Boy meets ghost light novels get adapted by the Nanoha staff. Disinterest levels rising.
Tokyopop having been pushing the hell out of the mange this is based on in the last 6 months or so. So I’d guess they will be hoping this will give that a boost in interest. I am interested in neither.
Madhouse adapt Hagin Yi & Gonta King’s historical seinen manga. The best news is Toyoo Ashida (Fist of the North Star) is in the Chief Director’s chair and Hideo Takayama is in charge of the series composition. Takayama’s been doing great work with seinen adaptations of late (Akagi, Kaiji, One Outs, RIDEBACK), so this should be worth checking out.
Natsume Ono’s manga is fiercely stylish and if this anime captures half of that it should be worth a look. David Production are a completely unknown quantity to me as studios go, but director Mitsuko Kase was responsible for SaiKano.
OK. This is potentially THE show of the year, let alone the season.
The noitaminA slot has turned out quality show after quality show (including 2007’s best – Mononoke). But they’ve all been either manga/novel/play adaptations or, in the case of Mononoke, a spin-off from a previous series, Ayakashi (though that particular segment in the series was original material).
Eden of the East represents the first wholly original anime for the slot. And given that anime built from scratch avoid all the problems you get with adaptations, they tend to be better. So when you add that to the fact they don’t put any old rubbish in this slot, then I have high expectations.
Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost In The Shell SAC) writes and directs, with Chika Umino (Honey & Clover, March Comes In Like A Lion) providing character designs.