Re: Interesting new anime coming

"D B Malmquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Well, from "Moon Phase" we also have -
>
> o A TV sequel to "Mezzo Forte" coming on 6 Jan 2004 -
>     http://mezzo-tv.net/
>   I haven't seen the original OAV, but reviews I've read [1] call
>   it a decent action flick with several minutes of very graphic
>   and very pointless porn spliced in.  Presumably the graphic porn
>   won't make it to TV, so the result might be OK.

Already been delayed from earlier this year, which doesn't bode too well.
Was pre-licensed by Media Blasters, though I seem to remember them losing
it.

> o The 2nd season of "Ghost in the Shell".  If it produces another
>   soundtrack album as good as the one from the 1st season, I'll be
>   happy.

Well, yeah.  Considering that the series itself was a little naff IMHO, the
music was the saving grace.  There is a second soundtrack album, the
Tachikoma image album "Be Human", which came out last month - not a patch on
the first one, though.  Let's hope Kanno does produce another one with as
kickass an OP as "Inner Universe".

> o "Mary Sees", starting 07 Jan 2004 -
>     http://www.gokigenyou.com/
>     http://www.animate.tv/isp/odn/news/detail_ATV030918a.html?index
>   One site reports it's some sort of yuri title. [2]

I did read somewhere that it's something for the Azumanga lovers.  Though I
didn't like Azumanga (shock! horror!) so this doesn't endear me to it much.

> o A new season of "Gravion"!  Yay!  (Barf.)
>
> o A new season of "Space Boobs" - oops, "Divergence Eve" -
>     http://www.d-eve.net/
>
> o A new season of "Police Boobs" - oops, "Burn-Up Scramble" -
>     http://membres.lycos.fr/ayareiko/images/misc%20pics/BUS-sma.jpg
>
> o What look to be some bishoujo/H-game adaptations -
>   * "To the North ~Diamond Dust Drops~" - http://www.kita-he.com/
>   * "Daphne in Brilliant Blue" - http://www.thedaphne.jp/
>   * "Yumeria" - http://www.bs-i.co.jp/anime/yumeria/

Well, yay to all the above, obviously.  Might watch an episode of Kita e for
the Maaya Sakamoto factor if she's doing the TV series (the things I
sacrifice for seiyuu).

> o A remake? Rebroadcast? of the tennis anime "Ace o Nerae".

Rebroadcast I guess.  It hasn't aged well at all.

> o A sequence of fanservice titles from M.O.E., starting with "The
>   Cosmopolitan Prayers" -
>     http://www.pc-moe.com/
>   (Proof that the Japanese should never choose the official
>   English titles of anime?)

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.  MOE have done nothing yet that I've enjoyed
(mainly due to the moe factor).

> o More SD Gundam - http://www.sdgundamforce.com/  (Is this a reverse
>   import from Toonami?)

I think so.


> o Other January OAVs include -


>   * And one called "Petit Cosette" or something like that on 1 Jan -
>       http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Animation/cossette/
>     (I'm not sure, but this may be a lead-in to a TV series.)

Gothic Lolita-licious.  It does look pretty, at least.

> Hmm, you're right, so far the January anime are looking pretty thin
> and dominated by sequels or remakes.  "Mary Sees" looks interesting
> purely because of the lack of information about it.

Well, TV Tokyo will no doubt have a new schedule for January - Saiyuki
Reload amongst others is only scheduled for 13 episodes -which they won't
announce for a while.  Fuji TV should have something half-decent on in their
graveyard schedule eventually (previous occupants include Haibane Renmei,
Wolf's Rain and RahXephon (I'm sure I read about Bones doing some new sci-fi
series in January a while back, since Mukoh Hadan is a movie, but I can't
remember for sure...)) and everyone else will still have shows to announce,
so I'm not "giving up hope" as it were.  I'm ready to write off every season
as being uninteresting at the moment, and only July really proved as such
this year.

> But in February there will be -
>
> o Satoshi Kon's new 13 episode TV series "Mousou Dairinin" aka
>   "Paranoia Agent", starting on 2 Feb 2004 -
>     http://www.mousou.tv/
>   I'd say this has at least a 50% chance of being worthy.

Hopefully, indeed.

> And then in the spring or later there will be -
>
> o "Samurai Shampoo".  Coming sometime in the spring is this newest
>   effort from Shinichiro Watanabe -
>     http://www.samuraichamploo.com/
>   And, woops, that's "Champloo", not "Shampoo".  Gotta stop making that
>   mistake...

Hee hee ^_^ Looks well animated, but hip-hop samurai?  Could be interesting,
anyway.

> o "This Ugly and Beautiful World", coming from GAiNAX sometime in 2004 -
>     http://www.gainax.co.jp/anime/konomini/
>     http://www.konomini.com/
>   Apparently this is being done by the same staff who did "Mahoromatic".
>   So it stands a good chance of being manic and offensive, with cute
>   character designs.

I'm SO disappointed with what I've heard about this series now.  I was
hoping Gainax might break with recent type after seeing that rather nifty
logo, but it's yet another bishoujo sci-fi series from the sound of things.
Maybe it won't be, but it probably will be.  If anyone's been reading the
Melody of Oblivion (Boukyaku no Senritsu?) manga, how has that turned out?
(that's Gainax's next anime project, I believe)

> -- 
> - dbm
> Random link: http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/yotuba_hp/geneon_hagaki.jpg

Someone correct me if I'm reading that cartoon wrong, but is Reki saying
"From today, your name is 'Geneon'" and Rakka "Eeeh? What do you mean?" or
words to that effect?  Is that a parody of the first ep of Haibane?  (it's
been a while since I've watched any, the communal DVD sharing amongst
friends isn't happening until we've bought them all...)

Andrew H