[.]com (remove the obvious anti-spam). Nationality is not a problem as long as you are contactable by MSN, Yahoo or Skype or even just email. Here’s what to put in your email:

• 4-5 sentences about yourself, why you’d like to become a writer.
• A couple of links to something you’ve written, if you haven’t written anything no problem write something and stick it in the email.
• Your availability.

Corpse Party is a horror adventure game developed by Team GrisGris which is now available on PSN. It has been published by Xseed Games in North America and Europe. Upon discovering Corpse Party on PSN I felt intrigued to look more into what it entails, the game is a visual novel and though appearing to look cute with it’s SNES-like graphics, it is said to be unsettling and eerie.

The game’s plot features a group of friends in their school at night telling ghost stories, wanting to remember that night together they create a charm and happen to perform a ritual, this in turn causes disasterous effects as the group becomes seperated after awaking in Heavenly Host Elementary School. The game plays out as a survival horror and the characters will come across puzzles and clues which you have to solve and discover – finding corpses and the terrible ways that they have been murdered and why. The game features multiple endings.

I have purchased the game and  I shall make a short spoiler free review of how I find the visuals, the music and the playability; and whether it comes to my expectations.  (:

Happy New Year from everybody here at Sekijitsu Shinbun. Have a great celebration and lets move onto 2012. It’s gonna be a good year.

Pan Tachibana’s light novel with illustrations by Yoshiaki Katsurai, Dakara Boku wa H ga Dekinai!(roughly “So I can’t be dirty!“), is to be animated.  The animation will be produced by feel.

Synopsis:

Ryosuke is the top sleezeball in school, but he makes a contract with the beautiful death goddess Lisala (Risala? Lisara? Take your pick for the moment…) in which she lives with him, but he can’t be his normal pervy self around any girls. Unfortunately, this arrangement is not quite what he had in mind…

According to Jump Square magazine, a new manga series of Rurouni Kenshin was announced to start in the magazine from May 4th 2012. Details of the manga will be revealed in the later issues.

Source: Scan of Jump SQ

Murata Mayu’s manga “Nagareboshi Lens” will be getting an anime adaptation. It will be shown at a live event of Ribbon Magazine next spring.

At the event, an anime of Kasumi Yuko’s manga “Marimo no Hana ~Sakyo Butoha Shogakusei Densetsu~” will be shown as well.

Marimo no Hana manga official website

Marimo no Hana is a battle action manga. Marimo, a 10 year old calm girl, turns into a mighty street fighter and beats up delinquent kids.

Source: Mainichi

At a live conference streamed on Niconico Live, Yamaguchi Yu’s light novel “Arve Rezzle -Kikaijikake no Yoseitachi-” was announced to get an anime adaptation. It will be released next summer.

Cover art of Arve Rezzle
Cover art of the second chapter

Synopsis:
A cyber battle sci-fi. In 2022, the technology of the quantum computing has greatly advanced and many people transfers their mind into the cyber space. Remu’s sister-in-law Shiki skipped grades and entered a high school in an academic city “Okinotori-island Mega Float City (OMFC)” when she was 14. One day, Shiki confessed to her brother via Skype that she was talking to him directly from the cyber space and her real body had been kept in a water tank filled with culture medium. It’s called “Body pool” and Shiki connected to the network by nanomachines implanted in her brain. Remu was surprised but he accepted her decision until the accident called “Early Rupture” happened. The network server got overloaded and the minds of the users were lost in the cyber space leaving soulless living bodies in the Body Pools. In order to bring Shiki’s mind back, Remu visits her apartment in OMFC and there he meets Shiki escaped from the hospital. But the girl tells him that she is not Shiki and she happens to take over Shiki’s body. When Remu tries to figure out the situation, a violent attack strikes the apartment.

Sources: Niconico Live Archive,
Kodansha Box Air

According to Afternoon magazine, Ueshiba Riichi’s drool & scissors manga “Nazo no Kanojo X” was announced to get a TV anime adaptation.
Nazo no Kanojo X manga official website

Source: Scan of Afternoon