Magica Wars
The YTV English site has updated with a bit of information for the upcoming season that formalizes what’s going on with several of their series. Episode counts and runtimes tend to be some of the hard pieces to get until the show actually airs in some instances, so getting a little information ahead of time is always welcome and useful.
The File of Young Kindaichi Returns is set for twenty six episodes that will run the traditional “thirty minute” time slot with commercials when it begins.
“He has come back! “Kindaichi Case Files R”is a Japanese mystery manga series based on the crime solving adventures of a high school student, Hajime Kindaichi, the supposed grandson of the famous private detective Kosuke Kindaichi. One day, Kindaichi and his girlfriend Miyuki visit Hong Kong for fasion event, Miyuki is captured by a stranger wrongly. And the tour to save Miyuki will lead to an another crime case…”
Brynhildr in the Darkness is scheduled for thirteen episodes with the traditional “thirty minute” time slot with commercials.
“A high school senior Murakami Ryota had a childhood friend called Kuroneko who died in an accident. Ryota had made a promise with Kuroneko that he will prove there are aliens in the universe. In order to fulfill his promise, he joined the astronomy club at the school as its only member and kept observing the stars almost every night. One day, a girl who looks like Kuroneko transferred into his class . To his surprise, the girl’s name is Kuroha Neko which is really similar to his childhood friend’s name. However it seems that there is something unusual about her. It turns out that she is a witch who actually escaped from a research laboratory.”
Little Astro Boy is set for 8 episodes that will run twelve minutes as part of its edutainment run.
“Little Astro Boy, a new animated television series of Osamu Tezuka’s iconic Astro Boy character, will be premiered at MIPTV 2014. The 12-minute episodes are aimed at preschool children, and they follow the robot boy Astro as he embarks on adventures with his human and robot friends in a future town. Instead of defeating bad guys as an ally of justice, the story will be more about an innocent child who makes mistakes from time to time.”
Magica Wars will run for twenty six episodes when it premieres and they will be four minute episodes.
“The dragon sleeps under the ground of this land…
It gives an abundant harvest on the land when sleeping, but brings a disaster when it is awake.
In every decade or hundreds of years, the dragon moves its body as if it tosses about unconsciously. The movement becomes the distortion and causes impurity. This “impurity” lavishes an evil on people. And now, there is a huge indication of a distortion. Gods foresaw the greatest harm would happen to Japan, divide own power and give it off as a messenger of God (“Shinshi”) in Japan to gather mediums, or “Magica” who can expel the “impurity”. With the magical weapon the power of Gods, “Magica” will fight to stop evils in Japan.”