DVD Specials
Infinite Stratos Encore: A Sextet Yearning for Love
Summary: “The story centers around the IS Academy: a school for training the pilots of the Infinite Stratos weapon system, which can only be used by females. Candidates plucked from girls from countries all over the world are brought here — as well as one boy named Ichika Orimura. As it turns out, Ichika is “the only male in the world who can use the IS.” “ – (Taken from ANN)
Type: BD/DVD Special
Comments: Watching the Infinite Stratos TV-series felt like watching one big middle finger. “You want to see an exciting mecha-series? Hah! Too bad. Here are some unfunny harem antics!” With a title like this, the creators really dropped all pretense.
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi
Summary: “Kazuma’s brother Ayumu needs to recuperate from an illness, so they move from the city to a rural mountain village. They plan to board at their father’s inn, Yorozuyo, but get lost on their way. Wandering in the mountains, Kazuma stumbles across a girl named Ui Nakatsugawa. It’s the first of many encounters in his new country life.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: DVD Special
Comments: This was a show that was ridiculously badly acted, based on the first episode that I watched anyways. Apparently this OVA will host an OVA-original character who didn’t appear in the TV-series.
Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi
Summary: “The “reverse school fantasy” light novel series follow an ordinary high school boy named Taito Kurogane who is given a “poison” by a female vampire named Saitohimea, thus changing his life.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Special, bundled with Manga
Comments: This OVA will contain manga content that didn’t make it in the anime. Apparently, people could vote on twitter which story they would like to see animated. In any case, I dropped Itsuten quite early on. The thing that stood out to me the most was the name of one of the characters: “Kurenai Gekkou”.
R-15
Summary: “Takuto Akutagawa has a special ability for writing porn novels. He applies to Hirameki Gakuen a high school which only accepts people with “Unique” talent. Now he must chase his dream and direct his classmates to win an interclass competition. All while trying to create the prefect harem.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: OVA, bundled with Manga
Comments: This show just made no sense whatsoever. It was full of idiots pretending to be geniuses, and most of its attempts at being funny got old really fast for me.
Seitokai Yakuindomo
Summary: “The manga follows a former all-girls school’s student council which has three female members and one sole male representative. “ – (Taken from ANN)
Type: OVA, Bundled with Manga Volume
Director: Hiromitsu Kanasawa
Script: Makoto Nakamura
Comments: This show surely does have a lot of OVAs and DVD-specials, doesn’t it? Ah well, I stopped caring about this long ago.
Major
Summary: “The OVA project will adapt the thus-far-unanimated World Series arc and the story’s illusive final matchup, while the new book will let fans see the last pitch in the manga. The project promises the return of the “Golden Battery” in America. “ – (Taken from ANN)
Type: OVA, bundled with Compilation Manga
Comments: So this truly seems to be the final installment of Major, after god knows how many season and manga volumes. I actually attempted to watch the first season of Major, when Goro was still a kid, but I didn’t really like it. It was just way too shounen.
Franchise Movies and OVAs
Inazuma Eleven GO: Kyuukyoku no Kizuna Griffon
Summary: “he Inazuma Eleven GO storyline is set one decade after the first Inazuma Eleven storyline.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Movie
Comments: Well, this show also has started the tradition of having a new movie released every year, like a ton of other successful kids’ shows are doing. I tried to watch the GO Television series, but in the end I just got turned off by the dry and uninteresting characterization. Kids movies don’t have to be bad, as long as they put enough attention in the character department.
First-Glance Potential: 20%
Lupin III: Chi no Kokuin Eien no Mermaid
Summary: “Arsene Lupin III is the grandson of the master thief Arsene Lupin. With his cohorts Daisuke Jigen and Goemon Ishikawa XIII and his love interest Fujiko Mine, he pulls off the greatest heists of all time while always escaping the grasp of Inspector Koichi Zenigata.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: TV-Special
Comments: Okay, I might have mislead people a bit with some of my previous statements. As it turns out, the new Lupin Television series will just be a standalone TV-special, just like the thirty previous ones. It appears that I’m not the only one who made this mistake, so let me warn all the other preview writers out there who make use of Moonphase: Moonphase also puts standalone TV-specials in the TV-series category. Pay attention to that in order to prevent misleading everyone. In any case, this seems to be yet another one of those Lupin Specials. If you liked those, you’ll probably like this one, but I’m not really interested in it.
First-Glance Potential: 40%
Ongoing OVA and Movie Series
Kiss X Sis 06
Summary: “Keita has two older step-sisters, Ako and Riko, but since they aren’t related by blood, they love him in a lustful way. After a mishap at school, Ako and Riko finally confess their love to him. Keita dislikes the thought of seeing them other then brother and sister, but as he tries to enter the same school as his sisters, he slowly becomes attracted to them.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Movie
Director: Munenori Nawa
Comments: Just end it already!
First-Glance Potential: 0%
Queen’s Blade OVA
Summary: “The stories are set after the Queen’s Blade competition of Hobby Japan’s original games but before the Rebellion. They take place after the storyline of Queen’s Blade Utsukushiki Toushi-tachi video anime series.” – (Taken from AniDB)
Type: OVA
Director: Morino Yousei
Comments: Nothing to see here. Moving on…
First-Glance Potential: 0%
Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kira – 03 & 04
Summary: “With things such as story out of the way, Higurashi cranks up the fanservice with Kira, a new OVA series to commemorate the series’ 10th anniversary, featuring nail-biting situations such as Rika and Satoko becoming magical girls to battle evil magic crime syndicates with the help of their trusty squad of cheerleaders, among other things.” – (Taken from MAL)
Type: OVA
Director: Hideki Tachibana
Script: Toshifumi Kawase
Comments: Ugh.. there’ll be two more episodes before this will be over. At this point, I’ve given up all hope.Toshifumi Kawase is one of the best writers that Studio Deen currently has, but he definitely isn’t trying for this one. On top of that, they still haven’t gotten rid of the abysmal Hideki Tachibana as the director.
First-Glance Potential: 0%
Morita-San wa Mukuchi – 05
Summary: “Morita Mayu, a high school girl. She is extremely reticent and her silence and habit of looking at people’s eyes straightly sometimes cause misunderstanding. The reason behind it is not because she doesn’t like to talk nor because she has nothing to say. The reason she rarely speaks is due to the fact she thinks too much before speaking, thus losing the timing to speak altogether. But she lives a happy school life with her classmates.” – (Taken from MAL)
Type: OVA
Director: Hayashi Naotaka
Script: Hiroshi Satou
Comments: Im getting a bit tired of these creators. Morita-San wa Mukuchi would have been an enjoyable slice of life series if the creators actually put some effort into making it enjoyable. Right now this just feels like reading a random 4-koma over an audio book.
First-Glance Potential: 10%
Yuri-Seijin Naoko-san – 02
Summary: “Naoko, an alien maid, accompanies Misuzu and her friend Hii on her way to school to guard her from a groper that has been sighted on the neighborhood.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: OVA
Director: Tetsuya Takeuchi
Comments: At least, I think that this will be some sort of continuation of the first 6-minute OVA. The Internet is being very vague on that. In any case, the first OVA was very random and also very wrong in its content material. It’s impressive that it was mostly created by just one guy, but it wasn’t exactly good entertainment.
First-Glance Potential: 20%
Carnival Phantasm – Third Season
Summary: “In this show you’ll see parodies and new stories loosely based on Type-Moon’s original works like Melty Blood, Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime and more.” – (Taken from MAL)
Type: Collection of short OVAs
Director: Seiji Kishi
Script: Makoto Uezu
Comments: I just don’t get this series. Carnival Phantasm really is meant for hardcore fans of the Type Moon universe, and not for people who maybe saw a few series here and there of it. If you’re not a fan of every single series, this will just end up as a collection of very, very bad jokes.
First-Glance Potential: 30%
Hakuouki Hekketsu-Roku – 05
Summary: “: Based on Idea Factory’s romance adventure game: Yukimura Chizuru has come to Kyoto looking for her father, a doctor who has gone missing. While there, she witnesses a fight between an Oni and the Shinsengumi. Taking her into custody, the Shinsengumi debates on what to do with Chizuru when they discover that she is the daughter of the doctor they are also looking for. The Shinsengumi then takes Chizuru along on their search after the missing doctor, from adventures to adventures.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: OVA
Director: Osamu Yamazaki
Comments: Osamu Yamazaki is a bit of a mystery to me. I mean this in the way that the series he directs have no similarities whatsoever to each other. His adaptation of Toward the Terra was amazing, but after that he always just missed something.
First-Glance Potential: 30%
Saiyuki Gaiden – 03
Summary: “500 years before Saiyuki, a heretic child with golden eyes is brought to Heaven and given into the reluctant care of a minor deity, Konzen, nephew of the Merciful Goddess Kanzeon Bosatsu. Konzen eventually names him “Goku”. Goku befriends two other minor gods, Marshal Tenpou and General Kenren of the Western Army of Heaven, and a boy who seems to be his age, the War Prince Nataku. Though Goku is happy in his new home, Heaven is not kind to heretics.” – (Taken from )
Type: Movie
Director: Naoyuki Kuzuya
Script: Kazuya Minekura
Comments: So, how has Saiyuuki Gaiden been doing? This will be the third and last installment of this OVA, and while I didn’t check it out due to time restraints, I guess that this one is interesting for Saiyuki fans.
First-Glance Potential: 50%
New Releases
Sacred Seven: Shirogane no Tsubasa
Summary: “The special edition will focus on the fighting between the Sacred Takers Alma and Night, as well as the fight with Kenmi from Night’s point of view. The re-edited version will have new scenes, particularly of Night’s past, and a new dialogue recording.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Compilation Movie
Comments: Oh dear god why!? The TV-series already was mediocre, and now they want to make a recap movie to add even more insult to the injury? The new content is nice and all, but it will probably just amount to three minutes of new footage or something. I also love how silly the promo art for this show is. Like, the one who drew it couldn’t believe how silly it was what he had to draw.
First-Glance Potential: 0%
Waza no Tabibito
Summary: “The story centers around Tekuni Depagaa, a girl who embarks on a journey to train and become a fighting master known as a “wazabito.”” – (Taken from AniDB)
Type: OVA
Director: Matsuena Shun
Other Notable Staff: Tenmon (Music)
Comments: Tenmon behind the music is very solid, considering he also did the music of ef, and most of the Makoto Shinkai movies. Matsuena Shun meanwhile wrote, directed, designed and produced this thing by himself. Unfortunately however, one look at the trailer should tell that the visuals in this thing will be… weird. It’s got the most abysmal character designs, the animation of the 3D models is really poor. And yet it looks like it’ll get some stunning background art.
First-Glance Potential: 50%
K-On
Summary: “The movie will depict a story not told in the television series, even though it will follow the five female members of Sakuragaoka High School’s light music club while they are still attending high school. “ – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Movie
Director: Naoko Yamada
Script: Reiko Yoshida
Comments: Well, it had it coming: K-On has gotten itself a movie. Overall I don’t care about the TV-series at all, although I do admit that a movie could be interesting if there’s… something actually happening. This was the main reason I didn’t continue with any of the TV-series: it gave me no reason to.
First-Glance Potential: 50%
Holy Knight
Summary: “The “dramatic school (romantic) fantasy” centers around an ordinary orphan named Mizumura who goes to a missionary school in Tokyo. His seemingly normal life changes when a beautiful half-Romanian girl named Lilith suddenly transfers into his school. This timid boy is actually a vampire hunter and the successor of the Romyuarudo lineage. “ – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Movie
Director: Jiro Fujimoto
Storyboard: Hiroyuki Shimazu
Comments: This seems to be the first part of the “cammot” animation project. I have no idea what the rest of the installments of this projects are going to be, but at least I hope that they’ll come with a bit of a more creative story. The trailer itself seems solidly put together. But seriously, couldn’t you have come up with a better premise?
First-Glance Potential: 60%
Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker
Summary: “he game is set in Ferelden, one of several countries that makes up the mythical continent of Thedas. The game opens with an animation which details the origins of demonic creatures called the darkspawn, that dwell within the Deep Roads, an underground highway system created by the dwarves long ago, deep beneath the surface of Thedas. Every few hundred years, the darkspawn swarm the surface world in a movement known as a Blight. Beginning with the first Blight, Thedas relied on the legendary order of warriors known as the Grey Wardens to drive the darkspawn back. Dragon Age: Origins begins on the eve of Thedas’s fifth Blight.” – (Taken from Wikipedia)
Type: Movie
Director: Fumihiko Sori
Other Notable Staff: Daisuke Nakayama (Character Designs), Tetsuya Takahashi
Comments: If only because of the character designs, I’m going to watch this movie. It’s actually got the same character designer as Mahou Shoujotai! The soundtrack will also be awesome, coming from the same guy who composed all of the soundtracks for the Marvel-series. Only the director will be a bit lackluster: it’s the director of Vexxile and TO, which both had potential, but had rather weak storylines.
First-Glance Potential: 70%
Minori Scramble
Summary: “The story revolves around Tamaki Kakegawa, a fifth grade girl whose father is a penguin researcher. As such, Tamaki is constantly surrounded by penguins and has grown to hate them. In order to cure Tamaki’s hatred of penguins, a ‘penguinoid’ named Minori is built to befriend her.” – (Taken from Wikipedia)
Type: One-Shot OVA
Director: Takuya Nonaka
Comments: The trailer of this one actually looks fun and well directed. At first sight this one may seem like Yuri-Seijin Naoko-san (it’s actually being released together with this series),but Ufo-Table put some good people on this thing, including the director of the second Kara no Kyoukai movie.
First-Glance Potential: 70%
Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki
Summary: “Naki and Gunjou are friends who live on Mononoke Shima, and they cross paths with a human child. “ – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Movie
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Script: Takashi Yamazaki
Other Notable Staff: Hirosuke Hamada (Original Creator)
Comments: Here is another interesting one: at first sight this seems like a kiddie movie in 3D. However, it seems that this movie will be based upon a tear-jerker of a story, plus it will feature the main character at different ages. That alone has caught my interest.
First-Glance Potential: 70%
Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki The Animation
Summary: “In the southwest area of the Zemulia Continent, one will find the tiny Liberl Kingdom. A small monarchy that has managed to defy all odds against attempts to overcome them during war. Liberl is split into five regions: Rolent, Bose, Ruan, Zeiss, and Grancel. In the city of Rolent, Cassius Bright has raised two children by himself, Estelle and Joshua. He taught them everything they know himself, and encourages them to sign up to become apprentices in the Bracers Guild. Soon after, however, he receives a letter and has to leave on business, leaving Estelle and Joshua to fend for themselves. While working, they receive notice one day that their father’s airship has gone missing. With this in mind, the two gear themselves up, and set off to find the ship and save their father.” – (Taken from MAL)
Type: Movie
Director: Makoto Tachibana
Script: Makoto Uezu
Comments: Christ, this one just keeps getting delayed. But, it looks like it’ll finally get released on November 25th. Anyway, the story is still the same: the director of Tokyo Magnitude doing another OVA with Kinema Citrus. Looking forward to it.
First-Glance Potential: 85%
Tales of Symphonia the Animation: The United World
Summary: “Two worlds exist, both unaware of the existence of the other. In order for one world to flourish, the other will have to perish. On the doomed world, a Chosen one is send on a journey to restore that world’s mana by awakening the Spirits and becoming an angel. Colette Brunel, the Chosen of Sylvarant, sets out on her journey accompanied by her best friends Lloyd Irving and Genis Sage. As they travel further they meet new friends and even more enemies, while they learn more and more about the truth behind the World Regeneration.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: OVA
Director: Haruo Sotozaki
Comments: It’s finally time for the final arc of this story to commence. And I must say, Ufo Table did a great job on trying to tell the whole story so far with these small series of OVAs. The previous episodes stood out because they nailed that balance between faitful and creative freedom, doing justice to the games, but also creating their own storyline. In the games, this is around the point where things get a bit less interesting, due to the increase in epicness. I wonder how the creators are planning to use that.
First-Glance Potential: 85%
Rurouni Kenshin: Shin Kyoto-Hen – 01
Summary: “Himura Kenshin is a vagabond with a dark past and sunny disposition. Not a ronin but a rurouni, he was never a samurai, but an assassin of utmost skill in the Meiji restoration, who in the turning point of the war simply walked away. His travels lead him to Tokyo in the 11th year of the Meiji era, where he befriends a female Kendo master, a former thief, a brawler and a doctor all with their own secrets. Together they fight off the enemies surfacing from the dark past that Kenshin cannot escape.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Two-Part OVA
Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Script: Mari Okada
Other Notable Staff: Hiro Kaburaki (Episode Director)
Comments: I’m not going to watch the Rurouni Kenshin TV-Series due to the fact that it’s so damn long, but these OVA series? Count me in for that. Tsuioku-hen was brilliant, and this finally shows Kazuhiro Furuhashi doing something other than Gundam again (for the record: this was the guy who, beyond directing Tsuioku-hen, also directed Real Drive, Amatsuki, Hunter X Hunter, Chevalier, and Zipang). On top of that, this time he’s got Mari Okada and the director of Kimi ni Todoke helping him out.
First-Glance Potential: 85%
.Hack//The Movie
Summary: “he story is set in 2024, when children have lived their entire lives since birth in a world connected by networks. A cheerful 14-year-old middle school girl named Sora Yūki has no interest in games, but her friends get her to go into the popular network game “The World.” However, due to “a certain incident” in The World, anomalies start occurring in the real world. “ – (Taken from ANN)
Type: Movie
Director: Hiroshi Matsuyama
Script: Kazunori Ito
Comments: Holy crap, Kazunori Ito will actually return for this movie. He was the one who originally wrote .Hack//Sign, but also shows as Zettai Shounen, Twillight Q’s first episode, wrote the screenplay for all sorts of parts of the Patlabor Franchise (including the second movie!), plus he also wrote the screenplay of the first Ghost in the Shell Movie. This also seems to be much more in the direction of .Hack//Liminality. I mean, it’s 3D and all, but as a fan of the .Hack franchise this is one movie that I’m really looking forward to.
First-Glance Potential: 90%
Kyousogiga
Summary: “???”
Type: Original Net Animation
Director: Rie Matsumoto
Other Notable Staff: Yuki Hayashi (Animation Director, Character Designs), Takashi Kurahashi (Art Design)
Comments: Now this is a very obvious one to keep our eyes out for: Toei doing an anime original ONA, helmed by the director of the surprisingly good and well written Heartcatch Precure Movie. And that’s not everything: on top of that this thing will have the art directors of Ayakashi and Mononoke, and various animators of Heartcatch Precure seem to be returning for this project. This one can get very interesting here. Now ideally, things like this need to get a full fledged TV-series. Experiments like this need more time to really show what they want to do.
First-Glance Potential: 90%
Gyo
Summary: “Someting in Okinawa reeks, and it isn’t long before Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori realize that the smell are coming from dead fish, which are walking out of the sea. The fish are fused to metal legs and are infected with a disease contractable by humans that was invented as a weapon by the Japanese government. After Kaori is infected, Tadashi goes to find a solution to this putrid takeover, if there even is an answer to be found.” – (Taken from ANN)
Type: One-Shot OVA
Director: Takayuki Hirao
Other Notable Staff: Takuro Takahashi (Character Designs), Junji Ito (Original Creator)
Comments: For some reason this is being released alongside Yuri-Seijin Naoko-San and Minori Scramble. One of these things is not like the others. In any case, I’m very interested in this one-shot horror OVA from Ufo Table. What’s even more interesting is that they put the director of the fifth Kara no Kyoukai movie on it (like, the best movie of the entire series). Beyond that, this guy also directed Futakoi Alternative and even worked on Paranoia Agent. Here is one to look out for.
First-Glance Potential: 95%
Un-Go Episode 0
Summary: “The 45-minute original story will depict the protagonists Shinjūrō and Inga’s first encounter and “reveal the biggest mystery [of the story] in theaters.” “ – (Taken from ANN)
Type: 45-Minute Movie
Director: Seiji Mizushima
Script: Shou Aikawa
Comments: I’m not sure under which section to put this thing, because this is definitely not your average DVD-special. It’s 45 minutes long, and actually gets released in theaters. And Un-Go already was my favorite show of the current Autumn Season. It’s really well written and uses every minute of its airtime. This movie also will show the past of the two main characters, which has been hinted at very heavily to be something special.
First-Glance Potential: 95%
Berserk Ougon Jidai-Hen I: Haou no Tamago
Summary: “A brave young warrior named Guts fights for his fortune as a mercenary on the front lines. A fated encounter unites Guts with the charismatic and deadly young man named Griffith. Leading the rogue soldiers known as the Band of the Hawk, Griffith wields his formidable force like no other. Driven by a quest for status, the Hawks exert military and social prowess the likes of which have never been seen before. The armies of Midland will quake with fear as Griffith and Guts set off on a path that will bring the world to its knees.” – (Taken from MAL)
Type: Movie
Director: Toshiyuki Kabooka
Script: Ichiro Okouchi
Other Notable Staff: Naoyuki Onda (Chief Animation Direction), Yusuke Takeda (Art Direction), Goki Nakamura, , Susumu Hirasawa
Comments: Now this is it. I mean, Berserk having a movie reboot is already one thing. But with Studio 4C! Heck, they even got Susumu Hirasawa to write the theme song for this movie. For the director, they also got a great guy: the guy who directed the “Remaining Sense of Pain”-part of the Batman movie, which was really well directed. My only worry is that the writer of Code Geass will handle the script here, but as long as they follow the manga, there is very little that can go wrong here. Or is the manga’s story too big for three movies?
First-Glance Potential: 100%
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I’ve heard Kyousogiga described as a Buddhist Alice in Wonderland, here’s an actual summary for it: In a world where boundary between human and yokai worlds is no longer distinguishable, 3 different groups pursue for power. What is Count of Reality and Destruction of Negentrophy? Koto, a high school girl who got out of maze of Java Work, chases the shadow of “Kuro Usagi (Black Rabbit)”. This is a story surrounding various people chasing Kuro Usagi in Kyoto, where time has stopped.
Honestly I don’t care what it is, the trailer for it looks just so damn cool.
Infinite Stratos Encore: A Sextet Yearning for Love? What the heck? O_O
For Carnival Phantasm – Third Season, I have been following it because first of all; their shorts but most of the jokes kinda made sense unless I’m getting brainwashed?
Psgels,¿What is your opinion abot Tibetan Dog?.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=13748
this film is not in the chart mainly because was released in Annecy with Chinese audio in summer. But is going to be relased in Winter with a japaese dub. If you don,t mind ear it in chinese and bad video quality there are few raws in yotube, like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi95Bii3X5w&feature=relmfu
I find it abi too clasic but the acting of the dogs was wonderfull
Berserk = the greatest manga of all-time (I haven’t finished Akira, so shut it).
I’m really looking forward to seeing how ufotable will handle Gyo. I love ufotable’s style, but it comes across as odd when comparing it to Junji Itou’s style of art. Nonetheless, I’m really glad to see something of his get animated for a change (the world only needs so many live-action Tomie movies, lol).
This would not be a problem for me at all, but please remember Ichiro Okouchi has written the anime for Shigofumi (which psgels liked), Planetes and other things that aren’t Code Geass.
Besides, one of the things Code Geass actually did well was the Suzaku vs. Lelouch dynamic, which I think makes for an interesting parallel to Guts vs. Griffith. Before anyone complains, note that I said parallel, not equivalence. They’re not identical situations.
Minori Scramble sounds like fun. I wouldn’t give Gyo such high hopes, I read the manga and it’s trash.
Because of Berserk:
> Or is the manga’s story too big for three movies?
The three movies will only cover the first big arc of the manga. The whole story already has more than 30 volumes, so they will make many more movies (as announced).
KENSHIN??? Tales? Berserk? Sign me up for that! ♥
Kyousogiga PV was awesome, there’s no way in hell I’ll miss it. Gyo & UN-GO movie also look promising – but why make a movie that’s only 45 mins long and show it in theaters? Sounds like bad planning to me, with it being a prequel and all.
Whisperer: um, you know that Un-Go is Noitamina, right? You can only get 11 episodes there, so I really like all of the creative ways that series are finding to get longer series.
yes, that makes sense, it just annoys me that it’ll take forever to get subbed and that it’s not a “proper” movie, just an extended tv-ep.
Hey Psgels. I’m surprised you didn’t mention the fact that when Rurouni Kenshin was announced, fans were literally rioting and angsting about how unnecessary it is. Well, I kinda hope they stop complaining because I’m sick of all the bad comments it’s been getting. So what if it’s the Kyoto arc?
Most fans believe it is a wasted opportunity. It would have been better to animate the Enishi arc, which is the only part of the manga that never received a true adaptation (Reflections doesn’t count since it was heavily altered and brief).
Saiyuki, Kenshin and Berserk – can’t miss a one of these! So lovely to see things being redone with such great quality, and getting Saiyuki’s Gaiden animated is such a plus.
Can’t wait!
“although I do admit that a movie could be interesting if there’s… something actually happening. This was the main reason I didn’t continue with any of the TV-series: it gave me no reason to.”
Holy sugar. For months I’ve been agonizing on why I just can’t seem to continue with K-ON, even after forcing myself to, and now someone has given me my answer in two sentences. I bow before you.
The original Inzauma movie was a beautiful piece of shit. Non canonical alternate retelling that wasn’t (to my knowledge) advertised as such. Half of the movie was just reused scenes.
This is an original story and should be better but…should they ever pull the original cast from the past into the future… orz
I can’t help but wonder why it’s being romanized as “Kyousogiga” instead of “Kyousougiga” or “Kyosogiga”…? I mean hello? “京騒戯画（キョウソウギガ）”?
Gyo… (´・ω・｀)
@Firechick
If you wanna mention that, why not mention those complains were justified?
The Kyoto Arc was already animated in a faithful manner. There is no left out material in Kyoto Arc. We all know the only reason this movie was made is to gauge support (aka DVD sales) for it before adapting Enishi arc.
dragon age anime… i mean bioware makes real damn good games, but then there’s the aspect that not many video games get a good transition from video game to television…
OMFG!! Kill me already, BERSERK & Susumu Hirasawa – this couldn’t go bad at all! This will be another masterpiece.
Now, this is uncommon time where in one season there are more movies and OVAs that I’m interested in than the series
Ill be watching Rurouni Kenshin and Major for sure.
Eiyuu Densetsu and Gyo are strong possibilities.
Psgels, about Carnival phantasm if you don’t get the joke then how can you tell if it’s a good or a bad joke? So yeah, that’s just bias talking there.
But to be honest the show is hit and miss. Some jokes really work. Others don’t. But Tiger Dojo never ceases to make me laugh.
And holy knight is getting a movie?! I mean I checked out the manga recently and found it to just be pure porn. What a waste.
Is is just me or are the character designs from Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki insanely creepy?
Ito Junji + ufotable?? I never saw this coming and I’m definitely going to watch it.
I’m not a fan of CG but .hack//The Movie seems enjoyble enough I guess and Sign was one of the very first anime I liked back then…
This “writer of Code Geass” that you mention has written some particularly brilliant stuff, including a particularly under-appreciated show called Shigofumi, and the absolutely sellar Planetes. Whatever your opinion on how Code Geass turned out, you cannot deny the fantastic promise and premise the world they created provided in its early episodes, and that has to be down to how Okouchi and Taniguchi handled it in its planning stages. Sorry, but I just don’t understand this blind Code Geass hate.
Berserk – hell yeah!! Been waiting on this for months. Heh, heh. Can’t believe it’s already coming. I suppose Ougon Jidai means Golden Age? That’s the only thing that makes sense in context. Can’t wait to see post-Eclipse movies but Golden Age arc is very good too. They gotta include Skull Knight this time around. Potential is not 100%, it’s over 9000%. Even if they mess up it will still be the best thing to come out this year.
Un-Go – even though the TV series is interesting, meh.
.hack – OK, more .hack is always good even though it’s been done to death already with the same premise every single time.
Kenshin – the TV series already contains the Kyoto arc but also a lot of fillers, and importantly does NOT contain the ultimate resolution (nor the remembrance arc which came out as OVA instead). Not sure why we need a new Kyoto arc though, they should animate the ending stuff instead.
Dragon Age – both the games were very good so this is definitely a must watch. Note that apparently the movie is based around the Chantry interrogator from the Dragon Age 2 cutscenes so it’s got very little to do with the Blight and Grey Wardens, which featured much more prominently in the first game.
Carnival Phantasm – is actually quite entertaining but if you are not a fan it will probably be the biggest snore-fest for you. And to fully get it you also need to know the Melty Blood characters and the other Sir-Not-Appearing-In-This-Anime characters from the games and novels. They make fun of character stats at some point, for Christ’s sake. B-Rank Charisma on Saber? Yeah… So it’s really only for the hard-core fans, as you say.
The other shows are not even worth mentioning.
About Berserk… the entire manga story will of course never fit within three movies even if one were to cut out material with prejudice, but the Golden Age arc might fit, barely, if we are talking about two-hour long movies.
A major manga arc ended around a year ago, so I fully expect them to release movies covering the story up to that point. Seven or eight movies in total could get us there comfortably, more if the movies are short.
LOL at “Watching the Infinite Stratos TV-series felt like watching one big middle finger.”
Hmm… I’m interested in Kenshin, maybe Berserk (I liked the Golden Age arc but its ending with the Apocalipse and the long detailed rape sequence scarred me for life.I’m just not one for the rape, demonic or otherwise >.