Lupin vs Conan movie will premiere on December

Shogakukan's Shonen Sunday magazine has revealed that a Lupin III vs. Detective Conan The Movie film will open in Japan in December of this year, four years after the Lupin III vs. Detective Conan television special aired on NTV in 2009 and earned a 19.5% rating.

More details will be revealed in future issues of Shonen Sunday.

Source: ANN

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Kamisama Dolls manga ends in February

The February issue of Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday GX magazine announced on Saturday that Hajime Yamamura is ending his Kamisama Dolls fantasy battle manga in the next issue on February 19. The manga will have a color opening page and will adorn the magazine's cover in the next issue to celebrate its ending.

Yamamura began the series in December 2006, and Shogakukan has published 11 volumes thus far. The manga inspired a 13-episode anime series that aired from July to September 2011.

It's ok, I somehow imagined that the premise of this series would fall short sometime. I liked the anime, the mecha concepts are great, but it becomes silly after some episodes.

'Say Hello to Black Jack' manga is available on Facebook app

Umizaru, another series of the author, who worked with Kodansha until they had a falling out due to contract issues 

Manga creator Shuho Sato, in his effort of looking for alternative ways for publishing manga and having success, has released his series in a Facebook app by Finnish digital comics publisher Amimaru. The series and his characters are royalty free for an indefinite period of time.

He keeps working with Shogakukan, in his series 'New Say Hello to Black Jack', the sequel to this first series.

It's funny and ironic that the title of the manga is a homage to Osamu Tezuka's classic series Black Jack, the main character is also a doctor.

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