Kobato was first serialized in Monthly Sunday Gene-X on 2005. The series went on hiatus on late 2005, but it returned on publication on November 2006 in Newtype magazine.

Similar to Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Kobato. is a crossover between CLAMP’s popular titles.  Characters from Chobits and Angelic Layer play as secondonary characters in the series, while characters from Magic Knight Rayearth, CardCaptor Sakura and Wish make cameo appearences throughout the series! ^_^

• Kobato.tv (Official Japanese TV Anime Kobato. web site): http://www.kobato.tv
• NHK’s Official “Kobato.” Homepage: http://www9.nhk.or.jp/anime/kobato/index.html

New TV Anime 2009 CLAMP Kobato.

The movie is concurrent with the new Pokemon Nintendo DS Game “Pokemon Platinum”「ポケットモンスタープラチナ」. While the North American release was released concurrently with the game, the European release of Pokemon Platinum has not been officially announced yet.

Pokebib.com: Giratina et le gardien du ciel ! Sortie prochaine du DVD en France !
http://www.pokebip.com/pokemon/news1767__giratina_et_le_gardien_du_ciel_.html

“Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo: Meguru au futari no  Meitantei”

「名探偵コナン&金田一少年の事件簿 めぐりあう2人の名探偵」

The game’s system is similar to the Detective Conan Nintendo DS games and Capcom’s Gakuten Saiban (Ace Attorney) Nintendo DS series.

The game is set as Shounen Sunday’s and Shounen Magazine’s 50th anniversary. Another 50th anniversary special is “Nettou! Dream 9!”. Sports characters from both magazines (but also including Meitantei Conan) will be featured in the Nintendo DS game “Shounen Sunday VS Shounen Magazine: Nettou! Dream 9!”

STORY:

The game will be a special story between Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi, which both of them will work on solving a mystery.

VIDEO:

SCREENSHOTS:

“Meitantei Conan & Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo: Meguru au futari no Meitantei”

Publisher: BANDAI NAMCO GAMES

Genre: Adventure

System: Nintendo DS

Release Date: 2009.02.05 (2009 February 5th)

Product NO.: NTR-P-C7KJ

Links:

Official web site

http://www.bandaigames.channel.or.jp/list/conan_and_kindaichi/

Impress GAME WATCH: バンダイナムコ、DS「名探偵コナン&金田一少年の事件簿 めぐりあう2人の名探偵」 あらすじ＆序盤のストーリーを公開

http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20081226/kk.htm

Appearantley, it’s just a look-like! <_< I didn’t confirm the plate number though, can someone confirm if it’s the same as Dr.Agasa?

http://pics.livedoor.com/u/a96092kh/2432541

Nihon TV’s 55 years and Yomiuri TV’s 50 years Anniversary Special!

「ルパン三世 vs 名探偵コナン」TVアニメスペシャル

“Lupin The Third vs Meitantei Conan” TV Anime Special

Broadcast Date: 2009 March on NTV & YTV

Official Web Site

http://www.ntv.co.jp/lupin-conan/

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Sky Exploration Team

(Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankentai)

「ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 空の探検隊」

Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankentai

The game will feature a new story of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon with new characters!

The starter Pokemon of the game are:

Lucario, Eevee, Vulpix, Phanpy, and Shinx

“Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankentai”

Release Date: Spring 2009
Genre: Dungeon RPG
Console: Nintendo DS

Official website:

http://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/ds/dungeon2009/

Link：

Gpara.com:　新エピソード収録！『ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 空の探検隊』今春発売

http://www.gpara.com/article/cms_show.php?c_id=11280&c_num=14

North America:
Case Closed -One Truth Prevails-: The Mirapolis Investigation (Sometime 2009)
U.K:
Case Closed -One Truth Prevails-: The Mirapolis Investigation (February 2009)
France:
Detective Conan: Enquête à Mirapolis (2009/01/31)
Italy:
Detective Conan: Il caso Mirapolis (2009/02/06)
Spain:
Detective Conan La Investigacion De Mirapolis (2008 November)
Germany:
Detektiv Conan – Die Mirapolis-Ermittlung　 (2009/01/29)

The European release of the game includes English & Japanese Audio tracks. The game text is available in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch.

Something confusing is the cover released in the official web site is different than the cover shown in the Nobilis site and fan sites!
*Note: The game release dates are from the official web site, fan sites, Amazon and various shopping sites cited below. Various sources including the official web site did not mention the date in specific, and various shopping sites and fan sites reported different release dates.

Video: Trailers & Gameplay

Video: Nobilis Detective Conan Wii Event

Official links:
Official “Detective Conan: The Mirapolis Investigation” European web site
http://www.detectiveconan-thegame.com/

Official Japanese web site:
http://www.mmv.co.jp/special/game/wii/conan/

Nobilis
http://www.nobilis-france.com/index_en.html

Fan sites & Online stores:

Geek Inc: Detective Conan : Enquête à Mirapolis　(French)

http://www.geekinc.fr/2009/01/14/detective-conan-enquete-a-mirapolis

Adventruegameshop:Detective Conan: Il Caso Mirapolis (Nintendo Wii)　(Italian)

http://www.adventuregameshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=602&osCsid=50ab474c9572bf4c02809

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the popular Manga magazines: SHOUNEN SUNDAY and SHOUNEN MAGAZINE characters will meet in the Nintendo DS Game “SUNDAY x MAGAZINE: Nettou DREAM NINE!” !

The Baseball Nintendo DS game will include characters from over 40 manga series from Shounen Sunday and Shounen Magazine Over 400 characters will appear in the game! 150 of them are playable!  Notable series are “Detective Conan”, “TOUCH”, “H2″, and “MAJOR” .

The game will also include a STORY MODE in which there will be manga scenes! Some of the manga scenes will be in color.

The game will be released by Konami Digital Entertainment, and it will be based on Konami’s popular game series “POWER PRO”. The game is a spin-off of Konami’s Power Pro series.

Video:

The Commercial trailer of the game marked the game as “Shounen SUNDAY x Shounen MAGAZINE x POWER PRO”!

SUNDAY x MAGAZINE: Nettou! DREAM NINE

サンデー×マガジン　熱闘！ドリームナイン

System: Nintendo DS

Genre: Sports

Players: 1~2 Players

Release Date: 2009.02.26

Publisher: Konami

Buy Online from Play-Asia!

Links:

SUNDAY x MAGAZINE: Nettou Dream Nine! Official website

http://www.konami.jp/sunmaga/bb/

Konami’s “POWER PRO” series official web site

http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/pawa/

Konami’s press release

http://www.konami.jp/topics/2008/1126_2/index.html

Cartoon Network (US) will also broadcast the movie on 7th of February 2009.

The movie was released in Japan in 2008 as “Giratina and the Sky Bouquet: Sheimi” (Giratina to sora no hanataba Sheimi 「ギラティナと氷空の花束シェイミ」 ) The story is the 2nd movie of the Pokemon Diamond Pearl Platinum Movie Triology. It is a sequel to the previous Pokemon Diamond Pearl movie Movie 10th: Dialga VS Palkia VS Darkrai (The Rise of Darkrai). The movie will also have a sequel be released in Japan on 2009 and in North America on 2010: Pokemon Movie 12th: To the Conquering of Space-Time (Choukoku no Jikuu he)

Unlike the previous movies, this will be the first movie to be distributed by Universal Studios. Also, the Amazon.com specifications shows that the movie will be in widescreen. If the information is correct, this would also be the first Pokemon movie released on DVD in North America in widescreen (while some European and other international releases were in widescreen)

Pokemon Movie 11 Giratina and the Sky Warrior DVD Cover

Pokémon The Movie 11: Giratina and the Sky Warrior

# Format: AC-3, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
# Language: English
# Subtitles: English
# Rating: Unrated
# Studio: Universal Studios
# DVD Release Date: March 31, 2009
# Run Time: 96 minutes

Links:

Official North American web site

http://www.pokemon.com/PokemonGiratinaMovie/

Amazon.com: Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior

http://www.amazon.com/Pok%C3%A9mon-Giratina-the-Sky-Warrior/dp/B001QWQJ9W/

Pokebeach.com: ‘Giratina and the Sky Warrior’ TV Air Date and DVD Release Date

http://pokebeach.com/news/0109/giratina-and-the-sky-warrior-tv-air-date-and-dvd-release-date

Pokemondiamondpearl.info: Pokemon Movie 11 Giratina to sora no hanataba Sheimi/Giratina and the Sky Warrior

http://www.pokemondiamondpearl.info/movie/11th2008_giratinatosoranohanataba.htm

Nintendo DS Pokemon Platinum (USA-North America)

The game is released concurrently with the North American release of the Pokemon Platinum movie: Giratina and the Sky Warrior. Featuring the debut of Giratina and Shaymin in the Pokemon Diamond & Pearl series.

The game was originally released in Japan on 13th of September 2009 as “Pocket Monsters Platinum”. The game is third part of the Pokemon Diamond & Pearl game series. It is basically a modified version of Pokemon Diamond & Pearl with new features!

New Pokemon Forms

• The debut of Giratina’s Origine and Another Forme
• Shaymin’s Sky and Land Forme
• New forms of Rotom!
• Ability to capture both of Dialga & Palkia
• Ability to capture Zapdos, Moltres and Articuno!

New Design

• New Storyline! With new characters!
• New Area! a 3D Area “The Reverse World” (The Torn World)
• New Design for cities
• New Animations for Pokemon Sprites and for the cities.
• New players outfits
• New GYM Puzzles
• Newly designed tools (such as Poketech)

Pokemon Platinum also features a new GTS (Global Trade Station), which features:

• Trade-and-seek pokemon from friends
• Battle Video Recorder to record battle videos. Videos can be uploaded online to the Online Battle Ranking on the Nintendo DS!
• Wi-Fi Plaza with Online mini games!
• 4 Players voice chat! (In Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, only two players could voice chat)
• Battle Frontier (as in Pokemon Emerald)

Pokemon Platinum Fan site: http://pokemondiamondpearl.info/platinum/