Hikari no Shiawase

January 17, 2008

Anime Spring ‘08

Filed under: Anime — Tags: , , — saikoro @ 2:43

News to share for everyone…

Well, to be honest, I didn’t really make the list. I basically just copied it all off Animeph, lol. So, of course, credit goes to them. Anyways, I took info from Anime News Network (ANN) for each of them and some pictures to interest you more. The only anime I’m looking forward to in Spring is Code Geass Season 2, Monochrome Factor and Speical A aka S.A. If Deadman Wonderland was going to become anime, then I’d be totally excited. The manga is brilliant, so hopefully the anime will be too. Other than that, Code Geass Season 1 was super good and action-packed, so I’m looking forward to that as well.

Haven’t had enough of the first season? The media production company Starchild has announced that the D.C.II S.S. ~Da Capo II Second Season~ school romance anime will premiere on Japanese television in April. This will be the fourth Da Capo anime season based on the D.C. ~Da Capo~ adult visual novel franchise from the CIRCUS software developer, after the first D.C. ~Da Capo~ series, D.C.S.S. ~Da Capo Second Season~, and D.C. II: Da Capo II. The last episode of D.C. II: Da Capo II’s first season aired this week on December 24.

The official site has already pre-announced the release of all five of D.C.II S.S.’s DVD volumes, complete with the caramel boxes, school calendars, and miniature character stand-ups that are bundled with the limited editions. (The 13 episodes of the first season of D.C. II are also being issued on five DVD volumes, along with a volume 0.)

Source: Moon Phase Comments

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    Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion – Second Season
    Genre: Mecha, Action, Sci-Fi, Drama
    http://www.geass.jp/

he January issue (on sale December 10) of Kadokawa’s Newtype magazine will finally confirm that Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion’s new television series will premiere in Japan in the spring of 2008. The same magazine announced in March that a sequel was in the works for the military robot anime project. However, the blog on the official website had to downplay premature Internet rumors of a second television series by stating that the producers did not know, as recently as July, if the sequel would air on television or be released in theaters or home video.

Source: Moon Phase

Since I couldn’t find info for this one, I just took the plot summary of season 1. Kimihiro Watanuki is a young boy with a cursed gift. He has the ability to see evil spirits, and somehow they seem attracted to himself. One day he meets a misterious woman who names herself Yuuko. She claims to have the means to end his torment, but she never works for free, and she wouldn’t help him until he works for her enough to pay for her services. Thus he starts to work in her shop and discovers that in that place, nothing is what it seems.

Hikari Hanazono, the main character, has always been second to Kei Takishima. While Hikari considers Kei a rival and somewhat of a friend, Kei loves Hikari. Everyone knows this, but she is too dense to notice. Their wrestling loving fathers first introduced them to one another when they were 6 years old. Assuming that she was the best in wrestling, young Hikari challenged Kei to a wrestling match only to be thoroughly defeated by him. Ever since that fateful incident, Hikari swore to beat Kei in school grades, a sporting event – anything. To do this she has enrolled in the same school as Kei since elementary. Now she attends Hakusenkan, an ultra elite school, that costs her carpenter father a lot of money. Hikari and Kei are the top two students in the school, with Kei holding firmly to that number one position.

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    Birdy the Mighty (Tetsuwan Birdy)
    Genre: Shounen, Science Fiction, Comedy

While pursuing a criminal, the pretty but reckless interplanetary police officer Birdy Cephon Altirra accidentally kills Tsutomu, an earthling high school student. To make amends, Birdy is forced to share her own body with Tsutomu’s spirit so that he can continue his own life. At first, Tsutomu knows nothing about his situation but soon discovers that his body is starting to take certain actions without his mind ordering it. In times of action, Birdy takes full control of their shared body, transforming it back into her original female form.

(info on this can be found in previous post)

Rito is a high-school boy who just can’t confess to the girl of his dreams, Haruna-chan. One day when coming home and sulking in the bath-tub a mysterious, and barely clothed girl, appears out of nowhere. Her name is Lala and she comes from another planet…

The Japanese website of Asahi TV has confirmed on November 28 that Yes! Precure 5 Go Go!, the fifth television series in the Precure magical girl franchise, will premiere next spring. The title is an apparent wordplay on the seminal anime series Mach Go Go Go! (Speed Racer). (The Japanese words for “series number” and “5,” and the English term “go,” can be pronounced almost exactly the same way.) An earlier, tentative title (“Yes! Precure Go Go Go!”) for the fifth series had been inadvertently revealed when pre-orders for official accessories were posted online. Toei Animation (Sailor Moon, Ojamajo Doremi) has been producing the Precure franchise since 2004. 4Kids had licensed the original Futari wa Pretty Cure television series for North America, but the company did not release it.

Source: Moon Phase

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    Mirai Nikki (Future Diary)
    Genre: Shounen, Mystery
High school 2nd year, Amano Yukiteru, is a boy who has problem making friends. He thinks of himself as a bystander and will always write down everything he sees in a cell phone diary. Tormented by solitude, Yukiteru began to imagine things like a friend called Deus X Makina who is apparently the Lord of Time & Space. Seeing Yukiteru’s miserable state, Deus gives him a new ability. His diary will now record events that will happen in the near future. Yukiteru is then forced to participate in a game which the winner will become Deus’s successor.
An official website has opened for the anime adaptation of Itazura na Kiss, Kaoru Tada’s shōjo manga classic from the 1990s. The anime will premiere on Japanese television in April. In the romantic comedy story, a high school girl named Kotoko finally tells a fellow senior named Naoki that she has loved him from afar since she saw him on their first day of high school. However, Naoki, a haughty “super-ikemen” (handsome male) with smarts and sports talent, rejects her offhand. Fate intervenes when a mild earthquake ruins Kotoko’s family house. While the house gets rebuilt, Kotoko and her dad stay at the home of her dad’s childhood friend…whose son is Naoki.The story follows Naoki and Kotoko through high school and beyond, but it never ended because Tada lost her life in an accident in 1999. The producers of the anime adaptation call the original manga “the bible of romance” for its influence on later manga such as Marmalade Boy and Fruits Basket. The 23-volume manga has already been adapted as a television drama series in Japan (1996) and another drama series in Taiwan under the name It Started with a Kiss (2005). The 2005 Taiwanese version was popular enough that it was later reversed imported onto Japanese television and continued in a sequel series that premiered in Taiwan just last month.Source: Ultimatum

The Japanese anmation company Production I.G has announced on Monday Real Drive (RD Sennō Chōsashitsu), the newest “near-future suspense” anime that it and its Ghost in the Shell creator Masamune Shirow will premiere in April 2008 on Japan’s Nippon Television. The story takes place in 2061, 50 years after humanity developed the “Net society” that depended on information networks despite their security issues. To improve security, a new network called Meta Real Network — or “Metal” for short — was developed. People’s personal memories are reduced to information and placed within “protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves called bubble shells” online. The result was a virtual “explosion” of creative freedom as people felt safe enough explore instincts and desires on Metal that they would not otherwise explore in real life. This “friction” between the Metal’s alluring lack of restrictions and rules-bound reality led to trouble and incidents that investigators known as “cyber divers” must handle. Masamichi Haru is one such cyber diver.

CROSSROAD (Ghost Hound, Appleseed: Ex Machina) will contribute to the story’s creation with Production I.G. and Shirow. Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Le Chevalier D’Eon, Rurouni Kenshin, Zipang) will direct the series with scripts supervised by Junichi Fujisaku (Blood+ director and co-writer of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE The Movie: Princess of the Birdcage Kingdom, xxxHOLiC the Movie: A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Manga artist Tetsuro Ueyama (Metal Guardian Faust) will design the characters.

Advertising from the Japanese publisher MediaWorks has announced that Production I.G will animate Toshokan Sensō, the debut novel from science-fiction writer Hiro Arikawa, for television in 2008. The satirical comedy is set in 2019 when an organization has cracked down on “harmful” publications and freedom of expression, so an underground militia rises to protect books and libraries. Arikawa is already publishing his third sequel this month, and the LaLa shōjoMonthly Comic Dengeki Daioh shōnen magazine are both serializing manga adaptations by Kiiro YumiYayoi Furudori, respectively. Source: Moon Phase (Library War) magazine and the and

The first event at the show was a group interview of novelist Keiichi Sigsawa. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1972, Sigsawa-sensei was a finalist in the 6th Dengeki Novel Awards with his book Kino no Tabi (Kino’s Journey) in 1999 and started its serialization in Dengeki HP in 2000. In April 2003, the novel was adapted into a 13-episode TV anime, and the movie version was premiered on February 19, 2005. His hobby, not surprisingly, is traveling on his motorcycle, and has been dreaming about traveling around the world on it. His major works include Kino no Tabi, Alison, and Lilia and Trais, his newest creation.
(I know, this info kinda irrelivant, but what the heck.)

Akira Nikaido is a typical slacker high school student who thinks he has a normal life–until a mysterious man called Shirogane appears and tells him to meet him at the school that night. He is skeptical but goes anyway…and gets attacked by a shadow monster! Shirogane convinces him that the balance between the human world and the shadow world has been distorted, and that Akira must become a shin–a creature of the shadow world–in order to help restore the balance.

Source: Tokyopop

Fujiwara Naeka is a typical 17 year-old high school student. Or so we thought. She’s really one of 2 surviving heirs of a tycoon who has the right to inherit his mass fortune when she turns 18 in half a year. Fubuki, a young and beautiful maid, and Kogarashi, a big burly maid guy with a mask, have been assigned to keep Naeka and her brother Kousuke safe from those who would plot their demise, and to steal the fortune she would inherit.
The official Japanese website for the television anime adaptation of Atsushi Ookubo’s Soul Eater manga has opened — thus confirming the long-rumored project. The acclaimed BONES studio (Fullmetal Alchemist, Wolf’s Rain) will be animating the “cool & pop action fantasy” that appears in Square Enix’s Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine (Fullmetal Alchemist, Peace Maker). The story takes place at the Shinigami Weaponry Vocational School, a school for creating Death Scythes for Gods of Death. The human and demon students seek the seeds of the souls of 99 humans and the soul of one witch, all of which are needed to turn just one of the demon students into a Death Scythe. One of the human students, Maka Alban, is paired with Soul Eater, a boyish demon whose true form is a scythe, as they collect the needed souls to transform Soul Eater. Ten volumes have been compiled and published in Japan so far.Source: Moon Phase

The Japanese website for the KIDS STATION satellite television channel is streaming a trailer for the Gag Manga Biyori 3Kousuke Masuda’s Gag Manga Biyori manga, which is known for its bizarre plot setups and non-sequitur humor. Akitaro Daichi (Kodocha, Fruits Basket, Animation Runner Kuromi), a director also known for bizarre plot setups and non-sequitur humor, will return for the third installment. The original manga began serializing in Shueisha’s Monthly Shonen JumpJump Festa 2002 event, before the first television anime series aired in 2005. After Monthly Shonen Jump ceased publication earlier this year, the Jump Square magazine restarted the manga in its launch issue last month. comedy anime series. (In the linked page, select the center red button that has “PV” in it.) All three anime series are based on magazine in 2000. A special anime short was made for the

Source: Saishin Anime Jōhō

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    Vampire Knight
    Genre: Shoujo, Romance, Fantasy, Drama
The January issue (on sale November 24) of Hakusensha’s LaLa shōjo magazine has announced that Matsuri Hino’s Vampire Knight manga will be animated for television in Japan. The horror manga takes place in Cross Academy, where the student body is divided into the “regular” Day Class and the “elite” Night Class. Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster, is one of the few people in the entire school who knows that the Night Class students are vampires. Yuki herself was attacked by a vampire — and saved by another — as a child. As such, she joins the Guardians, a student group that struggles to maintain the delicate balance between the two classes. Zero, Yuki’s childhood friend and one of the Day Class Guardians, happens to be a latent vampire who keeps sane by drinking blood voluntarily offered by Yuki. Meanwhile, the student president of the Night Class is Kaname — the same vampire who saved Yuki as a child.Viz Media started publishing the original manga in English in January. Four drama CDs have already been offered to LaLaLaLa DX magazine readers in Japan, but no announcement has been made on the cast or staff of the animated version. andSource: Moon Phase
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    Telepathy Shoujo Ran
    Genre: Fantasy

The Japanese public television network NHK-Educational will be airing an anime adaptation of the Telepathy Shōjo Ran (The Case Notes of the Telepathy Girl Ran) children’s novel series by Atsuko Asano (The Comedy Team) in the spring of 2008. The novels combine coming-of-age stories with supernatural mysteries and center around Ran, a spirited middle-school girl who happens to have extra-sensory perception. She discovers this ability when she meets a transfer student named Midori, a girl who has the same power. Before long, the two girls join Rui (Ran’s childhood friend and potential boyfriend who also has a power) and start investigating mystery cases with their abilities. According to the Famitsu media news website, NHK-Educational is planning to air the 26-episode adaptation under the name Telepathy Shōjo Ran (Telepathy Girl Ran), but the staff and cast have yet to be announced. Kodansha’s Aoitori Bunko imprint has published eight novels in the series since 1999, and the ninth volume is being first serialized online. Wolf’s Rain manga artist Toshitsugu Iida has been serializing a manga version in Kodansha’s Monthly Shōnen Sirius magazine, and four volumes have been compiled so far. The story has also been adapted into a drama CD. Asano also wrote the original novels for The Comedy Team (The Manzai) manga that Aurora Publishing, Inc. is releasing in English. Jiken Note

Source: Moon Phase

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    Golgo 13
    Genre: Action, Adventure
The official website of Shogakukan’s Big Comic magazine has posted the cover image of its January 10 issue (on sale December 25) which indicates that Takao Saito’s Golgo 13 assassin manga will be adapted for television anime. An interior page reveals that the anime project will start next spring in Japan. The manga recounts the assignments that an amoral mercenary assassin named Duke “Golgo 13″ Togo executes on almost every continent in the world. Big Comic has been serializing the title since 1968, and the 147th compiled volume was published in Japan on December 5. Viz Media has published 12 graphic novel volumes in English, under its Viz Signature imprint, since 2006. The manga has already been adapted as a live-action movie (Golgo 13: The Kowloon Assignment) and two animated movies (Golgo 13: The Professional, Golgo 13: Queen Bee). Worldwide Pictures released an English-dubbed version of the live-action movie, and Urban Vision released both animated movies with English dubbing and subtitles.Source: Golgo 31

Shinji Ohara’s Nijū-Mensō no Musume crime manga will be adapted into an anime series that will premiere on Japan’s Fuji TV in April. The Hontsuna book retailer pre-announced the anime when it posted the front cover of the February issue (on sale on January 5) of Media Factory’s Monthly Comic Flapper seinen magazine. Ohara’s manga is loosely based on the Kaijin Nijū-Mensō (The Fiend with 20 Faces) novels by the famed suspense and detective novelist, Ranpo Edogawa. Ohara’s Nijū-Mensō no Musume manga centers around the adventures of Chiko, a female thief. Despite the manga’s title, which literally translates as “The Daughter of 20-Faces,” Chiko is not actually related to the criminal lead character of Edogawa’s Kaijin Nijū-Mensō novels. However, the Kaijin Nijū-Mensō character and another Edogawa creation, the detective Kogoro Akechi, do appear in Ohara’s manga. The first Nijū-Mensō no Musume manga ended in 2007 after five years and eight volumes, but Ohara started a new manga called Nijū-Mensō no Musume: Utsushiyo Yoru in the November issue (released in October) of Monthly Comic Flapper.

The anime series will be the latest in a long series of fictional works inspired by Edogawa’s Kaijin Nijū-Mensō novels. The female manga quartet CLAMP created their own crime manga, Man of Many Faces (20-Mensō ni Onegai!!), which featured a young boy as a spiritual successor to the original Kaijin Nijū-Mensō character. A spinoff novel by playwright So Kitamura is itself being adapted into a December 2008 live-action film by director Shimako Sato and Asian superstars Takeshi Kaneshiro, Takako Matsu, and Toru Nakamura. “Conan Edogawa,” the main character’s pseudonym in the Detective ConanSherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. manga series, was coined after Ranpo Edogawa and the creator of

Source: Moon Phase

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    Kyou Kara Maoh! 3
    Genre: Action, Fantasy

The Famitsu game and media news source reports that the Kyo Kara Maoh! fantasy comedy anime will return for a third season on Japan’s NHK-BS2 satellite channel, starting in April of 2008. As in previous seasons, the 39 new episodes will continue adapting Tomo Takabayashi and Temari Matsumoto’s light novels about a high school boy who was transported to a kingdom of handsome subjects — a kingdom in which he is crowned the ruler.

Director Junji Nishimura (Ranma ½, True Tears), series script editor Akemi Omode (Getbackers, Princess Princess), and the animators of Studio DEEN will all return in their respective roles from the first two seasons and OVA spinoff. Likewise, Takahiro Sakurai (Yuri), Toshiyuki Morikawa (Conrad), and Mitsuki Saiga (Wolfram) will reprise their characters. Sogo Vision will collaborate on the production. Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. released all of the first season and part of the second in North America before ending its in-house distribution of anime titles.

Source: Moon Phase

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    Crystal Blaze
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Lyricist Yuriko Mori (Inuyasha’s “Come,” Tactics‘ “Secret World” and “Mienai Chikara,” Zero no Tsukaima’s “Honto no Kimochi” and “Suki? Kirai!? Suki!!!”) revealed in a December 6 blog entry that the opening theme song has been recorded for a previously unannounced anime called Crystal Blaze, which will premiere in Japan in April. According to Mori, the adult-oriented story is set in New York, which is also where the opening theme’s recording session took place. The vocalist “Rie-san” sang the jazzy song, which was composed by Kōsuke Makino (Zero no Tsukaima’s “Two Moons” and “Crescent no Inori,” Rocket Girls‘ “Rise”) and arranged by Riki Arai (Zero no Tsukaima’s “I Say Yes” and “Suki? Kirai!? Suki!!!”). The session also included Happinet producer Tomoko Shibuya (music director for Full Metal Panic!, Key the Metal Idol, Rocket Girls) and recording engineer Hisao Iemori.
Source: Moon Phase Comments
  • Kurogane no Line Barrel
Kurogane no Line Barrel

Boy gets involved in an accident involving extraterrestrial objects crashing down on earth. Boy goes into coma. Boy wakes from said coma half a year later. Three years later he starts faction battles with his newly acquired mecha, or in this case, Machina. His Machina is called Line Barrel. So goes the premise.

Shimizu Eiichi’s and Shimoguchi Tomohiro’s Kurogane no Line Barrel (鉄のラインバレル – tl. Iron Line Barrel) manga series has finally been confirmed as an upcoming 2008 TV anime. Additional info to follow at a later time.

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Another blurb for same anime: The hero is Kouichi Hayase. He is the highest, and the lowest junior high school student. The outline in Volume 1 explains that Kouichi became a despressed due to an accident in his childhood. The boy who had awoken obtained unknown power before long. And, in three years, a huge doll robot “Line barrel” that was the cause of the accident appears in boy’s presence. The character of “Kouichi Hayase” is worse than that of Amuro and Kamille. It is believed that it has irritation that the screw bending and is adolescent, and I am the strongest, and it is the lowest man. Swinging of the mind in one’s teens that everyone all over the world thought of is splendidly expressed maybe. As for it and this excellent cartoon, the picture is speedy. You should check the artist’s homeage, he has other catoons.

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List Compiled by Animeph

Another list compiled by Anime DivX from Stage6.com

TV

TBA – Allison to Lilia
TBA – Amatsuki
TBA – Birdy The Mighty
TBA – Blassreiter
TBA – Chi’s Sweet Home
TBA – Code Geass R2 – (Trailer)
TBA – Crystal Blaze
TBA – Da Capo II: Second Season
TBA – Gyagu Manga Biyori 3
TBA – Himitsu Top Secret
TBA – Ikuze Gen-san
TBA – Itazura na Kiss
TBA – Junjou Romantica
TBA – Kaiba
TBA – Kamen no Maid Guy
TBA – Kure-nai
TBA – Kyou Kara Maou: Season 3
TBA – Kyouran Kazoku Nikki
TBA – Macross Frontier
TBA – Monochrome Factor
TBA – Nabari no Ou
TBA – Neo Angelique Abyss
TBA – Nijuu Menzou Musume
TBA – Real Drive
TBA – Soul Eater
TBA – Special A-Class
TBA – The Tower of Druaga
TBA – To Love-Ru
TBA – Toshokan Sensou
TBA – Vampire Knight
TBA – Wagaya no Oinari-sama
TBA – xxxHolic 2
TBA – Zettai Karen Children

OVA

03/07 – Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter Elysion
03/14 – Bus Gamer
03/21 – Kite Liberator
03/26 – To Heart 2: Another Days – (Eroge OP)
03/28 – School Days: Magical Heart Kokoro-chan
04/25 – Naisho no Tsubomi

10 Comments »

  1. I’m looking forward to Code Geass 2, Monochrome Factor, Vampire Knight, Soul Eater, the Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of URUK, Kurogane no Line Barrel (the manga is awes) and not really, but sorta Ni juu Mensou no Musume, only cos it sounds a lil good .. thief stuff always get to me

    Comment by blissmo — January 17, 2008 @ 2:43

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  2. I’m looking forward to code geass 2, monochrome factor, S.A, vampire knight, nabari no ou, macross frontier, waga ya no o-inarisama X3! so much to watch this season! can’t wait ^^

    Comment by ... — February 8, 2008 @ 2:43

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  3. i’m looking forward to nabari no ou, monochrome factor, code geass R2, macross frontier, kyou kara maou, junjou romantica. Thanks for the list!

    Comment by eipu — February 21, 2008 @ 2:43

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  4. Obvious pickings: CG R2, Wagaya no Oinari-sama and To-LOVE-RU

    Junjou Romantica fck yeah!

    Comment by Shin — February 21, 2008 @ 2:43

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  5. manga are soooooo cute!!!
    and i loved pretty cure!!!

    Luchia!!! -xoxoxox-

    Comment by Luchia Nanami — February 25, 2008 @ 2:43

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  6. I am SO HAPPY that I found your blog..thank you..THANK YOU!!!

    Comment by Olórin — March 2, 2008 @ 2:43

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  7. thank you

    Comment by LEENA — March 6, 2008 @ 2:43

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  9. Heynice pic’s =3

    Comment by rawry — June 14, 2008 @ 2:43

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  10. If you want to hear a reader’s feedback :) , I rate this post for 4/5. Decent info, but I just have to go to that damn yahoo to find the missed parts. Thanks, anyway!

    Comment by Liza — April 22, 2009 @ 2:43

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