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Level E, Hourou Musuko, Wolverine, Koisento Promos Streamed

TV Tokyo has opened a website for the television anime adaptation of the Level E manga with a two-minute streaming promotional video. Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter x Hunter, Yu Yu Hakusho) created this story about "Prince" (Daisuke Namikawa), an alien who shares an apartment with a high school freshman named Yukitaka Tsutsui (Yoshimasa Hosoya). The cast includes Takehito Koyasu (Craft), Satomi Akesaka (Miho Edogawa), Masaya Takatsuka (Sado), Takumi Asahina (Corinne), and Fumihiko Tachiki (Narrator). Studio Pierrot and David Production are co-producing the project for a January 2011 premiere in Japan.

The official website for the Wandering Son (Hourou Musuko) television anime series began streaming a second promotional video on Monday. The anime release the first manga volume in North America next February. The anime will premiere in Fuji TV's late-night Noitamina timeslot on January 13, 2011.

The story of Wandering Son centers around a feminine 5th-grade boy named Shūichi Nitori. On the first day at his new school, he is mistaken for his 6th-grade sister. He happens to sit next to Yoshino Takatsuki, a girl who wishes she was a boy. Both of them have secrets they cannot tell anyone.

The Japanese television channel Animax launched a website for Madhouse's anime adaptation of Marvel's Wolverine character on Monday with a streaming commercial. The plans to begin running these four titles next year.

The Japanese production company Bandai Visual has revamped its website for the Koisento original video anime (OVA) on Monday with a 93-second streaming promotional video. Sunrise is gets theatrical screenings in Japan on November 27.

[Via Saishin Anime Jōhō (link 2, link 3), Uri-Sure Matome R]

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