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The combined 35/36th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing the main cast of the 2011 television anime adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi’s Hunter x Hunter manga on Monday:

• Megumi Han (live-action Otomen) as Gon Freecs
• Mariya Ise as Killua Zaoldyeck
• Keiji Fujiwara as Leorio
• Miyuki Sawashiro as Kurapika
• Daisuke Namikawa as Hisoka

The same characters were played by the following cast members in the earlier 1999-2001 anime:

• Junko Takeuchi as Gon Freecs
• Kanako Mitsuhashi as Killua Zaoldyeck
• Hozumi Gôda as Leorio
• Yuki Kaida as Kurapika
• Hiroki Takahashi as Hisoka

The “definitive” new anime will premiere on NTV on October 2 and run every Sunday at 10:55 a.m. NTV opened a web page for the new anime, which will retell the manga’s story from the beginning.

Hiroshi Koujina (Rainbow – Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin, Neuro – Supernatural Detective) will direct the anime at MADHOUSE (Death Note, NANA), and Atsushi Maekawa (Dragon Ball Z, Fresh Precure!) is in charge of the scripts. Takahiro Yoshimatsu (“Something Yoshimatsu” of Future GPX Cyber Formula, Slayers) is designing the characters, while Toshio Nakatani is producing.

Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine is confirming that the television anime version of Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail fantasy adventure manga will continue into its third year this September. The third year will begin with the “Tenrōjima” story arc.

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The upcoming television anime adaptation of the Hunter X Hunter manga will have a new staff and cast compared to the 1999-2001 television anime, and it will retell the story from the manga from the beginning. The “definitive” new anime will premiere on NTV on October 2 and run every Sunday at 10:55 a.m. NTV opened a web page for the new anime.

Hiroshi Koujina (Rainbow – Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin, Neuro – Supernatural Detective) will direct the anime at MADHOUSE (Death Note, NANA), and Jun Maekawa (Dragon Ball Z, Fresh Precure!) is in charge of the scripts. Takahiro Yoshimatsu (“Something Yoshimatsu” of Future GPX Cyber Formula, Slayers) is designing the characters, while Toshio Nakatani is producing. The cast is slated to be announced later.

The manga has sold 52 million copies, and Yoshihiro Togashi will resume the manga in the combined 35/36th issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine next Monday. The 29th compiled book volume (pictured right) of the manga is shipping on Thursday.

A promotional campaign for the Hunter X Hunter manga has confirmed that a television anime series has been green-lit to air this fall. More details will be provided in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.

Ritz Kobayashi, artist and writer of the Saki mahjong manga, announced on Wednesday that the series would go on a three-week hiatus as of this past week’s issue of Square Enix’s Young Gangan magazine. Kobayashi stated that the hiatus was not necessarily due to illness but due to the manga’s slow, painstaking progress.

The manga has been running in Young Gangan since 2006, and Kobayashi went on a similar hiatus in 2009. It was adapted into a 25-episode television series in 2009, and a new television anime project is launching. The story follows Saki Miyanaga, a mahjong player who develops a technique that allows her to play without winning or losing.