Take a trip, join me in the sun, but not really though, cause I ain’t having fun.
Yes, the bane of gamesfaqs forum posters is back! Let’s put the boot into summer season anime before they even air.
Ikkitousen Great Guardians
Yuji Shiozaki’s alleged Tenjo Tenge-plagarising Romance of the Three Kingdoms as bouncy high school girls manga get’s it’s third season of anime. The first season had two unfortunate problems – it aired during the far superior Airmaster’s run. And it was shit. At least it only has one of those problems this time.
SEQUEL/REMAKE COUNT: 1
Chocolate Underground
Alex Shearer’s Bootleg gets the Original Net Animation treatment. Quick poll: What’s a more soul destroying phrase – Original Net Animation (ONA) or Mobisode?
Telepathy Shoujo Ran
More light novel fun for NHK. This time from TMS. No director listed on ANN, so no idea if I should be excited or not. However the screenwriter, Makoto Nakamura, has apparently been responsible for many crimes against taste (Air, Clannad, Kanon).
UltraViolet: Code 044
It’s the anime spin off of the crappy film. But forget that.
It’s Madhouse + Osamu Dezaki + Romi Paku. So it should be well worth a watch.
SEQUEL/REMAKE COUNT: 2
Sekirei
Standard anime for soft boys too afraid to buy actual porn.
Slayers REVOLUTION
As a huge roleplaying game nerd, I was immediately drawn to Slayers when I first saw it in… 96?97? But I eventually lost interest, outside of catching the films and OAVs at cons. I’m interested in this as both a nostalgia kick and as part of possible trend in anime.
SEQUEL/REMAKE COUNT: 3
Someday’s Dreamers: Summer’s Sora
Another sequel~! And, it’s another magical realism anime. Talking of trends, THAT definitely is a trend in recent manga/anime. Geneon had announced this for US release, before disappearing from the US market. Oh, hey, it’s directed by Osamu Kobayashi. Colour me interested.
SEQUEL/REMAKE COUNT: 4
Antique Bakery
I imagine this will have a lot of interest based on the popularity of the manga. However I’m not sure there’s any appeal in the production to non-fans.
Hidamari Sketch x365
The only anime with the codec that will be used to pirate it in it’s title.
SEQUEL/REMAKE COUNT: 5
Strike Witches
GONZO spin off their OAV into a TV series. Director Kazuhiro Takamura has worked on some decent shows, but what he’s been more influential on have been pretty rubbish (Mahoromatic, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World). And by that I mean they were both pretty AND rubbish.
SEQUEL/REMAKE COUNT: 6
Birdy the Mighty Decode
Noein director Kazuki Akane is in charge.
Noein screenwriter Hiroshi Ohnogi is writing.
This will be good.
SEQUEL/REMAKE COUNT: 7
Ryoko’s Case File
This is a mystery. Both it’s genre and the fact I don’t know anything about it.
Zero no Tsukaima ~Miyoshi Hime no Rondo~
This show I’ve never heard of gets it’s… (checks) third series. Third!
SEQUEL/REMAKE COUNT: 8
Natsume Yuujin-chou
A young boy has the ability to see ghosts and is shunned by humans because of it. No, it’s not GeGeGe No Kitaro, it’s Yuki Midorikawa’s shojo manga about a boy with book of ghosts. Baccano!’s Takahiro Omori directs this new Brains Base show, so it could be worth a look as he has a proven record in strong adaptations.
Mission-E
Sequel to CODE-E. I think I watched 5 minutes of that once. It was enough.
SEQUEL/REMAKE COUNT: 9
World Destruction
Production IG/Sega’s videogame RPG tie-in. This won’t be any good.
Koihime†Musou
Dogakobo’s moe adventure game tie-in. This will be worse than World Destruction.
Blade of the Immortal
Yay, a Blade of the Immortal anime. Wait… What? Bee Train are making it? Koichi Mashimo is directing it? Can I take that yay back? Thanks.
Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu
Popular moe ideal student is secretly an otaku. I am not so secretly completely disinterested.
Cobra The Animation
That yay I took back for Blade of the Immortal, I’m using it here.
YAY!
oh and…
SEQUEL/REMAKE COUNT: 10