{"id":27843,"date":"2012-02-24T14:43:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=27843"},"modified":"2012-02-24T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:43:16","slug":"gainax-announces-first-live-action-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/gainax-announces-first-live-action-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Gainax Announces First Live-Action Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/eas_main.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/eas_main-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"eas_main\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/eas_main-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/eas_main-318x450.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/eas_main.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gainax has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gainax.co.jp\/company\/news\/0317.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that its first live-action television series, EA&#8217;s Rock, will premiere in April.  The &#8220;datsuryoku-kei&#8221; (ennui-style) show will be a dialogue-based slice-of-life subdued comedy starring the five former members of the Kankaku Senshi Gokan Five superhero team who now spend their time working at and hanging around the real-life <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootingbar-ea.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shooting Bar EA<\/a> bar &#038; airsoft gun shooting range.<\/p>\n<p>The series of thirteen 15-minute long episodes will be directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita (Cream Lemon live-action movie, Linda Linda Linda). Yamashita is writing the series with Rikiya Imaizumi and manga artist Hiroyuki Ohashi (City Lights). Gainax&#8217;s Hiroyuki Yamaga and Yoshinori Asao are planning the series.<\/p>\n<p>In its earliest days, Gainax produced a selection of short live-action tokusatsu parody films including Kaettekita Ultraman, Kaiketsu Notenki, and Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/interest\/2012-02-23\/gainax-nobuhiro-yamashita-create-live-action-tv-show-ea-rock\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gainax has announced that its first live-action television series, EA&#8217;s Rock, will premiere in April. The &#8220;datsuryoku-kei&#8221; (ennui-style) show will be a dialogue-based slice-of-life subdued comedy starring the five former members of the Kankaku Senshi Gokan Five superhero team who now spend their time working at and hanging around the real-life Shooting Bar EA bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27845,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27843\/revisions\/27845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}