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New I''S OAV

posted on 2005-09-05 12:53 EDT by Christopher Macdonald

The blog on Masakazu Katsura's official website has been updated to state that a new I''s OAV 2 is to be produced, with the first volume to be released this December. Mamoru Kanbe will direct.

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