Anime News 4/28/09

Kawa no Hikari Anime in Development

The NHK television network has announced an anime TV special adaptation of Hisaki Matsuura’s serialized novel Kawa no Hikari (River’s Light). The environmental awareness story about a family of rats that set off in search of a new home after losing their habitat to human construction has been serialized in the Yomiuri Newspaper since July 2006. The anime adaptation will air on the NHK network on June 20 as part of the network’s “Earth Ecology 2009 Save the Future” project. Voice actress Aya Hirano (Haruhi Suzumiya) has stated on her blog that she will play the role of a puppy in the anime.

Source: Anime News Network

Weiss Survive Anime Announced

Manga creator Takuya Fujima has announced that her Weiß Survive (Weiss Survive) manga serial will be adapted into a series of sixteen 2:30 anime shorts broadcast beginning June 5 as part of the weekly late night Card Gakuen (Card School) card-game-tutorial program. The manga story follows teen boy and girl Takeshi and Michi as they get lost in the Card Battle world and have to win card battles to return home.

Source: Anime News Network

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Announced

Japanese home entertainment news site AV Watch reports that the first Japanese DVD and Blu-ray volume of the second Fullmetal Alchemist television series, known in America as “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood,” will include a bonus original anime. The “Momoku no Renkinjutshi” (Blind Alchemist) OVA will be an adaptation of a short side-story that Fullmetal Alchemist creator Hiromu Arakawa drew for the Fullmetal Alchemist Guidebook. Furthermore, first pressing copies of the DVD & BD disc will also include the first episode of the “Arakawa Hiromu 4-koma Gekijou” (Hiromu Arakawa’s 4-Panel Theater), an anime adaptation of Arakawa’s four panel gag comics.

The first Japanese home video volume of Full Metal Alchemist second series will be released on August 26th.

Source: Anime News Network