The homepage for the upcoming Moe Can Change! OVA has added a new 78-second trailer. The anime is based on the bishoujo-maid costume changing game from developer Ambition. The OVA is scheduled for Japanese release on the 25th.
Source: Anime News Network
Bandai Visual has formally revealed the development of Girls und Panzer (Girls & Tanks), the first original anime created by Squid Girl, Kemeko Deluxe, and Hare+Guu director Tsutomu Mizushima. ACTAS (Moetan) will animate the TV series with Reiko Yoshida (K-On, St. Seiya Omega) writing the scripts; Isao Sugimoto (Kemeko Deluxe) will provide animation character design and serve as animation director. Military advisor for Strike Witches & Upotte Takaaki Suzuki will advise the production. The “pleasant school story” about schoolgirls trained to operate real-world tanks will premiere this fall.
I typically like military bishoujo anime, yet there’s very little tank and a whole lot of moe´ in this trailer. It’s as though Mizushima liked Sora no Woto but thought, “Not cute enough!”
Source: Anime News Network
TMS Entertainment has released the complete 3:35 Kubbe promotional anime online. Roughly 45 seconds of the footage was first released last month within a 90 second advertisement for the Japanese publication of Åshild Kanstad Johnsen’s Norwegian picture book Kubbe lager museum (Block Makes a Museum). TMS is now developing a full Kubbe anime television series.
Source: Anime News Network
The third episode of writer Kazushige Nojima & director Romanov Higa’s web-anime mini-series Buso Chugakusei Basket Army is now online. The story revolves around military school students under seige by international mercenaries seeking to recover a military secret that the children are protecting.
Source: Anime News Network
A new 36-second trailer for next month’s Blood-C: The Last Dark motion picture has hit the web. The action-filled trailer is entirely new footage, but may also reveal a small spoiler, so viewer discretion is suggested. The movie sequel to last year’s TV series will hit Japanese theaters on June 2.
Source: Anime News Network
A new live-action & CG trailer introducing director Kenji Kamiyama’s full CG anime film 009 Re:Cyborg has appeared on the movie’s official website. This latest adaptation of the classic Cyborg 009 manga by the late Shotaro Ishinomori will hit Japanese theaters in 2D and stereoscopic 3D on October 27.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for the Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru 2: Futari no Elder OVA has added its first streaming trailer. The adaptation of CaramelBox’s adult PC game about a cross-dressing boy attending an all-girls school is animated by SILVERLINK. The first “OtoBoku” game was adapted into a 12 episode TV series in 2006 by studio Feel. The first episode of the three-episode Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru 2 mini-series will be released on August 29th.
Source: Anime News Network
American record producer Greg Penny is now collaborating with Tokyo’s Studio 4°C on the production of the “Project: 13 Trilogy,” a series of three interconnected anime music videos. Reportedly production of the first video, “The Sound of Hope,” is nearly complete, but Penny’s Siwa Production is seeking public funding of $390,000 to complete the project. Interested contributors may make donations through Kickstarter. The first four contributors to donate $5,000 each will be offered the opportunity to be animated as a cameo character in one of the Project: 13 episodes.
Evidently I’m the first $100 pledge.
Source: Anime News Network
A new trailer for the upcoming Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito (Code Geass: The Ruined Land of Akito) OVA series has appeared online. The spin-off from the 2006 Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch television series is written & directed by Kazuki Akane (Escaflowne, Noein) with character design from CLAMP. The first of tentatively four 50-minute long OVAs will premiere theatrically on August 4.
Source: Anime News Network
The homepage for studio P.A. Works’ (Hana-Saku Iroha, Another) original slice-of-life anime series " target="_blank">Tari Tari has added a two-minute streaming teaser. The series’ concept was created by development studio Evergreen. The show will premiere in July.
Source: Anime News Network
