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The official Twitter account for Shueisha’s Super Dash Bunko imprint confirmed on Wednesday that a new project in the R.O.D franchise is planned for the imprint’s new Super Dash & Go! manga/light novel magazine. The project in the works is tentatively titled R.O.D -R, and the magazine just launched on Tuesday.

The original 2000-2006 R.O.D Read or Die light novel series inspired a 2001-2002 video anime series that Manga Entertainment once released in North America. Geneon Entertainment (then known as Pioneer) released the 2003-2004 television series sequel. Aniplex of America then released the -R.O.D -The Complete- Blu-ray box set – with both anime projects.

Disney began streaming a trailer for the North American-dubbed version of Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Studio Ghibli’s Arrietty film on Tuesday. The film, which will be titled The Secret World of Arrietty, will receive a theatrical run in North America starting on February 17. That’s still a bit away from now so perhaps I’ll spend my time playing online bingo till then.

The movie originally opened in Japanese theaters in July 2010 with supervision by Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. It ran in theaters in the UK in August with a different English dub cast.

The film which re-imagines Mary Norton’s 1952 novel The Borrowers by moving the story to a Tokyo suburb revolves around Arrietty, a member of the “little people” who live under the floorboards of a regular human family’s home, and their struggle to remain hidden from the human “beans.”

Producer Frank Marshall revealed in January that Bridgit Mendler is voicing the title character. Joining her in the cast are Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, David Henrie, and Carol Burnett.