I’ve noticed that with most seasonal previews, movies and OVAs tend to be largely ignored. That’s why I decided to come with a preview, entirely dedicated to them. Sure, in the case of the movies it’s probably going to take nine months before we can actually get the chance to check them out, but this seems like a good point to look forward to them either way.
This post contains previews for the upcoming movies and OVAs that are scheduled in June, July and August as indicated on Moonphase. I’ve left out the porn and the continuing ones such as Negima and Break Blade. Aside from that, the order is mainly based on my preference: the ones I’m looking forward to the most are at the bottom, and the least interesting ones to me are at the top here.
The trend seems to be kids’ movies, but certainly not in a bad way. There are a ton of interesting looking family-movies scheduled with excellent staff behind them. There are also quite a few continuations of franchises, ranging from short to long and ambitious OVAs and CG movies. Anyway, I hope that this list is going to be useful for some people. I had a lot of fun making it in any case.
Shin Koihime Musou OVA
Summary: Kashin is afflicted with a disease that will turn her into a cat if an antidote is not found, and Kada is still seeking the Crucial Ways to the Key of Peace, so he entrusts Kanuu’s group to go seek the ingredients for an antidote. At the same time, Choujou is plotting something between the Kingdoms, and Kashin may have been only the first in a line of dominoes set to fall. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: One or a bunch of OVAs next to the TV-series.
Why you should look forward to it: I don’t get the director, Nobuaki Nakanishi: he actually did some pretty good stuff in the nineties: a few WMTs, Mahoujin Guruguru. What happened to this guy?
Why you should not look forward to it: Seriously though, how long do they still think that they can keep milking this thing out?
First-Glance Potential: 0%
Metal Fight Beyblade VS Taiyō Shakunetsu no Shinryakusha
Type: Kids’ movie.
Why you should look forward to it: If you’re under the age of 11.
Why you should not look forward to it: It’s a beyblade movie.
First-Glance Potential: 0%
Pocket Monster Diamond & Pearl: Genei no Hasha Zoroark
Summary: Celebi sees Raikou, Entei, and Suicune fighting in the future in an attempt to stop this from happening, Celebi then travels to the past. Ash encounters a shadowy figure that looks identical to how he looks, but the other appears to be evil. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Movie (The thirteenth one already)
Why you should look forward to it: More pokemon.
Why you should not look forward to it: More pokemon.
First-Glance Potential: 0%
Zettai Karen Children
Summary: In a world where ESP is common, only three people have them at the highest possible level – Level 7. Those three are the special ESP team, The Children. The Children work for BABEL, a special ESPer organization committed to stopping crimes before they happen. Kouichi Minamoto is assigned to watch over them, and he’ll need to, because three superpowered ten year olds are a problem on their own. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: An OVA for the series, whether it’s a continuation, side-story or one-shot isn’t known yet.
Why you should look forward to it: To be honest, when I dropped it (it just wasn’t funny and the characters and premise were just stupid for my tastes), I did not expect this show to go on for 52 episodes. Zettai Karen Children is at least a franchise that gets enough time to show off, and for the characters to actually grow up.
Why you should not look forward to it: Obviously, I do assume that you need to have seen those 52 episodes in order to get this OVA, something which was very hard for me considering how boring the early episodes of the TV-series were.
First-Glance Potential: 30%
Abnormal Physiology Seminar
Summary: In the story, Nanako Matsutaka has been assigned to the Abnormal Physiology Seminar, even though she herself is a rather ordinary person with no abnormalities in particular. On the other hand, her classmates, including the college upperclassman Komugi Musashi, have just about every abnormal condition to speak of. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: One-shot OVA bundled with a manga-volume.
Why you should look forward to it: The staff itself is decent. Nobody stands out, but it’s got the director of the first season of Hidamari Sketch (aside from Shinbo, I guess)
Why you should not look forward to it: Takamitsu Kouno is behind the script, and his work unfortunately only ranges from mediocre moe series. This is going to be yet another one of those slice of life comedies.
First-Glance Potential: 30%
Hiyokoi
Summary: Hiyori, a small and timid girl, goes to school for the first time in a year since an accident left her hospitalized. Follow her as she struggles with her social skills, tries to make friends and maybe even a little bit more…? – (Taken from Myanimelist)
Type: Movie
Why you should look forward to it: This movie still is a big mystery at this point, but it’s quite rare for such a shoujo manga to be actually adapted into a movie of all things. It looks very cute in either case.
Why you should not look forward to it: But at the same time it’s also very typical: weak girl (probably weaker than ever here) who is being taken care of by a strong guy who is very popular. It’s standard shoujo fare. Can the movie-format really make this work?
First-Glance Potential: 40%
Kyou, Koi wo Hajimarimasu
Summary: Self-conscious Tsubaki Hibino enjoys hairstyling, but doesn’t think that style suits herself. When she arrives at her new high school, she is immediately teased by her delinquent-like classmates for maintaining such an old-fashioned look. That’s not the worst part — the top student of the grade, Kyouta Tsubaki, not only shares the same name as her, but is also an arrogant, promiscuous playboy. After Tsubaki cuts Kyouta’s hair in defiance, he ominously threatens to steal all of her first experiences. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Seems like a one-shot OVA that gets shipped along with a volume of the manga it’s based on.
Why you should look forward to it: It’s got an interesting director: Shigeyasu Yamauchi, whose other works include a bunch of Dragonball Z Movies… and Casshern Sins, and he also co-directored the first Digimon Movie. Enough hints that the manga will be portrayed accurately here.
Why you should not look forward to it: But yeah, it’s just one episode of a much, much longer shoujo series. Still, the mangas seem to be selling quite well. Perhaps this hints at a full blown adaptation somewhere in the future. In that case, if the director remains the same things could get interesting.
First-Glance Potential: 40%
Black Rock Shooter
Summary: Not sure, but it seems to be based on some moe karaoke character called Hatsune Miku.
Type: OVA, though the exact format doesn’t seem to be known yet.
Why you should look forward to it: Ordet is a newcomer as an animation-producing company, founded by Yutaka Yamamoto (among others) after Kyoani fired him. This is going to be their first full fledged production, and it’s always good to see new people here. The director also is usually just a storyboarder or a key animator, so there’s probably going to a lot of eye candy here.
Why you should not look forward to it: I never really understood what that “Vocaloid”-thing was all about though. Can you really make an OVA out of a karaoke program? Ah well, with enough imagination it’s possible I guess.
First-Glance Potential: 50%
Gunpla Builders
Summary: The main character of the story is Haru Irei, a boy who becomes a “Gunpla Builder” after a fateful encounter with the Beginning Gundam plastic model. (In real life, Bandai is producing a Beginning Gundam model kit in 1/144 scale, but has not set a release date or price.) Rina Noyama is an always cheerful girl who, like her friend Haru, is a big fan of Gunpla. Haru’s pal Kenta Sakazaki is a boy who loves Gunpla and gives advice to Haru about building them. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Movie
Why you should look forward to it: Just… no.
Why you should not look forward to it: Sunrise… just surpassed itself. Seriously for god’s sake, raping your own franchises over and over is one thing, but stop hogging all of those awesome directors for these pointless side-stories of yours, who you’re probably not even going to give the freedom they need to really make something awesome. First there was Kazuhiro Furuhashi, then my favourite director ever Kazuki Akane, and now also Kou Matsuou, the director of Red Garden, Rozen Maiden and Kurenai, along with the rest of an all-star cast. Sunrise is like that rich dorky kids who keeps paying all of the cool kids to stay around him. These people should be working on so many better shows, compared to the same Sunrise Mecha franchises that should have died by now. Apologies for this rant, but I’ve gotten even more tired of Sunrise than I already was after finding this out.
First-Glance Potential: 50%
Ginmaku Hetalia: Axis Powers – Paint it, White
Summary: The movie will adapt Hidekaz Himaruya’s Hetalia – Axis Powers web manga, just as the two earlier television seasons did and the upcoming new television season will in March. The film will retain the same main staff and cast from the television version, including director Bob Shirohata and the animators at Studio DEEN. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Movie
Why you should look forward to it: I have no idea what to expect of this, really. I mean, Hetalia consists out of short one-minute sketches. Are they going to keep this up for sixty entire minutes or something? In any case, the creators did an interesting job of epic-ifying the main cast in the promo image there.
Why you should not look forward to it: The reason why Hetalia works is because the episodes are just five minutes long. I’m too afraid that those sixy minutes will be more like a test of patience instead.
First-Glance Potential: 60%
.Hack//Link
Summary: The .hack//Link game is intended as the final chapter in the popular .hack franchise. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Seems to be a 3D CG Movie, though not certain.
Why you should look forward to it: Well, so the .Hack franchise is finally coming to a conclusion with this one. It’s an incredibly diverse genre with just about every visual medium used to tell its story in: games, anime, movies, CG, manga, OVAs. It’s a bit of a shame that the finale can’t get a TV-series, but nevertheless this should be watched for its ideas.
Why you should not look forward to it: Having said that though, I’ve given up on trying to follow the entire continuity of this franchise. Leaving alone the different anime that got produced, I have not watched any of the other canon. Will the movie also be worthwhile to the ones who aren’t fully known to the entire franchise?
First-Glance Potential: 60%
Honeybee Hutch The Movie
Summary: The original anime followed a honeybee named Hutch who survives the destruction of his beehive by wasps. Hutch embarks on a journey to find his mother. The film will have a new story that deals with interactions with humans, as well as a new girl character named Amy. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Remake Movie.
Why you should look forward to it: Aww, this brings back memories. I remember how the original anime was shown on Dutch TV when I still was a kid. I disliked it though: Hutch looked rather stupid. Still: the creators are actually giving a totally new story to this movie. Hell yeah, remakes like this rock.
Why you should not look forward to it: Tetsuro Amino… isn’t this guy a bit busy right now? I mean, he also has to direct Shiki at this point.
First-Glance Potential: 70%
Kurenai OVA
Summary: Based on a series of light novels, Kure-nai is about the adventures and misadventures of 16-year-old Kurenai Shinkurou. Shinkurou is an authority in settling disputes between people, and finds his life turned upside down one day when he is assigned as a bodyguard for Kuhouin Murasaki, the daughter of a powerful plutocratic family. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: A One-shot OVA bundled with a manga-volume
Why you should look forward to it: Awesome to see more of this. It’s not known whether the original director is also going to come back to handle this series, but I really hope he does, because it’ll mean that we get more of the amazing voice-acting, in which the voices get to be recorded before they actually get animated.
Why you should not look forward to it: At the same time though I also hope that this isn’t one of those “screw the people who haven’t read the manga”-OVAs, but that it’s also going to be for the fans of the anime.
First-Glance Potential: 70%
Black Lagoon – Roberta’s Blood Trail
Summary: The story revolves around a typical Japanese businessman who gets caught up in the escapades of modern-day pirate mercenaries off the Asian shores. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: 5-Episoded OVA
Why you should look forward to it: I just love how the director of this series, Sunau Katabuchi, has other than this series mostly been working on cute and innocent anime. He’s the director of Princess Arete, for Christ’s sake. 😛 In any case, I absolutely loved the first season of Black Lagoon. It’s going to be awesome if he can get back on track here.
Why you should not look forward to it: But yeah, my big problem with the franchise is that the second season kind-of lost focus of what it was about, and it dropped the interesting theme of modern-day pirates to instead focus on random action arcs. Either that, or I just was overreacting back when I watching. That tended to happen a lot back then.
First-Glance Potential: 70%
Loups Garous
Summary: Virtual reality. Murder. Werewolves. And teen girls! In a future where nothing is as it seems, can old legends come true? In the near future, humans will communicate almost exclusively through monitors, making real interaction a rarified and weak occurrence for those living in a near totalitarian society. In this new world of communication, children are only allowed to interact personally on school grounds. So when a serial killer starts slaughtering junior high children the communication routes go under further surveillance. And despite all the safeguards put in place to avoid physical interaction, the killer’s latest victim turns out to have been in contact with three young girls: Mio Tsuzki, a certified prodigy; Hatsuki Matsuno, a quiet but opinionated classmate; and Ayumi Kono, her best friend. And as the girls get caught up in trying to quell curiosity under such terrorist scrutiny, Hatsuki learns that there is much more than meets the eye of their monitored communications. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Movie
Why you should look forward to it: It may be about teenagers, but it’s definitely an interesting premise for a horror movie that we’ve got here. It’s done by production IG. Junichi Fujisaku (Blood+) will direct it, but the best thing is the original creator: Natsuhiko Kyogoku, who also wrote Mouryou no Hako.
Why you should not look forward to it: Trans-Arts, responsible for a lot of the less impressive works of Production IG over the past few years. The director also has screwed up a few times when it comes to series composition, so let’s hope he can see the general picture with this movie.
First-Glance Potential: 80%
Colorful
Summary: The “heart-warming comedy” follows a person who finds himself trapped outside the normal endless circle of life and death. Thanks to “winning” a lottery in the angel world, the protagonist is brought back to inhabit the body of a 14-year-old boy — who is planning to commit suicide. Thus, the protagonist begins a new life. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Movie
Why you should look forward to it: At least I’m glad that at least a part of Sunrise is trying out interesting concepts. This movie is definitely based on an idea that kicks ass. Keiichi Hara is going to direct it, which seems like a solid choice after Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi. The scriptwriter of Nodame Cantabile is also going to help.
Why you should not look forward to it: Movies shouldn’t advertise themselves as a “heart-warming comedy”. Let the viewers determine instead. 😉
First-Glance Potential: 80%
Ai no Kusabi
Summary: On planet Amoi, a great society has developed, creating a computerized city called Tanagura, ruled by supercomputer Jupiter. The populace is almost entirely male and is based on hair color; silver and/or blonds are the elitist, ending with dark/black haired as the bottom of society, often known as “mongrels”. Blondies keep “pets”, young boys kept for a few years, especially made for performing sexual actions for the Blondie’s voyeurism entertainment. Blondies aren’t suppose to keep pets for long or interact sexually with pets, but one blondie named Iason Mink has kept a pet named Rikki, for years and is rumored to sleep with him. Iason refuses to let go of Rikki, even with Jupiter’s disapproval. Rikki fights with his emotions and society problems, unable to decide what to do about his old friend/lover Gai (Guy) and their gang. Iason is obsessed with keeping Rikki, and Rikki doesn’t know what to do; fight against him or surrender to him. – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Really long OVA: 13 episodes.
Why you should look forward to it: This has been delayed quite a few times by now, which seems to indicate that the creators really want to take their time to make this one turn out well, rather than trying to rush things. They even got the director of the original Ai no Kusabi OVA (released in 1992) back, Katsuhiko Akiyama, even though he hasn’t been involved into any anime during the past ten years, and Rieko Yoshihara, who created the novel that this show is based on is also involved everywhere, from the series composition to the screenplay. Yaoi it may be, but this seems much better than the regular bishie shows we get to see. Oh, and have I already mentioned that the characters are designed by Naoyuki Onda, who also designed the characters of Ergo Proxy, Blassreiter and Gantz? He’ll also be doing the animation direction.
Why you should not look forward to it: AIC may not be the strongest animation company though, and that does show in the character-designs: they just don’t look as good as on the promo of the 1992 OVA of Ai no Kusabi.
First-Glance Potential: 80%
Karigurashi no Arrietty
Summary: The Borrowers is a children’s fantasy novel by Mary Norton about tiny people who “borrow” things from humans and keep their existence unknown. The central characters are the Clock family: Pod, Homily and their spirited teenage daughter, Arrietty. First published in 1952, it won the Carnegie Medal for that year, and was selected in 2007 by judges of the CILIP Carnegie Medal for children’s literature as one of the ten most important children’s novels of the past 70 years. – (Taken from Wikipedia)
Type: Movie (adaptation of this classic novel)
Why you should look forward to it: A novel adaptation by Ghibly. What’s not to look forward to here? Hayao Miyazaki will even be planning out the movie, but the direction is in the hands of Hiromasa Yonebayashi. I’m not sure who he is, but he worked on the animation of various movies such as the Yamadas, Gedo Senki, Howl’s Moving Castle, Jin Roh, Spirited Away and even series as Monster and Serial Experiments Lain. New talent is always interesting to watch.
Why you should not look forward to it: Well, I guess it’s a children’s novel, so those looking for a story about adults shouldn’t look here.
First-Glance Potential: 90%
Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW
Summary: A tiny mountain village in a remote woodland region. Five primary school kids have come together in this idyllic spot in order to spend their summer holidays at a camp. At first the children enjoy carefree days amidst unspoiled nature far away from adult supervision. But their life changes dramatically when they come across what they believe to be a small dog, badly in need of help. The creature – known as Pochi – turns out not to be a dog at all but an alien on an important mission. It seems there is a mysterious substance on earth that is coveted throughout the universe. Pochi had almost found it but was so badly injured during a fight that he had to give up his search. Thanks to the children’s help, the alien survives – and decides to reward them generously. “Where would you most like to travel?” is the question Pochi puts to his rescuers. Their answer is prompt, if vague: “As far as possible!” Pochi suggests they try the moon first of all, and so, the alien whisks away the kids to the satellite next door. This marks the beginning of an absolutely amazing adventure. During the course of their travels they discover that the substance coveted throughout the universe is in fact also integral to Japanese cuisine – and it just so happens that one of the kids has some of this mysterious substance in his pocket.
– (Taken from AniDB)
Type: Movie of two hours and 16 minutes.
Why you should look forward to it: The title really has something cheesy yet awesome here. And take a look at who’s producing it: Koji Masunari, the director of Read or Die and the incredibly charming series as Kamichu and Risky Safety. I’m predicting an incredibly charming family movie here with a ton of imagination. To make things even better, Yoshihiro Ike, one of my favourite composers, will be doing the soundtrack. The screenplay will be done by Hideyuki Kurata, who also wrote the Excel Saga, Now and Then, Here and There, Read or Die, Sasameki Koto and Brigadoon. It’s also going to be the first movie of A-1 Pictures to produce. If that isn’t the formula of an awesome family movie then I don’t know any more.
Why you should not look forward to it: I’m blank on this one, though I guess it remains a movie about a bunch of kids.
First-Glance Potential: 100%
Ah, I’m so~ hoping that this time Ai no Kusabi will air for real!
I really can’t wait to see it! Okay, the graphics aren’t as good as in the original OVAs but with the original author involved this much and even the director of the last OVA in charge… I really have my hopes high up.
The 2-part OVA was already gorgeous and this time they have a full 13 episodes to flesh out characters, backgrounds, world, etc.
I really hope it will get as awesome as it is promising to be.
Aren’t the Break Blade movies (1 and 2) coming out this summer as well?
The Ghibli film is a must of course but Colorful also sounds really interesting.
Wow, Loups Garous sounds interesting. And I might watch Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW based solely on it’s name.
I didn’t even know half of these things existed until I read this post (Ai no Kusabi remake?)
Tekky: the first Break Blade is scheduled at May 29th, which is technically still Spring, so I included it in my previous preview:
http://psgels.net/2010/02/14/spring-season-preview-movie-and-ova-edition/
Well Colorful‘s success with me really depends on how good they are gonna play the premise and how witty it’s going to become. It could as well become a pretty boring feature about how wonderful life is…No.216.
Loups=Garous sounds so totally different from what is given as a premise to the novel. But it’s by Kyougoku Natsuhiko, the author of Mouryou no Hako, so it’s more or less a compulsory watch.
I wanted to watch Space Show but most people I asked told me that it’s really more of a children’s movie than a family movie and that it’s a mountain of cheese with cheese topping…well if I’ve got time I’ll take a look.
Holy mother of–it’s been too long since I last saw Black lagoon. Roberta looks like she’s gonna kick some major rear end.
Colorful, Kurenai, and THE SPACE SHOW all look pretty interesting. Worth a shot, I guess.
just a question…DTB ovas are not in the list…You consider the last 2 are part of winter season like the previous two, or is it something else?
🙂 the Black Rock Shooter OVA is based off a vocaloid song, if you didnt know that info (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLzOrik5YJ8&feature=related)
Cilia: ah, okay. That makes more sense.
Nocubessa: yeah, I decided not to include OVAs and Movies that already have been going on, like Negima and Break Blade.
Nice image choice for Black Rock Shooter, lol.
” At the same time though I also hope that this isn’t one of those “screw the people who haven’t read the manga”-OVAs, but that it’s also going to be for the fans of the anime.”
Well it’s got the manga/light novel character designs and is being bundled with the manga, what do you think?
Though it won’t be as bad as some others since it’s more standalone instead of thrusting people into the middle of an arc.
Ahh Pocket Monsters~ VERY popular in Ribon. The series is always placed from the middle to front of the magazine, which is a very, very good position considering how its placement is based off the last month’s surveys. It’s even before Tanemura Arina‘s Sakura Hime Kaden (which is not very good good). Her series will never go behind that middle mark and is always given crisply printed pages–that’s only because of the mangaka’s popularity though. The series sucks in my opinion. Or at least it isn’t as good as her previous works.
Um, anyway…I can’t say I was ever a personal fan of Hiyo Koi, but it’s a bit of a mystery how they’ll adapt it considering how little source material is given.
Kyou, Koi wo Hajimarimasu…I tried reading that. I got up to a few volumes half-heartedly and dropped it because it pissed me off too much.
I thought the Hetalia movie was only going to be around 30 minutes? And there’s a plot. They’re going to save the world from…something. I forgot. (Just think 2012.)
BRS is going to be based off a story the illustrator of the Black Rock Shooter song made up. I think.
And ohh those movies at the end look good~
I don’t know what happened up there but my comment was shortened. ^^;
But I meant Hiyo Koi is very popular in Ribon. c:
Kurenai kinda worries me… I mean the anime took the source material, which was just a small arc, into a completely new direction away from shounen. Which is what I fell inlove with as the direction it was brought was totally unique and well fleshed out. The OVA seeing the designs and the characters may… be more faithful for better or for worse.
Though my gripe about it being faithful is that we won’t get that quiet unusual slice of life that the anime offered. Since originally its pretty standard shounen/ecchi.
Fuckyeah for .Hack//Link and BRS. :]
I actually think the art and character designs for Ai no Kusabi are a lot more attractive here then what the earlier version displays. But that’s me. It’s not on my watch list, either way.
I’m not interested in Vocaloid in the slightest but Black Rock Shooter looked like it had some pretty sweet animation in the trailer I saw a while ago. Also, Atsuya Uki is linked with supercell, which is the driving force behind BRS, and I have some secret urge to support everything he’s related to because I really want an actual Cencoroll anime. I know, I know: they’re completely unrelated. It’s just wishful thinking, really.
Other than that, I might take a look at Colorful and Loupus Garous. Maybe Kure-nai, if I can ever muster up enough willpower to finish the actual series. I’ve been feeling very disillusioned with Ghibli lately (to the point where I haven’t even seen Ponyo yet) so I’ll probably hold off on their latest endeavor. But their stuff is usually geared toward everybody, even if it’s based off of a children’s novel, so I nwouldn’t worry too much about looking for an adult story in it. 😀 Thanks for the summaries!
Also: FUCK YEAH, POKEMON.
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Yeah, psgels, I think you missed a major point of the 2nd season of Black Lagoon. The action scenes didn’t matter as much as what the creators did with them. The real story and the real point of the anime is the interplay between the motif of freedom and what that freedom costs and the larger question of how you balance morality and freedom.
These are themes you rarely see in an anime and done so well, so I can’t wait for these OVAs
Takamitsu Kouno is more than a moe anime script writer. I really recommand you to watch the first season of Minami-ke and Kyo No Go No Ni(TV). Especially for the latter one, which has the same character designer with Hen-Zemi. Nao Chikaoka is one of a few young animators I consider knows how to draw a character that an animation needs. When you see the character design on paper, You can see his character moving in anime, not just a still figure. He’s got a refreshing and inspiring style. That’s why I have a lot of interest in Abnormal Physiology Seminar. The only thing that worries me is the theme. The characters of Abnormal Physiology Seminar is pretty much a bunch of perverts, and the story develops around the relationship of these abnormal people and their abnormal hobbies with the word sex in the middle. Sounds like what Xebec has been doing recently, right? But it got Ryouki Kamitsubo as the director, so it might turn out to be very interesting and entertaining, and surprisingly genuine.
Zettai Karen Children is better than what you think. The OAV is related to the second part of the manga when the brats are a little bit older. I could tell somethig more about it on MSN or IRC maybe.
Black Rock Shooter should come off some game, but internet is hyped up about the shortcoming anime so it’s hard to find sites unrelated to Miku and the anime.
Long story short: Some guy created an awesome music video using Vocaloid Miku as the singer and Miku’s best 3D model to shape Black Rock Shooter. Those two chars were associated one with another since then, but they’re compleletly different chars. Miku’s not Black Rock, and the OAV isn’t about Vocaloids. Miku will sing the OPs and nothing more.
Has it gone through your thick skull that just maybe Kou Matsuou and the rest of the Gunpla staff were actually very interested in adapting the series to a movie? Of course you’re not Japanese, so you’ll never understand how popular Gundam and Gunpla is, but yes, there are quite a few fans who love it passionately, which may include some of the staff and cast as well – very much possible given its great popularity in Japan. But oh, you’re that type that completely writes off something even before it premieres and not giving it a chance. Thankfully, I’m not like you, so I will, actually, be giving the movie a chance.
“Movies shouldn’t advertise themselves as a “heart-warming comedy”.”
So, directors aren’t allowed to describe what sort of work they wish to aim for, and what they’re trying to achieve? Seriously, how biased can one get.
I think you grossly misunderstand Sunrise. They are a big company with an experimental side as well as a side that has to answer to Bandai, but I’ve also found that they have the habit of making even the most mundane of concepts seem interesting in the way they adapt them so I never write them off anymore. Let the viewers determine instead, you even said so yourself for Colourful.
Also why do you want the Sunrise mecha franchises to die? Many people like yours truly swear by them and enjoy them VERY much. Why would you want these people to be unhappy and lose their source of fun and entertainment just because you don’t enjoy them. So they are doing a show about model building, it’s a valid hobby/interest of many people in Japan. It may be a commercialistic idea in theory, but then again it’s far from the only series to have that going in. It still gets me though that people only seem to flip their shit when it comes to Gunpla. Character Singles? Cool. Figurines? Fine. Canned Bread? No Problem. Model Kits? HOLY SHIT WTF CAPITALISM DIE!!!!!
Anyway good luck getting that apology to be accepted.
@utopia: I mostly take issue with the implication that Sunrise mecha series and Gunpla should have died. Like where does something like that even come from? Is he implying that just because he has such a hate-on for them like so many other bloggers that everyone who enjoys them should not be allowed to anymore?
Also the cheap shots and childish ranting about hiring his favourite staff members for a show….did he ever stop to consider that maybe they wanted to work on the project because perhaps a) it pays well and/or b) It was something they wanted to do? Bias is one thing, just being a jerk to the fans of mecha anime and implying that their interest is worthless is something special.
psgels just mad that his fav director is doing the next geass lol.
I’m dissapointed. Zettai Karen Children deserves more than that.
The story is better than you think, you dropped it way too early.