Magic Kaito TV Anime Announced for FallAutumn 2014 + 2010 Blu-ray Boxset Announced

Magic Kaito TV Anime Announced for Fall/Autumn 2014 + 2010 Blu-ray Boxset Announced

A recent issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine has announced that Gosho Aoyama’s Magic Kaito manga will be adapted into a full anime series. The series will be a full seasonal series and will air during the Fall/Autumn 2014 anime season. Additionally, a Blu-ray boxset of the 2010 Magic Kaito TV specials was also announced.

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The anime will be produced by A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online, Fairy Tail) and will air in the timeslot before Detective Conan in the upcoming  anime season. The anime’s announcement is in celebration of the manga’s parent franchise, Detective Conan. The official website of the anime has also launched on the YTV network with the following visual:

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There is also an announcement for a Blu-ray boxset of the 2010 Magic Kaito anime specials. The boxset will be releasing in Japan on September ¥14,120 (~ $141.20 USD). Here is the key visual for the boxset:

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Magic Kaito is a manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series began in 1987 in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine. The manga went on an indefinite hiatus in 1994 after the success of Aoyama’s other manga Detective Conan. To date the series has a total of 4 compiled volumes, with the third releasing in 1994 and the last volume releasing in 2007. The series received an anime adaptation that aired from 2010 to 2012  in the form of 12 specials. It was produced by TMS Entertainment, who also produced the Detective Conan anime.

Here is a synopsis of the series:

Kaito Kuroba, a normal teenage student whose father is often absent. When his father dies under mysterious circumstances, he is made aware of his father’s secret identity; a famous international criminal known as International Criminal 1412: the Phantom Thief, and that he was murdered by a mysterious organization for refusing to aid them in retrieving the “Pandora Gem”; a mystical stone said to shed a “tear” during the passing of a particular comet (often called the ‘Volley Comet’), the consumption of which bestows immortality.

He vows to prevent the organization from gaining immortality, and assumes his father’s identity as he begins his quest for the gem. His only clues as to the gem’s location are that it glows red under the full moon and that it is a doublet: a gem hidden within a larger gem. Thus, it would have to be a relatively large one with a bizarre history, and always stored in a place that never receives moonlight. He thus researches and steals famous priceless gems with odd histories from incredibly well-defended areas, and always returns them after the very next full moon.

The Magic Kaito anime series will be airing this October during the Fall/Autumn 2014 anime season.

You can visit the anime’s website here: http://www.ytv.co.jp/magickaito/

 
Source Article and Image – Anime News Network
Source Article and Image – Comic Natalie
Source Image – Magic Kaito Anime Website
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