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Ghost in the Shell's Kamiyama to Launch Eden of the East Anime (Update)

Honey and Clover's Chika Umino to design original characters for April debut

This year's 23rd issue of Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine will announce on Friday that Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit director Kenji Kamiyama is creating and directing an anime called East of the Eden (Higashi no Eden) for a television premiere in April 2009. Chika Umino, the creator of Honey and Clover and Young Animal's ongoing March comes in like a lion manga, is creating the original character designs for the anime. The anime will premiere in Fuji TV's late-night Noitamina timeslot. The Nodame Cantabile: Paris romantic comedy sequel is currently enjoying high ratings in the timeslot, and Osamu Dezaki's Genji Monogatari Sennenki Genji (The Tale of Genji: A Millennium-Old Journal: Genji) adaptation of a classic Japanese novel will take over the timeslot in January.

Source: Earl.Box

Update: The Japanese title, Higashi no Eden, is the reverse of the Japanese title for John Steinbeck's classic American novel, East of Eden (Eden no Higashi).

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keine infos zur story dabei :/ aber der rest hört sich vielversprechend an

 

[flummi]

2nd Hajime no Ippo Show Named, Dated: New Challenger on January 6

The official website for NTV network's CS digital broadcast programming lists the full title for the second television series based on George Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo boxing manga: Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger. NTV will premiere the anime on January 6 at 25:29 (effectively 1:29 a.m. the next morning). The first Hajime no Ippo anime in six years was first announced in September in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine, which still runs the original manga to this day.

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ich will es jetzt gucken

 

[GSoda]

Ghost in the Shell's Kamiyama to Launch Eden of the East Anime (Update)

Will aber ne neue GitS Staffel...*flenn* :sad4: :sad4: :sad4:

 

[Darji]

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ich will es jetzt gucken

Einer meiner Most wanted^^
Ist es schon klar, ob sie das jetzt endlos weiterführen, oder wird es nur zu einem bestimmten Punkt gehen? Bei über 800 chaptern wären das insgesamt ja locker über 200 Folgen

Jetzt fehlt mir nur noch eine Fortsetzung zu Berserk

 

[Amuro]

Einer meiner Most wanted^^
Ist es schon klar, ob sie das jetzt endlos weiterführen, oder wird es nur zu einem bestimmten Punkt gehen? Bei über 800 chaptern wären das insgesamt ja locker über 200 Folgen

ich glaube nicht, dass sie die ganzen Mangakapitel verfilmen (hoffe es aber ^^)

hoffe darauf, dass der Anime gutläuft (natürlich wird er das ^^) und man dann weitere Staffeln zeigen wird

Jetzt fehlt mir nur noch eine Fortsetzung zu Berserk

und einen vernünftigen Anime zu Bastard (die OVA hat viel zu wenig gezeigt)

 

[flummi]

Hells Angels Trailer

This dark comedy horror film, from the artist of the Star Wars: Return of the Jedi manga, follows a girl's journey to hell and back. The Madhouse animation company is producing the adaptation with character designs by Kazuto Nakazawa (Samurai Champloo, El Hazard - The Magnificent World) and monster designs by Yasushi Nirasawa (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Hellboy film). Yamakawa had previously directed the animation for various Di Gi Charat specials and the Leave it to Piyoko! video series.

 

[Perplex]

Utawarerumono Gets Ero-OVA

Excellent eroge adapted anime うたわれるもの / Utawarerumono is set to get a three volume OVA to be released in the spring of 2009, and it is said to include significant ero-upgrades, as well as some reworking of the series.

The speculative date given for the release of the first volume is June 5th, 2009; a DVD special edition and a Blu-ray edition will retail for some ¥8,000, with a normal version going for ¥6,300.

Some reworking of character design and scenario details is apparently in the works, but most interestingly we hear: “Unlike the TV anime it won’t be covering things up with steam or avoiding interesting angles; it’ll be a more mature work.”

Given the conclusion the original drew to, it seems a side-story is the shape the OVA will take, though details are sparese at present.

There was some disturbing talk of a PSP UMD only release for all or part of the title, but this thankfully seems to have been scotched.

Utawarerumono fans are sure to be eagerly anticipating this, especially with something of a return to its eroge roots, a pattern we saw also with Koihime Musou. Let us hope nothing goes awry.

Quelle: sankakucomplex

Die OVAs werden also ero, huh? Also Ecchi und mehr? Hm, ich weiß nicht, ob das jetzt ein GRund ist, sich mehr oder sich weniger drauf zu freuen.

 

[GSoda]

Utawarerumono Gets Ero-OVA



Quelle: sankakucomplex

Die OVAs werden also ero, huh? Also Ecchi und mehr? Hm, ich weiß nicht, ob das jetzt ein GRund ist, sich mehr oder sich weniger drauf zu freuen.

Im Zweifelsfall für den Angeklagten

 

[flummi]

Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari - Tenchi Muyo Spinoff 1st Teaser Trailer

Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari - Tenchi Muyo Spinoff 2nd Teaser Trailer

The story is set in an alternate world called Geminar, where countries have fought endless wars with replicas of humanoid Seikishi weapons that they found in ancient ruins. 15-year-old Kenshi Masaki, the half-brother of Tenchi Muyo! protagonist Tenchi Masaki, is summoned from another world to Geminar.

NisiOisin's Katanagatari Light Novels to Be Animated

Medieval sword drama from Bakemonogatari, Death Note: Another Note novelist

The online stores Honya Town and Rakuten Books have posted the cover of NisiOisin's Maniwagatari novel, which announces that an animated version of NisiOisin's earlier Katanagatari light novel series has been green-lit. The 12-volume historical epic centers on Shichika Yasuri, the seventh generational head of the Kyotō-ryū school of martial arts in medieval Japan. He and his older sister Nanami live on an isolated island, until a military advisor named Togame tells him of the final 12 swords forged by a legendary swordsmith. At Togame's bidding, Shichika embarks on a journey to find all 12 of the swords.

The illustrator Take draws the artwork in the novels. Kodansha published 12 volumes in the novel series — one for every month of 2007. Maniwagatari is a spinoff from Katanagatari, and it focuses on a side character named Maniwa-ningun. NisiOisin's Bakemonogatari supernatural comedy light novels are also being animated. NisiOisin is known outside Japan for his Death Note: Another Note novel spinoff and xxxHOLiC: Another xxxHOLiC spinoff short-story collection.

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Bones' Xam'd: Lost Memories Sci-Fi Anime to Get Manga

Bōnen no Xam'd: Junreisha no Compass to launch in Ace Assault on December 9

The official website for BONES' Xam'd: Lost Memories science-fiction anime series has announced on Friday that Kadokawa Shoten's Ace Assault magazine will publish a manga version of the anime. The anime follows the journey of an ordinary high schooler who is transformed into a giant creature named Xam'd. A mysterious red-haired woman named Nakiami helps to keep Xam'd's rampaging instincts in check. Ace Assault is a quarterly spinoff from Monthly Shonen Ace magazine, and the Bōnen no Xam'd: Junreisha no Compass manga will launch in Ace Assault's Winter issue on December 9.

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Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas Video Anime Green-Lit

The Lost Canvas - Meiō Shinwa prequel to get DVD release next spring

2009's 1st issue of Akita Shoten's Weekly Shonen Champion magazine will announce on Thursday that Masami Kurumada and Shiori Teshirogi's Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiō Shinwa manga has an original video anime version green-lit for next spring. The mythical action manga's story is set in the middle of the 18th century, 243 years before the first Saint Seiya storyline. Artist Teshirogi focuses The Lost Canvas - Meiō Shinwa on the friendship of Tenma and Alone — the previous incarnations of the characters Pegasus Seiya and Hades who would become mortal enemies in the original Saint Seiya. The manga and the upcoming anime also includes Sasha, the earlier incarnation of Athena.

Kurumada drew the original Saint Seiya manga from 1986 to 1990, and Teshirogi has been drawing the The Lost Canvas - Meiō Shinwa prequel manga since 2006. 11 volumes of the prequel have been compiled and published so far. The Lost Canvas - Meiō Shinwa anime will be the 10th anime project of the long-running Saint Seiya franchise.

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Ghibli to Start Two Features Over Next Three Years

Room established at studio for development of next film for "20XX" release

Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Spirited Away, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) gave a speech to his Studio Ghibli production staff in which he announced that they will start two feature-length works over the next three years. The studio's "Itsumo no Ghibli Nikki" ("The Habitual Ghibli Diary") describes the speech in a November 27 entry. According to the diary, the speech discussed how the studio will weather the increasingly grim conditions the world is facing. Miyazaki reportedly emphasized that the two new feature-length works will have young staffers at their core. The diary also posted a blurred image (shown at right) of the diagram for the next three years that Miyazaki presented, but captioned it, "The details are still secret."

In a November 17 entry, the diary revealed that the preparation room for Ghibli's next film has been set up on the third floor of Ghibli's studio #1. The room's poster (pictured at left) says, "Preparation Room: Maro & Nayo: 20XX Opening." The poster's date has been deliberately blurred in the picture in the diary's entry, and the picture's caption says, "The opening date is a secret." Nayo is the nickname of a staffer at Ghibli who working with studio co-founder Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko) on development for Ghibli's next film.

Studio Ghibli President Koji Hoshino revealed last February that "directors Takahata and Goro Miyazaki are both developing works" for release after Miyazaki's Gake no Ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on a Cliff) opens this summer. Goro Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki's son, served as the Ghibli Museum's first curator and directed Tales from Earthsea.

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Utawarerumono OVA - PV

Saki Mahjong Manga to Get TV Anime from Gonzo in 2009 (Update 2)

High school freshman girl's intro into competitive world of Asian tile game
This year's 24th issue of Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine will reportedly announce on Friday that a television anime adaptation of Ritz Kobayashi's Saki mahjong manga has been green-lit for 2009. The magazine had already indicated that there would be an "important announcement" in the next issue. The story centers around Saki Miyanaga, a timid freshman girl who has never enjoyed the Asian tile game of mahjong. However, another freshman brings her into their high school's mahjong club and into the competitive world of mahjong tournaments. Square Enix posted a free preview of the manga online. Four compiled volumes of the manga have been published since it began in 2006 in Japan.

Source: 2ch

Update: The Young Gangan magazine issue includes the following cast list:

Kana Ueda: Saki Miyanaga
Ami Koshimizu: Nodoka Haramura
Rie Kugimiya: Yūki Kataoka
Ryoko Shiraishi: Mako Someya
Shizuka Itou: Hisa Takei
Jun Fukuyama: Kyōtarō Suga

Manabu Ono (Dragonaut - The Resonance, Transformers: Cybertron) will direct, and Tatsuhiko Urahata (Card Captor Sakura, Hajime no Ippo, Strawberry Panic!) wil be in charge of scripts. Masakatsu Sasaki (Erotic Torture Chamber) will design the characters and oversee the animators at Gonzo. Studio Easter's Hiroki Matsumoto (Itazura na Kiss, Shikabane Hime: Aka, Welcome to the NHK) will design and supervise the background art. Sanzigen will produce the 3D animation, while Yota Tsuruoka (Air, Clannad, ef - a tale of memories) will direct the sound.

Update 2: The official website for the anime series has launched.

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[Toffi]

Aber die schöne (komische) Promo von Queens Blade postest du nicht, was?
Ist wirklich spannend, so mit lustigen Gesellschaftsspielen mit den Synchronsprechern und so. :hmm2:

Queen's Blade Volume Zero DVD Commercial

The Japanese producton company Media Factory has begun officially streaming a commercial for the Queen's Blade anime's Volume Zero DVD on the YouTube video-sharing service. Media Factory will sell the DVD at the Comic Market 75 event at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center at the end of this month. The actual DVD will include a complete version of a promotional video for the Queen's Blade anime, an exclusive audio "radio program" featuring voice actresses Ayako Kawasumi and Mamiko Noto, and special interviews with the main cast. The anime adapts Hobby Japan's Japanese spinoff from Flying Buffalo's Lost Worlds combat picture book games. In combat picture book games, players simulate turn-based fighting with books that each represent a character.

btw @ Saki:

Kana Ueda: Saki Miyanaga

I'm sold.

 

[Sebebi]

Naja nicht wirklich Animenews aber trotzdem:

Die ganzen Spacken die sich so massiv über die eventuelle nicht mehr Vorhandene Jungfräulichkeit von Nagi aus Kannagi aufgeregt haben habens jetzt wohl hingekriegt das der Manga bis auf weiteres eingestellt wurde.
In dem Magazin in dem Kannagi veröffentlicht wird gabs jetzt jedenfalls ein Statement das die Mangakarin momentan nicht in der gesundheitlichen Verfassung sei die Serie fortzusetzen und deshalb bis auf weiteres auf Eis gelegt wurde.

Vielleicht ist sie ja auch wirklich "nur" krank aber ich glaube eher das die ganze Kritik die hart getroffen hat und jetzt selber ne Krise hat

Alles in schön und auf Englisch auf Sankakukomplex
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/12/05/kannagi-ceases-publication-otaku-blamed/

 

[Perplex]

Uguuuuuu~

Weia, die Utawarerumono OVAs sehen echt schäbig aus...

 

[Casha]

Uguuuuuu~

Weia, die Utawarerumono OVAs sehen echt schäbig aus...

Sieht IMO nicht schlecht aus.
Nur die Animationen sind etwas langsam. Daran merkt man sofort, dass der Staff, der auch das Game-OP gemacht hat, den OVA animiert. Schon damals hat's mich gestört. ;]

Ich bete nur, dass sie kein Ero reinbauen... die Szenen waren verdammt schlecht.

 

[Itoshiki]

Mir gefallen beide, werd auch beide gucken^^

 

[Perplex]

Sieht IMO nicht schlecht aus.
Nur die Animationen sind etwas langsam. Daran merkt man sofort, dass der Staff, der auch das Game-OP gemacht hat, den OVA animiert. Schon damals hat's mich gestört. ;]

Ich bete nur, dass sie kein Ero reinbauen... die Szenen waren verdammt schlecht.

Hm, diese komisch detailarmen Gesichter...also ne, das hab ich aber besser in Erinnerung. :/

Auch die Hintergründe sehen jetzt nicht gerade umwerfend aus. (Gut das taten sie auch in der Serie schon nicht^^)

 

[flummi]

New Fullmetal Alchemist TV Anime to Premiere in April

Website launched for new anime based on Hiromu Arakawa's manga

The official website for the new Fullmetal Alchemist television anime series has launched with a short teaser video, and it has confirmed that the television series will launch in Japan in April. It also promised that new information will be provided in the January issue of Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine (where Hiromu Arakawa's original manga is still serialized) on December 12. The same issue will also include a poster with a key visual image.

The new Fullmetal Alchemist teaser trailer ran at the end of the episode of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season that aired in Japan on Sunday. The trailer says, "New training … a fullmetal artificial limb, a body of armor … the brothers' journey begins. Fullmetal Alchemist: April 2009 Training. In this palm, is there hope or despair?"

The new television anime series was confirmed on the wraparound jacket band of the 20th volume of Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist manga in August. However, a document with leaked information about animators who worked at BONES had already mentioned the possibility of "Hagane 2" ("Iron/Fullmetal 2") in July. Viz Media published the 17th volume of the manga version in North America this October, while FUNimation Entertainment released both the first television series and its theatrical movie finale.

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“Nodame Cantabile” Season 3 Announcement

From the pages of Animage magazine comes word of a 3rd season of the「Nodame Cantabile」series. Broadcast is planned for Fall 2009 on the Fuji Television programming block noitaminA…

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Leapt Through Time's Hosoda to Direct Summer Wars Film

Madhouse's previously announced action film to have Eva designer Sadamoto

The January issue (on sale on December 10) of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine will confirm that Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time or "TokiKake," Digimon Adventure) will direct the Summer Wars film for release in Japan in next summer. The "action entertainment" story will revolve around a modern-day family that embarks on a midsummer adventure together at the behest of a 90-year-old woman. The animation studio Madhouse had already revealed at the Tokyo International Anime Fair 2008 in March that it is working on the newest film by Hosoda.

Satoko Okudera (Angel, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Miyori no Mori) is writing the screenplay, while Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Evangelion, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, FLCL) is designing the characters. Youji Takeshige (Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle) will be oversee the art direction.

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CLAMP's Kobato Manga Gets TV Anime Next Fall

Chi's Sweet Home's Masuhara to direct Madhouse's animators

The January issue (on sale on December 10) of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine will announce that CLAMP's Kobato. manga will get a television anime adaptation next fall. Mitsuyuki Masuhara (Chi's Sweet Home, Chobits episode director) will direct off scripts supervised by the CLAMP manga quartet's own Nanase Ohkawa. Hiromi Kato (Ai to Yuuki no Pig Girl Tonde Buurin, CLAMP in Wonderland 2, I'm Gonna Be An Angel) will be designing the characters that Madhouse will animate.

The manga has been running in Newtype magazine since 2006, and two volumes have been published. It also ran in A.D. Vision's Newtype USA magazine.

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K-ON! Four-Panel School Comedy Manga to Get Anime

Story about 4 girls who rescue their school music club, despite no musical skills

The January issue (on sale on December 10) of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine will announce that kakifly's K-ON! four-panel manga will be adapted for anime. The manga has been running in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara magazine since 2007, and one volume has been compiled and published so far. The story follows four girls who try to rescue their high school's light music club, even though they are all novices who cannot play instruments or read music.

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Kawamori's Basquash Anime Gets Airdate, Staff, Cast

Joint project with Oban Star-Racers' Romain about robot basketball

The January issue (on sale on December 10) of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine will confirm the 2009 airing date and staff for the previously revealed Basquash! anime project from Shoji Kawamori (Macross, Escaflowne, Aquarion). Kawamori is collaborating with France's Thomas Romain (Oban Star-Racers) in this Satelight project that combines robots with basketball. Kawamori is developing this project as a deliberately lighthearted counterbalance to the more serious work he has done. Romain developed the conceptual designs for the mecha and the art direction.

Shin Itagaki (Black Cat, Devil May Cry) will direct the actual production, while Tatsuo Sato (Cat Soup, Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness) will oversee a team of writers that includes Yuuko Kakihara (Kamichama Karin, S.A, Stitch!) and Yuki Enatsu (Peach Girl , School Rumble, X TV). Takahiro Yoshimatsu (Future GPX Cyber Formula, Slayers: The Motion Picture, Trigun), SUEZEN (Yadamon), and Kazuhiro Soeta (Lord of Lords Ryu Knight, Oshare Kozou wa Hanamaru, Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight) will split the character design chores.

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Gonzo Plans Ero-Anime to Avert Bankruptcy?

An animator with insider knowledge reports that troubled anime studio Gonzo is considering turning to ero-anime (as in hentai, rather than merely ecchi) to rescue itself, with sacking a quarter of its staff and reducing anime output by half apparently not sufficient to restore it to profitability.

The animator revealed the plan on his Mixi diary, apparently based on his conversation with a Gonzo employee:

Apparently, there are even problems paying employees? We also hear:

“If it’s Gonzo doing an ero-anime then the quality could be pretty good, right?”

“Only the worst, most useless staff are left…”

So a Gonzo produced H-anime may not be as great as one might hope.

It must be noted that this is otherwise unconfirmed, and so should be taken sceptically.

Observers point out that ero-anime titles such as eroge-adapted “Sora no Iro, Mizuiro”, with two OVA volumes, look to have strong sales, with those titles looking to manage some 20,000 in total.

In comparison, Gonzo has only two titles to have broken through the critical 10,000 copies sold milestone, those being Vandread and Strike Witches. Thus Gonzo might be lured into creating adult titles, which is considered something of a last resort in the industry.

Their other titles have managed only moderate sales of 5,000-7,500, and some have done much worse.

Below you can see the rather unimpressive sales data for Gonzo’s top sellers, showing week 1 sales for various first volume DVD releases (first number is the rank at the time, followed by first week sales and weekly period sales, with the number of weeks after):

12 *8,720 12,318 *3 ストライクウィッチーズ 1 / Strike Witches 1 LE
*8 *9,764 11,906 **2 ヴァンドレッド 1 / Vandread 1
16 *6,601 *6,601 **1 ラストエグザイル 1 / Last Exile 1 LE
*7 *6,124 *8,029 **2 ヴァンドレッド the second stage 1 / Vandread II 1
35 *5,092 *6,606 **2 ロザリオとバンパイア 1 / Rosario+Vampire
20 *3,423 *7,403 **2 ゲートキーパーズ 1 / Gatekeepers 1
19 *5,667 *6,992 **2 キディ・グレイド 1 / Kiddy Grade 1
17 *4,528 *6,376 **2 HELLSING 1
24 *4,568 *5,990 **2 最終兵器彼女 1 / Saishuuheiki Kanojo 1
21 *3,390 *5,558 **2 フルメタル・パニック! 1 / Full Metal Panic 1
29 *4,332 *4,332 **1 クロノクルセイド 1 / Chronocrusade 1
90 *3,998 *3,998 **1 BLACK CAT 1
52 *3,821 *3,821 **1 瀬戸の花嫁 1 / Seto no Hanayome 1
57 *2,759 *3,773 **2 ドルアーガの塔 ～the Aegis of URUK～ 1 / Druaga 1
53 *3,538 *3,538 **1 ウィッチブレイド 1 / Witchblade 1
50 *3,074 *3,074 **1 超重神グラヴィオンツヴァイ 1 / Gravion Zwei 1
64 *2,732 *2,732 **1 巌窟王 1 / Gankutsuou 1
67 *2,722 *2,722 **1 GANTZ 1
74 *1,978 *1,978 **1 風のスティグマ 1 / Kaze no Stigma 1
94 *1,802 *1,802 **1 ガドガード 1 / Gad Guard 1
84 *1,668 *1,668 **1 超重神グラヴィオン 1 / Gravion 1
64 *1,542 *1,542 **1 SAMURAI7 1
31 *1,508 *1,508 **1 SAMURAI GIRL Real Bout High School 1
73 *1,374 *1,374 **1 月面兎兵器ミーナ 1 / Getsumento Heiki Mina
79 *1,278 *1,278 **1 ブラスレイター 1 / Blassreiter 1

You can follow a good collation of sources here.

Perhaps they should try for a Strike Witches ero-anime? Whatever they try, Gonzo appears to be in truly dire straits…

sankakucomplex

 

[Doctor]

Fullmetal 2 :o
Want!

 

[ZhaoYun]

Hoffentlich wird man dann auch endlich mal genauer erfahren inwieweit die 2. Staffel in Verbindung zur ersten steht, oder ob man nochmal ganz von vorne beginnt und dem Manga folgt Würde das letztere bevorzugen

 

[Darji]

Wow die nächste Anime season im Januar ist ja gespickt mit Leckerbissen

Ich kopiere mal aus dem Gaf:

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Akikan! / アキカン！
Synopsis: When the protagonist puts his mout to a melon flavoured soda from a vending machine, the canned drink turns into a girl. While spending time with the steel can spirit that transforms into a girl, the protagonist gets drug into a war between steel and aluminum cans.

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Beast Performer / 獣の奏者
From the author who brought us Seirei no Moribito and the subsequent Seirei and Tabibito series

Synopsis: Erin lives with her mother who is a beast doctor. One day, many fighting snakes, used for battles, die suddenly and Erin's mother is forced to take the blame and is executed. The orphaned Erin is saved by the Bee Tamer Joun and while living with him, she encounters the king of beasts who flies in the sky over the mountains. Amazed by this sight, Erin becomes determined to become a beast doctor, but as fate would have it, she
becomes embroiled in a situation that will decide the future of her country.

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Birdy the Mighty DECODE:02 / 鉄腕バーディ DECODE:02
Synposis: As seen in DECODE, a scantily cladded muscle for brains woman beats the crap out of aliens. Website update coming on 12/10/2008

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Chrome Shelled Regios / 鋼殻のレギオス

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Hajime no Ippo　New Challenger / はじめの一歩 New Challenger
Synopsis: Coming of age boxing series. If you haven't seen the original already, go see it...now. Don't think much more needs to be said about this except it's damn good. Miyata Ichiro is an annoying piece of shit, though.
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Hetalia / ヘタリア
Synopsis: A comedy about personified countries. You got America (fuck yeah), England, China, etc etc etc. Story revolves primarily around Italy and Germany and is a play on various countries historical events, stereotypes and what not.

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Kurokami - The Animation / 黒神 The Animation
Synopsis: One evening, the protagonist, Ibuki Keita, who's lost his mother due to an accident, meets Kuro, an upper class ghost (for lack of a better term). However, Keita is attacked by a mysterious man out to destroy Kuro and subsequently loses his left arm. To prevent Keita from dying, Kuro exchanges her arm, and forms a pact with him. Supposedly Kuro doesn't wear underwear and wears a micromini skirt.

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Major - 5th Series / メジャー　第５シリーズ
Synopsis: More of the baseball stuff

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Maria Holic / まりあ†ほりっく
Synopsis: A love comedy about a cross dressing sadist boy and a girl with a lesbian fetish that takes place at an all-girls catholic school. I like this combo

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Maria-sama is Watching - 4th Season / マリア様がみてる - 4thシーズン

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Minami-ke - Welcome Back / みなみけ - おかえり
Synopsis: Season 3 of the slice of life comedy which took a dump in season 2...not expecting much of a recovery from S2 but we'll see. Season 1 was very well done in comparison.

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Shikabane Hime Kuro / 屍姫 - シカバネヒメ 玄
Synopsis: Season 2 of Corpse Princess. Takes place in a world where people who die with regrets become animated corpses. Some monk sect, in turn, decided to reanimate dead women with regrets to combat these animated corpses. Something about, when the original encantation was created, it was specifically for female teens so that's the reason why all the corpse princesses are women and are young...apparently, the corpse princesses don't wear underwear either...

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Slayers EVOLUTION-R
Synopsis: I honestly don't know what this series is about. The art design is a turnoff for me, but seems like it's rather popular on GAF

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The Tale of Genji - Millenium / 源氏物語千年紀 Genji
Synopsis: It's to commemorate the 1000 year anniversary of Tale of Genji...The story itself is a classic novel by the female aristocrat, Murasaki Shikibu and essentially is about an Emperor who is relegated to commoner status due to political reasons. The story follows his romantic life and gives a vivid look into the upper class society of Japan during that era.

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Tommorrow's Yoichi / 明日のよいち
Synopsis: Love comedy, harem situation, male protagonist ends up living with 4 sisters of the Ikaruga Dojo.

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Tower of Drauga - the Sword of URUK / `ドルアーガの塔
Synopsis: Admittedly never saw the Aegis of URUK either so can't comment...seemed like it was getting a decently good reception on GAF, though.

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Viper's Creed
Synopsis: Motorcycle(?) anime? I'm getting some Blassreiter vibes...

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WHITE ALBUM
Synopsis: The girl, who the protagonist is dating, becomes a pop star...protagonist starts waning and eventually cheats on her and what not.


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Zoku Natsume Yuujincho / 続 夏目友人帳
Synopsis: Season 2 story about a high school boy who's experienced solitude and isolation in his past due to his ability to see monsters, as his grandmother was able to do. Grandmother left a book full of names, of which the owner has control over. Boy returns names, makes new friends both real and supernatural. While the stories are generally
very simple, the presentation is beautiful and serene. It's not a love story, but the girl with glasses is pretty damn cute. Was ranked #1 during Summer '08 on Dengeki as
one of the best anime to watch that season. This is one I'm personally looking forward to, tremendously. It's an interesting take on the concept of lonliness and I'm sure a lot
of people can find something they can relate to throughout the series.

Hmm Major, Ippo und OMG Druaga. Endlich geht es weiter^^

Aber what the hell @Akikan^^
When the protagonist puts his mout to a melon flavoured soda from a vending machine, the canned drink turns into a girl. While spending time with the steel can spirit that transforms into a girl, the protagonist gets drug into a war between steel and aluminum cans.