[Overseas] Anime Expo 2017 News & Announcements

Aniplex of America Industry Panel

Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga Volumes 1 & 2 coming November 14th and February 13th in English & Japanese audio.

Fate/Grand Order -First Order- coming October 24th in English & Japanese audio.

New licenses include Blend S [Autumn 2017], Fate/Apocrypha [coming to Netflix at some point], Hell Girl Season 4 [Summer 2017 - CR & Prime], and Record of Grancrest War [Summer 2018]
 
Crunchyroll Industry Panel

More titles coming to Crunchyroll Manga:
  • Publisher Seven Seas will be adding select titles to the service; A Centaur's Life, and The Ancient Magus' Bride
  • Final Fantasy Lost Stranger will be simulpub-ing on the service
  • Knight's and Magic, and Restaurant to Another World will be available on the service
Streaming:
  • Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World, and Urahara will be simulcasing this fall season
 
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Edit: Trailer later today.
 
Sekai Project Industry Panel

The following titles have been acquired:
  • Visual Art's' Rewrite+
  • Novectacle's NarKarma EngineA
  • Yuzusoft's Dracu-Riot!
  • Yuzusoft's Senren * Banka
  • code;jp's Ninja Girl and the Mysterious Army of Urban Legend Monsters ~Hunt of the Headless Horseman~
  • Mawari Works' Eternal
  • Silky's Plus Alpha's Nanairo Reincarnation
  • Watakubi's Island Diary
More updates to existing titles:
  • Wagamama High Spec is slated for July 25
  • SakuSaku is slated for this fall
  • Baldr Sky Dive1 “Lost Memory” and Baldr Sky Dive2 “Recodare” will get a combined release slated for mid-2018
  • Rabi-Ribi will get a physical release on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in late summer 2017
  • Fault Silence the Pedant is now slated for the fourth quarter of 2017, and the demo is out on Sunday
  • Original English visual novel Highway Blossoms will get a remastered physical release with English voice-overs, Chinese and Russian text options, and new music and art. The game will also get a free voice-over patch for those who already own the game.
 
Three new Studio Trigger Shows Announced:

Darling in the Frankxx
Sci-fi anime, more revealed on July 5th, collaboration with A1 Pictures

Gridman
Directed by Akira Amemiya

Promare
Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi
"Will be like Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill, the main protagonist will be a male character"
Key Art: http://i.imgur.com/KVtlcZ6.jpg
 
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JAST USA Industry Panel

The publisher have announced two visual novels getting localised for the west:
  • MinatoSoft's Majikoi! Love Me, Seriously! (Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!!)
  • Oyari Ashito's Machine Child
No dates have been mentioned for the both of them.

Kodansha Comics Industry Panel (w/Vertical titles)

New announcements:
  • Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle (Gunnm: Kasei Senki) - Prequel manga, hardcover 2-in-1 starting November 2017
  • Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card - Print version of the manga, 1st volume on November 14th
  • Fairy Tail S - manga collection of stories from Fairy Tail series, 1st volume in October
  • Sailor Moon - "Eternal Edition" of the manga, starting in January 2018 with 350 pages
UPDATE - Some digital announcements that launch on July 18:
  • Yū Suzunoki's Kōnodori: Dr. Stork
  • Satoru Hiura's Hotaru's Way
  • Rin Mikimoto's Love's Reach
Apparently Kodansha also unveiled licenses for Vertical as well.

New licenses:
  • Keiichi Arawi's CITY - March 2018
  • Mitsurou Kubo's Moteki - October 2017
  • Hitomi Takano's My Boy (Watashi no Shōnen) - April 2018
  • NisiOisin's Strangulation (The Kubishime Romantacist) - Novel 2 of NisiOisin's Zaregoto novel series, February 2018
 
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Sailor Moon Industry Panel

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Sailor Moon Crystal Set 3 is now available for pre-order. The set will cover Season III's Death Busters arc. Due for December 5th 2017, the contents are similar to the previous Crystal sets, with an SRP of $79.98 and offering both English & Japanese audio with English subtitles as a Blu-ray & DVD combo.
 
A-1 Pictures Industry Panel

Fate/Apocrypha reportedly going to appear on Netflix starting November 7th.

Kadokawa Booth (Part 2)

Steins;Gate gets the 'World Line Project' which is obviously plans for the Steins;Gate 0 anime sometime between 2018-2019.
 
Seven Seas Entertainment Industry Panel

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The following titles have been acquired:
  • Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (light novel) - March 2018
  • Clockwork Planet (light novel) - February 2018
  • Getter Robo Devolution - May 2018
  • Made in Abyss - January 2018
  • Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kanna's Daily Life - January 2018
  • Nameless Asterism - January 2018
  • New Game - March 2018
  • Orange: Future - February 2018
  • Soul Liquid Chambers - March 2018
  • Toradora (light novel) - 2018
 
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