The second season of the K-ON! anime franchise was announced after the “Let’s Go!” live concert in Yokohama on Wednesday. When the concert’s two encores ended, the large onstage screen displayed footage from the first season of the television anime series. Then the screen displayed an announcement that the second season has been green-lit.

The anime’s official website has also confirmed that production on the second season has been green-lit. The anime adapted kakifly’s four-panel comedy manga about a budding high school band.

Set 3 years after the events of Char’s Counterattack, a young man is caught in a deadly conflict between the Earth Federation and Terrorist Organization “The Sleeved” as they battle for an object that is said to have changed the course of Human history. Based on the Novel written by popular Japanese author Harutoshi Fukui

The June issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s Monthly Gundam Ace magazine will officially announce on April 25 that an anime adaptation of Harutoshi Fukui’s Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn space robot novels has been green-lit for this winter. Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Le Chevalier D’Eon, Rurouni Kenshin, Zipang) will direct off a script written by Yasuyuki Muto (Afro Samurai: Resurrection, Le Chevalier D’Eon, Persona -trinity soul-).

The Gundam Unicorn story is mainly set in the year of Universal Century 0096 — three years after Char’s Counterattack, the last anime to feature the protagonist Amuro and antagonist Char of the first Gundam anime series. Before penning Gundam Unicorn, Fukui wrote the stories of the C-blossom – case729 and Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 manga. >>Click here to watch the trailer<<