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Zenryaku,
New year, new thread. Lots of big changes in the US anime market the last couple of years. Most of what I said in the last thread still applies, as far as ongoing releases and the like go. No major new news on the US releases side of things. Most (if not all) of them were commented on in the last thread. ADV still shows no real sign of moving on their manga titles, which is getting irritating. A couple new, small companies are picking up old Geneon titles, but I haven't seen an interesting one picked up yet outside of Funimation.
On the manga side of things, the one I most want to mention is a new series (Japan only for now) by Honey and Clover author Chika Umino. It's called March Comes in Like a Lion. It's about a young shougi pro, Rei, who has no real family and hardly any friends. He went pro before high school, and is now a year behind; high school isn't mandatory in Japan, and he took a year off for shogi. The series itself is off to a strong start, and I wouldn't be too surprise if it gets licensed.
On the anime side of things, Nodame Cantabile has been cleared for a third season. The second covers up to where the US manga release is (Nodame's recital), so the next season will continue from there.
For the winter anime season, there are a few titles I'm strongly interested in. Foremost is probably the fourth season of Maria-sama ga Miteru, the first two seasons of which are currently available in the US as Maria Watches Over Us.
The second half of Slayers Revolution is also airing this season, and it, to no-one's surprise, has already been licensed by Funimation. Not a deep series by any means, but quite fun. This season is following the weird naming trend by calling it Slayers Evolution-R.
There's also Genji Monogatari Sennenki, an anime adaptation of the Tale of Genji, one of the big classics of Japanese literature. Promising, but it's only scheduled for 11 episodes, which is nowhere near long enough, so I hope they aren't going to try to cover the entire novel.
Other than those three, there's a few that seem worth looking at. Kemono no Souja Erin may have promise. It's based on a light novel series by the author of Seirei no Moribito. Not too much info out on this that I've seen, but it's a fantasy series.
For some reason, there's another Anne of Green Gables anime adaptation happening, this time called Konnichiwa Anne. It was made as a 50 episode anime before, Akage no Anne in the late seventies. This new one is only 26 episodes, so it'll be interesting to compare the two.
Quite possibly the weirdest one this season is Hetalia Axis Powers. This is pretty much a comedy series where all the charcter are anthropomorphic personifciations of countries. I've read some of the comics, and if this is anything like those, this series has the potential to be quite amusing.
Wraith
"Allies infected with fear are worse than enemies."
-- Serpico ("Berserk")
New year, new thread. Lots of big changes in the US anime market the last couple of years. Most of what I said in the last thread still applies, as far as ongoing releases and the like go. No major new news on the US releases side of things. Most (if not all) of them were commented on in the last thread. ADV still shows no real sign of moving on their manga titles, which is getting irritating. A couple new, small companies are picking up old Geneon titles, but I haven't seen an interesting one picked up yet outside of Funimation.
On the manga side of things, the one I most want to mention is a new series (Japan only for now) by Honey and Clover author Chika Umino. It's called March Comes in Like a Lion. It's about a young shougi pro, Rei, who has no real family and hardly any friends. He went pro before high school, and is now a year behind; high school isn't mandatory in Japan, and he took a year off for shogi. The series itself is off to a strong start, and I wouldn't be too surprise if it gets licensed.
On the anime side of things, Nodame Cantabile has been cleared for a third season. The second covers up to where the US manga release is (Nodame's recital), so the next season will continue from there.
For the winter anime season, there are a few titles I'm strongly interested in. Foremost is probably the fourth season of Maria-sama ga Miteru, the first two seasons of which are currently available in the US as Maria Watches Over Us.
The second half of Slayers Revolution is also airing this season, and it, to no-one's surprise, has already been licensed by Funimation. Not a deep series by any means, but quite fun. This season is following the weird naming trend by calling it Slayers Evolution-R.
There's also Genji Monogatari Sennenki, an anime adaptation of the Tale of Genji, one of the big classics of Japanese literature. Promising, but it's only scheduled for 11 episodes, which is nowhere near long enough, so I hope they aren't going to try to cover the entire novel.
Other than those three, there's a few that seem worth looking at. Kemono no Souja Erin may have promise. It's based on a light novel series by the author of Seirei no Moribito. Not too much info out on this that I've seen, but it's a fantasy series.
For some reason, there's another Anne of Green Gables anime adaptation happening, this time called Konnichiwa Anne. It was made as a 50 episode anime before, Akage no Anne in the late seventies. This new one is only 26 episodes, so it'll be interesting to compare the two.
Quite possibly the weirdest one this season is Hetalia Axis Powers. This is pretty much a comedy series where all the charcter are anthropomorphic personifciations of countries. I've read some of the comics, and if this is anything like those, this series has the potential to be quite amusing.
Wraith
"Allies infected with fear are worse than enemies."
-- Serpico ("Berserk")
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