A few months ago, I stumbled upon an interesting little manga whilst browsing new releases in Little Tokyo. The manga, titled "Chrome Shelled Regios", tells the tale of a young girl named Nina and her role as the commander of a small platoon of guards in the Academy City of Zuellni. The manga itself is based on a series of light novels set in an alternate world ruined by pollution. Another manga is currently being serialized which follows the novel's main character, Reyphon. There is also an anime in production.

Captivated by the art and the characters, I propositioned the team to work on scanning the manga as a side project. Today, after almost 3 months of slow progression, we finally have a finished product to present to you. It's not much, but feel free to read and enjoy. We hope this marks the beginning of the Aquastar Manga division's journey into new series.

Now, without further ado...

Chapter 1: DDL, Torrent

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Just announced today on Right Stuf International's website, they have announced that they have picked up the license for Aria the Animation. Based on the manga by Kozue Amano, the boxset for the 1st season (13 epsiodes) is due out on 9/30/2008.

Pre-orders are available at Right Stuf's online store:

Aria - Season 1 complete set (sub only)

Official Site: Aria the Animation - Right Stuf Intl / Nozomi Ent.

Source: AnimeonDVD.com

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The kids are back in school- MAGIC SCHOOL! Coming to you live from the Magic World is the number one moronic duo of all time-- Yue and her fantastic talking dog, Collet! Yes, there's action, suspense, drama, passion... maybe.

Chapter 211: DDL, DDL 2, Torrent

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Some news coming out of NYCC this weekend:

Licenses:
Bandai Ent. - Gurren Lagann, Gundam 00. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Funimation Ent. - No new announcements
Viz Media - No new announcements

Notes:
Note that ADV Films was previously the US license holder for Gurren Lagann. Series is scheduled to begin released sub only first this summer in July, with a dubbed release coming up in early 2009.

I will update this post as we receive more news over the weekend.

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Today's release coming from our fansub division is the 1st of the brand new OVA series of To Heart 2, based on Leaf/Aquaplus's newest PC game release in the To Heart 2 series Another Days.

Takaaki has lost his memory and can't remember anything, especially the girls that he's become close with. Everyone decides to help Takaaki in filling in the gaps in his memory, though some of them do it with some of their own motives in mind. So what exactly happened that caused this in the first place? Tama-nee seems to know.

Special Thanks goes out to the members of TWH and Sprocket-Hole for helping us with distro on this release. Keep checking back with us for updates on our other ongoing projects.

Enjoy the episode and don't forget to help seed!

To Heart 2 ad - Episode 1 (XviD)
To Heart 2 ad - Episode 1 (h264)

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God's in His Heaven and All is Right in the World.

Chapter 210: DDL, DDL2,Torrent

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The folks at Aquastar rush onto the scene with a new bidding for the magic-hungry! That's right, it's Negima Superstar Heroes! With the start of the Dark Chapters, Negima is finally going on broadway! See your local box office for ticket listings.

Chapter 209: DDL, DDL 2, Torrent

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If you haven't played Portal yet...you fail. Go buy it now.
Yes, the cake is a lie ;_; but when you're dead I willl still be alive...alive...ALIVE! muwahahahahaha :insert caek:

Chapter 208: DDL, Torrent

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Today we have several items to update you on including some questions that have been brought up to us this past week.

Clannad ~After Story~
Yes, I know I'm very late in posting this, but in case you haven't noticed, we released the promo trailer of the Clannad After Story late last week. AQS-Anime will be subbing the Clannad After Story follow-up series with the members of TheWaffleHouse and Sprocket-Hole Subs. A few of us had actually helped out TWH and Sprocket throughout the course of the first TV series, and we will continue to work with them, as they did a great job with it, and it's already been a pleasure working with them.

Torrent for the promo: Clannad ~After Story promo

To Heart 2 Another Days OVA 1
Work is underway with a lot of progress already. Just be patient as our translator just got back from two weekends of anime convention work in a row. Looking for a possible release coming up very soon.

.hack GU Trilogy (joint w/ TWH-Sprocket)
Translation in progress. Release scheme planned will be XviD 704x396 and probably 1280x720 h264.

Clannad the Movie (joint w/ TWH-Sprocket)
Translation in progress. Note that this may take a little while since we're looking to release the .hack GU Trilogy movie as a higher priority on our list.

Yotsunoha Episode 2 (joint w/ Orange-Side Subs)
Translation complete. In editing process.

Kimi ga Aruji - They Are My Noble Masters
Project is in stalled status due to school for one of our translators. If any translators are interested in helping us out on this, please stop by our main chan on IRC or e-mail me at aquastar831@yahoo.com.

Negima OVAs (new episodes)
With the recent announcement of the new Negima OVAs that will come with Vols. 23 to 25 of the Limited Edition releases in Japan, we have been getting questions pertaining to AQS-Anime's plans to sub the new OVAs.

We're definitely looking into subbing the new OVAs, and again if there are any translators out there interested, please let us know as this will make things a lot easier and allow us to get them released promptly as they become available. Note that the first one is due out in July's Vol. 23 release.

News post from ANN: New Negima OVAs to be included in Vol. 23 - 25

Keep checking back for continuous project status updates.

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Just after releasing chapter 207 of Negima for you guys, the scanlation team has delivered today with a special chapter for you guys.

DDL

Sorry, no torrent for this as our tracker seems to hate us at the moment. Enjoy!

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