More Hunter x Hunter TV Series Details Confirmed (Updated)

Humberto Saabedra

[media-credit name=”Credit: Yaraon” align=”aligncenter” width=”600″]Hunter-x-Hunter[/media-credit]In this week’s Weekly Shonen Jump, more details have been confirmed regarding this Fall’s new Hunter x Hunter TV series. First, Madhouse will be the animation studio that will handle production on the series
Second, the TV series will premiere on October 2nd via NTV at 10:55 AM JST. This follows previous confirmation of the series via leaked retailer instructions ahead of the release of the 29th volume this week in Japan and the continuation of the manga in this week’s issue. [via Saouri’s Window]

Update: According to Mantan Web, the new series will be a new adaptation of the manga and will ignore both the 1999 pilot OVA and TV series as well as the subsequent OVA episodes. Hiroshi Koujina will direct the anime, Jun Maekawa will write the script, Takahiro Yoshimatsu is designing the characters while Toshio Nakatani is overseeing production. [via ANN]

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