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Weekly Wrapup 15/5 - 21/5
posted on by Georgia Blair
Darker than Black. No release dates have been announced as yet.
A new established a consulting firm for producing animation for advertising and other purposes.
The popular BONES previously adapted the manga to a 26-episode television anime.
Veteran art director Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, and Mashi Productions noted that he continued to work in the industry as recently as 2008.
Japan's National Diet Library and the planning a cultural preservation project for Japanese media. Part of the project will include collaborating and maintaining bibliographic information on anime, manga and video games. The Japanese government has put forward several plans to preserve anime and manga, including a manga museum also covering anime, games and other media, to be finished in 2014.
Finally, the first virus to affect Japanese smartphones has been discovered--in an pirated version of an anime app. Security firm Symantec Clannad.
