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Question:
Serial Experiments Lain is my favorite anime of all time. I was wondering if there were any anime out there that explore similar themes?

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Jules Urbach, CEO of Hollywood digital animation studio Lightstage, has provided Ain’t It Cool News (AICN) with a copy of the 94 second full CG Daiku Maryu Gaiking pilot animation created for Toei Animation. Toei has announced plans to develop full CG anime movies based on Gaiking and Captain Harlock for international release in 2012 or later.

Furthermore, Urbach has informed AICN that he’s presently in negotiations for the rights to produce his own live action American Shogun Warriors movie series using many of Toei’s vintage giant robots (Reideen, Mazinger, Danguard Ace, Voltes V, Combatter V, Daimos, Grendizer, etc.). The exact robots that will appear in the American film is not yet known, but Urbach said, “We are building the robots life size… The teaser we have now is CG for the robot. It is to give the fans a taste of the design we are going with, but it is not a true reveal given what we are going to be doing… The real deal is going to be mind blowing.”

Tentatively the first American film will be titled “Gaiking” and hit in 2012. The sequel will be tentatively titled “Shogun Warriors.”

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The homepage for the Mardock Scramble motion picture trilogy has added a streaming trailer. The first of the three films about a young woman killed then resurrected as a living weapon will open in Japanese theaters this fall. Please note, the trailer contains nudity, violence, and suggestive imagery.

Wow. I’m sold. The color design and visual design are outstanding. The action looks quite impressive, too.

Source: Anime News Network

The homepage for the upcoming Hyakka Ryoran Samurai Girls anime television series has added a streaming Flash trailer. Click the navigation button third from the right to access the trailer. The alternate history action/fantasy is set in an elite school for the children of Japanese military leaders and revolves around conflicts that arise between students and student factions.

Wow. This animation has a really neat visual style that I haven’t seen used in anime since the 1986 OVA California Crisis.

Source: Anime News Network

The TV Tokyo network’s homepage for the recently concluded Tegami Bachi anime television series has added a streaming teaser for the series’ second season, which is due to premiere this fall.

Source: Anime News Network

Animate.tv now hosts a streaming trailer for this summer’s Ginmaku Hetalia – Axis Powers Paint it, White [Shiroku Nure!] (“Hetalia – Axis Powers on the Silver Screen: Paint it, White”) motion picture. The trailer is available in narrowband and broadband resolutions. The movie opens on June 5th.

Source: Anime News Network

The adaptation of Masashi Okita’s high school romantic comedy light novel series Okami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi (Ms. Wolf & Seven Friends) will premiere in July.

I’m not predicting that this is going to be either good or bad, but it certainly looks and sounds like a greatest hits assemblage of current popular anime characteristics.

The homepage for the Kuroshitsuji anime TV series franchise has added a streaming trailer for the upcoming Kuroshitsuji II TV series. The second series revolves around the original characters Alois Trancy and Claude Faustas. Kuroshitsuji creator Yana Toboso created the character designs for both new characters, but the Kuroshitsuji II story is not an adaptation of any of Toboso’s original manga.

Source: Moon Phase

Japanese publisher Enterbrain has added a 5:30 trailer for the Bungaku Shoujo OVA series to its YouTube channel. The three Bungaku Shoujo Memoire OVA episodes will be released on June 25, October 29, and December 24. The Bungaku Shoujo motion picture will hit theaters first, on May 1.

Source: Moon Phase

The homepage for the upcoming fantasy harem show Shukufuku no Campanella -la campanella della benedizione- has added a new, streaming teaser trailer. The adaptation of the PC game from Windmill Oasis will hit Japanese TV screens in July.

Source: Anime News Network

Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan premieres next month. No date for Togainu no Chi yet.

There’s a good reason for pairing these two trailers.

There’s a few seconds of OVA footage at the end of the trailer.

A cam copy of the promotional trailer for Madhouse’s TV series adaptation of Daisuke Sato and Shouji Sato’s Gakuen Mokushiroku ~ High School of the Dead manga has appeared on YouTube. The TV anime about teens struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse will premiere this fall.

Pretty slick looking. Let’s just hope that it lives up this early trailer.

The film launches in September.

Because there’s a decent chance that this trailer is the most of this anime that Americans are likely to ever see. The show premieres today.