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The offical website for the Eureka Seven: Astral Ocean (AO) project announced on Friday (in Japan) that a new television version will air on TV in April 2012.The anime studio, BONES will come back to animate the sequel.

The anime studio BONES created the original Eureka Seven anime television series in 2005, and continued until 2006. The series inspired the 2009 movie, Eureka Seven: Good night, Sleep tight, Young Lovers.. Bandai Entertainment released both anime projects in North America. Bandai Entertainment also released the official Eureka Seven manga adaption by Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou, and the Eureka Seven: Gravity Boys and Lifting Girls manga spinoff by Miki Kizuki.

2012′s third issue of Shueisha’s Young Jump magazine is announcing on Thursday that manga creator Lynn Okamoto (Elfen Lied, Nononono) is launching a new series titled Kiwaguro no Brynhildr in the ninth issue on January 26. The tagline for the manga reads, “‘I killed my girlfriend…!’ A dark fantasy of pure love!!”

In the 19th issue of Futabasha’s Great Mechanics magazine that shipped on Thursday, Bandai Hobby staff member Toshiaki Baba revealed that a side project of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE is now in the early stages for existing Gundam fans.

Baba emphasized that the project is for grown-ups, and that the staff intends to make it a “thoroughly dark” story that “even fans of [the first Gundam anime's] Universal Century timeline can be satisified with.” He did not specify what medium that project will be in.

Baba and Great Mechanics’ interviewer were discussing how the main Mobile Suit Gundam AGE project has major elements aimed at children, such as the manga in Shogakukan’s Monthly Corocoro Comic magazine.

Sunrise, the anime studio behind the Gundam franchise, is collaborating with game developer Level-5 and its president, Akihiro Hino, on Gundam AGE. The anime premiered on October 9.

Next year’s combined 3rd/4th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday that a third television anime series based on Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba’s Bakuman. manga has been green-lit for Fall of 2012.

In the original manga from the creators of Death Note, a junior high school student strives to become a manga artist with the encouragement of two classmates: an aspiring writer and an aspiring voice actress. The manga has been running since 2008, and it inspired the first anime adaptation in fall of 2010. The second anime followed this past October.

Media Blasters licensed the first two television seasons for North America.