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The Official website of the K-ON! anime series has announced on Friday that the second season will premire this April on TBS and other affiliated television stations in Japan. The website has also confirmed that the main staff and main cast will return from the first season unchanged. The official blog updated with a report on "Lets Go!"-the December 30 live concert where the second season was officialy announced.

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UTSUNOMIYA, Tochigi Pref. Kyodo In a courtroom showdown Friday, a former prosecutor refused to apologize for the interrogation that led Toshikazu Sugaya to apparently confess to the murder of a 4 year-old girl. Instead of offering an apology to Suguya, 63, who spent 17 years in prison for the 1990 murder in Ashikaga.Sugaya also asked Morikawa during fifth session of his retrial at the Utsunimiya Districk Court, He has been held fol a long time for a crime I never commited. When morikawa is heard presenting Sugaya with DNA test result that matched his DNA with body fluid found in the underwater of the victim.
And than Sugaya said, who had danied any involvement the previous day, went silent for a moment and Sugaya was freed last june from prison after avidence indicating his innocence arose frome new DNA test.

Actress Hikaru Asami and actor Eisaku Yoshida on friday promotedthe upcoming opening of the japanese play " Roman Holiday ," based on the popular 1953 U.S. film that launched Audrey Hepburn on the road to stardom.

The About.com website has posted an interview with Jason Thompson, former editor of the Shonen Jump Magazine and Eisner-nominated author of manga: The Complete Guide, and animator/illustrator Victor Hao about their shonen-manga inspired King of RPG's graphic novel. Del Rey will publish the grapich novel on January 19.
In the interview, They are talking about how their love of role playing games and shonen manga led them to create this. They also gave the list of the specific shounen manga titles that influenced their work, and its ''geek humor'' and in- jokes which both console and tabletop RPG. They also discussed the process of creating the novel and gave tips to aspiring artist.
The duo confirmed that a second volume is already in the works, with the script currently going through the finalization stage for a tentative release date of spring 2011.

The Chosun llbo reports that a representative a Bae said that he is pursuing project for now. Key East, Bae's production company, had signed an agreement with the japanese publisher kodansha for the Korean drama adaptation right in 2008. However, the drama plans were held up by Korean regulations on product placement for the various real-life wine brands that would have appeared in drama.
Kimi no Shizuku writer Agi's family members are big fan of Bae, and Agi had actually modeled Kimi no Shizuku's young wine critic character, Issei Toumine, in Bae. The manga has been running in Kodansha's Morning magazine since 2004. The manga has been so populer in japan, South Korea, and Taiwan and other Asian Countries.
A separate live-action Japanese drama adaptation of Kimi no Shizuku premired in Japan January 2009.Bae and his winter Sonata co-star Choi Ji Woo are reprising their roles in the Korean /Japanese animated film version of the Winter Sonata drama.