Nintendo 3DS available February 26 in Japan, titles including “LovePlus 3D”

Nintendo announced today that Nintendo 3DS will go on sale in Japan on February 26, 2011 for 25,000 yen (about $300 USD). The US and Europe release will follow in March but the price was not mentioned.

The 3DS titles to be released includes Project Love Plus, a 3D version of the immensely popular LovePlus dating sim series. You'd also be able to play Game Boy titles on Virtual Console.

Read on for details and pics.

DARKER THAN BLACK -Ryusei no Futago(Darker than Black: Twins of the Shooting Star)

Synopsis:
An inscrutable and abnormal territory known as "Hell's Gate" appeared in Tokyo. Around the same time, people who possess various special abilities emerged around the world, known as the "Contractors". Two years from the "Tokyo Explosion", the story moves to wintery Russia.

11eyes -Eleven Eyes-

Synopsis:
Kakeru Satsuki and his childhood sweetheart Yuka Minase gets transported to strange otherworld. In the world called "Red Night" with crimson sky and black moon, the two is attacked by bizarre monsters.

Shin Koihime † Muso

Synopsis:
Retelling of Romance of the Three Kingdoms with the warlords turned female.

Note:
2nd anime season based on the eroge Koihime†Muso: Doki Otome Darake no Sangokushi Engi. Liu Bei, who hasn't appeared in the 1st season, will be one of the central character this time.

Miracle☆Train - Oedo-sen he Youkoso(Miracle train: Welcome to Oedo Line)

Synopsis:
There's a urban legend about the "Miracle Train", subway car full of good-looking guys that guarantee happiness for the passengers. But not many people know that those six good-looking guys on the Miracle Train are actually human forms of train stations.

Tegami Bachi (Letter Bee)

Synopsis:
In the land of AmberGround, a place of perpetual night only partially illuminated by an artificial sun, Lag Seeing works as a "Letter Bee" (delivery boy) at the "Bee Hive" (a delivery service). He is entrusted with the "hearts" of everyone in AmberGround to deliver their packages.

Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra(Fighting Librarian: The Book of Bantorra)

Synopsis:
In a world where souls of the dead crystalize, those stones are called "Books". The Bantorra Library is where the Books are kept, and the armed librarian there is incredibly strong and omniscient. The protagonist is a human bomb sent to kill the librarian.

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Based on the light novel series by Ishio Yamagata.

Battle Spirits Shonen Gekiha Dan

Synopsis:
Dan Bashin is a boy dreaming of winning the championship of trading card game "Battle Spirits". Following a mysterious girl he met at the tournament, he ends up being sent to another world called "Ikai Grand Rolo". Along with fellow players also abducted to this alien world, Dan must fight the agents sent by the evil Ikai-Oh(lit. King of Other World) in card battles.

Note:
Second anime series based on Bandai's trading card game Battle Spirits, with whole new characters and different settings from its predecessor Shonen Toppa Bashin.

Break Blade Dainisho "Ketsubetsu no Michi"

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Second film in a hexalogy, following the first part that premiered in Japan on May 29.

Synopsis:
Rygart Arrow is an "un-sorcerer", a one-in-a-million oddity in a world full of magic users. When Rygart is reunited with his old friend Hodr, who happens to be the current King of his country Krisna, he learns the Athens Commonwealth has just declared

Sengoku Basara II

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The 2nd season for an out-of-the-box anime of feudal samurai with bizarre-interpretation. It has been almost a year from the announcement.

Synopsis:
After 6th Ten-ma Ou(devilish king) Nobunaga Oda has fallen, Uesugi and Takeda has been fighting for supremacy. And Date and Sanada is

Shiki (Corpse Demon)

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Based on Fuyumi Ono's vampire novel and its manga adaptation by Ryu Fujisaki. 22 episodes (two anime seasons).

Synopsis:
A series of mysterious deaths begin to spread in a rural village called Sotoba, at the same time when a strange family moves into a long abandoned mansion. Toshio Ozaki, dean of the only hospital in Sotoba, initially suspects an epidemic. But as investigations continue and the deaths begin to pile up, he becomes convinced that they are

Nurarihyon no Mago

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Adaptation of the manga series by Hiroshi Shiibashi serialised in Weekly Shonen Jump.

Synopsis:
Rikuo Nura is a 13-year old boy, average in most aspects except he inherited 1/4 of his grandfather's yokai(Japanese folklore spirits) blood. In times of impending danger his yokai blood awakens and he switches into his Night

Gakuen Mokushiroku: HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD

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Adapted from the manga series Highschool of the Dead written by Daisuke Sato and illustrated by Shouji Sato. The character Kohta Hirano is based on manga artist Kota Hirano of Hellsing.

Synopsis:
The world is overtaken with a very deadly disease that turns humans into zombies. In Japan, several students of Fujimi High School,

Sekirei - Pure Engagement

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Based on Sakurako Gokurakuin's comic serialized in Youg Gangan. This is the 2nd season for the anime.

Synopsis:
At Imperial City in 2020, "Sekirei Project" is initiated, which makes 108 Sekirei, warriors with ancient power, kill each other to the last one. As a "Ashikabi", a master of Sekirei, Kaito Sahashi helped another

STAR DRIVER Kagayaki no Takuto

Note:
Good news for robot anime fans! A whole new anime series by Bones of Eureka Seven and Xam'd: Lost Memories, featuring more than 20 originally designed robots called "Cybuddies".

Synopsis:
Takuto Tsunashi swims all the way from mainland Japan to the remote Minamijuji-shima (Southern Cross Island).

Tegami Bachi REVERSE

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Second season of Tegami Bachi adapted from the manga series by Hiroyuki Asada. Ending theme song will be performed by Pico, a singer who became famous on Nico Nico Douga.

Synopsis:
Lag Seeing became a "Tegami Bachi"(Letter Bee: delivery boy) aspiring to be like the letter bee Gauche Suede who saved him as a child.

Psychic Detective Yakumo

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13-episodes anime adaptation of the popular novel by Manabu Kaminaga. A manga adaptation by Suzuka Oda has been serialised in Monthly Asuka since August, 2009.

Synopsis:
College student Yakumo Saitou was born with different eye colors. His red left eye gave him a special ability to see ghosts and spirits. He believes ghosts and spirits are bound to earth because of a certain 'cause' and simply by eliminating that 'cause' will those spirits rest in peace. Being asked for help by fellow

Kuroshitsuji Ⅱ

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Second anime season of Kuroshitsuji(Black Butler) with new director and new protagonists. The first series was aired from Oct. 2008 to Mar. 2009, adapted from the manga series by Yana Toboso. The new protagonists, Claude Faustus and Alois Trancy, are new characters created for the anime who don't appear in the manga, and it is not made clear whether the protagonists Sebastian Michaelis and Ciel Phantomhive from the first series will be in the new anime.

Synopsis:
In late 19th century England, Lord Alois Trancy, the young head of a

Bakuman

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25-episodes anime adaptation of the popular ongoing manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and drawn by Takeshi Obata (the Death Note team), serialised in Weekly Shonen Jump since August, 2008.

Synopsis:
Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high student, leaves his notebook containing a drawing of his crush and classmate Azuki Miho in class. When he notices and returns to the classroom after school, his classmate Akito Takagi is waiting for him with the notebook and tries to persuade Mashiro to become a mangaka

Super Robot Taisen OG: The Inspector

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Based on Banpresto's video game Super Robot Wars Original Generations 2 in the popular Super Robot Wars franchise.

Synopsis:
Six months from the DC War against rebeller Divine Crusaders and the L5 Conflict between alien Aerogator, government of the Earth Federation needs a top-to-bottom restructuring. New president Brian

Togainu no Chi

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Based on the BL game by Nitro+chiral.

Synopsis:
After being devastated in the third World War, Japan was divided in two. Several years after the end of the war, a crime organization called Vischio has taken control of the destroyed city of Toshima (formerly Tokyo, Japan's capital city), where they are holding a battle game known as "Igura". The game's main character, a young man named Akira, is falsely accused of a crime. Once arrested, a mysterious woman appears before him, offering him freedom

Hakuoki Hekketsu-roku

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Second season of Hakuoki based on popular otome game aimed at female audience. Some elements and characters are based on Japanese history of Bakumatsu period, though obviously the major part of the plot is fiction.

Synopsis:
Yukimura Chizuru has come to Kyoto looking for her father, a doctor who has gone missing. While there, she witnesses a fight between Rasetsu and the Shinsengumi. Taking her into custody, the Shinsengumi debates on what to do with Chizuru when they discover that she is the daughter of the doctor they are

Battle Spirits Brave

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Anime series based on Bandai's trading card game Battle Spirits, sequel to Battle Spirits Shonen Gekiha Dan of 2009.

Synopsis:
Two years from the Ikai-Oh Incident, Dan has triumphed through Battle Spirits championships and Core League to become a true King of Kings. But then he gets banned from tournaments, given a place in Card Battler Hall of Fame as a compensation. Basically he's too strong and there's no challenge, which is no fun at all. So when Mai

Death Note

Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto) is a manga series created by writer Tsugumi Ohba and manga artist Takeshi Obata. The main character is Light Yagami, a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note", dropped on Earth by a god of death named Ryuk. It centers around Light's attempt to create and rule a world "cleansed of evil" as "God" using the notebook and the efforts of a detective known as L, to stop him. The Death Note grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose name they know, by writing the name in the notebook while picturing their face.

Death Note was first serialized in 108 chapters by Shueisha in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2003 to May 2006. The series was also published in tankōbon format in Japan

Bleach

Bleach (ブリーチ, Burīchi, romanized as BLEACH in Japan) is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Noriaki "Tite" Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper (死神, Shinigami, literally, "Death God") —a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from another Soul Reaper, Rukia Kuchiki. His newfound powers force him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife.

Bleach has been serialized in the Japanese manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump since August 2001, and has been collected into 48

Naruto

Naruto (NARUTO—ナルト— ,romanized as NARUTO) is an ongoing Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. The plot tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, an adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in his village that is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all. The series is based on a one-shot comic by Kishimoto that was published in the August 1997 issue of Akamaru Jump.

The manga was first published by Shueisha in 1999 in the 43rd issue of Japan's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. Currently, the manga is still being serialized; fifty-one tankōbon volumes have been released so far. The manga was

One Piece

One Piece (ワンピース, Wan Pīsu) is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, that has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since August 4, 1997. The individual chapters are being published in tankōbon volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on December 24, 1997, and the 61st volume released as of February 2011. In 2010, Shueisha announced that they sold over 200 million volumes of One Piece manga so far; volume 61 set a new record for the highest initial print run of any book in Japan in history with 3.8 million copies (the previous record belonging to volume 60 with 3.4 million copies). Volume 60 is the first book to sell over two million copies in its opening week on Japan's Oricon book rankings.One Piece follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a 17-year-old boy who gains elastic abilities after inadvertently eating a mystical fruit, and his diverse crew of pirates, named the Straw Hats. Luffy explores the ocean in search of the world's ultimate treasure known as the One Piece and to become the next Pirate King. On his journey, Luffy battles a wide variety of villains and makes several friends.

History of ANIME

Anime began at the start of the 20th century, when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques also pioneered in France, Germany, the United States, and Russia. The oldest known anime in existence first screened in 1917 – a two-minute clip of a samurai trying to test a new sword on his target, only to suffer defeat. Early pioneers included Shimokawa Oten, Jun'ichi Kouchi, and Seitarō Kitayama.

By the 1930s animation became an alternative format of storytelling to the live-action industry in Japan. But it suffered competition from foreign producers and many animators, such as Noburō Ōfuji and Yasuji Murata still worked in cheaper cutout not cel animation, although with masterful results. Other creators, such as Kenzō Masaoka and Mitsuyo Seo, nonetheless made great strides in animation technique, especially with increasing help from a government using