Crunchyroll has launched streaming for the 2005 Canvas 2: Rainbow-Colored Sketch (Canvas2 ~Niji-iro no Sketch~) and 2006 Venus to Mamoru (Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo!) television series. Crunchyroll has also today begun streaming distribution of the 2008 Magician’s Academy (Macademi Wasshoi!) television series, which it first announced last October.
Media Blasters’ scheduled December 21st release of “Oh My Sex Goddess” (Megachu! ~ Megamisama Chu’uihou) has been removed from Kitty Media’s future release schedule.
The homepage for next spring’s Kämpfer: für die liebe television series has added a streaming teaser trailer. The second Kämpfer TV series will premiere in March.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for studio A-1 Pictures’ upcoming Noitamina television series Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Boku-tachi wa Mada Shiranai (We still do not know the name of the flower we saw that day) has added a 15 second teaser trailer. The teaser does not include any animation footage. The show will premiere during the Fuji TV network’s late-night Noitamina timeslot next April.
Source: Anime News Network
Anime studio Bones (Rahxephon, Wolf’s Rain) has confirmed plans to produce an original anime series titled “Towa no Kuon” despite the death of Umanosuke Iida last month due to lung cancer. Iida was originally scheduled to direct the series. Now Takeshi Mori (Gunsmith Cats, Vandread) will direct. Rahxephon creator Yutaka Izubuchi is credited as series concept designer with Rahxephon concept designer Shingo Takeba also contributing original designs. Wolf’s Rain character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto will provide chara design and serve as animation director.
The production credits on this are impressive. Let’s just cross our fingers and hope that no ill befalls Takeshi Mori. Umanosuke Iida took over directing Gundam MS 08 after original director Takeyuki Kanda died suddenly in 1996. Iida then died suddenly in 2010.
Source: Anime News Network
Director Tetsu Maeda (A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth) is currently filming a live action feature based on Shigeru Tsuchiyama’s culinary manga Gokudo Meshi. “The film version of Gokudo Meshi is set in a prison on New Year’s Day, where a group of cellmates play a game over their osechi (traditional New Year’s foods), competing for items from each other’s meals by boasting about the most delicious things they’ve ever eaten.” The film will be completed and released next year.
Source: Tokyograph
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the opening of the Suteki Tantei Labyrinth TV series from 2007. The opening theme is “Monochrome” performed by kannivalism.
2009 was an especially good year for TV anime, bringing viewers outstanding series including Kimi ni Todoke, Canaan, Aoi Hana, Cross Game, Higashi no Eden, and Kemono no Souja Erin, to name a few. 2010, however, saw a slight drop in total number of TV anime and a bigger decline in number of exceptional TV anime. 2010 seemed to be a year heavily dominated by fan service and shows obviously constructed to exploit certain tropes and appeal to select otaku niches. While narrowing down a list of last year’s best anime was difficult for me, choosing the best of 2010′s television anime seemed to be an effort in selecting the best candidates among a field without obvious peaks.
The TV series adaptation of 5pb & Nitroplus’ Xbox 360 “hypothetical science adventure” visual novel game will premiere next spring.
Looks good.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for next April’s A Channel the Animation television series has added a streaming trailer. The slice-of-life school comedy is based on bb Kuroda’s manga.
Looks adorable!
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for next month’s Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? television series has added a second streaming trailer. Looks like the show’s opening animation sequence. The first episode will premiere on January 10.
Giga Pudding!
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for the Tono to Issho franchise has released a streaming trailer for next year’s second television series, Tono to Issho Zokuhen. The historical gag comedy based on Ohba-Kai’s manga will premiere in April.
Source: Anime News Network
A new teaser trailer for Hokago no Pleiades (After School Pleiades) has gone public. The YouTube exclusive anime production is a collaboration between anime studio Gainax and automobile manufacturer Subaru. “Subaru” is the Japanese name for the Pleiades celestrial body. Shouji Saeki (Mahoromatic: Tadaima Okaeri) will direct the anime for release “this winter.” (Not sure if that means winter 2010 or winter 2011.)
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for next April’s 30-sai no Hoken Taiiku (Health and Physical Education for 30-Year-Olds) television series has added a streaming teaser. The adaptation of Mitsuba and Ichijinsha’s manga is a humorous guide to sex for 30+ year-old Japanese men with no sexual experience.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for next year’s Ikoku Meiro no Croisée television series has added a streaming teaser trailer. While nice, the trailer doesn’t include any animation footage.
Source: Moon Phase
