Saint Seiya Lost Canvas final promo!

This is the promo for final episodes of the second season, which correspond to episodes 24 to 26.

Exciting to say the least!

Good news for Toei Animation!! Finally!!

Toei Animation reported earlier this month that its operating income from overseas copyright licensing is increasing 66% or about 500 million yen (about US$6 million) during the fiscal year ending in March of 2012, compared to the previous year. In particular, sales of character goods are growing in China and Europe.

Sales in licensing are projected to rise 66% to the range of 1 billion yen (US$12 million) in the current fiscal year. Sales of Saint Seiya T-shirts are launching in China in collaboration with a local company, and these sales are expected to lift Toei's income from licensing. Similarly, One Piece, Precure, and other franchises are being merchandised as items such as toys and stationery in Europe.

President Hiroshi Takahashi added that the domestic licensing business is off to a good start this fiscal year, but the business is still feeling the unavoidable impact of the previous year's downturn.

Source: Nikkei, ANN

I think this has mostly to do with the success of the Lost Canvas series, how it's raising the awareness of the Saint Seiya franchise, as for One Piece, I think that speaks for itself with its millions of fans around the world that buy and collect the merchandise.

Saint Seiya Lost Canvas season 2 trailer

The production company TMS Entertainment began streaming a 92-second promotional video for the fourth volume in the second video anime season based on Masami Kurumada and Shiori Teshirogi's Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiō Shinwa manga on Wednesday. The mythical action manga's story is set in the middle of the 18th century, 243 years before the first Saint Seiya storyline.



Source: ANN

Crunchyroll will stream Saint Seiya Lost Canvas OVAs!

The first two episodes of the second season of this series are scheduled to be released on Crunchyroll on the same date as their DVD release in Japan, that is, on February 23rd.

The series will also only be available (in theory) to users in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

Finally! Lost Canvas second season teaser!

Despite not having precisely the best acceptance among the purist fans of Saint Seiya, the second season of this series continues with its second season, set to premiere directly DVD/BD on February 23rd.

This week's featured AMV (19)

I'm inspired with the news of the upcoming second season of the Lost Canvas, so this week's video is to the song Heaven Help Us by Globus.



Video done by _-Caleb-_ of Youtube :)

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas will have a second season!

The series will keep having an OVA format and will not be broadcast on television like the first season was. This is due to the poor ratings the first season received in Japan, and companies are not willing to allot for 13-episode seasons when the format is 26 episodes per season. :(

This was all according to a TMS Entertainment spokesman at the "XVI Salón del Manga" convention in Barcelona, Spain.

The second season will premiere on February of next year and it will be a straight to DVD/BD release.

Quite a mixed bag, isn't it?

(source: AnimeNation)