Negima & Hayate the Combat Butler Movie Trailer

The official website for the double-billed Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Anime Final and Hayate the Combat Butler! Heaven is a Place on Earth films began streaming a new combined full trailer of the movie.


More details about the films, here. Even both films are published in different magazines, this double-billing was made possible since both shows aired at the same TV station. Both films will open on August 27.

Negima & Hayate the Combat Butler Movie Teaser

The official website for the double-billed Negima Magister Negi Magi: Anime Final and Hayate the Combat Butler! Heaven is a Place on Earth films began streaming a combined teaser trailer.

The producers also posted the list of theaters screening the double-billing throughout Japan and revealed the flyer that they started distributing on the same day to those theaters. The films will open together on August 27th.

Akiyuki Shinbo (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei) is returning to direct the Negima film at Studio Pastoral and SHAFT. The scriptwriter for the film has not been announced, but manga creator Ken Akamatsu is credited with the original story.


First-time director Hideto Komori (animation director of Darker than BLACK, Ergo Proxy, House of Five Leaves) is helming the Hayate the Combat Butler film at the studio Manglobe (The World God Only Knows). Yasuko Kobayashi (Kamen Rider Ryuki, Kamen Rider Den-O, Casshern Sins, Claymore, Shakugan no Shana) is scripting.

Even if both films were originally published in different magazines, they both aired in the same TV station, making this double-billing possible.

Source: Moon Phase via Anime News Network

Hayate no Gotoku & Negima Films this August 27!

The 25th issues of Weekly Shonen Magazine and Week Shonen Sunday are announcing that the anime movies for Hayate the Combat Butler and Negima will be double-billed on August 27!

The magazines are also announcing the full titles of both films: Hayate the Combat Butler! Heaven Is a Place on Earth and Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Anime Final. Even if both anime titles were published in different magazines, the two aired in the same TV station, TV Tokyo.

The two magazines collaborated before on a Conan & Kindaichi magazine, a joint cover illustraton with Hajime no Ippo and Detective Conan to mark the magazines' shared 50th anniversary, and the swapping of chapters from Kôji Kumeta's Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei and Katteni Kaizō manga.

Source: Yaraon! via Anime News Network, MyAnimeList

Negima!? Second Series and Zoids Genesis Premieres on Studio 23!

It was announced on PinoyExchange Forums via elirose, a reliable source that the second Negima?! anime is set to premiere on Studio 23 this September 11, Saturday at 10:30-11:00am. Because of this, Digimon Savers will air at 9:30-10:00am while Skyland will air from 10:00-10:30am.

Aside from this, their weekday block will have some adjustments, Zoids Genesis is set to premiere this September 8, causing Monster Allergy to move in a much later timeslot at 9:30-10:00am, replacing Metajets on the process.

To those who remembered, Zoids Genesis once aired at ABS-CBN along with Naruto Shippuden every afternoon.

Special Thanks to ZEN Otaku Honbu's jamibu for the info!