Crunchyroll will stream Noitamina new series, as well as Phi Brain 2

Crunchyroll has announced plans to stream this season’s Mysterious Girlfriend X (Nazo no Kanojo X), Kids on the Slope (Sakamichi no Apollon), Phi Brain second season, Kuroko’s Basketball (Kuroko no Basuke), and Tsuritama television series.

Nazo no Kanojo X will premiere on Japanese TV on April 7 and begin streaming on Crunchyroll the following day. Sakamichi no Apollon premiered on Japanese TV yesterday and will begin streaming on Crunchyroll on the 12th. Tsuritama will also premiere on Crunchyroll on the 12th. Crunchyroll will stream the complete first season of Phi-Brain along with this month’s second season, beginning on the 8th. Kuroko no Basuke will premiere on Crunchyroll tomorrow.

source: ANN

Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle gets a second season!

Sunrise Studios just announced that this original anime series will have a second season that will premiere on April 8. This is no surprise as it has been well received and one of the best series of 2011.

In this upcoming second season, the story continues to revolve around the Orpheus bangle and Phi Brain, but the puzzle battles heat up.

A new enemy, a group of boys named Orpheus Order, appears before Kaito and the others, and the battles begin anew.

Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle gets manga adaptation!

The series has been successful enough to venture into manga.

The third volume of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype Ace magazine began serialization on a manga adaptation of Sunrise's Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle anime on Thursday. Artist Yoshiki Togawa will be drawing the manga. The story of the school adventure story revolves around Kaito, a puzzle-loving freshman at the private high school named "Root Academy."

He is selected as a candidate for "Phi Brain" for his extraordinary mental skills. One day, he and his childhood friend Nonoha tackle the "unsolvable puzzle" hidden in the underground ruins near the school. They are guided by the mobile device given to Kaito by the student council president.

 The puzzle is the "philosopher's puzzle," a life-threatening creation of a mysterious intelligence group known as "POG." When he defeats the puzzle, he is designated as a "Solver." Together with Nonoha and other Solvers, Kaito battles POG at "philosopher's puzzles" all over the world.