A live action TV series adaptation of Yukari Takinami’s 4-panel slice-of-life manga “Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan” will premiere on the NTV network on January 11. 29 year-old comedian Miyuki Torii will play Ekoda-chan, a laid-back woman with a casual approach to life.
Source: Tokyograph
To refresh your memory or introduce you to an interesting opening animation sequence, I offer the second opening from the 1991 Genji Tsushin Agedama TV series. The opening theme is “Jishin Manman Agedaman” sung by Nozomu Sasaki.
Question:
Would PROJECT A-KO be of anthropological significance for being one of, if not even the, first yuri anime? The entire film is, at its’ core, primarily about B-ko trying to impress C-ko, a girl she’s got an unhealthy fascination with so she’ll dump her “best friend” – the title character – and join her in her giant decadent Roman bath, obviously for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with living out pent up sexual frustration from when they were in kinder garden. I know that Kaze to Ki no Uta was the first yaoi anime/yaoi manga, but don’t have a clue where the roots to girl-love date back to in Japanese pop culture. Your insights?
Crunchyroll has launched its surprise streaming of last year’s school comedy television series Seitokai no Ichizon, under the domestic title “Student Council’s Discretion.”
A 67 second teaser for creator/director Yoshitaka Amano’s samurai fantasy anime film Deva Zan has surfaced. While Amano has provided character designs for anime including Gatchaman, Angel’s Egg, and Ayakashi, Deva Zan will be his anime directing debut. The film will tentatively open worldwide in spring 2012.
Source: Nippon Cinema
The homepage for next month’s Yumekui Merry supernatural adventure television series has added a new streaming trailer. The adaptation of Yoshitaka Ushiki’s manga will premiere on January 6.
Source: Anime News Network
THINK Corporation has released a short teaser trailer for its upcoming Showa Monogatari (Showa-era Story) television series. The original drama depicts the life of the Yamazaki family in Tokyo in 1964, the year Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics. The series will premiere in April following a separate Showa Monogatari feature film that will premiere on January 29.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for Madhouse & Warner Bros.’ upcoming Supernatural OVA series has added a new streaming trailer. The 22 episode series based on the American television series will premiere in Japan on February 23.
Wow! What happened to quality? The character design is pretty poor. The animation quality is pretty poor. And that Kansas cover is awful.
Source: Anime News Network
Morning Magazine has formally announced the development of an anime TV series adaptation of TAGRO’s risqué comedy manga series Hen Zemi (or “Hen Semi,” as it’s also officially spelled). The manga about an ordinary college girl taking a class about (and filled with) sexual abnormality was adapted into an OAD released last July. A second OAD is scheduled for release with the manga’s fifth collected volume next March.
Considering how close the first OAD came to being outright pornography, I wonder how this could be effectively adapted into TV anime suitable for broadcast.
OAD 2 trailer:
Source: Anime News Network
Starchild has formally confirmed that a second season of the Kämpfer anime television series, titled “Kämpfer: für die liebe,” will premier in March.
Source: Moon Phase
The Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi (A Bridge to the Starry Skies) adult PC game from developer feng will get an anime television series adaptation from studio Dogakobo (11eyes, Koihime Muso). The harem romance game from the creators of Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka was originally released last October.
Source: Anime News Network
An official website has launched to announce the development of an anime based on Type-Moon and author Gen Urobuchi’s Fate/Zero novel prequel to the Fate/stay night PC game. Fate/Zero chronicles the 4th Holy Grail War that took place a decade before the events in Fate/stay night. Ei Aoki (Ga-Rei: Zero) will direct the adaptation at studio ufotable (Kara no Kyoukai).
Source: Anime News Network
Anime studio ufotable (Kara no Kyoukai) will produce an anime adaptation of computer game developer’s currently in-the-works all-ages adventure game Girls’ Work.
Source: Anime News Network
Starting January 1, UNIQLO clothing stores in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, and France will give away an exclusive limited edition “Naruto x UT Original DVD” to consumers that purchase UNIQLO exclusive Naruto t-shirts. The DVD will contain an original Naruto anime music video set to Aqua Timez’s song “Mayonaka no Orchestra.” 200,000 DVDs will be distributed in UNIQLO stores; 5,000 DVDs will be available to online customers from January 1 to 7.
Source: Anime News Network
Pop duo Chage and Aska’s 2001 song “C-46″ inspired Human Crossing manga creator Kenshi Hirokane to create a manga story titled “C-46 Seiun” (C-46 Nebula) last month. Now the manga, about a salaryman and former lead singer of a popular band who has a reunion with an old lover, is being adapted into a live action television series that will premiere next spring.
Source: Anime News Network
